OK, Now This is Unsettling...

[Bob Peale]

So I step off the curb (a reasonable action if I'm ever going to cross the street), and a car come sswerving around the corner and narrowly misses my nattily dressed behind.

On said vehicle is planted a large placard with the legend, "Keith's Driving School - Student Driver"

Now, aside from no longer being overly impressed with Keith's degree of driving acumen, I am horrified to note that the hapless driver doesn't have nearly the guidance and direction that the young lad requires because the driving instructor is TALKING ON A CEL PHONE!

Unless the harlot was in the process of calling ahead to warn me that young Mr. Andretti was enroute to play bump and tickle with me and the fender of the vehicle, shouldn't she be concentrating on a) her student; b) the road; or c) ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Not exactly the behavior you want to instill in a young driver!

 

[Purple Haze]

Every time I see a driver with a phone, I'd like to shove it in their ass.

 

[Bob Peale]

Every time I see a driver with a phone, I'd like to shove it in their ass.

How exactly does the equipment replacement policy work in that case?

 

[OUTSIDER]

Every time I see a driver with a phone, I'd like to shove it in their ass.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[shadowsource]

a couple of years ago -

I spotted a guy in an SUV weaving around on the Queensboro Bridge while talking on a cell phone. I very carefully passed him on the left while he wove right and then I proceeded to forget him - until he crashed into the back of my car. Then he cheated me, but that's another story.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: a couple of years ago -

I spotted a guy in an SUV weaving around on the Queensboro Bridge while talking on a cell phone. I very carefully passed him on the left while he wove right and then I proceeded to forget him - until he crashed into the back of my car. Then he cheated me, but that's another story.

See, that was your first mistake. Always keep bad drivers in FRONT of you where you can watch what they are doing! Either that or pass them and get the hell out of their way by a few miles.

 

[PacificBlue]

So I step off the curb (a reasonable action if I'm ever going to cross the street), and a car come sswerving around the corner and narrowly misses my nattily dressed behind.

umm...no more crossing the street for you, unless escorted by a lovely mermaid such as myself!

 

[batter]

How exactly does the equipment replacement policy work in that case?

an act of God. no need to replace it. hehehe

 

[p_p_man]

I was once out with my niece and...

her two year old son. We had to cross a small side road (not more than 20 feet across) which was on a hill. There was one car parked facing us about 20 yards down the hill. Both people in the car were talking to each other.

My niece pushed the push chair into the road and I stepped off the kerb beside her.

Suddenly the car shot forward hit the push chair and stopped.

Nobody was hurt but I had one of those red mists descend on me which rarely happens in life and by the time a group of people had pulled me back I had already smashed in the side window with a brick (I've no recollection of picking it up) and was on the point of smashing their heads in.

The police came and looking back I was lucky enough to have someone in the crowd who was a quick thinker. He took the brick out of my hands and threw it away.

At the subsequent court case it came out that the driver was a learner, being taught by his father who had no licence, in a car that was neither taxed nor insured.

They got away with a fine. My niece's kid was lucky to get away with his life.

People like those and the one you encountered Bob Peale make me really, really mad...