If you are driving your Luxury SUV, just got your hair done, and are on your way to your afternoon tennis lesson or wine/salon appointment, take a minute to look at the little rod sticking out of your steering column. See how it goes up and down? And see how when you push it up, it clicks into place and a little arrow flashes on your dashboard? Guess what? A pretty little light on the OUTSIDE of your car is also blinking! That's right, front and back of your car. And that little light tells other drivers that you are about to turn left or right. Now, I know you will have to set down your latte. cigarette, cellphone, or mascara while driving in order to start using your turn signals, but it is for your own safety. Because the next mindless idiot woman in a $400 tracksuit with a gold purse who swerves in front of me without ever looking, signaling, or noticing is going to get bludgeoned in the Bally's parking lot.
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June 14, 2011 12:33 p.m. pinchvalve SuperDork
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June 14, 2011 12:38 p.m. keethrax HalfDork
pinchvalve wrote: Now, I know you will have to set down your latte. cigarette, cellphone, and mascara while driving in order to start using your turn signals, but it is for your own safety.
Fixed that for you.
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June 14, 2011 12:38 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork
Haha. Good luck with that. Signalling turns went out of style along with respect for other people about 25 years ago.
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June 14, 2011 12:41 p.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
keethrax wrote:
pinchvalve wrote: Now, I know you will have to set down your latte. cigarette, cellphone, mascara and overpriced Puppy while driving in order to start using your turn signals, but it is for your own safety.
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that too
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June 14, 2011 12:42 p.m. Rusted_Busted_Spit Dork
As my FIL says "Turn signals must have been option on that car/truck".
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June 14, 2011 1:25 p.m. integraguy Dork
pinchvalve....I'm with ya on this.
It never ceases to amaze me that women or men in vehicles as large as a small house don't think it would be of any use to signal on immenint(sp?) lane change. Especially when said lane change could result in them getting their gigantic SUV's sheetmetal "re-decorated". I guess these folks have never had an accident. It's my experience that when you are involved in an accident, even something as minor as a "fender-bender" you ALWAYS wind-up loosing some money....at the very least on the rental car charges.
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June 14, 2011 1:25 p.m. cwh SuperDork
They are removed when a car with Up North plates crosses the Florida/ Georgia line on I-95. Special mechanics at the Welcome Pavilion. No charge.
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June 14, 2011 1:35 p.m. donalson SuperDork
integraguy wrote:
It's my experience that when you are involved in an accident, even something as minor as a "fender-bender" you ALWAYS wind-up loosing some money....at the very least on the rental car charges.
why would they care?... their daddy paid for everything as a kid and now hubby pays for everything....
I HATED delivering pizza to these same women... if the hubby paid you'd get a decent tip... they worked hard to appear so well off and tend to tip reasonably... you even had a better chance of getting a tip from these kids... but the rich woman would never give a cent...
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June 14, 2011 1:56 p.m. gamby SuperDork
donalson wrote:
why would they care?... their daddy paid for everything as a kid and now hubby pays for everything....
I HATED delivering pizza to these same women... if the hubby paid you'd get a decent tip... they worked hard to appear so well off and tend to tip reasonably... you even had a better chance of getting a tip from these kids... but the rich woman would never give a cent...
troof
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June 14, 2011 2:50 p.m. joey48442 SuperDork
I'm always amazed at the ones putting on eye makeup while driving... Wait till an airbag goes off and drives an eyeliner pencil through someone's brain...
Joey
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June 14, 2011 3:30 p.m. keethrax HalfDork
joey48442 wrote:
I'm always amazed at the ones putting on eye makeup while driving... Wait till an airbag goes off and drives an eyeliner pencil through someone's brain...
Joey
Hey, one can dream. And then after taking out one moron and lead to some bizarro world lawsuit where mandatory airbags are eliminated.
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June 14, 2011 3:33 p.m. Otto Maddox Dork
Few people use their turn signals. Demographics and socio-economic status are not directly related to this behavior.
