Driving Peeves: SUV's & Turn Signals

[KingNothing]

Wow, so much fighting on a board full of intellectuals. I would not have thunk it!

Anyway, the one thing that angers me the most is people who do not signal. As far as our (MN) law is concerned, if you do not signal, you do not have the right to turn. Furthermore, if you have your signal on, you are only legally able to turn that way.

I wish I was a police officer sometimes. I would give everyone tickets for this. Knowing who is going where is essential to the safest driving experience. Even when safety is not at stake, it is still hindering to other people's driving.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

...but some states have been known to simply refuse the Federal highway funding and stick to their own laws (I can't recall which one it was that was brought to my attention some time ago).

You might be thinking of Montana who during the energy crisis of the 70's when the national 55 mph speed limit was impose didn't want to implement it. To this the federal government threatened to yank the highway funds so Montana instated the 55 mph limit but only made speeding a five dollar fine, and here is the kicker it was a "wasting of natural resources ticket" didn't count as a moving violation or show up on your record. Got to love creative law writing.

 

[Gale]

i just decided today that i really hate tourists. i was driving around the last few days... and tourists are everywhere for some reason. i don't even get it. maybe cause its graduation season? family's visiting maybe? or its summer so people come back north? but I'm driving around behind all these stupid people who're driving so slow on every road, and pointing and slowing down everytime there's something somewhat scenic. i hate that. I'm like "hey, want to see something? watch this friendly native flip you the bird and honk her horn as she passes you because you're doing 20 in a 40!" but then i feel bad, cause us new hampshirites are s'posed to be friendly, small town folk...

 

[zoobyshoe]

...

My Latin's rusty. Is that "Silver Wolf"?

 

[dextercioby]

Zoobie,you got to be kidding right...?

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zoobie,you got to be kidding right...?

Daniel.

Not kidding at all. I haven't opened a Latin text in 40 years.

Edit: Just recalled that "wolf" would be "lupus". "Vulpus" = what, "fox"?

 

[dextercioby]

HINT:"Homo homini LUPUS" (Plautus,Roman drama writer).


Daniel.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Not kidding at all. I haven't opened a Latin text in 40 years.

Edit: Just recalled that "wolf" would be "lupus". "Vulpus" = what, "fox"?

Ding ding ding ding ding...

We have a winner, yes my name is the latan form of "Silver fox"

 

[zoobyshoe]

but then i feel bad, cause us new hampshirites are s'posed to be friendly, small town folk...

Hehehehe. Not in my sordid little home town. We used to give those "summah people" the old, New England Stephen King treatment.

 

[Moonbear]

You might be thinking of Montana who during the energy crisis of the 70's when the national 55 mph speed limit was impose didn't want to implement it. To this the federal government threatened to yank the highway funds so Montana instated the 55 mph limit but only made speeding a five dollar fine, and here is the kicker it was a "wasting of natural resources ticket" didn't count as a moving violation or show up on your record. Got to love creative law writing.

Oh, yes yes yes yes! That was it! Thanks! Very clever of them.

 

[hitssquad]

The long and winding road

all our roads are windy, (erm, not like breezey, but lots of turns...)

There is no such word as windy that is pronounced "whine dee." There are, however, winding roads and there are meandering roads which proceed windingly.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There is no such word as windy that is pronounced "whine dee." There are, however, winding roads and there are meandering roads which proceed windingly.

There's no such word as "oncet" either, but it appears in Tom Sawyer many times.

 

[Moonbear]

There is no such word as windy that is pronounced "whine dee." There are, however, winding roads and there are meandering roads which proceed windingly.

But it's more fun "hearing" her say it that way. If you're jumping into the melee, I think I'm the target for snipes tonight.

P.S. To everyone who's still busily expressing their pet peeves about driving, I apologize for being a contributor to the derailment of this thread. I'd be agreeable to a mentor splitting out the off-topic "discussion" about public transportation so that those who just want to continue griping about driving can do so without interruption.

 

[Evo]

But it's more fun "hearing" her say it that way. If you're jumping into the melee, I think I'm the target for snipes tonight.

P.S. To everyone who's still busily expressing their pet peeves about driving, I apologize for being a contributor to the derailment of this thread. I'd be agreeable to a mentor splitting out the off-topic "discussion" about public transportation so that those who just want to continue griping about driving can do so without interruption.

You just were one of many, myself included. Perhaps I will split those off, it will have to wait until tomorrow, that's labor intensive.

 

[Gale]

There is no such word as windy that is pronounced "whine dee." There are, however, winding roads and there are meandering roads which proceed windingly.

BAH! i vote windy is a word, exactly how i used it. i don't need to be confined to by the restrictions placed on me by society...

But it's more fun "hearing" her say it that way.

...thanks...

 

[Huckleberry]

I have also used windy referring to roads, as well as twisty, and turny. Those are the best roads for sightseeing.

 

[zoobyshoe]

BAH! i vote windy is a word, exactly how i used it. i don't need to be confined to by the restrictions placed on me by society...

