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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: I've had it.
Message-ID: <118@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 10:31:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  8 10:31:12 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 18:02:39 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Boston drivers are competent and skilfull?  Boston drivers are like
European drivers?  No way!  European drivers mostly know *how* to drive,
which is more than I can say for Bostonians.  It's not that they don't
follow the traffic laws (they don't) or that they make up their own
rules (they do, but they don't follow those, either), it's that they
try to substitute aggressiveness for skill.  They don't *care* if they
hit you.  It gives them a chance to jump out and swear up and down it
was your fault (doesn't matter what actually happened:  it's *your*
fault).  Assuming they're still alive.

As for storms, yes, they do tend to make people friendly there.  It's
the *only* thing that does, and the *only* time.  The equivalent of
Southern California rainstorms for Boston is heat.  Every year around
August it actually gets over sixty degrees F. for a few weeks.  Every
Bostonian sweats and bitches and fumes the whole time.

I lived there for seven years.  Leaving was like shedding a curse.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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