car pet peeves

Justin wrote:

> to start an argument.Because we spend so much time in our cars and
> because this nation was built on freedom of movement, cars are VERY
> important and unfortunately there are a lot of knuckleheads out there
> driving, so pet peeves are important.

People drive what they are. If they're poor, their car reflects it. If
they're smart, their car reflects it. If they're stupid, ....

Our cars are an extension of ourselves, and this is funny, because at the
same time they give us a false sense of privacy and our personalities
become more likely to do things that we wouldn't do if we were walking in
a crowd of people. Example, cutting people off, or giving them the bird
is less personal when we're driving - or so we think - and so we're more
likely to do these things.

My biggest pet peeve is stupid people. People who have brains but don't
use them. For example, riding with the left foot on the brake. Might
decrease your reaction time from .5 seconds to maybe .4, the .1 second
needed to swap from gas to brake pedal with the right (right as in side
and right as in correct) foot. At the 60 MPH most of us do in a 50 MPH
zone, that's 88 feet per second. One tenth of a second is 8.8 feet.
That's just the length of road you save from /starting/ to brake, not the
length you save overall. But, riding with the left foot on the brake not
only intermittently blinks the brake light at soon-to-be-extemely-annoyed
followers, but for ever blink of that light, the brake disc comes into
contact with the pads. Heat. Friction. Loss of horsepower to the road.
Increased fuel consumption. Worst of all, decreased brake efficiency, and
when brakes are hot, they don't brake as well. Furthermore, it heats up
not only the brakes but ever other part in the vicinity: rotors, rims,
tires, bearings, effectively wearing everything out. These are the same
dip****s that don't know how to check their oil themselves.

Another example of stupid people is the Navy guy that totalled my second
car. I loved that car. It might have been underpowered, but it was very
shiny, straight as an Amish man in San Francisco, and had an immaculate
interior. Until the red light. I came up to it and stopped, as any
intelligent person would. I hear tires screech, and look in my rear-view
just in time to see this guy try -- and fail -- to avoid hitting me by
swerving. Had he hit me straight on, I would have lost my taillights, my
rear fascia, and maybe my muffler, but the body would not have been nearly
as damaged, as the force of the hit would have been more evenly
distributed. But no, he chunked the corner and brought the left rear
taillamp up to the wheelwell, and bent the hatch thereby breaking the
glass in both the hatch and the left quarter. Not to mention the wrinkles
from the driver's door around to the right taillamp (which was not
damaged). His excuse? He was watching a "Hobby World" sign, which had
flashing neon lights shaped like planes, trains, and I think boats. Yo,
dip****, there's a red light ahead!

Let's see... I don't mind bikers wanting to be noticed, but two things
irritate the **** out of me: headlights on high when lowbeam is
sufficiently blinding as it is, and ESPECIALLY high-beam headlights that
flash at oncoming traffic in a "Look at me and don't hit me" fashion.

I'm sorry, but two things: people like me see you anyway. We see that
there is an object moving at 50 miles an hour. It's the stupid people
that don't, because they're not paying attention to the road. Instead,
they're talking on cellphones, eating cereal, reading the newspaper or
some book they just can't put down, or watching the TV that's supposed to
be facing the passenger side, or putting on makeup, or shaving. The way I
see it, if people moving at 50MPH in two directions isn't enough to get
these people to pay attention, neither are your flashing headlights. They
just serve to annoy people.

What's just as irritating to me is the flashing high-mount TAILLIGHT. I
see two dimly lit lights turn into three brightly lit lights. I don't
need the middle one flashing at me. I PAY attention. It's the people
that make this nonsense necessary that also make it a requirement that I
pay more for insurance simply and ONLY because of my age and gender, two
of the things that I cannot be discriminated against, and yet, the
insurance companies do! I don't see how my having a dick and testicles
makes me any more likely to cause an accident. Yeah, I get angrier
quicker because of testosterone, but it doesn't make me stupid behind the
wheel. I've been driving for 8 years and have not caused an accident yet.
I have gotten speeding tickets, and all but two of them was in rural,
low-traffic areas. Of the two that weren't, one was because I had just
gotten that second car, which had almost twice the power of the beetle I
had been driving, and I wasn't used to it. The other of the two was for
not slowing down early enough as I went from a higher limit to lower
limit. The rest were all rural, where trafic was less than 2 cars per
every quarter mile of road. Mostly, bored cops.

