If you're from NH this will hit close to home. If not, I'm sure it will sound familiar to you and your neck
of the woods.
This was posted on "Horrible Drivers of New Hampshire" facebook group.
I drive well over 1200 miles per week. My territory is
northern New England with some mandatory trips into the trash hole of
Massachusetts, when needed.
Southern NH is the worst place to drive. Anywhere near Manchester, Concord,
Nashua, or Portsmouth you can experience the behavior of the common Urbanite
Dult implant from the flatlands.
1. Merge left-right, well signed, 2 miles from the lane closure. Northern NH,
Burlington VT, or Maine-past Portland. People merge, traffic slows slightly, we
all go along, no issues
Southern NH- NASCAR/Fast and Furious with all the selfish POS cutting each
other off, racing down the lane to be closed, until... TRAFFIC COMES TO A DEAD
STOP. Everyone is delayed, the maggots who cause it are delayed, and road rage
they caused comes right out.
2. Everett turnpike. Every Nissan ultima, civic with a fart can, car with
tilted tires, or non english speaking driver does 100 to get to the head of the
traffic jam. This is followed up by the landscaper who lives with mum and has
his "modified diesel" doing 100 with a trailer wagging like a dog
tail, keeping the rest of traffic to one lane due to the wrecking ball he is
dragging
3. Manchester in general. Too bad the meteor missed it last week. People are
completely ignorant and self entitled. What a shit show.
Love the 101 to 114 jamboree there. Jamming up traffic to fight over merging
lanes.
4. 101 east from Manchester to the end... WTF... they need to put cranes with
magnets in the median to remove the wrecks easier. Attach the magnet to rear,
pick up the car, and shake the contents out in the grass until the meat wagon
shows up.
5. 89 to 93 in Concord. This intersection was designed by somebody that had a
drug AND alcohol problem. If this person bred, his offspring should have been
banned from breeding to keep the rest of the human race from getting residual
fetal alcohol syndrome. Add in the eaters from Mass coming up to drink
themselves into a coma for the weekend and we have a another road rage farm.
I just sit back and watch the show. It proves urban culture is trash. Get out
of the cities and things are much better
END OF RANT Have a good day
This perfectly describes driving in Richmond Virginia. Yankees, blacks, foreigners, and local bubbas with trucks. There is no driving; it is death race 2000.
ReplyDeleteI'd toss up San Jose as a contender but the traffic's so jammed up there, there's no chance for speed. But the same issues in slow motion. Getting cut off at 3mph is an experience in itself. Add the white-lining motorcycles and the road rage is in-your-face.
ReplyDeleteI live in area with an average population age north of 65, coupled with snow birds in the winter. Its pretty routine for someone to drive into a business or parked car. And divided roads? Watch out for the wrong way drivers.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Portsmouth in 84-85, NHers were my favorite drivers. Followed the rules, 5-10 over the limit, merged sanely. The only fly in the ointment was Mainers doing 20 at all times. I always use NH as my example of good drivers.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Boston in the late 90s, driving at its most feral. Whenever I left I used to take a deep breath, relax and remind myself to act like a human being.
I see Massholes moving north screwed the whole thing up.
Sounds like DC driving, entitlement, obliviousness and stupidy are the norm.
That's EVERY urban area. It's not as bad in small towns but even in cowtown the hick kids don't have any manners. Modern American culture is a cesspool.
ReplyDeleteIn NH especially the coast most all have drivers licenses, nicer cars and insurance. Compare that to Connecticut towns where probably 30 % can’t talk english, have no license , no nothing plus WEED IS LEGAL. Then there are the cops who don’t arrest the potheads because there is no way of making an impaired arrest stick. It’s common that 2 out of every 7 cars on CT roads have drivers doing weed even at 630 am going to work !
ReplyDeleteAnd you assholes in NH want weed legalized ?
And let’s not talk about how many of the wrong way drivers in CT are doing weed!!!!! They hide the data because they know it’s bad while continuing to ignore the issue !!
