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Couple of incidents have happened, one of which can be at least partially attributed to my current city's "brilliant" decision to repair all of the roads. At once. Reducing 5 different highways and pretty much every single main road down to 1 lane. However....
Rollin... rollin.. rollin
First woman wasn't actually breaking any law, just apparently overly paranoid about her car. We hit a stretch of road where they've stripped off the upper layer, so the manholes are raised. I'm driving behind her, the speed limit is 40mph, but every time we come to one of these manholes she stops. Not slows, stops. full complete, could have shifted into park stop. She'd then accelerate to about 2mph while attempting, in this very very narrow roadway thanks to the orange cones, to navigate around it. I should note here that there's perhaps 4 inches of leeway. It doesn't work, and her wheel goes over. She passes this, and then goes onward. Me, with my much lower slung car, but little concern for something I can't avoid, move forward and don't even scrape, figuring, okay, that was silly but... then it happens again. and again. As it turns out there are 17 manholes along the street, and this repeated for each and every single time we encountered one.
You foolish fool with your foolery!
Second person got a nice little report to the police. there's an area by one of the major high schools that around certain times of the day gets lines of around 100 cars. Most people who have lived in the area a while learn to just avoid it, but for those of us dropping people off to that school, there's no way to avoid it. I am patiently dealing with the long line of 7 cars through the red light, stop, 7 cars... stop... when I'm finally within the next set. There is a turning area, but I'm still far back from it. The car behind me suddenly accelerates, drives into the oncoming lane of traffic, then realizes what they've done and slides back towards me, knocking their side view mirror against mine. Thankfully, the pt stands up better than her minivan, and her side view mirror is the one to get knocked off. Here's where she gets on my nerves. Rather than stopping, or trying to signal us to go somewhere safe, she accelerates again and zooms off down the side-street. So three things.
1. If you are going to do a hit and run, having a vanity license plate is probably not a good idea.
2. The damage was entirely to your car. I honestly wouldn't have cared so long as you had pulled over.
3. Accelerating to 50 in a 30 mph zone in the middle of a busy street with people going 16, yeah, the cops will be on you very quickly.
can you spell 'Darwin'
Driving back from a friend's house at 1 in the morning, it is pitch black because he lives in farm country, so there are no streetlights. My headlights pick out (thankfully before I hit them) a guy, on a bike, this bike has no lights (against the law here, I've seen people actually get arrested for it), no reflective strip and is matte black. He is wearing a black t-shirt, with camo shorts, and no helmet. He is on a cellphone, going the wrong way on the road, in the center of the road. WTF. Do you want to die, sir?
Rollin... rollin.. rollin
First woman wasn't actually breaking any law, just apparently overly paranoid about her car. We hit a stretch of road where they've stripped off the upper layer, so the manholes are raised. I'm driving behind her, the speed limit is 40mph, but every time we come to one of these manholes she stops. Not slows, stops. full complete, could have shifted into park stop. She'd then accelerate to about 2mph while attempting, in this very very narrow roadway thanks to the orange cones, to navigate around it. I should note here that there's perhaps 4 inches of leeway. It doesn't work, and her wheel goes over. She passes this, and then goes onward. Me, with my much lower slung car, but little concern for something I can't avoid, move forward and don't even scrape, figuring, okay, that was silly but... then it happens again. and again. As it turns out there are 17 manholes along the street, and this repeated for each and every single time we encountered one.
You foolish fool with your foolery!
Second person got a nice little report to the police. there's an area by one of the major high schools that around certain times of the day gets lines of around 100 cars. Most people who have lived in the area a while learn to just avoid it, but for those of us dropping people off to that school, there's no way to avoid it. I am patiently dealing with the long line of 7 cars through the red light, stop, 7 cars... stop... when I'm finally within the next set. There is a turning area, but I'm still far back from it. The car behind me suddenly accelerates, drives into the oncoming lane of traffic, then realizes what they've done and slides back towards me, knocking their side view mirror against mine. Thankfully, the pt stands up better than her minivan, and her side view mirror is the one to get knocked off. Here's where she gets on my nerves. Rather than stopping, or trying to signal us to go somewhere safe, she accelerates again and zooms off down the side-street. So three things.
1. If you are going to do a hit and run, having a vanity license plate is probably not a good idea.
2. The damage was entirely to your car. I honestly wouldn't have cared so long as you had pulled over.
3. Accelerating to 50 in a 30 mph zone in the middle of a busy street with people going 16, yeah, the cops will be on you very quickly.
can you spell 'Darwin'
Driving back from a friend's house at 1 in the morning, it is pitch black because he lives in farm country, so there are no streetlights. My headlights pick out (thankfully before I hit them) a guy, on a bike, this bike has no lights (against the law here, I've seen people actually get arrested for it), no reflective strip and is matte black. He is wearing a black t-shirt, with camo shorts, and no helmet. He is on a cellphone, going the wrong way on the road, in the center of the road. WTF. Do you want to die, sir?
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