Nothing good ever comes from acknowledging strangers
Nothing good ever comes from acknowledging strangers
Maybe they just want to mind their own damn business like you should.
Welcome to the east coast bro. I'll return an acknowledgment if someone acknowledges me, but that rarely happens. 1 in 100 people, maybe.
Will Spaghetti wrote:
Maybe they just want to mind their own damn business like you should.
Don't shit your pants, Mr. Paranoia. "Hey" does not mean "Is it OK if I slit your spindly little throat?"
I run in a rural part of nh and see maybe one person whenever I go for a run. Talk about awkward when you two are the only people on the road and you just pretend not to notice the other.
Your experience is an outlier. We New Englanders are extremely friendly. The "Boston driver" is just misunderstood.
NE'ers don't have the OP's same pathological need for affirmation.
Chutzpah wrote:
NE'ers don't have the OP's same pathological need for affirmation.
Your dim post reveals a shallow mind. We're talking about Boston, you moran, not New England.
#masholes
Mr boring wrote:
#masholes
Typo in a hashtag, eh? Back to Bunker Hill CC you go.
Running on the Charles = Central Park = Embarcadaro in SF = you get the idea
Too many runners to be all chatty. If you head to a more intimate spot, park, trails.. You can say hi to people in Boston area. There must be hundreds between Science Museum and Harvard by 7am, no way are you saying hi to everyone.
LarryOlsenLives wrote:
Oh, and please never refer to anybody from Boston as a Yankee. We hate all things associated with that word.
Yankee is what someone from the UK uses to refer to someone from the USA.
* from the South -- refer to the Northeast
* from the Northeast -- refer to New England
* from New England -- refer to Maine
* from Maine -- refer to the Maine coast
* from the Maine coast -- dunno if they use it
I'm running, not nodding, social grace left behind
Boston runners are personified by that bossy old bugger at the finish line of Boston Marathon.
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I haven't read through the thread, but I guarantee this has already been said. The further Northeast you go, the worse the people become.
Massachusetts sucks. Can't wait to escape in about two years.
I'm trying to avoid a generalization but Boston is just a very fast paced and buisness oriented community. If you go to the smaller areas in the northeast (Maine, NH, even some of the smaller towns in CT) you will cross paths with someone friendly and not totally consumed with their daily tasks. I'm sure even some of the smaller towns in MA people acknowledge each other. But yes definitely Boston has a more serious feel to it.
I don't agree...the more Northeast you go the more farming communities you end up in. People leave doors unlocked, have farm stands left unattended because it's based on the honor system, just people are trusting.
I live in a Boston burb and make it a point to not acknowledge other runners/walkers/joggers/strollers/Etc./Etc. I don't know you and don't want to know you.
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