That is my strategy for driving around inside Boston: take the T.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Dec 29, 2004 10:26:47 am PST #1327 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Topic!Cindy - Dec 29, 2004 10:31:04 am PST #1328 of 10002
What is even happening?
Oh well, the Staties are wicked mean.
DXMachina - Dec 29, 2004 10:43:56 am PST #1329 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
However, it is the tourists that go the wrong way up one way streets.
Hey! It was just the one time, and it was Nutty (a non-tourist) who was navigating.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 29, 2004 10:49:26 am PST #1330 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh well, the Staties are wicked mean.
Ooh, bonus points for use of the local lingo, Cindy.
golf claps
Nutty - Dec 29, 2004 10:59:42 am PST #1331 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hey. In my defense, it was dark, and I did not yet live on the north side, so I was sort of a tourist at that time. Now, I would never make that mistake! (It was one of those Storrow-to-Alewife Brook Parkway, unless-you-want-Soldier's Field Road 5-way intersections. I still sometimes get those wrong, but now it's just "Whoops! I'm in Allston!" rather than wrong way down a 1-way street.)
I used to commute on 128 every morning and evening, and it is actually recreational. It is how we de-stress from our jobs, by fantasizing abotu crashing into other people (perhaps our bosses). Interior city-driving (Somerville, Cambridge, Boston, maybe Charlestown) are all huge ego-boosts, since you have to be smart and have a long memory to navigate at all. Sort of like puzzles, except with your car.
As for passing on the right without changing lanes -- you know, half the highways don't even have lane markers. So, we sort of make up lanes as we go along, and sometimes your idea of a lane is wider than other people's. (Really. Navigating 93 coming north into the Big Dig was hilarious this way.)
juliana - Dec 29, 2004 11:03:29 am PST #1332 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Good gods. Driving in Chicago is fun for me. I want to try driving in New York. I'd love to attempt a moped in Paris. I am not yet suicidal enough to think about motoring in Rome, but we may see.
And now? I am flat-out terrified of Boston streets, and I've never even been there. Y'all are nuts.
-t - Dec 29, 2004 11:04:08 am PST #1333 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The free tickets have been delivered and they are for club level seats. So I think this is definitely gonna be fun.
DXMachina - Dec 29, 2004 11:05:16 am PST #1334 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hey. In my defense, it was dark, and I did not yet live on the north side, so I was sort of a tourist at that time. Now, I would never make that mistake!
I was gonna say, we did pretty well navigating San Francisco.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 29, 2004 11:08:03 am PST #1335 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And now? I am flat-out terrified of Boston streets, and I've never even been there. Y'all are nuts.
And the best part? You never know if the street is still going to be the same the next time you try to take it. Moohahahahaha!! Also, they sometimes change whether they are one-way or not.
It isn't quite so bad these days since the Big Dig is only leaking, not being built.
Betsy HP - Dec 29, 2004 11:08:32 am PST #1336 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yeah, but then there'll be years and years of the Big Re-Dig.