My jersey gripes earlier were meant to be just a little ribbing, as my wife is from nj and , accordingly, my daughter is going to carry my lineage intertwined with jersey dna.
However it is part of ones rearing if you are from the metro philly or ny areas to tease nj.
Secretly we are just jealous of your coastline that we flock to each summer
And as to jughandles, the concept isn't a bad one, what bothers me is if I am on, say 72, and I see a wawa on the left side of the road, my obese phillyness makes me freak out when , in order to get my hoagie, I have to drive a mile down the road and make a jughandle turn, wait for a light, then double back a mile. In pa, I would just wait for a break in traffic and turn left into the wawa and begin my gorging
As to pumping gas, my gripe isn't that gas takes long to obtain, but rather that it makes me uncomfortable to be served (and not tip) in a scenario I was trained is a diy thing. I feel like I should be tipping everytime, and the whole sitting in the car in the winter while someone fills my tank just feels shitty to me. This is prolly less of new jerseys fault than my irish catholic guilt riddled upbringing
To counter my mean nj comments, I will things I love about nj:
The coast. From barnegat to cape may at least. I can't handle those seaside people (although granted the crappy people are most likely crappy newyorkers and not jerseyfolk)
The delaware water gap. Super awesome
Car inspections at state regulated places. So much nicer and more efficient than the pa version where you go to any joe's garage.
The band lifetime
The rapper redman
