this morning on the drive into work, i see a VW Jetta driving towards me in the opposite lane, we’re both doing about 45…
i notice something’s hanging off the back quarter-panel of his car (passenger side), looks like a heavy cable or tube or something…
as he passes me, i glance in the rear-view mirror, he’s got the nozzle and hose of a GAS PUMP still stuck in his fuel filler door!, he’s blissfully driving away not even noticing the car’s “tail”, and the closest gas station is about 5 miles away, he had to have been driving like that for a while, completely oblivious**
bwahahaha…idiot
that goes down as one of the stranger things i’ve seen
**unless he was stealing gas and tried to make a quick getaway, not realizing that most gas stations have closed-circuit cameras and can pull up his licence plate and send the cops after him
wow, I thought that kind of thing only happened in the movies or urban legends.
Yesterday I saw a very old honda civic driving down the highway with a 5 gallon plastic bucket wedged between the front bumper and the road. I really can’t believe he didn’t hear the noise it must have been making.
“eh, it’ll eventually come out from under there. I’m in a hurry!”
That’s the same person who only wipes a 4" circle of snow off their front windshield to drive in the winter, neglecting all the other windows completely covered in snow and drive around blindly assuming “eh, it’ll eventually come off” because they’re too in a hurry to you know, be safe.
Don’t they sell those gas nozzle things as a novelty item?
My way to work yesterday:
Situation: two lanes turn left into two lanes. I’m in the left lane, and turn left into the left lane. Behind me, a guy from the right lane turns (a mistake) into the left lane forcing the guy in the left lane into oncoming traffic (of which there wasn’t any).
Anyway, instead of calmly resolving this, the guy who has crossed the double line tries to shoot in front of “mistake man”, behind me. Well, of course mistake man sees this as an affront to his masculinity and speeds up to my rear bumper so that the “double line” guy (still driving into oncoming traffic, of which there wasn’t any) can’t get in. Well, obviously, slowing down for double line guy and getting in behind mistake man would be an affront to HIS masculinity, so what’s he do?
Speeds up to pass me on the other side of the double line (who is quite secure with his masculinity so I let him go) so that now the line of traffic is “other guy – me – mistake man”.
This is a totally residential neighborhood, one with kids walking to bus stop at this hour.
Completely ridiculous behavior. I turned around and stared at mistake man just so he knows he’s ‘under the glare’.