swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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- Jun 25, 2013
What Annoyed You Today? (3 Viewers)
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Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Around here it's Hondas. Paper or plastic? Paper or plastic?
at6
1st Sergeant
Here it's Fords and Chevys.
So far another sleepless night
fubar57
General
I know the feeling Bill. I rarely get more than 4hrs a night. Just spent 3hrs tossing and turning so I said screw it and am now up
T Bolt
Colonel
Been through that twice.
Not Fun
T Bolt
Colonel
You were lucky it isn't a newer Escape. I had a 2013 Escape company car. The battery is so far under the dash that you can just barely see it. Had to have it replaced once and NTB worked on it for over an hour to put a knew one in, and they should know what they're doing since it's one of the few things they do.
at6
1st Sergeant
I'll keep my 30+ year old cars thank you.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Yep, me too.
Had a slight minor problem with the carb on my 29 year old campervan when at Flying Legends, but easily sorted by using the choke as a 'mixture control', and did the 350 miles round trip without any hassle, and still got 25 mpg.
A guy on the same campsite had terrible problems with the fuel injection on his newish motor home, probably due to the extreme heat, and had to call out the breakdown truck !
They were still tinkering when I left the camp site !!
Had a slight minor problem with the carb on my 29 year old campervan when at Flying Legends, but easily sorted by using the choke as a 'mixture control', and did the 350 miles round trip without any hassle, and still got 25 mpg.
A guy on the same campsite had terrible problems with the fuel injection on his newish motor home, probably due to the extreme heat, and had to call out the breakdown truck !
They were still tinkering when I left the camp site !!
fubar57
General
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/
https://www.vanderhoofairshow.ca/
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Flair up of long dormant trigeminal neuralgia just as we were leaving on vacation.
at6
1st Sergeant
If I lived there I'd go too. Harvards in formation and aerobatics, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Bucksnort101
1st Lieutenant
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.
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.
That's what happens when there is no real mandated drivers training. Sorry but most kids here are taught to drive by their parents who thenselves were taught by their parents. All they are doing is passing on their bad habits. Hence why people don't know how to use the zipper method, are too lazy to use turn signals, do not know how to merge, use the left lane for cruising, know how to parallel park. I can go on and on...
Bucksnort101
1st Lieutenant
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).
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).
Shortround6
Lieutenant General
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.
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.
I agree completely, but so many states do not make driving and texting illegal. Louisiana for instance it is perfectly allowed and normal.
Bucksnort101
1st Lieutenant
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.
Been there, done that. One of them finally got me and ended my motorcycle riding days 20 some years ago. And that was before cell phone use really took off. Took my first flying lesson that day, unfortunately an airplane was not involved, just a short trip over the handlebars that seemed to take forever.
fubar57
General
No AC on the camp bus. 1 1/2 hours of melting
at6
1st Sergeant
Welcome to my world. My pick up has no ac and the temps here are 104 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit with no end in sight.
