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Bracing for impact...
So this is just to make me feel better (see if im weird or what)
on any given day, i drive on major highways quite a lot. and perhaps ive just seen too many crazy things while driving or had one too many close calls, but i always find myself "bracing for impact" or in other words, preparing for the worst. for instance, i always keep a keen eye on the mile marking in case i have to call 911 to report and accident and its location on the highway. Ive had to do that before and the mile marker was down and in the chaos i totally blanked out and forgot what the last exit was. but i always imagine someones car flipping and causing some kind of pile up or something. or even a car from the other lane jumping the median (which ive seen the after effects and still dont know how physics allowed it to happen).
i was thinking about this on my drive home tonight when there was a lady driving a van and she was falling asleep at the wheel. everytime she went over id beep my horn. it was over the course of like 15 miles too. I memorized her license plate and car model and approximate year in case i had to call it in later too. I felt the need to stay behind her just because. like i had some obligation now that i knew the situation. she put her blinker on like 3 times thinking about pulling over somewhere but never did. finally she stopped at a quick check (tiny store like 7/11 thats always open) and i offered to buy her coffee but she said she was just 10 min from home. i know she was lying because she clearly didnt know the area or even specifically where she was going. i did what i could but man, every time she started to drift i just invisioned a deer jumping out or some car t-boning her as she passed and intersection in town.
bottom line, am i the only one who always thinks of the worst situation? examples are welcome if im not alone. doesnt even have to be driving related.
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:36 am |
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Lol I do the same thing everywhere I go man. I've been jumped a few times before, and it gets pretty out of control some times, so now I always carry around a pocket knife or a balisong or some kind of knife with me, just in case. Lol i've been jumped enough times that I go to my the knife in my pocket if I even see someone muggin me. Even if I leave the house for just a few minutes and I come back and hear something weird or I feel like something's not right, I go for my knife lol. Enough * has happened to me that I need to carry one around or I feel naked and defenseless, which in case you don't know what that feels like, it's not a good feeling lol.
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:20 am |
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you got me boq, ive never been naked. i wear the shaggy outfit all day and was born with it on.
but yeah, i carry a knife on me all the time too, though ive only been "jumped" once and he backed off cause my knife was a good 3 inches bigger.
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:39 am |
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weird. when driving i have a habbit of watching the driving habbits of every single car in view.
often times i break before the guy in front of me breaks because i saw 3 cars ahead some guy breaked slowing the flow of traffic or somone merged into my lane up ahead.
but i also for some reason goad on the jerks who swerve between lanes trying desperately to shave off 30 seconds from their trip time. THEY piss me off, 30 seconds off and they are endangering themselves and eveyone else on the road. its annoying.
those pricks who also see that you are trying to merge into your lane and speed up so you cant get in front of them.. as if traffic were a large queue to get food or something.
but as far as danger goes.. no, ive never been pulled over, ive never been in a wreck, ive never been mugged, ive never been robbed. nothing much has ever happened to me.
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:11 am |
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I live in Ottawa, which has a lot of crack heads, so I always carry a knife on me... But strangely since the holidays I've stopped... Must be because I went back to my smaller home town. Anyway you're only legally allowed to conceal a knife with a blade 4 inches or shorter in Canada, so I try and keep it to around 4. Other than that, when I had my dreads the only problem I had was people thinking I had weed to sell... Yeah pick the most heat guy and ask him, obviously the cops probably think the same thing (oh the guy with the dreads must have marijuana on him, but I cannot discriminate so I can't randomly stop him).
Crazy stories eh... Well the worst I can think of driving wise is we were at a friends house near Christmas (2 years ago 2007) and it had been freezing rain for the night, but about 4 of us wanted to go home. Now I say I was the least drunk (I know sounds bad) and I wasn't the driver.... Yeah.... So anyway we're doing 80Km on a icy road when I tell my friend, who was driving. "Slow down" and bam we start skidding almost in to the side of the road (where there was a ton of trees (oh and we are driving my other friends' sister's car). We don't go in but do a full 360 in the other direction (from over correcting the skid) and come to a stop. Good thing we we're on an old country road with no traffic...
That's my craziest story
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Oh no this is normal, especially since car accidents are very common. The only time I get nervous is when the roads are wet since even with new brake pads and tires I can still slide a bit if I break too hard. Then there are peple in their big Ford or Chevy V8 trucks drining 120 MPH and splashing rain everywhere, that is just an accident waiting to happen. I tend to be cautious and keep my distance while driving too.
