This guy should be looking over his right sholder to see the real criminal, IMHO.
I think this picture is flipped, unless this in the M-1 heading into the Midlands of the UK.
He'd rather be hunting foxes.
Posted on 05/28/2005 12:13:12 AM PDT by kingattax
When my family went on vacation to Gettysburg one year we were serenaded with a cabdriver's story-on our way from Harrisburg-about having to drive a client into Manhattan during rush hour traffic.
There's nothing like someone who's never driven into New York City trying to navigate their way through Canal Street at peak business hours during a weekday.
(Audible groan.)
I suppose the corresponding complaint to your sister's, Allegra, would be the elderly passengers on MTA buses, who decide to use their half-fare Metrocards to ride either when people are commuting to work, or students are being dismissed from their public or private schools.
I can still vividly remember this one moment, years ago, when I was traveling back home from Edward R. Murrow, and staring into the face of this old gentleman whose face was contorted into a grimace of the most unremitting hatred.
It was like a scene out of West Side Story.
Only with senior citizens playing the role of disruptive teenage gang members.
:7)
The only rubber-necking traffic jam I could ever see an excuse for was this one time driving on the NJ Turnpike from NY to DC. When I finally got to the source, some cops were handcuffing two topless women and a man in boxers over on the northbound lane. I felt sorry for the folks on the other side because the backup must've stretched down half the state of New Jersey!
Chaos reigns in Brazil. Sao Paolo and Rio make USA look like Sunday drivers.
Somebody care to explain how D.C. gets added to the list and we still only get to 49? Do they think nobody drives in Hawaii and Alaska, maybe?
BTW, Texas (at 32nd) equals the national average, meaning some states (ahem, NY and CA) are really dumbing down the overall results.
I will say that, in my brief experience driving through New England, those are the worst drivers this side of Italy. They think street lights mean "optional".
Time for this Washington driver to move to Rhode Island:
"CA_SF Tourist Flips SUV on Lombard Street"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411863/posts
Palermo and Messina, Sicily, are horrendous!!!!
I visit NYC just about once a year because I love the place. I would never try to drive in Manhattan (heart rate accelerating just at the thought...)
But one particular cab ride ranks in my personal Top Five Scariest Cab Rides (and all of the others were outside the U.S.) This guy was blowing down Broadway right through Mid-town at about 55 mph, screeching on his brakes at the lights, making his own lanes and scaring the daylights out of us. When we got out at our hotel, my legs were wobbly. LOL
No. We came in at #29. How amazing is that?
I new Maryland was going to be a lot closer to worst than best. I was born and raised here and I swear I've never seen a bigger bunch of morons in my life.
Of course, a lot of that is due to all the transplants from the other 49.
..maybe the 48 states only? :)
We moved to California from Iowa, and I give credit to the California drivers. One trip through LA, and I had blisters on my hands from gripping the steering wheel! Never drove in LA again. They may not do well on the written test, but I'll bet they excel in the driving test. (The Iowa written test is much easier too.)
LOL, true. I grew up down there and learned to drive a stick shift in rush hour traffic there.
As painful as it was, I know it's really helped me. I can drive anywhere because of the experience of 10 years of driving there. And it's made me a better motorcycle rider because I learned to anticipate the bonehead moves that other drivers make. If you can't do that you won't stay alive long driving in NY.
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This guy should be looking over his right sholder to see the real criminal, IMHO.
I think this picture is flipped, unless this in the M-1 heading into the Midlands of the UK.
He'd rather be hunting foxes.
The drivers' tests must be easier in the NW because the drivers here are by far the stupidest.
Well, to me it looks like he's just checking the traffic on a secondary road, with the main artery to his right.
BTW, for "Stupid People Tricks, it's kind of hard to beat the motorcyclist that passed me on BC #3 last week.
I'm watching my mirrors closely (carrying 16K+ lbs you gotta watch out, and I ALWAYS let faster traffic by when it's safe. In WA, I pull over on small roads when I have 3 "fans", even though I *could* hold back up to *5*) when this rice-rocket suddenly appears in my rearview as I enter a hairpin (at 22MPH), crosses the double-solid line at the entry to the corner, and REMAINS in the passing lane for the oncoming traffic through the NEXT corner!
BC#3 was once known as the deadliest highway on the continent. It's still less than ideal, but this rice-rider had a death wish.
I Won't belabour you with the 4 old farts in Surrey in the Buick....
OH, BTW, showing flood damage in a traffic thread is kinda "outre'".
I'll lay odds that every one of those cars was unoccupied.
The most amazing thing I remember -- I was in this neighborhood and an older woman would slowly drive her Cadillac around. As far as I could see, she did not stop at intersections. I enountered this person several times over a period of weeks. She would honk the horn as she leisurely ran one stop sign after another, lumbering on at the same speed. I guess she thought she was royalty and she was warning her subjects to get out of the way.
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