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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.
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!
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.
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!
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matt, have you seen it done voluntarily? I would put that into a different category, I guess?
Participants were smiling and laughing in the photos I saw, so I assume it must have been voluntarily although alcohol was probably a factor. Note that the version I've seen was the 5th one listed at Urban Dictionary.