Another Day, Another Idiot Driver (Misc Thread for Stories)

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ClutchFork wrote: Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:58 am [quote=Rope-Pusher post_id=385878 time=1550689030 user_id=549
They covered them up and widened the roads years ago. The trees that used to touch to form a canopy above the road are long-gone as well. You have to go a lot further away from Detroit to find a Rue-Roll area in these modern times we live in.
I'll say! Detroit would be a great place to be from--far from! I think it might be rather nice in a small town like Ionia MI.

But if you really want to get Rue-Roll, go to Freeport Michigan. There it is like the Twilight Zone episode where the guy driving in a bad storm went back in time, but for the modern cars you would have no idea. There is not a single chain store there. Whole town barely covers a quarter section.
Freeport mi isn’t far from me in GR.

I haven’t been there tho cuz no car.
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Freeport - Isn't their local sports team known as "The Chugging Winos"?
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Rope-Pusher wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:29 pm
Freeport - Isn't their local sports team known as "The Chugging Winos"?
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There may be a few winos there. Think they have a bar--yes they do, the Shamrock Bar. But the town may be too small to actually have a sports team. I see two softball fields and that's it.
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ClutchFork wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:37 am
Rope-Pusher wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:29 pm
Freeport - Isn't their local sports team known as "The Chugging Winos"?
There may be a few winos there. Think they have a bar--yes they do, the Shamrock Bar. But the town may be too small to actually have a sports team. I see two softball fields and that's it.
was gonna say that sounds nicer than our freeport, but it really doesn't... :?
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potownrob wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:23 am
ClutchFork wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:37 am
Rope-Pusher wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:29 pm
Freeport - Isn't their local sports team known as "The Chugging Winos"?
There may be a few winos there. Think they have a bar--yes they do, the Shamrock Bar. But the town may be too small to actually have a sports team. I see two softball fields and that's it.
was gonna say that sounds nicer than our freeport, but it really doesn't... :?
If I were a wino, I'd consider moving there, Like "Hey, Free Port!"
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Rope-Pusher wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:17 pm
potownrob wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:23 am
ClutchFork wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:37 am

There may be a few winos there. Think they have a bar--yes they do, the Shamrock Bar. But the town may be too small to actually have a sports team. I see two softball fields and that's it.
was gonna say that sounds nicer than our freeport, but it really doesn't... :?
If I were a wino, I'd consider moving there, Like "Hey, Free Port!"
A dream world for the wino I guess. Just like Otis Campbell in Mayburry.

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Drive your Ford vehicle carefully....or Ford may sue you!

https://canada.autonews.com/retail/ford ... o-headline

Ford sues owner after he flips his vehicle.
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Rope-Pusher wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:23 pm Drive your Ford vehicle carefully....or Ford may sue you!

https://canada.autonews.com/retail/ford ... o-headline

Ford sues owner after he flips his vehicle.
"Ford charges the defendants with flipping a new GT model worth $690,800 and selling it for more than double that price within a few weeks."

Sounds to me like Ford mis-priced the cars. If the flipper can sell it for 1,381,600+, then it must be worth more than Ford says it is.

However, to me it is not worth much. Doesn't even have a proper transmission. Look at this:

"7-Speed, Dual Clutch Automated Manual Transmission with Sequential Shift Controls (Paddles)"

What kind of double talk is that? Automated Manual Transmission? Rubbish. Paddles? A canoe?

No thanks. I'll keep my beater S10 with a real manual transmisison.
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Sounds aboot right - keep in mind they never taught us how to negotiate these new-dangled-to-us roundabouts. Knot even shore they teach about it to the new drivers…

https://youtu.be/QOrrNM4md8c
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It's definitely still not in the Oklahoma driver manual. Maybe that's part of why so many make left turns by going clockwise.
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:shock: :o :cry: Never seen that before, at least knot in a roundabout. Seen cars heading the wrong way on regular roads though. Now that’s Shirley a sight for sore eyes.
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Pleae give me instructions for the easiest way through a roundabout, e.g. do I take a jacked up 4WD F350 with monster mudders and go straight through like as if it is a normal intersection?

Where did they get the idea for roundabouts? Aliens?
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ClutchFork wrote: Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:19 am Pleae give me instructions for the easiest way through a roundabout, e.g. do I take a jacked up 4WD F350 with monster mudders and go straight through like as if it is a normal intersection?

Where did they get the idea for roundabouts? Aliens?
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It was from NASA...they never drop straight in on a planet or moon. They always circle around a bit first.

...or was it from Navy pilots coming in for carrier landings.....No, I guess some of them would come straight in if they could. Same goes for planes landing on runways - they don't all circle round before landing.
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