@Lynnerizer No shit. Welcome to my world. Never was that way in NWNJ until all of the “city people” started moving up here. All they brought were bad attitudes and their sense of entitlement to our roadways. If you got cut off while driving, you knew damn well that person was not born or raised here. We had a slogan here for years…“Nothing says asshole like BMW”. No offense to BMW owners in general…or most cases…or sometimes…or…oh shit, you don’t own the road.
@Lynnerizer That’s great. Drive defensively. That is true more than ever. Seems 75% are on on their phones, and the others just don’t give a shit. What used to be the “safe following distance” is the new “cut me off” distance.
@detailer@jst1ofknd@Lynnerizer@sammydog01
NWNJ, you say. See Dr. Oz lately? Or he be playin’ like he don’t know y’all like when he at Geno’s with the fam and his side chick roll up…
@mike808 No,never met him,and don’t care to. Met Lawrence Taylor around 1989 at a coffee shop near his house in Short Hills. Not real friendly, but not an ahole either, and got his autograph. The real ahole was Jimmy Sturr who I used to see regularly at a very popular restaurant in Pine Island NY. He had that “big fish in the little pond” mentality. He lived in nearby Warwick and loved the attention and admiration he got locally. I got into it with him and the hostess over a table that I had requested (in advance with my reservation) for a 10th wedding anniversary. He told me that was always “his” table. The hostess confirmed he and his wife always sat there. With a very loud “Not tonight polka boy” things got interesting real fast. The manager,and then the owner got involved. I then calmly explained my side of the situation. They both new we were in a few times a month, so long story short…we got the table and the owner picked up our tab. I thought JS would leave, but took another table and glared at us the whole time. I really wanted to break a wine bottle over his head on the way out. My former wife (GRHS) normally very friendly and polite, paused at Jimmy’s table on the way out and with a smile said “Oh, by the way, your music sucks”. I laughed to tears on the way to the car. So,when you comin’ to Jersey?
@detailer@mike808@jst1ofknd Long ago (in a different life), we used to at least annually visit my mother’s family in the Buffalo area and stay at her bachelor brother’s house. He ALWAYS had polka music on on the radio. To me, it sounded like the same song, over and over. (Was there really more than one polka song ever recorded?)
Occasionally here, auto-search on the car radio puts me on a Hispanic station, and I get to listen to a Mexican polka that reminds me so much of those Polski polkas. (I always wondered if there was cross-breeding, but the cuisine is so different…)
@jst1ofknd I didn’t realise they had opened an actual restaurant here, and not just a Ghost Kitchen for deliveries… Where is it?! I thought they only had Ontario locations in Niagara… I’m excited to try it and see how it compares to the IHOPs in the US!
Also, welcome, eh? (and thanks for thinking of me, @speediedelivery ! )
It turns out i am even more geographically challenged in Canada than I am in the US. We were in whatever town that is on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls… Heading to Toronto now. Next is on the way back home. I think by way of Michigan… I heard something from the wife abou Mackenac Island or something… I wasn’t really paying attention.
I moved to Houston in 1981 to take a job offer, and I was looking forward to the cool, dry climate, and the four actual seasons, and the lack of murderous traffic at rush hour, and the helpful bilingual natives who’ll meet you halfway when you stumble over the Spanish. And that’s what I found here. When I tell people this, they look at me like I have to be insane. And then I tell them that I moved here from Miami, and the ones who understand just say “Never mind, yeah, I can see it.”
@werehatrack " cool, dry climate" – I thought Houston/Pasadena/Galveston were atrocious climate-wise until I was in Atlanta, Ga. for a couple of weeks one August.
@werehatrack
After graduation in 1983 I moved to Florida from CT and after 1 year I couldn’t wait to come back home! The one thing I missed more than anything was the change of the 4 seasons!
I’d much rather deal with the hives from being allergic to the cold than only have 2 seasons, HOT and HOTTER!
Tell me about it.
You sound like all the other Northerners with your complaints.
@yakkoTDI
I like to say people around here aren’t happy unless they’ve got something to bitch about! 
@Lynnerizer No shit. Welcome to my world. Never was that way in NWNJ until all of the “city people” started moving up here. All they brought were bad attitudes and their sense of entitlement to our roadways. If you got cut off while driving, you knew damn well that person was not born or raised here. We had a slogan here for years…“Nothing says asshole like BMW”. No offense to BMW owners in general…or most cases…or sometimes…or…oh shit, you don’t own the road.
@detailer @Lynnerizer
We have 6 of us in a Honda Odyssey van. We’re meek on the road.
@Lynnerizer That’s great. Drive defensively. That is true more than ever. Seems 75% are on on their phones, and the others just don’t give a shit. What used to be the “safe following distance” is the new “cut me off” distance.
