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Snow brings out the worst of my Italian ancestry. Aggressive much?
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Grr... @#$& SNOW. Tourists! Transplanted New Yorkers! Argh! Learn how to drive in the snow. You live in the northeast. DJ had karate at the Y in Stroudsburg today and it took us over an hour to get home thanks to the goobers who lose their minds when it snows. They either think it's completely safe to do 70 mph on rte. 80 or they slow down to a crawl 600 yards from their turn. Get behind a PennDOT convoy and use reasonable caution like every other normal person.
Even DJ was getting a little road rage. He was shaking his fist and shouting at other drivers, "Where'd you get your license, you hippo?! From a box of cereal with a decoder ring?!" Makes me wonder what Walt shouts at other drivers when DJ's in the car.
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DS (20) and I have been driving together a lot lately too and it's hilarious to hear some of the things we both come up with. Nothing to compare to hippos getting decoder ring driver's licenses though. I've been wishing we hadn't sold DH's Star Trek phaser toy in a garage sale a few years ago -- we used to keep it in the car and "vapourize" the idiot drivers.
Now that's one word I never realized Brits/Canadians had a 'u' in.
Sorry about the drivers. I myself was a little irked to get whipped by some giant pickup with Arizona plates---I wasn't so sure he should have been so confident in his snow-driving skillz. Otherwise, during snowstorms I'm the nervous nelly who never makes it out of second gear.
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Hippo?
The only bad thing I think I yelled tonight driving home was for some moron who didn't have his lights on, in the dark, in the snow. I also might have mumbled a few curses at a couple of people riding up my tail. I can only go as fast as the people in front of me. [IMG]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/36/36_5_11.gif[/IMG]
My usual rant is "It's *%&$&$*$ New England you #&&$*%)!!! Did you not KNOW that it snows in New England?? Learn to drive in it!" I try to restrain myself when Ryan is in the car but after hearing him use the name of a major religious figure in vain the other day, realized I may not be entirely successful.
Rachel. To be proper British spelling I believe it's actually "vapourise" with an S instead of a Z but I'm kind of lazy and interchange them at whim. That's one of the benefits of being Canadian - I get to pick whether I want to go with my British roots that I learned in school or follow the American culture that we're immersed in through the media. I have a hard time dropping the "u" out of words because they just look wrong but to spell surprise or realise with an "s" instead of a "zed" looks weird too.
Here it's not snow, it's RAIN. And I mean it can come down buckets. Some folks here think it's ok to drive 70 with no lights during a thunderstorm, when you can't see 6 feet in front of you. Not to mention the idiots that drive through those "low spots" and flood out, needing to be rescued by the fire dept. I think maybe it's time everybody took Driver's Ed as a refresher course. Maybe "How to drive in the State I live in".
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Here it's not snow, it's RAIN. And I mean it can come down buckets. Some folks here think it's ok to drive 70 with no lights during a thunderstorm, when you can't see 6 feet in front of you. Not to mention the idiots that drive through those "low spots" and flood out, needing to be rescued by the fire dept. I think maybe it's time everybody took Driver's Ed as a refresher course. Maybe "How to drive in the State I live in".
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Ditto MaryBeth, "How to Drive on the Gulf Coast during a Tropical Downpour" We have people that drive very slow on I-10 with their flashers on...
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Even DJ was getting a little road rage. He was shaking his fist and shouting at other drivers, "Where'd you get your license, you hippo?! From a box of cereal with a decoder ring?!" Makes me wonder what Walt shouts at other drivers when DJ's in the car.
Chrissi, I am crying and laughing over that DJism That one wins as the best DJism ever !!!.....
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Here it's not snow, it's RAIN. And I mean it can come down buckets. Some folks here think it's ok to drive 70 with no lights during a thunderstorm, when you can't see 6 feet in front of you. Not to mention the idiots that drive through those "low spots" and flood out, needing to be rescued by the fire dept. I think maybe it's time everybody took Driver's Ed as a refresher course. Maybe "How to drive in the State I live in".
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Florida is just as bad with the rain.... it never ceases to amaze me how the people can not drive in rain in Florida.
Lots more snow here this morning - it's gonna be a long commute and I totally hear you guys about the people that shouldn't be out in it. The worst for me are the tractor-trailer drivers going down I-84 doing 80 mph in this stuff!
The middle of the country is no stranger to the wierd drivers, either. Yesterday was drizzly (is that even a word?) with good visibility and no "black ice", but an LOM (Little Old Man) was creeping along about 15-20 mph, pumping his brakes any time the road deviated from totally straight!
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I got stuck 6 cars behind a moron going 20mph in a 40mph zone.... sure it was snowing, but it wasn't sticking to the road!!!! They must have been daydreaming at all the pretty snow falling around them.....
Great DJism. My brother (also a DJ) is a very good but aggresive driver. He's a firefighter so he drives all his vehicles like he's driving a fire truck. Someone once yelled at my brother "where'd you get your license ? the sears and roebucks catalog?" He replied "no, Montgomery Wards". I thought the guy was going to run us off the road - he was not amused.
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Tourists! Transplanted New Yorkers! Argh! Learn how to drive in the snow. You live in the northeast. 
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Now that's one word I never realized Brits/Canadians had a 'u' in. 
I also might have mumbled a few curses at a couple of people riding up my tail. I can only go as fast as the people in front of me. 
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Ditto MaryBeth, "How to Drive on the Gulf Coast during a Tropical Downpour" We have people that drive very slow on I-10 with their flashers on...
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