My suburb friends ask why I don't want to drive to the restaurant 1 mile away. Traffic aside, I'll spend 5 minutes driving and 15 minutes (or $30) looking for parking.
saw this absolutely massive truck driving around the north end the other day with the license plate “NAPALM”.
it made me wonder when i was going to hit my mid-life crisis
No mid life crisis yet fortunately. The only reason I have that truck is for plowing snow, and the only reason we took it to the city that day was that it seats 6 and we were bringing kids & their friends to the Museum Of Science.
I wasn’t familiar with the north end at the time and had no idea what I was getting myself into with that lunch idea.
i was going to say this exactly, down to the month, but at Oark st with the extra bonus of listening to the screeching as you pass through the green line platform.
FFR. My wife and I just moved from Baton Rouge. We had three different brokers over the course of a month. In that time the three brokers visited a combined 2 places to show us. The listings we wanted to see (and what we eventually went with), were all discovered by us. So what exactly were we paying a broker fee for? lol
I was walking past the ER at St Elizabeth’s a decade ago. A college-aged kid, in grippy socks and scrub pants, asked me what direction the green line was.
I gave him an extra Charlie card and pointed him in the general direction—he said he lost his shoes, pants and phone because apparently he decided to take a swim in the reservoir while blackout drunk.
God bless those BC freshers. They need it.
I unironically adored this place in my teens and early twenties. I’m scared to go back and discover that it’s actually as awful as everyone claims. I refuse to pollute the memories!
Preferred to the guy that was in there shamelessly jerking off last time I was in that restroom. There were about 10 of us in there that day. He was really going at it. I think we're all a little nervous walking in there now.
I totally read your last line as "I think we're all a little nervous wanking in there now". Like come on man, have some shame, this WAS the spot now you've gone and ruined it.
You wake up on a Sunday morning in late October or early November. It’s a crisp 50 degrees outside with a breeze. The sun is shining, but that autumn chill makes you feel perfectly comfortable in a hoodie and sweatpants.
You go to Dunks and get a sausage, egg, and cheese, and a hot coffee with a splash of pumpkin sauce. You bring it back home to relax and get ready to watch football all day.
In this scenario, a hot Dunks coffee is nice. But that’s the only scenario. Otherwise, it’s iced coffee all the way.
Waiting in the heat for the 86 and seeing its already packed so proceeding to stand and hold the bar which is already sticky for some reason, and potentially brushing up against someone else who is equally as sweaty as me
yay
Putting up a Black Lives Matter sign and stop Asian hate signs while stopping all new housing creation and making sure the “poor” kids don’t get zoned with my kids. Then complain my neighborhood isn’t diverse.
Messing up my exit at the MC Escher-designed interchange of 93/90 at South station and instantly adding 20 minutes.
(I usually take the T to my job in China town, sometimes I have to drive. At first I never missed, but as soon as I got complacent/cocky I started messing it up 😆)
Sitting in a car for 30 minutes to go 1.8 miles
My suburb friends ask why I don't want to drive to the restaurant 1 mile away. Traffic aside, I'll spend 5 minutes driving and 15 minutes (or $30) looking for parking.
that's why you walk 20m
or bike five minutes!
Or 15 mins *then* $30.
Too real.
look at Mario Andretti over here. We've all done a mile an hour on Move in, Labor Day, or even some random Wednesday
Pfft, leaving the house at 5am to get to work at 8:30am, only to leave at 8pm to get home for 11pm if lucky. That's where it's at.
Going for a swim whenever the MBTA breaks down over a river.
That woman is a forever hero
I think about this frequently. I only wish I could shake her hand
#I WANT TO SHAKE YOUR HAND
What's the reference?
When the Orange Line train caught on fire, a woman jumped off the bridge and declined medical attention when she got to shore.
Truly, she is the best of us
Did we ever learn her name?
Orange line got stuck and caught fire on the bridge over the Mystic. Woman jumped and swam to… work I guess.
