Journalism is a slippery business

New England grapples with another icy start to the day with the temperature just beginning to inch above freezing. Drivers are facing slippery conditions due to black ice, and the Boston trains are running late. As usual. But that's not the story for me.

It is the Boston Globe's reporting:

Quote:

Orange Line commuters are facing “minor’’ delays during the Wednesday morning commute while drivers across Greater Boston are black ice has formed overnight, creating potential dangerous conditions on the highways.

Unquote.

Looks like a Globe keyboard slipped on the black ice too.

I had to read that sentence a few times to ensure that I was not losing my marbles. I think it is time to administer the TOEFL (that's the Test of English as a Foreign Language) even to so-called native speakers of the English language.

My next source of entertainment: watching to see if the staff at the Globe will ever fix the above sentence on their website!

Audi you do?

I tried to bypass the traffic congestion on Route 2 in Concord this morning by detouring through downtown Concord and re-joining Route 2 further downstream.

Bad idea.

I first got stuck behind two heavy trucks with collapsible ladders mounted at the back. This was not too bad, though. Just when I thought I'd perhaps shaved a couple of minutes off Google Traffic's travel time estimate, I found myself two cars behind an Audi that had slammed into the rear of a car stopped at a red light.

Wonderful. 2-minute savings? Erase, erase...

The rest of my drive featured an entitled truck driver who cut in front of me in Newton, and a car that jumped through an intersection in Newton and immediately slammed on the brakes.

The icing on the moldy cake? Amazon has short-listed Boston for its HQ2 nightmare...

Fun times!