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Posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
OK, it seems that there has been some confusion lately, so I'm going to try to clear this up, once and for all. I do this purely as a service to others.
1. If the garbage truck passes you on the right on the freeway, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE! Honest. Those signs saying things like "Slower Traffic Keep Right" really and truly do apply to you.
2. If you're driving exactly the speed limit in the fast lane because that's as fast as anyone can *legally* drive, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE. And you have an attitude problem.
3. If you are stopped at the beginning of an aisle in a parking lot, waiting for a space, don't be surprised when people want to go around you. In fact, it would be considered polite to wait to one side of the aisle, rather than smack dab in the middle where you block everyone else.
3A -- blocking the entire aisle is not polite because others really and truly do have the right to use the parking lot, too.
4. If you are waiting at the beginning of that parking lot aisle, and someone goes around you to take the empty space that was there all along just three spaces up from you -- the one that you apparently found too far away to bother with -- YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HONK AND SWEAR AT THEM. Period. End of discussion. If you had bothered to look for a space before stopping in the middle of the aisle and blocking traffic, you would have seen it. As well as the three other spaces beyond it. They weren't hiding.
4A -- No, you're not allowed to give that person dirty looks, either. Whoever took that space was apparently willing to walk a few feet farther than you were. It was your choice. Now you get to live with the consequences.
5. If you are looking for a parking space at the local Costco, and you see a middle aged woman struggling to load four large cases of bottled water into the trunk of her car, you are not allowed to honk at her to hurry up. Especially if you are a young man. Especially if you are a young man with the buffed arms of someone who works out a lot. Especially if you're blocking the aisle so that no one else can get by.
5A -- Hey! You want that space? Instead of the one three spaces away? And you want it now? Ask if you can help get that water into the trunk. I'll bet she'll let you help her. Might even say "Thank you."
5B -- If you are the middle aged woman, on getting those bottles into your trunk, you are allowed -- nay, encouraged -- to take your own sweet time finding a place to leave your shopping cart and starting your car.
6. If you are driving on the freeway, and you are talking on your cell phone, and you are not using a headset of some sort, and the telephone call is so engrossing that you speed up during the exciting parts, and then slow down again during the more mundane parts -- consider hiring a driver. Enough said.
7. On a dark, one lane highway in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, with heavy traffic, don't try to commit vehicular sodomy on the car in front of you to make it speed up. It's quite possible that the driver ahead of you is really and truly driving as fast as she can in those conditions. What's more, if she's driving the speed limit, you're fundamentally wrong to menace her.
8. No matter how bad your day was, it is Not OK to chase another car through freeway traffic with your high beams on just because the driver of that car tried to tell you that you had your high beams on. If you do this, you're just an @$$.
9. You'll get where you're going even if you're courteous to other drivers. Often, you'll get there feeling better about yourself and the world if you're courteous to other drivers. Some times, you won't get there at all if you're not courteous. Is it worth it to arrive six seconds sooner?
OK, I feel a bit better now. I'll sit quietly in the corner now...
Posted by Toph on November 4, 2005, at 20:53:45
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
LOL
Addendum-If you trade in your car you do not get a turn signal credit for unused blinks. Use them now, other drivers aren't psychic.
Posted by Susan47 on November 4, 2005, at 21:34:38
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
Posted by Phillipa on November 4, 2005, at 22:00:12
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant » Racer, posted by Toph on November 4, 2005, at 20:53:45
I agree. Very well said. Fondly, Phillipa
Posted by gardenergirl on November 4, 2005, at 22:43:31
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Phillipa on November 4, 2005, at 22:00:12
Great post!
'nother one....
You only get one lane. Seriously. And you don't get to take it out of the middle of two lanes.
And...you don't get to park at a slant, taking up two spots to protect your new pretty car. It's just not that pretty.
gg
Posted by fallsfall on November 4, 2005, at 22:58:21
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
:: bowing ::
Oh, wise one!
Posted by Tamar on November 4, 2005, at 23:20:16
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
Heck yeah!
I love the phrase "vehicular sodomy". I'm guessing that will be my two year-old's newest addition to her language skills sometime later this week... only she'll probably say it "vecalar dodomy".
Posted by Shortelise on November 5, 2005, at 12:56:09
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
Posted by Susan47 on November 5, 2005, at 12:56:18
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by gardenergirl on November 4, 2005, at 22:43:31
I've seen motorcyclists do this and it pisses me off royally, although there's just nothing you can do about it. It's extremely frightening to watch them pull this stuff. Because it's so dangerous for everyone, not just the idiot who's causing the hazard. This *sshole thinks that because his life has no value, neither has yours.
Have you seen people in Cars, do this? I try to tell my children to be alert to this type of behaviour and get the license number. But it always happens so quickly there's no time to get anything.
These people are *ssholes whether they know it or not.
