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Bright sunny day, saw someone had flipped a honda civic on a road with a decent amount of traffic, and traffic lights every few blocks. I just stared and wondered how??
Bright sunny day, saw someone had flipped a honda civic on a road with a decent amount of traffic, and traffic lights every few blocks. I just stared and wondered how??
LOL yeah, pretty hard to imagine.
I've seen people stop in the middle of the freeway, put the car in reverse, and back up in a traffic lane (no room on the shoulder) to take an exit they missed rather than just go another mile and take the next one. Make left turns from the right hand lane across four lanes of traffic and vice versa. Stop at the top of the on-ramp. Merge onto the freeway at 40 mph and beeline for the fast lane before accelerating any faster. Watching people try and parallel park is always hilarious. I mean, I live in suburbia so it's not like I'm that good at it, but I can at least get my car into a spot that would fit two cars in less than five attempts.
Just today. Morning rush hour on side street. Long line of traffic backed up at an intersection. Jacked up pickup truck ahead. Drives over curb onto a sidewalk and passes app 10 cars on the road and then goes back into intersection to turn right.
I also have a relative who is a dyed in the wool road rager. I could write a book on some of his antics.
Actually that's pretty good driving. The production is not too great. The scenes don't make a lot of sense, but the driving is pretty good.
A lot of movies I thought where cool in college in the '80s make little sense now, cinema has evolved to the CGI masterpieces we have today. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Most of the driving I did in San Francisco on my motorcycle was questionable! Funniest was meeting going over a hill too hot, front wheel comes up, steep hill and I landed hard, and...there was a van at the bottom, for the light. I didn't plow into him but had a bad few seconds there. That was certainly...less-than-stellar driving.
The first, and I pray nearly-last, driving *on the sidewalk* I did was in SF, on a Friday afternoon getting onto the Bay Bridge. Those who live there might know what I mean, pretty much total gridlock. I'm not sitting in that, on a bike. So, sidewalk it was...once, anyway.
Second time was aftermath of the Nisqually Quake here in Seattle, 2001. Didn't know how bad the damage was, obviously takes time for news to catch up to disasters, but from the damage in Issaquah WA I assumed the worst. Wrongly, thankfully, it turned out. I was on a Triumph Tiger adventure bike as my commuter, I went around everybody and everything like Mad Max getting to my then-home in Mill Creek WA in record time. Over sidewalks, passed cars and other obstacles, road down an embankment onto the I-90 freeway because all the lights were out, traffic at a mostly-standstill for a few hours. Weird.
All was well-enough, I even turned around and went back to the office few hours later. Our building took moderate damage but was cleared by the fire department within not too many days. We were all in the process of being laid off anyway, dot.com bust, so I didn't have too much skin in the game.
So, some might say I'm the worst driver that I know, to answer the question.
The Nisqually Quake wiped out a few unstable structures in greater Seattle, and damaged SeaTac's tower. Didn't fly out next day on a business trip as planned. They've upgraded some of the buildings since, a blessing "of sorts" though an expensive lesson. Few or no fatalities, thankfully. Again, it looked waaay worse than it was, where I was, and I didn't hesitate to go Vin Diesel to get my a** back to the house and my property.
I did a full 360 on blackice in a jeep. Never knew what black ice was til it was over. It was a four lane street, on coming traffic just stopped as I gleaned thru the spin. Every driver had that holy $hit look. Mine was in my pants lol! Seriously it was not my finest wake up call ...I pulled over after that. To this day...anyone thinking an suv is safer in snow/ice/ sleet is mistaken. I no longer get near suvs in wintertime.. I know they are as susceptible as any other vehicles of losing control. Ice does that.
Wouldn't have mattered if I was going 10mph...
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