Snark/rant

[Alpaca]

Inner and outer are inverted 'round these parts.

Yes, we have a minimum speed. C'mon, it's Florida. The ones down here from the horse-and-buggy era need to be reminded to take the slower roads.

[Griffin NoName]

OI !!!!!! 

My dad's 87 and just got done for speeding and got sent to learn not to speed school !!!!!!

(actually it is just as bad as going too slow..... being driven by him is like really really scary ... but it's cheaper than a ride on the big dipper )

[The Meromorph]

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandad,
not screaming in terror like his passengers.

[anthrobabe]

Alpaca it is

they drive like their hair is on fire and their butts are catching.

I hate everyone on the freeway myself 

Oh Griffin- your dad is something else. Wow, what a dad! My grandmother finally racked up so many points they suspended her- forever, think is is called "revocation of driving privledges"--- sort of like what Mero is saying
"screaming in terror like his/her passengers."

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandad,
not screaming in terror like his passengers.

---
Speaking of Sr. drivers, Florida is (frightfully) full of them. I almost kill one (thank the gods my brakes were in good working order) that decided to open his cadillac to the right lane to enter a parking lot in the left!

[anthrobabe]

In AZ we always call our SR drivers "snow birds"- the ones that migrate in when it gets cold where they live the rest of the year.

I have a license plate frame that reads
"so many snow birds, so little freezer space"
(hunt and store baby)

My grandmom(AZ native) hated them- she'd roll her window down and yell obscenities at them and flip them off as well. All while cruising about 20 above the speed limit, driving a standard and drinking a soda.
I get my "born to raise HELL from her"- thanks gran.

[Sibling Chatty]

I suspended Mom's driving privileges. She wanted to argue about it, so I took her the van, gave her the keys and told her good luck. (I had been driving for her when she decided to stop driving freeways, and then when she had surgery.) She was refusing to use her walker as much as possible, and wanted an electric wheelchair.

If you can drive, then you have to load your own wheelchair, Mom...

She drove once, was ALL over the road, made a turn that swung so far out of range that she almost went off in a ditch, then left the windows down and it rained for three straight days... The cops came and asked me to have a talk with her about NOT driving, especially not at night, and not if it was rainy.

I got the van back...

I hate that van.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Fun.

I actually failed my driver's test for not driving fast enough. 

Ours is like Paca's, except we have a max speed. Which I drive at on the freeway, and everybody else surpasses by about 20mph.
I wish I could have driven when we were in Texas this summer. 80mph all through--from Ingram to Pecos. Nice.

[Alpaca]

Oh, we have a max speed, too. 55 mph.

Which is set based on some sort of calculation during some fuel shortage long ago that says cars are most efficient at that speed.

And is NOT set based on highway safety. The "real" interstates around here are older and narrower and generally more "dangerous" (relatively speaking) than I-275, and they get speed limits of 70. I-275 has a brand new surface, has been widened to three lanes minimum all the way through, sometimes going up to six, and these are WIDE lanes, and yet it still is set at the antique 55. Senseless.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Nononono, it makes a lot of sense, you see, speeding tickets mean more money for the city/county in question. It is a wonderful business. 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

True. Although is you've got a college in town, you can make oodles of money through parking tickets.
We have a $20 ticket for parking in the neighborhoods around my school, 
(there are 3,200 students to ~700 parking spots).
We also have four colleges in town, a state, a community, a two private schools.

Rawr. Please please please be patient with the intelligent n00bs on the job. I did the smart thing and read my book for work, and only used up half the time that had been alloted to me. I got snipped at for it.

[Alpaca]

Argh.

I'm burned out. Yesterday and today after school were auditions. Total of three and a half hours of listening to some pretty horrendous stuff on top of usual sadistic schoolwork.

Not that most people were bad - average was decent, with a few really excellent, really talented performances, and a few that were just ABYSMAL.

Still, it drains a lot of energy.

[Opsa]

What sort of auditions? Musical? Drama? (Please forgive me if I somehow missd this.)

[Alpaca]

Entire theater season in one go.

Argh.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

3 rants in 1.

1. Junk mail. How bloody many forests are downed by the industry? Holy sh!t, why do they send as much bul$%???

2. My recycling company. Now on the paper section they don't take cardboard. WTF? But if that is even more recyclable! Also they don't take window envelopes. That I understand, you don't want plastic on your vat of paper which goes back to No. 1:

3. Windowed envelopes. I hate them!! Now if I want to place the paper of the envelope in the recycle bin I have to manually remove the bloody plastic film! Why the heck don't they leave the window without the plastic (some envelopes do that)?

Can you guess what I was doing half of my morning?