Apple Day festivities....the photographic proof!

Kochanski said:
But you must separate out Long Island, on LI the rule is - "ME FIRST, I AM THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON ON THE ROAD, I AM DRIVING THE MOST EXPENSIVE CAR AND THEREFORE OWN THE ROAD."
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Sounds like parts of Connecticut.
When I used to commute down I95 from New London to Bridgeport, there's one sight that never failed to scare the crap out of me. To the left: concrete jersey barrier. To the right: Giant, gleeming, luxury SUV driven by a cellphone/yuppy hybrid with a surprised look. You could see them saying to their caller, "Oops! I didn't even see that little car!"
 
My favorite(?) part of driving I95: Traffic on one side of the highway slows down to a crawl for absolutly no reason whatsoever, traffic on the opposite side slows down to see what the other side is slowing for. :rolleyes:
 
mumchup said:
Geek Goddess lives near where my sister went to graduate school. My sis said once or twice there was a tiny bit of snow/sleet on a winter morning, and the ensuing mayhem on the roads was pretty spectacular. She says that there were cars sliding around all over the place. Any truth to that GG? Or was she just exaggerating to make Texans look bad?
As far as CT is concerned, I think there are too many foreigners along the coast (foreigner: (noun) someone not born in NE). And the milk/bread purchasing is just a tradition...
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Er, yes and no. Part of Texas gets quite a bit of snow. Around this part, not too much, so people aren't familiar with it. However,it's not the snow. We get 'black ice' where snow or sleet melts rapidly and freezes into a nice thick coating of solid ice. Or a heavy rain falls as the temperature drops below freezing. Snow offers a bit of traction, the ice is a slick coating. Couple that with the fact that no one owns any sort of studded tire, chains, it can be very dangerous. It seems to happen in the afternoon, so all of the 4-6 million people who live in the area are all trying to get home at the same time. If it happens at night, most places will close or have delayed openings.

We have lots of foreigners, too. (People not born in Texas). However, if you come here to make your home and are neighborly and don't trash-talk Texas, you get to be an honorary Texan pretty quick. We'll let you in. From what I've heard, you can live in NE 30 years and still be considered an outsider.
 
grayman said:
Thanks. I'll be meeting these people.
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That's good to see. When I lived there, it was my first exposure to a lot of things my poor little eyes had never HEARD of, much less lived around. Wiccan covens, New Age shops, militant vegetarians and PETA members, just all sorts of woo. I guess I led a protected life until then.
 
Geek Goddess said:
However, if you come here to make your home and are neighborly and don't trash-talk Texas, you get to be an honorary Texan pretty quick. We'll let you in. From what I've heard, you can live in NE 30 years and still be considered an outsider.
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It's not years, it's generations. My kids are not New Englanders; they were only born here. If they stick around, perhaps their grandchildren will be New Englanders. Perhaps not.

Of course, it may take that long for anyone in our family to be a Patriots or Red Sox fan, so it's only fair.
 
Mercutio said:
It's not years, it's generations. My kids are not New Englanders; they were only born here. If they stick around, perhaps their grandchildren will be New Englanders. Perhaps not.
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My great-grandmother was Abenaki, so I guess I can say I'm New England native.
 
Mercutio said:
Of course, it may take that long for anyone in our family to be a Patriots or Red Sox fan, so it's only fair.
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Dem's fightin' words.

At least you don't claim to like the Yankees. That would be heresy.
 
I do have to go over the Creamery covered bridge in Brattleboro everyday to get to the school where I work. It's one way traffic, so you have to WAIT for your turn. It's one way, then the other way, if you understand what I mean....

Works realy well. No one seems to mind, and the traffic can be a bit busy in the mornings. Perhaps up to 3 or 4 cars waiting.

I work on the campus of the Austine School for the deaf, so I'm sure you've driven by Grayman!

Ohhhhh...and what came in the mail!!!! Heavenly manna from you!!!!
 
