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If I drove a vehicle and it would go over 100, I probably took it there. I was pretty dumb and stupid, but luckily I am still alive today. I think I have slowed down some since then too. It's rare that I get above 80 these days.
Once past LA on the way home and headed north on I-5, I seemed to run into every LLC on the road - and they would pace the car(s) next to them so that it was impossible to get past. Or it would seem that the car ahead of me would be doing a good pace and then everytime they went to pass a semi, they would slow down to just barley over the truck's speed and then pass. Once past, they would jump their speed back up to what they had been doing. Very annoying.
I called the number and spoke with the authorities and eventually the family to let them know what I knew. I didn't know exactly where he was staying, but I knew a family that he had been hanging around. The next day his father came up (a good 6 hr drive or more) and we went looking for him. We found him camping in a canyon underneath a bridge by a river. I don't think he was too pleased that his family had found him for what ever reason. But his family was overjoyed to have found him.
Remember how all those doofs drive down the road forever with their turn signal on?? Well I was one of those doofs the other day, but I didn't happen to notice green arrow on my dash, nor could I hear the click-clack because I had the stereo on. Well when I got to closer to my destination and turned down the music, I noticed this dinging noise - the same ding that alerts you the lights are on, the key is in the ignition, etc. But I was still in the truck, the truck was running and I didn't have the lights on, nor was the door open. That's odd I thought... but then I noticed my turn signal still on. Apparently, my truck has a feature that issues this "alert" when the turn signal is left on for an extended period. How long that period is, I don't know, but I thought it was a pretty usefull feature...
Well since I was so engrossed in checking the dealer lot, I just made a right turn down the street running along one side of the lot. As I was turning I noticed a series of arrows pointing back at me and I realized I had turned the wrong way down one of the one-way streets. :surprise:
The other oops I pulled proved how absent-minded and "programed" I have become. I was headed to a job south of town and I recently changed how I get on the freeway. To go southbound on the freeway, I usually went to a particular exit and it became a natural habit. However, I did some timing and I found it was actually quicker to get on the freeway to go south by going to the entrance 3 miles north of the one I normally use. The problem lies in that I usually use this northern entrance to keep going to north. The other day as I approached this northern exit to go south, I realized after getting on the freeway, that I had with out thinking, continued on and I was still going north, not south on the freeway. It was one of those oops moments that ended up taking me 10 miles out of the way. The next closest exit was 5 miles further north. :surprise:
Since then, I have had to actually remind myself every time I approach this exit which way I need to go so that I don't end up going the wrong way...
oh wait that would make you inconsiderate
If I ever see a double park especially when someone purposely takes up 2 spaces, I am tempted every single time to get as close as I can to thier vehicle. Since I am not particularly worried about scratches or dings on my vehicle, as long as I stay in my space and don't hit their car on the way in, I would almost feel gratified if they scraped my vehicle when they backed out :P. Now if someone double parked out in la-la land, I am not that tempted...
Sometimes the double parking is deliberate and that really grates me, especially in a crowded lot. If the lot isn't very crowded it doesn't bother me so much since there are plenty of other spots. But if the lot is crowded then in irks me because the double parked vehicle is taking up more than his fair share. Other times it's just sheer laziness because they drive this monstrous 4x4 SUV and couldn't bother to try and park it right. On the other hand I have also seen Geo Metros so lazily parked you couldn't use the space next to it either.
Oh and one of the dudes was practically laying in the travel lane. He was on the line and had he rolled to get out from under the truck, he would have rolled into oncoming traffic :sick:
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I scored a 95%. The only one I missed was the solid yellow light one.
Here is what I don't do and it may not be right, but it is one of my pet peeves... I will not let a car merge in front of me if his lane is ending and he has had over a 1/2 mile of notice and has yet to merge. This is usually in construction zones where they have closed a lane and they have big orange signs saying the lane ends merge... and than also a cones that start blocking the lane and also a HUGE electronic arrow that you can see from several blocks backs that a lane is ending and yet the guy insists on staying in that lane until the very last second and when there is no more room for his car in the lane because the cones have finally forced him to merge, does he finally decide to say to himself "der da lanes is ending I think I shoulds merge now and he tries to get in to already crowded traffic... This drives me crazy as it means he either wasn't paying attention and didn't get over, or he was thinking he can just shoot along as sometimes this lane is moving faster and than "cut" into line... I refuse to accomodate this type of behavior and have taken pleasure more than once of making a vehicle come to a dead stop just before he runs into the cones because I wouldn't let him in... Now I know this is wrong and I should accomodate even the idiots, but I feel that why should I? This idiot can't even pay attention to traffic signs??
