The Drivers

Boston drivers are THE WORST! If you live in this city and drive I highly recommend that you go to church every week and pray to your God that you make it home safely every day. I know drivers in every city can be bad but Boston drivers take the cake.

If you are driving in the fast lane and the speed limit says 50 and you are doing 70 don't be surprised to have some Bostonian get right up on your ass and start flashing his high-beams at you. If that doesn't work he'll simply attempt to run you off the road. I'm not even kidding.

The cops don't care either. I was once ticketed for doing the speed limit! That's not a typo. I was merging onto Route 1 from the left and didn't have enough time to get over. I was pulled over and given a ticket for "Failure to keep right." The cop told me the left lane was for "passing only." That's all fine but I was merging onto the highway. And never mind all the assholes doing 90 up Route 1...

Rotaries are fucking dangerous and most of the assholes here have no idea how to drive in them. I would love to avoid them but they are everywhere here. People are supposed to yield to the traffic in the rotary but I can't count how many times I've nearly collided with someone that didn't yield. It happens almost every day. Then you have the asshole on the inside lane of the rotary that will decide all of a sudden he wants the next right and he will completely cut the outside car off almost causing an accident. Fuck Rotaries. That's all I have to say about that.

The Mass Roadblock. This is one of my favorite Masshole moves. People here aren't patient enough to wait a few seconds to take a left so they decide to merge into the middle of the road and block one side of the street with their vehicle until traffic clears for them to take the left. This usually causes a massive backup for everyone else. There's another version of the Mass Roadblock that also pisses me off. You have people trying to take a left in a major intersection and the will pull almost all the way out so they are blocking oncoming traffic so you have to swerve to avoid them.

Another one of my favorite Masshole moves is what I call the Fuck You Left. When the light turns green the Masshole will make a quick left right in front of oncoming traffic even though they don't have a green arrow. Not only is this dangerous but usually when one guy does it the car behind him will follow and maybe even the car behind that car. So if you are going straight coming from the other direction and you have the green light, you now have wait for these bozos when they were suppose to yield to you. I have never seen this until I moved here. I was taught in driving school that you cannot take a left unless you have a green arrow or it is clear to do so.

Red light runners. People in MA won't just run a red light, these asshole will completely blow red lights. You always have to watch out for this. I have seen lights turn red for several seconds and then some Masshole comes blowing through the intersection. On New Year's Eve this resulted in a really bad car accident right in front of me.

Boston drivers will just cut you off. You always have to be on the lookout for drivers that are pulling out onto the roadway. They have no regards for you and will make you slam in your breaks. What baffles me is that most of the time they are so impatient yet after they pull out they will do 20 miles an hour just to piss you off.

If you are sitting at a light and the light turns green you have less than 1/10 of a second to hit the gas before you'll hear several horns honking behind you. You had better peel out too or you'll the guy behind you will really lay into his horn. Bostonians also love their horns way too much. The will honk at anything. Both apartments I have lived at I've had neighbors that will pull up and just lay on their horn instead of getting out of the car and knocking on the door. This happens several times a day.