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To: jocon307

Certainly never drove in Massachusetts. When I was still living in NJ, I thought the way they drove to be psychotic (never mind downright rude) when I visited Boston.


20 posted on 02/22/2014 11:08:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai; jocon307
Certainly never drove in Massachusetts.

You aren't kidding! I thought Chicago was bad, but at least Chicago drivers will only kill you to get where they're going. In Massachusetts it's personal.

26 posted on 02/22/2014 11:17:23 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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“I thought the way they drove to be psychotic (never mind downright rude) when I visited Boston.”

I took the kid and a friend to Boston years ago, hubby said, oh don’t worry driving there is OK.

Yeah right.

I came home and said: I’ll drive a yellow cab in NYC for the rest of my life as long as I never have to drive in Beantown again!

They are the worst.


32 posted on 02/22/2014 11:41:31 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Olog-hai

I drove in Boston once back in 86. A taxi to my right and I were waiting at the light. When it turned green, the cab driver turned left in front of me. What he didn’t recognize, was the van was a one ton with with a heavily reinforced step bumper on the front. The center where the license plate is normally mounted had been replaced with a piece of 6” channel. A piece of 1/4” plate had been added all the way across on the bottom. The truck with its low rear end ratio and diesel engine to which I had added a turbo would beat most cars off the line when the red light changed.

He lived.


79 posted on 02/23/2014 5:56:15 AM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: Olog-hai; Slings and Arrows
Certainly never drove in Massachusetts. When I was still living in NJ, I thought the way they drove to be psychotic (never mind downright rude) when I visited Boston.

I think it has become better, but many of the roads being old cow paths does not help, while Miami seemed worse to me, esp. the bus drivers.

108 posted on 02/23/2014 10:58:34 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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