Going home yesterday in the beloved 1989 Prelude (311,000 miles) minding my own business. I come up on an intersection. I see a Ford Dually Power Stroke approaching very quickly from a side street. They have a stop sign, I do not. The truck doesn't even stop, and turns into the road right in my path. I have to jump over into the lane of oncoming traffic to not rear end this humongous truck. Thank God no traffic was coming. It was either that, or take it to the ditch. After my near death experience, I find that the driver is a late 20's-early 30's female.............on the phone.......just laughing and haveing a big time with whoever she is talking to. She had to have seen me since my car ended up in the adjacent lane right next to her!! Obviously she really didn't care, becasue she just continued with her conversation. I continued to follow her. She quickly got up to 80-85 mph in the truck and never hung up the phone. I haven't been that mad in a long time!:af:
Did you get a licence plate #. You could find out where she lives. Go to her house grab the phone out of her hand and slam it against the side of here house. Better yet follow her and next time she does something like tat get on your cell and call the cops and report a drunk driver. hear's to people on cell phones and driving:blast: :blast: :blast:
Get this, the other morning going to work I see a brand new Expedition in the left lane. All the cars are having to go around it. It is still dark, early morning, rush hour just starting. I see the drivers side sun visor is down and the vanity mirror is on. The female driver has a cell phone in her left hand, putting on her make up with her right hand and steering with her knees!!!!:shock: Where are the cops when you need them!
Thats when its time to go around them and slam on the brakes......OOPS - that only works in my RoadMonster wagon with the grille-eating hitch on the back !!
I have to relate this to you... In 1994 I sold Dad's 1985 Monte Carlo for him here in ATL. A few months later I'm going to work on I-20 when the car pulls up beside me. I realize what car it is and speed up to get her attention for a second. She never noticed me because she's reading a paperback book stuck on the steering wheel and eating a bag of Munchos..... :jd: I let her go on.... A few months later Dad gets a certified letter from the GA DMV stating his abandoned car is being impounded from the freeway. She never changed the title I guess, and let a very nice ride go to waste due to neglect. :blast: Russ Waters
With all this said I still don't understand why they automatically get a brake on car insurance. :af: :af: o No: o No: What a bunch of B - TCHES!!! John B.
Mark, Your experience is a reminder to all of us to be diligent in watching out for the other guy / gal. On a similar note, has anyone else noticed that in recent years pedestrians just walk right out into the road even though there is traffic coming their way? I about ran a teenage girl down this morning on the way to work in the dark, because she just casually walked out into the road. :af: I was the only vehicle for blocks and I guess she just couldn't wait for me to pass. What happened to look both ways and wait till its safe to cross. :bglasses: Sure, they have the right of way, (In a marked crosswalk that is) But blatently J- walking and testing the laws of physics with your life is insane. This teenage girl genius will be driving soon I'm sure. LOOK OUT!
My personal pet peeve is that there are getting to be more and more people turning left on red, and going straight through on red. Doesn't red mean STOP???? Just my hot button... :af:
Statistics today put females being the worst drivers! Yet Insurrance companies still use the old method of females are better and male are worse. A woman gets a break from the get-go and more of a break at age 22. Us guys pay more and don't get a break until age 25. WTF? I mean, sure, there's alot of bad drivers, and sure men take some risks while driving but we're prepared for it. A woman gets in a car and doesn't care what she does and is never prepared for anything. Just the otherday I was entering the highway here during a no traffic period. Those times traffic moves about 80mph, so I come off the ramp at 70-80 and slide right in. But not that day, I get behind some woman eating a sandwitch entering the highway going 45mph!! Needless to say, I"m glad I'm in old 'powerfull' iron and nail it to avoid being hit by other cars. Maybe we should make a bumpersticker that reads, "Put down the makeup and drive!" Argh!!!
