Friday night topic

Just a wee bit of a rant tonight. If you are easily offended you might wanna take your blankie and curl up in the fetal position and watch TV.

So, the weather guy predicted snow a few days ago. How much, he didn’t know he just knew it would snow. And it is, so kudo’s to him. So all the transplants to Minnesota where it has snowed every year of my life, you had fair warning. You knew it would snow. You knew you don’t like driving in snow. You know you don’t know how to handle driving in snow. So, what do you do. You hop in your little itty bitty 2 cylinder car, find a 2 lane hiway and see how many cars you can get behind you while driving 30 mph in a 60 mph zone. The answer is nearly 30 including 5 big snowmobile trailers stretching ¾ mile behind you.

Now if this was you and you are reading this here are a few tips. If the cars are piling up behind you it’s ok to put your blinker on and get off the road until they are all past you. If the roadway is mostly dry it’s safe to drive the speed limit. If you can clearly see the centerline on the highway it’s safe to drive the speed limit. If you can see the fog line it’s safe to drive the speed limit. If you realized on the drive home you didn’t get your wife anything for Valentines Day it’s perfectly ok to pull off the road and sob a little bit , but at some point you will still need to go home. (BTW, I’ve seen bigger dandruff flakes then what the snowflakes falling were.)

Hope you all have a peaceful Valentines Day evening.

A few years ago i was driving down one of our very winding country roads that don’t give many opportunities to pass, following a vehicle going about half the speed i would have like to have gone. It was icy but this seemed pretty excessive.

At the next intersection the vehicle went into the right turn lane so I got to see the driver when I went straight. It looked to be a 16-year-old girl scared out of her mine. Kind of made me reflect on my own stupid selfish feelings and I’ve tried to have more respect and patience since.

I’m betting Sharron took Glenn’s money

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Did the Thursday night thread go haywire ?

Did someone say RAM?

Bearcat89 wrote:

Did the Thursday night thread go haywire ?

Not that I saw, was actually pretty chill. Seen worse threads about trucks.

fair warning

dirty movies

mean street

… iykyk

fins wrote:

Did someone say RAM?

Usually you do, you just have to control the temper this time around and no one will know.

“At the next intersection the vehicle went into the right turn lane so I got to see the driver when I went straight. It looked to be a 16-year-old girl scared out of her mine. Kind of made me reflect on my own stupid selfish feelings and I’ve tried to have more respect and patience since.”

This. I am as inpatient as the next guy but everyone has the same right to the road as we do. Disagree with seeing the center and fogline that it’s automatically ok to drive the speed limit. Often times the driving lanes become hardpacked (icy) from vehicle traffic yet the lines are clearly visible.

Not everyone has the experience or abilities that we may have driving in adverse conditions. If they rush and create and accident with many vehicles right behind them the possible pileup or delay will be much worse that just following them for awhile at a slower speed. Patience is a virtue.

I’m just as guilty as many when it comes to patience on the road. But the older I get the more I realize it’s just not worth the stress. Whether on the road, at the boat landing, or the grocery store, relax and enjoy the ride.

It is frustrating to be sure but I partially agree with Dutchy. Find a safe place and pull over and let the train of vehicles go by. I feel the same way with farm equipment. I know you have the right to use the highway but hogging it is not necessarily a good look. JMO

mxskeeter wrote:

It is frustrating to be sure but I partially agree with Dutchy. Find a safe place and pull over and let the train of vehicles go by. I feel the same way with farm equipment. I know you have the right to use the highway but hogging it is not necessarily a good look. JMO

1000% agree.

move over and let the others go by!!!!!!!!

Yeah, it’s frustrating but not much you can do.
I drove up Mt Lemmon in Tucson to see what’s up there. I don’t like roads that drop off into oblivion so in several places I was going much slower than the speed limit. There were several turnouts that I used to let traffic building up behind me pass. On the way down I did the same thing and was even passed by several bicyclists.

