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AVDLatex t1_j9uen15 wrote

Those 8 miles can take forever if you hit the traffic wrong.

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munchingzia OP t1_j9uspfs wrote

yes. you need to know your area very well to make a sizeable profit

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the_last_carfighter t1_j9vlyvn wrote

I had a nice lady with a mid-west twang from road side assistance send someone from *nearby Brooklyn*, to NJ, on a Friday afternoon, on a holiday weekend, during the summer (but not August) because according to her computer "they were only 13 miles away" which was true.. We waited for 3.5 hours.

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munchingzia OP t1_j9vnwz5 wrote

mileage can be deceiving in the tri state area. took me an hour to drive 3 miles in Manhattan.

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the_last_carfighter t1_j9vuw35 wrote

I would prefer unnecessary root canals on multiple teeth over attempting to leave NYC on a friday in the early summer months.

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munchingzia OP t1_j9vvogk wrote

after 5pm on a friday, all hell breaks loose

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AteRealDonaldTrump t1_j9w40ht wrote

I once had to pick up a bus full of teenagers from JFK on a Friday evening.

On the Friday Pope Francis was visiting NYC.

Round trip (from Bergen County) to JFK and back was about 7 hours.

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AnonymDePlume t1_j9wkx32 wrote

I had to go cross town to JFK when Obama was speaking at the UN. 7 hours and I got a ticket for blocking the box.

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vabello t1_j9wshts wrote

Honk honk! Go!!! Guy directing traffic stops you. You’re blocking the box!

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AnonymDePlume t1_j9wsn4v wrote

Exactly. It was like a police assembly line for ticketing people.

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Sticky_Buns_87 t1_j9wgsgz wrote

I used to work in an office on Varick Street several blocks from the tunnel. Summer Fridays the non stop honking started around 2pm.

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Sagelmoon t1_j9xj7v4 wrote

Vice versa too !!😛.... even if they tipped the COST to get into NYC via bridge/tunnel AND I had a mannequin as a fake passenger to take the "good lane" to deliver something...N O P E. Not worth the TIME, traffic, 40 red lights, ppl not using blinkers to cut u off, ect.

My DUMBASS did something SUPER freaking dumb once when I was 22 years old. (As an adult I'm EMBARASSED about how stupid this is )
10pm on New Years Eve my bf & I thought it would be a GENIUS idea to watch the ball fall in NYC. 🥳 🤷‍♀️🍷 🎉 🤦‍♀️ 🍸 Sooooo drove from my house in NNJ... Just to spend New Years stuck in the tunnel for 2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic. 😂😂 Soon as we got out the tunnel we turned around and went home.

Granted we still had radio signal so celebrated w the other jackasses stuck in tunnel..... but def NOT one of my brightest moments. 😛😂

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thefudd t1_j9wex0o wrote

Fuck you for reminding me of this

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Shishkebarbarian t1_j9x3q5r wrote

i grew up and lived in Brooklyn for 30+ years. i would regularly drive an hour from my parents house in Coney Island to my apartment in Clinton Hill. that's not even leaving Brooklyn.

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Bibliotheclaire t1_j9xvlg4 wrote

Called aaa bc I got a flat a good hour north of NYC. They sent someone from STATEN FUCKING ISLAND. When they got there like 3 hours later and said where he drove from o was like wtffff. He said that AAA sends notices out to the shops and whoever gets it first gets it. His boss regularly sends him out to change flats and stuff really far away. The guy was like but again I was like wtfffff bro people are the worst

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munchingzia OP t1_j9yiesc wrote

ive seen people making 80k a year at the higher end.
if your market is really good.
lets say Chicago, NY, Bay area, Seattle.
but most people are in mid sized markets and theyd be lucky to make 40k.

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