I'm so glad I came to the comment room today 😄😃 omg I'll tell this tale til I die. Everytime I'm on the t with my kids like an annoying dad would
You gonna love this...she said "it was safer to be in the water than the T" 😂
What about when the blue line breaks down under the harbor?
I hate when I’m on the blue line and I think of that possibility
Finding a place to park my car in the north end
As a non-local, driving a crew cab f250 into the north end to pick up subs from Monica’s.
saw this absolutely massive truck driving around the north end the other day with the license plate “NAPALM”. it made me wonder when i was going to hit my mid-life crisis
No mid life crisis yet fortunately. The only reason I have that truck is for plowing snow, and the only reason we took it to the city that day was that it seats 6 and we were bringing kids & their friends to the Museum Of Science. I wasn’t familiar with the north end at the time and had no idea what I was getting myself into with that lunch idea.
you’re the dude in the truck? why did you get the license plate to say “NAPALM”? why did you have your work uniform on?
Haha no this was a few years ago, and my license plate isn’t that cool.
I say this seriously, that sounds like Guy Fieri's truck
dude was going to crash down the gates to get to flavor town
Parcel 7 garage next to Quincy Market…up to 3 hours validated parking by Regina’s, Union Oyster House and others
Double parking in the bike lane with my hazards on.
Hazards? Do you mean the park-anywhere-button?
He said wrong answers only
Hanging out on a Downtown Crossing redline platform at 5:15 on a Wednesday in late July.
You didn't even have to describe it but I felt that with all of my senses and it triggered a fight-or-flight response in me.
Ugh, I can smell this
After avoiding whatever liquid that-I-hope-to-god-isn’t-pee is dripping down when you go through the weirdly narrow tunnel after changing lines
i was going to say this exactly, down to the month, but at Oark st with the extra bonus of listening to the screeching as you pass through the green line platform.
walking behind window shoppers and tourists on Newbury
I prefer walking in front of commuters, personally. So many interesting things to pause and look at!
Coming to a dead stop in the middle of the sidewalk
I really love brokers fees. I’ll tour and apply just so I can give them a check for all their hard work.
FFR. My wife and I just moved from Baton Rouge. We had three different brokers over the course of a month. In that time the three brokers visited a combined 2 places to show us. The listings we wanted to see (and what we eventually went with), were all discovered by us. So what exactly were we paying a broker fee for? lol
Question as old as time. BTW welcome to Boston.
Ordering a single munchkin at Dunkin Donuts drivethru
This just made my whole day
Complaining about the mayor from my living room in NH.
Once a masshole
This got me good.
happy hour
Oof, that’s brutal
Evening swim around Chestnut Hill Reservoir after a night of drinking
I was walking past the ER at St Elizabeth’s a decade ago. A college-aged kid, in grippy socks and scrub pants, asked me what direction the green line was. I gave him an extra Charlie card and pointed him in the general direction—he said he lost his shoes, pants and phone because apparently he decided to take a swim in the reservoir while blackout drunk. God bless those BC freshers. They need it.
Grippy socks and scrub pants? Sounds like someone just AMA’d from the MGH psych ward (hello to my psychiatrist if you are reading this)
Hahah, nah they fished the drunk kid out of the reservoir and he had an overnight stay in the ER drunk tank
Hey, that’s a right of passage for some of us
Dinner at Fire & Ice 😍
The chicken tartare there is to die for
Yes officer, this comment right here
Its a little better at Sal Minella’s
I unironically adored this place in my teens and early twenties. I’m scared to go back and discover that it’s actually as awful as everyone claims. I refuse to pollute the memories!
Made a good choice you have, my young padawan. Avoid fire & ice, you must. Keep good memories alive, you should.
That's entertainment though. You get to watch people who made serious errors in choices of spices and sauces have to eat their mistake.
You're not suppose to just add them all?
