"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
09/02/2016 at 03:15 • Filed to: None
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"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
09/02/2016 at 03:15 • Filed to: None | 3
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Rant ahead; was walking the dog and saw something I still can’t comprehend.
Okay, so I am walking my dog, and one of the places we normally walk by is a gas station that is located on the corner of a street. One of the roadways is a 3 lane wide in each direction, the other is a two lane wide. Suffice to say, these streets can get a little busy. Now because of the busyness of this street, this gas station has an entrance on both intersecting streets (Diagram below).
Now as I walk my dog down the sidewalk, I watch a truck driving down the street, and abruptly come to a stop at the light at the intersection, which just so happens to be green for the direction he was traveling (red square = truck).
So this is already a stupid and dangerous thing to do, luckily, its 10:30 pm so there isn’t much traffic. Suddenly, el-truck-o begins to reverse. In the middle of 3 lane wide roadway. backing up. into oncoming traffic.
Okay, so a totally stupid, ignorant, and reckless move.
But wait; theres more!!!
The jackass, instead of just turning the corner to use the other entrance, instead of backing up further and then turning into the parking lot like a logical human being, cuts the wheel to the left while backing up so his fucking truck is across two and a half lanes of this road with traffic barreling down on him!!!
Seriously!!!
Like how do you have a fucking license? How???
What was your thought process? Oh hey, thats the gas station I wanted to go to, I could just turn the corner and pull into it, but.... I don’t like that street. Let me back up into traffic, then block all these other assholes who keep honking at me.
/rant
Alfalfa
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 05:06 |
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Maybe that’s his favorite entrance...
NostalgicCarLife
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 05:42 |
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They drive a truck.
VonBootWilly - Likes Toyota, but it's still complicated.
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 05:47 |
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Probably had the classic Bass Pro Shops hat and Browning stickers which are a dead giveaway for mouth breathing.
I have enough fun when people pull to the far right of a road opening to signal left, and block that exit. Or the opposite, sitting to the far left signalling left, when you are trying to turn in.
I mean, businesses often go out of their way to accommodate these people with the giant idiot arrows on the pavement, and they still can’t figure it out.
shop-teacher
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 07:11 |
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That takes a special kind of dumbass.
BKosher84
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 07:31 |
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Darwin almost got another one last night...
Forge Crown Victor!
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 08:00 |
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Was it a lifted red or black BroDozer? That’s just what I see in my head. If it was I bet it had the mirrors fully extended because of that huge ghost trailer it was towing.
jariten1781
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 08:24 |
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My father in law does shit like this all the time. The last time I rode in a car with him driving (over 10 years ago, mind you) we were in the far right lane of a 6 lane road at a red light and he decided he wanted McDonalds. The joint was on the opposite side of the street two businesses down. He just took off into a solid red, drove diagonally across the intersection (it was not clear of cross traffic) into the oncoming lane and trundled down in there. It was nuts.
Cops pull him over all the time but he's so incoherent they usually just get confused and let him go. When they don't he just goes down to the clerk with his freshly minted citation and just stays there until they clear it out. As addled as he is he can still work his hometown system like a boss.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 08:49 |
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I am already training my kids to avoid these kinds of behaviors. I’m always asking them the best way to get where they want to go. They already know uncontrolled lefts across traffic are a bad thing, so they look for the nearest lights and figure out the best path to achieve their goal. They also know that if we miss a turn, we are going to the next intersection to turn around.
boxrocket
> VonBootWilly - Likes Toyota, but it's still complicated.
09/02/2016 at 10:06 |
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It was actually a red Ridgeline with Bernie, COEXIST, PETA, veganism, and cannabis-themed stickers all over.
WiscoProud
> CAR_IS_MI
09/02/2016 at 11:36 |
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I've seen people backing up on freeways to get to the exit they missed. It simply boggles my mind that they believe that's the best option.
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CAR_IS_MI
> jariten1781
09/02/2016 at 11:39 |
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And thats part of the problem, not only are drivers too lazy, but the court system is too lazy to fight for whats right. I get people make mistakes now and then, but repeat offenders...
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CAR_IS_MI
> Forge Crown Victor!
09/02/2016 at 11:40 |
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No, sadly, It was a factory fresh red Tundra