Ok,
So you park your classic British car away from everyone else, and some asshat parks next to you, with plenty of closer spots.
There is a reason people park far away from the mass score of door dinging lemmings, please respect that.
Moron..
Tucked in behind the Park of America, on American Blvd, sits a stash of police on a weekly basis. They catch you coming under the Cedar underpass, and love hiding behind a retaining wall on a cycle or unmarked charger.
They’ll tag you and have 1 of usually 3-5 squads or unmarked pick you off, sometimes blocking an entire lane of traffic with as many as 6 cars pulled over. Its quite impressive. There is also an officer that will sit behind the noise barrier across from La Quinta, and a swarm that sits by the Knights building and tags you by Motorwerx.
I’m more in favor of nailing speeders in residential spaces, and low speed areas vs. getting the guy doing 80 in a 75..
Your thoughts?
What used to be about a 7 minute stretch last week, is now over 25 minutes. No added road work, no accidents.
What gives? Try and find the skinny pedal on the right gang!
Oh yah, MN 991-CRX seems to think he has the right of way to cut people off, after he has illegally crossed road markings to make an early exit attempt.
This is one I haven’t seen in quite awhile, applying makeup while driving! The actual term for it is ‘farding’ if you care.
On top of that, it was eye-liner, sounds like recipe for disaster. Luckily she was in the left lane, only able to ping pong off the wall and one lane of traffic.
To her credit she was actually staying in her lane, must have taken my tips on “Driving with appendages other than your hands”
In any event, if you run into her, (or the other way around) look for the random makeup application, and possible eye-patch.
Do you or your passengers fard? If so, do you crack the windows a bit?
Cheers!
I’m no ballerina, but also, I’m not a whale, but really, is 10″ really enough for me to open the door of an SUV and get in it, while wearing business dress clothes? I think not, unless you wish for me to chamois your doors with my ass.
Get a clue asswad and learn to park, its not like your driving a Winnebago, its a friggin’ Acura. If you’re still here at 4, I’m not responsible for the damage incurred to your vehicle as I try to enter mine.
Merging onto a major roadway is a simple task, maintain speed and enter the road with traffic. MN TBR 387 seems to think it means STOP ON THE EFFIN ONRAMP.
No, its called the ‘Zipper’ method, try it.
The 52 interchange is /not/ an expressway to bypass traffic to get past 494 gridlock between 52 and Concord!
Medians are not meant to be crossed, this means you, Mrs. Escalade on the phone drinking a frappuchino.
Mainly consisting of Wisconsin drivers, this is the bane of my afternoon commute, wait like the rest of us, you d-bags!
Us monnesotans are quickly snealing up on you by evidence of convertible fever.
Signs are driving convertibles when its 49 degrees out, drivers are typically wearing some snooty fleece pulliver or zip-up from Nautica or Polo.
And yes, I’m one of them!
Summer, beware!
On this lovely snowy day this douchebag decides to jump the median barrier and come within an inch or two of my front end trying to but in front of me.
Seeing I really have to get home and take a leak I wasn’t about to let him hit me, but stay away from this ricer.
He did however have the decency to greet me with a few middle fingers which I promptly returned.
Drivers, Beware!
Here in the good old Twin Cities, we’ve had a fresh dusting of snow every other day for the better part of the last week, just enough to make the commute to and from the office a living nightmare. Last night, I ventured out in the wonderful weather to Stillwater. I had gone out around home earlier in the day, and found the roads rather fun.. I use the word ‘fun’ because I would be one of those SUV driving fools who thinks it’s fun to slide around corners, and use the back end of the Home Depot parking lot for drifting practice.
I did my local errands, auto store, Target, Cub, liquor store too of course, and noted that people were certainly out and getting around, plows were out, and driveways were being shoveled. By the time I packed up to head to Stillwater, it was getting dark, chilly and the winds were picking up.
I started my drive from Cottage Grove, up Hwy 61, where traffic was moving at about 35mph, not too bad, but noticed once I got up to St. Paul Park, the right lane was not plowed, and not slick, like the other two lanes were, so I decided to hop in that lane and motor up to 494. Traffic on 494 was running about 40mph, and I was amazed to see people putting a big space between them and the car ahead of them. There is always that one weenie who darts in and out of traffic, and sadly I didn’t see him in the ditch.
I did spot one car buried in the median along with the little pickup in the photo above, who had just spun out. I continued my run out to Stillwater, to find all traffic was behaving well, and moving about 40mph. Not too bad considering the snow and blowing snow. I made it out to my destination, of course having a little fun on the dirt roads and drifting a bit in the snow, but would say while not great, all the roads I was traveling on were certainly passable by any car, with the exception of the dirt roads I was on. Otherwise, it was just slow going, but certainly drivable.
If this would have been a 8am Monday rush hour, I would have said shut it all down, stay home, but I had plans to keep, and wasn’t going to be deterred by a little snow.
The cold on the other hand, today, was enough to royally upset my truck, who is normally kept in a heated garage. After about 10 minutes of total cranking, a round with the 50amp boost charger, and some praying, the Explorer fired up and once I let her warm up a bit, took a spin around the neighborhood to get everything thawed out.
Take care on the roads, and I hope you have a safe and happy Holiday week.
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