What's on your mind? (2024)

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USE YOUR EFFING TURN SIGNAL! Please?

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1669

I remember driving on the 405 in los Angeles. Wtf .let me get over to the other lane . Turn signal on forever. Gave up. The move is just turn right in front of the oncoming car .

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1670

I live in a very remote place and interact almost solely online with others. Thank you for your kindness.

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1671

I enjoy reading your post . . . no thanks needed.

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1672

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: I said this TWICE yesterday while out running errands.

Without the “please”.
And calling it a “blinkah”.
And using a few more words like &$@/@ and %$×@/%.
And a hand gesture or two.

But it would still be understood in any state in the Union.

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1673

I did that on I-80 trying to get off before the George Washington Bridge after living in central PA for 6 months (traffic jams there were Amish buggies or farm equipment).

Blinker on, no one letting me in. I finally said to myself “Linda, you’re back in NJ. Cut him off.” I did, got the 1-finger salute, gave it back, and we all went on our merry way. :grin:

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1674

I can tell a driver’s from NJ with 99% accuracy. They’re some of the worst on the roads here.

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1675

I get it! I had become an easier, gentler driver in central PA and had to revert to my previous driving life in northern NJ to make it off the exit. The Route 17/Route 4/GS Parkway/NJ Turnpike area is one of the worst, IMO.

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1676

Well, Germans aren’t known to be ‘gentle’ drivers, so it was a change of pace for me when I moved to PA. But the NJ folks def stand out as the biggest a-holes on the road :smile:

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1677

And when “Masshole” drivers can say that about NJ drivers? You know it’s bad. LOL

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1678

Care to clarify?

@sck is this what passes for acceptable discourse here now?

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Is bullying a member off this site acceptable?

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1680

No clarification is needed. @retrospek left HO for awhile, and has returned. At this point, everyone should just move on.

ETA: all of us can block someone if you don’t want to see another’s posts.

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1681

Yes… Sunshine says it the same way.

A couple of months ago, she came to me and said “My blinkahs aren’t working” and she was right neither of them, so I ordered up a new relay (came in the next day). I knew it wasn’t the bulbs as neither the right turn signal nor left worked. And I could hear the relay making a strange sound as it attempted to flash the turn signals.

Any who, I fixed it while she slept in the next day – only took me about 15 minutes. When she got up she was surprised her car’s “blinkahs” were already fixed. She thinks I’m some kind of genius - I didn’t tell her it was a 15 minute fix.

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1682

Word.

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1683

Hey, I resemble that :wink:

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1684

And I used to resemble that…until I got better. :grin:(Monty Python reference)

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1685

IMHO, NorCal (Bay Area) drivers win hands down. Passing those only driving 80, changing lanes like braiding hair. Hiway 4, Martinez to Antioch a raceway.

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1686

I broke out laughing at this description but I knew EXACTLY what you were talking about!

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1687

The last time I drove in California…ay yi yi, 22 years ago, I swear the little imports (the cars, not the drivers) were playing leap frog down the 80’s (580, 880 etc.) and 17 to Santa Cruz, and scaring me to death. If I ever go back, I won’t drive. :dizzy_face:
I don’t know if Driver’s Ed is taught in high school anymore, but one of the tenets was, ‘signal your intentions’ and they were words we still by. That, and keeping a St. Christipher AND a St. Francis of Rome prayer charms nearby.

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