March 14, 2004
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ERRGGGHHHH!!! BOSTON!!!!
Dear good Lord, why can’t this week just be OVER??
Wouldn’tcha know it, everything was just ginger-peachy for the first half of the day. Dropped my group at the hotel across from Quincy Market, met Tony, gave him a ride to the Prudential, and then we both went together to the Rebels meet at Borders. I’ve always wanted to get paid to go to a Rebels meet, and today was the day for it.
Lunch at Cheers, then some poker, then some War, some Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and other various and sundry card games, till 5:00 when I had to head back to pick up my group. Here’s where the fun begins.
Their dinner destination was Bombay Club at Harvard Square. Getting up there was no picnic, but I made it, dropped them off, and promptly got the bum’s rush from a grouchy Cambridge cop. Now here it is, the stroke of midnight and I just finished eating dinner because I didn’t get any – instead I just drove aimlessly around the city for an hour and a half trying to find a place to park. Failed miserably, I might add. Wound up all the way up in Arlington before I finally got turned around and headed back into town. Cambridge is even less bus-friendly than Boston proper.
Always has it escaped me why I can’t just drop everybody off at a T stop and let ‘em take the subway wherever they need to go!
Never fails to confound me why driving from one end of Boston to the other has to be rendered absolutely IMPOSSIBLE on a daily basis!
Chief problem with Boston is this: almost all the streets are one-way, and no matter where you’re trying to go, they always run in the opposite direction from the one you want to go in. Always. That’s not to get into the driving, however, which makes me just want to go barrelling north on Congress Street ramming every Mass-hole on the thoroughfare outta my way! Taste of their own medicine, that’s what they need! Whoever designed the street layout of Boston should be condemned to spend eternity navigating his own infernal invention – in a Mini!
Yeah, Boston = teh suck.
