[pt17]

You take your life in your hands when you drive around Boston or anywhere inside 495. I've never seen so many pathological drivers in my life. It's like a Roman chariot race.

As has been often said, MA drivers regard stop signs, traffic lights and other rules of the road as mere suggestions.

[expatpat]

Yeah, I lived in MA for a while. I knew this guy who showed me how to 'parallel-park by ear', which consisted of alternately bashing the car in front of a small space and the car behind until you made enough space to park your own car. He was recovering from a recent accident when I met him and later rolled his VW over on the snowbank beside an upstate NY freeway when he fell asleep. He was a German living in MA, and that's one hell of a driving combination.

[Paladin2]

We used to go to Sears store in a city with a common border to Boston. The best way to get there was to enter the parking lot from the residential streets behind the store.

In order to do this one had to go down a one way street the wrong way for a half a block. Everytime I wnet this way, there was a line of cars waiting for the one way street to be clear of traffic so one car at a time could dart down to the store lot entrance (maybe it was just an exit - can't remember).

I also lived on a one way street in Boston proper. Everytime I crossed (in the middle of the block, of course), I had to look both ways to avoid being hit by the occasional wrong way vehicle.

The place was a zoo 30 yrs. ago.

[meatloaf]

In another lifetime I was sitting at a stoplight in Boston. I was driving an E350 ford van with dual wheels that had a step bumper reinforced with a 6" channel center section and 1/4" plate as a bottom panel on the front. A cabdriver in the right hand lane decided to turn left in front of me at the light.

It was the guy's lucky day. The truck was no slouch off the light. If I had been in a hurry I'd have sardined him in that cab when I t-boned him.