@detailer @jst1ofknd @Lynnerizer Gonna tell us where in the east?
@detailer @jst1ofknd @Lynnerizer @sammydog01
NWNJ, you say. See Dr. Oz lately? Or he be playin’ like he don’t know y’all like when he at Geno’s with the fam and his side chick roll up…
@detailer @Lynnerizer @sammydog01
We are currently in Buffalo New York heading to Toronto in the next couple of days.
@jst1ofknd Niagara Falls?
@sammydog01
Yep! But we haven’t seen them yet.
@sammydog01
I mean the stooges. We’ve seen the falls…
@sammydog01 NWNJ Sussex Co. Where there used to be more dairy cows (mosty Holsteins) than people.
@jst1ofknd Be safe. Did you have time to see any of the Finger Lakes region? Not sure if you had been further east and now heading NW.
@mike808 No,never met him,and don’t care to. Met Lawrence Taylor around 1989 at a coffee shop near his house in Short Hills. Not real friendly, but not an ahole either, and got his autograph. The real ahole was Jimmy Sturr who I used to see regularly at a very popular restaurant in Pine Island NY. He had that “big fish in the little pond” mentality. He lived in nearby Warwick and loved the attention and admiration he got locally. I got into it with him and the hostess over a table that I had requested (in advance with my reservation) for a 10th wedding anniversary. He told me that was always “his” table. The hostess confirmed he and his wife always sat there. With a very loud “Not tonight polka boy” things got interesting real fast. The manager,and then the owner got involved. I then calmly explained my side of the situation. They both new we were in a few times a month, so long story short…we got the table and the owner picked up our tab. I thought JS would leave, but took another table and glared at us the whole time. I really wanted to break a wine bottle over his head on the way out. My former wife (GRHS) normally very friendly and polite, paused at Jimmy’s table on the way out and with a smile said “Oh, by the way, your music sucks”. I laughed to tears on the way to the car. So,when you comin’ to Jersey?
@detailer @mike808 @jst1ofknd Long ago (in a different life), we used to at least annually visit my mother’s family in the Buffalo area and stay at her bachelor brother’s house. He ALWAYS had polka music on on the radio. To me, it sounded like the same song, over and over. (Was there really more than one polka song ever recorded?)
Occasionally here, auto-search on the car radio puts me on a Hispanic station, and I get to listen to a Mexican polka that reminds me so much of those Polski polkas. (I always wondered if there was cross-breeding, but the cuisine is so different…)
@detailer
We didn’t do Finger Lakes. It was too far off our path. I’m currently sitting in an IHOP in Toronto…
@jst1ofknd Good to hear. Where to next?
@jst1ofknd Wave to @curtise
I would have wave when you drove by but I didn’t see you (Northern PA)
@jst1ofknd I didn’t realise they had opened an actual restaurant here, and not just a Ghost Kitchen for deliveries… Where is it?! I thought they only had Ontario locations in Niagara… I’m excited to try it and see how it compares to the IHOPs in the US!
(and thanks for thinking of me, @speediedelivery ! 
)
Also, welcome, eh?
@detailer
It turns out i am even more geographically challenged in Canada than I am in the US. We were in whatever town that is on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls… Heading to Toronto now. Next is on the way back home. I think by way of Michigan… I heard something from the wife abou Mackenac Island or something… I wasn’t really paying attention.
@curtise @speediedelivery
Hi!
@curtise @speediedelivery
It turns out i didn’t have a clue where i was. I just assumed that the Canadian side of Niagra Falls was Toronto because that’s where we were heading…
@jst1ofknd Enjoy the sites. I’ve been lost in much worse places.
@yakkoTDI Northerners?? We are not the only places on the east coast! Just the best places!!
@detailer @jst1ofknd @sammydog01
ENJOY!
I moved to Houston in 1981 to take a job offer, and I was looking forward to the cool, dry climate, and the four actual seasons, and the lack of murderous traffic at rush hour, and the helpful bilingual natives who’ll meet you halfway when you stumble over the Spanish. And that’s what I found here. When I tell people this, they look at me like I have to be insane. And then I tell them that I moved here from Miami, and the ones who understand just say “Never mind, yeah, I can see it.”
@werehatrack " cool, dry climate"
– I thought Houston/Pasadena/Galveston were atrocious climate-wise until I was in Atlanta, Ga. for a couple of weeks one August.
@werehatrack
After graduation in 1983 I moved to Florida from CT and after 1 year I couldn’t wait to come back home! The one thing I missed more than anything was the change of the 4 seasons!
I’d much rather deal with the hives from being allergic to the cold than only have 2 seasons, HOT and HOTTER!