I’ve always found, even at the big chains, this is down to management. If a store has a good or at least competent manager, things run efficiently and employees are overall happier and better at their jobs. If the manager is an incompetent moron (or worse, a malicious asshole) then the place will be a shitshow from top to bottom.

What is going on there? DIY fix for a leaky windshield? The way the wind has been, I'm surprised the van hasn't gone sailing around the city like the Mary Celeste.

Where’s your other hand?

pwned

Also, that looks terrifying. It's closer to sledding than to driving.

Then they’d have to take the border wall down.

Or move it, I guess.

That might be part of it, but the real issue was that this mf thought he was Buddy Cianci.

Nice! I’m too close to need them, but anything that promotes use is good.

I was fascinated by Toynbee tiles back in the day, and I was super stoked to spot one in the wild back in the early ‘00s. These are interesting, but I worry that they have a Trump-y, “fake news” odor about them.

https://www.masscentralrailtrail.org/interactive-google-map

I'm pretty sure you can't actually pick up the 'unofficial' trail from Stow St. the way the map shows, but I think if you cross 128 on Main St. you can pick up the trail from Green St./Spencer St. and/or Jones Rd. The trestle you'd have to cross is at Stony Brook. I've seen it from the end of the Weston trail and... no. People cross it but I wouldn't try.

To get to the Weston trail on surface roads, you would follow Main St./North St. to Church St., and then pick up the trail from Church. Again, I've never tried it, but it's actually probably not that bad.

It'd be nice if they would donate 2-3 spots for the trail. I suspect what'll happen instead is signs with harsh warnings and threats to tow.

I'm curious, is the little jog just before it gets to the road supposed to be a speed deterrent, to dissuade people from just darting out into the street? I've seen that on a number of other rail trails and I've always wondered about it.

Not that a second option wouldn't be fantastic, but you can already go from Waltham to Boston on the Charles River trails and almost never touch a road except for crossings.

Important to note that the connection is not part of this phase. When this phase is done, the trail in Waltham will run between Main St. and Beaver St. To get from Main St. to the Weston-Wayland section will involve some off-road riding and crossing a dodgy, unrestored railroad trestle, or a fairly lengthy detour on surface roads.

I love to hate on Apple as much as the next guy, but Apple was clearly not the problem here.

That's always my first thought when this story comes up. In the same situation (assuming I could persevere at all) my first request would be for a table of Morse. The tedium of going through the alphabet over and over just seems like the torture.

/r/cozyplaces

I feel for that guy, he pretty clearly had no idea and wasn’t trying to be a smartass, and that judge was definitely not in the mood for any of it.

I don't understand why they keep smashing the truck around, and seemingly mash the gas each time. The first time you hear/feel a bump, slam on the brakes, get out and assess the situation, and more than likely just back out the way you came. But I guess if you're smart enough for that, you're probably smart enough not to pull in in the first place.