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A little bit - if you completely loose your cool you usually lose - just not worth it...
As for the damage up at BU, statistically speaking as a Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, or CT resident you have a 1 in 4 chance of taking damage to a vehicle (car, truck, bike, skateboard, rollerblades) within a 5 mile radius of the centerpoint between Marsh Chapel and T's Pub on Labor Day weekend. So the good news is that you have fulfilled your obligatory vehicular damage required of all parents over the course of 4 years when dropping off their offspring on "Moving Day" (also refered to as UHaul Day, Budget Day, or Rent-A-Wreck day). This likelyhood increases to 1 in 3 if you are from any of the northern NE states or anywhere south or west of the previously mentioned 4 states. Odds also are 1 in 3 for any rented moving van NOT painted Yellow. Odds drop to 1 in 4 for all Yellow moving vans (unless you traveled beyond a 100 mile radius of Boston to find one available for rent - if so odds remain at 1 in 3).
Labor Day weekend, aptly renamed from Moving Day weekend at Boston University, was granted federal status when President Grover Cleveland could not access his Beacon Ave diggs due to the influx of students to the Boston U -v- Boston C vicinity. The soon-to-be former President stumbled (literally) into this idea after being asked to vacate the BC area upper crust prohibition dining facility Scary Anne's. As he struggled outside he was unable to avoid stepping in acres of Horse Poo from all of the Stallion-Drawn carts blocking the wide expanses of Brownstone in the circle that would posthumously be named after him. With frantic shouts around these carts of "Up Your's Goeth" and "Learn how to Trot, Buttocks Breath" , he knew there simply must be a better way.
He contemplated a solution in solitude over a frosty pint at Father's Too on Beacon as others adjacent to him were watching the sports ticker tape of the game from nearby Fenway with the Red Sox trying to fend off a miserable August.
He knew to call it "Labor Day". A day when the parents of 300,000 students would "Labor the Day Away" and would invade the City of Boston by any means of transportation available, to deposit their offspring, to the ground-zero city of academic achievment.
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