Mercutio said:
It's not years, it's generations. My kids are not New Englanders; they were only born here. If they stick around, perhaps their grandchildren will be New Englanders. Perhaps not.
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Fact of the matter is, if you, your kin, or someone you know is a "flatlander" (kind of pronounced "god dam flaaatlanda"*), i.e., from MA, you'll never be accepted as a NH resident, no matter how many generations you live there.

Pretending to be a local in some areas will get you shot. That's a no-shi(rule8)er. Think you are going to fish on the Maine coast when your great grandfather didn't fish there? First time will get your fishing line or anchor line cut. Try again, and after that you'll be dodging lead. And no, it doesn't matter that your grandfather has lived in that town for 75 years.


* some prefer the pronounciation "mass hole"
 
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Mercutio said:
It's not years, it's generations. My kids are not New Englanders; they were only born here. If they stick around, perhaps their grandchildren will be New Englanders. Perhaps not.

Of course, it may take that long for anyone in our family to be a Patriots or Red Sox fan, so it's only fair.
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Maybe the criteria is that your family has to have been in New England for more than one Red Sox World Series title:D

kittynh said:
I do have to go over the Creamery covered bridge in Brattleboro everyday to get to the school where I work. It's one way traffic, so you have to WAIT for your turn. It's one way, then the other way, if you understand what I mean....
Works realy well. No one seems to mind, and the traffic can be a bit busy in the mornings. Perhaps up to 3 or 4 cars waiting.
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I am envious of you now. Only 3 or 4 cars.
 
Zep said:
Larry, could you please remind her that she has yet to send me copies of the pics she took in Australia last year. I know she's awfully busy most of the time, but she promised, and it's been 12 months! *sniff* :(
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Hmm, that reminds me of some pics from France I was going to send rebecca three months ago. And that CD is still sitting right in front of me :blush:
But by now her address has changed though ...
 
Mercutio said:
It's not years, it's generations. My kids are not New Englanders; they were only born here. If they stick around, perhaps their grandchildren will be New Englanders. Perhaps not.
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Auyh, it is indeed generations:

Flatlander to Native Vermonter: "Well, I may be from 'away' but my kids were born here. That should make them Vermonters, right?"

Native Vermonter: "Waaal, if your cat had her kittens in the oven that wouldn't make them biscuts would it?"
 
We moved here (northwestern Vermont) by driving for two weeks from Anchorage, AK, from/across I don't know how many mountain ranges and a net of maybe 1,500 statute miles south. Shortly after arrival, I was informed I was a flatlander, living in the North Country.
 
mumchup said:
Geek Goddess lives near where my sister went to graduate school. My sis said once or twice there was a tiny bit of snow/sleet on a winter morning, and the ensuing mayhem on the roads was pretty spectacular. She says that there were cars sliding around all over the place. Any truth to that GG? Or was she just exaggerating to make Texans look bad?
As far as CT is concerned, I think there are too many foreigners along the coast (foreigner: (noun) someone not born in NE). And the milk/bread purchasing is just a tradition...
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mumchup, I grew up in Indiana, and Susan grew up on Long Island. We are both always amused when we get a little frozen stuff on the ground here in north Texas.

You can just grab a lawn chair and head out to your favorite busy intersection and watch the near misses and crashes.

Everyone seems to think that we just fine if they drive at some arbitrary slow speed. This speed being too slow and frustrating in the open areas and still too fast to stop in time when they come intersections. They creep around slow all over the place holding up traffic, and still managed to slide through most intersections.

I generally prefer to drive when the conditions near their worst. As conditions get worse the road starts to clear off, then I can just manage the road conditions instead of all the other idiots.
 
Scott, that's alot like how she described it.
Of course the people up north think that us "southerners" in CT are big wimps. When I was a kid we could brag to our cousins in New Hampshire and Maine about all the snow days we got. They could get twice as much snow and still have to go to school.
 
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