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#1963372 - 09/19/14 07:24 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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My perspective of CA drivers

When getting directions from anybody 5 minutes down the road and make a right can be anywhere from 1.5 min to 3 hours and a left.
When given the street name it will be wrong. True I have only been in the town that you live in for the past 25 years once but when I ask if I make a right at a certain bank and you say that there is not one of those banks in your town I will be correct.

They do drive better on the cellphone as it gives them less of an opportunity to purposely cut you off.

Mirrors are only for for makeup.

Turn signals haah
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#1963721 - 09/22/14 08:26 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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2. If you have Texas plates, you can only drive in the left lane

And a more general:
2b. If your plates have any state other than my own, you don't know how to drive, are a danger to all, and should go home.

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#1963745 - 09/22/14 09:04 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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What bothers me too is the local driving tax (speeding tickets) that we all have to pay, but only out-of-state. I know locally in many of these small communities, if you have an Oklahoma plate, you're not getting stopped....but if you have a Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, or Louisiana plate, you better watch out. I experience the same thing in places like Rice, Palmer, and Hutchens, Texas.
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#1963753 - 09/22/14 09:30 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Yes, I have paid my fair share of "driving taxes". laugh
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#1963755 - 09/22/14 09:39 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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I know some little towns that do not discriminate. But they especially love to get one of those oil company trucks. One little town near me is notorious for 2 things: watermelon and it's highway speed trap.

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#1963891 - 09/23/14 03:18 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Red light cameras, they are nothing but an income generating business! If you town has them, start a petition to have a referendum on them!
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#1963945 - 09/23/14 04:29 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting Pale Rider
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Originally Posted By: Pale Rider
Red light cameras, they are nothing but an income generating business! If you town has them, start a petition to have a referendum on them!


HaHa--my town is so small we have no stop lights!
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#1963965 - 09/23/14 04:57 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting JWills, CRCM
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Originally Posted By: JWills
Originally Posted By: Pale Rider
Red light cameras, they are nothing but an income generating business! If you town has them, start a petition to have a referendum on them!


HaHa--my town is so small we have no stop lights!


but how many stop light cameras? laugh
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#1963973 - 09/23/14 05:13 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting edAudit
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I'm guessing none
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#1963992 - 09/23/14 05:50 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting Peepers
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I'm guessing none


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#1963997 - 09/23/14 06:00 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting JWills, CRCM
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#1963999 - 09/23/14 06:06 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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#1964003 - 09/23/14 06:13 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Hey, my town is only 1 mile long. I don't they would even have a place to put a stop light, or a red light camera!!
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#1964036 - 09/23/14 06:57 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Same here JWills. We don't even have a stop sign on the main road.

In a town this size, red light cameras aren't needed. If you commit a traffic violation, 6 people will see you and will call you or the 1 cop in town or your mama to report you!

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#1964041 - 09/23/14 07:03 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Yes in my town, somebody else knows what you did before you even did it! I have always said that just because we have those nosey folks who think they know everyones business.
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#1964042 - 09/23/14 07:04 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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I'm telling your mama that you said that.
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#1964047 - 09/23/14 07:26 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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She probably already knows..........
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#1964049 - 09/23/14 07:31 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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In school, there was a town so small that they had a sign "Welcome to XXXville."

It said the same thing on both sides!

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#1964109 - 09/23/14 09:29 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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If it's not uncommon to see people riding horses down main street in your town, then you live in a small town.
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#1964112 - 09/23/14 09:36 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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My neighbor owns a rodeo stock contracting company. He has a bull that they saddle up and ride. I have seen him riding the bull down the road with his 2 kids on their horses. That's probably about as country as one can get.

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#1964126 - 09/23/14 09:56 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Running and riding everywhere ...
<<< has rode a horse through the drive through at McDonalds.
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#1965933 - 10/01/14 12:53 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
and this morning, i see a guy that is so fat driving he has his biscuits (yes, multiple) sitting on his upper belly as he drives...i guess that is his version of the table? he was leaning pretty far back, i can only think to prevent them from falling off. if it would have been lighter outside, i would have snapped a photo...
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#1965937 - 10/01/14 12:57 PM Re: What I've learned in 28 years of commuting HappyGilmore
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Sounds like quite the site, not one that I would care to see. Good thing you weren't taking a drink of coffee---I could just imagine it spewing all over your dash!
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