Be a Smart Driver

A friend of mine showed this video to me and it was disturbing, enlightening, and meaningful all in the same breath. I couldn't believe how realistic these scenarios were and how moving it was to watch this. This also relates to my last blog post I made, life is too short and unpredictable for stupid thrills and dumbass moves that only Hollywood Stunt drivers should be allowed to execute.


Pay attention.....

Cheap Thrills

We all learn early on from our nagging parents that driving stupid is well... stupid. Most kids are brought up to instinctively secure their seat-belt, I seriously condone this 200%. If you aren't teaching your kid to wear a belt, then I pity your child and your stupidity as a parent. The whole purpose of this post is to bring to your attention of the obvious. Cheap Thrills are not worth your life.

I've known several friends over the years who've been killed at the wheels of their vehicles because a mixture of stupidity and cheap thrills. Needless to say I don't feel recentful for their death or bitter, because they were great people that just didn't choose the right paths. Two years ago a friend of mine was killed on his way to work. What actually happened has been inconclusive, someone has said that he was drag racing (he had Firebird and loved to do this, on the track and off) and another story says that he was rushing to get into work.
Either way or whatever the reason resulted in his death. They say he took the turn too fast and another says he hit a sheet of black ice. Seeing those skid marks today say the story. He took the turn too fast, lost control and struck a tree. He was thrown from his vehicle onto the asphalt. A lady saw the accident (but gave no details) stayed at his side as she called the ambulance. He slipped away on the asphalt, was revived, and was marked deceased on his way to the hospital.

The point of this is simple. A seatbelt could have saved his life, I say could and not would because seatbelts don't always save people. But the sheer fact he was launched from his vehicle shows that had he worn one, he may be here today, joking and talking like you and I. Sadly his mother also lost her husband a week after her Son's death. Christmas is no longer a month she sees happyness in. All she sees is death and pain.

With that being said. I cannot stress enough to you folks out there, to wear your damned seat-belt. Let it be a 'maybe' instead of "No" let the seat-belt give you the potiental of saving your life rather than not wearing one and know you will perish.

Life is too short for cheap thrills.

Those of you who are teen drivers, avoid driving with friends. I know they tell you to carpool, however, we all get a little 'frisky' behind the wheel with friends while they laugh, joke, and poke fun with each other. That being said, it shows that most teen drivers along with drunk drivers are the major causes of deaths in motor vehicle accidents. That being said, be smart, not stupid.

Don't kill someone on your way home.

Who needs legs? I need a few G's!!

Okay, recently I found out I can buy tickets for a FACE TO FACE meet and greet with the sexy Kiefer Sutherland. Awesome right?! Not so much. People with miles and miles of depth in their pockets can afford it, and lo-and-behold... I can't. So the reality of it pisses me off. I'd love to meet this man and go see Redemption before anyone else, but what am I gonna do? Sit on my ass and complain :P

Anyway, I'm assuming that the bidding will surpass the thousands, I'm thinking around $5k? Hell, I'd sell my truck for that just to go.

Anyway anyway! The whole point of this one is related, trust me, I'm getting there. I went out to the bank today to deposite my weekly check (a poor excuse for a check, but it's voluntary) and I busted up my knee working outside for the weekend, so I'm already crippled. I'm done depositing my money and start to head back to my truck, that is across two strips of "road" in the parking lot. I wait as three cars buzz right on by, ignorance, then no one comes and I start walking.

I'm about halfway across and this broad in a Jeep flies around the corner from the drivethrough window, about smacks right into me. Of course I don't look at her, why give her the satisfaction? Not looking at her pisses them off more *lolz*.

So I'm driving home, the whole not being able to afford it because of Rich Pricks is bugging me. And it hits me, "Dammit why couldn't have hit me!!??" at least then I could have afford to buy the damn tickets considering I'd sue her anorexic ass to the moon and back.

(no I'm not nitpicking on a particular weight, I do it to every body size, get over it)

What a bummer. Which she could stopped a few inches later and she would've had to sell that hunk-o-junk and I would be living the life talking, drinking, and taking pictures with my man.

Minivans are no excuse for ignorance.

I think it's safe to say that on a highway who are you going to be more apt to cut off? A kid toiting minivan or a badass sports car. Minivan right? Stereotypical of course, it seems the badass sports cars aren't to be reckoned with. Where I'm going is don't let that exterior of a minivan fool you, they're just a big of an asshole of the owner of a badass sports car, if not worse.

Yesterday I was out with the mom, been edgy because of this whole political bull so I wasn't in the mood and probably should not have been driving :) Well I was, so whatcha gonna do? Speed isn't a factor here, well, yes and no it is. Okay, fine, I'm going 45ish in a 45 zone. I have the rightofway and I have the green freaken light. This white minivan backed down with most likely the welfare mooching obese that would rather milk welfare and be a leach on society then raise their arse off the couch or the car for this matter. Well I'm coming to an intersection, she's creeping forward from the right as if she's gonna pull a fast one. Sure enough, she does, pulls right in front of my 45mph ass going 5mph. Of course she's got an Osama, I mean Obama sticker on her minivan. I coast into her lane and get yelled at, go figure.

