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Sorry in advace, if my grammar gets bad. IM still shaken up.


So I was drivign home from my friends, its been rainings faily hard all day. I get to a rotary (a roundabout) when a guy ran a stop sign, I hit the breaks and the carr got sideways and then I missed Tboneing him by maybe a foot, im stil so shaken up. Im off for the night, i need a shot. good night.

Good night. Sleep well.

When you come back tomorrow we'll talk about the fact that you're supposed to be nailing girls, not cars.

Good reflexes my friend. That's why Britt doesn't drive even though Ohio has a program for those with limited sight; her reflexes suck ass.

Yes...we'll talk more in the morning.

What a coincidence. I missed hitting an Escalcade by a couple of feet this morning. He ran a yield sign on a freeway ramp.

Those close calls are nerve-wracking.

Welcome to my life. I swear I almost get hit every day, usually by some ornery. I live 5 miles from a large retirement community. These people should not be on the road.

Anyhow, glad you're alright. Have a shot and a cig and you'll be alright.

I flew over to Corona (aka mid air capital) and when you hear on the hand off "5 aircraft appear to be in the pattern" That alone gets you worried.... and then I still almost was in a car crash today as well....

Mark

Cadet57 wrote:I missed nailing a car by inches tonight

Don't worry. Tomorrow, you're gonna try a bit harder, and then you'll nail it!
Oh, wait...

Seriously, don't worry too much about it. Nothing has happened. Your reflexes have proven to be alright. If you start worrying about what could happen in traffic, you could as well quit driving altogether.

I encounter such close calls rather regularly. Which may, to a good part, be owned to my... ahem... forward-oriented driving style. And despite of some very close calls, I managed to do 18 years of driving without a single accident - except for two rear-end collisions (@JLAmber: cars, we're still talking about cars! ) caused by others, but that's something you can't really avoid.

I would always recommend regular driver safety trainings, though. Especially whenever you get a new car. Being able to perform controlled drifts and skids has saved my ass more than once.

Zak wrote:I encounter such close calls rather regularly. Which may, to a good part, be owned to my...

BMW.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:

Zak wrote:I encounter such close calls rather regularly. Which may, to a good part, be owned to my...

BMW.

The golden rule of considerate driving is to never give way to a BMW driver unless you absolutely have to

Near misses can sometimes be a good thing - they stop you becoming complacent, though driving on UK roads you can have so many near misses that they become routine. You should try driving in Italy where a near miss is anything that doesn't involve a fatality

Zak wrote:except for two rear-end collisions (@JLAmber: cars, we're still talking about cars! )

What else could we be talking about?

JLAmber wrote: The golden rule of considerate driving is to never give way to a BMW driver unless you absolutely have to

And the golden rule of BMW driving is to make sure that the guy in front of you realizes that he absolutely has to give way to you...

Queso wrote:Good night. Sleep well.

When you come back tomorrow we'll talk about the fact that you're supposed to be nailing girls, not cars.

Im trying in the girl dept. It just so happens last night almost was a car. A large car at that, a big frackin Caddy El Dorado. Would have dented my poor VW quite a bit

GQfluffy wrote:Good reflexes my friend. That's why Britt doesn't drive even though Ohio has a program for those with limited sight; her reflexes suck ass.

Yes...we'll talk more in the morning.

My friend said the same thing, reflexes. I get that from alot of people, they actually like my driving

ShanwickOceanic wrote:

Zak wrote:I encounter such close calls rather regularly. Which may, to a good part, be owned to my...

BMW.

VW. Must be that fantastic German engineering

JLAmber wrote:

ShanwickOceanic wrote:

Zak wrote:I encounter such close calls rather regularly. Which may, to a good part, be owned to my...

BMW.

The golden rule of considerate driving is to never give way to a BMW driver unless you absolutely have to

I like to piss them off for sport

JLAmber wrote:What else could we be talking about?

Date night with Speedbirdie?



Taxi!

