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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / January 2007Sloths and the bus
It's fun riding the bus instead of driving. Yesterday, I saw two Sloths do something stupid. The bus was approaching an intersection when somebody turned left in front of the bus, but turned slowly such that the bus driver adjusted speed slightly to avoid the Sloth. That wasn't so bad, but the next Sloth in the left-turn lane sort of made seat belts a requirement. It turned in front of the bus while the bus was entering the intersection and cut the corner on its side of the street. The bus driver had to brake hard to avoid the collision, missing the Sloth by a very short distance. Why couldn't the Sloths have waited for the bus to pass through the intersection? > very short distance. Why couldn't the Sloths have waited for the bus to > pass through the intersection? Because they are fing morons. Tonight I am driving home... just me and one other car turning right from a cross street to go the same direction as me. He waits until I am right up on him and then starts to pull out in front of me. laying on the horn did no good, so I moved left to avoid him and he stopped with the nose of his car in the intersection. Idiots, plain and simple. He could have gone before or after me easily. Nobody else around to distract him.... arg. Alexander Rogge <a_rogge@yahoo.com> said in rec.autos.driving: >It's fun riding the bus instead of driving. Yesterday, I saw two Sloths >do something stupid. The bus was approaching an intersection when [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >very short distance. Why couldn't the Sloths have waited for the bus to >pass through the intersection? BECAUSE BUSES ARE INVISIBLE!!! Having ridden the bus regularly for years, I can't count the number of times cars have done stupid sh.t like this. For example, the bus will be making a protected left turn, and cars from the oncoming direction will try to make a right turn on a (for them) red light directly into the path of the 20-ton object bearing down on top of them. Clearly these people just don't see the bus. Similarly, whenever a bus stops during heavy traffic conditions, there is always a long line of stopped vehicles behind the bus, stretching back through the intersection. Pinned down by heavy traffic in the adjacent lane, these cars sit there and block the intersection until the bus moves on. There's no question that these drivers just didn't see the bus in the lane ahead of them; if they had, they would have changed lanes sooner and not become trapped. I've become convinced that buses come from the factory with a cloaking device. While the bus is in motion it is completely invisible; it only becomes visible when it stops to admit or discharge passengers. This is the only explanation for the way drivers behave around buses.  SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers) - 21 Jan 2007 03:50 GMT >Pinned down by heavy traffic in the >adjacent lane, these cars sit there and block the intersection until >the bus moves on. There's no question that these drivers just didn't >see the bus in the lane ahead of them; if they had, they would have >changed lanes sooner and not become trapped. Someone should walk down the street beside those "parked" cars and put those retards out of our misery. Signaturegpstard (gpsman@driversmail.com) demonstrates his inability to comprehend the simple differences of the definitions of the monosyllabic words "time" and "chance:" (Message-ID: <1167151218.287827.24230@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>) Why don't you argue that the faster one drives the less time spent driving and available to be involved in an accident? GPSboi demonstrates he doesn't understand the concept of "zero velocity": : http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/4b00dc234d5fd559 Please explain how you concluded a vehicle with a velocity of zero might be -the- contributing factor to a collision due to driver inattentiveness. "Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en Joshua Calvert <joshua_l_calvert@hotmail.com> demonstrates his lack of understanding of the terms "sarcasm", "irony", and "hypocrisy": Poor rightard, forced to whine about an 40 year old event. Message-ID: <Xns970A68202F1C5joshualcalverthotmai@68.6.19.6> "Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers)" <stfu@microsoft.com> said in rec.autos.driving: >>Pinned down by heavy traffic in the >>adjacent lane, these cars sit there and block the intersection until [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Someone should walk down the street beside those "parked" cars and put >those retards out of our misery. If only the buses came with rear-facing photon torpedo launchers as well as cloaking devices... SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán said in rec.autos.driving: > Similarly, whenever a bus stops during heavy traffic conditions, there > is always a long line of stopped vehicles behind the bus, stretching [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > see the bus in the lane ahead of them; if they had, they would have > changed lanes sooner and not become trapped. Or at least have the decency to stop and not enter the intersection untill they can exit the intersection. Oh, hell, who am I kidding???? Signature"Here comes another con hiding behind a collar His only God is the all mighty Dollar He ain't no prophet, He ain't no healer He's just a two bit, goddamn money stealer!" --Suicidal Tendencies >a requirement. It turned in front of the bus while the bus was entering >the intersection and cut the corner on its side of the street. The bus >driver had to brake hard to avoid the collision, missing the Sloth by a >very short distance. Why couldn't the Sloths have waited for the bus to >pass through the intersection? Probably because the bus ran the light. SignatureThere's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. > It's fun riding the bus instead of driving. Yesterday, I saw two Sloths > do something stupid. The bus was approaching an intersection when [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > very short distance. Why couldn't the Sloths have waited for the bus to > pass through the intersection? That would be a very good question to ask those drivers...did you? Otherwise how in hell do you expect anyone on this forum to know the answer. |
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