Narrow Escape
Brett Dikeman
brett at cloud9.net
Sun Mar 17 17:50:47 EST 2002
At 9:27 AM -0800 3/17/02, Fringe Ryder wrote:
>U.S. roads are a LOT wider, a LOT straighter
You've obviously never been in New England. The major roads for the
most part were formed from animal paths, and consequently, NE looks
like a plate of spaghetti. Boston is pretty bad...all sorts of roads
meet at odd angles, positions, etc...roads change names/numbers(Route
128 is a perfect example) and Boston is full of splits with rather
unclear markings as to where each fork goes. The Big Dig makes it
even worse; exit closings, re-routings, street/bridge closings...
Don't get me started about Massachusetts rotaries...its one of those
things that by some miracle, works.
Driving back from the NEQ board meeting caravaning with Paul Royal, a
woman in one of those crappy econoboxes(laganza or something?) about
the size of a postage stamp decided to squeeze in between my car and
the truck in front of me at about 80mph. There was maybe 1 car
length room to spare, and I let my displeasure be known with
highbeams and horn as she tried to fit in to avoid slowing down for
traffic in her lane; I was already braking to increase distance
between myself and the front car, but there clearly was not enough
room given the stuff going on a car or two ahead...someone could have
had to brake and a multicar pileup would have resulted.
When she pulled back over and I resumed passing, she actually turned
to me, leaned on the horn, and gave me the finger and mouthed some
very inappropriate words. When I -finished- passing, she popped back
into the passing lane behind me, and flashed her highbeams for 10-15
seconds. Absolutely amazing.
Brett
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