bah -- that's not a record...

[acroyear]

he ain't got nothin'.  just give me one self-centered slowpoke in a mercedes yappin' on a cell phone causing me to get caught by a red light (that he still clears by running it red) and i can go from zero to cranky in 2.6 seconds.

sheesh...amatures.

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BWAAAHAHAHAHAAA! *snort*

[nvqrjaaajkss.livejournal.com]

You DO know everytime I see that happen around me I AM gonna think of you and giggle uncontrollably!

::SMOOCH:: Thanks for the good stuff!

:)

Re: BWAAAHAHAHAHAAA! *snort*

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

usually the phrase that comes out of my mouth is "what a senseless waste of a mercedes".

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

I will stand witness to this phenomenon... Hell, 2.6 is you on a slow day... ;)

An important question....

[nvqrjaaajkss.livejournal.com]

Is the self-centered slow poke doing the LEGAL speed limit in these scenarios!!!????

Re: An important question....

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

more importantly, were they keeping up with the flow of traffic around them, to which it is invariably a "no".

i'm with the British -- i'd rather see slowpokes (even if going just under the speed limit) ticketed for interfering with the flow of traffic.

not that i want traffic on a 55mph road to be doing 80 -- but someone doing 50 in the *center* lane (of 3) when the flow is doing 65 is AN OBSTICLE and is actually creating far more of a risk than the "speeders".

THAT's a situation that usually brings out the rapid no-warning lane-changers who don't signal and thus lead to your particular traffic peeve i've seen many a (tragically necessary) rant on.

[capi.livejournal.com]

If/When that sort of thing happens to me, i prefer to think to myself, "I wonder if i would have been killed if i'd made that light... " and let it go at that.

I always believed that the best path is not necessarily the one i planned or intended, and in my wee mind, that has to go for "annoying obstacles and delays", as well.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

oh, i do mind the lesson learned from Back to the Future III very well and I WILL stop before running pure red. now, i've run plenty of extremely *orange" lights, but more often those are because i know the momentum and weight of my car and the power of my breaks over 5 years and i know when i will and won't be able to actually stop remotely behind the white line.

some days its "he chose wisely", some days its "he chose poorly". often a 50-50 crap shoot. go fig.

i do have those days where the obsticles feel like murphy gone mad.

but there have been those moments where the urge comes in that its "telling me something" and i need to go a different route. and more often than not, that's led me to something i really need to be at. when that happens, though it could just be my subconscious talking, i prefer to credit to God telling me something -- those are some of the moments of miracles in my life.

utterly unscientific of course, but I never said God was science. only that I believe. :)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

by "wisely/poorly" i didn't mean to imply running red (or "orange") lights.

i meant to add a sentence about getting out of the slowpoke lane that sometimes just pins me off and makes me even further behind the slowpoke.

[mshelby.livejournal.com]

it's god telling you that ID is full of crap.