OT: rant on stupid drivers
04-13-2006, 03:49 PM
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Lego,
Sorry to hear of your wreck. Hope it turns out alright. Best wishes.
I don't know about other parts of the country, but last year I started using the toll road. I've noticed that traffics behaves very predictably, and it's almost always the case that when a total *** goes flying through traffic, you see him paying cash at the booth. The regulars with EZ tags are better drivers.
Gotta love the cops here though. Last week I was doing 75 in a 45, and I had to move over to let a cop pass me.
Sorry to hear of your wreck. Hope it turns out alright. Best wishes.
I don't know about other parts of the country, but last year I started using the toll road. I've noticed that traffics behaves very predictably, and it's almost always the case that when a total *** goes flying through traffic, you see him paying cash at the booth. The regulars with EZ tags are better drivers.
Gotta love the cops here though. Last week I was doing 75 in a 45, and I had to move over to let a cop pass me.
04-13-2006, 06:51 PM
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I quit riding motorcycles here when an old person in an Oldsmobile looked over, actually made eye contact with me then changed lanes, forcing me off the road. I’ve had two wrecks in my Miata the first one coming out of a toll plaza a person in a Navigator (small dog sitting on their lap) changed lanes on top of me. They said they couldn’t see my little car. The second one totaled the Miata. 4-lane road I’m northbound in the left lane doing about 60. An octogenarian in a Buick pulls out of a hospital, on the southbound side of the road, right in front of me. There are cars on my left turning into the hospital and cars on my right. I decided if I had to hit someone it was going to be the person who caused the accident. Got slowed down to about 35 but totaled both cars. Cops showed up and wanted to give me the ticket. Fortunately a couple of witnesses were there and explained the situation to the officer. The driver of the other car “didn’t remember what happened”. The last accident lead to the 951, which is a little bigger than a Miata and hopefully easier to see.
04-13-2006, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Racer46
I quit riding motorcycles here when an old person in an Oldsmobile looked over, actually made eye contact with me then changed lanes, forcing me off the road.
04-13-2006, 07:28 PM
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Kirk- be especially aware on a bike. Peeps dont look for flashing lights or an SUV oncoming to kill them.
Most never see a bike. Be careful and drive defensively. Leave an out.
Most never see a bike. Be careful and drive defensively. Leave an out.
04-14-2006, 01:08 AM
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One day I was cruisin down the road with my dad. We came to a stoplight and pulled up behind a red convertable (dont remember the type of car). Inside was a blonde women talking on a cell phone, smoking a cigarrette. and drinking coffee! all at the same time!. Then as she pulls out, she reveals that the car, is a stickshift! So what does she do when shes gotta shift into second?! SHE LETS GO OF THE WHEEL AND SHIFTS! This is all on a curve, so she starts driftin to the outside, shifts, grabs the wheel at the last second and veers back into the lane. GODDAMN some people are jackasses.
04-14-2006, 02:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Headhunter
Everyone bitches about Florida, but in my estimation, New England is far worse. You'll see at least a dozen drivers reading the Wall Street Journal on I-95, doing 80mph as they speed into NYC.
Now leave it to someone from northern NE to say that all of CT does not count as New England.
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04-14-2006, 03:04 AM
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I f*cking hate stupid drivers. I mean, wtf? driving is like, dangerous, ya know, so why risk YOUR f*cking life and everyone elses? people are retarded... I'm gonna pass out now. g'night.
04-14-2006, 03:12 AM
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I believe they only time we have good drivers and here adn traffic that doesn't sux is when its overcast out, if its raining or sunny all the stuipd people come out. ANd 250 days of stuipd people driving I can't stand it. People here don't know how to use the lanes right adn if they are in the slow lane and I pass them in the fast lane doing 60 I go by them like there not even moving! stupid people I tell ya. I think ALL North American Driver must be required to take a European drivnig test and a they MUST do on D.E type event before getting there licsense.
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04-14-2006, 04:23 AM
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Yep I was thinking the same exact thing today. I mean wow.. they must be paying people to get a drivers liscense here in NW Ohio.
I goto get some food around 3:30pm and its a mad house! This coming from someone thats driven in almost every major city. Yes, Flordia, Chicago, Alanta, Cincy, Columbus etc.. and none of them made me as mad as I was today.
I goto get some food around 3:30pm and its a mad house! This coming from someone thats driven in almost every major city. Yes, Flordia, Chicago, Alanta, Cincy, Columbus etc.. and none of them made me as mad as I was today.
04-14-2006, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Even in Boston, commonly faulted for the worst drivers on the planet, there's an unwritten set of rules that everyone follows.
Mate. Japanese courtesy coach drivers anywhere in or out of the city. Japanese working visa people on pushbikes. European and American tourists {mostly European
} going "the wrong bloody way" around roundabouts, of which we have hundreds! 
Emergency vehicles here make so much noise you can't miss them. You dont talk and drive here, sure fire way to get booked. F***! I'll ring the cops and report you're plate myself!
04-14-2006, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by sracer
I think ALL North American Driver must be required to take a European drivnig test and a they MUST do on D.E type event before getting there licsense.
Florida drivers would pass out if they ever were presented that test. The hardest part of the Florida driving test is waiting in line.
04-14-2006, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by 75ohm
Florida drivers would pass out if they ever were presented that test. The hardest part of the Florida driving test is waiting in line.
04-14-2006, 12:17 PM
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Thanks red1. Though I am used to idiotic drivers and had countless accidents including being hit on my motorcycle to 2 hit and runs in the last 2 years, this one is the second worst I have been in. It sounded like an explosion when we were hit. Now I just have to suffer the ache and pain until they hopefully go away.