Massholes like to stay in practice on Storrow Drive
By adamg - Fri, 06/27/2008 - 8:03am.
Deb Geisler reports on an only-in-Boston maneuver on Storrow Drive during the outbound rush hour yesterday involving somebody in the right lane who'd just realized he'd missed that weird left exit for Copley after the tunnel:
... Car comes to a dead stop, backs up on Storrow Drive, re-aligns himself, and makes a 90ish-degree turn across two lanes of traffic and a rumble strip to get off the road. ...
Eh
Been there , done that. If he didnt do that he would have been stuck on the road for 45 minutes trying to back track back to where he had to go. You gotta do what you gotta do.
It's All About You
Who cares about anyone else, as long as you get where you need to go. Safety is over-rated.
Anonymouscowardwhat
And are you so confident in the appropriateness of your maneuver that you'd post about it in a way that identifies who you are?
Didn't think so.
It wasn't at all appropriate or smart, but ...
I'll still admit that many years ago, I did something similar -- a stop in the left lane of Route 1 in Saugus followed by a right turn.
Nonsense
Take the Fenway exit, loop down to Comm Ave, take it back to the same place. Lose you all of maybe 15 minutes.
Recalcuating Route
Even if you don't have a GPS, a look at a map won't kill you ... and you might even find a faster way than the one you had planned.
I usually plan two routes, in case one doesn't work out for whatever reason.
But that requires thought
Which would destroy your Masshole cred.
OP must have been so transfixed by this supreme maneuver that she didn't notice the other motorists honking. I mean, the chorus of blaring horns and flipping fingers is part of the whole theatric, isn't it? The applause, though, I can totally believe...