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She's a moron. Smiting is to kind. To kind I tells you!MrMary wrote:She thinks she is being clever, but what she is doing can be very unsafe.
*relieved sigh* It's so refreshing to see 'literally' used correctly. I owe you a drink or a yoghurt or something.DukkhaWaynhim wrote:Perry County, Indiana has been mentioned by Paul Harvey for its questionable record of people literally getting away with murder, founded on essentially the same principle.
That's a quote worth remembering.DukkhaWaynhim wrote:Arcane smiting is slightly less immediately satisfying, but keeps you safely in your vehicle and out of view of the authorities
Which is why some states have laws against it.MsMary wrote:She thinks she is being clever, but what she is doing can be very unsafe.CovenantJr wrote:I heard a woman on a radio phone-in a year or two ago, who said she does exactly that, specifically to make people stick to the limit. Regardless of my own opinions about speeding, that's a ridiculous level of busibodiness. I wanted to smite her.Emotional Leper wrote:People who refuse to move over to the right when they're the slow traffic and they're in the fast/passing lane.
I don't care if the speed limit is 55 and you're doing it. People behind you want to pass you. MOVE.
Oh, so you guys *do* drive in DC?MsMary wrote:Oh man, I hate that, too.Wyldewode wrote:People that speed up when I am trying to pass them.
The corollary: People who won't let you over even though you've had your signal on for the last mile and your exit is coming on.
Second Corollary: People who lean on their horn when you finally do move over, even though you haven't cut them off, just cause they don't like the idea that you got in front of them.
Some of the elderly can be a problem, especially when they can't see well, or drive too slow, or have poor reaction time. Many have a hard time admitting when it's time to give up driving.Emotional Leper wrote:South Florida has more Cubans and Elderly Yankees, it's true.MsMary wrote:I have driven in DC.
South Florida is pretty bad, in terms of rude drivers.
Please use the word 'Hispanic.' Some of us get offended by the term Latin Americans, due to the fact that the population segment in question is neither from Rome, nor do they speak Latin.MsMary wrote:Some of the elderly can be a problem, especially when they can't see well, or drive too slow, or have poor reaction time. Many have a hard time admitting when it's time to give up driving.Emotional Leper wrote:South Florida has more Cubans and Elderly Yankees, it's true.MsMary wrote:I have driven in DC.
South Florida is pretty bad, in terms of rude drivers.
Some of the Latin Americans (I won't say Cubans, specifically, cause I don't believe they are the whole problem) do bring some "interesting" driving habits to the area.
But I wouldn't blame it all on one group or another. There are too many cars on the road, not such great highway planning, and a lot of aggression and road rage from many drivers.
Yes, and Hillbillies prefer to be called "Brothers of the Soil," but it ain't gonna happen any time soon.MsMary wrote:Actually, around here, those from South and Central American seem to prefer to call themselves "latinos."
And the non-Cuban South and Central American population in south Florida is growing. I would guess that Cubans are still the majority of Spanish-speakers, but there are plenty from other countries, as well.
Not to mention all those who've hopped over here from the Islands.
