...because Boston drivers can't keep a straight line if their name was Nina Hyena in a Looney Tune parody .....oh, wait. Gul is a hippie who bikes to work. Awww.
You're thinking of Dayton. About the running people over part, not the biking to work part. He'd need to have a bike... and a job.
Eh, parody thread. From what everyone I've met from the East Coast has told me, MA and particularly Boston has a bad rap for drivers being cunts.
That is sort of true. To the uninitiated, the drivers here all seem hell bent on killing themselves and taking out as many others as they possibly can. But what looks aggressively reckless is actually just a series of informal rules that, while different from what you learn in drivers' ed, nevertheless work. Looks chaotic, but actually follows some organizing principles.
Fair enough. What works in Louisiana (ie, not using indicators because traffic is slow enough and infrequent enough to really need them) wouldn't work here in CA. A chick from Nebraska once freaked out when I looked over my shoulder before changing lanes, insisting I never take my eyes off the front of that road. But even in a car that has very minimal blind spots, I've had some near misses and I knew I had two car lengths anyway.
Yeah, that chick from Nebraska would flunk her driver's test here. You always clear your blind spots before lane changes and, yes, that means glancing over your shoulder.
Here in Florida checking your blind spots is pointless because drivers are not going to stop anyway. You also never take your eyes off your text. When your car is hands free that means you can use both your hands for the phone because the car does not need them. Oh, and when you are driving parallel to another car in a different lane you are supposed to get in that car's blind spot and then match their speed. They will actually get angry with you if they have cruised in your blind spot for miles and you later your speed faster or slower to change lanes or break their blockade. The anti passing blockade is a thing around here. You can get them five or six lanes across.
