that I've lived in Boston almost my entire life, and I always thought the other drivers here were idiots. However, my ex-wife lives in Vermont (close to both NY and MA state borders). I have never had so many near-misses as I did for the 3 weeks I stayed up there for personal reasons.
VT drivers were hilarious: As a Boston driver, I naturally have a tendency to drive $speed_limit + 5/10mph;, even when trying not to. Whenever I would come up behind someone w/ VT plates on the road - even if I was slowing down, or had my blinker on - they would go for the breakdown lane and let me pass. I actually had to stop and call an ambulance for someone who did this and ended up in a ditch bleeding from his head. The whole way home I kept thinking that the state was full of people too afraid to drive (cleaned up in the interests of preserving FYOS-ness).
New York drivers had their own little moments, and I pray you never get into a discussion about bad drivers with my ex-wife's boyfriend. The way he tells it, his brother was killed by one who decided he was gonna pull a u-turn right in front of him (his brother was on a motorcycle) and even though the guy'd been drinking, nothing ever came of it.
Now, for you New Jersey drivers, I've got a bone to pick with you. While still in VT, I had to slam my brakes so much while I was up there, I had to replace the rotors when I came back. This was not due to me following to closely, mind you. I would be following someone with NJ plates on a 50-60 MPH road when *WHAM* "I want to take this left, but there's traffic coming the other way" took place. I mean, NO warning whatsever. They'd slam the brakes like I thought a small child ran out in front of them. And you couldn't pay me to drive through NJ ever again. What IS that smell? Just kidding! |