If it is a 2 or even a 3 lane freeway, and I am in the right land going 5-10 MPH over the limit and some one comes up behind me going faster than me, I will move over and let him pass. I call him the "cop-chaser" knowing he will get a ticket and not me and I can feel safer going my 10 MPH over.
But I digress... You are right. I should be more considerate no matter who the idiot may or may not be. Who am I to know what they are really trying to do? Maybe thier blinker doesn't work, or maybe they really didn't realized that the lane was ending and really felt stupid now. Or who am I to add to an already congested road and now because of me thier is one more peeved driver on the road? Two wrongs don't make a right and one right may right the wrong...
It just so happens that on my way home tonight I was highly conscious of how I was driving as I was thinking about this forum and what annoys people. I started to watch for those things and also watch how I drove and I noticed I did a few things that may be considered by others to be bad driving...
To tell you the truth however, I would much rather be on the road with "yesterday's" cars with the current limits (75 MPH intersate, 55-65 MPH rural hwys, 25-45 MPH intown) than on the road with you barreling at 90 MPH just because yor car is "safer" and better able to handle 90 MPH. I don't know about your driving skills, but if you wreck at 90 MPH it's gonna hurt! Maybe not much more than if at 75 MPH, but still at that speed you have less reaction time, less time to remanuver your vehicle, less time to compensate, take evasive action or what ever than you do at a lesser speed. Even though your car is safer, maybe mine is not and I don't want to be "obligated" to take my less capable vehicle to a limit is really wasn't designed to handle. (Now you are going to say "then don't go up to the limit" and my response to that will be "how many times to do you come upon a vehicle that is traveling even 5 under the limit and start flashing to pass, or making some other motion to get around? What's going to happen when you have drivers driving less capable vehicles than yours at say 20 MPH under the limit?) Also do you really want to be on the road with less capable vehicles at 90 MPH even though your car is capable. Do you really want some bozo in a Beetle going 90 MPH? You know it would happen. But because 90 MPH is the limit that was set because your vehicle was capable of handling 90 MPH, this Bozo in his Beetle also feels he can go 90 MPH also.
"In most states there's no reduction for rain or snow or even when it's dark. You can't tell me 70 in the day time is just as safe as it is at night."
Actually, I'm sure that in many states there are written laws, but not posted signs that take into account for road conditions. I know for a fact that if I am going 75 MPH in a 75 MPH zone on an interstate and it's foggy, I'll be pulled over and ticketed. If it were rainy, or snowy as it was this weekend, or any other kind of condition like that I would be pulled over by the local fuzz. I know at least in my state of AZ there are laws that govern speeds in certain types of conditions, although the posted limit may say differently.
The other issue and this one really grated me is people behind you with thier brights one. I wish (maybe there is) there was a signal to use like the flashing of brake lights or something to alert people behind you that thier brights are on... I had one last night that was so irritating that I slowed down just enough to be in front, but not so much as to be imparing his speed and flashed my brake lights 3 times in slow steady succesion. Then I did it one more time. A few seconds later his brights turned off... it looks like he got the message. I then flashed my brakes twice to thank him... hopefully he got the message that I was thanking him...
If I've had a bad day at work I might be a little more aggressive on the horn but that doesn't happen very often.
Unfortunately there isn't a simple solution - I ran into this a couple weeks ago on my way home from a very long day - the end of an 800 mile road trip. I had been on the road for the better part of 15 hrs. So by the end I was truly sensitive to inconsiderate driving. The high-beams behind me was the one thing that irritated me the most. One thing I tried just to see if it would work was tapping my brake lights in succesion and deliberately in front of the offender. Of course the deliberate action must have caused him to wonder what the issue was and then he must have realized his high beams were on and he turned them off. I "tooted" him twice with brake lights to thank him and hopefully he got the message...
If the home had the appearance of needed some maintanence, the yard was overgrown, I could smell the house from the street, the seller smelled like a shower would do him well and his clothes and appearance looked like he walked from the gutter, than I would have second guesses about purchasing his vehicle....
Not always the case, but I believe that a person's appearance indicated how he takes care of the rest of his like... cars included.
BTW I finally plunked down the couple hundred bucks to have the carb rebuilt... I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. The truck ran like a champ after that. Just one flick of the key and it would start and it ran smoother than my '01 S-10 does now. I guess I was just a poor high school student with better things to spend his hard earned money on.
I was at a "T" intersection patrolled by a stoplight. East-West bound make the cross, North/Sound make the leg. I was headed east bound and I came up the the light and needed to make a left to head north. As I come up the light it changes to Yellow. I stop, but there is a car in front of me sitting in the intersection waiting to turn. Because traffic is so heavy he is still waiting when the light turned yellow. Now as the light is turning yellow I witness two Semi's one pulling a trailer, the other was a garbage truck or some other large vehicle several yards away from the intersection. Both were far enough away from the intersection to stop. The garbage truck does stop, the Semi although he could have stopped, barrells through the intersection on a SOLID red nearly clipping the car trying to turn left that is still stuck in the intersection. Then once the Semi is past, the car again trys to finish his turn, a Dodge Ram truck blows the same light. By this time the light had been red for a good 3-4 seconds. The car in front of me finally is able to make his left hand turn, but nearly got creamed by a Semi and then a Dodge Ram doing so.
