"JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7" (jayzayeighty)
07/31/2014 at 21:57 • Filed to: None
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"JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7" (jayzayeighty)
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I'm generally an incredibly absent minded person to the point of making simple things difficult to get done, but when I drive I've always been focused to the point of being overly-tense. Today I pulled off from the highway onto a road that crosses it to turn around and thought "damn, this is a really sharp turn here to turn left," and almost drive into the opposing lane before getting ahold of myself. I realized the mistake early on but I am really ashamed of it but I'm kind of troubled that despite being focused I would almost get myself in a really bad situation like that...
Brian Silvestro
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
07/31/2014 at 22:01 |
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NEED
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JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
> Brian Silvestro
07/31/2014 at 22:03 |
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I'd settle for a 540 or 535. The E34 is just so damned perfect.
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Brian Silvestro
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
07/31/2014 at 22:03 |
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Best 5 Series ever.
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JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
> Brian Silvestro
07/31/2014 at 22:07 |
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It's the cocaine of the 80s and the advanced/high-budget engineering of the 90s and doesn't rely on ridiculous power to be great. It is balance incarnate. I'm getting the urge to try to trade the C4 for a big sedan again, dammit!
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Brian Silvestro
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
07/31/2014 at 22:11 |
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Your mistake was buying the C4 in the first place! (sorry, I can't resist)
twochevrons
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
07/31/2014 at 22:35 |
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Oh yes. I've felt that before.
When I went back home over spring break, my Dad and I went on a little road trip together to visit a friend. He'd been doing most of the driving, since I wasn't sure how comfortable I'd be on the other side of the road after a few years driving in the States.
With some great roads on the trip, we took his pride and joy, a Citroën BX 16v, and on the return trip, he handed me the keys. I was doing fine until I came to a T-junction of two 100km/h highways. Without thinking, I checked for traffic in the wrong direction, and pulled out right in front of a logging truck.
I knew right away what I'd done, and with some full-throttle acceleration, got up to speed in time. Still, in a less powerful car, we'd have almost certainly come to grief. I felt sick. Dad never said anything about it, and the rest of the trip went uneventfully, but it's still something that haunts me.
I've been much more cautious about driving on the other side of the road ever since.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
08/01/2014 at 09:17 |
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I pride myself on being a good, attentive driver, but a week ago, I was downtown, at night, in an area of town I don't know very well, and turned right the wrong way on a one-way street (which is also a bridge over railroad tracks, so you don't really see the road, or any cars, until you're on it). There were two cars oncoming, but thankfully, the closest one wasn't in the lane I'd pulled into and the car in the lane I was in got on their brakes quickly. I stopped, took a split-second to realize what happened and assess, and then did a quick u-turn (the road is four lanes wide).
Definitely the closest I'd been to an accident in a while. I felt like a complete moron, and it was made worse by the fact that I had my 7-year-old son in the car (we were heading home from a ballgame). Bad situation - very glad it ended the way it did.
Moral of the story: no matter how secure you are in your abilities, we're all human and make mistakes. Keep your eyes open, don't make assumptions (which was my mistake - I thought I was pulling onto a street I knew, but I was actually a block down from there), and err on the side of caution.