this is probably tame compared what else is posted in this section of the forum, but I don't know where else to post it.

It might also seem quite inconsequential to most, but hey I'm bored.

So I was doing a delivery, it's raining lightly and of course its evening, so my headlights are on low. I'm sitting at a stop light facing an old(er) lady that has her low on too, but one side is out. On the opposite side, her parking light is out too. She proceeds to flash me once, then keeps her highs on. I'm thinking, WTF?

I'm sitting in a brand new Honda Fit with standard bulbs and original aim (which is kinda low), and she thinks my lights are too bright or something?!? She's across from me in a WIDE intersection, meaning my cut off is already at her bumper!

If she wants bright, I'll oblige. I then high beam her to show her the error of her ways.

She promptly puts her lights back on low.

 

some people high-beam traffic sensors thinking it'll speed up the green light timing. i'd bet the thought of blinding/annoying on coming traffic didn't even cross her mind till you flashed her.

take a chill tablet. not everyone on the road is out to annoy you, it took me a while to accept that too

 

People are annoying and bad drivers, fact of life, lol. On the way home today I had an oddly high number of people in the fast lane going under the speed limit who did not oblige and move over to the right. I don't know how it is in other states, but it is expected for cars to move over here in Texas. Very frustrating, but you just got to keep your cool.

I've never heard of people flashing the green light sensors. That would be retarded if that's what she was doing.

 

The trick is to keep cool and not be dragged into the "I can be an asshole too" competition. On my way home this afternoon, I watched these two idiots taking turns cutting each other off, weaving in and out of traffic because one wouldn't yield the left lane to the other. Between the two of them they pissed off about eight people and nearly caused two collisions, all because they didn't want to be the one who backed down. Times like this i am glad I commute in and out EARLY! The only exception to this was last thursday and i got rear-ended (as if to prove the point) LOL And Baylor, I'm with you man, drive right pass left should be the law of the land.

 

It's like the first day I drove the Fit from the dealer a little over two weeks ago.

I'm going on highway, in the middle of three lanes. This woman comes off the ramp, and nearly side swipes me. The problem was... it was a brand new car (for me), so I moved to the left lane while trying to honk (like she cares?!?), and she STILL moved into the lane. I mean, seriously?!? From the entrance ramp to the middle lane!!! I was having hell trying to drive, make sure the lane to the left was clear for me to swerve into, honking at her so she doesn't continue to run into me... and all on a M/T!!!

***that was the first day in five years that I drove an M/T. Five years ago, was the only day after another five years... so yeah, REALLY rusty on the stick. Not a day to test my driving skills.

It wasn't even like there was a car in the right lane blocking her. She was free and clear.

HAHA... yeah, it's gotten to the point where it would have to be mega strength of chill to have any effect now. Put me naked in the Arctic, and it still wouldn't be enough to cool me off.

As for the green light sensor... I thought it was based of infra-red light that shouldn't be affected by headlights (high beam or otherwise). Not that the lady looked like she was slick enough to know.

 

haha, no worries man. i still curse, honk, and one finger salute a.holes on the road every now and then.

my fiance's uncle works for LA installing and calibrating stop light sensors. i'm not positive but pretty sure different city's have their own street light technology - depends on what they can afford. in my city they use sensors built into the ground that time lights based on the number of cars at a stop, time of day, and speed of traffic. in some areas of downtown long beach they use infrared sensors.

 

I'm at the point of realizing that we all can be aholes - thing is some people just seem to be my type of ahole or visaversa...... so let the games begin

 

Hum? They use infrared sensors for regular traffic? In a couple of areas like around Chicago and San Diego, I know they use the infrared sensors for emergency vehicles, not regular traffic flow.

I usually just look at the ground to see if there's an in-ground sensor. A big rectangular or circular rubber filled cut with a line going off to the side is a good indicator.

 

I put a rather large dent in the hood of my 1 month old Fit.

It wasn't an accident, did not involve another car. it wasn't even moving.

