It's even terrible as a pedestrian! When you're timing your stride to let a car go past and that car then stops when there's no stop sign, it really starts to grate after a while. It's not polite; it's obnoxious as hell!
@eebetsy: so so true about the merging. I prefer aggressive driving to what passes for driving here too. It makes me want to kill whenever someone cuts me off on purpose but pretends they didn't see me there. If you're gonna fuck me like that, people, own it. I'd heard that New Jersey drivers were horrible and psychotic, but I found that they were infinitely less trying of my patience. Drivers in Hawaii are still the worst in the nation, though, by a large and horrible margin.
@seang: Left-lane loafers are our specialty! My god, I hope they all roast in hell, too. I find myself guilty of right-lane passing just to get around them. You know who I really hate, though: that 3-abreast pack of slowpokes. You know the ones: the clueless middle aged woman in a focus doing 55 in the left lane, right next to the korean war vet in the caddy flanking her in the middle lane, and the hat trick of roadblockery being completed on the right by some random idiot. Could be some 19 year old sending texts, could be a car full of elderly chinese canadians making their obligatory shopping pilgrimage, could be a greasy fat guy in some heap of a K car, but it's somebody. And it's somebody you can't get around.
Driving in Oregon makes me wish I had a V-12 monstrosity with a cow catcher on the front of it for navigating the freeway.
That is a fantastic fucking protip. Thanks!
Thank you, Danny Gold, for making me smile yet again.
I think I've seen like one aggressive prius driver ever. And as much as I razz Vantuckians, I don't see that from them. Besides, the "worst" crown is quickly being seized by Canadians from the other Vancouver en route to the outlet mall in Woodburn.
I can't hate on that, I got a great deal on one too, about 10 years ago. The transmission in my 72 mustang blew up and we were about to have a baby and needed a practical car anyway. We should have just gotten a new transmission, because I ended up really hating that damn subaru.
Hey, that's my new seasons!
It's a local whole foods analog, basically. They make really good sandwiches, but the clientele is kind of horrifying.
I can't fault you for being subaru averse after living in PDX. After all, it's not just that there are so many of them here, it's that the people who drive them are super defensive drivers who are loathe to use their right foot and give their cars enough gas to do the speed limit. Add in full stops when making right hand turns from main streets onto side streets, the "no, you go" effect (especially frustrating when you are behind them), and the self-congratulatory bumper stickers alerting the world that they eschew bottled water for tap water or something similarly inane, and it's understandable why you'd have a hard time buying a subaru yourself. Alas, Prius drivers are even worse.
ooh she got that jorb! :D
aw! Tell the Maggie of the east that I love her
since she hasn't replied to my emails
Balls. You're one to talk! anyway, check your dang email.
well, I'm really not sure what the rumor actually was or where it supposedly came from or is based on or what. Frankly, I'm not fond of being the subject of rumor.
Guh. I haven't the patience to return there. Or really the latitude for timesuckage. I can't multitask when I use it like I can other places. Same with tumblr, it had to go. The nixon site is a little different because the scope is so narrow, and honestly, the culture in both places just irritates me. I can't be me and get along with people in those spaces, so I'll just be me elsewhere. And I miss Maggie and Nelly dearly.
dude, seriously, where are you getting this Zoltan business from?
Yeah... it is understandable. But she still needs to be talked out of some things.
UNF REALLY? UNF UNF UNF
also, Chelsea needs some stern talking to, I think. But she's currently wasted
unf. don't forget to eat a malasada or 12 for me.
do you really? well, I wish it were under better circumstances. but at least there's banh mi.
oh, well, that makes sense. but effort!
well, I think it's sweet. I get the same way, but I don't even know how to go back and scour the old OTs efficiently.
The headline was the best part of this. "The second guy with a u-ending last name in this story", really? "Fund with international money in it", really? Those lines both honestly read like something I would have written in high school to try to be clever. You're no Danny Gold, sir. Good day.
I cannot believe you revisited this. :D
