Re: Aurora

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Donna Scanlon <scanlon.donna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Everett:
>> Fixed the attribution. Also, Storrow Drive is a perfectly good road,
>> and nearly as enjoyable a drive as Memorial Drive, across the river.
>
> Yes, but if you're Not From Around There and try to get directions,
> people send you to Storrow Drive. My parents were trying to get from
> downtown Boston where my wedding was to Brookline, the reception site
> and nearly ended up in New Hampshire because every time my Dad asked
> for directions, he was sent to Storrow Drive.

What? Why would you go Storrow Drive to get to Brookline from
downtown? They must have been asking non-natives for directions.
That would be like driving from Watertown to Waltham by way of
Arlington and Lexington.

> I lived there for five years and quickly came to the conclusions that
> native Bostonians give the worst directions in the world. I would
> overhear them giving tourists directions, then follow the people and
> correct the information. (The accents. That's how I identified the
> native Bostonians.)

And yet somehow, people always seem to come to me for directions.
Even if I'm just driving through and don't have a clue how to get to
where they're going. =)

My problem is that I often do know how to get to someplace, it's just
I don't have a clue what the roads are called, and it's more of an
intuitive thing. So yeah, the directions that I give are terrible.




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Everett

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