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Old April 6th 06, 01:27 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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I was actually able this morning to watch a woman put on her make-up. It
was really interesting and something that I had never seen before. The
fact that I was observing this in my rear-view mirror while she was
tailgating me at 60MPH made me a bit uncomfortable, but my fascination
with the phenomena over rode that for a while.

Damn, now I'm wishing I had brake checked her....


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Old April 6th 06, 01:57 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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OK, here is my interesting sighting this AM. I am preparing to turn left
from Six Fork Road, Raleigh NC onto the ramp for I-540 west. At this point
Six Forks is on an overpass. There are a total of four lanes heading north,
two straight and two that turn left into an on ramp to I-540 (plus two lanes
heading south and a merge lane for traffic coming up from I--540). The left
turn lanes have green turn arrows, the straight lanes are stopped. Out of
the right corner of my eye I see a motorcycle streaking up on the far right
in the breakdown lane (shoulder). He runs the red light for the straight
lanes, and turns left across the two straight lanes (in front of stopped
traffic), and zooms up the right shoulder of the left turn lanes and I-540
ramp. There is a third lane that merges with the on ramp about 50 yards down
the ramp (for cars coming from the north), he forces one vehicle off the
road, roars onto I-540 and is out of sight before I even merge onto I-540.

Just one more reason for me to dislike motorcycles.

Ed

"necromancer" > wrote in message
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> I was actually able this morning to watch a woman put on her make-up. It
> was really interesting and something that I had never seen before. The
> fact that I was observing this in my rear-view mirror while she was
> tailgating me at 60MPH made me a bit uncomfortable, but my fascination
> with the phenomena over rode that for a while.
>
> Damn, now I'm wishing I had brake checked her....
>
>



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Old April 6th 06, 04:46 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
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"necromancer" > wrote
> I was actually able this morning to watch a woman put on her make-up. It
> was really interesting and something that I had never seen before. The
> fact that I was observing this in my rear-view mirror while she was
> tailgating me at 60MPH made me a bit uncomfortable, but my fascination
> with the phenomena over rode that for a while.


Guy behind me in a RangeRover yesterday was eating takeout: fork in
left hand and right hand holding cardboard tray - had to stop to take a
corner. Glad to see him go.

FloydR
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Old April 7th 06, 02:00 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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I've seen these examples of people doing things that would seem highly
incompatible with driving...

* Two cellphone wielders who stood out amid the many Cellular ADD
victims we alls see every day because they were headed straight for me
on the wrong side of the road until honked at.

* Multiple instances of newspaper reading (such a commonplace that I
only remember the exceptional ones -- like the guy who was coming down
a mountain road and had the Wall Street Journal spread across the
steering wheel -- I knew this level of detail because I was stopped at
a red light, headed uphill, on a section that was down to one lane due
to a washout, and he was tail-end Charlie coming downhill).

* One instance of strongly suspected laptop computer use at 70+ on the
freeway -- it was night and the interior of the car was brightly bathed
in that eerie blue glow from something down in the seat that was
dividing the driver's attention.

* One map-reading, at night, which explained why the driver's speed had
been varying between 55 and 70 for no apparent reason for miles. At
least he managed to keep it in one lane, albeit too slowly for the lane
he was in (#1, of course).

* One incident in which the young female passenger's head disappeared
from view for some time and the subsequent lane and speed control of
the young male driver became, ah, questionable. Not being much
interested in watching that sort of thing, and intensely interested in
keeping my distance from people driving randomly at high speeds, I
didn't find out for sure whether I'd have won the obvious bet on what
was happening in there. Whatever it was, they either gave up or
succeeded, as his driving eventually became more normal once again.


* Two incidents in which somebody rubbernecking an earlier accident had
one of his own, right in front of the cop.

* One in which a notably aggressive solo driver in a ratty older
Corvette, in traffic heavy enough (I-5 in central California, headed
back to the city for the workweek) that it did not reward any attempt
at all to go faster than the flow, ducked out of sight for a
frightening fraction of a minute. I would be shocked, shocked, to
learn that he was snorting a line off the center console. He
tailgated everybody, cut off me, cut off a semi, etc., before and after
that stunt, all for so little gain that I had a good view of him for a
long time. At one point he seemingly tried to provoke an Acura NSX
into racing, but the NSX guy wasn't having any. Eventually he found a
hole in traffic and got out far enough that my concern dwindled to a
vague hope that he wouldn't have an accident ahead of me while trying
to force his way through the next pack.


--Joe "Don't forget, http://www.nearmiss-report.org" Chew

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Old April 8th 06, 02:21 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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"Ad absurdum per aspera" > wrote in
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> I've seen these examples of people doing things that would seem highly
> incompatible with driving...
>

Adding my two cents to the wierd **** discussion.

I was driving home at about 5:30 last night. It is a twisty up and down
two lane road posted at 50 mph. The lead car seems to be driven by
someone intoxicated. They kept slowing down and speeding up, and they
couldn't keep it in the lane. There was another car between me and the
lead car, so I couldn't get a real good look. The car in front of me was
wisely keeping their distance. Well, he slowed down and then accelerated
real fast. Couldn't keep it on the road, and swerved onto a gravel
driveway leading to a contruction site. He ran across the face of the
driveway and hit the ditch on the other side. The car leap into the air,
all wheels atleast two feet off the ground. Landed in the ditch and
bounced out onto the road. He kept on driving and never stopped, even
though he left some parts behind in the ditch.

I can't believe that his car was still driveable after that. I can
believe that a driver would take off like that. The car could have been
a some sort of Honda coupe. I couldn't get close enoght to make an ID.

Doug
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Old April 8th 06, 02:30 AM posted to rec.autos.driving
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>
> I can't believe that his car was still driveable after that. I can
> believe that a driver would take off like that. The car could have been
> a some sort of Honda coupe. I couldn't get close enoght to make an ID.
>
> Doug



It was probably a toyota solara. Only the most completely enept
drivers out there.

toyotas are actually awfull cars. The only car they make that's
interesting these days is the prius. One would be stupid to buy their
trucks when the competition is many times better.


East-

 




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