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From: auzzi
Date: 04-18-2005, 08:04 AM (1 of 19)
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- Never trust signs that are there to provide directions. They are there to confuse people who don't know their way around the city. - It is traditional to blow your horn at cars that don't move the instant the light changes. - Traffic signals are just suggested guidelines. - Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding. - Always look both ways when running a red light. - The yellow light is not a signal to slow down. It is a warning to speed up and get through the intersection before the light turns red. - When in doubt, accelerate. - Speed limits are arbitrary figures posted only to make you feel guilty. - Never drive behind a person whose head doesn't reach the top of the steering wheel. - Taxi cabs always have the right of way, unless you are bent on suicide. - Learn to swerve abruptly. The city is the home of "slalom driving" - potholes are there to test reflexes and alertness. - The first parking space you see will be the last parking space you see. Grab it. - While it is possible to fit a small car into normal parking space, it is seldom possible to fit 4WD into a "small-car-only" parking space. Or anywhere else. - Double park in the CBD, unless triple parking is available. - Whenever possible, stop in the middle of a pedestrian-crossing to insure inconveniencing as many pedestrians as possible. - There is no such thing as a short cut during peak hour traffic. - Use extreme caution when pulling into breakdown lanes. Breakdown lanes are not for breaking down, but for speeding, especially during rush hour. - In changing lanes, employ the element of surprise. That is, do it as suddenly as possible, so as to stun other drivers. - Never use directional signals, since they only confound and distract other drivers, who are not used to them. - Similarly, never attempt to give hand signals - most drivers, unused to such courtesies, will think you are waving them on to pass you. - Never pass on the right when you can pass on the left. - Remember that the goal of every driver is to get there first by whatever means necessary. - Above all, keep moving. |
User: auzzi
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-18-2005, 06:51 PM (2 of 19)
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All of the above basic rules are in being used and then some during rush hour in Oklahoma City on a morining and afternoon basis!!! Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Hogmami
Date: 04-18-2005, 07:09 PM (3 of 19)
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I think these rules are being used everywhere.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: Magot
Date: 04-19-2005, 10:23 AM (4 of 19)
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- Never drive behind a person whose head doesn't reach the top of the steering wheel. Universal - I'd say. ANother one would be Never trust anybody who drives wearing a hat - but that might be limited to the UK. love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-19-2005, 01:15 PM (5 of 19)
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LOL,my daughters say that too. Old men in hats are dangerous. My husband and daughter #2 have the worst road rage. They don't get aggressive driving but they sure do whine, bi*ch, curse and swear if anyone does anything wrong, especially if we are behind them. 
MaryW
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Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Pudge99
Date: 04-19-2005, 01:38 PM (6 of 19)
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Mary, My husband is like that too. He has had to clean it up some since the kids came along. Sometimes he still forgets there are parrots in the back seat until one of them reminds him. Gina
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From: auzzi
Date: 04-20-2005, 06:29 PM (7 of 19)
| Drivers in hats are always a source of suspicion - after all, do they really think that they need to keep the sun off their head whilst driving their car? |
User: auzzi
Member since: 10-28-2003 Total posts: 56 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-20-2005, 06:51 PM (8 of 19)
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I drove in MT where they all wore cowboy hats....yep in their trucks. (with cowboys boots even) Down here in the south, they all wear baseball hats (and/ or do rags), except on sunday, when they all wear going-to-church hats (men too). What bothers me (lately ) is wondering why men drive with their arms over the other seats....like theres someone there....I saw one man with his arm hagning out the drivers door (it was such a long arm) it hit the bottom of the door....truly it looked like he was gonna scrape the pavement.  We don't have breakdown lanes here in FL. So theres no driving fast down'em..... There is also NO law here in FL that you HAVE to use a turn signal of ANY KIND, no matter what...(now thats dangerous.) Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-20-2005, 10:08 PM (9 of 19)
When you change lanes at 75-80 miles an hour who has time to use a turn signal??? People don't use turn signals so that the people around them have to stay awake trying to guess what's gonna happen next and if you're of a non-English speaking nationality or of a certain age group of drivers, you probably don't know what that particular lever on the steering column is for anyway, or as is the case a lot of times in Florida, you're so old you can't remember what that extra little lever on the steering column is for.  LOLPatsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-20-2005, 10:21 PM (10 of 19)
