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12-14-2011, 08:24 PM
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Driving tonight in lots of rain. Stupidly scared after my accident.
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12-14-2011, 08:27 PM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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It takes a little time but you'll get there. I spent way to much time watching tailgaters after getting rear-ended but now I'm back to spiking the brakes for fun.
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12-14-2011, 09:02 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
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Nicholas Angel: Because "accident" implies there's nobody to blame. |
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12-15-2011, 07:37 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I haven't left the bitter barn yet, I'm going to play in the hay awhile. Anyway, as to driving, I have a really bad sense of direction. I'm not talking about mild confusion, I'm talking about hardly any sense of it at all. Invariably, if I am going anywhere different, I'll get lost. I got lost coming to work one day, when they'd closed my normal road. I could see work, the campus only covers about 4 city blocks for pete's sake, but I couldn't get where I needed to be. I called my boss and said I'd be at work when I found the college. One way streets make it ten times worse. I get so turned around I don't even know if I'm in town anymore. After about 20 minutes, the tears start welling. Because it's so damn frustrating. I'll pull over, try to check directions, they don't help or I follow for a while then get lost again. I got lost going to conference on Monday, in C-bus. Same thing: one way streets and crappy directions. I found the turn in for valet parking just before the tears started. Crisis averted. Being lost and frustrated and crying does not a good driver make. Yeah, I need a GPS, but it needs to be very calming and supportive: Oh, you took a wrong turn. That's OK. Don't worry. We'll get you there. BREATHE. This doesn't make you a bad person. No, it doesn't. OK...at the next intersection you need to go north. Um, I mean LEFT. You need to go LEFT. Left is the side you don't write with. Very good...you're doing fine. Umm, but, how are you doing on your anti-anxiety med supply? Last edited by infinite monkey; 12-15-2011 at 07:43 AM. |
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12-15-2011, 08:26 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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GPS units can sometimes cause more problems than they solve. If you are trying to get to a location that's on an access road, or that has an entrance that's a block away from the actual street address, but you can't get to that entrance because you already passed it and the road is divided and there are ramps that will whisk you away to a completely different neighborhood if you try to turn around, it just gets all screwed up. Add to that ever increasing traffic so that there is always somebody in your way, and it's really frustrating some times.
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12-16-2011, 02:37 AM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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