I was in a heated argument with my sister about how I treat cars, actually about the way her husband perceives me treating him in vehicles. Her husband had been accusing me of taking better care of my car compared to how I took care of his pathfinder. Twice, in anger, I damaged the PF. Broke the center console cover/armrest and kicked/made a dent into the trunk. Incidentally, they also were immediately after "talking" to my sister.

A few other facts (mostly in my defense), I took better care of the truck than they did. Within a week of me borrowing their truck, I cleaned it of all the trash they left in there. I wiped down the seats and dash, tried to clean off as much of the ink they let their kids put into the leather surfaces. Dealt with repairs and other maintenance. This past winter, I put a brand new set of tires on it... $700 set of Michellin LTX M/S2, supposedly one of the better, if not the best rated tires for all seasons... While they knew I had already been planning on getting a new car for myself.

So, why did he accuse me of such thing? Because on the second time he let the seatbelt buckle hit the glass, I asked him to be a little more careful. The sound of metal hitting glass scares me, on top of the fear of him breaking the glass. Actually, The incident that sparked the actual argument was when he left trash in the door handle, and i asked him not to (I won't go into it, but it's more about what the trash was, let's just say, I'm getting a bit more "germaphobic"). He's done few things in the PF that I wished he wouldn't do, some of the same things I just mentioned to him in my car. The problem was... what would I say, if I complained (while in his PF) and he responded with... "This is my truck." so, I felt like I had no choice but to keep quiet when in his truck... but, being in my own car, I felt I now have the right to say something.

So... when my sister wouldn't let up on me, I took my steel lined 52 oz bubba keg and whacked the hood of my brand new car (breaking my bubba keg). Then I asked her if she was happy, now that I've shown that I will treat all cars the same.

Oh, apparently, I dented the rear hatch too. This argument had been going on for a couple of days... Last night I kicked the hatch where the license plate was... Causing it to buckle and create a crease where the inner depression starts.

 

Man you need to get laid.... I was bad about losing it for most of my life but getting old has leveled me out quite a bit... I imagine the legally acquired prescription morphine has some influence on my new outlook.

 

for sure.

if my dad is any indication... age may not help me as much (if at all).

this one, I'm totally not sure of. I'm not a big fan of drugs, legal or otherwise. I'm reluctant about even taking Tylenol when I need to.

But mostly, my sister needs to back off. She keeps pushing my buttons to get me more and more pissed off. She expects me to bend over backwards to accommodate her husband. That it's okay for him to be an ass and insult me, or otherwise intentionally poke fun of me without having to apologize, while I have to bottle up my feelings, keep everything I say in check and apologize for anything I do say. Funny, that she thinks pissing me off would make things better.

 

Yep, I haven't seen my sister in 16 years and would never call her or answer the phone if I saw it was her on the caller ID..... Being alienated from family members is sometimes a very good thing.... It sounds like your brother in law is a real life troll.

 

Ahh the stupidity of (today's) youth.

Let's start with sometime last week. It was rather late in the evening while I was waiting around to do delivery orders. A medium sized mob of pedestrian teens (20+) were trying to cross from one corner to the diagonally opposite corner with a police car waiting at the light. All they had to do was cross two streets, right? So, why did it end up with THREE police units, one jaywalking ticket and a threat of another? The cause? When some ofthe brats decided to cross the second street WHILE the cars had a green and were still coming (one guy honked). I mean, really? Just cross the freaking street when you can and get the F of the road. Even when the cops had gotten fed up, and "chased them home," they still refused to stay off the streets... I know you're waiting to cross the road, but until you get your light, maybe you could try to avoid getting run over by not standing in the road.

Then, two days ago, I was doing a delivery late in the evening, so it was quite dark. It was only once I was halfway across the intersection, did I notice a bunch of teens bicycling on the other road. The lead bicyclist looked like he was swerving to avoid hitting me, which seems to indicate (to me) they weren't paying attention either. I mean, really... if you're gonna bike at night, either gets some headlights, wear light, reflective clothes and/or get off the freaking road. It doesn't help that the burbs like their roads dark.

