How do you people forget to drive!

[Red_Dazes]

..Every TIME IT SNOWS!

I really don't understand... when it rains you can't drive. You go like 4 miles an hour. During the summer you drive pretty well... but god forbid it snows..

You all drive like DEMONS. Now is the time for the 4 mile an hour speed. So you. Idiot in the little car riding my bumper because I am going 10 miles below the 60 speed limit. Yeah, you can just hang there... I know you saw my car trying to fishtail just now. Know what that means.
No way in HELL am I going any faster... in fact, how about you keep on my bumper and I'll slow down even more. SO that WHEN I stop at a light and you realize that 5 inches is NOT enough room for your car to stop on ICE... hopefully my bumper will not be damaged too badly.

BACK OFF JACKNUT!

And you. Big stupid truck. Thank you for not yielding on the hill. Instead as I was trying desperately to get up the little ((not big enough for two cars to pass)) hill you decided to come barreling down it. There were plenty of places you could have pulled over to wait... seeing as I was already half way up the hill before you even got here.
But instead you raced down towards my car... I had to pull to the side to let your stupid face though. Know what happened then. My car wouldn't go back up the hill... I slid... all the way down the the bottom... BACKWARDS.

Spokane Drivers. I think you all are stupid. Perhaps it should be mandatory to pass a "Winter Driving Safety" course before they give you your license... cause you all SUCK.


P.S.
I hate your face.

~Red

[Crossbow]

..Every TIME IT SNOWS!

Perhaps it should be mandatory to pass a "Winter Driving Safety" course before they give you your license... cause you all SUCK.

~Red

Make it a yearly course.

[blas]

To everyone in trucks and SUVS....while I don't wish ill on most people, I really hope you people will learn your lesson one of these days during a snow day when you put too much trust in your vehicle's size and 4 wheel drive. I don't wish an accident upon you, but I do hope you skid once or twice and learn a thing or two about not trusting size and 4 wheel drive alone.

Having a large vehicle just means you won't get stuck as easily in the snow. It does NOT mean that you can still go 80 mph on slick road conditions, NOR does it mean that you can tailgate and bully around smaller vehicles who are driving more safely and appropriately for the weather.

So interesting how you only see cars stuck in the snow in the ditch, but you constantly see trucks and SUVs turned over or on their side.

[Bandit]

Having a large vehicle just means you won't get stuck as easily it's easier to get into trouble in the snow. It does NOT mean that you can still go 80 mph on slick road conditions, NOR does it mean that you can tailgate and bully around smaller vehicles who are driving more safely and appropriately for the weather.

Fixed it for ya!

And yeah - regular winter driving courses would be a VERY GOOD THING. People here can't drive normally. And it's not like the snow is a surprise - two winters ago, there was about 13 FEET of it.

B

[BrenDAnn]

This is exactly what I started the Winter Driving Amnesia thread for! Idiot drivers, I swear! It's a wonder any of us sane, competent drivers make it anywhere, with the lot of the unable out there!

[tropicsgoddess]

I dunno about the snow (never been in it) but people drive like asshats in the rain in FL. Shoot, when the lights go out, people don't know how to act. *smh*

[blas]

Well, people ask me why I get so scared in the winter of driving, "You're from Wisconsin!", blah blah blah...

It's not me I'm afraid of. I'm afraid of the idiots who won't slow down, allow more slowing and stopping distance, TRUCKS AND SUVS tailgating smaller vehicles that are driving safely, TRUCKS AND SUVS.......people sliding through intersections trying to avoid red lights.....yellow lights at the worst time and I end up skidding, roads that are so half-assed plowed....trucks and SUVs....

I'm not perfect, far from it. I skid, I slide.....but I drive carefully. I am prepared. Always prepared for shit weather. Always allow time and never hurry and freak.

[sarasquirrel]

reminds me of a story


ok so last year, who knows maybe it was early this year, i dont remember anymore

i went into work for a 6-10 shift, i got in at 6 and it had just started to snow. i got out at 10 and there was a lot of snow lol. it was the big fat fluffy snow that piles high. i brushed my car off only to have to brush again it had piled up quickly.

the parking lot wasnt plowed but i was able to get out, there was one time we all had to shovel ourselves out of our spaces.

most of my commute was 2 main state roads. so they are higher priority than the side roads smaller town roads. my commute also involved going up a nice big hill, or as most of us call a mountain (its more like a really big hill tho lol)

i drive a corolla....

so i need to get some momentum to get up this hill if i wanna go over 30 problem was the roads were covered, no sign of a real good plowing. so i got no momentum to go. so im going up the hill maybe 20-25 and anytime i accelerated my tires spun and my car drifted left and right. i thought id either a) fly off the edge b) fall back

so i cried and prayed to make it to the top safely as i did, only to have some jerk RIDE MY ASS THE WHOLE WAY UP THE HILL. nobody else was out on the road either.

idk if it was this storm, or maybe another one that involved ice but the town plow was going up my street (hill) and got to the crest and got stuck and its a big plow. its tires were spinning and squeeling, it was scary but luckily he made it

[Bramble]

Heh I remember last year it snowed over ice. I was only going 15 trying to get on the interstate when I hit a nice hidden patch of ice and spun out in front of rush hour traffic. Thank whoever or whatever was watching out for me since they were actually paying attention and I didn't get obliterated.