When you're glad there's trash in your car.

"JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7" (jayzayeighty)
11/11/2014 at 17:12 • Filed to: None

You're at a stoplight. You see something out of the corner of your eye. It's a large spider on the A-pillar. Grab two business cards, swipe spider out of the window and throw business cards in the heat of the moment, open door to pick up trash and not litter, watch light turn green, leave business cars on the road. I felt bad about this because people throwing trash out of their windows will make me lay on the horn (we've got a badass over here), which is not smart but it pisses me off more than texting while driving. Some teenage girl was texting while going 20 over and tailgating in a BMW, too. No, I'm not sexist, only adding details. Here's a C6 I was slowly driving by on the way to the doctor's and stopped to snap a SR20 of with photo bombing C4. I've had this cough for about a month and a half and it's really annoying.

DISCUSSION (12)

jkm7680 > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 17:15

Gah, How big was the spider?

Depending on size, I would have casually pulled over and attacked it with my shoe.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > jkm7680
11/11/2014 at 17:22

For some reason I feel morally obligated against killing anything harmless, but it was over an inch long and not pleasant looking. Another time, I was doing 70 on an on-ramp when a decent sized green spider was sitting on my instrumentation, got a receipt, caught it on there as it was swinging towards a place where you wouldn't want a spider, a flung it out. Suffice it to say I didn't have the need for speed on that ramp...

jkm7680 > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 17:26

I normally only kill large spiders, and those wretched silverfish things.

But if one of these little guys crawled onto my dashboard while driving, I'd just go D'aaawwwww.

Kinja'd!!!

Jonathan Harper > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 17:26

I've been meaning to write a post about this for a long time, but when I was a new driver I had the strangest experience, directly caused by some accidental littering.

17 year old me leaves home on a Sunday afternoon in mom's E46 325i to pick up some friends and go for a hike/rip around on some back roads. I pull out of my driveway and drive to the end of the small road I grew up on, stopping at the stop sign to take my jacket off. Unbuckle, take jacket off, and in doing so a small piece of paper, maybe a gum wrapper, maybe a fortune from a chinese fortune cookie, blows out the window. I didn't notice. I get the jacket off, toss jacket in the back seat, look up and there is a Saab 9-7X I've never seen before sort of blocking my way, middle aged man driver pulls up a bit to my open window and says something like:

Guy: "This is a nice neighborhood, you gonna pick that up?"

Me: "Uhh...what?"

Guy: ( aggressively) "You just littered, this is a clean neighborhood are you going to pick that up?"

Me: ( so confused) ".. . what?"

Guy: ( very aggressively) " You little snot nose, you just threw that (points) out the window and you're going to go pick it up or I'm gonna kick your ass."

Me: ( seeing small piece of paper) "That? That's what you want me to pick up?"

Guy: ( starts unbuckling angrily) YES! FUCKING PICK IT UP!

At this point I'm so bewildered by this angry old man I've never seen in my neighborhood I hop out and pick it up. Angry man tears off in his shitty Saab SUV, and I went off on my way. I later recounted the story to my parents and they told me I should have called the cops, the dude was out of his fucking mind and threatened me. Never saw him again, and I never trusted a Saab 9-7X driver again.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > Jonathan Harper
11/11/2014 at 18:02

Wow, that's bizzare. I mean, I'm talking about dumping your fast food containers or a crumpled up piece of paper out, not a damn gum wrapper! Good story, though.

Jonathan Harper > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 18:03

Yeah, I went on a bit of a tangent. Was totally accidental on my part too. What a nut.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > jkm7680
11/11/2014 at 18:07

Yeah, silverfish and larger spiders are among my greatest enemies. I don't see why we can't just have cute spiders, though! I'm not fond of the idea of mice in my home/car, but whenever I see one trapped on a piece of tar paper I feel kinda sorry for it.

jkm7680 > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 18:13

Same about mice, I don't like killing mammals for no reason.

Only jumping spiders would be awesome though, they don't really bother anybody.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > Jonathan Harper
11/11/2014 at 18:15

I've only come across someone that psycho once on the road. It's also pretty embarrassing for me to try to parallel park in my car when beige car driving assholes give me the stink eye (the turning radius is unimaginable and it makes me look like an idiot—in the picture, the corvette's at full lock), but nothing else really bothers me.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > jkm7680
11/11/2014 at 18:22

Yeah, some sort of exotic spider would kind of just be cool. But garage spider with a bunch of baby spiders? Nopenopenopenope. I think I'll just let the wax turn white on my car for uniqueness. A centipede has also been terrorizing the garage...

jkm7680 > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 18:24

Gahhhh, a big centipede? I hate those fuckers.

Garage spiders are the worst though, especially if they literally are all over the place.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
11/11/2014 at 19:00

Kinja'd!!!