NOw I do not like to put everyone in the same buket... but ya know what? TN drivers CANNOT drive!
Just today I was coming back from house hunting and I was on the interstate (2 lanes :ROFL:) ... at a junction a minivan merges right nex to me....
I am going a little faster then he is... and what does he do? Cuts right infront of me with no signal... I'd say a good 5 feet away from my hood...
Good for him I was going just 55 mph...
Pissed to no end (I had my little one in the car)... I overtook and I was side by side with him... I gave him a piece of my mind...
this episode is only the last (and not the worst) of a series that has been goign on for the past week...
Is these people's intention to try to get us killed? because if so... well they're doing a damned fine job!
personally I would send them all to get a driving boot camp in the fine jungles of SoCal... they either get killed or learn... either way the rest of us will be safer :censored: :devil2: :2guns:
Want to get revenge?
Follow their car, wait until they park.
Then, paste a bumper sticker on the front bumper with something like, "All Cops Are Pigs" or worse. Put one on the back, too.
After several tickets, it may dawn on them why....
and no, I cannot take credit for this prank, I read about it in a novel. Unfortunately, I have forgotten which one...
I've noticed a rash of it out here, too. And usually it's SUVs (which are California's minivans) that jam themselves in front of the tiny Scion I drive.
I like Bob's idea. I really do.
Quotepaste a bumper sticker on the front bumper with something like, "All Cops Are Pigs" or worse. Put one on the back, too.
I woke up my daughter with my laughing! But you know what??? it ain't bad at all.... even though I still would like to see them going to a South California boot camp... :devil2:
I learned to drive in Los Angeles--- there should be a boot camp out there-- but now days it just seems to be slow moving hell out there anymore. For a real nasty wake up-- Boston-- yes Boston
or Houston or Phoenix or Atlanta(notice that all have some type of motorspeedway for car racing events(even as large as NASCAR)---- hmmmmmm I think it wears off on the population) Phoenix is also loud- the drivers have one hand on the cell phone and the other on the damn horn all the time- it is deafening. :mrgreen:
The bumper sticker idea is a good one. Very funny! Another idea is to put a sticker or something on the car advertising the drivers 'wares and skills'--- sort of a 'for a good time _________ ' sticker. Of course that might be dangerous-but funny as hell. Maybe just a price list....
My god, LA is horrible. HORRIBLE. I will never drive there if I can help it. I'll die. I'll get run off the road and die. :o
Or a sticker suggesting all cops are interested in is doughnuts (can't remember the exact phrase).
When I moved to Denver I was given this Metro driving advice:
1. (4) cars will follow you through the red light.
2. Let (2) cars cut you off as they're zooming up the on-ramp, but plow that third bastard into the wall.
:driver:
Lol, my uncle recommended the same thing when I was considering moving back to Denver (am still thinking about it, but that'll be a few years down the road).
Quote from: pieces o nine on September 15, 2008, 07:40:18 AM
When I moved to Denver I was given this Metro driving advice:
1. (4) cars will follow you through the red light.
2. Let (2) cars cut you off as they're zooming up the on-ramp, but plow that third bastard into the wall.
:driver:
Add Denver to the list-- I have heard about it as well. Is it a form of altitude sickness?
People in Big Expensive Cars™ will always act like the people in older, smaller or less expensive cars are their minions and should just give room for them (possible also bow deeply) when they drive on the road in all their glory...
Me thinks that's a universal law... ::)
The only time the people the Big Expensive Cars™ actually stayed out of my way was when I was driving a U-haul truck during my latest move... My old trusted Volvo 945 was good too big, boxy and not a beauty to behold. :D It didn't keep the SUV's at bay but pretty much everyone else. ;D
Quote from: Darlica on September 15, 2008, 11:07:57 AM
People in Big Expensive Cars™ will always act like the people in older, smaller or less expensive cars are their minions and should just give room for them (possible also bow deeply) when they drive on the road in all their glory...
