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johnnymk
11-14-2002, 07:04 PM
They were so dumb! I could never figure what a person was supposed to do once they read the signs in the window of the vehicles that they were in.
welfareloser
11-14-2002, 07:18 PM
after years of mostly ignoring them but occasionally wondering what the heck the point was, i finally decided that they were supposed to encourage the dipsh*t tailgating you in a rage about you only going 5 miles over the speed limit instead of 25 like he wants to, to stop and think twice before doing anything dangerous, becuase he wouldn't be killing just the "dumb slow woman" in front of him, but also a baby.

i dunno.
seqiro
11-14-2002, 08:28 PM
George Carlin had an excellent bit about those on his "What Am I Doing In New Jersey?" album.

"Baby on Board", "Child in Car", don't tell me your troubles, lady. Why don't you put up an honest sign, "A****** at the wheel!"

:heh:
oblongmelon
11-15-2002, 04:15 AM
hahah GUILTY! except my husband got me one that said..BACK OFF JACK, MY KIDS ARE IN THIS CAR.
:)
welfareloser
11-15-2002, 05:48 AM
i wound up with some jackass behind me yesterday who was in a rage over the fact that i didn't speed up from 40 mph to take a 90-degree left turn to beat a yellow light. i almost got out of the car while we were stopped to yell at him. if i hadn't had a kid and two fetuses with me, i think i would have. (the chances of this 70-year old white male bunghole pulling a gun on me were probably low... he looked more like a golfer than deer hunter...)

if you want to do dangerous **** when you drive, whatever. you suck, hopefully you don't hurt anyone but yourself when you finally screw up, but i can see at least a glimmer of self-righteous logic. but to get pissed at people because they, personally, happen to want to OBEY THE DAMNED LAW and stay safe, is just patently ridiculous. some people really do think that everything should revolve around their desires, and it AIN'T just bitchy girlfriends...
attgig
11-15-2002, 07:48 AM
that's fine and all but if you know that you're going to go 60 on a 55 on the highway...don't think that you're going fast, cuz you're not.

if you're going frickin 60 on a 55, move over to the right most lane and use the middle lane for passing.

don't be freakin goin on the left lane, refusing to move over when i come up behind you and then frickin give me an attitude about it...
Napoleon54
11-15-2002, 07:52 AM
Originally posted by attgig
that's fine and all but if you know that you're going to go 60 on a 55 on the highway...don't think that you're going fast, cuz you're not.

if you're going frickin 60 on a 55, move over to the right most lane and use the middle lane for passing.

don't be freakin goin on the left lane, refusing to move over when i come up behind you and then frickin give me an attitude about it...


vroom vroom VROOOOOM!!!!
welfareloser
11-15-2002, 10:56 AM
Originally posted by attgig
that's fine and all but if you know that you're going to go 60 on a 55 on the highway...don't think that you're going fast, cuz you're not.

if you're going frickin 60 on a 55, move over to the right most lane and use the middle lane for passing.

don't be freakin goin on the left lane, refusing to move over when i come up behind you and then frickin give me an attitude about it...

don't even START this stupid argument again. to recap, everyone is WRONG, as i said on page two...

http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26204

and i was in my neighborhood, on a state road that was one lane. and in a construction zone, to boot.
seqiro
11-15-2002, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by attgig
that's fine and all but if you know that you're going to go 60 on a 55 on the highway...don't think that you're going fast, cuz you're not.

if you're going frickin 60 on a 55, move over to the right most lane and use the middle lane for passing.

don't be freakin goin on the left lane, refusing to move over when i come up behind you and then frickin give me an attitude about it...

In CT, a friend of mine got a ticket on Route 8 (freeway, two lanes each direction) when he was driving 60 in a 55 in the left lane with a line of cars behind him. The ticket was not for speeding, it was for "Failure to drive right." The officer told him that that was a passing lane and that he was impeding passing traffic.
johnnymk
11-15-2002, 04:34 PM
Sorry, but I have to agree with the officer giving the ticket. I see this all of the time. I am convinced that the people who stay in the right with a whole line of traffic behind him or her have an axe to grind with humanity.. either they are having a bad day or a bad life.
seqiro
11-15-2002, 04:41 PM
Originally posted by johnnymk
Sorry, but I have to agree with the officer giving the ticket. I see this all of the time. I am convinced that the people who stay in the right with a whole line of traffic behind him or her have an axe to grind with humanity.. either they are having a bad day or a bad life.

Oh, I agreed too. :)
johnnymk
11-15-2002, 04:46 PM
I meant the left lane.:bash:
BigJon
11-16-2002, 01:12 PM
I'm gonna need one of those "baby on board" signs come March...
whitak24
11-16-2002, 09:11 PM
Originally posted by seqiro


In CT, a friend of mine got a ticket on Route 8 (freeway, two lanes each direction) when he was driving 60 in a 55 in the left lane with a line of cars behind him. The ticket was not for speeding, it was for "Failure to drive right." The officer told him that that was a passing lane and that he was impeding passing traffic.
damn.....if that officer went to ohio, he'd be busy all day writing those tickets :rolleyes:

drivers who don't understand the concept of "yield to the right" piss me off to no end.