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The Phenomena of Tailgaters!
I drive about 32 miles one way to get to work. On Saturday I do my food shopping and on Sunday I visit my kids.
In Southern California that isn't considered a lot of driving. But the phenomena of tailgaters just seems to be just as wretched as if I was always on the road. Needless to say it just chaps my hide to continually be "tailsmooched" by some driver be it a man or a woman from teenagers to old geezers!
I have decided that they are here to stay so in fun I have categorized them. Here they are so just have a good laugh!
Teenage Girl
She will always be driving a Neon or a Soul. They will be driving fast and they tailgate you extremely close albeit for a few seconds or so. This tailgater is in a rush to get someplace so she'll also swerve from lane to lane just to get to her destination. But it doesn't matter how fast she thinks she's moving because the traffic signal will always get her! When you arrive next to her she's hunkered over the steering wheel just biting the bit for that dang green light to come on and then speeding away tailgating and swerving.
Teenage Boy
He will drive a Mustang, some altered Honda or a pickup with hug wheels and those bright white Halogen headlights that bear down on your neck because the pickup is real high. Again, driving fast and as they approach you they will stay on your tail "smooching" it but they will stay there and harass you to get you to speed up. When they don't get their way they will pass you an honk at you also giving you the one finger salute! They too will get stopped at the red light and speeding away as soon as the light turns green. They don't swerve but they speed headlong in a straight shot!
Woman
The strangest of all tailgaters. She will be driving a van or SUV. She doesn't speed or act stupid. She will stay pinned to your tail "smooching" it for miles EVEN IF you 2 are the only ones on the road. But in traffic, too. She won't go around you and when you tap your brake to let her know your feeling uncomfortable she will eventually pass you and look at you wondering why your acting so strange in this completely puzzled look! She's totally oblivious to the fact she's tailgating you.
Man
This tailgater just wants to be a jerk. If you slow down to make him go around he'll just begin feigning a rear end smacking. As if the tail "smooching" wasn't bad enough. He'll be driving a high end car like a Mercedes or a Lexus but sometimes a restored car. When he finally gets tired of playing Rambo he whips around you and tries to stare you down like he's "ready to rumble"!!!! He still thinks he a pimply faced hot rodder full of estrogen!
OK, give me your comments and fav's. I know there are some tail gater's that also chap your hide!!
In Southern California that isn't considered a lot of driving. But the phenomena of tailgaters just seems to be just as wretched as if I was always on the road. Needless to say it just chaps my hide to continually be "tailsmooched" by some driver be it a man or a woman from teenagers to old geezers!
I have decided that they are here to stay so in fun I have categorized them. Here they are so just have a good laugh!
Teenage Girl
She will always be driving a Neon or a Soul. They will be driving fast and they tailgate you extremely close albeit for a few seconds or so. This tailgater is in a rush to get someplace so she'll also swerve from lane to lane just to get to her destination. But it doesn't matter how fast she thinks she's moving because the traffic signal will always get her! When you arrive next to her she's hunkered over the steering wheel just biting the bit for that dang green light to come on and then speeding away tailgating and swerving.
Teenage Boy
He will drive a Mustang, some altered Honda or a pickup with hug wheels and those bright white Halogen headlights that bear down on your neck because the pickup is real high. Again, driving fast and as they approach you they will stay on your tail "smooching" it but they will stay there and harass you to get you to speed up. When they don't get their way they will pass you an honk at you also giving you the one finger salute! They too will get stopped at the red light and speeding away as soon as the light turns green. They don't swerve but they speed headlong in a straight shot!
Woman
The strangest of all tailgaters. She will be driving a van or SUV. She doesn't speed or act stupid. She will stay pinned to your tail "smooching" it for miles EVEN IF you 2 are the only ones on the road. But in traffic, too. She won't go around you and when you tap your brake to let her know your feeling uncomfortable she will eventually pass you and look at you wondering why your acting so strange in this completely puzzled look! She's totally oblivious to the fact she's tailgating you.
