What were they thinking?

The B & L Edition: Part Two

As previously mentioned and as most of you know, B & L commute to class together on Thursdays.

Well, this past Thursday was no different. Unless you don't consider the massive amount of traffic they ran into. Please, stop thinking: traffic? Are you serious? How could that possibly be 'What were B & L thinking?'

As B & L sat in traffic for a good hour and twenty minutes going from the Weston Tolls to Government Center, B looks at L and confesses she is probably to blame for all this terrible traffic because B "was actually nice to pedestrians in Boston-- allowing three people to cross the street when [she] did not have a red light and the pedestrians did not have the walk signal." Now, if you have driven with B in Boston, you would understand this is totally and completely out of her character.

L completely agreed-- "B- you better never do that again!"

Well to L's delight, "Old B" came right back when she noticed a delivery truck trying to cut in front on them. B quickly told L not to let this loser in and to get closer to the car in front of them so he wouldn't try to pull something.

Unfortunately, the truck driver was not having any of that and tried to BULLY L to letting him in the line. (Oh, so he wanted to play a little game of chicken?! B was not having that!) It was now to the point where both L and the truck driver had gotten into a honking fight with one another.

Well it only gets better from there!

Once B & L finally get through the tolls, a New Jersey Housewife ("NJH") tried to cut off L even though the whole situation is a major traffic jam. No one was going anywhere. Everyone was stopped and crawling, inching along! (How did we know she was a NJH? Aside from the 'Rover she was driving--probably bought with her husband's money-- and the grotesque yellow license plate, homegirl was tanned to leather and her hair had more volume than Don King.)

So, L gives her biggest smile, showing off all her pearly whites, waves to the NJH, mouths the words "umm...no I don't think so (waving her finger)," and kept inching forward so that the only place the NJH could go is behind L.

Well the NJH tried to get back at L by flipping her off. Really? Is that really necessary? It isn't like B & L started to go 90 m.p.h. and she had to stay going -25 m.p.h. She was literally right behind them. Again, no one was moving!

As B & L are laughing this off, they notice two older women, clearly in their late 70s, carpooling-- and so, nicknamed them "Future B & L" and successfully made it into Boston after the traffic cleared after Exit 17.

Unfortunately, this was not the end of their traffic woes.

Around State Street, L is making a left hand turn B turns her head and notices there is T Bus coming at them.

As B starts to panic and cries out: "Ahhh...L!!!!" B is hoping this bus stops but the bus never lets up. L has to divert into another lane to avoid getting her car hit by a T BUS! (Shouldn't there be a crackdown on those Rouge Public Transportation Drivers by now??)

While B & L did arrive fashionably late to class-- due to traffic --they had plenty of laughs and were in one piece!