Nope. I have a license, but haven't driven in years. Not regularly since high school. Boston is the kind of place where you can do without, but it is better to have a car. Or at least access to one....
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 1:54:17 pm PST #18357 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
le nubian - Jan 25, 2012 2:22:36 pm PST #18358 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
When I was last in Boston, I feared for me life: while being a passenger in a car, while being a pedestrian. I could not believe the extent to which people drove fast and badly and didn't seem to care about basic rules of the road.
I give Boston drivers the side eye to this day!
Ginger - Jan 25, 2012 2:25:07 pm PST #18359 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Boston is the worst place I've driven. People pass on the right in a single lane. They sit a lights with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 2:25:22 pm PST #18360 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. And people who didn't grow up here wonder why I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!
amyth - Jan 25, 2012 2:26:05 pm PST #18361 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2012 2:29:42 pm PST #18362 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
I went more than two years without driving once. But with my parents' declining health I figured I needed a car....
aurelia - Jan 25, 2012 2:34:38 pm PST #18363 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Boston is the worst place I've driven.
Likewise. Although St. Louis seems to have a higher proportion of deeply stupid drivers than other cities I've driven in.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2012 2:45:03 pm PST #18364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Boston was the first place I drove that wasn't Michigan. Afterwards my boss apologised for not just approving taxis for the whole business trip. It was horrible.
I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!
In Montreal the assumption was that stop signs and walk signals were convenient ways to assemble pedestrians so that drivers had less work to do in order to mow them down.
smonster - Jan 25, 2012 2:49:55 pm PST #18365 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Sue, her balance may be going. My grandmother fell (at 83, IIRC) and faceplanted and broke her nose and got two black eyes. She had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing, and at 96 (tomorrow!) she's still toodling around but with a walker.
I don't know if that anecdata is helpful or more worrisome, but it's something to consider.
Ginger - Jan 25, 2012 3:08:40 pm PST #18366 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's scary and frustrating, Sue. I hope she'll see her doctor. She also could have had a mini stroke.
My mother goes to doctors and has tests, but I'm not convinced she really tells them what's going on.