Man
This tailgater just wants to be a jerk. If you slow down to make him go around he'll just begin feigning a rear end smacking. As if the tail "smooching" wasn't bad enough. He'll be driving a high end car like a Mercedes or a Lexus but sometimes a restored car. When he finally gets tired of playing Rambo he whips around you and tries to stare you down like he's "ready to rumble"!!!! He still thinks he a pimply faced hot rodder full of estrogen!
OK, give me your comments and fav's. I know there are some tail gater's that also chap your hide!!
Cars
Wouldn't you know it. Just the other day I was thinking that I've never had a flat tire on my car.
What a fool.
So I discover I have this flat tire, and I try to drive the old truck only to discover that the new fuel line I put in last year has disintegrated and gas is leaking all over the engine. So I go to fix the flat (15 minutes, right?) and of course the wheel nut were put on by Superman on his day off. 45 minutes later dripping sweat and covered in dirt the wheel nuts are off, but I discover the alloy rim that seemed so cool at the time is stick to the car like it's been welded on. Anyway, an hour later I'm done, and I go into the house, rummage around in the pantry until I find an old bottle of high fructose corn syrup, and I CHUG it.
Have a nice day.
What a fool.
So I discover I have this flat tire, and I try to drive the old truck only to discover that the new fuel line I put in last year has disintegrated and gas is leaking all over the engine. So I go to fix the flat (15 minutes, right?) and of course the wheel nut were put on by Superman on his day off. 45 minutes later dripping sweat and covered in dirt the wheel nuts are off, but I discover the alloy rim that seemed so cool at the time is stick to the car like it's been welded on. Anyway, an hour later I'm done, and I go into the house, rummage around in the pantry until I find an old bottle of high fructose corn syrup, and I CHUG it.
Have a nice day.
Tengo el Culo Cagao'
Hallelujah tengo el culo cagao' again and again and again
who got some paper
who got some paper
online today!
confession time
Support our tax dollars, buy local...
In a technology and futuristic driven world, choices of patronizing high quality products is getting easier (or more difficult depending on where you are).
Putting my hard earned money on material things that are of importance in our daily lives is one of my struggles. Yet the place and manner on which these material things are made matters most to me.
I only buy those that lasts forever, so durable the money I spend is so worth it.
Where am I going with this blog? Just to lolly gag on our attitude towards cheap versus expensive products. The lowering of our consumer standards and sold to the cheap goods flooding the market even more pervasive now in the first and second worlds. A most rare practice until 15 years ago.
So I hardly bought any foreign products since I lived here largely because of QUALITY, but even more compelling reasons are due to patronizing these goods and put our citizens to work. With the exceptions of German, Swiss, UK, Italian and Australian products, most goods produced today are of pathetic quality.
My specific reason for being a loyal local consumerist is that safety and durability.
Last week for the first time I bought a European SUV, the X5, and now I'm lured into the powerful statement of "the ultimate driving machine". Not that I've not been sold to the great performance of these vehicles just that I defended the need to support our local products. So with the exception of this, I've been driving all American made cars, my favorite of course is the Corvette and my Cobra, both has all provided me with the adrenaline pumping thrill every time I needed to beat my blues. Those 400 HP, and equally, capable pound feet of torque was just enough to make me feel alive. What a thrilling experience, my only true addiction. Driving fast and performance oriented vehicles with dedicated manual transmission.
Well my town car is parked as it can't handle the demands of the deep snow and brutal iced up roads in cold Minnesota.
My children are now sneering at their mom for having bowed down to abandon my hell bent support for my local products. Well I'll just have to apologize. I have to admit, I'm loving it, even better than my 2011 SRX and Equinox leased for two years.
In a technology and futuristic driven world, choices of patronizing high quality products is getting easier (or more difficult depending on where you are).
Putting my hard earned money on material things that are of importance in our daily lives is one of my struggles. Yet the place and manner on which these material things are made matters most to me.
