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Too_Many_Tools wrote:

About %(%*#& time...I am getting real tired of dodging the idiots who
think they can do both at the same time.



Hell, today I had to do full effort braking because some ftard in a truck saw a line of
cars coming off the interstate and pulled right out in front of my 2500# car. If I had
been playing with my cell I might have collected him but who's fault would it have been?

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I was coming back from the post office the other day and glad I sat at an
intersection longer than normal.

Off the freeway came a 'soccer mom with a phone and mind merged.
She came to the underpass and one handed the wheel of her large large SUV.

She cut early and took 3 lanes wide - two going the other way (where I would
have been). She was coming off the freeway a bit fast and one handed
the wheel. That keeps me from jumping to fill an open slot on that
underpass.

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Wes wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

About %(%*#& time...I am getting real tired of dodging the idiots who
think they can do both at the same time.



Hell, today I had to do full effort braking because some ftard in a truck saw a line of
cars coming off the interstate and pulled right out in front of my 2500# car. If I had
been playing with my cell I might have collected him but who's fault would it have been?

Wes



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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:57:57 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Wes
quickly quoth:

Too_Many_Tools wrote:

About %(%*#& time...I am getting real tired of dodging the idiots who
think they can do both at the same time.



Hell, today I had to do full effort braking because some ftard in a truck saw a line of
cars coming off the interstate and pulled right out in front of my 2500# car. If I had
been playing with my cell I might have collected him but who's fault would it have been?


The fault would have been yours, because you hit him, probably without
any skid marks to prove otherwise. As it was, you were fully aware and
_didn't_ hit him. I see ftards all the time, their ears plugged with
their shiny new Bluetooth hanging off their ear, talking to the wind
and not paying attention to their driving. Then again, far too many
people don't pay attention to their driving even without the damned
phone. For nearly 30 years I've been quipping "Hell, most people can't
even steer, let alone _drive_.", and that was well before cellphones.

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"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:

Off the freeway came a 'soccer mom with a phone and mind merged.
She came to the underpass and one handed the wheel of her large large SUV.

She cut early and took 3 lanes wide - two going the other way (where I would
have been). She was coming off the freeway a bit fast and one handed
the wheel. That keeps me from jumping to fill an open slot on that
underpass.



Tonight I'm taking the back way home with a suv on my arse, I crest a bad hill and find a
tractor and hay wagon across the roadway. I'm glad I wasn't in a hurry, I might not have
made it.

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:04:55 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Wes
quickly quoth:

"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:

Off the freeway came a 'soccer mom with a phone and mind merged.
She came to the underpass and one handed the wheel of her large large SUV.

She cut early and took 3 lanes wide - two going the other way (where I would
have been). She was coming off the freeway a bit fast and one handed
the wheel. That keeps me from jumping to fill an open slot on that
underpass.



Tonight I'm taking the back way home with a suv on my arse, I crest a bad hill and find a
tractor and hay wagon across the roadway. I'm glad I wasn't in a hurry, I might not have
made it.


Had you been going really fast (airborne) you could have knocked all
the hay off his wagon and kept right on going. That'd teach the SOB.
titter

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