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| | | I WOULDA been there on time if my rental hadn't had a flat. But a good time was had by all, and I got some AucZILLA X stuff. Someone beat me to it, though, I wasn't the first. Upside of the flat incident is that National gave me a Cadillac DeVille (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) Definitely had a great time. As allways it is nice to put a name to a face. I also love just talking shop with other LEGO fans so that was great too. Glad everything worked out with your car. Eric Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail The (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I thought that rentals only got flats when people drove into curbs. ;-) --Todd (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) Only when the curb is in your direct path. Those darn Massachusetts civil engineers just can't seem to put those curbs in the right place. ;) . Eric (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I'll say. In fact, the whole "how many lanes wide is this road" seems to be kind of a lost question... we have roads that wander from 1 to 3 lanes worth of pavement with little or no warning, lane markers that peter out for no reason, etc. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | (...) Lesson #1 when driving in Massachusetts -- never try to be a "nice guy." (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I'm not going to change my internal morality because of where I happen to be. :-) I'm just sweetness and light and MA will have to deal with it. If they don't like it, tough. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) You know that old Puritan saying: "If you're not part of the problem, you're part of the pavement." (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Or Larry's favorite. "If theres traffic on road, jump the curb and drive on the sidewalk. The pedestrians will get out of your way." :-) Eric (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Reminds me of something that happened in my drivers ed class: Instructor: "Always aim for the softer target." Friend: "So if we have the options of hitting a brick wall and a pedestrian, we should hit the pedestrian?" Instructor: "Yes." Now (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) I'm being cruelly maligned. I would never hit a pedestrian on purpose. And I never would have hit that curb, either, if it hadn't have jumped out in front of me because I was trying to be a nice guy. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) I suspect your front right wheel is now cruelly misaligned, too. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) See Rule #1 When Driving In MA... (...) Not to mention his Rental Kharma! Rule #4 when driving in Massachusetts -- Never take a rental truck down Storrow Drive. (Mem Drive, either!) Right, Todd? (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | <FJKt17.EAt@lugnet.com> <FJL91p.8oK@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Heh heh. That only happens once or twice a month... Then there was the truck on 128 which was a little too tall to get (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | | | (...) Lesson # 2 when driving in massachusetts -- oldest & rustiest car has the right-of-way. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | | | | (...) Lesson #3 when driving in Massachusetts -- when entering a rotary at full speed, use that old rusty car in front of you as a shield. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | (...) Heh heh... How many have seen "The Boston Driver's Handbook"? It has interesting maneuvers listed. If you're not sure if you need to turn left or right, turn on the emergency flashers, and possibly weave between all the lanes so you won't get (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Reminds me of what happened one time when a bunch of us went to Boston for a SF convention. We took my friends mini-van and I was driving in Boston (combination of knowing the place just a little bit, and who felt like driving - the owner (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | | | | | Re: In town the rest of the week —Rob Doucette
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| | | | Chris Phillips <chris.phillips@comp...oards.com> wrote in message > Rule #4 when driving in Massachusetts -- Never take a rental truck down Storrow (...) Growing up in Massachusetts, my fondest memories were of out-of-town freshman arriving at (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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