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Why not just give people a ride to their spot? You guys are just so nasty to strangers over nothing.
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May 9, 2014 02:53
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When parked in the closest spot at the store, I've had people wait so close behind me I had to honk at them to back up so I could actually leave the space... when literally the next spot is empty.  I make sure and rev my motor real high a few times, then back out as sloooowly as possible, making sure to stop and check for pedestrians several times along the way.
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May 9, 2014 02:59
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Fun drive home. I'm within like 2 minutes of my house. Dude in a Cadillac is riding my rear end, finally gets his chance to pass and floors it past me. Doesn't get very far, cuts me off when he gets to his turn. Cool, I guess. Honk at him, of course, continue on my merry way. I come flying up on a cop's rear end - keep in mind I'm only going 5 over the limit, and he was going way under, but he's in the lane I gotta be in for my turn. I don't really know why he was going slow - the last turn onto the road was the one the Cadillac went down, and that was a solid 700 yards back. But I signal, and a second after I signal, he does too. Weird, I guess, but alright. We turn, and the turn into my neighborhood is right after this turn. So the cop almost cuts me off as soon as I signal and get into the turn lane for that, gets in front of me, turns in front of me, then makes a U-turn out of my neighborhood. Cops are weird. I guess that's part of the joy of owning a red Honda in a neighborhood full of riceburners.
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May 9, 2014 04:51
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GramCracker posted:"Hay guise! I found a spot!" Oh hay guise I saw one of those today too!  Owner was saying it took off into the store when she was trying to park.  This was taken after she backed it halfway out.
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May 9, 2014 05:04
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Well at least she didn't hit the nail salon! You know you're gonna need a full manicure after an airbag goes off on you. fake Edit: Looks like she can even get new glasses and a change of pants at that stripmall too! It's her lucky day. 
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May 9, 2014 05:14
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xzzy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNA5Yn1MqCQ The person driving the car beside the sinkhole opening up was remarkably polite considering. I'd probably have been pushing that other car out of the way with mine in a panic.
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May 9, 2014 05:27
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SocketSeven posted:Well at least she didn't hit the nail salon! You know you're gonna need a full manicure after an airbag goes off on you.  There's a dollar store at the other end of the strip mall... which also has clothing.Also an AAA office that offers auto insurance. And a police station across the street. 
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May 9, 2014 06:16
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xzzy posted:Well, huh. Yea, I'm pretty sure I'd need new pants.
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May 9, 2014 16:14
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subx posted:Yea, I'm pretty sure I'd need new pants. Apparently the russian term for someone who calmly deals with road emergencies (e.g. sliding his lada around a crashing lorry, not falling into a hole while staying cool) is "concrete anus".
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May 10, 2014 01:36
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some texas redneck posted:Owner was saying it took off into the store It's a good thing it was a Toyota, otherwise it'd be the driver's fault!
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May 10, 2014 01:50
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I had to deal with morons a-plenty today. Stopped at a red light- 2 lanes, one for going straight, or making a left turn, and one for right turn only. I'm like fifth in line, light goes green, and the guy 2 cars ahead of me stops to wait for an opening for a left. (I'll digress at this point to say that this light really needs a protected left cycle, but that's neither here nor there.) Just as he's turning, jackass in a pickup truck shoots through the right turn only lane, and jumps the line to go straight. Jackass one, to his credit, floored it through the intersection, and got through with no problem. The issue was jackass two, who tried to do the same thing, but started his move after the left-turning car had cleared the lane, and he had to jam on the brakes to avoid going onto the grass because there was no way to get around me. Group 'o idiots #2 came on I-81 crossing the PA border into NY. They are doing all sorts of (needed) roadwork on that stretch (The Prospect Mountain/Kamakaze Curve work, for those in the area), and just before the border, they are doing some other work as well, so the left lane is closed for probably a good mile and a half to two miles. The "Left Lane Closed Ahead" signs give you a half mile warning to get over, and it took me probably 15 minutes to travel a mile today, because car after car after car after car could not bear the thought of either a- getting over into the right lane when there was an opening, or b- backing off just a touch to let the left lane in. I saw some moron get out of the right lane into the left lane, which was just as bumper-to-bumper as the right lane, and, oh, by the way, was closing 100 feet ahead of where he was. Dipshit the third was the guy who did not quite have the wherewithal to pass me, as I was doing 60 in a 55 at 11 at night, but had no problem leaving his high-beams on while he was 4 or 5 lengths behind me, with no good place for me to pull over and let him by.
