[Knucklehead]

Driving in Lynchburg =
10 parts of slow driving, yield stopping, clueless folks who have a dog in their lap and an unbuckled kid roaming the back seat
mix in 6 parts transplanted Yankees who drive like everyone is in their way screaming and honking with a cell phone on each ear while driving with their feet
Fold in 3 parts clueless teenagers with a phone up to one ear and texting on another phone in their lap while also driving with their feet.
Carefully mix in 1 small part of perfect drivers who do EVERYTHING right (ME)

Thanks!

[El Scorcho]

Fold in 3 parts clueless teenagers with a phone up to one ear and texting on another phone in their lap while also driving with their feet.

Last night. Wards Road heading north. I saw one guy in a big black forward SUV. His in-dash DVD player had the LCD flipped up and he was watching it, while talking on a cell phone and talking expressively with his free hand. He was to my left.

In front of me were two high school girls in a convertible Sebring. The driver was trying to put her hair up. It wasn't enough just to get it up and out of her way, though. It had to be straight. She must have taken it down and put it back up five times, all the while using both hands.

I kept my distance from both.

[LUconn]

I watch my kid's DVD player on long trips

[Sly Fox]

Anybody on here who would deny sneaking peeks would be lying, Luconn.

[PAmedic]

Anybody on here who would deny sneaking peeks would be lying, Luconn.

yeah- but Ice Age gets old after 350 times

[Sly Fox]

Night driving makes ANYTHING on the DVD player seem appealing. Even Larryboy for the umpteenth time.

[Knucklehead]

That's why neither of my vans has one even with 4 kids!

[mrmacphisto]

Does this "share the road" idea include electric wheelchairs? I almost tattooed some hoveround guy on the way to Kroger a couple of weeks ago.

[Fumblerooskies]

Does this "share the road" idea include electric wheelchairs? I almost tattooed some hoveround guy on the way to Kroger a couple of weeks ago.

YES IT DOES...
...as my mom is in one of those. It was very annoying for her to "drive" the 1/2 mile to HS football games and try to get out of the stadium, only to find some moron had blocked the handicap ramp.

[mrmacphisto]

Yeah, but are those things street legal? When I almost hit the guy, it was pitch black out, no streetlights. This guy was in the road, and there was nothing reflective, no taillights or anything. He was invisible until you got right up on him.

[Fumblerooskies]

Not street legal...but many areas do not have the sidewalk ramps to accommodate them...thus there is no other choice.

[RubberMallet]

i agree....lynchburg's road system is one of the worst i've ever been on....

the best part about lynchburg for me driving wise was when it was snowing and not even sticking and as youd drive around there'd be zillions of cars in ditches, suv's flipped over.....hilarious...

[PAmedic]

Not street legal...but many areas do not have the sidewalk ramps to accommodate them...thus there is no other choice.

an older guy got plowed in the city not long ago- he got drug quite a ways before the truck driver even realized he hit him.

thank God the guy survived- but he needed a new Rascal.

Rascal, indeed. Darting out like that with no blinkers.

[Rocketfan]

i agree....lynchburg's road system is one of the worst i've ever been on....

the best part about lynchburg for me driving wise was when it was snowing and not even sticking and as youd drive around there'd be zillions of cars in ditches, suv's flipped over.....hilarious...

Or cars just abandoned in the middle of the road....i used to live on Wards Ferry road and i had to zig-zag between 20 cars one night to get back home......pathetic.

[RubberMallet]

i've found that i'm not a very aggressive driver....i let people in, i don't race at stoplights....

the only thing that i do that drives my wife nuts (i don't do this with her or kids in the car however) is when someone tailgates me for longer than a few seconds, i tap the breaks and then slow to the speed limit and drive them nuts...

the other day this old lady in a focus was right up on my bumper and i was going 5 over....she had coffee in one hand and her phone in her ear not even paying attention....i tapped and she swerved and i know she spilled her coffee AND dropped her phone....you could tell she was swearing and then she flipped me off....i did what i normally do when flipped off and raised the roof

idiot...

[El Scorcho]

the only thing that i do that drives my wife nuts (i don't do this with her or kids in the car however) is when someone tailgates me for longer than a few seconds, i tap the breaks and then slow to the speed limit and drive them nuts...

I do this as well. My wife absolutely hates it and is convinced that someday someone is going to murder me for doing it, but I can't help it. Tailgating is just so wrong on so many levels that it infuriates me. I will say, however, that from me doing this I've seen an SUV spin out and nearly flip (it was on it's two right wheels) and a lady swerve out into the oncoming lanes while going nearly 20 over the speed limit. (In front of Chick Fil A on Candler's Mountain Road, no less.) I felt sorry for neither because the SUV was practically rubbing my rear bumper before starting to pass, so when I tapped the breaks, he had no choice but to slam on his, which resulted in him spinning and tilting. The other lady came flying up behind me on the previously mentioned road when I was already at 45 mph. She stayed right on my bumper and she got the brakes. Why she felt the need to continue driving quickly and pass me in the oncoming lanes is beyond me. She could have tapped her own brakes. I almost wonder if she was going to pass me anyway. That all happened at 7:45 on a weekday morning. I wanted nothing more than to see an LPD car at that moment.

[ATrain]

I know this has been said before, but living in Boonsboro has taken this to a new level for me. I really hate when people have an open lane and don't get over so you can merge, especially with no acceleration lanes in this town. Or when they feel the need to speed up so there's no room for you to get over

[mrmacphisto]

That's when you use your horn.

[RubberMallet]

i'm a belated horn blower...so its never that effective...just by a few seconds though....my wife tends to think thats funny....i'm usually already waving my hands around...