I only buy those that lasts forever, so durable the money I spend is so worth it.
Where am I going with this blog? Just to lolly gag on our attitude towards cheap versus expensive products. The lowering of our consumer standards and sold to the cheap goods flooding the market even more pervasive now in the first and second worlds. A most rare practice until 15 years ago.
So I hardly bought any foreign products since I lived here largely because of QUALITY, but even more compelling reasons are due to patronizing these goods and put our citizens to work. With the exceptions of German, Swiss, UK, Italian and Australian products, most goods produced today are of pathetic quality.
My specific reason for being a loyal local consumerist is that safety and durability.
Last week for the first time I bought a European SUV, the X5, and now I'm lured into the powerful statement of "the ultimate driving machine". Not that I've not been sold to the great performance of these vehicles just that I defended the need to support our local products. So with the exception of this, I've been driving all American made cars, my favorite of course is the Corvette and my Cobra, both has all provided me with the adrenaline pumping thrill every time I needed to beat my blues. Those 400 HP, and equally, capable pound feet of torque was just enough to make me feel alive. What a thrilling experience, my only true addiction. Driving fast and performance oriented vehicles with dedicated manual transmission.
Well my town car is parked as it can't handle the demands of the deep snow and brutal iced up roads in cold Minnesota.
My children are now sneering at their mom for having bowed down to abandon my hell bent support for my local products. Well I'll just have to apologize. I have to admit, I'm loving it, even better than my 2011 SRX and Equinox leased for two years.
Vauxhall Zafira Car Fires
UK specific. Only affects right hand drive models. In Ireland it's the Opel Zafira.
The Vauxhall Zafira B (2005-2014) has a fault which can potentially turn the car into a fireball. Despite being featured on Watchdog and ITN news, there are people who are still unaware of the problem. If you, or someone you know has one of these models, you need to book it into a Vauxhall garage for inspection. If you can just help spread the word around, that would be a big help. Thanks.
The Vauxhall Zafira B (2005-2014) has a fault which can potentially turn the car into a fireball. Despite being featured on Watchdog and ITN news, there are people who are still unaware of the problem. If you, or someone you know has one of these models, you need to book it into a Vauxhall garage for inspection. If you can just help spread the word around, that would be a big help. Thanks.
'My Soul, My Car, And The Road'
When the three connect I'm suddenly in that 'poetic' land of 'never stop' where my imagination runs as long as the magical asphalt that lies ahead of me! Just throw in some of my favorite tunes and I'm transported into a sort of parallel world in which every little thing is alright. Then suddenly I'm 'hurled' back into reality by my first traffic jam, all told I guess you might say that I'm a 'Corvette' kinda guy.
Horn OK Please
Horn OK please' is a phrase commonly painted on commercial vehicles like trucks, buses or local taxis in India.
The purpose of the phrase is to alert a driver of a vehicle approaching from behind to sound their horn in case they wish to overtakeThe origin of this phrase is unknown. Also, there is no official significance with respect to Indian traffic regulations. No rules in India mandate or suggest the use of such a "slogan" on a vehicle. Still many vehicles are decorated with the phrase Horn OK please.
In the early days, most of the trucks in India were manufactured by the TATA Group. When new trucks were rolled out of the factory, they were subjected to tests, and the trucks that passed the tests had 'OK TATA' stamped in the rear tailgate, with 'TATA' written below 'OK'. Owing to the huge amount of traffic, many truck drivers had 'Horn Please' painted on the tailgate, with the two words on either side of 'OK'. This was visually read as 'Horn OK Please'.
Though this may be the most likely origin, there are plenty of theories for the “Horn Ok Please” being into existence. One such theory has its roots in the Second World War where trucks were often run on petrol when there was a shortage of diesel. Petrol, being highly unstable in nature, would cause the trucks to explode at the slightest accident. Hence a warning would be painted on the back saying “Horn Please, On Petrol”. Gradually this became a norm and is still seen on most trucks even today.
