Boston can't suck till you drive there. Then you'll realize it sucks. If you thought DC was a tough place, it doesn't hold a candle to driving in Boston.
I grew up driving Boston and it does not hold a candle to New York City. I got into the stupid fast pass toll line down there and none of the A$$ holes would let me in the cash lane. This was way before anyone else had them so I had no idea what they were. After 15 minues I told the guy next to me I was going to hit him. He let me in. Another NY driving favorite is When you are stopped at a light cars drive up the breakdown or bus stop lane and try and hit the light when it turns green while they are going 40. I always hoped to see one of them get broadsided. Well that is my rant on NYC drivers.
You ought to try driving in Montreal, Quebec. It is the only major North American city to prohibit right turns on a red light. Why you ask, seems that car drivers made a sport of mowing down pedestrians.:shock: Or so I was told on more than one occasion.
Sorry, but you're missing one important thing: Boston is not laid out in a grid or anything that's conducive to logic. It makes for a more scenic drive, but if you miss a turn and think you'll turn on the next street and come back down to the proper street, you will find out that you will never find your destination. This is why driving in Boston is such a delight, and this is why Boston sucks. :laugh:
All joking set aside, Boston has sucked since the end of 87.:Smarty: Glad your girls were not harmed.:TU:
Driving in Boston is great!! Where can you be going north on 93 and south on 95 and 128 at the same time. At least it's not like RI where they have exits on either side and have on-ramps that dump you into 2 exit lanes so you have to floor it and cutoff the 2 lanes of exiting traffic or your getting off again.:3gears: Wait!!! I sort of enjoy that....p
NYC is the same way. It's kinda the only law people respect there, for some reason. Anything else is open season.
Ahhh........Montreal. The Paris, France of North America. In driving style as well. Ever watch those old Pink Panther movies with traffic whizzing around the Arc de Triumph?? THAT is Montreal traffic as well. No where else can you have a two lane road stopped at a red light with four cars stopped across the 2 lanes and two motorcycles squeezing in-between the cars at the same time. They are just waiting for the green light to test all six driver's reaction time across the intersection. uzzled: uzzled: I park the car as soon as possible when in Montreal and take the Metro instead!:Smarty:
It wasn't uncommon for taxi drivers in Hiroshima to climb out and pee on the sidewalk at red lights....:laugh:
Is this a recent development with hotels hiring "illegals" or recent temp. visa workers to do "housekeeping"?? Last year, Karen and I took a 5 day 2000 mile round trip from MI to NC and we stayed in 3 hotels during that trip. In all three of the hotels ( Fredericksburg, VA-Lumberton, NC-and at the VA/OH border), "housekeeping" did not clean up our rooms while we were out-and-about during the day. We returned in the evening to find our bed not made, and our wet towels still in a pile on the bathroom floor. After going to the front desk demanding an explantion (and some fresh towels), we were told that "due to theft issues, housekeeping was only allowed in the room while the guest was present as well." At the Howard Johnson's in Lumberton, they had signs posted EVERYWHERE warning hotel guests about leaving ANYTHING in your car or room for fear it will be stolen. Nice confidence builder. The sad thing is, that we stayed at these same hotels just three years prior and none of these policies were in place then. What has transpired in the last three years where hotel guest property is now fair game for the hotel staff or area theives instead of being respected as SOMEONE ELSE's property?? We leave NOTHING of value in the hotel room while we are out for the day. If the housekeeping staff wants to steal my Sponge Bob Squarepants underwear, they are welcome to it. Leaving your purse, camera, valuables in a hotel room is just inviting the theft to occur. That's just like leaving keys in the ignition of your unlocked car. You're just waiting for trouble.
""That's just like leaving keys in the ignition of your unlocked car. You're just waiting for trouble."" ooops.... ou: small town living will cause this....
I gotta say I am very shocked to hear that this Ramada/Susse Chalet is a place for Hoe's,Pimps and drugs.... I was there many a time some years back (7-8) or so and always had a good time, went to the owners son's wedding there at the Philllips Old Colony House, Which Uncle Pat and his wife (Who's Grandfather Phillip Strazzula along with his brother Matthew and Joseph Sammartino Started the Phillips Candy House in 1925) Mary Ann (Strazzula) Nagle along with the Sammartino Family and Others ran everything on site, and also the Inn at 925 WTM BLVD.. The complex consist of Susse Chalet,The Freeport Tavern,The Phillips Old Colony House,The Phillips Candy house,The Boston Bowl which now has the "Dead Wood Brew Pub", and then the Inn off site but just around the corner, to which we would walk after what ever we did at the complex. Come to think of it We only did stay at the onsite Ramada/Susse Chalet motor lodge once and it was 4am it was quite, Then uncle Pat sent us to the off site location which was much nicer all the others times we went, By looking at the sat pics on google I can tell that the old colony house has been updated and the place looks nice, except for the sidewalk and road.. it's sad if this kind of element as over come this location..... On a funny note, maybe not, one time a bunch of us took a walk at 3-4am to Dunkin Dounuts and there where 2 Police Officers slepping in thier car,I can't find the pic but it was priceless..... http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...06.15,,0,4.15&cid=3600409378646647684&iwloc=A And I never about a shooting in 99 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...93993,-71.046717&spn=0.003571,0.0081&t=h&z=17 attached is a pic of the brave girl who wore a "BOSTON SUCKS" shirt into Fenway Park VS. Yankees....... I won't elaborate......