I hate speed limits. I'll save you the argument against them.

Frankly, I think that if people cause any kind of accident, that only then
should their insurance rates increase. That way, smart people like me
aren't forced to pay out the ass for something I don't need based on what
genetalia I have and how long ago I was born.

When's the last time you saw a man putting on eyeliner while driving to
work?

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Justin wrote:

> "mikwe" > wrote in news:108bd1q5e1gosb1
> @corp.supernews.com:
>
>> whatever
>
>
>
> You are a fountain of conversation, Mike. Snippy little remarks like
> "whatever" and "get over it" are a hallmark of your generation Y attitude
> -- the "I don't care" generation. Or perhaps, you aren't intelligent
> enough to actually form a sentence.

I'll voluntarily take offense to your branding of MY generation as the "I
don't care" generation. Just because he doesn't care about one thing you
say doesn't mean none of us do, and I'm sure if you could go back in
history, EVERY generation goes through this. It's part of being a
20-something. Just like being a teenager has its peculiarities, just like
being a senile old man has its own set, too.

What irritates me more isn't what he said, but the fact he didn't bother
to snip the text below his comment, as with such a short comment, the rest
of the text became irrelevant. I also hate how he didn't put any space
between the reply and his two lines of "On such and such day, at such and
such time, so and so said" line, making it all seem to blend in at first
glance, as I skim from top to bottom to top for what his reply was. But
of course, it's more a waste of time for me to remark on that than it is
for me to simply bear it, which is what I normally do, but since I've been
typing nearly nonstop for the past 15 minutes plus, I find that my typing
speed has increased and this post has now become totally pointless!!!!


:-D


Later...


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Justin wrote:

> "mikwe" > wrote in news:108bd1q5e1gosb1
> @corp.supernews.com:
>
>> whatever
>
>
>
> You are a fountain of conversation, Mike. Snippy little remarks like
> "whatever" and "get over it" are a hallmark of your generation Y attitude
> -- the "I don't care" generation. Or perhaps, you aren't intelligent
> enough to actually form a sentence.

I'll voluntarily take offense to your branding of MY generation as the "I
don't care" generation. Just because he doesn't care about one thing you
say doesn't mean none of us do, and I'm sure if you could go back in
history, EVERY generation goes through this. It's part of being a
20-something. Just like being a teenager has its peculiarities, just like
being a senile old man has its own set, too.

What irritates me more isn't what he said, but the fact he didn't bother
to snip the text below his comment, as with such a short comment, the rest
of the text became irrelevant. I also hate how he didn't put any space
between the reply and his two lines of "On such and such day, at such and
such time, so and so said" line, making it all seem to blend in at first
glance, as I skim from top to bottom to top for what his reply was. But
of course, it's more a waste of time for me to remark on that than it is
for me to simply bear it, which is what I normally do, but since I've been
typing nearly nonstop for the past 15 minutes plus, I find that my typing
speed has increased and this post has now become totally pointless!!!!


:-D


Later...


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Justin wrote:

>> My pipes are fine. Go spew out your meaningless drivel where it's
>> on-topic, like maybe in alt.computers.dip****s
>
>
> My drivel is meaningful; I'll have you to know! At least I have some
> semblance of substance in my posts; unlike your mere insults. If you
> didn't like my Car Pet Peeves original post, why'd you bother opening it
> and reading it? I replied to some loser's one word reply "whatever" and
> then proceeded to get attacked by you. Go away; you're a hoser.

Dan doesn't need my support here, but he's cool. He has a point, few
people rarely do care about anyone else's peeves. Usually, it's just like
in those "defensive driving" classes one has to take to keep points off
their license here in Florida. IT NEVER FAILS that one of the first
questions asked in such a class is what our driving pet peeves are, and
inevitably, they're always the same... peoples' blinkers not turning off,
people cutting in and out, people changing to the "fast lane" and slowing
down, etc etc etc when in the end, we all know that absolutely everything
will be done to NOT rectify the situation, and so we all go on having our
peeves.