and now for soemthing completely different HOW TO IDENTIFY WHERE A DRIVER IS FROM 1. One hand on wheel, one hand on horn: CHICAGO 2. One hand on wheel, one finger out window: NEW YORK 3. One hand on wheel, one finger out window, cutting across all lanes of traffic: NEW JERSEY 4. One hand on wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot solidly on accelerator: BOSTON 5. One hand on wheel, one hand on nonfat double decaf cappuccino, cradling cell phone, brick on accelerator, gun in lap: LOS ANGELES 6. Both hands on wheel, eyes shut, both feet on brake, quivering in terror OHIO, but driving in: CALIFORNIA 7. Waving at everyone that you pass, eating a moon pie, sipping an RC, smiling and chewing and talking to yourself: TENNESSEE 8. One hand on 12 oz. Double shot latte, one knee on wheel, cradling cell phone, foot on brake, mind on radio game, banging head on steering wheel while stuck in traffic: SEATTLE 9. One hand on wheel, one hand on hunting rifle, alternating between both feet being on the accelerator and both feet on brake, throwing McDonald's bag out the window: TEXAS 10. Four-wheel drive pick-up truck, shotgun mounted in rear window, beer cans on floor, squirrel tails attached to antenna: ALABAMA 11. Two hands gripping wheel, blue hair barely visible above steering> wheel, driving 35 on the Interstate in the left lane with the left blinker on: FLORIDA 12. Knee up against steering wheel, one hand on Tim Horton's coffee cup, cell phone in ear, accelerator to the floor, applying makeup,doing crossword puzzle, reading morning Free Press, knocking down orange barrels, changing lanes without turn signals: MICHIGAN 13) Both Hands on wheel, pointer finger goes up when they see you to say "Hello:" NORTH DAKOTA A friend of mine sent me this last year.. I think it works here.. ou:
Has anyone EVER sat in a car a woman has just vacated, during broad daylight, and noticed that she has the day/night switch on the rearview mirror flipped to "night" and yet has adjusted the mirror to see like it was set on normal? I can't tell you how many times I have done this.:af: They can combine 60 ingredients to make freaking cookies and stew and such, yet can't figure out a simple switch?uzzled: :spank:
I'm trying to maintain my composure with this topic, but it is a real HOT botton for me. :af: Every G*d D**b day some young teenage girl practically drives up my tailpipe. ( She gets lower rates because she's female. ) I"ve followed what I thought had to be a drunk driver. Turned out to be a women putting on make up. ( She gets lower rates because she's female.) On my motorcycle I've had near death experiences when some unattentive young woman tried to do that famous left turn in front of me. On top of that, one of them flipped me off and shouted get the f--k out of my way! :shock: ( She gets lower rate because she's female. ) WTF!!! The only automobile accidents that I've been were rearenders. I was the one rearended both times by a in a hurry, unattentive young woman. I don't claim to be a perfect driver. When I drove my motorcycle I recieved 4 speeding tickets in 3 mo. and lost my license for 90 days. I just think today a lot of women drive just as bad as us guys do, but enjoy rewards of a double standard that has long been outdated. I agree with equality for women, not superiority for women. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a men's rights zealot, I just think a persons auto insurance rates should be reflected by their driving record and not their gender. Ok I'll vacate my soapbox now. John
IMHO driving fast does not mean you driving BAD. I drive fast all the time, but it is when I am on one of the back roads going to my house, or one of the rural highways in low traffic conditions. I have never been in an accident. When there are other cars around I'm careful. Moral to the story.....I wait until I get home to put my make up on!:laugh:
Moral to the story.....I wait until I get home to put my make up on!:laugh: [/QUOTE] Hey Mark, is there something you want to tell the class?:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: John
HEY! Thats my wife you talking about! uzzled: :laugh: I don't even say anything anymore, whats the point? You gotta pick your battles :blast: The first misses used to Piss me off by putting her purse on top of the '90 Riv when she would unlock it, then drag it across when she got in it. :af: Oh lovely, scratches!
the two closest times i've come to wrecking in the lark were both due to women in suv's. i was merged into and forced to the should by a 4 foot tall woman in a tahoe orsomething, and cut off by some other gigantor piece of crap that proceeded to immediately brake...had to slide sideways into the turning lane not to hit them.
So... let me get this right again... If I charge a woman 20% more for a cup of coffee its discrimination.... If I charge a man 20% more for insurance its not dicrimination... ...remind me to sue my insurance company in some high profile case and retire... The scary part is that SUV's will be out of style in 10 years and like all out of style cars... they'll get passed to the kids <shudder>
Attn. John John, Just to make you feel better, I saw justice happen ONCE. I was going to work one morning, this about 6 or 7 years ago. I was doing about the usual 65 or so in traffic in the left lane whan a young female gets in behind me and I can't see her headlites (the vehicle headlites). I move over to let the nutcase pass, and sure enough, she gets backed up in the left lane and I pass her in the lane to the right. She bolts out of the left lane, and crams her bumper up my rear end again. Just about then, I see a HP cruiser entering the freeway on the right. This gal is hooked up to me like she's on a hitch, and the HP pulls in right behind her. Hehe. I have to make it up a long, 2 lane grade, with nothing but tractor/trailers in the right hand lane. I'm going about 70, with dumba$$ behind me, and an HP behind her. At the top of the grade, I pull to the right to let her on by, And BINGO, the cruiser hits the lights and pulls her over. I hope he had some choice words for her. I still get the warm & fuzzies thinking about that one. I HATE tailgaters. Mark
