Pretty quiet in New England

Bill Hahn said:

Geez, I'm reminded of that great scene in "Never Cry Wolf" where the bush pilot tells his terrified passenger (who is terrified because the plane's engine has stalled, and they're plunging towards the mountains): "Boredom, Tyler! Boredom! And you know what the cure for boredom is? Adventure, Tyler!" as he hangs out of cockpit and pounds on the engine with a wrench to get it started again....great movie, this coward highly recommends it.

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HA! I knew you'd get the reference after the movie conversation we had on the way home - that is between fits of anxiety induced by my devil-may-care attitude and the blinking "low fuel" light on the dash. Great scene in a good movie. An aside - a Canadian anthropologist and arctic adventurer I met back in the late 70's said that the big secret among Canadian scientists and lovers of the great north was that Farley Mowat had seldom been north of Montreal. He wrote so well and so clearly delineated the real problems facing the people of that place that nobody would pick on him for it. He was simply too good a spoksman for just causes.

winger said:

Springfield has street signs? The rest of this state doesn't. Or at least not when you need them. Just notice, any of you in MA, how often they mark just the side streets and never tell you what street you're actually on! Wouldn't that be important? Not everyone knows the city they're driving around in.

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I noticed this when we first moved up here! I have a feeling there's some obscure traditional New England attitude, that if you are on a road, by definition, you MUST know the name of that road. Simply by virtue of being there!

Oh, and maps of Boston... I think the locals just like to play jokes on the tourists and the newbies to the area.

Suzanne Revy said:

I noticed this when we first moved up here! I have a feeling there's some obscure traditional New England attitude, that if you are on a road, by definition, you MUST know the name of that road. Simply by virtue of being there!

Oh, and maps of Boston... I think the locals just like to play jokes on the tourists and the newbies to the area.

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only thing is here in rhode island, depending on what town/village/city you might be in, the road is called something else, and people are so provincial, they have no idea what the roads are called outside of their village

good thing you folks aren't venturing down here to wyoming or arcadia, you'd end up in CT ...