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Topic: People who can't drive
started by: Chrissy

Posted by Chrissy 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

Posted by Sithiee on Oct. 17 2000,00:39

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!

Posted by dido 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 by Vigilante 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.

Posted by j0eSmith 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 by Blain 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 by kuru 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 by j0eSmith 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 by askheaves 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.

Posted by Chrissy 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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Posted by Greasemonk on Oct. 17 2000,10:22

Dont forget the minivan/stationwagon drivers. I have a Monte Carlo SS and you wouldnt believe the idiots that are behind me, go around, get in front of me, then slow down. Im like WTF??? So many people do this in my area everytime someone gets in the other lane and passes me I get right behind them and they ALWAYS get back over in the other lane. Half of these are either minivans/stationwagons or some import trooper. One guy did it one time and he was accelerating so fast his engine started to smoke and he pulled over. Its weird, its like people in minivans are pissed because they have one and think its got a ferrari engine in it. No matter how much most of them try to catch up to me and just never get there.

Then you got the homies in the Yo-Carts. Either its a mustang, celica, civic, or accord with something like LUNATIC or PHAT in big letters on the back windshield with the tailpipe as big around as a softball. I guess they think the big tailpipe makes their car soo fast. All it does is mess with the air flow in your engine. I dont care how many 16 y/os you get because of the ghetto car its not cool. I had one guy with tinted windows in mazda with LUNATIC on the back windshield the other day get himself boxed in behind the car that was next to me. He Vrrrooomed all the way down this one parkway like I was supposed to speed up and let him by because he has a LUNATIC sticker on his window?? No matter how hard teenagers try to be ghetto in my area its never going to happen. People ignore them for the most part and half of those people are their own parents. The only ones who care what the do are the cops and maybe thier parents after they get into trouble. Its not like D.C. in my area, people will actually stand up and defend the community instead of hiding and being scared 24 hours a day.

Posted by Sithiee on Oct. 17 2000,21:10

heh, yeah, i know what you mean (i live near DC though, so stfu) but theres all these people with their "ghetto-mobiles" who have shit painted all over their cars, and its sposed to be cool, but it just looks dumb. less is more. my friend robert's one tiny sticker makes his van far cooler than any of those other shit cars, simply because it says "The Official Pimp-Mobile"...

Posted by jrh1406 on Oct. 17 2000,23:53

Hey i have a station wagon and it rocks

although i won't slam on the brakes after passing you, if i pass you i'll keep going that fast or faster.

My favorite are the people up here (rochester NY) who think that they have to come to a complete stop to turn onto another street.

Posted by Greasemonk on Oct. 18 2000,11:07

Shoot I dont think alot of people in this country even have licenses or they are driving on suspended ones. Too bad there isnt a Nextel code to reach cops in the area you are driving in. This morning a guy was cutting in front of people passing over 2 solid lines. I would love to just get in touch with a cop and have him nail the guy instantly. The funny thing was he was driving a Mercury Sable LS!! Im suprised he was even able to get past people in that thing. Whats the funniest or ugliest car you have seen someone drive crazy in?

Posted by Wolfguard on Oct. 18 2000,12:03

The problem is this, most people are fucknuggets behind the wheel. I have a 89 ford bronco that i swear has a stealth mode that i cant turn off. I get cut off all the time. Im fixing that soon. Im taking what i learned from building combat robots and im building one of those 4x4 bumpers out of carbon steel and im going to stop using the breaks. Im mounting a vidio camera on the dash so when i comes time to go to court i can show that the fucknugget cut me off and i did not have time to react before i turned his little car into a speed bump. I have had enough of these idiots. Im defending my self. The best defense is a good offence.

So im guessing i agree with you all.

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Posted by Chrissy on Oct. 18 2000,17:29

Upstate/western New York drivers are THE WORST drivers in the united states I tell you. And anyone who disagrees should come here and check it out.
I have a 92 Hyundai Sonata which I have named Ghettoette (because its so ghetto it hurts me to drive it) but I am aware of my car's capabilities (or lack thereof) on major road ways. Seems to me that people in this area (albany remember) don;t have a damn clue how to drive their cars.
You know its amazing but I think the mandatory road test for driving in New York state should be harder...then maybe people who really cant drive wont have a licence and there for there will be no need to rant about them....

