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munchingzia OP t1_j9vnwz5 wrote

Reply to comment by the_last_carfighter in MFs want me to go to Ridgewood for $4 😭 by munchingzia

mileage can be deceiving in the tri state area. took me an hour to drive 3 miles in Manhattan.

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the_last_carfighter t1_j9vuw35 wrote

I would prefer unnecessary root canals on multiple teeth over attempting to leave NYC on a friday in the early summer months.

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munchingzia OP t1_j9vvogk wrote

after 5pm on a friday, all hell breaks loose

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AteRealDonaldTrump t1_j9w40ht wrote

I once had to pick up a bus full of teenagers from JFK on a Friday evening.

On the Friday Pope Francis was visiting NYC.

Round trip (from Bergen County) to JFK and back was about 7 hours.

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AnonymDePlume t1_j9wkx32 wrote

I had to go cross town to JFK when Obama was speaking at the UN. 7 hours and I got a ticket for blocking the box.

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vabello t1_j9wshts wrote

Honk honk! Go!!! Guy directing traffic stops you. You’re blocking the box!

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AnonymDePlume t1_j9wsn4v wrote

Exactly. It was like a police assembly line for ticketing people.

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Sticky_Buns_87 t1_j9wgsgz wrote

I used to work in an office on Varick Street several blocks from the tunnel. Summer Fridays the non stop honking started around 2pm.

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Sagelmoon t1_j9xj7v4 wrote

Vice versa too !!😛.... even if they tipped the COST to get into NYC via bridge/tunnel AND I had a mannequin as a fake passenger to take the "good lane" to deliver something...N O P E. Not worth the TIME, traffic, 40 red lights, ppl not using blinkers to cut u off, ect.

My DUMBASS did something SUPER freaking dumb once when I was 22 years old. (As an adult I'm EMBARASSED about how stupid this is )
10pm on New Years Eve my bf & I thought it would be a GENIUS idea to watch the ball fall in NYC. 🥳 🤷‍♀️🍷 🎉 🤦‍♀️ 🍸 Sooooo drove from my house in NNJ... Just to spend New Years stuck in the tunnel for 2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic. 😂😂 Soon as we got out the tunnel we turned around and went home.

Granted we still had radio signal so celebrated w the other jackasses stuck in tunnel..... but def NOT one of my brightest moments. 😛😂

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thefudd t1_j9wex0o wrote

Fuck you for reminding me of this

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Shishkebarbarian t1_j9x3q5r wrote

i grew up and lived in Brooklyn for 30+ years. i would regularly drive an hour from my parents house in Coney Island to my apartment in Clinton Hill. that's not even leaving Brooklyn.

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