Posted by gardenergirl on November 5, 2005, at 16:54:10
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant » gardenergirl, posted by Susan47 on November 5, 2005, at 12:56:18
Hmm, actually, I wasn't thinking about someone going in between two cars in the lanes. I was thinking about the person who makes me want to yell, "Pick a lane, buddy!" The ones who seem to be somewhere in between the two, versus completely in one or the other. Maybe they need the white line right underneath them to keep themselves going straight?
But yikes, yes I've seen motorcyclists do that, and at high speed. Without a helmet. Gives me quite a start, and then I get angry.
gg
Posted by sunny10 on November 7, 2005, at 8:10:44
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant » Susan47, posted by gardenergirl on November 5, 2005, at 16:54:10
and the one with the most expensive car does NOT own the road....
Posted by Larry Hoover on November 7, 2005, at 8:15:57
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by sunny10 on November 7, 2005, at 8:10:44
> and the one with the most expensive car does NOT own the road....
Actually, the guy with the least expensive car rules the road. Who's got more to lose?
Lar
Posted by ClearSkies on November 7, 2005, at 8:36:00
In reply to Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by Racer on November 4, 2005, at 20:40:17
This would make a great letter to the editor!
I bet Car And Driver would publish it :-)You are, once again, spot on.
CS
Posted by sunny10 on November 9, 2005, at 9:09:50
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant » Racer, posted by ClearSkies on November 7, 2005, at 8:36:00
or AAA would print it!!!
For Larry- maybe you're right, I should have said the the person driving the BIGGEST car/truck, doesn't own the road...
Posted by Susan47 on November 9, 2005, at 23:28:06
In reply to Re: Racer's Rules of the Road -- A Rant, posted by sunny10 on November 9, 2005, at 9:09:50
Okay, we're spoiled.
Have to say it, guys, but you ought to see the traffic here, if you think we have something to complain about. I read what I wrote just a short time ago about the motorcyclist dodging two lanes of traffic and I feel like laughing.
Try five vehicles abreast on a highway with no lanes. That's one direction. Then five in the other direction.
Motorcycles and scooters everywhere, no rules of the road at all. No helmets. Women riding sidesaddle on the back hanging on to literally nothing, so casually, sometimes with a child as young as two years in the lap of the driver (we're still talking motorbike/scooter BTW). Cars dodging pedestrians, bikes, each other. Horns honk constantly; horns serve as rule-makers and rule-breakers. There are no traffic lights. Driving is a matter of keeping all your wits about you at all times. The men who drive the scooters and motorbikes (most drivers are men, I think I've seen two females driving so far) have eyes that could bore holes into you with their attentiveness .. these people are on edge. Rightfully so.
Posted by Tamar on November 10, 2005, at 4:11:57
In reply to Indian Roads, posted by Susan47 on November 9, 2005, at 23:28:06
Susan, if you ever get bored with your current job, you could definitely become a travel writer!
Tamar
Posted by Susan47 on November 16, 2005, at 5:54:15
In reply to new job for Susan? » Susan47, posted by Tamar on November 10, 2005, at 4:11:57
as a writer, and I know it. Having been here just over a week and being absolutely speechless on what I've seen and experienced, I see how inept my words are. There is nothing that could have prepared me for this experience. And it goes on, and on, and on, and I sincerely want to be out of it. I'm having nightmares. But it's not about India, it's more about the dissolution of love.
India is a country fighting with itself, I think. Everywhere you see billboards, signs, and ads, that include the word "love", and it's so out of sync with the way these people live their lives. 95% of Indian marriages are still, apparently, arranged by the parents. Men still come from America to marry Indian women they've been bethrothed to since infancy ... and love seems to be not a passionate feeling, but one which grows out of familiarity and trust. So being here I'm realigning my feeling about love .. and really, you know, it's a nightmare.
My ex- is taking Microsoft certification here ... and most of his classmates, all men BTW from other European countries, drink and get drunk and play around with women, no matter how many years they've been with another partner, one man has four children and a wife and is having it off with a Russian girl ...
It doesn't matter. The only thing that seems to matter in this world is sex sex sex, especially to men. And there are a lot of women who are young and atttractive and will take advantage of that. And do. I'm having nightmares here.
Posted by sunny10 on November 16, 2005, at 9:12:28
In reply to Tamar, thanks but I'm terribly inadequate, posted by Susan47 on November 16, 2005, at 5:54:15
I can never get across what I mean to say... you do that beautifully!
Maybe love is supposed to be about familiarity, respect and trust. Perhaps lust is not love. It can be PART of love, but is not love in and of itself.
Try not to take the men's activities too much to heart. It's the same everywhere. But it doesn't mean that all men are that way. Some actually do love and respect their women and would never cheat on them. As usual, we see the bad becuase it's what is remarked upon. The good goes unnoticed. Just bear in mind that the good men do exist, even if we don't notice them.
big smooches, keep experiencing... we're all living vicariously through you!!!
mmmwwwaaahhh
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