90% of the time I see these backups it’s a Prius out to save the Earth and impose their will on all the deplorables.

Joe Jarl wrote:

I’m just as guilty as many when it comes to patience on the road. But the older I get the more I realize it’s just not worth the stress. Whether on the road, at the boat landing, or the grocery store, relax and enjoy the ride.

Same. All it does is make your blood pressure go up unnecessarily. Better off trying to ignore it and then quickly forget about it.

I am w Dutch.
They are a hazard to the rest. I drive ALOT for my part time job (9 hrs day).
People are TERRIBLE drivers these days. Most of them have never lived in a place with snow………
You can hate on me but the vast percentage are not “native” and I leave it at that. AND they are on their phone, oblivious to the world around them. Have no idea what a blinker is and no situational awareness, roundabouts freak them out, 4 way stops are a challenge and the difference between a green light and green arrow are above their pay grade.

Umy wrote:

I am w Dutch.
They are a hazard to the rest. I drive ALOT for my part time job (9 hrs day).
People are TERRIBLE drivers these days. Most of them have never lived in a place with snow………
You can hate on me but the vast percentage are not “native” and I leave it at that. AND they are on their phone, oblivious to the world around them. Have no idea what a blinker is and no situational awareness, roundabouts freak them out, 4 way stops are a challenge and the difference between a green light and green arrow are above their pay grade.

You should leave it at that.

I just pass people if I want to drive faster

Dutchboy wrote:

If you can clearly see the centerline on the highway it’s safe to drive the speed limit. If you can see the fog line it’s safe to drive the speed limit.

You’ve clearly never driven on black ice before.

I always get a chuckle out of people riding my ass when I’m going the speed limit and they’re clearly getting worked up about it. If you need to be at your destination sooner so you’re driving like a maniac, you should have left sooner. Your lack of planning is not my emergency.

Also, just a reminder that the speed limit is the maximum limit. Not the minimum limit. So many drivers out there need to slow TF down.

I’ve driven on every color ice there is.

What chaps my ass is if you can only drive 40 in a 55 why in the hell do you have to floor it when I pass you?

Friday night on Hwy 18 Brainerd to Garrison, we were behind a plow truck for about 5 miles… there was a train forming. He pulled over in a safe spot and let us all go by and then went back it.

JEREMY wrote:

What chaps my ass is if you can only drive 40 in a 55 why in the hell do you have to floor it when I pass you?

EXACTLY!

It’s the same people who go slow on a 2 lane and when there’s a passing lane they speed up. What’s up with that?

Depending how bad the roads are I’ll settle in behind the plow truck. Coming back from LOW in a snow storm we were behind a plow truck heading towards Upper Red. Must have been from Lake of the Woods County. Shortly after he hit the Beltrami county line he turned around and headed back towards Baudette. The ride got very “interesting” after that until Squaw Lake where the snow stopped. Between Upper Red and Kelliher saw a few trucks and a truck and a wheel house in the ditch.

Netguy, I am not sure what it is, but that stretch of road always seems to be icier than heck.

Another icy stretch is the Avenue of the Pines from Northome to just south of Gosh Damn Place.

Netguy wrote:

Another icy stretch is the Avenue of the Pines from Northome to just south of Gosh Damn Place.

there ALL icy up that way!!!!!!

Relax and enjoy the ride x3-I would recommend satalite radio.

JEREMY wrote:

What chaps my ass is if you can only drive 40 in a 55 why in the hell do you have to floor it when I pass you?

Also, while passing a semi, they go .0000000000001 mph faster than the semi. So it only takes about 7 miles. Then as soon as they’re clear, it’s HAMMER DOWN!!!

I do have more patience these days after putting my kids out on the roads, my wife drives slower, and we all have a few older folks still driving in our family. I’d hate to think of someone berating one of them as they’re focused on driving safely. But I preach to all my kids to drive your best at a consistent pace, and if there are cars behind you, it’s never shameful to pull over and let them go.