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From: NJ
Originally posted by TexaStang@November 20, 2005, 6:43 PM
Keeping your liscense past a certain age should require driving tests.
Keeping your liscense past a certain age should require driving tests.
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Originally posted by adrenalin@November 20, 2005, 6:56 PM
The thing to remember, one of these days, you will be the old driver people complain about.
The thing to remember, one of these days, you will be the old driver people complain about.
I'm sure we will know better than cutting off people and drifting into their lanes. STANG PEOPLE ROCK!!!
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From: Boston, MA
Originally posted by Legion681@November 20, 2005, 7:56 PM
Come to MA and see how people drive here: I forecast that the Army will soon begin training their humvee drivers on these roads. Why? Besides the fact that we have potholes of planetary size, the average driver around here seems to be bent on some holy war against every other driver. For that, I feel it could be a good course for everyone that will have to go to Iraq and drive some vehicle there...
If you'd like to hear some horror stories from around here, I have plenty, just grab some popcorn and I will entertain you...
Jokes apart (I am not gonna write everything that happened to me...just one), here's one that I didn't appreciate at all:
It was a summer afternoon. I Live in a nice suburban area and I was coming home that day, so I was driving on this side street, all alone. I am about to get to an intersection where I have a stop sign and I get this strange feeling, paranormal style (you may laugh, but this is really what I felt), that something is about to happen. So, instead of stopping at the stop sign (where by the way I need to take a right turn), I stopped about two/three car lenghts away from it. At the same time, from the opposite traffic lane (where of course there is another stop sign for whoever is on that lane), there's a huge Chevrolet Avalanche, driven by a young kid, I would say 16 or 17, with a girl of the same age as a passenger.
At the same time from the road I need to take arrives a smaller white truck and I see that the kid in the white truck waves to the kid in the Avalanche (saying hi and then waving him to go) and what does the kid in the Avalanche do ? He puts a big smile on his face, stomps REAL HARD on the gas (that Avalanche leaped forward) and goes forward 1/4-mile acceleration style, while STILL looking at his buddy in the white truck, smiling like a moron. Unfortunately, the kid doesn't take into consideration that the road curves a bit and therefore he goes completely in the OPPOSITE lane where I am standing with my Mustang.
I horned immediately and at the LAST possible moment the kid was able to steer back into his lane. If I had been stopped at the stop sign, my car and myself would have been completely crushed by that monster of a truck driven by a stupid kid. All of this happened in a few seconds, but it wasn't a good moment.
I just wish I could have had a few words with that kid...what an idiot.
Come to MA and see how people drive here: I forecast that the Army will soon begin training their humvee drivers on these roads. Why? Besides the fact that we have potholes of planetary size, the average driver around here seems to be bent on some holy war against every other driver. For that, I feel it could be a good course for everyone that will have to go to Iraq and drive some vehicle there...
If you'd like to hear some horror stories from around here, I have plenty, just grab some popcorn and I will entertain you...
Jokes apart (I am not gonna write everything that happened to me...just one), here's one that I didn't appreciate at all:
It was a summer afternoon. I Live in a nice suburban area and I was coming home that day, so I was driving on this side street, all alone. I am about to get to an intersection where I have a stop sign and I get this strange feeling, paranormal style (you may laugh, but this is really what I felt), that something is about to happen. So, instead of stopping at the stop sign (where by the way I need to take a right turn), I stopped about two/three car lenghts away from it. At the same time, from the opposite traffic lane (where of course there is another stop sign for whoever is on that lane), there's a huge Chevrolet Avalanche, driven by a young kid, I would say 16 or 17, with a girl of the same age as a passenger.
At the same time from the road I need to take arrives a smaller white truck and I see that the kid in the white truck waves to the kid in the Avalanche (saying hi and then waving him to go) and what does the kid in the Avalanche do ? He puts a big smile on his face, stomps REAL HARD on the gas (that Avalanche leaped forward) and goes forward 1/4-mile acceleration style, while STILL looking at his buddy in the white truck, smiling like a moron. Unfortunately, the kid doesn't take into consideration that the road curves a bit and therefore he goes completely in the OPPOSITE lane where I am standing with my Mustang.
I horned immediately and at the LAST possible moment the kid was able to steer back into his lane. If I had been stopped at the stop sign, my car and myself would have been completely crushed by that monster of a truck driven by a stupid kid. All of this happened in a few seconds, but it wasn't a good moment.
I just wish I could have had a few words with that kid...what an idiot.
You're right tho' I've driven in many parts of the US. We have the market for on-road stupidity and outright aggresion pretty much cornered :notnice:
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