Comments on: A Note To Tourists

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:06:00 +0000

Some people use other methods to explain turn signal etiquette to other drivers. I'm sure he was just using the baseball bat to ensure that the other driver was paying attention. ;)

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:38:45 +0000

Well, people don’t use their turn signals, until they do, and the @#$%@! thing is flashing for ten miles as they roll blithely down the road. The greatest invention, like, *evah*, is that annoying “BONGBONGBONGBONG!” that most modern cars start blaring when you leave your turn signals on for more than half a mile or so. But it appears the reaction of the typical driver to hearing that is to merely turn up the volume on the car stereo…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:35:03 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

Ah, yes ‘the lane changers’ … I don’t know why they bother to equip cars with outside mirrors or turn signals, because people certainly don’t use them down here.

I’ve driven in or through all 50 states, and density is the only real difference because the drivers forget everything they learned to take their driving test as soon as the license is issued.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:11:07 +0000

One advantage of my old KLR, pig-slow as it was, was that it was tall and ugly and with me dressed like a bright banana you couldn’t hardly *not* see me unless you were blind as Mr. Magoo. Yet I often had to dodge cell-phone-wielding morons who changed lanes using the auditory method of knowing whether the next lane was clear (if you hear screeching, the crashing of metal, and blaring horns, the next lane wasn’t clear).

I doubt that things are going to change until they quit handing out driver’s licenses in boxes of Cheerios… regardless of where you live here in the USA.

– Badtux the Moron-beset Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:44:43 +0000

You can drive after dark to avoid the retirees, Badtux, but there is no time safe from tourists. The real locals all want to be NASCAR drivers.

Lots of fun on the ‘405’ where the Porsches try to deal with the Corollas driven by the ancients who can barely see over the steering wheel.

I really pity the guys on the cafe racers, as they can barely go fast enough to keep the bike balanced and putting a foot down is not readily done. Then they encounter the SUV drivers who just don’t see them. If you are riding a bike you definitely don’t want a Hummer behind you, because the driver can not see you at a light and will roll over you if you hesitate when the light changes.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:56:59 +0000

Ahhhh….Tourista season in your neck of the woods, too, eh? We get the Porsche and Mercedes drivers from the Land Of LA who think that going 85mph in a 25mph zone is, well, quaint.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:06:21 +0000

Granted, the snowbirds generally aren’t the swiftest drivers around… but frankly, having driven in Florida, IMHO the locals ain’t exactly gonna win the Indy 500 anytime soon either. When half of Florida is retired accountants and school teachers from Cleveland, you aren’t exactly talking folks accustomed to taking crazy risks like, say, going faster than 15mph in a 35mph zone :twisted:.

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin