Making A Left in Massachusetts

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Allstate Corp. (ALL) came out with its annual ranking of automobile accident prone cities, and drivers in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, topped the list. Living in Massachusetts, there is no denying that the drivers of Eastern and Central Massachusetts are complete morons. Each day there is something new and aberrant on the road that your driver’s ed teacher never instructed you to do.

Worcester topped the list. In the Woo, on average, a driver can expect a collision every 4.3 years. In Boston, safer and saner heads prevail and motorists can expect a collision every 4.4 years. Worcester and Boston usurped perennial front-runner, Washington, D.C., which had garnered the treasured top spot for six straight years.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a place that NASCAR driver Tony Stewart could call home. This is the land where the evolutionary concept of nature versus nurture has to be examined. Is the root cause of this regional malady a lack of sufficient and competent driver’s education instructors or is there a recalcitrance to Massachusetts drivers that is beyond the realm of reason?

This is a part of the country where Masshole is invoked proudly. Where else do drivers routinely make left turns cutting off oncoming traffic and then give a pandering hand wave to the car that could have t-boned it? Only in Masshole Nation does this happen.

To provide an example, when a Masshole is pulling out of Dunkin’s after receiving an adipose injection of Coolatta or Iced Coffee, our Bay State motorist will plant her car in the lane of oncoming traffic to make a left.That’s right, the proper way to make a left turn out of a parking lot is to block traffic from the nearest lane and then force your way into the other lane. This is standard practice and nothing that is deemed weird or abnormal. The pandering hand wave is usually performed by a woman – who does not care – that she stopped the forward progress of five cars to make a left.

Want to take a left at a red light? If you’re the first car in line, gun your engine because you are expected to beat the car facing you and looking to go straight. Did your driver’s ed teacher instruct you to yield?  Fuck that bullshit. No Masshole worth his Dunk’s keychain is going to abide by that nonsense. Get a slow start off the line and expect a fusillade of car horns rebuking your familiarity with the rules of the road.

Making that lane change – only pussies signal.

The speed limit reads 65 mph. Either rev it up to 75 mph or get off the road.

Respect the bike lane. What is this China?

Purchasing car insurance in Massachusetts can be an expensive proposition, but living in Worcester is sublime. Only a true Masshole can appreciate the bleak, bone-chilling landscape offered by a winter in Worcester. As long as there is a reliable supply of booze, winter in Worcester is a manageable affair.

Winter will test a soul in Worcester or Boston. And maybe that is the underlying reason for the insanity of Massachusetts drivers; they would rather die in a car wreck than go through another soul-crushing winter.

Unleash The Kraken

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I’m dreaming of soaring with the eagles, chasing unicorns through a field of purple clover and getting turnt up with Scrappy from Love & Hip Hop Atlanta.

Bambi & Scrappy

Urban Dictionary.com supplies this sentence for turnt up: shanay got supper turnt up at thee party last night.

I am ready to unleash thee Kraken and turnt it up:

The Sheridan Entertainment Group has been considering offers of releasing a sex tape. Would the release of a sex tape get my face on a box of Wheaties?

As a forty-seven-year-old, wiffle ball is now considered an aerobic activity.

Three games into my youth sports coaching career (See Marv Marinovich.) and I haven’t been thrown out of a game. Who says I can’t do warm and fuzzy? (Maintaining a secret desire to pull an Earl Weaver but I’ll squash that nonsense for now. Don’t unleash the Kraken!)

Watching the Red Sox toil in last place, there is a god. Larry Lucchino should be forced to blow George Steinbrenner in hell. Not that any Bronx Bombers would pass through the gates of hell.

Privately contemplating a move to Duxbury, Massachusetts, and changing my name to Benzino.

Are newspapers becoming more and more mundane or is the scope of my interests narrowing?

Drove past a pick-up truck that sported this bumper sticker, “Honk for Impeachment” I could write for days on how I hate the pinheads who drive pick-up trucks.

Was Texas Senator Ted Cruz the president of former Astro Jose Cruz “Control’s” Fan Club?

Hung out in Nordstrom’s and heard Kings of Leon being played on the in-house sound system. I’m sure that’s what KOL envisioned when they started their careers.

Hit Matt Bonner’s NBA championship party a few weeks ago at the Redhook Brewery in Portsmouth, NH. Of course Matt Bonner is no relation to party promoter, Scott Bonner. Wanted to share a glass of Barolo with Pop, but he was nowhere to be found.

Bonner – not the party promoter

Matt Bonner is the greatest hoops player in the Granite State’s history. Not sure where Boston College great, Skip Barry, fits on the list.

Green Flash Brewing Company will be opening its second brewery in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Might have to turnt it up in Virginia Beach with Mike Vick and some West Coast IPA.

Nothing better in the summer than savoring a glass of Hazy Jane from Mystic Brewery located in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Web Hazy Jane

Never would have thought there was a ridiculously good bagels place in Chelsea, but Katz’s Bagels is legit. Reminds me of Kupel’s Bagels in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Now, I have to turnt it up with Jeff The Brotherhood.