Stupid Guest Tricks

There are only four real things worth doing at Hollywood Studios which include Rock N Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror, The Great Movie Ride, The Backlot Tour, and the new Star Tours

Is anyone else confused here? Shoulda paid more attention in math class :p:
Anyway, just sounds like some introvert who hates people and therefore cannot DREAM of going anywhere where he might run into more than one living, breathing soul. Maybe I'm crazy, but even over the summer or spring break I've never felt uncomfortably crowded at WDW.

At the end he says CM's are making fun of the tourists and has a link here.

I would expect something like that from a site called Stupid Guest Tricks. ;)
Traffic here is not bad compared to the northeast part of the country, at least it moves here and doesn't become a parking lot for hours like it did there. Traffic on Connecticut could back up for an hour if someone was changing a tire by the side of the road. For some reason, people there loved to rubber neck. I saw my share of accidents in Connecticut caused by rubber neckers when there was an accident on the other side of the road. Sometimes these accidents were worse than the original fender bender.

avengador1 wrote:I would expect something like that from a site called Stupid Guest Tricks. ;)
Traffic here is not bad compared to the northeast part of the country, at least it moves here and doesn't become a parking lot for hours like it did there. Traffic on Connecticut could back up for an hour if someone was changing a tire by the side of the road. For some reason, people there loved to rubber neck. I saw my share of accidents in Connecticut caused by rubber neckers when there was an accident on the other side of the road. Sometimes these accidents were worse than the original fender bender.

One of my top 5 driving rants here. UNLESS there are emergency personnel present directing traffic or something is blocking the road-

JUST KEEP DRIVING

Don't gawk, look for blood or body parts. I'm not saying don't be alert but just keep moving people!!

:mad:

TdcOgre wrote:JUST KEEP DRIVING

But... but... but... It's *interesting*! It may even be gruesome! How can you not look????

Seriously, though, I'm right there with you. When I get snagged in a traffic back up and a couple of miles down the road find out that it's because there is an accident on the other side, I get really frustrated and say unkind things about people in general.

TdcOgre wrote:UNLESS there are emergency personnel present directing traffic or something is blocking the road-

JUST KEEP DRIVING

Yah, my kids get that driving lecture on a right regular basis. Which is to say, every time we drive through the Chicago area, because there is always a curiosity slow down somewhere along the way. But they've seen first hand the miles of stop and go traffic that can cause.

Boston has the most terrifying drivers I have ever seen, and once you get off the highways, the roads are a nightmare. It is the only place my family won't drive. Southern California, Houston, Hawaii -- no problem. Boston? Just No. :p: We're okay with public transportation if it makes sense (which is not often), but the only place I've ever taken a taxi was Boston.

Weren't the streets in Boston laid out where the cow trails ran? Maybe just an urban rumor. The best way to survive in Boston is to drive like a local. Run with the herd I say!

Hawaii is another case. I was amazed when I took the written driver's test. It's written at what appears to be a third grade reading level. I thought it was a little joke on the new haole when I took it.

Many of the local drivers appear to believe the laws of physics don't apply to them. Blown red lights and lawn chairs in pickup beds are just a couple of examples. If you're at a red light and the light changes to green, don't move until you look both ways. There will be a physics denier that's gonna blow through the intersection every forth time on average.

hobie16 wrote:Weren't the streets in Boston laid out where the cow trails ran? Maybe just an urban rumor.

I dunno, but some of them sure looked like it! There are also streets where you'd swear a car couldn't fit between the two rows of buildings, some of which allow one-way traffic. Slower-than-walking-speed one way traffic, since even if the car was the only one on the road they'd have to maneuver around stoops and things, but the slow part was true a lot of places anyhow.

hobie16 wrote: The best way to survive in Boston is to drive like a local. Run with the herd I say!

I just flat don't have the nerve. Or possibly the reflexes -- I saw more almost-accidents there in a day than the cumulative from driving through Chicago ten or twenty times. At one point we were walking by a construction area, where a road dropped from four lanes to one in a few blocks, and apparently no one ever "lets" anyone in -- if you're in the lane that disappears, you have to force your way in. And if you're in the lane that doesn't disappear, you do your level best to hold your ground. Which in practice apparently means people just pretend it isn't happening. The road may have two lanes painted on it, but there were three lanes of barely moving traffic, while the drivers were all arguing about which rows are the real ones. "You guys need to merge in." "No, you guys need to merge in."

I've been in construction areas in Chicago a zillion times, never saw anything like that. People arguing and screaming at each other, sure. People cutting each other off, people not letting someone in, confused tourists going the wrong way, all that. But the three lanes where there should be two, that I'd never seen before, probably because a fair percentage of people in Chicago do prefer to have more that six inches between their car and other cars in pretty much every direction. Boston drivers try to keep it under six inches at least in the front and back, for fear someone might slide in there. And Chicago has a lot of midwesterners, so some natives will eventually let you in -- only time I ever saw someone let another driver in their lane in Boston, the polite driver had out of state plates. :p: It was the universality of the rude driving in Boston that amazed me.

But I was in Boston before they finished the Big Dig -- who knows, things might have improved.

It must be the chowdah.

I got in the caaaah
And drove to the baaaah
I had a few beers
And baaffed on the flahhh

hobie16 wrote:It must be the chowdah.

I got in the caaaah
And drove to the baaaah
I had a few beers
And baaffed on the flahhh

Like your accent hobie. ;)

hobie16 wrote:It must be the chowdah.

That's as good an explanation as any. :p:

Plus the roads are narrow, a lot of them are one way, signage stinks, and even on larger roads with multiple lanes, the lanes are narrower than they are most places, making it harder for people to stay in the lane they belong to (or so a Boston driver I ran across once claimed -- but I think she's right). :D:

According to Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, by Tom Vanderbilt, ranking countries by bad driving (measured by traffic deals per 10,000) gives you a list very close to the one ranking countries by corruption (as measured by the International Country Risk Guide). No idea what that means, but it intrigues me.

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