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mariooncrack posted:I'm pretty sure he's pissed I'm going that slow. He continues following behind me for a few miles into the road splits into multiple lanes. I took the left lane You're the rear end in a top hat.
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PCOS Bill posted:You're the rear end in a top hat.
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Feb 16, 2015 00:39
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I probably should have clarified, the road goes from a two lane to a four lane with a turning lane in between. It basically goes from residential to commercial, with a giant mall to the left, and I needed to stay in the left lane so I could go straight at the next intersection.
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Feb 16, 2015 00:56
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sleepy.eyes posted:Can't stand people how come to a 4 way stop and don't move even when their turn comes around. Makes the other people confused and fucks up the whole flow because no one knows if this idiot is going to just lurch into motion with no warning. Sometimes, yeah, but given how people drive, like in the video above at 10:50, the Subaru's vision was probably obstructed and so driving out with nary a care in the world is just asking for an accident, even if it's that person's turn.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:21
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mariooncrack posted:He drives a lifted Chevy truck with a million different stickers like "YANKEE LAKE TRUCK NIGHT" Are you in eastern Ohio/western PA or have those windshield banners migrated elsewhere?
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Feb 16, 2015 03:44
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Geoj posted:Are you in eastern Ohio/western PA or have those windshield banners migrated elsewhere? Cleveland area
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Saw a new bumper sticker in the parking lot the other day that made me irrationally angry. Couldn't get a pic because owner was in the car. Bumper sticker said: "Expectant Mother OnBoard" gently caress you and your spawn.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:15
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Here's a good one I saw today. Bald tires (all four were the same) and a very very lovely block lift you can kind of see. I ended up behind him in traffic and you bet that it didn't go down the road straight, it was actually scary.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:31
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Solar Coaster posted:Saw a new bumper sticker in the parking lot the other day that made me irrationally angry. Couldn't get a pic because owner was in the car. Irrational indeed. Drivers of parked cars are so dangerous!
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Feb 17, 2015 00:44
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It's 02:30 visibility is less than 30m due to heavy fog, and three loving idiots decide that they have to blind me by flashing their high beams at me because I have turned off the low beams and am just using fog lights. Thanks fuckers, that's what I needed in such poor visibility, 110W of halogen to the face to ruin my nightvision.
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Feb 17, 2015 03:20
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Solar Coaster posted:Saw a new bumper sticker in the parking lot the other day that made me irrationally angry. Couldn't get a pic because owner was in the car. I don't get it, were they parking in a handicapped spot or something? All bumper stickers may be a sign of stupidity but I feel like I'm missing a story here.
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Feb 17, 2015 03:29
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I don't get it, were they parking in a handicapped spot or something? All bumper stickers may be a sign of stupidity but I feel like I'm missing a story here. Its an extra layer of terrible on top of the "baby on board" placards, which in my experience are little more than a warning that the vehicle is being operated by an rear end in a top hat driver with an entitlement complex. Because, you know, I was going to run you off the road but since you have a baby in the car (or are expecting one) I'll pass and go commit vehicular manslaughter elsewhere 
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Feb 17, 2015 04:35
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Geoj posted:Its an extra layer of terrible on top of the "baby on board" placards, which in my experience are little more than "warning - rear end in a top hat driver with entitlement complex operating this vehicle" notifications. At least with "baby on board" you could make the argument that it lets surrounding motorists know that the driver may be running on little sleep and may, at any time, be distracted by a screaming, making GBS threads infant in their vehicle (of course, you're right that it's usually just entitlement). "Expectant mother on board" is a whole 'nother level of insufferable.
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Today, while heading up the hill out of town, I was passed by two cars going in the other direction. There were more than those two, but they stood out because they were going 50mph downhill around a curve, each one with a guy sitting on the passenger windowsill with his legs in the car. Is this a ｎｅｗ ｔｅｅｎ ｆａｄ or something? atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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I came incredibly close to nailing a road construction worker today. . . There has been construction on K-96 since last October or longer, the highway part has been done for about a month or two but they haven't opened the new ramps so all through January the highway is esseintally 100% open just minus the offramp. I got to 50MPH at the end of the onramp and I suddenly saw a lone pickup parked in the far left lane with a big flashing "move left" arrow - wtf? There were no cones around this vehicle but suddenly one of the two inbred road workers decided to start strolling across the lanes of traffic as I was barreling down on him at 50MPH. This particular stretch of K-96 sees an average of 10,000 cars per day, it's Monday on presidents day, I am the only car on the road for miles, and some dumb rear end chooses use his orange vest of authority to jaywalk in front of my car going 50MPH with no warning. I had my ABS going the entire time, my wife was screaming, I was screaming, the orange vested idiot just kept walking closer and closer into my lane. . . I normally don't hate road workers but gently caress that guy, hard. I also spotted a customer at a gas station just completely failing at life. It started with a 90s era Plymouth minivan (without the awesome wood panels) and an obese individual in pajama pants filling up with gas. This individual chose to stand right beside the pump with their car running, cigarette burning, cell phone attached to face, and screaming poo poo at kids every 30 seconds. God bless America, I have never felt so depressed in my life.