Seriously. I drive one of these:
(http://www.buyacarfromoscar.com/researchatoyota/xa.jpeg)
And I've nearly been run off the road or shoved off a shoulder at lane merges. Always by trucks and SUVs. Those hulking cars (think a Dodge Charger) and the mid-size SUVs like to cut me off, too, since I drive with a bit of distance between me and the guy in front of me.
Ack, anyway. Stelli, had any more issues with the TN drivers?
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on September 15, 2008, 03:57:29 PM
And I've nearly been run off the road or shoved off a shoulder at lane merges. Always by trucks and SUVs. Those hulking cars (think a Dodge Charger) and the mid-size SUVs like to cut me off, too, since I drive with a bit of distance between me and the guy in front of me.
I used to love taking on Hummers in my old Firefly. Especially tailgaters... if you're gonna keep on my ass, I'm going to SLOW DOWN MORE. When they finally pass, I return to normal speed.
I HATE those idiots that cut into your response-time space, Scrib. One goes to all the trouble of being responsible and leaving a few car-lengths, and it's an open invite to any arsehole who thinks that parallel-park spacing is appropriate at 110 km/h. So you back off again, and some other arsehole moves in. :P
Isn't traffic a lovely topic? Miami would seem like hell on wheels if I didn't knew better: I learned to drive in Bogota, and the funny part is that I've heard tales of Mexico City and different cities in India that make my home city a pleasure to drive in comparison.
Stelli, I'm surprised, haven't you driven in Rome ;) :mrgreen:
Try driving in Africa someday. It certainly heightens your sense of hazard perception. For a while Uganda had the most dangerous roads (statistically, anyway), and they don't like using their lights, it runs down the power, apparently. They get switched on microseconds before impact, to see if they know the hapless pedestrian, or occupant/s of the target vehicle. Throw in the joy of potholes you can hide a tank in, and the chance of seriously large wildlife. (I almost gave a buffalo a two-ton metal enema on several occasions)
But, driving along and seeing an elephant is cool. I only had to look in the mirror, admittedly, but it's still cool.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 15, 2008, 04:39:10 PM
Stelli, I'm surprised, haven't you driven in Rome ;) :mrgreen:
Was just about to say the same thing when I read this Zono!
Rome has a lot to recommend it. If found it really helped me lose my fear of traffic back in the UK.
Ulsan, Korea scares the crap outta me (I will NOT drive there, although I'd probably take a stab at Seoul). Utterly skilled drivers, utterly terrifying to be a passenger. They routinely pass within centimetres of each other at high speed, but there's few accidents.
In Wiscaaaahhhhhnsin there are highways linking the FIBs (look it up, dujes - heh heh heh) to Packers/Bears & Cubs/Brewers games or their vacation homes in the "U.P."
In the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit that I was not adverse to a little speeding along that corridor, but there are large trucks, farm and other slow-moving vehicles (including some that don't get up to the minimum speed of 40mph to consider) with only 2 lanes to work with along lengths of it. You've got a mental picture? Good.
So our paper printed an annual list of the most egregious speeders caught along the section I dubbed "The Autobahn" (for the complete disregard of any semblance of speed limits along it). Inevitably, the top speeders (e.g.: 100mph) always have those Chicago plates and are reported offering excuses such as, "You know how it is when you're just traveling along..."
:o
Denver and its 7 lanes of traffic-law-exempt, compensatory UAVs (urban assault vehicles) dint bovver me none...
:driver:
Interesting thread/topic.
As someone who drives a 2-Ton work truck, I rarely get cut off by idiots.
Be that as it may, I assiduously keep to the posted speed limits...I find by doing so, it automatically opens up the space between me and the next vehicle in front, something I seriously need, as my stopping distance (even though I do have 6 tires on the ground) is much longer than a typical car's.
