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boating rant.
Went boating and fishing at Lake San Antonio for a few days. Is near San
Luis Obispo, Ca. A few striper boils (striped bass feeding frenzies) but rain and a cold front that arrived when I did shut down most of the bites. But nice lake, lots of deer running around and one wild boar seen at night. Wild pig hunting allowed on Fort Hunter Liggett next door. My rant is butthead drivers on the road. Enter the freeway at 45 mph and decide to speed up after they have merged on to the highway and maybe even in to the next lane. 65-70 mph limit roads and I am required to tow 55 mph. Can't a frigg'n Bimmer or Mercedes decide they do not have the ultimate right of way and merge in to the freeway at freeway speeds? We have nice long onramps here in California. |
boating rant.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:24:19 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote: Went boating and fishing at Lake San Antonio for a few days. Is near San Luis Obispo, Ca. A few striper boils (striped bass feeding frenzies) but rain and a cold front that arrived when I did shut down most of the bites. But nice lake, lots of deer running around and one wild boar seen at night. Wild pig hunting allowed on Fort Hunter Liggett next door. My rant is butthead drivers on the road. Enter the freeway at 45 mph and decide to speed up after they have merged on to the highway and maybe even in to the next lane. 65-70 mph limit roads and I am required to tow 55 mph. Can't a frigg'n Bimmer or Mercedes decide they do not have the ultimate right of way and merge in to the freeway at freeway speeds? We have nice long onramps here in California. ========== Even after 60 years of limited access highways there are still a lot of people who do not know how to do a clean merge into moving traffic. It should be part of the test for a driver's license in my opinion. |
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On 10/10/2011 5:23 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:24:19 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: Went boating and fishing at Lake San Antonio for a few days. Is near San Luis Obispo, Ca. A few striper boils (striped bass feeding frenzies) but rain and a cold front that arrived when I did shut down most of the bites. But nice lake, lots of deer running around and one wild boar seen at night. Wild pig hunting allowed on Fort Hunter Liggett next door. My rant is butthead drivers on the road. Enter the freeway at 45 mph and decide to speed up after they have merged on to the highway and maybe even in to the next lane. 65-70 mph limit roads and I am required to tow 55 mph. Can't a frigg'n Bimmer or Mercedes decide they do not have the ultimate right of way and merge in to the freeway at freeway speeds? We have nice long onramps here in California. ========== Even after 60 years of limited access highways there are still a lot of people who do not know how to do a clean merge into moving traffic. It should be part of the test for a driver's license in my opinion. Agreed, but it isn't always the persons fault in a merge lane. You can get those idiots that see you moving for the gap on a clean merge and then they gun it to close the gap....like the narcissistic self import SOBs they are. Some cities and regions worse than others. -- Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs. But we have big huge government we can't afford... -- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude |
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On Oct 11, 9:49*am, JustWait wrote:
On 10/11/2011 1:32 AM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:23:49 -0400, Wayne B *wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:24:19 -0700, "Califbill" *wrote: Went boating and fishing at Lake San Antonio for a few days. *Is near San Luis Obispo, Ca. *A few striper boils (striped bass feeding frenzies) but rain and a cold front that arrived when I did shut down most of the bites. But nice lake, lots of deer running around and one wild boar seen at night. Wild pig hunting allowed on Fort Hunter Liggett next door. *My rant is butthead drivers on the road. *Enter the freeway at 45 mph and decide to speed up after they have merged on to the highway and maybe even in to the next lane. *65-70 mph limit roads and I am required to tow 55 mph. *Can't a frigg'n Bimmer or Mercedes decide they do not have the ultimate right of way and merge in to the freeway at freeway speeds? *We have nice long onramps here in California. ========== Even after 60 years of limited access highways there are still a lot of people who do not know how to do a clean merge into moving traffic. It should be part of the test for a driver's license in my opinion. That was the only good thing I can say about Beltway traffic in the 70s and early 80s. People didn't have any trouble merging * ... unless we got some yokel from out of town. It was a thing of beauty watching some of those exits when you were coming off a hill where you get a good view, Cars were exiting and entering like cogs on a gear and all at 65-70. All it took was one guy to stop and "wait for an opening" *all hell broke loose tho. Something about folks here... They always speed up when they see you are trying to merge. I had a guy last week from Prime Plumbing in Newington CT. who was a total asshole. He saw I was in a hurry so he stuck his big deisel in front of me. So I went to pass and he came over. I went to the right and he pulled over again in front of me and squeezed me out for no other reason than, well I dunno' maybe he saw my pony tail and was trying to impress me, but he didn't know I don't roll that way;)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Honest mistake! |
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On 10/11/11 12:07 PM, North Star wrote:
On Oct 11, 9:49 am, wrote: On 10/11/2011 1:32 AM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:23:49 -0400, Wayne B wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:24:19 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: Went boating and fishing at Lake San Antonio for a few days. Is near San Luis Obispo, Ca. A few striper boils (striped bass feeding frenzies) but rain and a cold front that arrived when I did shut down most of the bites. But nice lake, lots of deer running around and one wild boar seen at night. Wild pig hunting allowed on Fort Hunter Liggett next door. My rant is butthead drivers on the road. Enter the freeway at 45 mph and decide to speed up after they have merged on to the highway and maybe even in to the next lane. 65-70 mph limit roads and I am required to tow 55 mph. Can't a frigg'n Bimmer or Mercedes decide they do not have the ultimate right of way and merge in to the freeway at freeway speeds? We have nice long onramps here in California. ========== Even after 60 years of limited access highways there are still a lot of people who do not know how to do a clean merge into moving traffic. It should be part of the test for a driver's license in my opinion. That was the only good thing I can say about Beltway traffic in the 70s and early 80s. People didn't have any trouble merging ... unless we got some yokel from out of town. It was a thing of beauty watching some of those exits when you were coming off a hill where you get a good view, Cars were exiting and entering like cogs on a gear and all at 65-70. All it took was one guy to stop and "wait for an opening" all hell broke loose tho. Something about folks here... They always speed up when they see you are trying to merge. I had a guy last week from Prime Plumbing in Newington CT. who was a total asshole. He saw I was in a hurry so he stuck his big deisel in front of me. So I went to pass and he came over. I went to the right and he pulled over again in front of me and squeezed me out for no other reason than, well I dunno' maybe he saw my pony tail and was trying to impress me, but he didn't know I don't roll that way;)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Honest mistake! Interesting choice of language, eh? "...total asshole..." "...stuck his big deisel (sic) in front of me..." "...he came over..." "...squeezed me out..." "...he saw my ponytail..." :) |
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On 10/11/11 12:33 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:19:46 -0400, wrote: In , says... On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:23:49 -0400, Wayne B wrote: Even after 60 years of limited access highways there are still a lot of people who do not know how to do a clean merge into moving traffic. It should be part of the test for a driver's license in my opinion. That was the only good thing I can say about Beltway traffic in the 70s and early 80s. People didn't have any trouble merging ... unless we got some yokel from out of town. It was a thing of beauty watching some of those exits when you were coming off a hill where you get a good view, Cars were exiting and entering like cogs on a gear and all at 65-70. All it took was one guy to stop and "wait for an opening" all hell broke loose tho. 65 MPH in bumper to bumper traffic scares the hell out of out-of- towners. Pussies Try that speed on some of the new ramps in the Springfield-Alexandria area, and you'll be in low earth orbit. |
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