Here's a rant I found on another automotive forum. I'm interested in
your reaction and comments.
[quote]
The new generation of "Car Guys" who have no respect for others on the
road could do well to take some pointers from [Carroll Shelby].
There's a place called a race track where you can impose your
aggresive driving and noisy exhaust and you won't offend the majority
of drivers on the street. Guess what, nobody wants to hear you loud
obnoxious "Rap Crap". If you want to blow your ear drums out fine, but
do it somewhere you don't bother everyone else, try your garage with
door closed, oh you probably don't have a garage because you can't
afford one since your car payment is to high. Try giving something
back and not always taking, society doesn't owe you anything. Have a
little respect for those little old ladies that share the road and
maybe when you see someone broke down on the side of the road try
actually turning your garbage down, stopping and asking if someone
needs help. Try a novel concept, be a part of society not a thorn in
it's side. Hang up your cell phone and drive..
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Old Wolf - 04 Apr 2005 04:11 GMT
Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> [quote]
> There's a place called a race track where you can impose
> your aggresive driving
It doesn't follow from that that one shouldn't drive
aggressively on the street.
> and noisy exhaust and you won't offend the majority of
> drivers on the street.
Boo-hoo.
> Guess what, nobody wants to hear you loud obnoxious "Rap Crap".
There are exhausts that play Eminem?
> If you want to blow your ear drums out fine, but do it
> somewhere you don't bother everyone else, try your garage
> with door closed, oh you probably don't have a garage because
> you can't afford one since your car payment is to high.
That's so unrealistic it doesn't need any further comment.
> Try giving something back and not always taking, society
> doesn't owe you anything.
Tell that to the LLBs.
> Have a little respect for those little old ladies that share
> the road and maybe when you see someone broke down on the side
> of the road try actually turning your garbage down, stopping
> and asking if someone needs help.
Now that's a recipe for having your car stolen.
> Try a novel concept, be a part of society not a thorn in
> it's side. Hang up your cell phone and drive..
More irrationality.
The article was low on substance and high on rhetoric.
L Sternn - 04 Apr 2005 05:29 GMT
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:02:13 -0700, Scott en Aztlán
<slothkills@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote:
>Here's a rant I found on another automotive forum. I'm interested in
>your reaction and comments.
I found that rant totally disinteresting so I figured I'd start a new
one.
I got 29.5 mpg from Flagstaff to Glendale and if it weren't for the
f.cking LLB SUVs (90% of the LLBs were SUVs), I could have made 35.
a.shole of the day goes to the SUV (surprise, surprise), a Ford
Expedition, who apparently was very offended that I passed him when he
was going about 60.
The motherf..ker sped up to 80 so he could keep up with me and I had
to exceed the speed limit by 15mph to get rid of him.
at least 3/4 of the LLBs were SUVs/Pickups.
Too many of them seemed to have a habit of slowing down while passing
and speeding up while they were being passed.
What a bunch of f.cking pussies - There wasn't a single SUV that could
outrun me. It was just a question of putting the pedal to the metal
and fliipping them off (ok, flipping them off was optional - they all
deserved it, but very few of them got it).
The next time you LLB'ing SUV'iing motherf..ker is on the hiway,
beware that a little 6-cylinder Chrysler will blow you doors off.
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT - That include you Volvos!
Brent P - 04 Apr 2005 05:47 GMT
> afford one since your car payment is to high. Try giving something
> back and not always taking, society doesn't owe you anything. Have a
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> it's side. Hang up your cell phone and drive..
> [/quote]
Like the geezers who were drifting into my lane and looked at me like I
was being rude when I used my horn earlier today?
Everything else is fine cept for his tone that age alone demands some
sort of respect. If that's the case nearly everyone should be yielding to
my 1973 car :)
John David Galt - 04 Apr 2005 07:42 GMT
Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> Here's a rant I found on another automotive forum. I'm interested in
> your reaction and comments.
Scott, I'm surprised that you would troll, especially with such an
obvious troll subject line.
> The new generation of "Car Guys" who have no respect for others on the
> road could do well to take some pointers from [Carroll Shelby].
> There's a place called a race track where you can impose your
> aggresive driving and noisy exhaust and you won't offend the majority
> of drivers on the street.
Somebody needs to tell this sh.t-for-brains that the drivers he calls
"aggressive" ARE the majority, and that seeing them as agressive is a
sign that he may be getting too old to drive.
> Guess what, nobody wants to hear you loud
> obnoxious "Rap Crap". If you want to blow your ear drums out fine, but
> do it somewhere you don't bother everyone else, try your garage with
> door closed, oh you probably don't have a garage because you can't
> afford one since your car payment is to [sic] high.
Here I agree. Those who blast music for the whole neighborhood to
hear should be stopped by the law, even if it has to confiscate their
cars to get their attention. But lumping this in with unrelated
kinds of behavior just because he doesn't like them is dimwitted.
> Try giving something
> back and not always taking, society doesn't owe you anything. Have a
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> needs help. Try a novel concept, be a part of society not a thorn in
> it's [sic] side.
There is no such thing as society, only individuals, and all of us
owe each other respect for their rights. I do this, but I doubt the
blog author does.
> Hang up your cell phone and drive.
This is prejudice. Granted, a lot of really stupid driving includes
cell phone use, that's a tiny minority of phone users. It's like any
other behavior that doesn't in itself violate other people's rights:
no harm, no foul. Live with it.