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Labor day and Stupid Day in one weekend!
Sep. 1st, 2008 08:18 pmI celebrated the long Stupid Day weekend by going out every night and having fun. Haven't done that in ages. I'm left wanting another weekend to lay around the house with the wife.
Stupid Day, in case you missed my posts from past years, is when a quarter of a million young people flood into the city and don't leave for eight months or so. Tragically, many of them bring their automobiles. The result is a small city that feels infinitely more congested, impatient, and yes, stupid. It makes us year-round Bostonians appreciate the summer so much. We appear to have made it through Stupid Day without the traditional crashing of a moving van into a low clearance overpass on Storrow Drive, but I can personally attest to the decorating of all side streets near colleges (that's the whole city pretty much) with double parked cars and trucks. I can't blame our new temporary residents for the chill in the air (I wore my hooded sweatshirt all day), or the fact that sunset appeared to come up on us an hour earlier. It's still techinically Summer for three more weeks, but in a city defined by its schools, September first very much marks the end.
Stupid Day, in case you missed my posts from past years, is when a quarter of a million young people flood into the city and don't leave for eight months or so. Tragically, many of them bring their automobiles. The result is a small city that feels infinitely more congested, impatient, and yes, stupid. It makes us year-round Bostonians appreciate the summer so much. We appear to have made it through Stupid Day without the traditional crashing of a moving van into a low clearance overpass on Storrow Drive, but I can personally attest to the decorating of all side streets near colleges (that's the whole city pretty much) with double parked cars and trucks. I can't blame our new temporary residents for the chill in the air (I wore my hooded sweatshirt all day), or the fact that sunset appeared to come up on us an hour earlier. It's still techinically Summer for three more weeks, but in a city defined by its schools, September first very much marks the end.
