poopshovel wrote: ...5. At least one ladder in the middle of the highway.
Not to hijack, but I delivered for a construction company for a few years in the ATL back in the 90's. Especially on 285, anytime past 4, if it fell off the truck, it stayed. No way in hell I was gonna try and retrieve it.
Remember that the people in Florida for the winter are all the seniors. On a real Canadian highway, you'll actually see varying speeds instead of the cruise control lock-step in most extra-urban US driving - and the Dodge Caravan is the fastest vehicle on the road.
The cities here are making a killing using the redlight camera's and charging ppl with violation of the right turn on red IF you dont come to a complete stop at the intersection. $50 per violation.
poopshovel wrote:They do have a bit of a reputation as bad drivers and worse tippers.cwh said it all. Maybe doing 50mph in the berkeleying hammer lane in your goddamned minivan is how they roll in Canada. Maybe they're generally the "nicest" people in the world. But take a trip down the Florida turnpike in Oct/Nov, and then tell me what great, considerate drivers canadians are. Horrible...HORRIBLE tippers too. I worked at a golf course during the day and restaurant at night, so you'd get the double canadian winter tip whammy. Wanna see a bunch of waiters scatter like roaches? Say "Eh" in a South Florida restaurant. All that said, Atlanta sets the bar for mind-boggling, no turn signal using, no blind spot checking, entering a 70 MPH highway by blindly listing lazily to the left and expecting everyone else to swerve to avoid you drivers. And if you think downtown is bad, try white-knuckling it down I20E for 60 miles or so. I gaurantee you that you'll see: 1. A line of a dozen or more consecutive cars, with each driver texting. 2. A berkeleying Donk performing abso berkeleying lutely terrifying maneuvers going 20-30 mph over the speed limit. 3. Someone get rear-ended. 4. A korean hitting hundreds of reflectors in a row and not realizing/caring that he/she is not actually "in" a lane. 5. At least one ladder in the middle of the highway.
You've accurately described Chicago. Replace ladder with 5 gallon orange water cooler.
Nothing worse than a Canadian senior behind the wheel. Nothing. Not only are they bad, they're smug about holding you up, or not letting you in.
Gee, thanks for sending them down here for our entertainment.
It was either that or send them out to sea on the ice floes, and in the winter the ice floes don't drift off and melt. So Florida is the only humane option.
Lesley, I don't know about you, but I always cringe if I find myself behind one of those CAA 25-year stickers.
We get a lot of snowbirds down here in Chuck as well. Most of them cannot drive because they just don't understand common courtesy or have no idea of how to use a map to plan your trip before you leave.
The rest of them, it's because they can't see over the dash. It's scary to get behind a gigantic Caddy/Mercedes/Lincoln/etc piloted by what looks like two sets of knuckles without a head. 
Yeah, we call 'em floaters. The only thing that's even marginally as annoying... is the "baby on board" people.
Appleseed wrote:poopshovel wrote: 5. At least one ladder in the middle of the highway.You've accurately described Chicago. Replace ladder with 5 gallon orange water cooler.
I was driving on I-95 (Laurel MD) a few years ago and a whole berkeleying kids' playset bounced out of a F-150 and landed in the road. My lane.
Keith wrote: " - and the Dodge Caravan is the fastest vehicle on the road."
Me likes this one!
I'm driving a Grand Caravan this week. Last week it was a Miata. Sigh.
Vigo wrote:I was in Houston about 12 years ago at a conference. I get up it is 59 degrees F and sunnyHeh, but was it 95 degrees by noon? Actually, i forgot.. in Houston, Temperature in measured in degrees of Humidity
It only hit 85 - Nice Day!
shadetree30 wrote:Appleseed wrote:I was driving on I-95 (Laurel MD) a few years ago and a whole berkeleying kids' playset bounced out of a F-150 and landed in the road. My lane.poopshovel wrote: 5. At least one ladder in the middle of the highway.You've accurately described Chicago. Replace ladder with 5 gallon orange water cooler.
You don't know fun till you've sploded' a king sized box spring at speed.
Jensenman wrote: The rest of them, it's because they can't see over the dash. It's scary to get behind a gigantic Caddy/Mercedes/Lincoln/etc piloted by what looks like two sets of knuckles without a head.
It was one of those who pinned me between her land yacht and those 12in high things they call curbs down on Bayshore blvd. in Tampa on my old 900RR. I miss that bike....
Luckily, proper riding equipment kept the damage to me to, sore muscles and a bruised ego. If I would have been smart I would have just punched it, and got the hell outta dodge, instead of the OH @#$@#$ panic, hit the brakes, get the hell off the bike theory. Learned 2 new words that day...Object Fixation. It really does suck.
Lesley wrote: I'm driving a Grand Caravan this week. Last week it was a Miata. Sigh.
For all of my bragging about finally having driven the California PCH through Big Sur country (in a GC) on my holiday, I have to admit..at every corner, I thought, "Man, I wish I was in something else.."
"I feel your pain."
-William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the US.
I just spent a week in south DE. First thing I noticed , no one uses their directionals. On driving in Canada. In the '90's, I drove to some race tracks in Quebec. In the left left lane, as you came up behind someone, they would move to the right lane, let you buy, then move back in behind. All of this is at near 80mph. I thought, boy I like driving in Canada. Although if you saw a ratty looking K car parked on the side. It is not broken down. There always is a cruiser waiting just down the road.
PHeller wrote: Blinking green light?
this
Must be similar to milk in a bag (and not a carton/bottle).
As for nice drivers, I'm a commuter in RI and MA. I don't know what "nice drivers" means. 
Lesley wrote: Toyman, I live in Peterborough. Where are they leaving the boat?
I'm not sure. They are somewhere between two damns ? They are in a 35' trawler called Selah from Edisto Island, SC.
Probably Little Lake. It's right downtown, there are several docks. Or they could be on the canal system which leads into the lake.
shadetree30 wrote: I was driving on I-95 (Laurel MD) a few years ago and a whole berkeleying kids' playset bounced out of a F-150 and landed in the road. My lane.
I'm sorry, but that's hilarious.
Toyman01 wrote:Lesley wrote: Toyman, I live in Peterborough. Where are they leaving the boat?I'm not sure. They are somewhere between two damns ? They are in a 35' trawler called Selah from Edisto Island, SC.
A trawler? There ain't no shrimp up there.
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