Are you talking about the DD across from the Courthouse?
The area around CompUSA is designed specifically to remove pedestrians from this mortal coil.
DSotF- You have my sympathy. I have had more than my share of these. As a motorcycle rider I tend to look ahead into the parked cars in situations like these and if the is a head above the seat in the drivers side. I watch it veerry closely expecting this kind of stupidity. Seeing that the car is occupied and anticipating a dumb move has saved me more than a few times.
On the up side, this was so bad on you it probably made an impression for life. It may make you better at checking your mirrors before opening a door now that you will be exiting a car from the drivers side. That, along with looking into the cars and anticipating may in fact save you (or some dumbass) from real injury in the future.
I truely love a well turned phrase. Nicely put.
:smack:
Er, my dog’s name is Cosmo and, and…, oh fuck. My bad.
No biggie. It happens a lot on SDMB really. 
Yup. This is the honest-to-God truth. Also, driving is an extremely dangerous activity, that most people take completely for granted. My young driver near-miss was nearly killing a highway worker when he darted across the highway to go after his hat that was blown off by the wind. He was in an unmarked truck, no blinkers, no construction zone signs, no nothing, so I didn’t know what was going on, and he just ran out without looking. He looked at me sailing by in my car, about two feet from him, I looked at him turning white as a ghost and probably filling his drawers, and that’s when that lesson was driven home to me. Scared the crap out of me, too, to think how quickly and easily a car can kill.
Your task after having this experience - make every habit you develop for driving a good habit. Never, ever take shortcuts, especially once you get comfortable driving. Driving is far too dangerous to half-ass it.
For the record, the driver who flings their door open without looking is in the wrong here, too.
It’s kind of… indefinately wide. The-o-retically, ranges from six to eight-… sometimes ten, if you count the feeders.
This has little to no resemblance to how many cars may be driving on it in a column.
Big time, especially since said driver already obstructed the flow of traffic by double parking.
I don’t see much wiggle room for ambiguity about this rant, though Pitizens rarely fail to amaze for forensic cussedness. All-too-frequent idiots with death wishes still raise my blood pressure and lower my vocabulary noticeably, even after years of driving. So many of 'em still bumble around cluelessly because most of us don’t wanna be the ones to actually Darwinize them.
Don’t sweat it, DSotF. You did fine–and so did your Drivers’ Ed teacher, who probably was cussing a blue streak internally too.
Veb
Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t mind Darwinizing them (how nice, now it’s a verb), if it weren’t for the spike in insurance rates if I did so.
I meant that if you live in a place where people don’t double park, the term could take on a new meaning.
That’s how I originally learned it too…
but, I grew up (and learned to drive) in the suburbs, where parallel parking was virtually non-existant and it was all mall parking, either either head-in or angle-in. And the parking sin was taking up two spaces, instead of merely the one you’re entitled to.
I didn’t see double-parking as mentioned by the OP until I visited a much bigger, east coast city.
I teach defensive driving, I could just about do my job just driving around with students and saying “Dont drive like that” the entire time.
couple things
the stupid twit opened her door into traffic, afik this is illegal world wide.
you almost had yourself an assisted suicide, its completely normal for you to be really freaked out. I had a job where part of the description should have been “dont run over the suicidal dumbfucks you work with” after a few scares you get less freaked out, it always sucks though.
you and your instructor showed some nice restraint. the last time I had this kind of experience (some dumb bitch tries to kill herself with my moving car and talks shit to me) I called her a stupid festering cunt to her face. I pointed out the cross walk 15 ’ away, I pointed out the green light in my favor, I pointed out that its technically Leagal for me to run her stupid ass over after she walked out from behind a large truck directly infront of my car and no jurry in the world would convict me.
no I dont talk like that around my kids, but things like that make me wish I was a bit more homicidal. dipshits like that deserve a short life with a painful death…it would save the rest of us the agony of dealing with them.
If I overreacted, forgive me. But it seemed a lot of people misunderstood and attacked poster for being in the wrong.
If you park in a driving lane, expect a few choice words from me, and I can be more original than said driving instructor.
But as I said, if I am out of line, never be it said that I will not be the first to retract my “oopsie”.
Still think the lady was a cunt. :It’s MY road…drive around!: This sense of road entitilement is just horrid. And it seems expecially prevalent in CA. In the Midwest, people were polite, made room for you to merge, waved you through an intersection and generally went out of their way. When I get my license back in April, I am seriously doubting driving in CA. For that matter, I am seriously doubting staying in CA.
Inky
Having a **bad bad bad bad ** time of it, and not ashamed to admit it.
Excuse me, the OP was rather ambiguous as to who was doing the yelling. I think you need to read the OP again and tell me it couldn’t be taken both ways. The first response to this thread seems to have thought the same as I did.
What ambiguity? The OP clearly said that the instructor slammed on the brakes and that the parking offender was the one doing the yelling.
Monty, the OP does not clearly state who was doing the yelling.
I read this as saying the instructor slammed on the breaks and then yelled at DSotF. I thought DSotF was referring to her instructor as a goddamned whore for almost hitting “her” (the double-parked woman). The ambiguity is found in differentiating “the instructor” and “goddamned whore” as individual subjects.
I’m sorry…
I had no problem reading it as the OP intended the first time through (the door opener = “goddamned whore”), but looking over rorty’s post, I’ll now accept the fact that the second clause’s subject is ambiguous, if taken alone.
Given the closing sentence of the preceding paragraph, however,
it really takes a leap of logic to not equate "maggoty cuntdripping (lacks noun) with “goddamned whore”.
“[C]untdripping” is clearly a gerund there.
As I read it, the driving instructor did not use and “choice” words, just the nearly-road pizza woman exiting her car.