More examples of Parking Stupidity...

At the moment, I park on the street when I come to school. Until EI kicks in, I'm too poor to afford a $200 parking pass for one semester. So as I'm rolling down the street, looking for a parking spot, I notice that a large number of cars are parked litterally 6 feet away from the car behind, and thus, 6 feet from the car in front. There was one spot where you could literally fit a Civic in the gap. I know this because as I was walking by it, a civic parked in it.

People, (not that anyone actually reads this) learn how big your cars actually are. You are not driving a 1967 Cadillac El Dorado. Most cars are under 12 feet in length. You do not need half a car length between you and the car behind/in front of you. In fact you need approx. 1/10th of a car length or about 12 inches. Try it some time.

Some people are allergic to peanuts?... I think I'm allergic to stupidity.

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Damn it.... now I'm all itchy.

Is that a bad omen....?

So I'm driving to school and I hear on the radio that there is an accident on the 401 between hwy 24 and hwy 6. They had it all cleared up by the time I got there but here is what I heard in a nut shell.

A two vehicle accident involving a tractor trailer and a car. The ambulance arriving on scene somehow ended up in the ditch.

Whaaa??

How would you like to be the guy needing the ambulance and seeing it slid into the ditch, hopefully before they picked him up. That's got to be a bad start to the week.

Parking "Excellence"

So I'm picking my girlfriend up from work the other day. She works at a call center in a high rise building. There is a pickup/drop off spot big enough for three cars in front. I pull into the pickup area and am parked at the rear. There is a car in the first spot. There is an empty spot between us. This White Montana van noses in.



Now, there is a reason why parralell parking is taught by backing in. The van is now angled in and the left rear is still sticking out into the right lane of traffic by 3 feet. They then proceeded to turn on their right blinker...

There was also the instance of the Mercedes Benz that just stopped in the right lane and turned on his signal. Of course, other people decided that since he was doing it, they could too. There was a huge public parking lot, not 100 yards away.

I'm pretty sure expensive cars must come with a special membership card that says you can park like a retard.

First Rant Against the Humans!!

It is amazing the number of stupid humans I have encountered in just the last two days since starting school. A good 75% of them piloting 2 ton eath machines hurtling down the 401 at 160kph.

I also find it incredible how dense people driving cars can be.

Example: On Wednesday, August 22 while on the way home from a test run to see how long it would take me to get there, I encountered a young women in a huge Lincoln Navigator with out of country plates. I can only decribe this young women as a valley girl driving daddy's SUV. She was taking this 3 ton vehicle and racing through thick traffic. The funny thing was, for all her hurry, she wasn't actually getting anywhere.

I ususally drive at somewhere between 130 and 140kph. I drive a 92 Passat wagon that at max load, weighs 3300lbs. My car is also two feet shorter and thus handles better. Either way, she passed me at least 7 times. She'd pass me, zip around some traffic, get stuck behind traffic within my line of sight and end up behind me. All that, just to do it again, 30 seconds later.

60 km later, I watched her zip off at her exit. I was just 6 car lengths behind her.

People, pay attention, driving like a retard just makes you retarded, it doesn't actually get you anywhere.