r/massachusetts

I go to the gym mid morning during “old people hour”. It’s the best honestly. So I was leaving the gym, and one old guy leaving sees another old guy just about to walk in. “Hey Paul howya doin’?” “Oh not bad Brian how’s it going?” “Listen pal I got everything warmed up in there for ya, you’re all set!” These people kill me. Yes South Shore, for accent reference. 😄

Basically the title. Bought my house in the Blackstone Valley last fall and I’ve had awful luck with yellow jackets this season. One nest inside my bedroom wall, one nest on my front porch, exterminator came out twice (most recently 2 days ago) still finding them inside my house daily and I’m ready to burn it all down. Anyone else running into WAY more yellow jackets than usual or did I buy a cursed house?

EDIT: I’m getting less and less sure that they’re yellow jackets based on these comments. They’re big, so they may be hornets instead. Either way, the issue is taking a few years off my life.

Anyone know of a place to lay out and beat the heat with a body of water to swim/step into to cool off? Hose in the backyard isn’t cutting it

Spent half my life traversing Massachusetts both professionally and for fun, almost all pre-cellphones and nav systems. I don't get lost. But put me in Lowell or Watertown any day any year no matter how many times, and I'm a whimpering mess.

The Lowell Connector just dumps you off, and access to the bridges, and then somehow I'm praying to see a sign for Rte. 113 or 133 so I can decamp to Dracut or Tewksbury and stop hyperventilating.

Entering Watertown by Mt Auburn (a real gem) is fine but each furlong closer to the Rte 16/20 vortex scrambles my brain and Galen Street and somehow I look up and it's like I'm on Mars.

I was driving home tonight along Main Street in Woburn and I saw what I thought was a very low and slow moving airplane coming my direction. I pulled over to look at it and it was a drone the size of a car. It was low enough that I could see the shape of the drone and the propellers, but it was a size I didn't know drones were made. I didn't think to pull my phone out because I was too caught up staring at it. Moments later I discovered that it was being followed a couple hundred yards back by another drone but this one was much higher up in the air. When I got home I saw one traveling in a perpendicular direction.

This all reminded me of the New Jersey drone sightings a year ago and all the times that airports have been shut down by unexplained drone activity. Has anyone else seen these around MA?

The alleged incident happened on April 9, when the manager's ex-girlfriend went through the drive-thru. She filmed herself putting the fries in her mouth and licking them before putting them in the bag. The 22-year-old was arrested this week.

The ex admitted to eating the fries.

It’s 2:45 PM and there are long-duration traffic jams on 495 South from I-93 in Andover down to the Rte 3 interchange in Chelmsford. No vehicle accidents or lanes blocked either.

It’s just as bad as leaving Boston on 93 but you’re in a much less densely populated area. So why is this stretch of 495 frequently jammed?????