If enough people say it, it will be a word. You will go down in history as the pioneer of the adjective "windy".

 

[Moonbear]

I have also used windy referring to roads, as well as twisty, and turny. Those are the best roads for sightseeing.

I call them fun roads, and they aren't for sightseeing, they're for zooming around the curves! I love driving windy roads.

 

[Huckleberry]

I guess they are good for everything except getting to where you want to go quickly.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I have the distinct impression that the people who don't like what I have related about the way I drive don't know the freeways here in California. The fast lane here is the fast lane not the passing lane. We have freeways with up to six or more lanes of traffic on either side of the freeway. There are also quite a few drivers out there. Unless you are driving in the middle of the night, and I mean 3 or 4 in the morning, there are very rarely several open lanes just fewer cars and bigger gaps to drive through in the traffic. It's no more dangerous for the person who has cozied up to my bumper to change lanes than it is for me to do so and condsidering that I will have to slow down in order to move into the slower traffic it is possibly more dangerous for me to be doing so considering that I have someone riding the bumper of my car.
Also I drive at about 80mph because that's about the speed of traffic. If I were to drive the speed limit I would probably be antagonizing far more people than I do driving above it. I am routinely passed by CHP while driving at that speed and have not once been stopped. Like I said previously, here it's normal. The speed limit signs might as well say 75mph is the speed limit. I'm personally considered a rather safe driver among the rest of the people on these roads.

 

[Moonbear]

I have the distinct impression that the people who don't like what I have related about the way I drive don't know the freeways here in California. The fast lane here is the fast lane not the passing lane. We have freeways with up to six or more lanes of traffic on either side of the freeway. There are also quite a few drivers out there. Unless you are driving in the middle of the night, and I mean 3 or 4 in the morning, there are very rarely several open lanes just fewer cars and bigger gaps to drive through in the traffic. It's no more dangerous for the person who has cozied up to my bumper to change lanes than it is for me to do so and condsidering that I will have to slow down in order to move into the slower traffic it is possibly more dangerous for me to be doing so considering that I have someone riding the bumper of my car.
Also I drive at about 80mph because that's about the speed of traffic. If I were to drive the speed limit I would probably be antagonizing far more people than I do driving above it. I am routinely passed by CHP while driving at that speed and have not once been stopped. Like I said previously, here it's normal. The speed limit signs might as well say 75mph is the speed limit. I'm personally considered a rather safe driver among the rest of the people on these roads.

That does clarify a good deal of it. I still don't agree with the idea of tapping the brakes. Just remember to cool it when you travel to another state, 'kay?

 

[Huckleberry]

I remember driving through LA during rush hour on my way to Pomona. It is pretty darn crazy. Bumper to bumper traffic for miles all moving along very quickly. Yeah, going the speed limit in that situation would be slowing everyone down and everyone is bumper to bumper all over the place. Very unsafe. I didn't like it one bit, not being familiar with the roads and where I needed to be on them to get where I wanted to go. Not something I would look forward to every day.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

a) If there's enough of a gap between you and the car in front of you to permit you to speed to prevent him from merging, either you were going too slowly in the fast lane to begin with...

If I take my foot off the gas and slow down it's as much to annoy him as it is to make sure that I'm as far behind the person in front of me as possible if I have to slam on my brakes...

...or b) by speeding out of spite, you've now closed the gap to the "innocent" car in front of you to a dangerous level, congratulations. Ironically, you're now tailgating that car in front of you.

When I speed up I don't gun my car and I don't tailgate the person in front of me I just want the jerk to know that I was going slow for a reason...

Did you miss these parts of what I said even as you quoted them?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

That does clarify a good deal of it. I still don't agree with the idea of tapping the brakes. Just remember to cool it when you travel to another state, 'kay?

I do... I already learned my lesson by getting a speeding ticket in OR of driving 80mph. :-)

 

[brewnog]

Gale, I think I said 'windy' earlier in this thread too!

Tell you what, you get it approved in the US, I'll get it approved in the UK, and we can share the profits we make from copyrighting it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Gale, I think I said 'windy' earlier in this thread too!

Tell you what, you get it approved in the US, I'll get it approved in the UK, and we can share the profits we make from copyrighting it.

D you think "windey" would be a better spelling, or would that just complicate things?

 

[brewnog]

D you think "windey" would be a better spelling, or would that just complicate things?

That's how I typed it first, and thought "that just looks daft, it must be windy".

I'm more than happy to introduce yet another word which is spelt the same as something else, but prononced differently. What's that called? A heterophone?

 

[Danger]

A heterophone?

I don't actually care whether or not your phone is gay. We also use the term 'windy' in reference to roads, strictly as a colloquialism. It sure has no 'e' in it. As you said, that's just daft.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm more than happy to introduce yet another word which is spelt the same as something else, but prononced differently. What's that called? A heterophone?

I can't find "heterophone" in the Websters.

 

[brewnog]

I can't find "heterophone" in the Websters.

I can't find it in my Oxford either. Anyway, the opposite of a homophone.