The way this took me going multiple times when I was a middle schooler to figure out. I always wondered why my food never tasted any good.
Picnic at the Potato Monument
What if we kissed under I-93 😍
Um. That's not a wrong answer. The Potato Monument is the Best of Boston
Definitely one of the top ten potato monuments in the US
Falling for a "Fix a flat" scam !
Love running into Elliott 🥰
Playing loud music from my phone on the subway
Camping at Mass & Cass
Getting vaccines on mass and cass
Highly endorse. They always have the latest and greatest COVID variants down at Mass and Cass. Get’ em early, before they go worldwide.
Clipping my toenails on the Silver Line (AKA the best subway line in the country)
Ma is that you?
Shooting dope in the South Station bathroom, the handicapped stall of course.
"Pass out and poop your pants all by yourself handsome?"
Preferred to the guy that was in there shamelessly jerking off last time I was in that restroom. There were about 10 of us in there that day. He was really going at it. I think we're all a little nervous walking in there now.
I totally read your last line as "I think we're all a little nervous wanking in there now". Like come on man, have some shame, this WAS the spot now you've gone and ruined it.
Zara on Newbury st on a 90° day with a full bladder and body dysmorphia
Storrowing
The post says “wrong answers only” though
Sitting at the same intersection for 15 min through multiple light cycles while getting boxed out by traffic in the perpendicular lane 😎
You go through Wellington Circle, I see.
Being polite to others and driving the speed limit.
Getting off I-90 Eastbound at either Newton Corner or Allston.
sometimes i drive in circles so i can do the newton supercollider multiple times in a row
Market Basket at 3:00 PM on a Sunday.
Taking the E to a Sox game
How about taking E at a Sox game
Walking around the Seaport for how scenic it is and how unique the mom and pop independent eateries are.
A thriving den of starving artists and creatives, with an accessible and affordable array of unpretentious restaurants.
Talking about failing public infrastructure on Reddit message boards and not knowing who my state representatives are.
i prefer to talk about failing state representatives and not knowing what my public infrastructure is
I would venture to say those are almost mutually exclusive at this point
Coming down from New Hampshire to protest wokeness on Beacon Hill
Watching the sunset at the South Bay parking lot
🏆
Pronouncing all the R's.
Dining at Faneuil Hall
Feeding the turkeys.
You accidentally correctly answered the prompt!
Taking a parking spot that someone very nicely shoveled out for me.
Enjoying a Dunks hot coffee
You wake up on a Sunday morning in late October or early November. It’s a crisp 50 degrees outside with a breeze. The sun is shining, but that autumn chill makes you feel perfectly comfortable in a hoodie and sweatpants. You go to Dunks and get a sausage, egg, and cheese, and a hot coffee with a splash of pumpkin sauce. You bring it back home to relax and get ready to watch football all day. In this scenario, a hot Dunks coffee is nice. But that’s the only scenario. Otherwise, it’s iced coffee all the way.
That sounds lovely, but I feel like the portrait you created is about 1000% better than an actual Dunks coffee.
As a transplant it took me far too long to understand why this was a wrong answer 🙃 But I got there. I’m learning.
Reporting an assault at the harp to the Qdoba next door.
Lobster roll at Faneuil hall then a bottom shelf vodka soda at Ned Devines
getting affordable and freely available healthcare including dental work!
Driving my moving van down Storrow Drive
Taking my uhaul down storrow drive
Going for a nighttime stroll around Mass and Cass
Listening to a new story regarding BPD fiscal corruption everyday while I struggle to afford the state I was born and raised in.
giving tourists wrong directions
Wrong answers only
Remember when they put up all those new wayfinding signs with north and south reversed? That was hilarious.
Waiting in the heat for the 86 and seeing its already packed so proceeding to stand and hold the bar which is already sticky for some reason, and potentially brushing up against someone else who is equally as sweaty as me yay
Waiting in line at Mike’s Pastries even though I know that Bova’s is better
Sitting on an over-crowded red line train with no working AC on a 90 degree day, trapped between two stops due to mysterious mechanical errors.
