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Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - Mike Sellers - 03-18-2006
I always use turn signals unless I'm in a turn-only lane. Seems to be overly redundant in that situation since I don't have a choice. My wife disagrees though and has poisoned the minds of our children on this issue, resulting in lots of three-way nagging.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - Gutenberg - 03-18-2006
I actually got pulled over a few weeks ago because my left hand brake light was out. I had to file a repair ticket with the Motor Vehicles Administration. After I was done with the cop I drove straight to my mechanic, who replaced the bulb, wrote me out a repair ticket and refused to charge me, muttering all the time about how the cops don't do anything about the junkies on his corner but pull me over for a brake light. So the whole thing cost me half an hour and 39 cents for a stamp to send the repair ticket to the MVA.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - Marc Anthony - 03-18-2006
The thing that really cheeses me off is that there is no recourse to correct the selfish behavior of other drivers. Common courtesy is becoming as uncommon as sense.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - N-OS X-tasy! - 03-18-2006
Marc Anthony Wrote:
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> The thing that really cheeses me off is that there
> is no recourse to correct the selfish behavior of
> other drivers. Common courtesy is becoming as
> uncommon as sense.
Amen, sadly.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - Seacrest - 03-18-2006
My Dad, Josef Goebbels, instilled in me the notion that turn signal use should be a reflex. I use them without thinking about it.
Actually, I do everything without thinking.
EDIT: instilled, not installed. Boy, I am a geek.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - rgG - 03-18-2006
When my dad was first teaching me to drive, I forgot to use the turn signal. His response was, and I'll never forget it, "If you're not going to use them, we'll just ask them to leave them off the car the next time." I think of that whenever someone doesn't signal. I sometimes even say it out loud even though they can't hear it.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - wurm - 03-18-2006
Thanks for depressing me with that opening statistic, Seacrest. All the while I've been thinking it was just ignorance on everyone's part.
My kids have grown up hearing me curse at idiots who don't use them. Needless to say, they are both quite diligent in their use of them.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - decocritter - 03-18-2006
My dad used to say "you paid good money for those signals - use them"
He also said, "Drive Defensively, like your life depends on it! You just might be doing all the "right " things and still end up "dead right". I don't give a @!*# what the other guy is doing right or wrong.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - Randalls - 03-18-2006
I remember a comedian suggested people shoot at an offending driver's car with suction darts that say "IDIOT!" on them. When they get 20 darts on their car the cops pull them over and arrest them.
Re: ~400 of you people really cheese me off! - sscutchen - 03-18-2006
Randalls Wrote:
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> I remember a comedian suggested people shoot at an offending driver's car with suction darts that
> say "IDIOT!" on them. When they get 20 darts on their car the cops pull them over and arrest them.
That was Gallagher. It was an "a-hole" dart.
When the cop pulls the guy over, he says, "I'm giving you a ticket because you're an a-hole."
"How can you say that?"
"Because this is a democracy."