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Posted by Sithiee on Oct. 19 2000,05:14

yeah, i like that, get a video camera, with a feed to a tape recorder in your car, and have it record people breaking the law around you...dude, i would bust so many fuckers who cant drive right...

Posted by Willy Pete on Oct. 19 2000,07:50

Don't know if the law varies from place to place, but normally due to the fact that comps aren't omnipresent, the average citizen can make a complaint about a vehicle and it's driver. Normally your local DMV or wharever the local authority is where yuo stay will make a record of you complaint. It takes about three complaints before they get points on their license or a letter in the mail. Remember, citizens do have limited rights to enforce the law. PS: that doesn't include shooting the mofos.

Posted by Greasemonk on Oct. 19 2000,11:24

Thats another thing. I wonder how many people have a firearm in their vehicles at all times. We had a guy up here try to commit suicide while driving down the highway. Why couldnt he just do it at his home instead of blasting your brains out in heavy traffic??? Too bad there isnt a device that detects weapons within about 20 feet. I think alot of the cops in my area would be on guard next time a ghetto wannabe drove by.

Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Oct. 19 2000,12:19

in a Powerspec x90. It looks like a 2 seater geo tracker. Fucker had all 1.3 liters of that thing pumping, as he pass 2 cars and a cop over a double yellow. dumbass

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Posted by j0eSmith on Oct. 19 2000,22:47

1.3 Litres?!!

LMAO! I would die before I bought something as gutless as that.. never ever unless faced with DIRE circumstances would I drive/own a 4 cylinder vehical.

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Posted by Sithiee on Oct. 19 2000,23:41

Willy Pete, that wouldnt work, because what if you didnt like someone and you got lots of people to compain about them? chances are for a citizen to do that, there has to be some sort of swearing in hearing and such...but actually, my sister got complained about by some asshole who was like stalking her. the police just sent her a letter that said basically "we dont know if this happened for real(speeding) or not, if it did please dont do it anymore."

Posted by nobody on Oct. 19 2000,23:41

quote:
Originally posted by Greasemonk:
We had a guy up here try to commit suicide while driving down the highway. Why couldnt he just do it at his home instead of blasting your brains out in heavy traffic???

A few months ago, we had a guy succeed. He was driving down I-66 at 80 mph in the left lane and shot himself in the head WHILE DRIVING. It was reported to 911 as a car accident though, and the medics were confused when they got there because his car was barely scratched but his head was all fucked up. They didn't figure out until a bit later that he had shot himself.

Posted by j0eSmith on Oct. 20 2000,02:23

You think thats bad? We had a guy up here try to kill himself by crashing into other cars on the highway. He finally did, lopped off the top of his skull, but other than that was fine, doctors sewed it back on and away he went.. other car was okay as well.

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When my flying days are over, and my death has come to pass
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Posted by Sithiee on Oct. 20 2000,08:15

how the hell do you lop off the top of your skull??

Posted by Bozeman on Oct. 20 2000,09:56

"I ordered this sandwitch SLICED! ...... OW!" -Kirk VanHouten, The Simpsons

Posted by DuSTman on Oct. 20 2000,10:41

quote:
Originally posted by Sithiee:
how the hell do you lop off the top of your skull??

Reminds me of a story i heard once.

Someone was in an exam that their future career really depended on, and thought they were doing really badly, so they sharpened two pencils, stuck one up each nostril, and banged their head against the desk until dead.

c00l.

Posted by j0eSmith on Oct. 21 2000,05:31

quote:
Originally posted by Sithiee:
how the hell do you lop off the top of your skull??

I'm actully not sure but I think he nailed his forehead on the steeringwheel and it pulled the top of his skull off, leaving the brain exposed but undamaged. When the paramedics got there they though for sure he was a goner. But since we was still breathing set the top back in place, wrapped bandage around the top and under the chin and rushed him to hospital, and from there was medivac'd to Vancouver General.

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When my flying days are over, and my death has come to pass
I hope they bury me upside down, so the whole damn world can kiss my ass