Adventures in Boston Travel

[gnomi]

On my way home last night, I was planning to go to Trader Joe's in Coolidge Corner (for yummy dark-chocolate-covered blueberries and soy milk), so instead of taking the Red line to Harvard and then the 66 bus, I took the Red line to the Green line. Easy, right? No problem. I left work at 5, walked to the Kendall Square station, and went down

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[madknits]

You hang a left. You hang a right. But you bang a u-ey. Why is that?

And Trader Joe's has the best meringues! The vanilla ones never last long around me.

[rikchik]

The curve at the bottom of an "b" is twice the curve in an "h".

[gnomi]

I've also seen "bang a left" and "bang a right" when it's done in haste, but, yeah -- "hang" is common for left and right.

As for why it's "bang a u-ey," I'm finding that everyone says it *is*, but no one is saying *why.* I'll have to investigate this further.

I love the TJs meringues. They're great for my mom, who's wheat-intolerant, and they're all-around tasty.

[seborn]

1) Wow, that commute sucked. I'm sorry getting home took you so long.
2) Wow, you got to legitimately walk through the Green Line tunnel. I'm jealous.

[mabfan]

That was my reaction too, when she came home. "You got to walk through the tunnel? Cool!"

[gnomi]

I've never been so happy to see St. Mary's Street. :-|

[gnomi]

Yeah. Not fun.

On the up side, though, I ended up doing so much knitting that I was able to finish the penguin last night.

[magid]

I, too, am jealous that you got to walk through the tunnel.

I'm still unclear why you wouldn't've just done your usual commute and stayed on the 66 a couple of stops more than usual, though.

[gnomi]

I'm still unclear why you wouldn't've just done your usual commute and stayed on the 66 a couple of stops more than usual, though.

Because under normal conditions (meaning no wackiness like last night and no Sox home game) it takes 35-45 minutes to get from my office to Coolidge Corner going Red-to-Green and close to an hour (because of additional surface traffic both going over the bridge and going up Harvard Ave./Harvard St.) if I do it via the 66.

[magid]

Now I'm confused: if there's that much difference, why not take Red-to-Green every day and walk the extra bit, which would be less time overall?

(I'm not meaning to be annoying; feel free not to answer.)

[gnomi]

It's all a matter of which errands I need to run. If I have to get to Butcherie before they close at 6, I do better with the 66 (since the bus goes right there), and if I need stuff that I can find more easily in Harvard Square, then I take the 66; if I need to get to Coolidge Corner, I go that way.

These days, I've been doing the Red-to-Green route more often in the evening than I used to, but I still take the bus when I need the lower end of Harvard St.

(I still take the 66 almost every morning, because in the to-Harvard direction at 6:45-ish in the morning it's actually faster to take the bus, plus I get a seat within two stops.)

[gnomi]

I think of it as "make a u-ey" or "bang a u-ey" most of the time. Proof positive I'm a native. :-)

Most of the time, I really like the T. It's just nights like last night that make me go grrrrrrrr.

There will be knitting pics soooon. I finished it last night after we got back from visiting at the hospital, but I was too tired to lay it out and photograph it (because it's a biiiiiiiiiiiiig penguin), so I'll do that tonight.