My brother and I were trying to cross the street on Wednesday, and some prick in a new Mercedes damn near run us over, he acted like he was going to let us go, then gunned it at the last minute. He did get stuck behind some other guy at the intersection of Sadat and Hamra though. So we ran up to his car and started beating on his trunk, put a couple dents in it. He stopped like he was going to get out and I walked around to his window, which was down (he was some mousy looking Arab guy) and I said "You want to make something of it asshole?" and my brother came around his other side and stared in at him, and the first shot he got he peeled out of there.

Assholes.

Spicoli wrote:My brother and I were trying to cross the street on Wednesday, and some prick in a new Mercedes damn near run us over, he acted like he was going to let us go, then gunned it at the last minute. He did get stuck behind some other guy at the intersection of Sadat and Hamra though. So we ran up to his car and started beating on his trunk, put a couple dents in it. He stopped like he was going to get out and I walked around to his window, which was down (he was some mousy looking Arab guy) and I said "You want to make something of it asshole?" and my brother came around his other side and stared in at him, and the first shot he got he peeled out of there.

Assholes.

If anyone touches my car intentionally like that I would drop them like a bad habit. It's my toy and my investment, not yours.

But in your case the dude sounds like a jerkoff, so good for you.

AA61hvy wrote:

Spicoli wrote:My brother and I were trying to cross the street on Wednesday, and some prick in a new Mercedes damn near run us over, he acted like he was going to let us go, then gunned it at the last minute. He did get stuck behind some other guy at the intersection of Sadat and Hamra though. So we ran up to his car and started beating on his trunk, put a couple dents in it. He stopped like he was going to get out and I walked around to his window, which was down (he was some mousy looking Arab guy) and I said "You want to make something of it asshole?" and my brother came around his other side and stared in at him, and the first shot he got he peeled out of there.

Assholes.

If anyone touches my car intentionally like that I would drop them like a bad habit. It's my toy and my investment, not yours.

But in your case the dude sounds like a jerkoff, so good for you.

He was lucky, if some guy tried that on my car he would be full of holes.

"officer he was trying to get in my car so I shot him" Castle Doctrine

Keep that in mind the next time you go postal on someone. He could kill you and not face prosecution.

It's Lebanon. There are no rules like castle laws.

with my American passport and finances, I probably could have beat him unmercilessly so he looked like a part of the street, payed the cops off, and walked away.

Lebanese are mousy people...until they get behind the wheel, then they're all Mike Tyson.

Spicoli wrote:It's Lebanon. There are no rules like castle laws.

with my American passport and finances, I probably could have beat him unmercilessly so he looked like a part of the street, payed the cops off, and walked away.

Lebanese are mousy people...until they get behind the wheel, then they're all Mike Tyson.

Hungry for ears or real tough?

Spicoli wrote:It's Lebanon. There are no rules like castle laws.

with my American passport and finances, I probably could have beat him unmercilessly so he looked like a part of the street, payed the cops off, and walked away.

Lebanese are mousy people...until they get behind the wheel, then they're all Mike Tyson.

If he's got a new Mercedes his finances probably aren't all that shabby...

And does an American passport really act as a good thing in the law world down there? I would think quite the opposite. Foreigners never get treated as well as the home crowd anywhere.

Tornado82 wrote:If he's got a new Mercedes his finances probably aren't all that shabby...

You'd think that right? Well, no. The Car is the ultimate status symbol in Lebanon. People have brand new cars, but live in shanties. You see that, everywhere. There are a small group of superwealthy, but everyone else is dirt poor.

And does an American passport really act as a good thing in the law world down there? I would think quite the opposite. Foreigners never get treated as well as the home crowd anywhere.

You bet your ass its a good thing. When all hell breaks loose, guess what gets you bailed out? The American Passport. Nobody in government here wants to piss off the Americans, as they are big money generators for the country, and alienating foreigners would cull investment. They don't want that. Having an American passport is as good as having large sums of money here.