^ maybe he missing the prince?

 

Seems i can keep this thread alive by myself...
So.. i'm sitting in the mall park'n lot eat'n my lunch...

here's a picture of what happened:



Missed my car by inches!

 

^^ Red X

 

oh well, basically instead of going around my car, this guy goes between my car and another car across from me

 

^ fixed link

 

So I was installing my auto tranny cooler last night .. and the hoses wouldn't fit around the condenser/radiator cuz of a stupid piece of metal right over by the driver's headlight. I decide to (bad idea ) hammer on it and try to bend it a bit since it only needed about an inch of extra free space to clear. Some of you may already see this coming, but for those who don't .. well .. I managed to make enough space for the hoses but in the process punctured my radiator with the other end of the hammer. Nice goin' huh?

 

I was going to get some paperwork taken care of today before I leave for work (another four months). I came up to a street to turn and a woman is in the crosswalk. I wait (patiently, since she is walking like she is 90) and while I am doing this three idiots in a pickup come barreling up on my tail. They thankfully slow down, the one in the middle is gesturing at me like I should run her over. I almost gave them the one finger salute but instead just threw my hand up out the sunroof, then drove off once the coast was clear. I guess they had their pedestrian hunting license!

 

"Seems i can keep this thread alive by myself..."

That's because you live life on the edge!!!

 

"punctured my radiator with the other end of the hammer."

Dude, that sucks *****. Bet once you are done paying for and installing the rad you won't go near it with hard tools again! On the bright side, you are getting a nice, new, clean rad. Your engine will thank you.

 

Actually .. I'm getting a new radiator for free. Went to Advance Auto and said I just bought a new rad last summer (which I didn't ..) and it had a lifetime warranty on it. They just placed an order for a new one and told me to bring in the old one to exchange it. Sweet deal huh?

 

seems something new happens everyday...

women "running" into me... racing a gt mustang.... hoping old guys dont run me over... running over a nail (yesterday, got to try out me "emergency" air compressor though)

 

any of you keep a loose mental record of the brands of cars that are driven by people who drive badly or pull really stupid moves in front of you. Like, for me, it's predominantly Toyotas (and some Lexus, they mostly count too). I was following some person in a green Highlander today on the way to school. It's an obvious 40 mph street and we're doing 27 or so. I had the option of being a bum and honking, but their tracking was real sudden/eratic when they decided to turn slightly, as if they were really tired or drunk or I don't know what.

It just seems that 80% of all super cool moves pulled by the drivers I experience drive Toyotas. Is this a case of "you are what you drive"? Toyotas and Hondas are equally ubiquitious, yet I almost never encounter a Honda driver that drives like they don't know how or aren't paying attention. As Honda (and Mazda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi) biases their cars for a more sporty, driver oriented experience, Toyota/Lexus go for the comfort end, letting the car/electronics do a lot of the decision making (LS460 parallel parking, anyone?) or at least try and isolate the driver from the road.

They do it well, but that emphasis leads to a certain demographic-of-the-mind buyer that, I think, doesn't care about the driving experience--and thus is more prone to not help the cause of good trafic flow, not paying the most attention, etc. Cars initially excluded from this list are MKII, III, & IV Supras, MKII MR-2s, AE86s, and some Celicas because those actually have sporting intentions.

Not that I'm a perfect driver or pay attention all the time. I've pulled a few nice moves too. But this is what I am observing. Is this true for any of you, or am I a little nuts? By the way, BMWs, Fords, and Subarus generally make up the rest of the percentage. I do not outright look for this stuff, and I don't or at least try not to get mad--it just happens.

 

hmm.. forget the drivers, i gotta watch out for the pedestrians!

usually i find SUVs doing the stupid stuff.

 

pedestrians...them too.

 

No no no the worst drivers by far are the ones driving late 80s/early 90s mid-size American cars...Celebrities, Cutlasses, the more compact Tempos, and for godssakes stay the hell away from ANYONE driving a Buick Century. Any year.