Pirep needed: Boston Airports

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

you are making the error of thinking that the Boston driver
actually notices the NH plates.

Don't you know that you have to be almost a carlength behind someone to be able
to actually see their plates? The half life, in traffic, no matter what the
speed, of a carlength gap is pretty small. You know about precision flying --
in traffic in Boston, it's 'The Thundercars". You may not brief with them, you
may not know their name, but man, 9 out of 10 can pull into a carlength slot
with as much percision as the guy flyuing the number 4 jet.

Read the state ID on the plate? Next to the bunper sticker that says "I got
schrod in Boston"* is the one that says "If you can read this, you're not close
enough".

* yeah, I know it really was on Legal Seafood's tee shirts, and schrod is the
past pluperfect of screw, but Boston is in the home state of Ted Kennedy, so
there's a tradition of taking certain liberties. Now I have to hope most
pilots, even those who live in Massachusetts, are Republicans.

"tony" wrote in message
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Now I have to hope most
pilots, even those who live in Massachusetts, are Republicans.


Mass is pretty Democrat leaning IIRC.

What are you, one of those "single issue" voters? The party is more
important than anything else?

On Mon, 31 May 2004 02:46:57 GMT, "Peter Gottlieb"
wrote:


Mass is pretty Democrat leaning IIRC

Which makes the effective closure of Boston, MA, USA and the
surrounding communities for the Democratic convention even more
mind-boggling. I mean sheesh, look at a map. Go on Interstate 93
north to Woburn (where it meets Route 128/I-95). Now, go back south,
through boston, to Braintree (where it splits off at Route 3).
They're effectively closing that entire stretch of highway. Not to
mention what that'll do to I-90 (Mass Pike) and Storrow Drive and the
rest of the ways to get to Logan. I'd wager that if it was the
Republican convention they wouldn't even think of doing this.