Politeness is rife in Boston. Normally a quaint human nature, the well mannered Bostonians have taken politeness to another level. I've stood at a doorway, one person going in and one person going out for an uncomfortably long time while 2 Bostonians "Excuse Me" each other encouraging the other to walk through first. This politeness extends to driving where at stop signs and pedestrian crossings the drive to wave someone through gets to comedic and potentially dangerous levels. The best word I can come up with to describe Boston traffic is 'compliant'. Traffic is fluid, little attention is paid to those things we take as gospel, such as lane markings and crossings but it seems to work. Drivers do the most ridiculous stunts turning right from the left lane or triple parking on a major thoroughfare,
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