MA is the most retarded state in the US

[DeepStrikeck]

Ok, so today I had a half day (got out at 11:30) but my mom took me out at 10:30 to go take my Road Exam for my liscense. No biggy. So I go there (it's about 30 minutes away and my appointment was at 11:30) and sign in, thinking I'm the only one there. Turns out there are about 5 people with the same appointment, no biggy. So I wait 45 minutes before I go for the exam. I'm going, no mistakes at all great. Last turn, it's red and I have to make a right. I see no signs telling me not too, so I go. No biggy. Then I pull up the the Registry and the trooper asks me which town I'm from. So I told him and he passes me, but tells me I ran a red light. I had no idea, but apparently you can't turn right on a red (even though there wasn't a sign there stating this) in Leominster. So I figure whatever, not a big deal, I still passed. So I go inside to get my temporary liscense and I wait in line about 15 minutes. I get called up and the damn NDR (National Driving Registry) goes down so they can't issue my liscense. (NDR is used to check to make sure new drivers don't have anything in other states preventing them from driving). So this is really retarded and I have to go back tomorrow to get my liscense. (another 30 minute drive. >.>) So I have concluded the MA RMV is the most retarded branch, because they can't keep their damn network up/have a backup one in case this goes down. So if it's down again tomorrow I will officially hate MA.


:rant:

[MrVicchio]

I have driven in MA. You can have it and all of New England. The roads suck, the Buracracy running it even worse... it's really annoying.

Bleah.

And the no right on red... if it ain't posted.. how the hell are you supposed to know otherwise???

[Red October]

Its not just the east coast....

In California, you can make a U-Turn unless a "NO U TURN" sign is posted. Fast foward => I'm in Portland Oregon, I miss my street and go to the next one and make a U-turn and there was no signs saying I couldn't. I get pulled over for making an illegal U-turn. Officer says well I know in California they do have laws about intersections not allowing U-Turns. I respond by stating that in California there will be sign stating that. He responds, well we would have to put one on every intersection here, there's a sign way back saying no U-Turns allowed. I respond in California, thiere would be a sign posted at every intersection regaurdless. I win...he lets me go.

But just to give you some more of the lunacy between Oregon and California...

If your travelling north on I-5 going towards Oregon, the speed limit is 75. Soon as you cross the Oregon border, its 55. I wonder why California put up signs right before you hit the Oregon border, warning you that the Speed Limit will change to 55 when you cross the boundry....Can't tell you how many times I've been followed by Oregon State Troopers just waiting for me to accelerate past 55 (In CA, 55 is just a suggestion).

But of course, Oregon is a state where its illegal to pump your own gas :confused:

[ChewyLSB]

Well, New Jersey has it's famous "New Jersey Stop Sign", where all the stop signs are not actually stop signs, but they're actually yield signs. The vast majority of people simply roll through a stop sign at a much slower speed like a yield sign instead of actually stopping. I don't know if this is a problem, but I have heard the phrase "New Jersey Stop Sign" a couple of times...

[OfaLoaf]

In Michigan, there are two seasons: Winter and Road Work.

[Red October]

Well, New Jersey has it's famous "New Jersey Stop Sign", where all the stop signs are not actually stop signs, but they're actually yield signs. The vast majority of people simply roll through a stop sign at a much slower speed like a yield sign instead of actually stopping. I don't know if this is a problem, but I have heard the phrase "New Jersey Stop Sign" a couple of times...

Heh...thats funny...We call that a California Stop here!

[Rbstr]

In Michigan, there are two seasons: Winter and Road Work.
We get that too. in KC but with a week break inbetween each.

KS DMV isn't so bad, the only thing was my teacher almost flunked me because i
drove normal speed in a part time school zone, Note i was there that morning because school was out that day :doh:

[Hamma]

wtf I thought that right on red crap was a state law? :lol:

Yea MA sucks, the roads are all shit no money is spent fixing them.

[Mannequin]

What DMV did you take it at btw? Some tend to be easier then others; taking mine at Plymouth in a week or two.

[DeepStrikeck]

Took it at Leominster, supposedly one of the easier ones in my area. Also, with the right on red thing, it's state wide that you can unless a sign is posted. But the morons in Leominster decided to be morons and make more laws to feel important. Ugh, I hate this state. (I prefer Colorado, better skiing, less dumb crap, like stopping at the bottom of a freeway on ramp, and it's a Republican state =P teeheehee. The best thing about MA are my friends and the fact that my pastor is more biblical teaching than the one I had in CO, which was more thematic (used Bible to prove a point, not teaching what the Bible has to say))

[Hamma]

Me and Jen want to move to florida asap. I am tired of the snow and cold here in MA :p

[xmodum]

Me and Jen want to move to florida asap. I am tired of the snow and cold here in MA :p

*Xmodum suggests Hamma moving to Fort Walton Beach.

It's an 'ok' town, if you came though, this place would be ROCKIN'! :rock:

[DeepStrikeck]

K, picked my liscense up today =)

But while I was walking out, some guy was screaming and cussing and threatening this guy in the back of his car. So my mom went back inside the RMV and got a cop who went up and talked to the guy who was yelling. We left while he was still talking, so I don't know if the guy was arrested or not.

[Baneblade]

Well any state that picks Kerry and Kennedy as senators is screaming ebil.

Tehehe, j/k

[MattxMosh]

Me and Jen want to move to florida asap. I am tired of the snow and cold here in MA :p


Sissies. :D

I'm moving back asap. Anything south and west of Boston is retarded.

[Hamma]

It wont happen for a while im sure, jobs arent that great down there tech wise.

[MattxMosh]

It wont happen for a while im sure, jobs arent that great down there tech wise.

Florida sucks, warmer weather + tech = Texas

[firecrackerNC]

Ohio Sucks. Theres nothing to do, far from most good paintball and if it aint raining its snowing and if it aint snowing its freezing.

[Hamma]

Florida sucks, warmer weather + tech = Texas
I'd rather be dead than live in texas.

[OfaLoaf]

Ohio Sucks. Theres nothing to do, far from most good paintball and if it aint raining its snowing and if it aint snowing its freezing.
Lies. There's plenty of sun in Ohio. And at least there's Cedar Point, which is one of the best places to go on a Roller Coater in the US.

But Michigan is still better. Screw paintball, go to Detroit and participate in an actual shootout!

[MattxMosh]

I'd rather be dead than live in texas.

You can go visit the grassy knoll and pretend to shoot at traffic. Or be a man and deal with the cold. :love:

[firecrackerNC]

I hate Cedar Point. I really do. Too crowded, hour long lines and coasters that are shitty anymore. I get no thrill from them anymore.

[slytiger]

Last turn, it's red and I have to make a right. I see no signs telling me not too, so I go. No biggy.

Wait, did u stop all the way first then go? If ya didnt then u did technically run a red light. I knew someone who did that.

[Everay]

I'd rather be dead than live in texas.


no northeners in Texas.

[Neon Apocalypse]

i love new england

i liek the snow and the cold, and its not bad in the summer

[OfaLoaf]

no northeners in Texas.
[Inappropiate comment about how George Bush was born in New England and educated at Yale to be placed here]

[Squeeky]

Come to California. We're gonna give licenses to illegal aliens, i'm sure you can get one lickety split. :lol;

[Hamma]

CA is to far away.. east coast mfer

[MattxMosh]

Come to California.

I will.

After It falls in the ocean, and I can stand on the rubble of a restaurant full of new-age-hippie-yuppies and chain smoke.