Headlong into the future, in Massachusetts.

There's a new four-way stop (well OK eight or ten years old but that'd be new hereabouts), a new four-way stop, I say, just up the street that seems to have people a little bit confused. They stop all four ways. So far so good. But nobody goes.

When I first noticed that and observed to a long-time New Englander friend people were being way too polite she explained it wasn't politeness causing the hangup, it was distrust. Let's not be the first to drive out there into the intersection, let's just wait till somebody else does it, see how it goes. Don't know, might be a trick or something, never can tell.

You'd think a decade or so would be time enough to figure it out but apparently not. I wound up being first into the intersection this afternoon. Seemed to work. Ayup.