Amusing Tales From Traffic School

[blueerica]

I'm doing an online traffic school course, and one bit made me smile... Of course, there are little gems throughout, but this one made me think of Leno's Monday Headlines.


According to the California Highway Patrol, the following is a list of the top five types of distractions that result in collisions on California's highways:

Cell Phones
Using the radio or cd player
Children
Eating
Reading

Reading? I suppose... I did see someone full reading a newspaper while on the 405 in traffic once. But damn...

Anyone else see any bizarre road-time habits?

[wendybeth]

I knew a lady (an IRS agent no less) who traveled a great deal in her car for work. To entertain herself she would prop a romance novel on the steering wheel and read as she drove.

[scaeagles]

In AZ, a few miles from my home, there are the first speed cameras on a freeway. They do the usual radar check, snap the photo of the driver and license plate thing.

This has led to many amusing things.

One person had the passenger put a coat over their head while passing the cameras.

Another had modified their vehicle with a tremendously long steering column (and presumably gas and brake pedals as well) so that they could drive from the back seat, thereby avoiding having their image in the photo.

Many have taken to driving with masks on, though I suppose that doesn't necessarily increase danger.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

I always cringe when I see someone putting on eyeliner when driving. I don't like sharp objects near my eyes in the first place, much less in a moving vehicle.

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm thinking reading includes reading maps or MapQuest* directions...


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[scaeagles]

Would you stop distracting me with your ridiculous ad placement? How am I to concentrate on this thread?????:)

[Gemini Cricket]

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[cirquelover]

One of my old neighbors had a curling iron that plugged into the cigarette lighter. She said it was the only way to get her hair done and get to work on time! I said she needed to wake up earlier!
I think watching women put on makeup while driving is scary also.

[scaeagles]

I apologize. I'm a total sell out. :)

Well, you didn't get paid for that, so we'll call it art.

[scaeagles]

One of my old neighbors had a curling iron that plugged into the cigarette lighter.

They sell those with car adapters? Scary.

[Capt Jack]

theres a custom metallic sea foam green truck I still see running around my neighborhood from time to time. great looking truck...on the driver side that is. the passenger side is caved in from tail to the front wheel. and spray painted along the entire passenger side where some fantastic custom metallic green paint used to be is

'blonde with a cell phone'

[Mousey Girl]

\Reading? I suppose... I did see someone full reading a newspaper while on the 405 in traffic once. But damn...

Anyone else see any bizarre road-time habits?

We were zipping up the 99, right after I5 splinters off...on out way home from either DLR or USH when I noticed a guy in a Ranchero having issues staying in his own lane. When we finally passed him we could see that he was looking through a Camera Ads while going 70 on the freeway.

David used to be a diesel mechanic for a trucking company and every so often he had to take disposable cameras from the trucks in to be developed (the cameras were only to be used in case of accidents), some of the things he saw were shocking. these were taken by the truck driver, looking into other cars.

[katiesue]

This morning at a stoplight I look at the car next to me and the guy whips out a can of aresol hairspray and starts spraying his hair. Then I notice all the windows are up. Wouldn't the fumes kill you in an enclosed space? Wouldn't it get all over your windows?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I admit it.

I used to have an abominable drive to work - stop, crawl, stop. For 25 minutes solid - stop, crawl, stop. This was years ago.

Sometimes, I'd have a book on the passenger seat next to me.

It wasn't smart, and now that I'm older and slightly less stupid, I'd never do it again.

[innerSpaceman]

But she can't help it, folks .... she's a librarian!


And women doing make-up is child's play .... I've seen men shaving while driving. Yeah, that's what I want, a blade at my throat when I have to avoid hitting the car in front of me!

[jdramj]

And women doing make-up is child's play .... I've seen men shaving while driving. Yeah, that's what I want, a blade at my throat when I have to avoid hitting the car in front of me!

OMG! My DH does this. It pisses me off and it leaves a whisker mess:mad: :mad: :mad: I took the shaver out of the car and he actually got mad at me. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[€uroMeinke]

I have witnessed certain sex acts while driving

[Not Afraid]

Witness, huh?