So – how many U-Haul haircuts do you think we’ll have this year?
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A U-Haul haircut is defined as when a driver from outside of the Greater Boston area, who, while driving a rental truck, strikes the underside of a bridge inside the Greater Boston area. This commonly occurs on Storrow and Memorial Drives during September, when one of the many new students at local universities (or, their parent) ignores the DANGER LOW BRIDGE warning signs, hanging chains, and other warnings at the entrances to local roadways, and drives down the road smack into a bridge.
Now it seems so far this year that we may have been spared any U-Haul haircuts – an amazing thing! For all things Boston, I trust in Universal Hub, and I haven’t seen any reports of U-Haul haircuts yet. A few Googles of likely news stories doesn’t show any either. Could this really be our year? A year of no U-Haul haircuts? We’ll see.
I was nearly blinded, driving to work this morning at about 7:18am. Yikes, the Hancock tower is such a huge mirror!
Does everyone know that cute little bridge that serves as the u-turn from Land Blvd west back onto Land Blvd east, right underneath the Longfellow? It almost makes you dizzy during the morning commute, if you come inbound on Storrow heading for the Galleria: off Storrow, under the Charles T station; quick left before running into prison and over the Longfellow. Then the sharp right, stop, right, left, stop, left to get onto Land Blvd east, going both over and under a bridges 3 times in the space of a minute.
Taking the u-turn this morning, at just the right time, I was nearly blinded by the sun ahead and to my right as I looked for oncoming traffic. But then logic and experience took over, and knowing the sun really comes up much more to the left from that position, I looked away towards the left -and of course, got blinded by the actual sun as it peeked over Boston. Ouch.
Both the actual sun and the Hancock sun were astoundingly bright, and both were pointed exactly at me. Coincidence? I don’t think so – I call it astronomy!
Film at 11.
Srsly – the Mem. underpasses to the Longfellow are glub, glub, glub. Inbound closed, detour to Kendall; outbound nearly closed. G’luck!
