Transported car turned out to be worth it

That's Tarrytown for you. Right next to Sleepy Hollow (yes, that Sleepy Hollow) along the Hudson, north enough of New York City to be a whole 'nother place.

dwight

Idunno, that's a pretty healthy surprise hovering behind that fuel tank door....

I went up to Bridgeport, CT for a funeral last fall and came back west of NYC instead of another horrible trip down I-95. We went through some beautiful little towns and you wouldn't think NYC was so close. The traffic, or I should say the drivers, however were unbelievable.

We were in line to get off I-95 just north of NYC and the off-ramp we were on was next to the on-ramp. It took a second to notice but the traffic on the on-ramp was going the same direction as us! They were just driving to the entrance ramp and using it as an exit! I told my wife "Where's a cop when you need one" and just then a local cop drove by the entrance/exit for the ramps. He looked right at the traffic going the wrong way, didn't blink an eye and drove right past! It was one of the more surreal things I have witnessed. This was just one of about a half dozen bizarre traffic events we encountered.

I guess my point is the people in those quaint little towns may not steal tires but they certainly don't pay much attention to traffic signs or laws.

It's mob rule. Take a ride in a NYC taxicab. If ever you thought you were something special behind the wheel...

It's sick. Old farts like me who were taught to share the road...we're lost up there. We're fresh meat. It really does become kill-or-be-killed. And it's not just the traffic.

At a convention hotel in Manhattan, I made the mistake of holding an elevator door for two aged women. That elevator filled to beyond capacity in seconds flat, and I was left watching the doors close from the outside. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! NEVER be polite, NEVER yield to anyone - it's a sign of weakness and it's blood in the water.

I hate New York.

The aggressive arrogance of New Yorkers has spread to the suburbs, and is working its way further out year after year. These IDIOTS move further out to "get away" from the very aggressive arrogance that they carry with them, so more and more communities are spoiled. As far as I'm concerned, they can put that U.S.-Mexico Wall around New York City and turn it into Snake Pliskin's penal colony.

Did I mention that I HATE New York?

dwight

I have never been to NYC proper and really have no fascination to visit. I do know that my throat burns when I get close to NYC on I-95 and there is an eerie orange haze in the air. The first time I ran up I-95 going to Maine and crossed the George Washington Bridge I thought Scotty had beamed us to Beirut, Lebanon just after the Israelis came through. There were cars all over the shoulders in both directions. If you break down there just walk out and go buy a new car because yours will be a shell of its former self in five minutes.

The thing about the natives using the on-ramp as an off-ramp is there were so many doing it. Traffic was backed up just as bad on their side as it was on our side. After that we went through a section where earlier something ran off the road and hit a sizable (say 12"-14" tree. There were huge tree limbs and a piece of the trunk that had been left in the road and had been so many times they were turning into mulch. The tree trunk had been turned and was lying on the white dashes separating our two lanes of a four lane road. I bet it is still lying there rotting away.

Then we went a couple miles further and a car was lying upside down, smashed to hell in the center of our two lanes. It had apparently jumped the center barrier during a crash. There were ambulances in the oncoming two lanes pulling someone from another car that had barreled into a huge tree along the road. It looked like someone set off an IED. There was no traffic control on our side of the road. Not one police officer. We just split our two lanes around each side of the upside down car and everyone acted like this was just another typical evening commute home. For all I knew someone was probably bleeding to death in the upside down car but no one seemed to be all that concerned over it.

Dude, I don't think those are "Bees". Look like friggin wasps to me. I'll bet you closed the door nice and slow!

Yeouch!

Yellow jackets. I hate yellow jackets. Bees put me in the hospital when I was only six years old, but it was my fault. I picked up a nest and tried to throw it at my older brother.

But yellow jackets and wasps... Can't stand 'em. I'm okay with regular bees, but these guys are pure attack bees.