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right I am going to stay up here where I know the idiot drivers. your brother sound like my in laws. I refuse to ride with them. They love when we offer to drive and we love it since they can't drive. They thought it would be perfectly alright to ride in the back of their truck (with canopy) all the way to Disneyland. They didn't believe us when we told them it was illegal. I don't vacation with these people anymore.
I second the dash cam.Coffee should be strong, black and chewy! It should strip paint and frighten small children.
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I have a few suggestions:
1. Maybe call the cops in advance and let them know where your brother will be. They can keep an eye on him at the time, and when they spot him disobeying traffic laws, they can cite him.
2. Have your parents take his license. Will that stop him?
3. How close are you to having your own car? This way you're only taking your own life in YOUR hands.
4. How old is the car? If it doesn't have an Airbag, you can get a Grant Security System. Basically you install it on the steering column, and it allows the steering wheel to be removed. I remember seeing this in a Summit Racing catalog in the 90's and I picked one up for my Chevelle SS. If I went shopping at the mall, I'd take off the wheel, put The Club on the wheel, store the wheel in the trunk, and put the protective cap over the column.
5. I've also heard of security starters. You have to turn the ignition in a specific sequence before the car will start. I don't know if these still exist today.
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Ok call me weird but back in the 70's when I was a kid and riding in the back of a pickup wasn't illegal I did it all the time and LOVED IT!!!!!!!!! I would do it now if I could.https://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
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Quoth telecom_goddess View PostOk call me weird but back in the 70's when I was a kid and riding in the back of a pickup wasn't illegal I did it all the time and LOVED IT!!!!!!!!! I would do it now if I could.Coffee should be strong, black and chewy! It should strip paint and frighten small children.
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Your brother is...very scary. I would never drive with him again now that he has his license, although your presence might very well save some innocent's life. Tough call..."If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga
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Your salvation.
With any due luck, that should settle him down on the streets; it worked wonders for me, and I can't complain with a couple of season trophies under my belt. :P
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Quoth Arghetlam View PostYour salvation.
With any due luck, that should settle him down on the streets; it worked wonders for me, and I can't complain with a couple of season trophies under my belt. :P
In addition, I'll address some of the other suggestions I have read on here.
The dashboard cam seems like a good idea, I just have to get money. I am dirt broke at the moment (my salvation rests on how I do selling artwork at a convention in April).
I've thought about calling the cops, but ever since I got pulled over by them about a year ago (my mother forgot to tell me the license plates on her car were going to expire )I am very wary of the police. And knowing my interesting (typically bad) luck, I would be the one driving and would do something wrong, thus them pulling me over and me losing my license.
Mom and Dad won't pull his license unless he gets pulled over or does something illegal.
I have no where near the amount of money needed to buy a car, or insurance, or even gas. Like I said earlier, broke. Although, if you know anyone who might be selling a vespa scooter (I'm trying to find the model similar to the one Haruka Haru Hara drives in FLCL) I may suddenly get money (we have two kidneys right? Just get rid of one, how much do you think I could get for it on ebay? jk).
Don't worry. For the time being, I'm the one that drives, and he's started shutting about about it because he gets to fiddle with the radio (although he changes it to (c)rap alot)
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Although I'm a very safe driver and my sister is... slightly less so (my sister's had a few minor bumps, which I attribute more to her fearless driving style), my mother refuses to let either of us pick up or give a ride to the other.
She has no problem with both of us in the car with either her or Dad, but just me and Sis in the car? Mom gets extremely worried about that, that we'll get in an accident and we'll both be killed.
But then, Mom's paranoid about a lot of things.
To stop her worrying, though, we do as she asks.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!
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Rena Muffin, I think I will stay up here well away from your brother."Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears." – Rudyard Kipling
I don't have hot flashes. I have short, private vacations to the tropics.
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Quoth Rena_Muffin View PostMom and Dad won't pull his license unless he gets pulled over or does something illegal.We are actors! We are the opposite of people! -Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
All we can do is hate. And they ALL deserve it.
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Quoth Tsiyeria View PostLast time I checked, reckless driving is something you can be charged with by police...Does that make it illegal enough?
However, I do have a suck that for once didn't come from my brother (I'll just post it here).
I don't know what it is about me but every time I drive into Oregon, everyone tail gates me. This guy though takes the cake. He's this jackass in a bright yellow camry (I think. It looked like a camry) and he was close enough to my ass that one wrong move and he would have hit me. I'm in the right lane and this day the traffics not too bad so there's plenty of room for him to pass me. Yet, he stayed on my ass for at least fifteen minutes. I pulled into the left lane, figuring it'd get him off my back, and he follows me and keeps riding my ass. I finally lost him when I took my exit but still, wtf?
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Quoth Rena_Muffin View Post... and he follows me and keeps riding my ass...
So they can't hook on and get a free ride.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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