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June 14, 2011 3:46 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork
keethrax wrote:
joey48442 wrote:
I'm always amazed at the ones putting on eye makeup while driving... Wait till an airbag goes off and drives an eyeliner pencil through someone's brain...
Joey
Hey, one can dream. And then after taking out one moron and lead to some bizarro world lawsuit where mandatory airbags are eliminated.
Excellent.
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June 14, 2011 3:53 p.m. NGTD HalfDork
cwh wrote:
They are removed when a car with Up North plates crosses the Florida/ Georgia line on I-95. Special mechanics at the Welcome Pavilion. No charge.
Up here they are removed prior to shipping from the factory.
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June 14, 2011 4:03 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
Otto Maddox wrote:
Few people use their turn signals. Demographics and socio-economic status are not directly related to this behavior.
heh... sometimes I have to stop myself from using a turnsignal when taking a hard turn
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June 14, 2011 4:05 p.m. JeffHarbert Reader
And just about everyone in North Carolina. Seriously, it's like a requirement that people not use them or something. We recently spent a week in my home state of California. Drivers out there were far better than the ones here, at least in the SF Bay Area and up into the Sierra foothills. Made the trip much more enjoyable, since there was a lot of driving involved.
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June 14, 2011 4:05 p.m. wbjones SuperDork
how long am I going to have to wait ?
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June 14, 2011 4:19 p.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork
JeffHarbert wrote:
And just about everyone in North Carolina. Seriously, it's like a requirement that people not use them or something. We recently spent a week in my home state of California. Drivers out there were far better than the ones here, at least in the SF Bay Area and up into the Sierra foothills. Made the trip much more enjoyable, since there was a lot of driving involved.
It's all the transplants, not us!
We know how to use those blinky things!
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June 14, 2011 4:23 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
I love when someone fails to signal a turn at a 3 or 4 way stop, then gets mad when you cut them off or almost drive into them.
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June 14, 2011 4:31 p.m. Travis_K SuperDork
Almost no one uses them here anymore, it is rather frustrating. Of course, if you signal a lane change when there is anything hemi powered in the lane you want ot move into no matter how far back, it usually leads to maximum force being placed on both the horn and gas pedal, then the driver frantically flaling their rolling manhood enhancement all over the road until they can get infront of you and drive 5 mph slower than you were already driving. lol
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June 14, 2011 4:54 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
You have noticed that too, Travis?
As the owner of a BMW.. I have to pick carefully what cars I pull in front of on the highway when changing lanes. Any of the HUGE over powered SUVs (escalades and the like) or any of BMW's competitors and they tend to close the gap on me... it's like I am threatening their manhood or worse by moving into their lane to let faster traffic by.. or.. heavens forbid.. turn off of the main road.
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June 14, 2011 5:04 p.m. Lesley SuperDork
aircooled wrote:
I love when someone fails to signal a turn at a 3 or 4 way stop, then gets mad when you cut them off or almost drive into them.
Happened to me last night! And they wonder why you shoot them a dirty look!
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June 14, 2011 5:41 p.m. Taiden HalfDork
The number one thing that freaks me out (and this may be from prior motorcycle commuting), is when someone is poised to turn left (crossing in front of you first), and they are watching to the right, and are slooooowly inching forward. It ALWAYS scares the E36 M3 out of me.
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June 14, 2011 7:40 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
living in a tourist area.. I need to add.. just because somebody has their right turnsignal on.. does not mean they are turning right... I have seen them go "oh! lets look at that" and make a left while the right signal is still blinking.. usually without looking to make sure they are not about to run over somebody
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June 14, 2011 7:46 p.m. wlkelley3 Dork
All truth! I think turn signal are an option when you buy a car around here. I always yield to those that let me know what they are going to do. ie: use turn signals.
What gets me around here is the people that think if you turn on the emergency flasher it turns their vehicle into an emergency vehicle and people are supposed to move out of their way.
