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There is something about Civic drivers for some reason. To many Speed Racer wannabes in them.
There is this stretch of road (maybe 3.5 miles long) that I take at least once a week where a lot of people do 50+, When I drive it I do about 40 (SL is 35 and it has residential areas on one side and wooded parks on the other) and often I get those idiots running up on my rear.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Reminds me of the lying cop who was moonlighting for our next-door neighbors to build a privacy fence. He said my wife stepped over the property line, when she didn't. The idiot neighbors pressed charges, and guess who the judge believed? My wife, who's never broken any laws, got convicted (30 days suspended) for trespassing!
The driving habits are changing here. Instead of driving over-cautionsly in the rain in an area where it rains about 600 days per year, now the sun is out and it has fried some peoples brains. I guess dodging the idiots is safer in the dry vs wet.
Believe me, we've thought of that. Also, dumping a load of nails at their driveway entrance, calling their trash service to stop their weekly pickup, driving my company's water truck (sans license plates) all over their property late at night and dumping a load... you get the idea.
The travesty at the trial was that the cop showed up in full dress uniform; never mind that he was just Joe Fencebuilder at the time of the alleged transgression.
Also, he had been disciplined by the department before and required to have a psychiatric evaluation! I have learned that he has since "retired."
About that same time policemen were being caught for drug-dealing, one stabbed his wife 30-40 times, and many more. It was a mess in the greater metro area because of the dishonest ones among the cops.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Also the judge appeared bored and distracted by the whole proceeding (this is General District Court in Virginia, the lowest level, where the judge hears a whole series of cases during the day typically without juries). He even talked about his upcoming retirement, as if he couldn't wait.
So the judge went with the cop's testimony and not my wife's.
You reminded me that this cop and our paranoid neighbors must really have spun a yarn to the local magistrate, who decided to proceed with pressing charges.
My wife was not simply served with a warrant to appear in court; she was arrested in our home, handcuffed, and taken in the back of a police car a week after the alleged crime to the local jail. There she was patted down, booked, and ultimately released on her own recognizance.
We learned later it was the magistrate who has the power to determine whether someone is served or arrested.
I couldn't ride in the police car but had to follow in my own car. In the jail waiting room, I was like a caged jackal, pacing around and desperately figuring out what to do.
I think if my older son (then 21) hadn't been home at the time to calm things down, I may have been hauled to the clink myself for obstructing my wife's arrest.
Some people deserve less than legal justice.
Yeah, gotta agree, just look at the LAPD. OTOH, there's another profession that's become the butt of so many jokes -- lawyers. And of course, to get back on topic, there are car salesmen.
Here it's been a lovely sunny day, so all the CPAs and pharmacists who drive beige Camrys on weekdays are out on their Harleys. Maybe not inconsiderate, just annoying.
Special plates or badges on policemen's cars (or wannabes) should be outlawed. Let them get stopped and cited like everyone else.
A new friend of our family is a policeman. I'll have to ask him about that problem. Spent day Saturday at an event with our kids; never though to hear what he says about FOP badges on cars. His doesn't have one.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
After a full circle, we saw the same car there, but this time it was in front of the spot. Maybe it was going to back into it? There was a second car behind the spot (where the first car was, when we first saw it), and it looked like a standoff.
My sister thought that spot might be free, and there weren't any other spaces close to the store, so we made a third circle. The two cars were still there. No movement, no blinkers, nothing. So my sister went in between the cars, into the parking space. The lady in the first car came out fuming and shouted at her for taking "her spot." Okaaaaaaay... my sister said "next time signal and get in!" and left the spot, and found a good one shortly after.
I feel like these weirdos are part of a big in-joke that I'm not privy too. They confuse me...
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Many times it is also faster to park and walk than troll for a spot, too.
Since this space was so close to the entrance I decided that when we bought something instead of lugging it around while we shopped for other things, I would let my wife shop as I put the stuff in the trunk. You should have seen the looks I got from people waiting as I closed the trunk and went back into the mall. :shades:
I was tempted to tell my wife when we were done to take some more time and "look around, I'll wait for you in the car" just to see how long people would wait for me to move.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
By that do you mean the TSX looked less banged up than the Avalon after the crash? I would rather have my car totaled than receive any injuries. Better the car absorb all the KE than me.
The Avalon's front bumper and grille/lights were completely gone - torn off. The hood was also jammed up a little. The TSX had very light damage to the rear and was certainly driveable, I don't even think the lights were broken.
In this situation, it's common for the driver of the striking car to brake, which causes the front end to dive under the car in front of it. So, you end up with the classic damage -- grille and lights busted out and the arched hood. The rear-ended car usually ends up with only lower bumper scrapes and maybe some tailpipe or muffler damage.
in, the front end and bumper was on the ground!
Now that we are in a cold snap here, the idiots are out in the morning. It was pretty frosty here, and on the way to work I saw a Caravan with maybe a 4" x 8" viewing hole scraped out of the windshield. That was it.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Granted, my experiences are a little skewed as we don't drive during the week and mostly use the car from Friday night to Sunday night -- prime errand-running and "my weekend is more important than your weekend" hours. But it seems to me that I see at least one act of inconsiderate parking every single time I go somewhere.
I saw a Valentine's Day traffic jam, of all things, walking home from the subway last night! Double-parkers in front of florists on both sides of a busy street had traffic at a complete standstill as they were preventing those big articulated city buses from getting through. I don't think there's a punishment stiff enough for that sort of behavior -- $1000 fines, automatic 6-month license suspension, you name it.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Thankfully, it does not usually snow very often here, so the experience is infrequent and predictable (but not preventable!). Maybe.. I wonder if it would help for me to cover the intake vents with something while it is parked?
I kind of like living away from all that, where it is impossible to stand between two houses and touch both at the same time, where more than two people can stand in the front yard, where you can actually put lawn furniture in the back yard with plenty of room to spare.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Moving to Hawaii would also work.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
At any given temperature, air has a finite capacity for holding water vapor. So, as air cools, assuming the water vapor in the air stays constant, the relative humidity goes up. The point at which relative humidity = 100%, any drop in temperature results in condensation (the classic example is morning dew!). Water tends to condense on surfaces first because it gives the molecules a nucleus (trigger) around which to form. Without that trigger, it is possible to have a super-saturated liquid (gas) in which saturation exceeds 100%, but I digress.
So, if the surface is colder than the ambient air temperature, and the relative humidity is close to 100%, the cold surface will cool the surrounding air and condensation will result - your mirrors, facing the opposite direction you are going, have a pocket of low-pressure, slow moving air on their surface and high-speed air on their backs. As you go up this hill, the air is probably somewhat cooler (higher relative humidity), chilling your mirror as it sweeps past. The cold mirror contacts the somewhat warmer pocket (higher water holding capacity) on the other side and condensation results. As you go back down, the opposite happens, and it evaporates!
The same thing happens with the foggy window, except that the air is artificially warmed by the heater and then contacts the cold glass (kept colder by the outside air sweeping over it). My question is, where is the pocket of snow that gets sucked into the heater only to be vaporized and then condense (and FREEZE!) on my windshield?
How's that for more than you wanted to know? :P
Yeah, I was thinking about certain circumstances like that where it would be dangerous or difficult to wave thank you.
But, if I am right behind the person...how difficult would it be to raise your hand after the turn is completed. Just common courtesy.
Ah, so you were done shaving by then!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
So, it's like bringing a cold beer out from the house into a humid Virginia summer night.
Speaking of beer, you sound like a fine fellow to have one with!
Now, back to idiots on the road!