DWS - Am I really the first to say Driving While Stoned? A serious concern now in the Washington DC area.
Can also be Driving While Suicidal, which applies mostly to motorcyclists who weave in and out of traffic.
I posted this a number of years ago when it happened. My car was parked at the local mall while I was in the drugstore. When I came out another car was nosed into the driver’s side of mine. Suspecting that someone had drunk parked (the drugstore had an LCBO liquor outlet on one side and a Beer Store outlet on the other), I called the police.
A few minutes later the police arrived and were looking around when a woman wandered over and stood there staring. One of the cops asked her if she was the owner of the other car and she said, “Yes, but I didn’t leave it there.” It turned out she had forgotten to put it in Park, and there was just enough slope to the near-empty parking lot that it had slowly rolled in a gentle curve until stopped by my car. No damage other than an almost invisible dent in the plastic trim strip on my driver’s door.
I suspect the one cop’s question after she left “So, should I write this up as driving without a brain?” was due to her obvious bewilderment over the incident and apparent inability to comprehend how it could have happened.
DWBOBSBNDLYHABOB
Driving with “Baby on Board” Sticker But Not Driving Like You Have A Baby on Board.
DWHAA: Driving While Having An Aneurysm - One of those people while lets their road rage get to them from the very moment that they leave their driveway.
DWAIN: Driving While Accidentally Incorporating Navigation - Unpredictable slingshot manoeuvre across all three lanes caused by not paying attention to your GPS, or your partner shouting “IT’S THIS EXIT NOW NOW NOW” way too late.
DWB-Driving While Blind. What other reason could there be for not seeing the GIANT FLASHING ARROW indicating that one of the lanes is closed until the last minute, causing you to cut in front me so close that I have to slam on my breaks because SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER! the people in front of me are going the same speed I was?
This, and the closely related Junior Assisant Traffic Cop. Or DUMITIYJETL-Driving Under the Mistaken Impression That It’s Your Job to Enforce Traffic Laws. You know, the douche-canoes that occupy the passing lane at exactly the speed limit next to someone else moving at the same speed.
Oddball edit: this thread made me want to listen to Jimi Hendrix’s “Crosstown Traffic” but all I could find on youtube are covers and remixes. WTF is going on there?
There was a pretty big DWB on one of our local freeways yesterday. A trucker on southbound I-275 somehow didn’t notice the work truck with a big flashing arrow in front of him. After plowing obliviously into the truck, his rig ended up blocking all the southbound lanes of the freeway for several hours. Doofus trucker died, fortunately nobody else was hurt.
When I lived in California many years ago this one was a thing:
DLTLDATY - Driving like the laws don’t apply to you (always, always cops who were speeding, not using turn signals, cutting people off and other crappy driving practices, and yes they did this routinely when they weren’t running lights and sirens on a call. There were a few fatal accidents in the newspapers because of this)
And a relative description for the cops here in Virginia:
PPOITL - pulling people over in the traffic lane (come on, you’re a COP, you should bloody well know that stopping people IN A TRAFFIC LANE is extremely hazardous! Make the idiot pull over to a safe spot not blocking traffic!)
Sorry about the bad link. :o But your story is right on point. QE2 is known to be a badass driver and enjoys driving. She was, after all, an ambo driver during WWII. And we all know she has little time for a culture that says women can’t do things.
You are behind an idiot like my sister - one foot on gas, other on brake - always.
Eventually, the left foot will jerk and you see the classic ‘tap’.
DWTP - Driving With Testosterone Poisoning
Jacked-up pickup or “sporty” car with heavily modified, much louder exhaust. Tailgates, weaves from lane to lane (always cutting in close enough to force the person now behind him to brake), starts in with the horn the split-second the light changes, etc. Frequently also in possession of obnoxiously loud “thumpa-thumpa” mega-bass stereo, possibly worth more than the vehicle itself, that rattles the body panels of neighboring cars.
Marginally safer than DWGRH.
DLAR-Driving like a republican
DLAD-driving like a Democrat
:rolleyes:
AATH - Accident About To Happen.
Came over the radio a few years ago. Constable was following a very erratic Oriental female driver. Very common occurance in that city.