How was your commute? (Mar 6)

"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
03/06/2014 at 10:15 • Filed to: Morning Commute

Post all of your rants and the cool things you saw on your commute this morning or your trip back home last evening.

I saw a nice Saab 95 and a nice white GTi. I also saw something I forgot existed, the Toyota Tacoma X-runner. Basically a Tacoma lowered and with a body kit. I shudder at the thought of it.

DISCUSSION (23)

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:17

I love the X-Runner. I sometimes dream of owning one...

RazoE > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:17

X-Runners were also all manual and I believe and an "X" bar. Hence the name.

RacecaR > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:18

Is it bad if I really do not remember driving into work this morning?

Storz > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:18

I actually think the X Runner is kind of cool

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:21

I'm going to have to walk to class in a minute, and I already don't like life because a group of really annoying people I know just traded their Panamera for an XF.

Yes this is a college.

They be college students.

And then obligatory Mustang that floors it when someone's looking at them, so I always glance over at Mustangs when they're near our front end murdering speedbumps.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:24

The most interesting car I saw? My own. My commute was riddled with run of the mill sedans, vans and pickup trucks.

TillTheWheelsFallOff: Brocoma > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:25

From time to time I look for a wrecked x-runner to turn into a missile drift car. I've dreamed of owning one since I was 12-13. I now own a lifted Tacoma and want one of each, haha.

Grindintosecond > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:25

My commute is a bit different. I slept a bit in jumpseats on a FedEx MD-10 freight plane..it carries amazing numbers of shipping cans. I also slept before that in a recliner for 3.9 hours in a crew rest room. My commute ends at this moment in a bed for as few more hours. Goodnight!

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:25

I saw a lot of beige on my 2-mile communte to work

puddler > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:26

my buddy had one. he took a few small trees out of a median because alcohol. i loved that truck.

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:29

I actually really like the X-Runner

jariten1781 > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:29

There was a dead gold W124 blocking the right lane of a pretty major road. It'd obviously been there for a while because the backup was a good half mile long. I pulled over into a church parking lot to see if I could help. 20 some well dressed chick was inside with her cell phone stuck to her ear totally ignored me. Knocked on the window and waved for her to roll it down and she glanced over for a second then started staring forward again. Nothing. Waited around for about 10 minutes and a couple other guys stopped and got the same response. Guess she just liked being stuck or something. We totally could have pushed he into the lot....it was only about 30 ft. Finally a cop rolled up and asked us what was going on. He just shrugged his shoulders and rolled his eyes when we told him about her catatonic response.

Other than that it was just a normal Thursday.

oldirtybootz > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:30

I left a few minutes early today yet I still ended up stuck behind one school bus that threw off the rest of my commute and made me late. I was also behind an unusual amount of 2nd gen Priusesesszssszz(Prii?) today.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > RazoE
03/06/2014 at 10:30

Agreed, the X-runner is actually a decent handling little sport truck. Definitely better than the colorado ZQ8 or whatever that handling package was.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna
03/06/2014 at 10:31

Always a good feeling watching them smash.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Grindintosecond
03/06/2014 at 10:31

Wish I could take naps!

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Storz
03/06/2014 at 10:33

I think it looks pretty cool too. Just very impractical for where we live. It was pushing snow on a main road slowing everyone down.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > oldirtybootz
03/06/2014 at 10:34

Prius, the 4 wheel horror.

GRawesome > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:34

I saw an H1 and a Model S. 2 cars on the very ends of the MPG spectrum.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 10:52

Saw a Ram EcoDiesel Longhorn while jammed into traffic, was gonna snag a picture but his lane started moving and i lost him.

Here's a google image, his was brown though:

Kinja'd!!!

Jayhawk Jake > RacecaR
03/06/2014 at 10:57

That's about how I feel. I remember driving, noticing something vibrating in my glove box, getting into boost for the 'pshhhh', and a lot of fog.

Any other details? Nope. I think there was a school bus somewhere along the way.

RacecaR > Jayhawk Jake
03/06/2014 at 11:15

If the school bus was not flipped over and/or on fire, I think you are okay.

Takuro Spirit > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
03/06/2014 at 11:30

Our freeway system is straight out of the 60's. Hasn't changed except on the East side downtown. While driving South in the middle lane of the non-updated freeway, where the left lane is an exit-only to take the ramp EAST, the right lane is a merging lane, and there is an exit lane to go WEST, I start to pass a long line of cars slowing in the left exit-only lane, a black HHR decides to whip on his right signal after the white lane has already become solid (you're committed, bro), as I am only a carlength behind him and about to pass. He cancels his signal. Then, as my left front passes his right rear, he whips it on again, and starts to move over. Nuh-uh, nope. I lay on the horn and hold my ground.

There is no one in the right lane so I have a buffer zone of safety just in case...

He tries to force his way over, but I ain't having it. Dude, this freeway's been here since you were a kid, based on how old you look, why haven't you figured it out by now? That exit lane is clearly marked for TWO MILES before the interchange. And his plates are not from out of state, so no using that as an excuse either.