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Gorson posted:Dude, that's a Camry SE, can't have people dinging it up! The other day I saw some jackass parked on that striped section between two handicapped parking spots, basically straddling it with one wheel on the edge of each handicapped spot and completely taking up their wheelchair loading zone. I was impressed, because he'd manage to block not one but two handicapped parking spaces at the same time. He was pulling out as I finished at the bank, hopefully after someone told him off because I'd hate to have him think that's an acceptable thing to do.
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There's a guy I see all the time who has a silver Accord, always parks in the most distant remote corner of the parking lot. It's been this way for years. I guess the dude really, really cares about his generic sedan.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:36
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xzzy posted:There's a guy I see all the time who has a silver Accord, always parks in the most distant remote corner of the parking lot. It's been this way for years. either that or he recognizes that he's a terrible and dangerous parker and is doing us all a favor by staying the hell away from us, in which case I endorse this behavior. Vovo posted:A while ago I was filling up my car at a gas station, and a lady asked me if I could help her. I was a bit apprehensive 'cause I didn't feel like changing a tire or something. She was confused about why her headlights were on but the taillights were off. "Am I just overlooking something or are they broken or what?" So I turned on her lights for her, she looked pretty embarrassed. This I don't quite understand. If you turned her lights "on" were the headlights not already on but she thought she saw them? Did she think the daytime running lights were the headlights or something? If the car has censors and automatically turn the headlights on when it gets dark don't the taillights come on too? I was leaving Baltimore Saturday night and it had recently gotten dark and this guy had no taillights on as I passed him on the highway, seeing he had tiny DRL's on. The semi behind him gave him a honk and sure enough he turned them right on. I wish I could say I wasn't ever guilty of that but driving my boss's van out of DC at sunset one day by the time I got to the beltway it was dark and someone had to flash me before I realized the lights didn't come on automatically. Technology has spoiled me. davebo fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 19:51
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xzzy posted:There's a guy I see all the time who has a silver Accord, always parks in the most distant remote corner of the parking lot. It's been this way for years. I do that all the time, with any vehicle. Partially because I don't want some fuckknob to box me in/ding my ride. Partially because I'm a fatass and can use the walk.
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Oct 13, 2014 20:01
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davebo posted:either that or he recognizes that he's a terrible and dangerous parker and is doing us all a favor by staying the hell away from us, in which case I endorse this behavior. Our Suzuki Swift has the headlights on all the time but the rear lights only turn on when you turn the switch.
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Oct 13, 2014 20:05
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My parking skills seem to have deteriorated over time; how can I best fix that?
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Oct 13, 2014 20:59
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xzzy posted:There's a guy I see all the time who has a silver Accord, always parks in the most distant remote corner of the parking lot. It's been this way for years. Also, in 20 years AI will be drooling over a pristine 2000 accord.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:03
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:My parking skills seem to have deteriorated over time; how can I best fix that? Practice. Also, when you park, walk around and check how you parked. Close to the line? Repark. Over the line? Repark, etc. I do this alot until I am centered in my space. It only takes a second to do. Just the simple act of checking your work will get you better. I've recently gotten my girlfriend to get into the habit of parking in backwards. Because of this, shes told me her overall parking skills improved, especially when it came to parallel parking.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:15
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Pham Nuwen posted:The other day I saw some jackass parked on that striped section between two handicapped parking spots, basically straddling it with one wheel on the edge of each handicapped spot and completely taking up their wheelchair loading zone. I was impressed, because he'd manage to block not one but two handicapped parking spaces at the same time. He was pulling out as I finished at the bank, hopefully after someone told him off because I'd hate to have him think that's an acceptable thing to do. One of the therapists here decided to park her sportbike dead-center in the striped wheelchair-loading zone here at work earlier this summer. She claimed "Oh, I didn't know that's what it was" when called on it, but I guess Facilities called her to move it rather than call for the tow. Wish I had authority for calling tows.  Or just could get Parking Enforcement to come out and paper all the assholes blocking the hydrant/parked all the way past the curve of the corner/parked right on top of the driveways. Some goober in a brotruck has been running both passenger-side wheels up the curb here recently, as well - I can see doing that to be courteous on a narrow street, but it's an old-school downtown street that'd do three lanes plus parking. 
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Oct 13, 2014 21:18
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Siochain posted:I do that all the time, with any vehicle. Partially because I don't want some fuckknob to box me in/ding my ride. Partially because I'm a fatass and can use the walk. Me too - my silver sedan may be generic and somewhat dinged up already but that doesn't mean I want it to look any worse.
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Oct 13, 2014 22:13
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Siochain posted:I do that all the time, with any vehicle. Partially because I don't want some fuckknob to box me in/ding my ride. Partially because I'm a fatass and can use the walk. Exactly on both counts. I even had someone pull in 2 spaces away from me once and go "do you park out here to avoid dings?" And I was all "Yup" and he smiled and was like "me too". I still muttered under my breath that he was still too close to me. In other news, some rear end in a top hat was doing 40 in a 45 down the road below, so 5 cars were stacked up behind him. I pulled into the middle lane just in time to catch him slam on the brakes to do a U-turn right in this exact "no U-turn" marked location, causing all 4 remaining cars behind him to panic stop and near-miss each other. If I had a camera I would have caught the whole thing, I will at some point.