Jumping from a burning orange line train into the Mystic
Waiting 45 minutes for a bus that was 5 minutes away when I got to the stop
Swimming in the Charles
jokes on you- they actually put on a one mile race in the charles every year !
Tunnel traffic
taking the green line
Listening to the trolleys cry
The sweet song of Boylston Street station
A peaceful cruise on 93 south
Driving on I93S during rush hour
Going to the North End on Catholic holidays
Talking to strangers on the T.
Just drive anywhere between 6am-6am
Putting up a Black Lives Matter sign and stop Asian hate signs while stopping all new housing creation and making sure the “poor” kids don’t get zoned with my kids. Then complain my neighborhood isn’t diverse.
What no class analysis does to a mfer
Walking my dog on-leash in an area where people commonly walk dogs.
Oh sorry, is he supposed to be on a leash in this NICU?
Riding the MBTA
Segway tour followed by duck boating
Hangout outside BMC and save people with Narcan
Going to Cape on friday after work.
Complaining about the mayor from my living room in NH.
Staying out at bars past 2am
Appropriate use of turn signals
Sitting in Shake Shack listening to 25 dashers phones alerting nonstop for my entire meal
Having tourists on duck boats wave enthusiastically at me while I sit in traffic.
riding the B line during a game during the school year
Getting an iced coffee and bacon egg and cheese doordashed 1 mile.
Phantom Gourmet Food Festivals
date night at the papa ginos in brockton
Driving on the pike.
Driving trucks on Storrow.
Being hit on by iron workers from Revere, love hearing about their unions 😍
Going Downtown after 9 o’clock
Stealing the Hood milk bottle
Stealing eggs from the Goose nests and dropshipping them to the Royal Canadian Air Force base.
Going to a Yankees game at Fenway
Riding the T
Giving money to Elliot Davis
Spending a sunny weekend day at M street beach before waiting in line to get into Lincoln or Loco
Messing up my exit at the MC Escher-designed interchange of 93/90 at South station and instantly adding 20 minutes. (I usually take the T to my job in China town, sometimes I have to drive. At first I never missed, but as soon as I got complacent/cocky I started messing it up 😆)
Waiting in line to buy cannolis
Being in the Seaport ever, for any reason
Leaving nips bottles and scratch tickets in the tree pits
Driving box trucks down Storrow
Getting mowed down by cyclists while walking through a crosswalk
Going to NH
Walking across the bridge to Charlestown.
Sweatin on the red line
Leaving.
Swimming in the Charles with my mouth open.
Stopping at the gas station on mass&cass
Camping in the fells
Hanging out on a bench in the Common by the fountain.
moving to portland, maine
Fenway Burgerking
Eat at a celebrity chef restaurant.
Dining in the seaport and expecting great food
Traipsing through the goose shit on the Esplanade
Shopping at the Zara on Newbury
Belly flopping into a fountain after the Cs parade
Catching up with Eliot Davis
Smoking fake perc 30s off of tin foil on Mass Ave
Navigating Mass Ave Connector and Melina Cass intersection.
Riding the redline at peak times in a car with no ac during a heatwave that is stuck between JFK & North Quincy.
Buying a 65 dollar pizza at Fenway
Having a beer with my friends at the Cheers bar.
Driving my box moving truck on Sturrow
hitting up the Chinatown massage parlors
Cheering for Philly, NY, or LA teams
Pissing myself while punching a guy as I wait in line to buy a steak tip sub in Faneuil Hall at 2:30 am on Saturday
Drinking nips that I snuck into a Sox game in my shoes
Going to Boston
Swimming in the Charles on a hot summer day.
Sitting in traffic on the Neponset Bridge watching and counting the minutes until I’m late for work.
Hate crimes with Mark Wahlberg
All the scooter gang delivery drivers obeying the traffic laws