{"id":913,"date":"2007-09-15T18:08:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/09\/15\/the-fundamental-difference-between-new-jersey-and-massachusetts-drivers\/"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:39:33","slug":"the-fundamental-difference-between-new-jersey-and-massachusetts-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/09\/15\/the-fundamental-difference-between-new-jersey-and-massachusetts-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fundamental Difference Between New Jersey and Massachusetts Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally figured it out – the fundamental difference between Massachusetts drivers (of which I am, sadly, one) and New Jersey drivers (which I have been spending a lot of time around lately, for obvious reasons<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve complained before that there’s something unnerving about going to a part of the country where people drive differently. People complain about it as well, without knowing it – it’s why people from other states are always<\/strong> proclaimed to be too slow, too stupid, or whatever. It doesn’t matter where you’re from; people from other states always suck.<\/p>\n

However – in this case, I’m just dealing with the two states I have experience with – Massachusetts and New Jersey. Here’s what I’ve come up with:<\/p>\n

New Jersey Drivers are suicidal; <\/em>Massachusetts drivers are homicidal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When you think about it, it really works well. I’ll leave it to you to think of all the implications. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally figured it out – the fundamental difference between Massachusetts drivers (of which I am, sadly, one) and New Jersey drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[81,392],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-society","tag-driving","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-eJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":799,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/09\/16\/on-the-road-new-jersey\/","url_meta":{"origin":913,"position":0},"title":"On the Road: New Jersey","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Boy oh boy do I have a lot to say about driving in New Jersey.","rel":"","context":"In "Cars and Trucks"","block_context":{"text":"Cars and Trucks","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/cars-and-trucks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1077,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/04\/11\/on-the-road-new-york\/","url_meta":{"origin":913,"position":1},"title":"On the Road: New York","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"New York drivers are much like their New Jersey neighbors, except without the strange phobia of left turns. 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