Not much muse to be a smartass today, I'm mentally fried.

Cheers.

When it Rains; It Pours Stupid

I wasn't the one drivin' today, fortunately. I probably would've honked the hell out of this guy.

I'm in the backseat and my parents are in the front in our wittle Civic driving 45-ish on a heavily trafficed 3 lane road. Route 95 S is always backed up and you have your handful of ignorant monkeys getting into the lane as quickly as possible. Cutting off semi's that have worse braking compatibility then cold molasses. Well today this Accord is sitting in the lane for 95, decides he's an impatient ol' bat and pulls out from a STAND still in front of my dad going 45mph... of course my dad has time to react, but the guy second guesses himself with 'Oh hell, someones coming! Oh screw you! Oh wait!' demeanor... he finally decides to pull out and we go on a marry freaken way.

Why do the moronic suddenly appear in bad weather??

Fine... Make Me The Jackass.

Okay, in the state of Virginia it is by law an obligation for a vehicle in the slowest lane on the highway to MOVE OVER when a merge lane is occupied by an driver. The only law that this does NOT apply to is Semi-trucks! However, balding and pepper gray long bearded old man in a P.O.S minivan does not apply to either.

Traffic is pretty thick, but still, by law drivers are obligated to move when people are on the on ramp trying to get on. If these a-holes would actually slow down and let people on we'd be frickin moving! So this old hippie guy with a dew rag and long peppered beard gets all pissed off at me because I finally decide to cut him off as he refuses to let me in. It's an either "Hit me or Move the F back" move. So after I'm denied to be let in by two vehicles and this van being the 3rd, I've had enough, my blinker has been on. The cars in front of me are running out of on ramp and so am I. So I meander over, he speeds up, so today I was the jackass. I had enough. I floored it, the little Civic humming it's happy lil tune to pathetic pick-up and I cut him off, blinker and all.

Shaking my head at him, noticeably, I move into the middle lane. The hippy had plenty of room to move over, but nooo, his hippy arse had to ignorant and just got what he gave. So he passes me, hanging out the window, shouting something at me, probably cussing, throwing his hands in the air and shaking his head. So I flip my under upside down like "WTF you want me to do about your anger issues." and smirk. He shakes his head and keeps driving, staring at me through his side mirror.

Hippy, probably too old to give a dang about the laws.

That's alright, I'm proud to be the jackass of the day. Needless to say, karma didn't get me back that day, so apparently I was in the right and that fcker in the wrong.

Related and Not So Much

Not So Much:

I'll be quite honest if I were to have a retarded or mentally handicapped person I would be in the abortion clinic the next day. They are a drain on society, take tons of effort, tons of time, and quite honestly they don't give back all that much to society just suck up tax dollars. I realise that I'm heartless etc, etc but I honestly can't imageine spending the time taking that much care of someone I'd expect them to make something of their life. I was told in biblical times children like that were killed.

How frickin' cold hearted can you be? I found this gem on a horse"lover" forum. I was absolutely and utterly appalled by her bitterness. At least she got one thing right, she is a heartless witch. Maybe we can get House and fix her mental issue.

But seriously, this seriously pissed me off. I have family with kids who are handicapped, these kids are born for a reason, a purpose and the REAL retards that trash talk the handicapped is what pisses me off. I surely hope that she's born handicapped in her next life and I hope karma bites her in her ass and she ends up with a disabled child EVERY time she conceives.

Related:

I'm trying to think what happened recently... Oh, I have a good one that has a question mingled in it as well.

Passing a school this morning there is a two way road and in front of the school it has a LOADING zone just off to the right where the buses sit, making it a temporary 3 laner. Well I never recall being obligated to stop when a bus is not directly in the road. Apparently I'm wrong.

Now, this can go both ways. They're off the main road, loading kiddies, red lights with the whole 'stop' going and what not. What do you do? I crept up and prepared to get where I was going. No rush, taking my time in case a munchkin bolted out in front of me, so as I went on a bus slams on her horn and I slam on the brake. Needless to say for a truck it stopped pretty damn good!

I have 3/4 windows rolled down, so as I'm rolling the 3rd down this obese white woman waddles around the front of the bus and waves her chicken leg of an arm at me and comes on with an attitude, "When those lights are on you need to stop back there!!" and I replied back, the same tone as hers, "Well I didn't know!" I so wanting to frickin do more than what I did, but I swallowed my pride and kept going. As I started to back out the woman who honked at me pushed open her window as I stopped next to her, waved at me and kindly directed behind her. She smiled and I apologize, I told her I honestly didn't know, her smile remained and she nodded, "Yah, you do need to stop back there." so with that I backed up until I was past the buses and waited for 10 minutes to load the rugrats on the bus.

Then the obese woman had the audacity to wave at me for waiting, what a f'er.

So what would you have done? Kept going or stopped? There was no one around for me to take the 'hint' from which is why I kept going.