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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 10:19 PM
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I saw a guy on a scooter a few months ago, he had his daughter who looked about 3 or 4 riding in front of him on the seat. He was riding one handed while he talked on the cell phone with no way of securing her whatsoever. I really wanted to turn around to speak with this idiot, but traffic wouldn't allow it.

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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 11:07 PM
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"Slower traffic keep right" isn't the answer. People think "I'm going 8 over, I'm not 'slow'"

A better way to put it is "Keep right, except to pass"
 
Old Mar 8, 2009 | 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cowboy1
Here is one from the cage side of the spectrum. About 6 or 7 years ago I was hauling a couple horses with my dually and we were stuck in very slow traffic on a two lane road caught behind a lettuce truck (Prunedale grade on 101 for the local guys). Anyway this sport bike was being a real ***** because my trailer was too wide for him to split lanes and I had nowhere to move so I kept on driving...anyway he kept hitting the revvy and driving my horses nuts until one of the horses decided to take revenge and ****. I didn't have shavings in the trailer and it was a mare in heat and when they **** they ****...he got soaked with horse **** and that mademy day. When the traffic opened up he rode on the side of my truck and tried to grab my mirror, gave me the finger, yadda yadda yadda...the kewl thing was after I put the horses up, I decided to take the bike for a ride and ran into him at Starbucks complaining how some a$$hole was being a *****...I let him gor for a minute before I told him it was me...Now that was fun...
That is good, but i just want to know what the H#!! you were doing at starbucks.....?
 
Old Mar 8, 2009 | 11:55 PM
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When going to work one morning i was in the Far left lane going down West bound 580 and had been traveling next to a lady in a small car and was sure that she had to have known i was there, as i had been there for quite a few miles, well i guess not. As my front wheel is about even with her door handle she decides she wants my lane, no signal, no mirror check, just starts to move over so i rolled real hard to get up where she could see me and she looked over at me and flipped ME off? so i reached out and hit her mirror down and it hung there from a wire as I took off. They say you don't know what you had till its gone, maybe she uses her mirror now.
 
Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by dmp
That is good, but i just want to know what the H#!! you were doing at starbucks.....?
I was wondering the same thing...
 
Old Mar 9, 2009 | 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by gary_montague
A guy ran right out in front of me to grab a turtle on a two lane highway.
This could quite possibly have been me, I have saved a few box turtles crossing the road (and one snapping turtle that I should have let get hit).
 
Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:27 AM
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Life is full of stupid.Stupid is as stupid does. Good thing we are proficient breeders or we would be extinct. When it comes to being on the road--if it doesn't kill you than it is conversation or entertainment. Been entertained a lot lately.
 
Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by dmp
That is good, but i just want to know what the H#!! you were doing at starbucks.....?
I'm sorry but I like coffee once in a while...nothing foo foo...Halley Barey coffee...black and hot...LOL
 
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by dmp
When going to work one morning i was in the Far left lane going down West bound 580 and had been traveling next to a lady in a small car and was sure that she had to have known i was there, as i had been there for quite a few miles, well i guess not. As my front wheel is about even with her door handle she decides she wants my lane, no signal, no mirror check, just starts to move over so i rolled real hard to get up where she could see me and she looked over at me and flipped ME off? so i reached out and hit her mirror down and it hung there from a wire as I took off. They say you don't know what you had till its gone, maybe she uses her mirror now.
Thats where she went wrong because we all know that in California as long as you put on your blinker everyone has to get out of the way...LOL...my buddiesa nd I call it Bay Area NASCAR because everyone bump drafts and passes like asses...
 
Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:48 AM
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Your not the only person I know that likes starbucks but I am not paying that for a cup of coffee unless it is served to me by a topless babe that looks good not wearing a top. Coffee that expensive should come with adult entertainment. Java with a jiggle, wiggle and giggle.
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I'm sorry but I like coffee once in a while...nothing foo foo...Halley Barey coffee...black and hot...LOL
 



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