"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
01/17/2018 at 20:24 • Filed to: None
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I’m going to take a moment to brag about how living in Snow Country my whole life has afforded me the ability to see into the future, and not just that -
actually alter the course of history.
Yes, you’re reading that correctly. Just tonight, I was following my wife home in the car and here’s what happened:
Approaching a major highway interchange, I’m on an access road that curves more than 90 degree as it goes under the highway, providing poor visibility to what’s on the other side of the underpass while probably going 40+ mph in good weather. Well it was dark, snowing, and the road was slushy. JUST on the other side of this curve is where you turn LEFT to get on the highway. My wife stops behind 2-3 other cars to wait to turn left, and I stop behind her.
I thought, “hmm, it’s dark, this is a blind corner, and the road is all slush. I should give LOTS of room between me and my wife (she was actually driving my E46 wagon) because someone could come around that corner and not be able to stop in time. I really don’t want to become a Volvo sandwich here, not to mention crashing into my wife, with the kids in the car.”
Seconds later, I kid you not, I look in my mirror and Johnny I-don-need-no-stinkin-sno-tires-Jetta comes flying up behind me, and I’m thinking, He can’t stop in time. It happened quickly, but I rolled forward into the gap I had left, and he skidded to a stop so close to me that I couldn’t see his faded headlights in my rearview mirror, even after I rolled forward. In my side mirror I could see skid tracks and his car was askew, slightly.
I mean, it’s been snowing for nearly 24 hours straight, not hard, but enough to make roads slippery. It’s also January. In New Hampshire. IT’S SLIPPERY, SLOW DOWN. This guy was 100% rear-ending me, until I rolled forward about 6 feet at the last second. I wonder what he thought of that? Like his future self coming down and telling him not to race Biff.
BOY am I glad not to be assessing damage on the side of the road on TWO of our cars right now (both ends of one of them), with my kids in one of the cars, melting down because it’s bedtime.
What do I win?
OK I’ll stop being a jackass now. I’m sure I’ll crash into a snowbank tomorrow for my smugness.
DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
> functionoverfashion
01/17/2018 at 20:54 |
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This is good Oppo. I’m glad I haven’t had to drive much the past few days, because it got below freezing in San Antonio and the roads got a little bit of ice on them so they wound up closing campus for 2 and a half days. Although as a counterpoint no one here has snow tires, because why would you.
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functionoverfashion
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
01/17/2018 at 20:58 |
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Right, I mean, everyone here just has 4WD so they don’t need snow tires [/heavy sarcasm]
But seriously, I drove home after that little incident on an interstate highway that was on-and-off snowpacked and slushy and NO ONE was going under 55. I was going about 70 the whole time and that seemed about average. Most of us really do know how to drive in the snow.
Ice will still kind of shut us down, though. Most people don’t run four studded snows.
wafflesnfalafel
> functionoverfashion
01/17/2018 at 21:01 |
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Love it - proactively thinking driver prevents incident with f’n dumb a$$.
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functionoverfashion
> wafflesnfalafel
01/17/2018 at 21:07 |
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Not the first time I’ve avoided being rear-ended. I drove off the road in my old truck to avoid being hit by a woman in a generic mid-sized SUV one day. My truck would have been FINE, but I still did it out of instinct, I guess. I was waiting for someone to turn left, again, saw this woman coming, put it in first, turned right and jumped a curb onto some grass, she completely filled the space where my truck had been seconds earlier.