Good LORD driving in Metro Boston sucks!
Getting things in order from my vacation I stayed a bit later in the lab, this means traffic was tenfold than my normal commute.
So I had just pulled out of the parking lot when I came to a miserable intersection. It really needs a traffic light, but it only has a stop sign onto a busy through street. I needed to make a left. There was a cyclist who was off to my right side who I assume was attempting to do the same thing.
Just as I saw an opening the asshole decides he’s sick of waiting to cross and decides to head up the road to my left to where there’s a pedestrian crossing with a pushbutton crosswalk.
Tires screeched, but I didn’t hit him…as much as he would have deserved it. Thankfully the oncoming traffic was so gobsmacked at this suicidal creep they just waited for me to make my left.
Then on I-95 I was treated with stop-and-go traffic, when I saw a woman reading a paperback while driving. She was just creeping along with the traffic, but still with her nose buried in her book.
She later put the book down to take a cellphone call.
You might have trouble beliving this next part, but you can trust ‘Ol Weerdy when I say he car was all stoved to shit. I know, you’d think there wouldn’t be a scratch on the car of such an alert driver!
And of course I come home and the contractor had been working on the patio. It looks great, only we’re totally in the dark on some of the finer points, and he’s given us conflicting information at different times.
I’m sure it’ll be perfect by the time its done, but it makes my stomach hurt.
I need a drink…oh look, there’s one!
Sounds about like I remember. My husband is a former pizza delivery guy, when I told him (shortly after we met and he commented on my aggressive driving) that I was an extreamly polite driver by Boston standards he informed me he was never driving in Boston. (I informed him neither was I, thats what the T was for)
When I first moved here from Maine I had the hardest time driving. Mainers are pretty damn patient and courteous drivers. We let other people merge, and we never use our horns, and always use turn signals. But that shit in Metro Bean-town will get your ass killed!
Upstate/central NY is extreamly polite as well, though it deteriorates a bit in the mor major cities. I’ve gotten used to it, but the old skills come back really quick, we spent a weekend in Northampton MA a year ago, and Husband was not amused by the driving.
I had only been living in Mass for about a year when me and my Mom were running errands around Portland. I sped up to get through a yellow light and cut-off another driver.
My Mom turned to me and said “Masshole”. She was right 🙁
I have to disagree. I grew up driving in Boston. My first job was driving a delivery van in the city.
Moving to Maine, I was scared crapless. It’s one thing to be tailgating up 128 , but doing it on 1.5 lane blacktop in the pitch dark with no shoulders?! Really ?
After a decade up dealing with the drunk rednecks up here, Boston is just filled with a bunch of pikers.
Here’s an appropriate song for your I-95 driving experience….
I don’t think I’ll be able to get that earworm out of my head for some time.
LOL thanks!
LOL- Another ‘fun’ day in traffic eh?
Ayuh! That’s why I go to work early and leave early!
Indeed driving in Massachusetts is a nightmare always. Highly despise it and think it’s dangerous. Also the roads suck to no end. They haven’t been updated since 1778