Hazzard lights mean there is a HAZZARD

[JLG]

I have been having a rough week at work. I got accused of something that was twisted around by another associate, who I thought was a friend. Today I finally had a day off.

I got up early this morning to do my laundry and clean the house. I decided to do the grocery shopping after I picked up my daughter from school so she could pick out some snacks for the weekend. I went to a grocery store that I normally don't go to because it is cheaper and I am tight on money this month. After the grocery shopping I have one more stop and it is home to make a delicious dinner and relax. Or so I thought. When I make a right turn to leave the shopping center my car shuts off :cry: I try to start it but it is just going rrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr I put on my hazzard lights and keep trying to start it. This has happened many times before but only when I am not driving, just parked and if you wait about 5 minutes it will start again. But this time it didn't.

People start honking at me and I wave for the them go around. Iam not blocking the way out so all you have to do is go around me. I call for help and I can't push the car out of the way by myself so all I can do is wait for my help to arrive. I make sure that I am watching for people behind me so I can motion for them to go around me. Most people get it when they see my hazzard lights on. But of course some just lay on thier horn. Ummm hello I can't move that is why my hazzard lights are flashing. I feel bad for people having to move around me but its not like I am doing this for fun.:hairpull:

20 minutes later my help arrives just when this really nice guy gets out of his car to help us. Many people did ask me if I needed help but this guy actually got out and tried to see what was wrong.

I had to end up calling a tow truck to take my car home. My bro is coming tomorrow to see what is up. I hope tomorrow is better.

[Evil Queen]

I noticed people tend to lay on the horn when a vehicle is broken down. Several times in the past couple weeks, there have been people doing just that. Basically parking behind the broken down car and just laying on the horn. Such jerks are loose out there.

I hope nothing is seriously wrong with your car and that your days get better.

[Sarlon]

ugh >< I feel your pain on the idiot scale....

when I move I borrow my moms van, take a few trips but everything fits and its cheaper then a moving van. Well last time I moved, I somehow got a BAD flat tire. So rather then drive it 32 miles back to my mom's place, I keep it over night and go to walmart to get a patch on said tire and take it home to mom....I put on the spare tire and head out....

so...I'm on a 4 lane highway, in the right hand lane, going EXACTLY the speed limit of 45 miles an hour, WITH the hazard lights on.....and some jackass sits on my tail flashing his lights and blaring his horn.....when no one else is coming and plenty of room to get around me safely...

on a side note though...my car cracked it engine block in the middle of ass hat no where...(middle of VA...that lovely 150 mile stretch of NOTHING), so I pull over to the side of the road...no cell phone signal....at 11pm at night.

I try and flag down a car with no such luck...but something prompts me to look under my car for some reason....as I'm getting back up, I twist and crack my back...I lay there for a few seconds thinking how good it felt....and then get up and sit in my car waiting for a police to show up...knowing its inevitable...

10 minutes later...car pulls up behind me and turns on its lights...its a state trooper....and this is what follows...

ST: "Ma'am are you alright?"
Me: yes sir I'm just having some car trouble, and my phone has no signal out here
ST: well I got called out here because someone thought they saw a dead body.
ME: :eek::shrug::jawdrop::headscratch: I'm dead tired...but I don't think that counts...
ST: ~stone faced....but I can see the twitch of him trying not to smile~

Moral of the story? car breaks down? need help? play dead...it gets you help faster then you think ;)

[powerboy]

Once, when I had one of my other cars. The transmission dropped. Now ofcourse, I was in the left hand turning lane. I put the hazards on. Now ofcourse, it didn't want to be pushed. So I called Triple A. Everyone was stopping behind me and just blaring the horn. My hood was up, the flashers was blinking. So I would just shrug and tell them to go around.

[protege]

Ugh. People just suck. I'm sure glad nobody hit the horn when my MG was having problems last month...otherwise I'd have given them the "Pittsburgh Salute." That car was running fine, until about 5 miles from the shop. Then it started misfiring, stalling, and just being a bitch. Only thing to do was attempt to drive back to the garage. About 2 miles away, it got pretty bad--lots of black smoke and no power! Dad was driving, I was following him in the Toyota. Rather than risk destroying the engine, we pulled over and called for a tow truck.

Other than that, the only other time was when my Mazda broke down. It was fine when I drove to work. However, when I was driving home, it suddenly started losing power. It was like the cylinders were literally shutting down :eek: I made it across the bridge...only for the car to die at the traffic light. As soon as the light went green, the car died. The guy behind me tapped his horn, and all I could do was throw up my hands--it wouldn't restart! At least I could roll the car off the road, and put the flashers on. As I'm sitting there with the hood up, several people stopped to offer help. Not really much I could do--the car had spit out its timing belt :eek: At least it didn't wreck the engine, but still took about 3 hours to get home--I left work at 5, didn't get home until 8!

[blas]

The night my water pump and engine went, I got lucky that it was so late at night and no one else was on the road. I was able to limp it to my parents' house no problem.

Back when I was...meh....16(?) and I had my 87 Tempo, it decided to die at a red light in a left turn lane in the middle of a major highway.

I immediately turned on my hazards. I could not get the car to restart. Obviously I'm too small to push it or steer it without help......so it was stuck. And I felt SO stupid that I was in the front of the line and traffic was backed up.

But ya know what people did? Ignored the hazards and me outside of my car lifting up the hood and just kept blaring their horns at me. Yeah, that's really going to bring my car back to life!

