Toronto area will be 62'F Wednesday. Nuts.
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Toronto area will be 62'F Wednesday. Nuts.
Looking at OpenSnow extended forecast….was going to post the same thing…..Damn, it’s bleak, awful, etc…it’s really bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by cat in january
Well - experienced a new thing today... headed to Costco for some gas and misc shit for the hut trip. Chad in his shiny BMW drove up to the fairly busy gas station (with the usual one-way Costco configuration), decided that he didn't want to wait in the line that would put him at the pump on his tank-side, and *also* didn't want to pull the hose over his car, so he fuckin' TURNED AROUND and backed his car to an open pump spot.
The attendant came over to have a chat with Chad the Moran. Not sure how it turned out, 'cause I had shit to do. :D
Goddam entitled idiots. :mad:
I live in a town notorious for bad driving. I've seen people go through the drive through in reverse.
It annoys me that everyone thinks THEIR town has the worst drivers. Lake Pleezbegon--where all the drivers are below average. Newsforyou--drivers suck everywhere.
Theory seems to be proven out any time I drive anywhere... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Kinda like how people think the old saying “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute” applies just to their town.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I think some other town(s) other than mine have the worst drivers. Greater Toronto Area. Worst drivers on the planet. God, I fucking hate traveling the 401.
I don't think the Denver metro has the worst drivers, but they do amuse me sometimes (or in the context of this thread, annoy me). Amusing: when the road is not super crowded, it seems random whether traffic flows at the speed limit or 15 mph over the limit (I-25 through downtown, I'm looking at you). Annoying: I have never seen a group of drivers so scared and baffled by rain. It's like they don't know what it is and slow down by 15mph just to ponder it.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Also, while not the worst drivers, the slowest drivers in the US live in Vermont. Fact.
Slower than New Mexico? That's mind bottling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
IME, yes. For one, the state speed limit in VT is 50mph (only higher on the interstate). And there are plenty of old timers who prefer to drive 10mph under the speed limit. So, 40mph. On the highway.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Thankfully, Vermont also allows you to pass legally on the double yellow line, so there's that.
according to Forbes, Texas has the worst drivers due to fatal accidents and drunk driving stats while VT is the safest state to drive in.
Slowest drivers around here are from Massachusetts. Having driven in Massachusetts, I'm pretty sure they don't drive as slow at home, or they'd have impact damage on the rear of their SUVs.
So the double yellow is just sort of a suggestion in VT?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Or Mass or CT where the limits are low like that. Rt 7 in CT gets super slow for miles and miles north of Bulls Bridge right up to the Mass line. Then it's stupid again a good part of the way through Mass. Anywhere the speed limit is 50, like all of Western Mass, there's a fair number of people (and vehicles) that shouldn't be driving even that fast so when you're going to Western New England you just need to budget some extra rolling time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
unless there is a specific sign that says "no passing zone" or similar, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
My wife and sister-in-law are traveling back from Detroit right now. My wife just texted me that they got on the plane and get back to their row only to find two adult women, a child and a lap baby already buckled in and eating snacks. My wife and SIL had the aisle and window seats. The people in the seats tried to sell them a sob story, but they weren't having it and made them move. God, people have some nerve. I can't even imagine saying "yeah, I'm just going to plunk myself down in this seat even though my ticket says something else. Fuck whoever actually selected this seat."
no doubt driving so slow makes them safer. Hard to get in a deadly highway speed accident when, ya know, you don't drive highway speeds.Quote:
Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker
I've driven all over the northeast (thankfully not much in the last 20 years), and no way are MA or CT drivers as slow as VT drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
The most humorous thing about the 40mph VT highway drivers is that when they hit a town and the limit drops to 25mph, they tend to keep a pretty steady 35-40.
yep… speed is constant irregardless of posted limits.
fact.
It's sort of funny how people pick and choose which rules of the road they're going to adhere to. I see plenty of (almost universally) old farts driving five mph under the limit, but then roll right through stop signs.
There's a stretch of state highway a few miles from my house with one very hard to spot speed limit sign (in each direction) between towns. Very few people go over 40, some get to 45, on a wide open 55mph stretch. There is one passing zone that's nearly useless most of the time so you just put it in 4th and roll along. Blah...
I’ve been thinking about this for a while when people were complaining about driving in the left lane and not moving over up thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
It’s hilarious to argue that your breaking the law is better or not as bad as the other person breaking the law. “I am breaking the law by 10% and that’s fine and perfect, if you wanna go 12% over, fuck you, I’m not moving over.”
"Unsafe to pass" implies passing is legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
"Do not pass" says it isn't.
All. The. Way. Through. Town.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
IKR? Always cracked me up (even as it annoyed me). And it's been that way for my entire life. When I was a kid, my dad even made up a name for those drivers, "drunge-icks". No idea how he made that one up but that's what I have always called them, and they have always been all over Vermont in numbers not seen anywhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
It's simple--by driving under the limit but not stopping at stop signs they keep their average speed at the limit. All good.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
You didn't grow up here in a farm town.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
when people use irregardless instead of regardlessQuote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
fact.
Actually.. My town, up until a couple years, had the highest auto insurance rates in the nation.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I don't know if you ever made it a few miles west of Toronto, but yeah, sounds like you're in the know.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
(OK, I'll just say it - I live in Brampton. Any Canadian here, and likely others, will know..)
So? Does that mean I don't get a trophy?Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
i’m annoyed that the rideau canal didn’t open 2/4 years and i probably missed it this year. but even more annoyed that sometime soon they’re just not going to bother anymore.
You don’t want NM drivers to drive any faster. Trust me on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
For one thing, very few have insurance. Pretty much all of my insurance claims have been under the uninsured driver clause.
You know what annoys me? People that expect perfection in an ever increasing complex society.
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Condolences. West of the city is exactly what I'm talking about. Two different 4 day trips taking kids to look at Universities. 8 days too long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
20 something me drove through McD's in reverse numerous times. (if you're curious as to why, google vw golf/gti electric windows). Almost every time the staff was amused. Other customers, not so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
I googled it…all i get is that people are trying to fix their electric window switchesQuote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
If you can't open the driver's side window and you want to go through the drive-thru...
adapt and overcome. transact through the sunroof.
Or by bike
http://www.habventures.com/photos/03...23/Day5/23.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by stealurface831
I had a friend who was actually turned away from a drive thru for being on his bike.
As for the windows, ice is right. You could replace the switch, but it was just the same shitty part that would fail again. The motor on mine failed as well, and was too expensive at the time for my broke ass to replace.