Recently I visited Boston to watch our beloved Knicks lose a heartbreaker Game 1 to the Celtics at the TD Garden. It was an awesome trip despite the loss.
Here's the gang getting warmed up for the game:
Moon, Eric, Jay, Walt Clyde, and Beer-on-the-Girl.
But before I digress and complain about the Knicks' lost opportunities, poor coaching, and the like, I wanted to discuss the following issue that arose on the trip.
On our way up, friend-of-the-blog Jay generously offered to drive him and myself from North Jersey to Boston. On our trip, there were a handful of times we had to exit a highway. Each time the exit ramp was filled with a line of cars waiting to leave the highway, Jay would pull the following move: not wanting to wait in this line, he would drive up as far as possible, passing the growing line of cars on his right. Then, at the last possible instant, he would abruptly cut back into the line of cars, "cutting" the line of cars.
Incredulous (and also wanting to bust his balls), I brought it up around the guys in Boston, who all admitted that they do the same thing! Moon even justified it by bringing up the fact that no traffic laws were technically being broken. My stance remained constant: I can't think of many things that are as blatantly rude as this - and maybe I would have done the same as a younger man, but now I can't imagine doing this with such a cavalier attitude and with no guilt.
Is this an egregious act of road rage carried out to the nth degree? Or just something that people do on the rough roads of the Northeast?
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I do find this trend disturbing, much as I did the queueing at the supermarket and drive-up bank teller question that arose recently...today's nytimes had an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26tier.html) that speaks to the increasingly narcissistic bent that the 'younger' generation has moved to...life is much gentler if we'd just take turns
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