Now I am sitting at the light waiting my turn to turn left. The road I am on is 5 lanes. 2 going each way with one turn lane for those going left. Other areas in town have 2 left turn lanes, but this particular intersection didn't. A car pulls up to the light beside me on the left expecting to turn left. But in reality he was in the oncoming traffic's lane. When the light turn green he is right in the way of on coming traffic. A big tow truck pas he is going past hollers at him to let him know he isn't in the turn lane and is obstructing traffic. It takes a few moments for him to finally figure this out.... Me on the other hand had to wait for traffic to go around him so that I could make my left turn as he was causing traffic to back up in the intersection. I had pulled out into the middle of the intersection so as to make a quick dart once traffic had cleared. This guy in the oncoming traffic's lane was behind me.
In Section 28-701 E it states:
A person shall not drive a motor vehicle at a speed that is less than the speed that is reasonable and prudent under existing conditions.
I take this to mean that it is also illegal to drive under the speed limit and that you can be ticketed for it. I also take it to mean that you might also be pulled over and possibly ticketed, but most likely warned if you happen to to be going the speed limit, but the flow of traffic is much faster (as is common on Phoenix freeways) therefore if you insist on going the speed limit, you may well indeed be hindering traffic.
A. The driver of a motor vehicle traveling on a downgrade shall not coast with the gears of the vehicle in neutral.
B. The driver of a commercial motor vehicle traveling on a downgrade shall not coast with the clutch disengaged.
How many of us have done this to "save" gas???
My wife and I were at the airport after a very long flight with a cranky baby that had managed to not only fuss the entire 2 hour flight, but had also managed to rid her stomach of everything that was in it 30 minutes into the flight. She got rid of it all over her daddy (me) and the seats and herself. So needless to say it was not a very enjoyable flight.
Anyway, we are at the curb waiting for my sister to pick us up and we are the only ones at the curb. I watch 3 other cars pull in and stop. They just sit there waiting for some imaginary people to appear. Now I know they are waiting for someone to fly in, but at the current moment they are blocking any and all possible places for my ride to pull in. I don't fret as maybe the people they are waiting for will come before my ride does. Also I could have moved to a more empty spot, but I am toting 5 suitcases, a baby, baby stroller and a big box. Not wanting to move all this to another spot in the curb I just wait and hope that the cars will move.
Well my sister shows up to pick us up and we are the only ones at the curb, but yet there are 5 cars sitting were my sister needs to pull in and park. I look up and down the curb. There is no where for her to pull in, but yet if the cars that are at the curb would pull forward just a few feet, there would be room. So knock on the window of the car in front to ask her to move forward and she ignores me. The other 2 cars could see my plight and inch forward as much as possible. The car in front which has about 10 yards in front of her moves forward about a foot. She gives me this helpless look like "if I pull forward any more I can't get out...."
I am at the end of my rope... The last thing I wanted to deal with was a moronic driver who refused to be courteous enough to help a poor frazzled dad. Frustrated, my sister just pulled in with the front of her car poking out into the main travel lanes of the terminal. I threw the stuff into the car and within less than a minute we on our way. But still it was aggravating that the woman wouldn't oblige.... She was just sitting there! And her party hadn't even come out yet. The airport is fairly easy to navigate and when I pick someone up, I usually just circumnavigate the airport until they do come out, or plan my trip so that I arrive at the airport with-in minutes of my party arriving. But this car just sat there oblivious to those that were waiting and needed to load up!
Anyway - there's my gripe.
and if he thought you were serious he needs help... or maybe he is beyond help ?
Currently living in Phoenix Az and I am able to go 70 MPH in most areas of the freeways with out problems. In the most central part of Phoenix the SL drops to 55, but still the flow of traffic carries at 70 during non-rush hour times. During rush hour of course all bets are off and you might as well walk for how fast you end up going.
Anyway, getting ready to move to Southern Oregon and the MAXIMUM speed limit is 65 outside of town compared to AZ's 75 (where I can go 80 MPH safely) and 55 through town. When I was there visiting I noticed that traffic does indeed drive much slower and I had to be really careful not to go faster than the flow of traffic which was much slower than I am used to. I caught my self going 80 outside of town and I was flying by every car on the road. I can just see myself now trying to explain myself to a trooper that I am used to much faster speeds and that the SL is too low...