Septim741 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 How many times have you been driving down the road and there's an idiot driver in front of you? Countless times, I'm sure. This is a topic where you can tell all about things that you have seen other people do, or that you have done yourself, near accidents, accidents, or pretty much any other story you want to tell of road adventures.If you are not old enough to drive yet, feel free to tell about things that you have seen while riding in a vehicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraithguard01 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 heh heh... sometimes i'm the idiot driver... However, when i'm not, i've seen alot of stuff... so, if you didn't know, i'm a volunteer firefighter, and as such, get to drive down the road with emergency lights. I have them in my vehicle too... Now, they say that while you as an emergency driver see lots of cars on the road that need to get out of your way, those cars don't see emergency lights behind them all the time, so they just freak out. One story comes to mind... We were going down the road, going to a call, when we get behind this truck that has some people in the back... Well, apparently, the driver didn't hear the ear piercing sirens, or see the giant christmas tree behind him, but the people in the back certainly did... We were going around a big curve, so the only way for us to pass this guy was for him to get completely off the road. heh, the poor guys in the back of the truck were banging on the back window and covering their ears... he finally got out of the way, but we were mad as hell... (until afterwards that is...) Another time, this guy pulls over into the oncoming traffic lane... that guy was an idiot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old1eye Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Well, I don't drive, but one of the wierdest things I've ever seen is a minivan in flames. By the side of the road. And I mean REALLY in flames, like you can't see the van for the flames.Whats so wierd about that, you ask?Well, the fire station was just down the road. And the road was still open. To this day, I have no idea what that was all about. It's possible it had only just caught fire, but it didn't look like it. It didn't even appear in the newspaper the next day (which in a country as small as switzerland is very unusual...especially considering it is split up into twenty or so different regions, each with their own newspaper...)bizarre. other odd, or annoying, things are driving behind a convoy of thirty tanks for twenty miles, and running over two pheasants within five minutes. Those birds are STUPID. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamBatosai Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Well the most recent road tale I can tell almost resulted in my colision. Here it is, we're driving down a one way road (going the correct direction) in the left lane, as we're just about to go through the intersection the car in the right lane makes a left turn and at the same moment the guy in our lane makes a left turn. They almost colided but didn't, soon after that another car coming the wrong way on the one way nearly hitting us too. Soon after that we got off the one way hoping the twoway is safer. Then there's also the time my whole family went to texas (from oregon) but the stupid freaking van broke down >:( guess how many times? 1, no 2, no 3, no 5, bingo! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septim741 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 Well the most recent road tale I can tell almost resulted in my colision. Here it is, we're driving down a one way road (going the correct direction) in the left lane, as we're just about to go through the intersection the car in the right lane makes a left turn and at the same moment the guy in our lane makes a left turn. They almost colided but didn't, soon after that another car coming the wrong way on the one way nearly hitting us too. Soon after that we got off the one way hoping the twoway is safer. Then there's also the time my whole family went to texas (from oregon) but the stupid freaking van broke down >:( guess how many times? 1, no 2, no 3, no 5, bingo! :P I am sorry for your misfortune. :P Pretty grim situation I invented this phrase for when you are on the road surrounded by idiot drivers, "I feel like I'm in the Shivering Isles!" If you don't know what the Shivering Isles is do a google search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercbird Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 My dad decided to take the family on a ... safari! Destination : Botswana. Vehicle : Long based Landrover bought on a army auction. He spent months fixing up what we called un-affectionately the 'white ambulance', but it slept pretty comfortably if you thought like a sardine. He spent a year route planning. I vividly remember a description of one part of the route as "at the pile of white rocks, turn right" Finally we left, before the dawn chorus and at the petrol station, a block away, my mom managed to break her door. Tried my hand at driving for the first time (I was thirteen, and the dirt road had ruts so deep you didn't need to even steer) We saw elephants and 'buffels', lions and hyena's. I also saw cheese bouncing along the bunk after escaping the fridge. I saw how differently americans tourgroups react from german tourgroups if you play them a tape of lion sounds. The germans added wood to the fire and the americans switched on spotlights to take pictures. The funniest thing though was the sight of a forlorn road sign in the middle of the veldt that pointed in two directions, one side read (this was all