# Irascible, cogent, cantankerous

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/irascible-cogent-cantankerous/37420>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [October 1, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/irascible-cogent-cantankerous/37420 "2009-10-01T19:04:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![love-car-talk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@love-car-talk](https://community.cartalk.com/u/love-car-talk)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/irascible-cogent-cantankerous/37420/1 "2009-10-01T19:04:32Z")

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those car talk guys are so smart. i love listening to them - and broadening my vocabulary. way to go guys. thanks for doing your show.  
  
  
  
 p.s. your fair city was no so inviting as i passed through it this summer. i just wanted to saunter around harvard square and see the sights a little, but if you miss a turn you have to keep going straight and they bar you from making a turn to go back. intersection after intersection, no turns allowed till they run tourists out of town. i sure could have used a tourguide. i ended up in cape cod.

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/irascible-cogent-cantankerous/37420/2 "2009-10-01T21:12:51Z")

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The brothers never visit here. Only us lowlifes.

Yeah, Boston is a mess. I’ve lived north of Boston for over a 1/2 century and my son used to live in Boston. It’s a challange driving there, even for me.

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**Author:** ![love-car-talk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@love-car-talk](https://community.cartalk.com/u/love-car-talk)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/irascible-cogent-cantankerous/37420/3 "2009-10-03T23:03:42Z")

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I’ve heard Boston is awesome so I wish I could figure it out and go enjoy it some. I was touring New England on my way back across country. I found Providence RI to be a lot easier to get around for a newbie tourist. And Cape Cod was laid back with nice scenery. I probably shouldn’t have picked a Friday to drive through the Cambridge area either.