[Magnolia Bloom]

Florida driver.
The rules are different here.
Get good insurance.

[Dallas Kitty]

Originally Posted by Wwanderer

Yeh, I looked it up. I had known generally what it meant, but being Canadian, it's not in my "genes", as it were, i.e. I'm not used to hearing it used.

But my main concern was really the dichotomy: if you're not bubba or yankee, what are you?

Yes, this is a great, fun thread. I've decided to work on haiku writing. My family's getting concerned for me.

No haiku yet? I came up with bubba/yankee because I've seen many posts complaining about "yankee" drivers. My imagination had "bubba" as the guy driving a PU, wearing no shirt, a beer in one hand and a birddog in the back. Have you ever seen "Deliverance" (old movie with Burt Reynolds)? I guess those types (the antagonists in the movie) are bubba on the bad side. However, I"m happy to say I have not seen any like that since I arrived in Florida.

I was thinking of creating a Canadian haiku. Did some browsing on CAN slang but I found that "canuck" could be used negatively so I stopped looking. Looks like hiknapster kinda got it started. We're waiting for yours!!!

[cw30000]

Originally Posted by Liza54

Fl drivers, I found, believe the person turning into the main road actually have the right of way. You slow down for them....they need to turn into the straightaway from the neighborhood, the Walmart, wherever- but everyone else slam on ur brakes- they're pulling in whether it's safe or not!

It's not FL drivers. They are call new driver. I once sit in a car when my sister drive. She turn on right signal and then move to the right lane the next sec. There was a car to the right of us. Luckily he braked.

I asked her, wtf was that. She said she has the right to right because she turn on the blinker.

[Cereshedge]

Drive from Thunder bay
Just to see the sun again
Go canuck yourself

Come on you know its funny, I was just on the phone with a buddy from Regina and he laughed

[Dallas Kitty]

Originally Posted by Cereshedge

Drive from Thunder bay
Just to see the sun again
Go canuck yourself

Come on you know its funny, I was just on the phone with a buddy from Regina and he laughed

I was just out running errands and as I drove, I was trying to think of something funny to write with canuck. You win!

[Reptoid Humidian]

+1 for that!!! ROFLMAO!!!

[Wwanderer]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Canadians
Worried about labels.
Why?

Funny. Well, we have an overwhelming desire to be liked!

But I'm not worried, just curious.

[gumbyfly]

Originally Posted by cw30000

It's not FL drivers. They are call new driver. I once sit in a car when my sister drive. She turn on right signal and then move to the right lane the next sec. There was a car to the right of us. Luckily he braked.

I asked her, wtf was that. She said she has the right to right because she turn on the blinker.

Headlines are the same:
"Young driver kills old driver."
Because they don't care.

[hiknapster]

I'm sure this is going to go over really well.

I lived in a retirement area, though, and it is a driving challenge, for certain.

Research on age-related driving concerns has shown that at around the age of 65 drivers face an increased risk of being involved in a vehicle crash. After the age of 75, the risk of driver fatality increases sharply, because older drivers are more vulnerable to both crash-related injury and death. Three behavioral factors in particular may contribute to these statistics: poor judgement in making left-hand turns; drifting within the traffic lane; and decreased ability to change behavior in response to an unexpected or rapidly changing situation.

Older Drivers, Elderly Driving, Seniors at the Wheel

For what it's worth - which is nothing - growing up in New England we only called French-Canadians "Canucks," wwanderer. It was the people of French-Canadian heritage that did so. I guess it spread to the entire country? I'm surprised. I have a lot of family in Ontario.

[Wwanderer]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

For what it's worth - which is nothing - growing up in New England we only called French-Canadians "Canucks," wwanderer. It was the people of French-Canadian heritage that did so. I guess it spread to the entire country? I'm surprised. I have a lot of family in Ontario.

Yeh, it's pretty well a generic term now that Canadians use--not sure how it is now used outside the country. Not surprised it used to be used in New England to refer to the Quebeckers, since there so many transplants from there. I can't remember what we called French Canadians here in Ontario when I was a kid--but I'm sure it was mildly derogatory. They were definitely second-class citizens in those days, here (my father was one, and he hid it.)