Screw Ct. I love Freaking NH. The State that I can take a shit in Freedom.
People on the east coast are the most fucked up drivers. In the midwest, only about half of the drivers are so. Still, avoid all major population centers. Concentrations of fucked up drivers.
ReplyDeleteI am a Hampster but work outside of Boston,drove from there to north of Concord,had lunch with friend and drove back to Boston suburb,was actually a pleasant ride both ways excepting one truck in fast lane doing 50,usually runs 10-15 over limit with folks well spaced out many car lengths.You have the one occasional asshole at times but the rides for me have usually been very nice.
ReplyDeleteI lived in West Chesterfield in the 80’s. Never had any issues. Imagine it’s not so good now. Massholes have done generational damage.
ReplyDeleteIt’s still OK, mostly due to a near lack of population growth. Also Brat is a homeless camp and Keene empties out in the summer.
DeleteI watch a lot of DashCam videos. Idiocy,stupidity Sudden Onset Suicidal behavior seems to be unrelated to location.
ReplyDeleteI like Watching that stuff, but seeing idiots just Come Outta Nowhere and blast completely innocent people into a big ditch makes me kinda nervous when I'm on the road.
I was nearly late the other day due to the traffic out here. I wanted to honk the horn, but that just gets 'em all on the road, 'cause they think it's feeding time. And don't get me started about Black Angus on a new moon.
ReplyDeleteDon in SoCo
Money quote:
ReplyDelete"...urban culture is trash.". You are too kind.
I attended my God-son's high school graduation a few days ago. We live in either a small city or a big town depending on what government subsidy is being begged, and the event combined county high schools at one location but with separated ceremonies. With few exceptions the graduates show themselves un-schooled on anything but self-indulgence, are civically and functionally illiterate, graduate with zero marketable skills, and cake-walk about with the diploma as a participation trophy.
The graduates were 80 per-cent Nacho and Urban Black with a sprinkle of representation from who-knows-where. A few fat faces sneered out from under the pretend-piety headwrap, but I didn't see a celebration of the unique liberties afforded citizens of the United States on display. Maybe because they are mostly not citizens?
Following the modern practice of pretending everything is alright and fine and they-have-their-truths and fine-it's-fine no-I-said-it's-fine the very few who did not erupt in tribal war screams sat with a phony smile welded on and died a little more inside, like good little modern Protestants. I refused the offer to tribute Baal. And I thank God there was no human sacrifice, though I expect that practice will return to public events soon.
The school administrators, all Black and all wearing the pride-pelts of conceit, spoke at length. At length. Mostly about how they were proud, and how they were affected, and me me me and me. Not one word about scholastic standards, not one word about preparing for adult life, not one word about the need as young people to support the Constitution and personal liberty, not one word about the threats poised to ruin America. Not a peep about maintaining the once-common nuclear family through faith, dedication, and delayed gratification. Me me me.
I was surprised a fight didn't break out in the parking lot or lobby, though there were several knots of Ugga Chocka dancing. The South African model of surrender is on bright display, and the same model shows a path parallel to both the ruination of a nation and of an eroded social foundation. If that graduation ceremony is an indicator, many of us are forced residents in a tower of Babel. If you've read the story you know the ending.
Nailed it! The reason I live in the north country.... But. The flatlanders are finding their way here as well.
ReplyDeleteSuggestion for item #4: In light of the amount of plastic and aluminum in vehicles today, a magnet may not work. Use a grapple instead. If you squeeze the grapple enough, a meat wagon won't be necessary.
ReplyDeleteToo many with the "privilege" of driving.
ReplyDelete"Too bad the meteor missed it last week." The same thing could be said about a lot of places.
ReplyDeleteNW Arkansas compares to Memphis and Chicago as the places I won't drive willingly thru.
ReplyDeleteFor work i do about 900km in a day every 2 weeks. I planned my normal route to stick to secondary highways to avoid idiots. Twice my route takes me within 50km of a city and those stretches are filled with idiots.