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Oct 13, 2014 22:41
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:My parking skills seem to have deteriorated over time; how can I best fix that? Let Fingal drive 
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Oct 14, 2014 00:31
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This doesn't have to to with driving a vehicle per se, more to do with properly maintaining it. I've started to notice what I think are quite a number of people puttering around Midtown Memphis in a vehicle that is pretty obviously not firing on all cylinders. It's Bizarre, you'd think they'd notice the drat thing being down on power but no.. It's not just one guy either, I've seen several different cars and trucks exhibiting the trademark put-put-put exhaust sound you get with a dead cylinder. I know memphis is a shithole but god dammit people.
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Oct 14, 2014 00:34
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 One of those German bikes with 4 wheels...
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Oct 14, 2014 00:35
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xzzy posted:There's a guy I see all the time who has a silver Accord, always parks in the most distant remote corner of the parking lot. It's been this way for years. Some people are OCD about their cars. My girlfriends dad drove a early 90's accord for almost 20 years and the thing was immaculate. I swear it still had the new car smell. He finally sold it a couple years ago when he got a e92 m3, which I swear he spends more time washing then he does driving.
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Negromancer posted:Some people are OCD about their cars. My girlfriends dad drove a early 90's accord for almost 20 years and the thing was immaculate. I swear it still had the new car smell. He finally sold it a couple years ago when he got a e92 m3, which I swear he spends more time washing then he does driving. It won't clean itself. 
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Negromancer posted:Some people are OCD about their cars. My girlfriends dad drove a early 90's accord for almost 20 years and the thing was immaculate. I swear it still had the new car smell. He finally sold it a couple years ago when he got a e92 m3, which I swear he spends more time washing then he does driving. I have an immaculate '94 Mercedes C220 except for the scrape I put on the bumper and the mirror I smashed. Oops. Whoever had it before must have really loved it; it's a totally base model, not even with folding seats.
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Oct 14, 2014 07:10
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davebo posted:This I don't quite understand. If you turned her lights "on" were the headlights not already on but she thought she saw them? Did she think the daytime running lights were the headlights or something? It was some cheap Skoda, which actually uses the headlights as running lights. About parking cheap cars far away from anybody else: have you seen how many people just toss open their doors after parking, using another car as a door stop? Children especially. When I have a car that's not dinged yet I will park a bit further away too. But after a while I stop giving a poo poo because it ends up full of doordings anyway, especially with the small parking spaces in European cities.
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Goober Peas posted:
If it was a BMW he could at least have the bimmer/beemer excuse but that is just weak.
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Sagebrush posted:If it was a BMW he could at least have the bimmer/beemer excuse but that is just weak. I wonder if you can get a dollie that has only one wheel, that either the front or the rear of the car sits on. So you jack up the car, set the dollie under it, and let it back down; now it only has three wheels touching the ground and is a motorcycle.
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Sagebrush posted:If it was a BMW he could at least have the bimmer/beemer excuse but that is just weak. Audi owns Ducati so there is that...
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Oct 15, 2014 03:02
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DEAR RICHARD posted:Your high beams + my mirrors Everyone needs a "gently caress you" mirror setting to shine that poo poo back in their face. I have a xenon Pelican PM6 in my center console that I hold out the window and strobe at high beamers until they get the idea.
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Meanwhile in Belgium, video of a car accident back in August has surfaced online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-0E2Nxtm6o This is why you make sure you're in the right lane before the exit starts, and why you shouldn't move over two other lanes to make your exit in time. I see people try this poo poo pretty much every other day along with other rear end in a top hat behavior. The driver survived, accompanying news article in Dutch including her response to the video being posted here. Don't even bother with the comments as half of them seem intent on blaming the truck drivers that use the same road for causing an unsafe situation and making it impossible to drive in the right lane.
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Smoke posted:Meanwhile in Belgium, video of a car accident back in August has surfaced online. Holy poo poo. I don't speak Dutch but I hope there wasn't anyone in the passenger seat.
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Oct 15, 2014 16:05
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Nope, she was driving alone. Here's an article from the day of the accident with photos of the aftermath. The driver is lucky to have survived that with just two broken vertebrae and a shattered hand.
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Oct 15, 2014 16:09
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What the hell is up with people who cross into oncoming traffic to get around obstructions (garbage truck, mailman, delivery van.. whatever) and then give ME a dirty look when I tap my horn at them for blocking me from traveling the other direction? Listen shitfaces, that's my lane, not yours. The rules of the road don't change to give you the right of way just because something's in the way. You stop your dumb rear end behind the roadblock and wait for a clear lane before going.
