Driving Stories by gorramgroupie

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Driving Stories

POSTED BY: GORRAMGROUPIE
UPDATED: Thursday, December 13, 2007 09:33
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:59 AM

I've been reading Zits and Jeremy is getting his learner's permit right now, and I thought, What a great topic, let's get the shiniest people's driving stories!
Ok, so there are no rules really. Just an experience you, someone you knew, a story told to you, whatever, about driving. I guess there is one rule: needs to be funny, no gore or graphic descriptions!
I want you now
tomorrow won't do
there's a burning inside
and it's showing through.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:24 PM

MIRAMEL

i've got one. this story my friend told me a few days ago:

maybe a week or so ago, my friend is driving home, and he ends up stuck in a snow bank (he might have swerved to avoid something, i dont' remember- point is, he's in a snow bank). tires are spinning furiously, but no luck.

a few minutes go by, and this big hulking truck comes by. seeing my friend, they stop, and tie a rope from their truck to his car. so they gun it, trying to get his car out of the snow. it moves a little, they've got the petal to the metal-

-the rope snaps, the truck SHOOTS across the road, and into the snow bank on the other side.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:49 PM

RALLEM

In the late 1980s I went to a Primary Leadership Training Course for the United States Army Reserves in Fort Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania and according to my orders I was not supposed to leave my home until after midnight. That night I drove from central Vermont to Pennsylvania and made it there in time for an inspection and then to fill out the appropriate paper work. According to the school though I was not allowed to be there because I had less than a year left in my service, so they offered me a chance to re-enlist. I was so mad that I said no and drove home, but while on the road in Pennsylvania I fell asleep behind the wheel and woke up somewhere in New York State. I pulled over into a rest area where I purchased myself a road map and figured out that I was somewhere near I87 which traveled towards Vermont so I got on that road and was driving my little pickup truck so fast that I was passing the people who the New York State Police were pulling over on that Labor Day. I did make it back to Vermont safely, but I was so tired on the drive that I forgot to grab a ticket from the toll booth when I got onto I87 so when it was time for me to get off I had to explain to the lady in charge of the station how I messed up. She let me go without paying a toll.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:59 PM

GORRAMGROUPIE

I am so glad we don'thave toll anything out west, or at least the part of the west I'm in. Keep 'em coming, those were just what I wanted. Good for a smile. Or great spewage of drinks!

I want you now
tomorrow won't do
there's a burning inside
and it's showing through.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:56 PM

RALLEM

Actually because we don't have toll booths in Vermont the station supervisor assumed I didn't know how they worked, so she let me go, but I was so tired that I simply reacted wrongly.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:45 AM

KC5F

My favorite was one day after I'd moved to Oklahoma after growing up in the North. I've always driven small, front wheel drive cars and have no problem in snow. Oklahoma had just gotten a rare snowstorm, and three times on my way home from work I came up on large cars stuck in drifts. I had lots of fun pulling up behind them, getting out and helping them get unstuck, and then getting back in my car and driving out without a problem. (Even did it a time or two in Connecticut!)

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:33 AM

RALLEM

I generally drive a little faster in a snow storm even now that I own a large truck, because in snow storms I see several people driving from states like Connecticut who aren't all that talented behind the wheel in poor driving conditions and they always seem to bunch up. Perhaps those large groups of vehicles driving so closely together makes those people feel safer being in a group, but for me it looks like a catastrophe waiting to happen so I speed up to pass those caravans of potential accident victims.

Many people think that since I now own a large 3/4 ton four wheel drive truck that I must feel safer on the road, and that is not true. Actually with studded snow tires on my old Honda accord and on my Mercury Tracer before that I felt a lot safer in bad weather because I was lower to the road and I believe front wheel drive is a superior mode of transportation for foul weather. All wheel drive may be technically superior to front wheel drive, but I feel people get lulled into a false sense of invulnerability when driving all wheel drive and actually if people don’t learn how to drive out of a problem with an all wheel drive vehicle that mode of transport can be the cause of an accident.

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