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Chrissy

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,00:24

Ok- I know that everyone here has had to deal with this in some way or other since they started to drive (and if you don't drive well then I'm sure you've at least been in a car with a frustrated driver)
I live in Queens New York (which for those of you who don't know is one of the five boroughs of New York) and Ive been driving since I was 16 (which is 6 years). 4 years ago I started to attend school in Albany (which is three + hours North of New York City)but I didn't take my car up here because well lets face it I hate to drive. Now seeing as I've lived in the city my entire life (22 years for those of you who didnt do the math before)and I guess due to the stress and strain of city life I have become accustomed to the way people drive there. People who drive in new york city are not nice but when they have to get some place they go. When the light turns green the foot is on the gas or the guy behind you has his hand on his horn honking at you. They wait for no one and I have learned to be an impatient driver because of it. But true as that is I mostly take the subway because its easier to get around and I hate city drivers.
Recently I brought my car upstate to Albany because it became a necessity (job, food, school etc) I just couldn't go a semester without it. I realised that the drivers here SUCK worse then city drivers. Tell me who in their right mind STOPS for green lights? And if you are making a turn why cant you put your directional on? Is it so difficult? It seems to me that people in albany are in no rush to get any place and they dont care if you have some place you have to go they are going to make you wait. Well I always have my hand on the horn and the other day someone flipped me off. I was about to get out of the car and go up to them and ask if they knew the difference between a green light and a red one.
I guess what i am trying to say is PEOPLE WHO CAN'T DRIVE SHOULD STAY OFF THE ROAD. I mean I understand that I'm a little impatient when it comes to shit like this but I have class to attend and work to get to and I don't have time to be waiting an extra 3 mins for the light to go green just because you don't know the difference between your gas petal and your brake....
*sigh* ok that feels better..
feel free to comment

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This message has been edited by Chrissy on October 16, 2000 at 07:26 PM

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,00:39

Skip to the previous post in this topic.

i agree completely. i like to accelerate in my car. i do my best not to speed, cause i dont like to speed, but i accelerate like a little bitch. i hate it when im not the first in line at a light, cause no one else seems to understand the importance of good acceleration. when the light goes, pedal to the metal dammit! no car should take more than 3 seconds to start going, and even then thats a fucking long time. i could be across the intersection already!! that why i love going on the highway/freeway at unbusy times. im so mean to my car, the otherday i was going 25 in first, then 40 in second, but its so much fun.

to sum this up, i agree!

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,01:08

I think the biggest problem is small towns. I live in a small town and I think we have more then our fair share of asshole drivers here. But the thing is when there are less cars on the road its easier to notice bad drivers. So really there probably aren't any more bad drivers then in a city they are just easier to spot with less people around.

However that said, people out side of the city do tend to take a laid back approach to driving. I will drive down my street (rural street) which is posted at 80km/h and there will be 4 or 5 cars in front of me poking along at 50km/h!!!! WFT is that??? If the speed limit is 80 do 80 for christ sakes! That irritates me to no end!!

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,01:22

Hmm. I personally despise driving, because it's so much stress dealing with the psychotic impatient nutballs running up your tailgate and cutting you off.

When I'm behind the wheel, I'm going to take my damn time and keep myself safe. I really don't give a shit whether I inconvenience anyone else, as long as I get myself where I'm going in one un-dented piece.

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,01:26

dido, I live in a small town as well, I feel your pain. I've been cut off by the damn mayor a few times even.. asshole. People out here cannot fucking drive. Its really bad sometimes. If you can't do at least 80 on a gravel road I don't respect your skills as a driver. (If you live out here that is). I'm quiet sure I would suck ass in city traffic, but theres not much I can do to change that right now is there? 'course if anyone from a large city came out here I would just leave them in the dust

so anyways.. what was this all about.. oh right, bad drivers. Get them off the roads.

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,02:25

80 mph or 80 kph? I have done 80 mph on a gravel road and i wouldn't recomend it to anybody. On the other hand if you can't drive 80 kph on a dirt road without crashing you need to be drug out into the street and shot

On the subject of dirt roads, aren't they fun? weeeeeeeeeee fishtail!!!

Now i drive in a small city (about 120,000) and i have a small case of ROAD RAGE. I swear to god, i want to buy a shitty hick-mobile so that when some fucker almost hits me I can just give him a little nudge to let him know what i think. This could also be used to remind people the importance of using a turnsignal, or turning it off after use...(I know, I know; whole other rant)

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,02:34

to even begin to be frustrated with asshole drivers to the level i have become accustomed to, do it for a living for a while.

sit behind the wheel of a small, cramped, barely air conditioned car nine hours a day, five days a week for the four months of late spring and summer. feel the heat in the car reach temperatures hot enough to cook your lunch on the dash board, deal with people who cut you off, nowhere to go to the bathroom, lack of turn signals, people driving with cell phones and not paying attention, and all the other unpleasantries of driving......and then add to it the fact that you're in a car marked with the logo of the most hated government office. the department of transportation. spend most of your 9 hours of driving a day in various construction zones and other work areas where the speed limit is no more than 20 mph and drivers are increasingly frustrated, hurried, and blame you entirely for the fact that they can't get to their manicure appointment 30 minutes early.

try it sometime. it'll make you BEG for your average trip into and around the city.

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,03:02

kuru, look on the bright side, at the your car doesn't say IRS on the side

Blain: Yeah, 80kph, sorry. I have a lot of experiance on gravel roads/logging roads. Been driving on them since I was 12. Trust me logging roads are not your average gravel road. And hell yeah fishtailing rules, in my little truck I can just cruise down gravel.

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,03:40

I live in Tucson, AZ. Let me tell you about Tucson, AZ. Everybody here is either a Mexican, moved here from Wisconsin, or is 95 fucking years old and moved here because they would freeze to death if they stayed in Minnesota.
Nobody needs to be anywhere, it seems. I took lunch to go to an eye appointment a couple of weeks ago. I swear to god: the biggest street in Tucson (Oracle), 40mph speed limit, and there were honestly people driving 25mph and not accelerating... WITH NOBODY IN FRONT OF THEM! Not just one... ALL OF THEM!!! My god! It's like everybody in this town is trying to find an address.

I lived in Minnesota and Milwaukee so far in this lifetime. Milwaukee has so many beater cars, that you drive very defensively. Minnesota is full of the most curtious people in the world, so watch for the person in front of you slamming the breaks to let someone merge.

I don't think you can escape them. Driving has become a right in this country, and far be it from anyone else to take away my license just because Discount Insurance isn't even willing to cover me.

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Chrissy

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Posted on: Oct. 17 2000,04:42

I've driven in Arizona- my sister lives on the base at Ft Huachuca and it is true that people there don't have a care in the world. And its worse the further south you get. Ive driven in Phoenix and Tucson both and neither are as bad as Cohise county (you should take a trip down there one time ask)

I dont think I would mind so much if I thought the people here were being defensive in their driving skills. But I know this to be otherwise. They just don't give a fuck if there is someone behind them- its like the motto is "Make'em wait" and its really getting to me. So much that now instead of driving myself to certain places I just take the bus even though its less convient and cost a bucs it saves me from going completely and totaly fucking NUTS.

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