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Re: subway info?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:31:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Lar said:
> > I haven't met a Boston driver I couldn't beat through a squeezedown (think
> > the merges on old I 93 coming into downtown, or the merge shuffle to get to
> > the callahan right after you cross the Charles) through sheer power of
> > intimidation (and the knowledge that I was in a rental and thus had nothing
> > to lose), even during the height of rush, when I needed to, so you may not
> > be all THAT great.
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> I've got a fun anecdote there. One time a bunch of us from RPI were
> going to Boskone (SF convention which used to be held in Boston), partly
> because I had a remote idea of where we were going I was driving. As I
> pulled out from a light, I heard a loud gasp from beside me. I asked,
> "what's wrong" and the owner of the minivan we were using who was
> sitting in the back seat on the right [who hadn't gasped, it was the
> person riding shotgun who gasped] calmly stated that I had just bested a
> cab in a squeezedown [Boston is famous for squeezedowns at lights]).
Those are easy, all it takes is some combination of faster reflexes and/or a
bigger engine. I'm referring to the kind where you are in essentially
stopped traffic and you get to a point where someone will have to give. I'm
a big fan of zippering, where each side takes turns. But if someone tries to
deny me my zipper turn, I never lose. Not yet anyway.
++Lar
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| (...) Having learned to drive in Lexington, I've got some good Boston driving skills. I used to study "The Boston Driver's Handbook" for ideas :-) (well, not really, but I did actually once perform one of the advanced maneuvers - said maneuver being (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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