I about had a heart attack tonight!

[tractakid]

right.

[edlin]

I hate it when people decide that phone conversations are more important than safety.

Heh... if he had stopped on the tracks to answer the phone, he would probably be in the Darwin Awards right now. It's a pity, actually.

[Phil]

It's a pity how little people pay attention to things.

Phone conversation not realizing there's a train coming. People don't see a big truck trying to turn right and get out of the way they give the trucker dirty looks or beep the horn instead.

Railroad workers cutting branches off tracks and basically removing debris from the neighborhood and the home dwellers say things like 'what are all these guys doing going through my back yard?'

[Mahnarch]

Heh, 'former' Guest (I guess?), I was relating the picto-graph from my POV - thereby, North was up.
Sorry for the confusion.

Oh, and by the way,,,,,change back.
I liked your old avatar and name better.
I hate it when folks change too often - it throws a wicked curve ball in my direction.
It's the equivalent of someone getting a sex change operation and expecting me to know them. lol.

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OK, Idiot Update:

I had, earlier today, come up on a John Deere pulling a swing axle trailer (the ones that bob back and forth).
I was close and following at +/-15mph.

This guy in a station wagon decides to pass me, only to find the Deere in front of me and a loaded school bus coming at him!
What's he do?

He makes me slam my brakes so he can squeeze in between me and the Deere! - and I mean "squeeze".
If I wasn't more attentive (or as nice), he'd have no rear bumper at this time....

The buss passes by.
Idiot wagon passes the Deere.

.....AN ASTROVAN PASSES ME!!!
Only, this time, the oncoming car is an Ottawa County Sheriff!

........sssssqqqquuuueeeeeeeeezzzzzzeeeee.......

[[Just for clarification: No. Just because one person does it doesn't mean I'm going to lay back for everyone to do it. - - I won't let you get killed but, still, people need to learn their boundries....You might let ONE person at the grocery in front of you if they only have one item while you have a full cart, but you won't let the entire store go ahead.]]


Now, don't you think that if a tractor-trailer is doing 15 miles per hour on an open road and you can't see around him.....THERE'S A REASON FOR IT?!!!!

WE DON'T DO IT FOR THE FUN!!!! That's for sure!!

"Hey! I'm just going to slow 'er down to 15 for a bit! Even though I'm losing about a grand in doing so......."

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I'm going to start carrying dynomite.
And frozen fish.


...I did hear that a nasty trick is to carry a bag of marshmallows with you.
If you throw them out the window at a passing car they other driver will think they're golf balls and swerve off the road to avoid getting a smashed windshield.



.....Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....

No, I couldn't do that.
But, I 'could' do hand tossed paint balls!

Naw....I couldn't.
I'm too nice!, dang it!
I need a 'Tough Guy' pill, or something!

Or, maybe I could throw confetti out the window - but, at higher speeds it'd probably just blow back into the window and get in my eyes......

I'll spit!
At least if it comes back, it's my own.

yeah.

[tractakid]

The reason I changed the name is so that my online identity is the same everywhere. It's just neater.

[Mahnarch]

Well,,,,,you should change everything else to your "Guest" persona.......

-haarrupph- *turns his back on you......then notices the array of cheeses on the buffet table..*

[tractakid]

urm.. CHEESE

[Phil]

Cheese does solve most of the worlds problems.

[edlin]

Except for heart attacks, if you eat too much...

[tractakid]

Do not put down the cheese, for the cheese is incredible. The cheese will strike you down.

[farti1]

Keep an eye on your cheese and protect it well due to the fact that some of us like to cut the cheese

[Mahnarch]

Ahhhh, Cheese.

Cheese is like life! In the beginning it's full of vitamins and energy but after a while it bogs things down and can compact inside your colon.....

Ooo! Swiss. *picks up a slice*


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Uuugghhh! Daily Idiot Update:

I'm getting really sick of people using my slower acceleration to pass me from a stop sign.
Not everyone comes face to face with oncoming traffic but, it's like their passing me is a rude insult. I don't know, maybe I'm just turning into a cranky old man (today's my birthday, by the way..)

Most people are probably thinking, "Man, this guy is taking forEVER! but, there's A LOT of stuff going on inside that cab just to get up to speed as quickly as possible.

If only cars were split-shift and unsynchronized manuals - there'd be far fewer drivers, I can tell you that much.