swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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- Jun 25, 2013
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Because the state keeps issuing licenses to them.
Around here it's Hondas. Paper or plastic? Paper or plastic?And have you noticed how many drive BMWs?
Been through that twice.Kidney stones.
Yeah it's a 2010 Ford Escape.
Took a massive u-turn on Friday, and the battery indicator came on almost immediately and the air conditioning went out. I though "Uh-Oh" this cant be good".
Drove quite a while in hope to get closer to home before it died (I figured the Alternator went out). Got closer to home and I noticed the power steering was getting sluggish when I had to slow down. Decided to roll windows up in case it died (remember its nearly 100 degrees F and no air conditioning so things got hot in a hurry).
Went a bit further and all kinds of lisght started coming on, though to myself "things are nearing the end".
Next town over had to stop at a light, that's when all the warning lights went out completely, and this time I couldn't accelerate when the traffic light turned green, no power steering, felt like the brakes are locked up, car is shutting like mad and felt like it was going to tear appart.
Managed to get it into a parking lot and called for a ride. Took the battery out, went home, and charged it up.
Next morning drove out and put the battery in and started right up, drove 50 miles home (luckily). Drive belt was gone (it was there before).
Ended up being an old belt (I think it stretched out in that u-turn) and a bad belt tentioner. Still cost around $125 to fix, but at could have been worse.
Thankfully the water pump was driver by another belt, and not on the serpentine belt everything else is run on.
If I lived there I'd go too. Harvards in formation and aerobatics, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!Where am I going vs. where do I want to go. Brother-in-laws retirement party, a guy I see maybe twice a year oooooooooooor go to Hooterville fooooooooor
https://www.vanderhoofairshow.ca/
Young people inability to pull their heads out of their a$$es when driving!!!! Had 3 very close calls with 17-25 or so year old drivers this weekend. Friday a woman pulled out right in front of me without even looking. Squeeling brakes and she never even looked. She doesn't know how close she came to getting whomever was sitting in the passenger seat seriously injured or worse!!!!!
Saturday another woman did the exact same thing, and 5 minutes later a woman ran me off the highway at 65 MPH. I was just passing her in the right lane and was even with her rear bumper, when I noticed hers right turn signal turn on in my peripheral vision, I started to swerve onto the shoulder right away and started to hit the breaks. Then honked the horn. She was clueless. I gunned it on got next to her and chewed her out good (made me feel better anyway). She never turned her head.
Is it that hard to turn your head to see whom you about to smash into? Must be.
Not to mention being addicted to cell phones and not being able to set them down long enough to pay attention to what they should be paying attention to.
Had I been going between driving and cell phone I would most likely never seen that third persons turn signal in the corner of my eye and would have probably been in a nasty accident.
Plus, I believe the longer you have been driving (and paying attention) the more instinct you gain as to what the person in the other car is going to do before they even do it. I hope her ears are still ringing from the nasty words I was using to describe her and her driving skills).
You just don't have the right level of paranoia.
To survive as a motorcycle rider you have to believe the other drivers are NOT incompetent or stupid. They are instead, actively trying to kill you!
The cell phones are to coordinate the attack/s
You have to drive to prevent giving them the opportunity.