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03-26-2024, 03:25 PM | #45101 | |
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One of the surgeons I encountered had what I could only describe as handlers due to what I am guessing was some form of on the spectrum autism (this makes sense due to the risk/money involved). Brilliant doctor who performed excellent surgery but I had to follow him down the hall asking questions if I missed a very short reply window. Didn't mind at all...
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03-26-2024, 04:45 PM | #45102 | |
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Anecdotal observation made to ex-mrs.lag 2.0: Teachers always seemed far better off than me growing up. She responded as if I had called her out on some bull**** the way she asked "oh, hung out with a lot of teachers growing up?" Yes, somehow the majority of my friends were teacher's kids. Her dad was a teacher, I didn't mention that about two of the rooms in the house she grew up in were about the same sizes as houses I grew up. It felt very Victoria Beckham trying to pass her upbringing off as lower working class maybe not realizing the lower working classes tend to not drive Rolls Royce's like her dad's. TL ; DR = teachers, go **** yourself Use some of the critical thinking skills you're trying to teach your students and do something else once you realize nothing is changing, will change so long as you all keep doing the same thing. |
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03-26-2024, 08:28 PM | #45103 | |
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Yesterday, 05:32 AM | #45104 | |
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Not really liking the part of me reading/watching something about a senseless murder thinking "that totally makes sense". In the moment.
"They killed [name here] for playing their music too loud at a gas station!!!" Yep. Yes. Dip**** had to pass me before making an exit. We're the only ones on the two lane highway for maybe a mile in either direction, they had to put significant effort in to get passed me before the turn. It would have been faster to stay behind and take the exit. But no, they pass, start slowing down, braking... oh buddy, I'm as committed to being an unreasonable dumb ass as you are at the moment so if you don't want to get pushed into a tree make your gd exit already. Quote:
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Yesterday, 05:52 AM | #45105 |
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ps: maybe that doesn't mean what you think in means
I don't think I could legitimately count 517 people that have had any significant role in my life without counting the people at Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robins ( both combos and individual stores ) that would start putting my order together when/if customers in front of me couldn't figure out what they wanted. related gripe. bad word filters that edit links. Last edited by lag; Yesterday at 06:00 AM. |
Yesterday, 11:57 AM | #45106 |
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I'm not taking you to Starbucks. Stop asking.
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Yesterday, 07:58 PM | #45107 | |
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I was in the right lane minding my own biz. Ahead was the long right turn lane I was preparing to get into. A pickup with a camper top turns left onto into the road and gets directly into the right lane in front of me at a much slower speed. The entire left lane he *should* have turned into was empty. I got in the left lane, passed him, signaled, and got back over in front of him leaving a good 4-5 car lengths between us. I did not speed up during that entire process. As I got over, the right turn lane I needed started. I got over as soon as that lane started. I downshifted to 3rd to decel for the turn ahead. As I mentioned, it's a long turn lane with a sweeping right yield turn at the intersection. Mr Road Rage decided that me passing him somehow was a personal attack. So he decided to reciprocate by riding my bumper. It had been raining that morning and the blacktop was wet. As I entered the turn, I put on the gas to accel all the way thru the turn as I always do. Mr Road Rage thought his RWD, crappy camper-top pickup would have no problem hanging with my AWD, stiff suspension, summer-tire sedan. When I got on the gas, he did as well trying to stay right on my butt. I breezed right on thru the turn dead center between the lines and continued on. He stepped out the rear end, overcorrected, and both front wheels dropped off the edge of the pavement right into a car swallowing rut in the mud left from being wallowed out by semi-trailers. He ended up stopped half on the pavement, perpendicular to the edge of the road. That rut saved his dumb-ass. If it had not stopped him, he would have gone right down a steep embankment into a wooded wetland. |
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Yesterday, 10:40 PM | #45108 | |
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random driving gripes thread:
Years ago now working in a business park off a main highway. The exit off the main road terminates with traffic lights to include "no right turn on red" aka the turn I need to go to work. Many times I've had to point at the sign because people have no situational awareness to notice the sign, can't stop for a moment to maybe make a guess as to why no one is turning having not seen the sign. Most times I'd get the "i'm the *******, sorry" wave. One morning going in in the winter, roads are variously iced over. Anywhere anyone is going making that turn ends up at roughly the same place having no way other way out and everything is within a mile from the turn. So you can be in the biggest rush to get to work but no matter what you do someone driving a scooter will be there by the time you're opening the door to walk in to your building. I don't remember noticing a big red Ford F250 behind me at the