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Oct 15, 2014 16:34
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xzzy posted:What the hell is up with people who cross into oncoming traffic to get around obstructions (garbage truck, mailman, delivery van.. whatever) and then give ME a dirty look when I tap my horn at them for blocking me from traveling the other direction? God drat is this the dumbest poo poo ever. "Oh, there's something blocking my lane, guess I'll drive into oncoming traffic!" So loving stupid. Has to be one of those dangerous things I see on the regular. In general, people driving into oncoming traffic is probably 90% of the issues I see out on the roads here. The other 10% is people driving the same direction changing lanes without checking, tailgating, or road raging.
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I regularly get honked at for not crossing into the oncoming lane to go around a delivery truck or whatever. gently caress you buddy, there's oncoming traffic.
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revmoo posted:God drat is this the dumbest poo poo ever. "Oh, there's something blocking my lane, guess I'll drive into oncoming traffic!" I deal with this every single morning, as the road I take into work ALWAYS has trucks completely stopped in the middle of the road, and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. I always make sure it's clear before going into the other lane, but you can't always see if the stopped vehicle is gigantic. Sometimes another car will be coming in the opposite direction, but never close enough to even give a dirty look or hinder the other driver in any way. Some people just like to pull out immediately without even attempting to see if its clear, never did understand the logic behind that. Speaking of driving in the wrong lane, why do people swerve completely out of the way when a bicycle or motorcyclist is sharing the lane? I see people swerve over to the shoulder in the fast lane all the time when a motorcycle approaches. These also tend to be the same people that don't notice the motorcycle until the very last second. What is so difficult about making a slight adjustment to keep to the left side of the lane, rather than almost swerving into the center divide?
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joe944 posted:Speaking of driving in the wrong lane, why do people swerve completely out of the way when a bicycle or motorcyclist is sharing the lane? I see people swerve over to the shoulder in the fast lane all the time when a motorcycle approaches. These also tend to be the same people that don't notice the motorcycle until the very last second. What is so difficult about making a slight adjustment to keep to the left side of the lane, rather than almost swerving into the center divide? See also: People who swerve way away from cars parked on the side of the road, even when there's plenty of room to stay in their lane.
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Also see also: People who swerve right to make left turns. And that side of the car (for LHD, anyway) is clearly visible out the goddamn window.
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Smoke posted:Nope, she was driving alone. Here's an article from the day of the accident with photos of the aftermath. The driver is lucky to have survived that with just two broken vertebrae and a shattered hand. Thank god, because I'm pretty sure I saw some small gym bag and what looked like a children's backpack, which made it really scary 
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Smoke posted:Nope, she was driving alone. Here's an article from the day of the accident with photos of the aftermath. The driver is lucky to have survived that with just two broken vertebrae and a shattered hand. That's too bad, she's probably going to keep driving and kill somebody who matters.
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Haifisch posted:See also: People who swerve way away from cars parked on the side of the road, even when there's plenty of room to stay in their lane. Not sure of what all this encompasses for you, but in Arizona it is a law that if there is a vehicle stopped on the side of the road with flashers on (whether that be a dude with his hazards on, or an emergency vehicle with the lights going), you must either change lanes out of the bordering lane to pass, or slow down to some nebulous and arbitrary 'safe speed' to pass them. I just hit the turn signal and get out of the lane.
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The Locator posted:Not sure of what all this encompasses for you, but in Arizona it is a law that if there is a vehicle stopped on the side of the road with flashers on (whether that be a dude with his hazards on, or an emergency vehicle with the lights going), you must either change lanes out of the bordering lane to pass, or slow down to some nebulous and arbitrary 'safe speed' to pass them. I just hit the turn signal and get out of the lane. There's a law like this in Texas, you have to slow down twenty mph or get over a lane for police, emergency, and TXDoT vehicles. Lots of people interpret it as "freak the gently caress out and swerve over or slow down to twenty".
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EightBit posted:There's a law like this in Texas, you have to slow down twenty mph or get over a lane for police, emergency, and TXDoT vehicles. Lots of people interpret it as "freak the gently caress out and swerve over or slow down to twenty". We have that here, except people think that every lane needs to slow.
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EightBit posted:There's a law like this in Texas, you have to slow down twenty mph or get over a lane for police, emergency, and TXDoT vehicles. Lots of people interpret it as "freak the gently caress out and swerve over or slow down to twenty". In most places I've been, even people in oncoming traffic will jam on the brakes when they see a lit car. Doesn't matter if there's a huge concrete barrier or it's an 8 lane highway or whatever, I guess they feel like they gotta go 20 under the speed limit in case the officer decides to give up on whatever they're already doing and flip around to pull someone else over.
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The problem is when people slow down when the accident is on the OTHERSIDE of the highway across the big concrete barrier. Nothing to see assholes, keep moving.
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PaganGoatPants posted:The problem is when people slow down when the accident is on the OTHERSIDE of the highway across the big concrete barrier. Nothing to see assholes, keep moving. Yeah, we can't just have 1 accident anymore. It's got to be a cluster of 5 or 6 from idiots trying to get a picture with their phone to post on facebook "OMG i almost died to day look at this accident i was almost in"
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