> On a different - yet still similar - note, when she moved here (from Pennsylvania), Mina had a hard time getting used to driving in semi-urban Massachusetts. Apparently, in PA, the accepted standard is to drive around the speed limit to five mph under, at least when on the freeway (Sam and Leen and we encountered this phenomenon on our way to DC last year). When we went back to New York this summer we went down I-88, and Mina kept compaining about how slow all of the other drivers were going.
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> They were going about five mph over the speed limit. :-}

Hey. They don't drive *that* slow in Pennsylvania. Or at least, I didn't. But no place has crazy drivers like Massachusetts does. And yes, I'm learning to fit right in. :-}

On an also unrelated yet somewhat similar note, we have crazy pedestrians around here, too. Our crosswalks on Main street are all of thirty feet apart. Maybe. And yet, it is impossible to drive down the street without having to dodge the pedestrians who seem to *want* to run into the moving traffic. Drivers are required to stop for people in crosswalks here, but apparently the pedestrians can't be bothered to walk ten feet out of the way just for a silly thing like the law.

~Mina "If you're not in the crosswalk, I'm not stopping- and my car will win" moon