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Today it was raining. People had on their hazard lights. I don't understand why.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Today it was raining. People had on their hazard lights. I don't understand why. Scary sky water! 
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This may be the greatest thing I have ever seen.
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When you show up late to the auction, you get what you get.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Today it was raining. People had on their hazard lights. I don't understand why. The first moron sees someone who has them on accidentally and thinks, Should these be on? poo poo I don't remember, better safe than sorry. And the next one goes, wow, two people have them on, better safe than sorry. Et cetera.
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wayfinder posted:The first moron sees someone who has them on accidentally and thinks, Should these be on? poo poo I don't remember, better safe than sorry. And the next one goes, wow, two people have them on, better safe than sorry. Et cetera. I see this with people who fold their windshield wipers up in order to prevent them from freezing to the windshield. People just start mimicking the first person like they have a better weather report. Eventually, half a parking lot of sheep have their wipers up when there is no chance of freezing.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Today it was raining. People had on their hazard lights. I don't understand why. Bad weather and people who have their cars loaded in a very unsafe way that should not be on the road. Driving with hazards on, when not a truck going slow, generally says "I'm a giant loving moron". CharlieWhiskey posted:I see this with people who fold their windshield wipers up in order to prevent them from freezing to the windshield. People just start mimicking the first person like they have a better weather report. Eventually, half a parking lot of sheep have their wipers up when there is no chance of freezing. I'm going to try this in the middle of July.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Today it was raining. People had on their hazard lights. I don't understand why. At least they had some sort of lights turned on!
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I try to steer clear of people towing things in general. I feel like most trailers are not roadworthy. I was behind someone towing a small single-axle trailer and the brake wiring was backwards so when they turned on their left turn signal the right signal on the trailer flashed, and the right turn signal was burnt out  Or poo poo like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffg7J1Spc5c
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ijustam posted:I try to steer clear of people towing things in general. I feel like most trailers are not roadworthy. I was behind someone towing a small single-axle trailer and the brake wiring was backwards so when they turned on their left turn signal the right signal on the trailer flashed, and the right turn signal was burnt out Everyone I know hates how long I take to pack/tarp/strap loads in my truck box/trailer. Nothing I'm hauling will ever fly out like that video, though. Man.
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Siochain posted:Everyone I know hates how long I take to pack/tarp/strap loads in my truck box/trailer. Nothing I'm hauling will ever fly out like that video, though. Man. I had to go get a bunch of stuff from Home Depot and I took my father-in-law and his truck. Few sheets of drywall and some interior doors, that kind of big, billowy stuff, along with baseboard trim and some other smallish things. We go to tie everything down, and I'm throwing the twine over to him, he does something I can't see on his side, and throws it back. I keep knotting and securing and tightening and whatnot, expecting him to do the same. We get out of the parking lot and I get up to 25mph, when the whole load flaps up on his side. I immediately pull over. He's looped all the twine around the baseboard trim and tied it off to a gallon bucket of drywall mud. I used all the hard tiedown points in the bed. It suddenly struck me that the average person thinks that just tying stuff to stuff (or not at all) is an acceptable way of securing a load. When I asked him about it, he just said "looks like we can only go about 25mph the rest of the way home." Yeah, not so much. I redid the whole tiedown procedure (after moving 20' forward to get out of the fire ants) and proceeded home at normal speed (45 and 55mph limits). Putting on your flashers and going slow should not be a replacement for some incredibly basic knotwork.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I had to go get a bunch of stuff from Home Depot and I took my father-in-law and his truck. Few sheets of drywall and some interior doors, that kind of big, billowy stuff, along with baseboard trim and some other smallish things. I nearly rear-ended someone who followed this wonderful train of thought because they were going school-zone speed on a loving limited-access highway. I mean, you just don't expect to happen upon someone going a whole 50 km/h under the speed limit.