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ehmmm, i don't drive, but i always keep an eye out anyway, just in case something happens i wanna make sure i can survive it, lol
it's usually when i think my parents are driving too hard, or when some bad drivers are around (in portugal, that happens quite frequently)
as for on the streets
because i had loads of fights in school, i'm always prepared to bash anyone's face in
sadly, it doesn't happen anymore, but the awareness is still there, which often leads to agression i cannot get rid of...
biggest fight i had: 7 guys or something, 1 whacked me in the head with a skateboard too...
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Crazy stories eh... Well the worst I can think of driving wise is we were at a friends house near Christmas (2 years ago 2007) and it had been freezing rain for the night, but about 4 of us wanted to go home. Now I say I was the least drunk (I know sounds bad) and I wasn't the driver.... Yeah.... So anyway we're doing 80Km on a icy road when I tell my friend, who was driving. "Slow down" and bam we start skidding almost in to the side of the road (where there was a ton of trees (oh and we are driving my other friends' sister's car). We don't go in but do a full 360 in the other direction (from over correcting the skid) and come to a stop. Good thing we we're on an old country road with no traffic...
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the roads to my house were icy this winter, i live on a steep hill and my car just would die if i tried to go down (and by die i mean lose traction and then wreck itself at the bottom)
so i call my friend who has studs in his tires to come pick me up. he shows up with another of my friends and we get in his car.
he speeds down my hill. i say to him "Slow down man"
he laughs
speeds up
and starts swerving shouting "Wheeeeeee"
we now call him that retarted kid who we never let drive. it gets me angry just thinking about it.
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wow, that's retarded indeed
i remember france quite clearly, last year, my stepdad and i were going back from holland to portugal by car, and when we reached the south of france we were in the mountains, and during the night a blizzard apeared, covered all the roads in snow...
i asked my stepdad if it wouldn't be better to pull over at the nearest carpark, but he was scared we'd be snowed in and would get stuck for several days, so he kept on going, trying to get out of the blizzard
eventually we had to go downhill, and he lost controll over to car, we were sliding down and my stepdad woke me up saying "i'm not sure if we're gonna make this"
i just looked at it, leaned against the side and stared out of the window...
there was nothing he could do anymore...
so yeah, car smashed the side of the road, broke down and we were stuck in a little vilage in the south of france...
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:25 am |
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wing that sounds much scarier than my encounter.
yah i take driving very seriously, i dont drive if ive had anything to drink, even if im under the legal limit. i dont do crazy things while driving and i only go at maximum 9 miles per hour over the speed limit. (which everyone does, so its not really poor driving)
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:46 pm |
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what about your blinker usage?
my mantra is "i swear to everything thats holy if you don't use your blinker while changing lanes on a highway im going to burn your life down"
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what about your blinker usage?
my mantra is "i swear to everything thats holy if you don't use your blinker while changing lanes on a highway im going to burn your life down" |
i personally always use a blinker. even in my own driveway...
i dont get too pissed off at others for not using it. mostly everyone here in oregon does it so those who dont are rare. i would say on any trip there is only 1 person who doesnt use their blinker.
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:54 pm |
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I watch everyone around me, and try to create a buffer zone between me and the others. if i see someones slowing down, i try and do the same (instead of like some crackheads, and try and get over in time to pass you in the outside lane).
the one thing that gripes me though, people who don't use the turning lane appropriately, you know the ones who's rear tires are hanging 6-10 inches into the regular lanes. or the guy who's sitting stopped in the turning lane, waiting for traffic, and he has his whole right half of the vehicle in the regular lane, and his left side is sitting in the turning lane... ahh.. you get what i'm saying..
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This is totally normal especially if you live in a place where accidents are happening on a daily basis. Besides, it is needed that some people be careful since there are more reckless ones.
I have a history with small car accidents, thankfully they are far from being serious…
The most recent one was back in August. I was with my boyfriend in his car and he was the one driving, it was late at night but the streets were annoyingly crowded. The traffic lane we were in wasn’t moving at all, the one next to ours, to the left, had finally shown some movement, so he tried moving to the next lane, a huge truck sped forward and hit us and kept moving, apparently the truck’s driver didn’t see us because he was too high up, nor felt like his truck is crashing something, we were stuck almost horizontally between this truck and the car in front. My boyfriend was beeping the horn but the driver of the truck was deaf besides being blind, I got out of the window and started waving my arms … he finally noticed us and stopped. I wasn’t hurt but my boyfriend’s left arm was injured because of the window’s glass that broke...
We found out later that the truck’s driver was drinking while driving…
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