Another possible explanation is that during the blackout on lights during the Second World War, if a car had to overtake a lorry in the night, it had to honk. For this purpose, there used to be a red light under the truck which the truck driver would switch on to signal that it was OK to overtake. It was the OK in the middle that would light up.
Yet another explanation (and probably one bearing some truth behind it) is that the OK is separate from the Horn Please. The OK is kept there in big, bold letters, to allow the drivers from behind to realise that they were OK and alive, thus preventing them from rash behaviour; in addition, the fact that they are able to read the OK is indicative that they are keeping an appropriate braking distance.
Another theory is that, the original words were Horn OTK (overtake) please. And since many times the T would merge into the paneling of the truck it got mistaken for OK.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The purpose of the phrase is to alert a driver of a vehicle approaching from behind to sound their horn in case they wish to overtakeThe origin of this phrase is unknown. Also, there is no official significance with respect to Indian traffic regulations. No rules in India mandate or suggest the use of such a "slogan" on a vehicle. Still many vehicles are decorated with the phrase Horn OK please.
In the early days, most of the trucks in India were manufactured by the TATA Group. When new trucks were rolled out of the factory, they were subjected to tests, and the trucks that passed the tests had 'OK TATA' stamped in the rear tailgate, with 'TATA' written below 'OK'. Owing to the huge amount of traffic, many truck drivers had 'Horn Please' painted on the tailgate, with the two words on either side of 'OK'. This was visually read as 'Horn OK Please'.
Though this may be the most likely origin, there are plenty of theories for the “Horn Ok Please” being into existence. One such theory has its roots in the Second World War where trucks were often run on petrol when there was a shortage of diesel. Petrol, being highly unstable in nature, would cause the trucks to explode at the slightest accident. Hence a warning would be painted on the back saying “Horn Please, On Petrol”. Gradually this became a norm and is still seen on most trucks even today.
Another possible explanation is that during the blackout on lights during the Second World War, if a car had to overtake a lorry in the night, it had to honk. For this purpose, there used to be a red light under the truck which the truck driver would switch on to signal that it was OK to overtake. It was the OK in the middle that would light up.
Yet another explanation (and probably one bearing some truth behind it) is that the OK is separate from the Horn Please. The OK is kept there in big, bold letters, to allow the drivers from behind to realise that they were OK and alive, thus preventing them from rash behaviour; in addition, the fact that they are able to read the OK is indicative that they are keeping an appropriate braking distance.
Another theory is that, the original words were Horn OTK (overtake) please. And since many times the T would merge into the paneling of the truck it got mistaken for OK.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because it’s Valentine’s Day
Being Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d try to write something positive about love. I am formulating my thoughts.
I wrote “I love you” on my forehead and brushed my bangs away
While you were seated next to me in class
I gave you a parting hug after exchanging numbers under the lights of an empty evening parking lot
I suddenly liked my night course, coursing
After attending “the Fantastics” in college auditorium, we walked familiar lot
Boldly holding hands, waves of heat spreading
A much desired kiss was made
As our attraction and infatuation blossomed
I wrote “I love you” on my forehead
I wrote “I love you” on my forehead and brushed my bangs away
While you were seated next to me in class
I gave you a parting hug after exchanging numbers under the lights of an empty evening parking lot
I suddenly liked my night course, coursing
After attending “the Fantastics” in college auditorium, we walked familiar lot
Boldly holding hands, waves of heat spreading
A much desired kiss was made
As our attraction and infatuation blossomed
I wrote “I love you” on my forehead
Tower
The spiral tower ejected confetti on the hour
She clutched her coat tighter
To insulate Bare skin, shivering
From nervous thoughts, fighting
With urgest thoughts, guilty
For feeling a space inside, empty
Drawing her to the spiral tower, lustily
For LJ
She clutched her coat tighter
To insulate Bare skin, shivering
From nervous thoughts, fighting
With urgest thoughts, guilty
For feeling a space inside, empty
Drawing her to the spiral tower, lustily
For LJ
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