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The highway I commute on every day is 75mph. Atleast 3 times a week I pass someone either towing or hauling a bed full of poo poo with hazards on, doing 45-55. There is a service road the entire length of this highway, speed limit 55. 
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I have had countless buckets, trash cans and plastic bags come near or hit my car thanks to idiot work trucks who have no idea that securing the poo poo in your bed is a good idea. Even a shittily tied tarp will keep most of your contents under control.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I see this with people who fold their windshield wipers up in order to prevent them from freezing to the windshield. People just start mimicking the first person like they have a better weather report. Eventually, half a parking lot of sheep have their wipers up when there is no chance of freezing. My favorite thing is seeing people who park in the same heated garage as me flip their wipers up.
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NC got blitzed pretty badly with an ice storm last night. It started with a mix of sleet and freezing rain. I'm on my way home around 7, it's pitch dark and the precipitation is coming down pretty hard. I'm coming up to my exit and I get completely cut off by a CR-V with no taillights on. I angrily got over into the exit lane, pulled up alongside her, and notice she's just got her dim-rear end DRL's on, in this terrible weather, no taillight illumination, and she's yapping away on her cellphone. Oh, if only there was a cop in the vicinity...she'd have been dead meat.
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Last night there's a light dusting of snow coming down, it's settled a bit on undriven parts of the road but it's that light dusty stuff. I'm on the longest on-ramp in the city behind a guy in an Outback doing 5mph getting onto the highway which is completely empty. As I get within 10 car lengths of him he turns his hazard lights on and does some spazzoid Morse code with his brake lights. gently caress it. There was only an inch of snow on the paved, lane-wide shoulder (with rumble strips at the edge as a "don't drive here). Passed him as he laid on his horn and tried to jerk his wheel at me to cut me off and just spun tires. I don't know what was going through his mind but it was probably retarded.
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PCOS Bill posted:Last night there's a light dusting of snow coming down, it's settled a bit on undriven parts of the road but it's that light dusty stuff. I'm on the longest on-ramp in the city behind a guy in an Outback doing 5mph getting onto the highway which is completely empty. As I get within 10 car lengths of him he turns his hazard lights on and does some spazzoid Morse code with his brake lights. *drives super, super conservatively due to bad weather. What's that, someone is going to PASS me?! *performs incredibly dangerous maneuver
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We had 3" of snow last night, and the town was well prepared. When I left my house, the main roads were not but wet pavement. I still got stuck behind a tank commander doing 25 in a 45.
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FogHelmut posted:We had 3" of snow last night, and the town was well prepared. When I left my house, the main roads were not but wet pavement. I still got stuck behind a tank commander doing 25 in a 45. Literally my entire commute to the office today in lower CT was like that. 50mph max on I-95 when the roads are wet. And "wet" is being generous. What the gently caress people.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I had to go get a bunch of stuff from Home Depot and I took my father-in-law and his truck. Few sheets of drywall and some interior doors, that kind of big, billowy stuff, along with baseboard trim and some other smallish things. Hahah, I know so many people like this. Meanwhile my truck has at least 6 each of 500lb and 2000lb tiedown/ratchet straps, and a pair of 10,000lb ratchets as well. Along with bungee cords, paracord, twine, and 3 tarps. poo poo never escapes my truck and/or trailer.
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I saw some knucklehead in a generic commuter sedan leaving home depot a while ago. They had a 3x5 sheet of that 1/2" cementboard (fiberglass weave on both sides, concrete in between, it's basically drywall that doesn't turn into mud when exposed to water) stuff you use for shower enclosures and tile floor underlayment on the roof. No roof rack, just a beach towel to keep it from scratching the paint and a single piece of twine through the passenger compartment across the middle of the cementboard. They pulled out and everything was fine, but the road (rt20 in Auburn Mass) is a 40-50mph zone depending on where you are. The second they accelerated the front half of the cementboard started flapping up and down and beating their roof like an out of control LAPD officer. They ignored it for several miles (I followed at a safe distance since I was going that way and really wanted to know what would happen) until it finally broke in half and both halves slid down the rear windscreen and trunk lid, scratching the hell out of it. Idiot tax: paid. Hope the bodywork was worth not even getting your cementboard home, dumbass.
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