Then there's today. So there's a fairly large park (1 block long by 1/2 block wide in size). The major street corner is where incident #1 also took place. A couple of teens (6 or 7 of them) cross the whole park, walk past the sidewalk to stand around in the street, chatting it up. Cars going by have to actually go out of their way to avoid them. At one point, I thought they wisened up when they all moved onto the sidewalk... only to be proven wrong when half of them ended standing back on the road a minute later. I was parked nearby and would have to drive past them (one way road) to get anywhere... So, when I did, I revved up quite loudly before moving and then blew by them, hopefully, close enough to scare them into realizing what they shouldn't be doing. They were gone by the time I came back from the delivery.

 

OK...so the thread keeps going...here we go....

About 3 weeks ago, I went to the grocery store...the only time I park 5 cars away from the Handicap section is the day i get a nasty door dent. It almost seems as whoever did it, just did it on purpose. The dent it's not like a line, it's more like a quater size circle, someone saw the car that was nice looking and decided to bang on the driver side door (as if the did it with a round head hammer) It looks nasty!

 

Well, here we go again...On Sunday, I went out to Wallie world and parked far far far away (about 50 car spaces away). Apparently some dumb idiot decided to drive foward and squeeze between my car and the one 1 space over on the opposite side. Well, when this lazy idiot did that, IT did not clear my car, as a result I ended up with a nasty scrape on the passenger right front bumber by the foglight....the car is yellow from the paint left over.....PEOPLE JUST DON'T HAVE RESPECT FOR NICE CARS ANYMORE!!!!!!! WTF????????????????

 

Keep in mind that every vehicle on the road with you is being driven by someone you don't know and have no knowledge of their driving skills. If you don't expect anything of them you won't be disappointed.

 

Karma baby, Karma.

 

The only dents in the body work on my car is from letting my wife drive it to Wal-Mart . I think the cart pushers used it for a target.

 

Came back from Germany yesterday 9PM(1 month long vacation!). Woke up this morning and saw that what I had thought was a tar string was actually a through the paint scrawl on my 4350mile Fit's front bumper, also on the passenger side corner between headlight and foglight. Also, unknown previous tiny dent next to rear license plate? (WTF!) OK, washed it and went back home. Seriously jet-lagged but when it wears off will post a link to some cool pics I took over there... Went to a hill-climb one weekend and a classic car meet on another. Went to Aschaffenburg, Hamburg (the Reeperbahn, hell yeah!), Braunschweig, Munich (200th anniversary Oktoberfest!), Frankfurt, Cologne, and a dozen smaller locales. Never drove, but rode in my cousin's 1992 Celica GT-i 16 at an indicated 220km/h (137.5mph). We cruised in his wife's Corolla 5-door at 190km/h (119mph) for miles with 3 adults and a baby in a carseat - imagine the Child Protective Services attitude if a trooper dinged someone for driving that fast with a toddler in the U.S.! Simply put, drivers are better-trained, roads are in better condition, and cars are subject to much stricter safety inspections in Germany than they are here so it is absolutely normal to drive that way over there... Also rode in a friend's Mini Cooper S Cabrio top-down at over 210km/h on the autobahn and then bombed down some country roads in Bavaria, cold wind whippin' in but with the electric butt-warmers cranked up under the leather seats. OK, gotta go - only slept 4 hrs and am feelin' woozy............................................. ...............

 

Why?

Does stupid shit have to happen (to me, in this case).

So, I was slightly annoyed about a delivery order being made, that it was scheduled for 45 minutes from time of order, when orders can easily get delayed past that.

But, that was just a stupid little pet peeve I have. After I drop off that order, as I'm driving away, I hear a loud "thunk."

Look to my passenger window and notice the "splash" pattern of a snowball hit... except, it was slush.

Some stupid punks were throwing "slushballs" at people passing by.

This problem only gets worse for me... As you can imagine. I was majorly pissed off (wouldn't you be?), but I was pissed off on an empty stomach. Instant pain!

On the other hand, I consider them (and myself) lucky that I don't have a bat or crowbar in the car (going to jail for beating the shit out of them just isn't worth it). I have a short temper.