<Takes BIIIIIG DEEEEEEEEEEP breathe>

So I guess the whole point is to give us a method to vent our frustrations
when we really know that in the end they're still going to be there and
there's nothing that can be done about it except to carry your 10-guage
with you everywhere you go. Of course, then you run into problems with
stupid people calling the police on you when all you're trying to do is
educate them, but the problem there is that stupid people like being
stupid. Ignorance is bliss, but so is stupidity for them.

:-D

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Justin wrote:

>> My pipes are fine. Go spew out your meaningless drivel where it's
>> on-topic, like maybe in alt.computers.dip****s
>
>
> My drivel is meaningful; I'll have you to know! At least I have some
> semblance of substance in my posts; unlike your mere insults. If you
> didn't like my Car Pet Peeves original post, why'd you bother opening it
> and reading it? I replied to some loser's one word reply "whatever" and
> then proceeded to get attacked by you. Go away; you're a hoser.

Dan doesn't need my support here, but he's cool. He has a point, few
people rarely do care about anyone else's peeves. Usually, it's just like
in those "defensive driving" classes one has to take to keep points off
their license here in Florida. IT NEVER FAILS that one of the first
questions asked in such a class is what our driving pet peeves are, and
inevitably, they're always the same... peoples' blinkers not turning off,
people cutting in and out, people changing to the "fast lane" and slowing
down, etc etc etc when in the end, we all know that absolutely everything
will be done to NOT rectify the situation, and so we all go on having our
peeves.

<Takes BIIIIIG DEEEEEEEEEEP breathe>

So I guess the whole point is to give us a method to vent our frustrations
when we really know that in the end they're still going to be there and
there's nothing that can be done about it except to carry your 10-guage
with you everywhere you go. Of course, then you run into problems with
stupid people calling the police on you when all you're trying to do is
educate them, but the problem there is that stupid people like being
stupid. Ignorance is bliss, but so is stupidity for them.

:-D

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Circuit Breaker > wrote in
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>>Ignorance is bliss, but so is stupidity for them.
>
>:-D



I think it's not even so much stupidity that causes people to act in
assholish ways (and the resulting bad driving habits) so much as it is
their own personal tunnel vision. A lot of folks are only looking out for
themselves. They don't give a fig about anyone else.

I've sat in the parking lots of grocery stores, waiting for the wife and am
appalled at the laziness of people. About half the people leave the
shopping buggies right next to their car or in an empty parking space, and
sometimes the buggies roll away and hit other cars.

Stupid behavior, yes. More accurately though: assholish behavior.


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Circuit Breaker > wrote in
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>>Ignorance is bliss, but so is stupidity for them.
>
>:-D



I think it's not even so much stupidity that causes people to act in
assholish ways (and the resulting bad driving habits) so much as it is
their own personal tunnel vision. A lot of folks are only looking out for
themselves. They don't give a fig about anyone else.

I've sat in the parking lots of grocery stores, waiting for the wife and am
appalled at the laziness of people. About half the people leave the
shopping buggies right next to their car or in an empty parking space, and
sometimes the buggies roll away and hit other cars.

Stupid behavior, yes. More accurately though: assholish behavior.


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Someone is peeved about:

> (2.) Cars with not so clear plastic over their license plates.

There is an urban legend that says they make the license plate
unreadable to the cameras that spot you blowing stoplights. Those who
say so seem to be the people who sell them to you for $50.
Unfortunately in some states, they are also illegal and the ticket for
illegal equipment will cost you another $50 or more.

Someone is peeved about:

> (2.) Cars with not so clear plastic over their license plates.

There is an urban legend that says they make the license plate
unreadable to the cameras that spot you blowing stoplights. Those who
say so seem to be the people who sell them to you for $50.
Unfortunately in some states, they are also illegal and the ticket for
illegal equipment will cost you another $50 or more.

Justin wrote:

> Circuit Breaker > wrote in
> news >
>>>Ignorance is bliss, but so is stupidity for them.
>
> I think it's not even so much stupidity that causes people to act in
> assholish ways (and the resulting bad driving habits) so much as it is
> their own personal tunnel vision.

Hmm, well, I think you are probably correct there. I do use the term
"stupid" to refer to people just not thinking, and that includes not
thinking about others around them, which you describe :-D so yeah, you're
right -- it's tunnel vision. Which I throw in with stupidity ;-)

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