"thejustache" (thejustache)
07/17/2017 at 13:30 • Filed to: None
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"thejustache" (thejustache)
07/17/2017 at 13:30 • Filed to: None | 2
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Despite the recent post that marks NY as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , my experience here 3 hours north of the city is usually pretty good. The occasional oblivious texting teen or aggro Prius commuter (totally a thing), but most people are usually pretty respectful.
Then we have the pair I met the other night when grabbing a quick bottle of wine for dinner at the local liquor store. To be fair, I only saw them parking so maybe they’re super conscientious and polite drivers... but I have a hard time seeing it.
The lot is tiny and shared with the neighboring steak restaurant, so it fills fast. As I’m approaching I see a jacked white ford explorer with mud bogging tires and its reverse lights on. I pull over before entering the lot and wait, thinking they’re leaving. After waiting 30 seconds or so with no movement, I decide to pull in and take the one remaining spot in the lot next to them. I get out and start walking into the store, only to hear a commotion as the two guys in the explorer open and close their doors and start saying things like “unreal” to each other. The driver looks at me and shouts “Hey A**Hole! Nice parking man. Way to leave space for the rest of us!!”. Confused and not wanting to escalate anything I went inside and hoped they’d just leave without scratching up my car or anything.
Came back out and they were gone. Car was fine. That’s when I saw what the deal was - the parking slots are angled to save space and not block the entryway. I parked correctly - angled. They parked straight on, taking up two spaces and sticking the nose of their truck a mere foot or so from mine. So basically they screwed up, wasted space, and then shouted at me about it.... classic.
Ash78, voting early and often
> thejustache
07/17/2017 at 13:54 |
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Probably NYC people trying to assert their dominance over the local townspeople at every occasion because they read it in a Fodor
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s Guide. 3 hours north of the city might as well be Zimbabwe for many NYCers.
“
DO...YOU...SELL...WINE...HERE?!
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thejustache
> Ash78, voting early and often
07/17/2017 at 14:09 |
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My money is actually on some aggro redneck locals... and note I say that as someone who has lived here my whole life and has done plenty of things that could be considered “hick” or “redneck”. Between the oversize tires and lifted truck to the oversize humans and their tattoos I wasn’t getting a NYC vibe. That said it is tourist season in some nearby towns up here so who knows.
Honestly I think they just figured I was the one parking like a jerk and decided calling me out was somehow the way to help out and make the world better. Unfortunately for them they didn’t really pay attention to their own actions first. I wasn’t mad, I just had to laugh to myself after
thebigbossyboss
> thejustache
07/17/2017 at 14:10 |
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This is why when I go to New York, I stick to the north county.
#ogdensburglife
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thejustache
> thebigbossyboss
07/17/2017 at 14:15 |
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Yeah you win, that’s still a good 3.5 hours from me...
crowmolly
> thejustache
07/17/2017 at 14:17 |
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It’s a way of life in NJ. If you encounter someone driving erratically or doing 50 in a 65 on or east of I-287, it’s a vehicle with NY plates.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> thejustache
07/17/2017 at 14:29 |
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In New Hampshire they have Massachusetts plates and they are called mass-holes.
Ironically many people from New Hampshire work in Mass.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> crowmolly
07/17/2017 at 14:46 |
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Haven’t lived in that area in 10 years:
Aint that the fucking truth.
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thejustache
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/17/2017 at 14:46 |
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I am pretty familiar with the breed. For a long time I just assumed that cruise control was illegal in MA, or that everyone’s is configured to wildly fluctuate in a 30mph range while driving down 90
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Ash78, voting early and often
> thejustache
07/17/2017 at 15:45 |
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Ooohhhh...maybe they thought YOU were the NYCer and were pissed that you were shopping at “their” liquor store. You need one of those “Don’t Hassle Me, I’m Local” shirts for the tourist season. :D
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thejustache
> Ash78, voting early and often
07/17/2017 at 16:14 |
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That’s probably more the case actually!
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2017 at 20:10 |
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“you should move to NH, theres no income tax”
“but you work in MA... and pay crazy NH property taxes... you pick the worst of each state.”