light. I very much noticed it when they smashed the throttle to get around me now having this guy do a pretty impressive perpendicular slide while likely ****ting his pants and maybe thinking "huh, this is why all of those 'bridge ices before road' exist'" in-between bits of his life flashing by and thinking about leaving his kids fatherless because he made poor choices sure they're about to fall of a bridge. I started braking as soon as I noticed I could see the grill of the truck through my side window. Thankfully he didn't have enough speed to push him the rest of the way over the bridge, he hit it perfectly head on. I stopped a good 10ft from them with all of this happening so slow I had time to think about how nearly comical it was that this might be one of the silliest and butt puckering 5mph accident. Everyone behind us had stopped, I got out, the other guy got out looking over the bridge, I asked if he was okay. Yes. Everyone was good, let's move on. related: I may have seen one car flipped over before living in MD. It quickly became normal to me. "How... how do you flip a car on a straight road" and perfect weather to "ON THE RIGHT" making sure to not hit anyone while I'm passing by. < not really but effectively became not noteworthy. Anytime it rained during rush hour I could count on someone at least sliding off the exit from I-95 south to 195 east. The end of 195 east is BWI airport, always pretty heavy traffic. But again someone having fallen off the exit or flipped the car was just "mondays, amiright" levels of notable. I would already be on 195 east if I drove but very likely didn't if it was raining. I could take 95 south or 295 south to get where I needed to go with the choice being made for me by whoever slid off the exit and if the accident was cleaned up by the time I got there. Quote:
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oof. maybe too soon to talk about folks falling of MD bridges Last edited by lag; Today at 12:01 AM. |
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Today, 09:53 AM | #45110 | |
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Approaching the tracks (50mph speed limit) he starts to brake and damn near comes to a complete stop to crawl over the tracks. I changed lanes and blasted across the tracks at 50mph, signaled, and got back over. Didn't even think another thing about it. For some reason, it angered the guy that I had the audacity to pass him. Next thing I know, he came roaring back up behind me. He had to brake pretty hard as he caught up. I saw his nose dip as he braked. We're the only 2 cars on the road in either direction. But he's less than a car length behind me. And it's clear he's not going to pass me. This goes on for about a mile. My turn is coming up. Another rght hand turn lane at a light that sweeps right. It has a low concrete median in the middle after the turn that separates opposite lanes. I downshift, knowing I can take that turn at 45mph (because I do it every day). I glance up and I can clearly see the guy's face in my rearview. He's been so target-fixated on riding my bumper that he doesn't realize what's about to happen. I hit the apex and accel on thru. I look up just in time to see the "oh s**t!" look of shock on his face as he realizes he's come in way too hot with no hope of making the turn. He smashed his foot on the brake and I see him slide/understeer acoss the lane and bounce up onto the raised concrete median. There was a good chance he eff'd up at least one rim on that median. |
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Today, 09:58 AM | #45111 | |
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I have had similar situations with similar outcomes.... people ending up in the ditch/stuck on a divider. |
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Today, 10:07 AM | #45112 |
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I've described it to others where people driving 2 ton vehicles somehow think they are driving a Miata.
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Today, 10:14 AM | #45113 |
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Ive only had a playful Accord trying to "keep up with the race kart" on some snowy curves. I just kept my speed during a hard turn. I saw him slap brakes to slow enough to not plow over the curb. Then the "you got me" wave
The other day I was remembering a situation where I was driving my first car, which had pretty bald tires. It was raining and the road was very slick. Car further ahead was going to turn left, so I start to brake. Nope. I immediately felt the car slide with minimal brake force. The car was not stopping on time. My reaction was to let go of the brakes and steer myself out of harms way. Last second I avoided a collision. My brother was screaming at me like crazy. I was still processing why my brakes didnt work. |
Today, 10:23 AM | #45114 |
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Today, 10:30 AM | #45115 |
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Living in North Dakota, I see more four wheel drive and AWD in the ditch in the winters than anything else. Seems to be either overconfident imbeciles in lifted pickups or hygiene-crazed mommies in SUVs and CUVs.
"Four wheel drive doesn't mean you'll never get stuck, and it doesn't mean four wheel stop, people." This has been a public service message from Mrowka Technologies. |
Today, 10:37 AM | #45116 | |
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Today, 10:56 AM | #45117 |
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Ice doesn't give a **** how many wheels you have with power
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Today, 04:24 PM | #45118 | |
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Today, 04:53 PM | #45119 |
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Getting notice of data breach from a company you've never done biz with and who has no reason to have been in possession of your data.
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