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May 10, 2014 05:30
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Kwik posted:Dipshit the third was the guy who did not quite have the wherewithal to pass me, as I was doing 60 in a 55 at 11 at night, but had no problem leaving his high-beams on while he was 4 or 5 lengths behind me, with no good place for me to pull over and let him by. Do you have electric mirrors with memory? Save your actual mirror position, then save a "bounces light from badly maladjusted hidzzzz back into captain cockstain's face". You'll need to adjust it for different vehicle types (civic vs. lifted Hilux). Presto.
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May 10, 2014 08:28
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Had yet another fuckface go left in the roundabout in the shopping center near my house. I'm not at all ashamed to have yelled at the motherfucker through my open window loud enough to hurt my throat after he almost hit me head-on. I made him reverse out of it.
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May 10, 2014 21:52
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A couple of nights ago, pulling into a gated residential area, I see headlights coming at me. Head on. In the far right lane. There's 3 entrance lanes into this area (2 for residents, 1 for guests - resident entry is far right and middle, guest is left). She sat there completely dumbfounded, wondering why the gates wouldn't open... and wondering why there were two lines of cars staring her down and flashing their lights/honking. See, the arms won't open if someone is sitting on the wrong side... even if the guard tries to hit the button to open, they won't open if they sense something big and metal sitting by the gate on the wrong side. She looked like she was a mix of pissed and confused. The guard finally walked up to her and said a version of "hey idiot, you're trying to exit through the entrance, and btw you passed 3 DO NOT ENTER/ONE WAY signs to get here, with floodlights on one set... which dumps you into a one way road that leads... to this entrance. I've been trying to point you to the exit gate for a few minutes now. THINK YOU COULD GO THROUGH THE CLEARLY MARKED EXIT?!" (also the guards know me/my car and always tell me to just pull up to the resident entry and wait - it's faster/easier for them [and me] for them to just open the gate when I do that, instead of going through the guest entry... according to the guards anyway)
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May 12, 2014 12:03
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Fun drive home. Sounds like the cop was perhaps running your license plate.
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May 12, 2014 15:41
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some texas redneck posted:A couple of nights ago, pulling into a gated residential area, I see headlights coming at me. Head on. In the far right lane. There's 3 entrance lanes into this area (2 for residents, 1 for guests - resident entry is far right and middle, guest is left). She sat there completely dumbfounded, wondering why the gates wouldn't open... and wondering why there were two lines of cars staring her down and flashing their lights/honking. See, the arms won't open if someone is sitting on the wrong side... even if the guard tries to hit the button to open, they won't open if they sense something big and metal sitting by the gate on the wrong side. Some loving moron on i495 up here killed one (hopefully themselves) and injured six others by driving the wrong way on the interstate just last night. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/05/11/multi-car-crash-shuts-495-south-in-plainville-after-wrong-way-driver-report/ http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/11/injury-reported-four-car-crash/hM26xQMjX5sxDPeFJfPbsM/story.html http://www.wcvb.com/news/multivehicle-crash-interstate-495-closed/25926486#!MIGGy Apparently one person was thrown from a vehicle. I'm betting that's the dead person... wear your goddamn seatbelts. kastein fucked around with this message at 17:53 on May 12, 2014 |
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May 12, 2014 17:50
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Hinges are hard guys.   They pulled into a Home Depot a couple blocks later. edit - hah I only just noticed what they did with the padlocks.
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May 12, 2014 18:42
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kastein posted:Some loving moron on i495 up here killed one (hopefully themselves) and injured six others by driving the wrong way on the interstate just last night. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/05/11/multi-car-crash-shuts-495-south-in-plainville-after-wrong-way-driver-report/ This poo poo happens all the time in New Mexico with all the drunks. I figure I can deal with lots of stuff on the interstate but wrong-way drivers are my biggest fear. The only advice I've heard of is "move to the right" since drunks and the elderly tend to stay on their right side of the road and will correct that way if they see someone coming at them, but what if they're drunk *and* an rear end in a top hat (redundant I guess)? They really should put spikes on off-ramps, I don't care how much it costs to maintain.
