[sionnsar]

'Face, you're sweet -- but it isn't going to happen.

However, I have a fun new project: NAME THE DRIVERS (or somthing like that):

Come up with a simple term that describes the driving habits of a particular locale. My first two entries:

Seattle, "Go With the Flow": In my intro to my quarter-century in the Seattle area, the drivers were polite to a degree even beyond what I experienced (previously) in the Santa Cruz (CA) mountains. If you needed to enter a busy stream of traffic, somebody would back off and wave you in, for example. (In the Santa Cruz mountains, if somebody was on you tail obviously wanting to go faster, you'd pull off first opportunity and let him go. A mutual honk and a wave sealed the deal -- no -Silicon- Valley folks need apply.)

Boston, "Carpe Viam" (Seize the Way!): You are on the road and You Own It! Even if it leads you directly into a collision situation. I was amazed to see Bostonites drive directly and deliberately into situations that in Seattle would guarantee a collision, only to back off at the last instant.

[NicknamedBob]

For some reason, your "Carpe Viam" description made me think of the word or phrase "tazerfood."

Like, people who drive so badly that you want a tazer beam instead of a car-horn to operate at them.

I've seen Boston traffic. Drivers there are astonishingly, deliberately, aggressively bad. Motrards. (Derived from moron + motor + retard)

[Monkey Face]

Let's see...there are the "foreign" drivers, who honk when they want to pass and expect you to get out of the way, and the other "foreign" drivers who think traffic lights are "only for Westerners", and then there are the ones who stick their hands out the window and wiggle their fingers if they want you to go ahead of them while their nail polish dries...