Oh it was TERRIBLE! Fortunately, two very nice older men pulled over, ran across the lanes of traffic, and pushed my car while I steered and I was able to get a jump and make it back home. I never got their names.....but I thanked them profusely for helping me instead of blaring their horns at me.

[Talon]

I'm fairly sure I've witnessed people flashing the hazard lights just because they were parked somewhere they shouldn't have. Maybe the drivers thought it was a fake? Or they're just so completely stuck in their own little unthinking zombified bubble?

Speaking of zombies...

Moral of the story? car breaks down? need help? play dead...it gets you help faster then you think ;)

Uh-oh now I'm worried. This is how the zombie apocalypse starts! That's how they'll lure us in! :)

[powerboy]

One of my buddies cars had broken down. Now we were about 5 miles from his place. Long story short - Stupid timing belt

[JLG]

My bro fixed it in about 10 minutes. My distrubutor or whatever went out. It did cost $200 for the part but he had it running in like 10 minutes after we bought the part. I love my bro :)

[Jester]

People honking at you as your car is not working? Doesn't surprise me. And it wouldn't, since I found out how horrible people can be 22 years ago.

The scene: July, 1986. Suburbia. Teenage Jester is riding his bike with a friends of his. Teenage Jester and friend are riding along the main thoroughfare through town, on the side of the road, which is legal (and I don't believe there were any sidewalks at that point of the road). Teenage Jester goes to accelerate, stands up on the pedals, one foot slips, and Teenage Jester goes down hard. How hard? Well, one handle bar goes through his shorts missing his :censored: by a scant few inches. Unable to get his hands out in front of him Teenage Jester lands with all his weight on his chin. Part of his thumb gets sliced off, road burn on all elbows and knees, and huge gash in chin. So much so that, when Teenage Jester gets up and feels something wet on his chin, he wipes his chin with his hand, only to see the blood dripping off his hand! To add to all of this, the fall and bad landing had shattered Teenage Jester's jaw.

So there he is, laying in a crumpled bloody heap on the side of the road, though not directly in traffic, tangled up with his bicycle, obviously having just had an accident. And what do Suburbia's drivers do? Do they stop and offer aid? Do they call for help? Do they summon an ambulance? Do they even ask if Teenage Jester is okay?

No, of course they don't.

What they DO do is lay on their horns for that blasted inconsiderate bloodied Teenage Jester to get the hell out of the road!

Needless to say, I was not a fan of drivers that day. Nor am I surprised when I hear that people were honking at you with your hazards on. Trying being injured and bloody and lying on the side of the road. That's when they REALLY get mean! :lol:

[blas]

This reminds me of my accident a few weeks ago.

Granted, it was at a very congested intersection, but it was the most MINOR of accidents. I nudged the guy at 5 mph.

The guy I hit would NOT move his car. We were in everyone's way. He was all adament that the police needed to see exactly what happened. It was SO minor that we both could have pulled over to the side of the road and showed them. The damage was pretty clear, ya know?

No, he wouldn't move. Vehicles were backed up all the way to the factory parking lot. Everyone was furious, some who didn't see what happened were honking.

Adding insult to injury, the moron dialed 911. Thankfully there was a cop nearby, otherwise an ambulance and fire truck would have came, and made it all the more embarrassing. He would NOT move his car and we were blocking the intersection.

When the second cop came, the first thing he said was "You guys need to move your cars so everyone else can get through."

I mean, if I'd hit him harder or it'd been worse, we could have stayed the way we were.

[Jester]

The guy I hit would NOT move his car. We were in everyone's way. He was all adament that the police needed to see exactly what happened. It was SO minor that we both could have pulled over to the side of the road and showed them. The damage was pretty clear, ya know?

The guy was a douchenozzle. What you are SUPPOSED to do in an accident is to pull over to the side of the road if possible, then assess the damage, exchange insurance information, and wait for or call the police to file a report.

The only reason for staying in the road after an accident is if a vehicle is incapacitated by said accident.

Fucking idiot.

[mattm04]

IF motorists won't notice sirens and lights on fire trucks and police cars, then they will never notice or respond to hazard lights.

[Dips]

My little girl had her very first accident very close to our house. She was fine but a tie rod broke so it was pretty much stuck in the middle of the road until the tow truck could take it.

I sat with her while we waited for the tow truck. God bless our neighbors. Every single one recognized us and the car and stopped to ask if she was OK before we waved them on.

It got to the point where I figured it would save time to just wave, smile and give the thumbs up plus an OK sign so they wouldn't stop and roll down their windows to ask if we were OK.

Until the uber-bitch came along. She stopped and rolled down her window to let me that our CAR, was in the middle of the ROAD, and it needed to be MOVED!

Really!? I didn't notice.

My answer to her was this, "Nobody got hurt. Thanks for asking."

She didn't get the hint. "I didn't ask if anyone was hurt!"

I replied, "I know." :D

She drove away with a kind of puzzled glare.

[protege]

Until the uber-bitch came along. She stopped and rolled down her window to let me that our CAR, was in the middle of the ROAD, and it needed to be MOVED!

I had someone tell me that when my (oddly enough) '87 Tempo destroyed itself. The engine blew up :eek:, and before I could get out to push it...some idiot hit me :eek: Most people were pretty nice about it, even if the car was in the way. They saw the huge clouds of steam, the big puddle of coolant....plus the massive damage to the rear end. One guy even stopped to direct traffic. It's not that I couldn't do that, but after taking a steering wheel to the face :eek: I was in no condition. My back was killing me, and it was a bit painful to even stand. Didn't stop some idiot from bitching about the car in the road. And yes, I did flip her off :angel: