my wife grew up in L.A. and didn't drive around too much, but i grew up in the country and everyone i knew was driving around all the time. i knew 4 people in high school who were killed in car accidents and it was always some ridiculous stupidity late at night. driving 90 MPH down a stretch of road and losing control and hitting a tree and that sort of thing. my best friend in HS died that way. my other best friend, his just-ex GF died that way.
i sort of hate cars but where I'm at it's inescapable, and i think i've turned into such a Sunday driver, especially when I'm with my kid (as one should expect!) sometimes i get a tailgater when my kid's in the back and i tell him to raise his hands up high and wave them around so the person behind me actually knows there's a kid with me. surprisingly it mostly works. less surprisingly, sometimes it doesn't.
the worst time to drive in L.A. is after 11 PM and it gets worst throughout the night. drunk drivers own the road after 2 AM around here, even w/Uber and Lyft.
― omar little, Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
is it dumb for me to assume that a lot of uber/lyft drivers drive drunk
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
none of the people I know who have driven have, but who knows
― mh, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
stoned maybe
― marcos, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
high maintenance viewer
― the poster's anxiety at the suggested ban (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
ha yup
― marcos, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
also some irl experiences
i literally almost had another one on the way home.
Big assed semi starts to creep across to the median as I'm approaching in the left lane.
i am thinking there is no way he's going to try and pop in front of me as I would basically have to hard brake the tailgater behind me which would be a disaster in the making. so i kept going
fucker actually inches into my lane as I am approaching the same area.... like he thought I was going to stop for him. then he stops. i stupidly reflexively started to move to the right lane before seeing there was someone in it.
swerved back and was fine. and dumb semi driver then reversedhis truck back into the gas station in
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link