[QUOTE=Lissa]
I don’t drink beer, and I don’t belch. I’m perfectly ladylike on the outside even while I’m swearing like a sailor in my head. (My husband works in a prison, so that’s how I learned to swear so inventively. I certainly don’t swear like that in company.)
Actually, I apologize for my former post. I forgot this wasn’t in the Pit.
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Don’t apologize. It made me develop an internet crush on you. Chicks who swear are hot, even if it isn’t out loud. 
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger]
One small problem: In a small town about 75 miles down the road, one single cop decided to “control” the flow of traffic. Which basically meant stopping it as often as possible for no apparent reason.
On the radio station where people were calling in to give reports of their traffic problems, I heard multiple threats against that cop that were more heartfelt than any I have ever heard before or since. And in the privacy of my car, I was adding to them.
**(The only good part was that as a result of that mess, they changed the traffic patterns the following year, so during the Katrina evacuation things were, if you can believe it, much improved, by all accounts.)
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Mama Tiger, whatever happened to that cop? Was he disciplined or rewarded by his superiors? Do you know if he’s still a police officer?
Bump.
I get madder at the people who slow down to gawk at accidents or stopped cars than I do at the ones who caused them. It’s a car, or maybe two cars, on the side of the road. We’ve all seen cars before- you’re seeing a lot of them in front of you and in your rearview mirror right now, dope. I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen cars pulled over to the side of the road before, too- walk down some city street where parallel parking is allowed, and you’ll see lots of them. So why do you feel like you have to slow down to take a look at what’s happening?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more interesting things to do at home or even at work than looking at stopped cars. Even cars that have been crunched in an accident. Get a life, stupid rubberneckers.
[QUOTE=Anne Neville]
I get madder at the people who slow down to gawk at accidents or stopped cars than I do at the ones who caused them. It’s a car, or maybe two cars, on the side of the road. We’ve all seen cars before- you’re seeing a lot of them in front of you and in your rearview mirror right now, dope. I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen cars pulled over to the side of the road before, too- walk down some city street where parallel parking is allowed, and you’ll see lots of them. So why do you feel like you have to slow down to take a look at what’s happening?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more interesting things to do at home or even at work than looking at stopped cars. Even cars that have been crunched in an accident. Get a life, stupid rubberneckers.
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I’ve always wondered how much of it is legitimate rubbernecking, and how much of it is just the wave effect of unhurt cars having to slow to avoid the hurt ones, then the cars behind them having to slow, and the cars behind them, but then the first cars get to speed away, etc. It always seems like there is very little rubber necking when I pass wrecks and such at night or on smaller streets, any time there are fewer cars.
Rambling thoughts.