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May 13, 2014 02:43
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xzzy posted:Hinges are hard guys. The padlock thing is so that two people with two different keys can both open the truck. Granted, I think it's easier to copy a key but  Or they really are too cheap to order a single lock that will loop through both hasps.
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May 13, 2014 02:51
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:They really should put spikes on off-ramps, I don't care how much it costs to maintain. So long as you can disable them in emergency situations (contra flow comes to mind), that's a really badass idea.
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May 13, 2014 04:54
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kastein posted:Apparently one person was thrown from a vehicle. I'm betting that's the dead person... wear your goddamn seatbelts. Uhhh they were thrown free of the steel deathtrap they obviously survived uninjured. (I got into an argument about this with an old-timer/biker dude last week so this is still fresh in my mind)
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May 13, 2014 04:58
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Motorcycle riders are way worse than seatbelt people cause a lot of em tried things in the 80s and think that it's still the same now. Helmets, FI, ABS etc. Add on to that the general BS that weekend riders and bar riders spout loudly, and there's a whirlwind of poo poo information out there.
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May 13, 2014 05:26
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I see road rage applies to buses and big trucks too! (obviously not mine, spotted here)
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May 13, 2014 05:50
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Here's a dude I shared the road with. No hitting the profile or post history, guess the state if you don't already know.
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May 13, 2014 06:15
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nsaP posted:Here's a dude I shared the road with. I wanted to say Ontario, Canada but you said state not province.
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May 13, 2014 06:30
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nsaP posted:Here's a dude I shared the road with. Texas? Though I live in the Inland Empire in California (but basically we're western texas) and have seen a DUI: lawn tractor before.
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May 13, 2014 06:39
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Tennessee?
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May 13, 2014 06:45
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Oh and it might be tough to see, but he's got a cigarette going and headphones on. So really I'm just jealous he can smoke a cig. Sorery about saying 'state' Canadia, I should have said "location" but I thought these types were local to 'merica. nsaP fucked around with this message at 07:28 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 07:25
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Fine. Oklahoma then.
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May 13, 2014 07:28
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I'd have said southern Illinois/Kentucky but the mower's too nice/not covered in rust.
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May 13, 2014 09:05
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There are so many places in the US that look just like this.
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May 13, 2014 12:49
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revmoo posted:There are so many places in the US that look just like this. Yeah, that looks like it could be any rural location. Iowa has a ton of places that look just like that.
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May 13, 2014 13:14
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Lightbulb Out posted:Yeah, that looks like it could be any rural location. Iowa has a ton of places that look just like that. Hell it could even be New Jersey.
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May 13, 2014 14:43
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Yeah but given how green that tree is, I'd say it's in "the south" somewhere. Nowhere else is that far along into spring.
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May 13, 2014 14:57
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Yeah I can think of several dozen roads in my county that look exactly like that, old falling down barn and all.
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May 13, 2014 15:33
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nm posted:Texas? I just assume everything between IE and roughly New York City is 'Texas' to an inhabitant of either. Unless it's obvious urban decay in which case 'Detroit'
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May 13, 2014 15:37
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Judging from the barn, the flatness of the country visible, and the vegetation I'll say upper Midwest somewhere. Edit: I'm pretty sure you don't live in North Dakota but it would totally fit.
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May 13, 2014 16:22
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I was in Las Vegas over the weekend and I drove in from California for a car meet thingy. Let me tell you, I could not believe how terrible drivers are in Las Vegas. Its literally comical and makes SoCal drivers look like fighter pilots. I lost count the number of people on their cellphones texting, unable to maintain lane, sitting at lights as they turned green (probably texting), making insane/illegal lane changes, turning left or right from lanes not designated for it, etc. Apparently all the idiot drivers in the US immigrated to LV. Also, the cab drivers there are apparently some of the dumbest people/drivers I have ever seen.
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May 14, 2014 17:34
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revmoo posted:There are so many places in the US that look just like this. 'Merica. It's Kentucky.
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Vegas was the only place I've seen someone dragging a gas stations' pump hose behind their car with my own eyes.
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