I had agreed to meet Sage Francis at Dunkin Donuts on Thayer Street in the College Hill section of Providence. Since I was a little early, I decided to chill out front. Given that it is close to several of the cities colleges and being lined with sidewalk cafes, coffeehouses, and record shops, Thayer Street stays packed with people and auto traffic. Providence is one of those old cities that began expanding before the invention of the car.
Streets crisscross and wind as they climb the hills around downtown.
Main avenues and side streets alike are as narrow as they come. Parked cars line every inch of curb. So when the jackass driving the Pepsi truck decided to stop in the right lane to make a delivery, he instantly bottlenecked traffic. The horns started right away. After a few minutes, a cop stepped up and stopped traffic in the left lane and started waving cars through.