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The Portsmouth NH traffic circle is excellent training for football's broken field running. Especially when there are a lot of out of state license plates. And it made great sense to put a state liquor store there with low prices.... just saying....
ReplyDeleteDriving from Manchester to Nashua during rush hour has become a clusterfuck since the state is widening the soutbound side of the road from two to three lanes. My estimation, they should make it four both sides because 20 years from now it'll have to be done. When the Nashua road widening project was done 30 years ago they should have immediately started on the Nashua Manchester section. Would have caused less inconvenience.
ReplyDeleteAs to 101E to the coast, few remember that about 15 miles east of Manchester 30 years ago 101 turned into a 2 lane cow path through the pucker brush and every small town center from Manchester to the coast. Holiday weekend or warm weekend days in summer were another clusterfuck getting to the coast. Unless you left home at zero dark thirty you could expect to spend 3-4 hours just getting to Route 1 on the coast.
The 89-93 northbound interchange was designed by some twisted fool with no concept of what future traffic volumes would look like. It's similar to the I495/I290 interchange in Massholia. That interchange would typically have a 2-3 mile backup in both directions on 495 on a holiday with people screaming down beside the backup then trying to cut into the backed up traffic right near the off ramp. Disaster typically ensued. They have in the last year or so widened that interchange to two lanes but they didn't widen the main roadway leading to the off ramp. Typical half assed Massholia road job.
This guy's never been to California...
ReplyDeleteI'll put Looooong Island drivers up against any group in the US as the worst in the country but they don't come close to Arabs in their home countries.
ReplyDeleteI drive a 100,000 lb. fuel transport truck. I’m the slow moving target in everyone’s crosshairs to do anything necessary to get around. Stuff that used to happen only rarely is now ADED - all day every day. Maine and New Hampshire have changed a lot in my lifetime and I used to think moving “ up north” would get me some peace and quiet. I’m not sure that will be the case anymore.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be north of Bangor now for some semblance of sanity, and that only counts when tourists are absent.
DeleteMoved to Chattanooga a number of years ago, and was pleasantly surprised to see drivers taking turns letting each other into the open lane whenever one was close for some reason. Haven't been out and about so much since retiring, so I can't say if this is still going on.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, did Boilerdoc get put under another ban hammer by the blue-hairs?
You have never been to Kansas. At 14 years EVERY kid in Kansas gets a "farm" license for driving on the "farm", and they never learn anything more. Most do drive on the right-hand side of the road though, I'm sure none know why. Speed "suggestion" signs and the pretty yellow lines on the highway mean nothing to them. A 4-way stop in Kansas is the definition of mass-confusion. I live 12 miles from the border and travel there often. In 78 years I have seen three Kansas highway patrol cars.
ReplyDeleteCultural change - raised on a farm and got the farm permit. Was very careful to follow the rules of the road because both of my parents would have given me what for in the event of any infraction.
DeleteAnywhere near DC
ReplyDeleteEveryone should HAVE to drive an 18 wheeler,if only through cones in a parking lot, so they understand the stress and the absolute necessity of a wide turn.
ReplyDeleteI drive a 34' Motor Coach, and although it doesn't hold a candle to a Big Rig, the same necessities apply. Gotta always be aware of height, weight, and turning radius conditions.
DeleteMy daughter lives just outside Portsmouth. Almost every one of those jerk drivers has a Masshole license plate.
ReplyDeleteThe author needs to spend some time in Atlanta when they can stay near the Mall of Georgia and take day classes at Kennesaw State University as it is only 30 miles as the crow flies. It is a 2 hour commute one way.
Should rename this blog to Boomer Bitching. Boo hoo
ReplyDeleteYet, here you are. Feel free to let the door hit you in the ass.
DeleteLet me put this into perspective for you. These days I am thrilled to be able to walk across the street to the mailbox and back without collapsing...
ReplyDeleteBraggart. I'm lucky to make it to my feet to get to the bathroom on time, sometimes I have to change my Bermudas because I didn't. Old Age ain't for the weak. Right, CederQ? Right, Phil?
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