“I had the extreme pleasure of visiting Baton Rouge, Louisiana...”
I think that’s the first time I have ever seen “pleasure”, “Baton Rouge” and “visit” in the same sentence. ;)
I grew up a short distance from there.
Coming back from Texas a couple of weeks after Katrina, my niece and I had to go through Baton Rouge at night. Listening to a radio station, we heard that it was better to not stop for stop signs or traffic signals for fear of carjacking. Now I don’t know how credible that info was, but two women alone at night (with 4 big wussy dogs) weren’t taking any chances so we floored it through there.