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Or in the case of 'some' Floridians....whats the difference between the brake and the gas ??? (thats why we have so many people of a certain age driving INTO buildings....or in the case of a woman of 81 the other day, driving a new Accord into her husband, the salesman, a tree and a parked car...husband is in the hospital (he's 88), salesman walked away and the car is totaled... Yesterday in Pensacola there was a really weird accident. An SUV was driving down a straight road, for some reason LEFT the road, went through some trees, onto a sidewalk, flew through the air, ran over the top of a car in an apt. parking lot, (totaled that car), flew through the air again, hit a van on the other side of the lot, pushed the van into the apt. it was parked in front of, (the van hit someone in the apt), bounced back from that and hit another parked car. So we have a totaled SUV, car, van, and jeep. Not to mention the apt. The SUV driver walked away. The person in the apt is Ok, but still in the hospital. The person who owns the van, has no insurance, he'd only gotten the van the day before, from his folks. And the apts. upper and lower can't be lived in..(and they are brick.). The news people were actually laughing...(I laughed too....it was REALLY weird....even for FL) Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: Hogmami
Date: 04-20-2005, 11:18 PM (11 of 19)
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I used to work in a factory that we made the turn signal w/ handle. The big joke there when somebody said that they were behind a car and that car didn't use their turn signal was " Guess we forgot to make one for that car"
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-21-2005, 01:42 AM (12 of 19)
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Oh yes, Chrys, brings back fond memories of watching them drive on I-95 in West Palm Beach. It took me a while once I moved to Oklahoma City to get used to not watching bumper cars in the grocery star parking lots. However, not too long ago here in Midwest City, an old man drove through the front of a Block Buster Video store, made a couple of right turns and drove out the front of the liquor store next door and swore that he got confused between the gas pedal and the brake on the new Ford Taurus he was driving. I've always wondered if he bothered to use his turn signal when he was making those right turns inside the Block Buster Video and liquor stores??? Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-21-2005, 07:41 AM (13 of 19)
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Late one night, several years ago, my daughter and I were watching television. Note-- My daughter was there so I didn't dream it and it wasn't Saturday night so it wasn't a Saturday Night Live "commercial." There was a public service announcement for seat belts. And old guy and his wife were talking. He says he has gone all his life without wearing seat belts and isn't going to start now. She points out that older people really need to wear their seat belts. After all, their vision and hearing isn't what it used to be. Their reaction times are slower. And many are on medications. Well, that makes you feel real secure when you see granny out there in her huge SUV doesn't it. My daughter and I were cracking up. I never saw the ad again. I suspect AARP had a few complaints about it!! It was frighteningly true, but very funny. Dorothy |
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-21-2005, 11:08 AM (14 of 19)
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Dorothy please clarify your use of the word "granny". If you're talking about gray-haired older women, I'm one and I drive an SUV. LOL But hey, I am still alert enough to use my seatbelt. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Magot
Date: 04-21-2005, 11:53 AM (15 of 19)
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I thought quite a few of you round here had Grandchildren? I of course am far too young.....and anyway, I ride a bike!
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Pudge99
Date: 04-21-2005, 12:18 PM (16 of 19)
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Had to share this with you all because it happend on a road that I drive several times a week. Too bad I missed it. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/stories/MYSA041805.3B.madmax.1ea644b16.html Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-21-2005, 12:54 PM (17 of 19)
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I just mean little old lady kind of granny. You decide if that is you. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-21-2005, 07:37 PM (18 of 19)
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I'm not a granny....and my hair isn't gray (thank you Clairol). Granny to me (and I called my grandmother Mom, as did all my friends and my husband) is someone OVER the age of 80 (depending on how they act...some people act older than they need to)... I guess I've decided that acting old is not for me... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-22-2005, 07:44 AM (19 of 19)
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I was probably thinking along those lines myself Chrys. I didn't mean to offend you with the term. I've never been very good with politically correct. It's funny how much older someone has to be for me to consider them old than in the past. At one time someone 30 was an old guy. Now that's just a kid. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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