What gets me, though, is once in a while, a soccer mom in a loaded-with-kids minivan whips her soon-to-be-morgue right in front of me with inches to spare and slows down... all sans turn-signal, natch. I always lean on my oversized horn when that happens, and watch for her look of panic in the rear-view... I'm rarely disappointed. I'm hoping that !ss-puckering I just gave her will make her think for a moment or three, to raise the life expectancy of the poor little ones in her deathtrap.
*bleah*
Those are only topped by indifferent high-$$ cars driven by men who's self-importance is much too great to bother paying attention to mere traffic....you know the type...cell-phone glued to the ear, often the laptop open in the passenger seat (I have a high vantage-point, and can see down into cars...). I seldom bother to honk at those...they wouldn't apply the honk to them, for they see themselves as much too important...!
As if.
Sadly, the self-important squish just as easily as anyone else, when 45 hundred pounds of vehicle cannot stop in time...!
Edit: fixed improper use of the word "to"...
Did someone mention 'driving in mexico'---- :ROFL: :desperate:
When my dear brother first brought his beloved new wife to visit Arkansas he was on his way to basic training in Texas(Lackland AFB)-- we let her drive when we were able to go down for his graduation the trip took about 2 hours and that was on the east bound side of the interstate (Lackland is about 600 miles from Little Rock- the direction is west and south and southwest).
Driving in Mexico :wheee:
Driving in Mexico?
What about driving in India:
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Wow.
Just pull out into traffic slowly, and hope they stop-- which they always barely seem to do.
Amazing demonstration of polite cooperative behavior.
Over here in Uber-Rude USofA? Massive pile-up....
..we are just too damn selfish. (as if anyone did not already know that...)
Actually it isn't polite at all, the key is: either you go or you'll stay there forever, your choice; once you are in the middle of the street 98% of drivers will stop (out of self preservation). Back home that 2% is made of bus & truck drivers, who will have no damage to their cars (much less their lives) in the case of a collision*.
*I know this the hard way, in fact you could say if it were for them I wouldn't be writing this. >:(
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 16, 2008, 08:55:31 PM
Actually it isn't polite at all, the key is: either you go or you'll stay there forever, your choice; once you are in the middle of the street 98% of drivers will stop (out of self preservation). Back home that 2% is made of bus & truck drivers, who will have no damage to their cars (much less their lives) in the case of a collision*.
*I know this the hard way, in fact you could say if it were for them I wouldn't be writing this. >:(
You may be right...but it certainly looked like it from afar. :D
I'm a 'glass contains 1/2 potential' sort, myself.
As a person who grew up and learned to drive in Houston, Houston ALWAYS had the politest drivers and easiest to deal with traffic conditions, until the frozen north dumped on us. (Michigan and Indiana especially, but all those Rust Belt charmers, including Minnesota) Takes 10-12 years to teach THEM to drive and the some Republican screws up the economy even MORE, and here they come again...
Like now.Houston's overfull of big U-Haul trucks. Renting one going north? In 6 week,. they'll pay YOU to take it.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on September 16, 2008, 06:12:15 AM
Interesting thread/topic.
As someone who drives a 2-Ton work truck, I rarely get cut off by idiots.
Be that as it may, I assiduously keep to the posted speed limits...I find by doing so, it automatically opens up the space between me and the next vehicle in front, something I seriously need, as my stopping distance (even though I do have 6 tires on the ground) is much longer than a typical car's.
Heh - come to Toronto. If you drive the speed limit on the 401, you'll be getting the finger from little old ladies as they whiz by. :D
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on September 16, 2008, 06:12:15 AMWhat gets me, though, is once in a while, a soccer mom in a loaded-with-kids minivan whips her soon-to-be-morgue right in front of me with inches to spare and slows down... all sans turn-signal, natch. I always lean on my oversized horn when that happens, and watch for her look of panic in the rear-view... I'm rarely disappointed. I'm hoping that !ss-puckering I just gave her will make her think for a moment or three, to raise the life expectancy of the poor little ones in her deathtrap.
Reminds me of something that my Dad did before he was married: he went to the wreckers, found a tractor-trailer air horn, and installed it in his Austin Mini. :D