Topic: Driving Can Be Frustrating (Read 33747 times)

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #200 on:** December 22, 2008, 10:17:25 PM »

So I just drove for six hours at night from Kansas City to Oklahoma City.

There were no stars. (cloud cover)

That is the spookiest shit ever in east Kansas where the only light in the world is your headlights and dash indicators. It's like you are driving in the Mario Kart Rainbow Road but the road is only grey. The black abyss lies to either side.

Dooly · « **Reply #201 on:** December 23, 2008, 11:31:00 PM »

So western Washington's had more snowfall in the last few days than in the decade leading up to it. With the suburban side roads like the one on which my house is located not being plowed at all, and the main roads not plowed particularly well, driving around town is a bitch.

Rico · « **Reply #202 on:** December 24, 2008, 11:24:38 AM »

I haven't had any problems driving in it with my pimpin' 93 Civic except for dodging every other person on the road who is crazy as fuck and still trying to go 60 down Aurora.

Thad · « **Reply #203 on:** December 27, 2008, 11:28:46 PM »

Came home tonight to find that company had parked in front of the driveway.

In front of their car, parked at the curb, was Brad's girlfriend's car. Then there was about a car length of space in front of that, and then our recycling can. It was perfect, as if somebody had deliberately set it up as a parallel parking test.

Which I then failed, because I hit the can. In my defense, I made a conscious decision to err on the side of hitting the can rather than hitting the car.

Niku · « **Reply #204 on:** January 14, 2009, 12:08:53 PM »

So my bank account balance is now higher than the cost to finish paying off my car. I'm thinking of giving it another paycheck or two for grace period, and then washing my hands of indentured servitude to a failing industry.

My family's response has uniformally been "Oh, you should take the remainder of that note / finish paying off that note and then roll it over into getting a new car."

What the fuck am I missing here? Why does everyone around me seem to think that "not having to pay a monthly bill anymore" should directly translate into "pay another monthly bill for the next five years"?

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #205 on:** January 14, 2009, 12:17:31 PM »

BECAUSE NEW CARS ARE AWESOME NIKU GOD WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU

Brentai · « **Reply #206 on:** January 14, 2009, 12:45:14 PM »

Because monthly expenses are the American status quo. Seriously, there's something unsettling to the modern American when they hear someone say "Oh, my car is paid off." They know you are out of step. You're not doing it right.

Really. Be honest. Deep down you feel it a little bit too.

(My car is paid off btw, but it's also from 1995.)

Doom · « **Reply #207 on:** January 14, 2009, 12:53:50 PM »

And you still pay insurance, so they're upset that you are not paying as many bills as they are.

Ocksi · « **Reply #208 on:** January 14, 2009, 03:34:29 PM »

typically the smartest thing to do is continue making your car payment after it's paid off, but instead of to anyone, just into a special savings account. this way, when your current car has trouble or it is time to get a new one, you've been setting aside the funds that your budget is already designed to have set aside, rather than down the road being surprised and having something out of budget fux yo shit.

Kayma · « **Reply #209 on:** January 27, 2009, 08:43:39 PM »

I've never known anyone in my family to own a new car. In the Kayma clan, leasing is the devil and new cars are sinful. That's why I drive an '89.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #210 on:** February 03, 2009, 05:43:50 PM »

This afternoon, I was driving to school, and this blue mustang just cannot stand driving behind me. It had already attempted to cut me off as I was making a right turn unto the road at school. In his impatience and need to be total hot shit, he pulls to the side of me, and I decide to be a dick and match his speed because I hate impatient drivers. So he revs his engine and gets up to 60 and cuts me off.

And as he's pulling in front of me I notice his license plate says "2 L8 i 1".

Never have I felt the urge to just ram into the back of a car and keep pushing it into traffic as I did at that moment.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #211 on:** February 03, 2009, 05:46:46 PM »

As a driver with road rage, I can say I would have been sooo pissed off by that. Getting cut off is bad enough, but by such a fucking stupid dick with a plate like that, I'd wanna punch someone in the face.

Brentai · « **Reply #212 on:** February 03, 2009, 07:20:17 PM »

Follow him. Steal his plates.

Fucking inconvenient, forces him to get something different, and unless he's got a noisy alarm on the thing you'll probably actually get away with it.

Seriously though what cockfuck DMV would allow o rite texas

Arc · « **Reply #213 on:** February 03, 2009, 11:30:09 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on February 03, 2009, 05:43:50 PM

he pulls to the side of me, and I decide to be a dick and match his speed

YOU ARE IN TENTH GRADE.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #214 on:** February 07, 2009, 07:59:24 PM »

My mom intentionally ran a red light just to piss me off today. I think she wants to kill us in a firey car explosion sometimes. She thinks it's funny, but it's really just horrifically stupid and dumb. She sucks at driving and her driving makes me crazy whenever I'm forced to be in a car with her. It isn't FUNNY to drive terribly. It's dangerous and stupid.

Mongrel · « **Reply #215 on:** February 07, 2009, 08:02:54 PM »

Heh.

My mother's basic operating principle behind the wheel is "The Road Is Wherever I Point The Car."

Lady Duke · « **Reply #216 on:** February 10, 2009, 07:08:16 PM »

So last night I went to Concord with my friend Katie in her recently-acquired car. She went to hang out with some guy and I spent the evening with Kazz and TF2. Her gas guage had been off, or so she'd told me before we even got to Concord, and on the way home she had me drive, which is fine. No big deal. We're driving along, and we pass a few exits, and then the car starts sort of jolting forward like it's trying desperately to shift gears. I'm like "dude, this car is not shifting" and she's like "oh my fucking god this car" and then I realize, "Oh no, we're out of gas." The guage was wrong anyway, but it was immediately apparent that was the case. I txted Kazz (thank god for you cell phone) and he was going to come to the rescue with a can of gas. While waiting, the battery died. Awesome. The car would not jump when Kazz got there, so he saved us and everyone spent the night at my house once we got home about 2:30 am.

Good times, cars. But in the crappy car's defense, I had more fun sitting in the dead car waiting for Kazz than I had playing TF2 last night. I could not stop laughing about how crappy it was to be stuck in a dead car, but it was so funny. I don't know why I react that way to these sorts of things.

Büge · « **Reply #217 on:** February 10, 2009, 07:36:09 PM »

Hey, you had it better than my friend and I coming home from Toronto on Saturday night.

Someone had bashed his windshield. It wasn't broken all the way, but they got it pretty good. Luckily (I guess) it had been on the passenger side. So he spent the trip home cursing like John McEnroe while I had horrible visions of wind-propelled glass shards lacerating my face.

SCD · « **Reply #218 on:** February 11, 2009, 10:30:45 PM »

Quote from: Lady Duke on February 10, 2009, 07:08:16 PM

Good times, cars. But in the crappy car's defense, I had more fun sitting in the dead car waiting for Kazz than I had playing TF2 last night. I could not stop laughing about how crappy it was to be stuck in a dead car, but it was so funny. I don't know why I react that way to these sorts of things.

Shared hardship has an uncanny way of creating satisfaction. Oddly enough, some of my favorite memories involve being stranded in hellish situations, and the moments that arose due to it.

Right now, I'm being a total dick when driving, while driving stick. I downshift more than I brake, and I love to coast whenever possible.

No accidents yet.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #219 on:** February 11, 2009, 10:32:14 PM »

Not a driving complaint, but today I saw a car with the license plate "TMNTLVR".

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