written, not printed) "Orapa, via half of Botswana" and the other "Maun ... Prove it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithrandir8 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I haven't been driving for a long time, but I have already been in two situations that were starteling to me. One was a person from my school and I was driving right behind him. I live in Michigan (mitten shaped state in the USA with a lot of snow, if you don't know what a mitten is, your lucky.), and the roads are covered in a lot of snow and ice for about a quarter of the year. The fellow in front of me decided it would be fun to swerve around in the middle of the road while we were driving around a blind curve. Suddenly, I see two twisted chunks of metal that were once cars slide off the road. The idiot had collided head-on with another car because he wanted to drive in the middle of the road. I didn't hit him only because I had slowed down after seeing him drive recklessly. The second story took place a couple of weeks ago. We had a blizzard where I live that created whiteout conditions. The storm was so strong that my windshield wipers froze to my window as I was driving. It was then that I noticed that my fuel was dangerously low. I pulled into the nearest gas station and realized I was in a strange predicament. My car's two doors were frozen shut :ohmy: ! So I pulled off into a parking spot and turned my car off to save fuel. As I waited for the storm to end I was hit by another driver who couldn't see anything in the bad weather. I was mad that he hit me, but at least my door finally opened and I could get into the station and out of the fridged weather (-15 degrees Farenheit without windchill). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septim741 Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 I haven't been driving for a long time, but I have already been in two situations that were starteling to me. One was a person from my school and I was driving right behind him. I live in Michigan (mitten shaped state in the USA with a lot of snow, if you don't know what a mitten is, your lucky.), and the roads are covered in a lot of snow and ice for about a quarter of the year. The fellow in front of me decided it would be fun to swerve around in the middle of the road while we were driving around a blind curve. Suddenly, I see two twisted chunks of metal that were once cars slide off the road. The idiot had collided head-on with another car because he wanted to drive in the middle of the road. I didn't hit him only because I had slowed down after seeing him drive recklessly. The second story took place a couple of weeks ago. We had a blizzard where I live that created whiteout conditions. The storm was so strong that my windshield wipers froze to my window as I was driving. It was then that I noticed that my fuel was dangerously low. I pulled into the nearest gas station and realized I was in a strange predicament. My car's two doors were frozen shut :ohmy: ! So I pulled off into a parking spot and turned my car off to save fuel. As I waited for the storm to end I was hit by another driver who couldn't see anything in the bad weather. I was mad that he hit me, but at least my door finally opened and I could get into the station and out of the fridged weather (-15 degrees Farenheit without windchill). Lol :rolleyes: :P Thats hilarious! I don't mean to be mean or anything, but that was plain funny. I understand that you might not think it entirely funny, but I do. Okay, I've calmed down now. Really sorry about that. Is your car okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I-40 in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. For context, I drive fast. I drive a V8 Thunderbird, and I take speed limits as a polite suggestion. 10 over, 20 over, or more on the freeway. On a light traffic day, I'm the one going 90 in a 65. And there are people out there who scare even me. For example, the old guy who tried to merge left... right into the space currently occupied by my car. Thankfully he caught it at the last second, right as he started to drift into my lane. Getting run into the center guardrail at 85mph is not my idea of fun. Or the general stupidity of people in reckless passing. Remember how I said I'm always going 20+ over? Drive any slower and you'll be rear-ended by someone. I can't even count the number of times people have passed me with (generously) two car lengths of space available, the whole time traffic is moving 80-90mph. Or they'll just settle for tailgating you if you aren't going at least 20-30 over. One of them wouldn't even be satisfied with 95... I finally said that's enough and let him pass, and he must have been going at least 110 on his way by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithrandir8 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Lol :rolleyes: :P Thats hilarious! I don't mean to be mean or anything, but that was plain funny. I understand that you might not think it entirely funny, but I do. Okay, I've calmed down now. Really sorry about that. Is your car okay?It's okay, when I told my parents they laughed first and then asked if I was okay. My car has since been repaired (they smashed the back-right corner in about a foot.) and thankfully my insurance covered it. I would be ticked if they hadn't. I laugh when I look back at it myself, because when my car was repaired, it went from an ugly tan-brown color (used to inspire me to vomit) to a cool metalic copper color. As for Peregrine, I know how you feel. I have seen a cop in my town pull a person over in our town for going 84 mph in a 40 mph speed zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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