Finaly something I like

I personally hate telephones of any kind be it cell or hard wired setups. They are the rudest thing we own if you really think about it. People will stop what they are doing no matter how important to answer a damned bell, buzzer or song instead of letting the answering machine handle it for them, calling back when they are finished with what they are doing. Nothing pisses me off more than when a customer comes into my place talking loudly to no one until I realize he is on a phone on his belt and talking through and ear piece. I literally want to throw them out with a swift kick in the pants.
 
I see cops on cell phones all the time. I think all tax payer paid employee's should be banned from using cell phones on OUR time.
 
i saw a port authority cop actually stop using his hands to guide traffic through a huge, crammed intersection to answer his cell phone yesterday morning. 6 lanes of traffic, coming from 3 directions, all trying to get into 3 lanes to get on the gw bridge or across the intersection, and the cop decides that his call is more important than keeping dozens of cars from quickly creating gridlock, or worse.

good one, charlie.
 
I vote for the car that will only operate if both hands are on the wheel. Take a hand off for more than 5 seconds and an alarm sounds. More than 10 seconds and the flashers come on with an even more obnoxious alarm. Power steeering should slip out slowly, too. More than 30 seconds and the only way to disengage the alarm and return to power steering is to return both hands to the wheel.
 
If it takes you longer than 5 seconds to shift gears, you shouldn't be driving a stick anyway. I drove 10, 13, 15, and 18-speed transmissions in big trucks and didn't take that long. :wink:
 
(damn, i was hoping for another "that's what i was thinking"...)

i usually drive (in traffic) with one hand on the wheel and one on the stick.

unless i'm drinking a coffee, talking on the phone, drinking a beer, smoking, and applying make up. then it's one knee under the wheel.
 
unless i'm drinking a coffee, talking on the phone, drinking a beer, smoking, and applying make up. then it's one knee under the wheel.
Drinking coffee, smoking, shaving, switching CDs, smacking kids in the back seat - I'm guilty. (And now I'm ashamed, too.)
 
(damn, i was hoping for another "that's what i was thinking"...)

i usually drive (in traffic) with one hand on the wheel and one on the stick.

unless i'm drinking a coffee, talking on the phone, drinking a beer, smoking, and applying make up. then it's one knee under the wheel.

"Applying make up", I guess I missed something about you BT. :shock:
 
(damn, i was hoping for another "that's what i was thinking"...)

i usually drive (in traffic) with one hand on the wheel and one on the stick.

Absolutely. A stick in traffic, especially on an incline, is a pain. You HAVE to have one hand on the stick at all times till you get out of that mess.
 
And Hell, we all know it's got nothing to do with keeping both hands on the wheel. I bet most of us drive with one hand on the wheel almost all the time.

It has everything to do with actually paying attention to what your doing which is suppose to be piloting the vehicle.

I think it's really sad (vast understatement) there have to be laws passed and rules made to encourage or coerce people into paying attention to what the freak their doing.

And while these rules and laws are being passed and implemented automobile (sic) manufacturers are incorporating new technologies that will allow drivers to pay even less attention to what the frick their doing. And toy manufacturers make more things to distract the clueless .....

Yep, this is something that should be in the 'things that pisses me off' thread.

This cell/texting thing reminds me of the cocaine/crack thing of 25~30 years ago. It was thought Coke was the Devil, then came Crack. Well, we thought cell phone usage while driving was bad, then came Texting. ... After Crack came Meth epidemic...

I'm awaiting the next big thing with horrified fascination.
 
Absolutely. A stick in traffic, especially on an incline, is a pain.

Depends what I'm driving.

Like when people pull right up behind me.

In the truck it's an amusement. More than one hood or grill bears the mark of my back bumper.

With Wifes car ... I wish I was in the truck! :yum:
 
Depends what I'm driving.

Like when people pull right up behind me.

In the truck it's an amusement. More than one hood or grill bears the mark of my back bumper.

With Wifes car ... I wish I was in the truck! :yum:

Law states that if you roll back into them while driving a stick (or any car really) because they were too close, then it is THEIR fault. It’s fun to roll into them, then get out and go through the 3 hours of Police reports for them to find out THEY were wrong, even though I hit them! It’s an eye opener for those dunces for sure…..but I get so tired of those long hours on the road with the cops, and the days of insurance paper work. It’s worth it once or twice, but after that….I’m so over it.
 
Law states that if you roll back into them while driving a stick (or any car really) because they were too close, then it is THEIR fault.

Yep.

It’s fun to roll into them, then get out and go through the 3 hours of Police reports for them to find out THEY were wrong, even though I hit them! It’s an eye opener for those dunces for sure…..but I get so tired of those long hours on the road with the cops, and the days of insurance paper work. It’s worth it once or twice, but after that….I’m so over it.


Sometimes I drift back just to hear their horn blow.

Sometimes I'll drift just to see the show in the side mirror. They make all these funny faces, their mouths work furiously making funny shapes, arms wave ... One looked behind her to try and get away only to find someone behind her did to her what she did to me ... I waved to her as I drove away.

I didn't hit any of these, least I think I didn't hit them.

Not that it freaking matters.

The ones I know I hit I still didn't stop. Nothing 'official' came of it.
 
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