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Replying to: fintail (Jul 06, 2009 9:19 am) 
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Replying to: euphonium (Jul 06, 2009 11:24 am)
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Replying to: euphonium (Jul 06, 2009 11:24 am)  All the better reason to not drink anything while driving at all. Drinks are banned from my cars.
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I almost had someone in a Traiblazer try to take out my Intrepid and buy me a new car. They came up to a stop sign on my left. I had no stop sign. There was also nothing behind me, as far as the eye can see, so there was no pressing need for them to pull out. Well, they waited until I was almost upon them to pull out in an attempt to make a left turn in front of me. I hit the brakes and the horn at the same time, but it didn't seem like they were going to slow down or divert course. There was no way I was going to be able to stop in time, so I gunned it and swerved to the right as far as I could, but there was a curb over there and a stone wall just beyond that, so I wasn't about to sacrifice my car to avoid an impact with them. I squeezed through there so close that they must have missed me by inches. I actually readied for impact, leaning over to the right, and momentarily closing my eyes to shield them from the flying shards of glass I knew were coming. Thinking back on it, I guess it probably would've been better if I had t-boned them, rather than having them t-bone me, since they had the bigger vehicle. But, this would probably have been more of a 45 degree hit, rather than straight-on, so I don't know. Anyway, I'm just happy that I got through it unscathed, and my Intrepid lives to fight another day! Oh, guess I should mention that the driver was on a cell phone. 
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Not sure about the phone though. On a semi-residential road (more a through road, plenty of traffic, but does have houses on it). Dude in an older Voyager coming up a side street (ends at stop sign at my road) on my right. I started going for the brake, because he gave the impression he wasnt stopping. Now, if it was just me, I probably would have let him whack me, but my daughter was in the passenger seat, so that was a no go! (j/k, I think...). Anyway, he did stop (I thought) and I went by. Then noticed in my mirror that he just kinds slowed and came right out behind me. Which seemed to really tick off the dude in the ML350 that had to swerve into the oncoming traffic lane (thankfully empty) to avoid creaming him. My daughter was quite interested to see them driving side by side for a while, until the Merc' finally got past |
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Replying to: fintail (Jul 06, 2009 11:42 am)  Or how about them invisible trailers? You know...when that mini pickup has to get partly in the lane to his left when he makes his right turn? Whoa pal! You only had 4 feet from tire to curb! 
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