Why Maine is the worst f'ing state in the Union

[Rain Man]

I made a trip to Maine this week, and the state sucks. It's terrible. Here's why it's terrible, and I'm sure there are other reasons.

Toll roads. You can't even build your own roads so you make people have to stop and pay every ten minutes. Manage your money better, Maine.

Lobster rolls. Seriously, what is this? They're advertised everywhere and I finally got one, and it's just some plain lobster on a bun with some lettuce. Nothing else. Why is it called a roll? It's just a sandwich and not a very creative sandwich at that. I've made ham sandwiches at home that boasted more complexity. There's not even any drawn butter for the lobster. What a joke.

Maine has stupid geographic names. Wassamattamekong. Mustafaateanorca. Wakkawakkamoosebegone. Grow up, people. Give your stupid cities names that are reasonable.

Their state patrol gives innocent people speeding tickets just because they're driving in a rental car with Illinois plates. They have poorly marked speed limits and then give innocent people tickets who think that they're traveling less than six miles over the speed limit, and they then get informed that, 'nooooo, you're more than 10 mph so I can give you a ticket and then go sit in my car and watch moose porn for the rest of my shift.' This happens even if the visitor has not had a speeding ticket in 37 years.

No one wants to be near Maine. It's like the smelly kid in the cafeteria. Only one state will even touch it. That's practically impossible for a state that's not an island. New Hampshire lost a bet or something.

The best football player that sorry state ever produced is Jovan Belcher. Just run with that thought for a few minutes.

They had a scenic overlook of the highest peak in Maine. It's 5,264 feet. My house is higher than that. Seriously. My house is at 5,300 feet. Screw you and your tiny mountains, Maine.

Statehood? No one wanted Maine. It only got in because we wanted Missouri. Maine got in because of a compromise, not because we wanted it. Maine is the ugly girl trying to get into the night club with her hot friend.

And on that note, where was Maine during the revolution? People in New Hampshire and Massachusetts were risking their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure freedom and democracy. People in Maine were just standing around in their red plaid writing tickets to revolutionary travelers.

Maine killed all of the local Indians with their interesting languages.

Seriously, give that monosyllabic dump back to Canada. It's useless.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Frazod

That drive to Maine sounds like driving across Pennsylvania on I-80. From Ohio to New Jersey, literally nothing but trees.

Lived in both Pittsburgh and Philly, so familiar with that one. Maine's worse, IMHO. Flatter, so it just seems like you have an endless close up of the trees in front of you and not much else.

It also stifles any sense of actual progress, making the drive seem even more endless.

[lewdog]

Maine is gorgeous in the summer.

I’m looking to go back.

OP lives in Denver and hates Maine. Lol

[Skyy God]

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine were pretty dope, Rain Man.

[TLO]

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine were pretty dope, Rain Man.

Probably so damn bored they were glad to go fight the war. :-P

But seriously, they may well have saved the damn Union, given that it was the extreme flank that the 20th Maine was defending. And Chamberlain was a serious bad ass. Later in the war he was giving a deathbed promotion to Brigadier General, but then didn't die! After the war, he was extremely active in all types of veterans reunions, and later served as governor of Maine and President of a college there. Bates, maybe?

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Nothing is worse than driving across Kansas.

You actually get excited when you see a tree.

I go to Colorado about every year and just got back a couple of days ago actually. Yeah the drive through Eastern Colorado-Western Kansas is horrible but at least I-70 is a very good road and you can go over 80.

Several years ago we took a trip to Boston then drove up to Maine to do some white water rafting. I enjoyed Maine and thought it was a cool place and would go back again.

[mlyonsd]

Did the leaf tour from upper NY to Maine and back a few years ago. Loved it. Of course as others have said living in the Midwest driving anywhere on a winding road is pretty cool.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

Did the leaf tour from upper NY to Maine and back a few years ago. Loved it. Of course as others have said living in the Midwest driving anywhere on a winding road is pretty cool.

Driving on winding roads aren't cool for me. I ****ing hate them.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

Lived in both Pittsburgh and Philly, so familiar with that one. Maine's worse, IMHO. Flatter, so it just seems like you have an endless close up of the trees in front of you and not much else.

It also stifles any sense of actual progress, making the drive seem even more endless.

Try I-80 across central Wyoming sometime. At least in Maine and Kansas there are living things.

The only reason I don't rate that as the worst drive is because I only did it once, and it was different enough to be somewhat interesting.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Driving on winding roads aren't cool for me. I ****ing hate them.

I would love them if I was driving a high performance vehicle, and I was the only one on it, and didn't really need to get anywhere.



But since that's never the case, yes, **** them.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Try I-80 across central Wyoming sometime. At least in Maine and Kansas there are living things.

The only reason I don't rate that as the worst drive is because I only did it once, and it was different enough to be somewhat interesting.

What I discovered when we went to Yellowstone a few years is ago, is that Wyoming has some amazing places, with some of the biggest expanses of absolutely ****ing nothing in between them.

I'm pretty sure I found the Official Middle of Nowhere on our way back towards Casper. It went on like this for well over an hour if not two.

[MahiMike]

You no like da lawbsta?

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

Probably so damn bored they were glad to go fight the war. :-P

But seriously, they may well have saved the damn Union, given that it was the extreme flank that the 20th Maine was defending. And Chamberlain was a serious bad ass. Later in the war he was giving a deathbed promotion to Brigadier General, but then didn't die! After the war, he was extremely active in all types of veterans reunions, and later served as governor of Maine and President of a college there. Bates, maybe?

Bowdoin. I actually knew the college but not the spelling.

We did a guided park ranger tour of Little Round Top. Rough terrain.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

I would love them if I was driving a high performance vehicle, and I was the only one on it, and didn't really need to get anywhere.



But since that's never the case, yes, **** them.

lol pretty much. I drove up the Northern California coast to Oregon and those roads were curvy as ****, I still get sick thinking about them. The scenery was awesome though.

And your picture below looks alot like Western Kansas. There is nothing alive out there except maybe a few cattle. It is so windy out that way I don't see how anyone could live out there.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Bowdoin. I actually knew the college but not the spelling.

We did a guided park ranger tour of Little Round Top. Rough terrain.

Yeah, same here. Gettysburg was a surprise hit with my two sons, both teenagers. History tends to bore them (to my complete dismay), but between the visitor's center and the tour, they really liked it. It came in second place for my PA trip, tied with feeding the ducks at the place we were staying.