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Kerry:
--- Quote from: southendmd on September 06, 2008, 09:30:09 pm ---Rude and aggressive driving is the norm here in Boston. It's the slow drivers I can't stand; I always seem to be behind them. They inch along, and then invariably run a red light!
Cell phone use in public is a huge problem. Why do people shout into their phones? It ain't necessary. I try to duck into a corner and be discreet, rather than those who just walk along, blathering at the top of their lungs!
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:laugh: This must be universal, Paul. Same thing happens, here in Sydney. They crawl along, hogging the road and then accelerate at great speed when the traffic lights turn amber, leaving you, furious and fuming, at the red light. :-\
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Kerry on September 06, 2008, 11:06:57 pm --- :laugh: This must be universal, Paul. Same thing happens, here in Sydney. They crawl along, hogging the road and then accelerate at great speed when the traffic lights turn amber, leaving you, furious and fuming, at the red light. :-\
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Sure enough, my antipodean friend!
injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on September 06, 2008, 11:06:57 pm --- :laugh: This must be universal, Paul. Same thing happens, here in Sydney. They crawl along, hogging the road and then accelerate at great speed when the traffic lights turn amber, leaving you, furious and fuming, at the red light. :-\
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what irritates me is, I will be driving along, after finally getting my little four cylinder up to speed after a stop light and someone will pull out in front of me requiring me to put the break on...and looking in the rear view mirror to see NO ONE IN SIGHT>.....so if they had waited two seconds I could have gone and they could have pulled out behind me. ::) ::)
they are really counting on me being a nice person that has a sense of self preservation....they don't know how close they come....sometimes I think I could just go ahead and ram their behinds...
(and they NEVER do this when I am driving the F350 by itself....they will if I am hauling a big ol horse trailer or a load of hay but not when it is just the truck itself....why is that, I wonder?)
injest:
One time we were hauling five horses to a show in Athens....now we are talking a Ford F350, a five horse slant trailer with a dressing room, five horses (by themselves weighing almost three tons) barreling along at 60 MPH. You can't stop suddenly when you are hauling lifestock, they lose their footing and can seriously injure themselves...
and a woman in a little white subcompact pulled out in front of us.
You want scared? My husband laid on the horn and the brakes and finally took the truck and trailer over on the shoulder, because she wasnt' moving...how he managed to not flip it, I dont' know.
and she honked at us and flipped us the bird....
>:( >:( >:(
Mandy21:
--- Quote from: injest on September 07, 2008, 08:38:07 am ---One time we were hauling five horses to a show in Athens....now we are talking a Ford F350, a five horse slant trailer with a dressing room, five horses (by themselves weighing almost three tons) barreling along at 60 MPH. You can't stop suddenly when you are hauling lifestock, they lose their footing and can seriously injure themselves...
and a woman in a little white subcompact pulled out in front of us.
You want scared? My husband laid on the horn and the brakes and finally took the truck and trailer over on the shoulder, because she wasnt' moving...how he managed to not flip it, I dont' know.
and she honked at us and flipped us the bird....
>:( >:( >:(
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That's an interesting little factoid, Jess. I didn't know that about the livestock losing their footing. I'm always fascinated when I pull up next to a trailer with a horse in it, looking out at me, wondering what the heck I'm doing. I always wonder what he or she might be thinking as they're watching the world go by, without moving their legs at all. They must find it very strange indeed. So yes, I guess it would be very easy for them to lose their bearings if that world suddenly started moving much slower than the one they'd adjusted to. Hmmm... Will be especially careful to stay far, far away from horse trailers next time I'm out driving in the country. Thx!
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