Not always the tourists. My Irish boyfriend learned to drive in Boston and my parents STILL talk about the time they were visiting and he drove them backwards up a one-way street the wrong way to get to a parking space.
All bets are off if you're looking for parking.
I hate to break this to you, but I've driven in most of the continental U.S., and only in Boston will someone pass you on the right in the same lane.
Hee! With the advent of so many SUV's, I think this happens less than it used to. Aggressive, yes, though.
I'm not a defender! Bostonians don't talk to pedestrians unless they've run over them! To pull over to talk to a pedestrian is a total out-of-towner move.
Really, we just like to scare people from out of town so they don't drive. This benefits us because a) they don't mess up our Boston-driving groove and b) more parking for us.
It's all about the parking.
Huh. I appear to be going to a basketball game tonight.
To pull over to talk to a pedestrian is a total out-of-towner move.
If he'd pulled over, it'd have been a wee bit less annoying.
Heh. I lived on the 4th floor of Shelton in my junior year. I recently reconnected with my roommate from that year on LJ, which is too cool.
If he'd pulled over, it'd have been a wee bit less annoying.
OK, that actually sounds like a local move (i.e. cut off and/or block anyone possible). Any idea where you were - certain neighborhoods/outlying towns of greater Boston I can totally see the "wrong way/stop to chat" thing going down.
Naples road, which is one of the cross streets on that block
I lived at 16A Winslow Road! Like the next street over. Our landlord Dick and his, as we liked to call her concubine, Peg lived in the bottom of the house. He seemed to work on taxi cabs for a living. There were always a ton of them parked in the parking lot behind the house. We thought his "work" on them consisted of turning back the odometers. He was a sketchy dude but a nice landlord. He never complained about us and returned our hefty safety deposit back in full, in cash when we moved out. Even though we had done a job on the house somewhat.
A table of traffic fatalities in each state, ordered by per-capita rate. Stats are from 2002 - the most recent I found on google. Note the state with the lowest per-capita fatalities. I'll give you a hint - state flower: Mayflower!
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That's kind of my response, Nora. I've never been to a live professional basketball game before, and I've rarely if ever watched a whole game all teh way through on tv. But I'm willing to believe it will be fun.
