Talk:Yakima/@comment-3419321-20110228004938

Carly's grandfather claimed that it took him 90 minutes to drive from Yakima to Seattle (a distance of 110 miles). He would have had to drive at an average of 73 miles per hour.

A commentator on the TV Tropes website cited this as an example of the trope, "You Fail Geography Forever," and said that if they added two to two-and-a-half hours to the travel time, it would have been accurate.

Another commentator observed that it might also have been a statement on his driving, noting that "Washington occasionally spawns people who mistake the highways for a NASCAR track."