On this day, Kat and I learned on the way to NYC, and I learned again on the way home, that some road food is just not meant to be eaten on the road. Pull up a seat in the restaurant and relax and take a break, because it doesn’t save any time if you later figure out that you have to pull over and eat, and it’s not good for the inside of the car! Trying to drive and eat could be bad for the outside of the car!
We did have some yummy messy food though!
Kat learned, and taught me, that when you come home from Afar, it’s not fair to expect your friends to drop everything to visit.
(but it is sweet when they do!)
seat on the bus! After almost two years, I am seeing the first trend of people getting turned away from a full bus! Maybe it will even out as summer gets going, but there was a week there of full buses every morning and some evenings.
I am learning that arriving a few minutes earlier pays off big time!
I have learned, again and again, that when my husband says that the car needs gas, I really should listen and gas up sooner rather than later. Even if I do get 41 mpg, still need the g to go the m. I would be happy to never see that little orange gas pump on the display ever again!
I have learned that you can get in, and STAY in, the center lane on Storrow Drive, from Kenmore all the way onto the I93 North ramp. The signs say move here and there, but you don’t actually have to move at all. The far left lane works two. Pick one, and stay with it.
Also, the center lane works all the way from I93 South to Kenmore. Just stay in it.
Jess learned, and told me, that there are some parts of Boston in which your debit card will do you no good to buy a local lunch and actual cash is required and ATM’s are few and far between. So carry cash!
I just found out that the Tremont / Boylston intersection walk lights are not always “all walk” (I think of Kat and her board games and I think “All Play”) as I had assumed! So this means that you can not necessarily safely cross on the diagonal, as I would want to do, just because one corner has the white-walky-guy of “go!”
Today I learned, but did not heed, the lesson that you can often get somewhere faster by foot than in a cab. Riding around the last block to get to South Station is much longer than just jumping out (pay first please) when it’s in sight and then hoofing it. This time it worked out, but barely,
I seem to always thing that I will have more time, another time, to buy the next set of bus tickets than right now. But it’s never actually true. Now is better.
I have learned that on a windy rainy day in the city, it’s important to hold your umbrella INTO the wind. And if you forget and it the wind whips it inside out, you can turn into the wind to flip it back. BUT you must not do this while crossing streets with crosswalks without walk lights because drivers get really mad when you step out with umbrella issues and don’t look where you are going.
Jane's Lessons Learned 