Where the hell am I?

[marty]

Where, I ask, when crazy old redneck guy thinks that he can use a check written out to someone else but endorsed by him at a gas station?

Through my nice naproxen daze, I had to ask my boyfriend if I was hearing things. Was that man really yelling at the clerk for that? Was I experiencing auditory hallucinations? Was he crazy or stupid?

And then boyfriend had to shush me through his giggling because I was asking those questions outloud.

And on a side note, hey guess what, newly entered college kids and your parents! Those crosswalks? That's where you cross the street. Not in the middle of traffic; as much as I want those twenty points for hitting you, I'm much more likely to get a court date and I am not okay with that. The grill on my car will not assist you safely to your destination.

[PepperElf]

yay for death race 2000?

[Gerrinson]

The tourists around here are just as bad about crossing the street. Most of the time they'll walk up, hit the button for the light, then immediately begin crossing the street without waiting for the light to change. So I stop to avoid them, then get stuck waiting on the red light caused by the idiot hitting the button in the first place.

Or worse, they don't hit the button, look at the big bright orange 'Don't Walk' signal, and cross anyway against the light. Taking their sweet time, dawdling across the road, holding up all the traffic that has a green light. One woman took the time to stop and point out stores to her friend as they were crossing. Idiots.

[Mamadrae]

Might want to check your state laws.

Where I live, pedestrians have to cross at the crosswalks with the sign. They can only cross the open road if there isn't any place for them to actually cross. If you hit them because they walked out in front of you then they are liable and not you.

Main reason I know this is cause I was guilty of it when I was a young and stupid drae. Finally got hit by a guy slowing down for the red light. I wasn't hurt, just shaken. Was not happy to get a ticket over it though.

[Arm]

In North Carolina, the rules go...

If they ain't in a crosswalk, they's roadkill.

But I wouldn't want to actually try it. Plus, towns have free reign to make their own rules, as with one of the university towns that essentially gives right-of-way to any pedestrians crossing the road within a fairly large radius of its university's campus.

[marty]

In North Carolina, the rules go...

If they ain't in a crosswalk, they's roadkill.

But I wouldn't want to actually try it. Plus, towns have free reign to make their own rules, as with one of the university towns that essentially gives right-of-way to any pedestrians crossing the road within a fairly large radius of its university's campus.

Boone here.

[RetailWorkhorse]

In North Carolina, the rules go...

If they ain't in a crosswalk, they's roadkill.

But I wouldn't want to actually try it. Plus, towns have free reign to make their own rules, as with one of the university towns that essentially gives right-of-way to any pedestrians crossing the road within a fairly large radius of its university's campus.

Boone here.

Macon County here.

So do the Tourists in the red shirt gain you 20 points or is it the blue shirts that gain you 20 points? Baby carriages is 50, 75 if it's a double.

[Sirionan]

Boone here.

Ah, Boone.

I know Boone. My sister went to Lees McRae College in Banner Elk.

And a very off topic story, but worth the laugh.
Little Sister (who's as tall as I am, and I ain't small!) had an accident. And while dropping me off in Georgia, they were going to pick up little sister and pay off the mechanic.

To get to the mechanic's shop, you have to (from Banner Elk) take a right at the main intersection in town, and then at the Waffle House (Or whatever that lovely breakfast buffet place is called--it's been the better part of a decade!) make another right..

Yes, I HAVE been to the Boone Docks! (street)

for the record, the mechanic was very professional and even cut my folks a bit of slack when he realized they'd come there from Canada, personally, to pay him (didn't charge late fee or somesuch, I think).

[JustADude]

Boone here.

Former resident of Durham, here. As in, the part of Raleigh-Durham that's not Raleigh. Yeah, it's a real place.

[marty]

Former resident of Durham, here. As in, the part of Raleigh-Durham that's not Raleigh. Yeah, it's a real place.

Phew, yeah, a freakin' dangerous place.

[JustADude]

Phew, yeah, a freakin' dangerous place.

Bah. Durham's nothing. Try growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas if you want dangerous. Place constantly beats out NYC, LA, Miami, and most of the other 'hot spots' for gang crime and violence when it's normalized per-capita.

[marty]

Haha, well, for NC Durham is a dangerous place.