Oh well, the Staties are wicked mean.

Ooh, bonus points for use of the local lingo, Cindy.

golf claps

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.)

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.

The free tickets have been delivered and they are for club level seats. So I think this is definitely gonna be fun.

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.

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.

Yeah, but then there'll be years and years of the Big Re-Dig.

Yeah, but then there'll be years and years of the Big Re-Dig.

Big Dig Redux? Re-do? Doobeedoobeedoo.

This is, I think, the funniest "Point/Counterpoint" ever in The Onion: [link]

Puppies are made by God just for hugging!

Whitefonted spoiler: Don't hug Fuzzy The Duckling! Fuzzy The Duckling has a sharp beak that he uses to poke out the eyes of his enemies. That dumb duck is too small, anyway. You might crush him with your big hands and break his neck! Then you will scream and throw him down onto the grass where he will just sit all day and not move at all.

Note the state with the lowest per-capita fatalities.

I suspect this is because most of the traffic fatalities in Boston are unsuspecting tourists. That, or other MA residents fled the city in terror and bring the average down by not driving anymore.

I've been there enough to have the don't-cross-the-street-until-you-see-the-whites-of-their-eyes thing down, but I would only drive if there were a medical emergency and it was the only way to get a friend or relative to a hospital. Even then, I'd want to steal the biggest, most heavily-armored SUV I could find rather than driving my own car.