Comments on: Anger management

By: bauke

bauke — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:56:30 +0000

I remember a few friends of mine that went to england, rented a car and had some trouble with driving on the left side. After a few days though they were used to it. Or so they thought, untill they took a roundabout the wrong way round…. :-)

No traffic, so it wasn’t that bad. It was just that they only realised it 2 meters up the road… :-)

By: Mig

Mig — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:08:48 +0000

I think I should repost this at http://lostintransit.org . Andy, I found Irish drivers very polite in general, although the roads in the west *were* very fucking scary, narrow and lined with briars and stone walls, and the mad farmers and the dump trucks zooming out of the gravel quarry. And, ahem, the American tourists getting used to driving on the left side of the road. And the cows sticking their heads into the window of our car.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:29:06 +0000

Huh. We (in Ireland) are always being told that we have, like, the worst road-safety figures in the world. EVER.

It must be like that town that has “the highest concentration of bars in the whole-wide-world-even-including-that-place-in-Russia-where they-nurse-their-babies-on-vodka”. Y’know, that town that every country has.

By: Mig

Mig — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:05:25 +0000

Heh. I thought of you when I saw those statistics. I have my Austrian license (couldn’t just transfer my US license and had to attend expensive driver’s education classes for several weeks – after getting the license I wrecked two cars…). I’ve also given up the idea of getting a motorcycle license.

By: Bauke

Bauke — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:43:36 +0000

“lower than in Portugal (21)”

I know.

Portuguese drivers scare the shit out of me. Friday- and Saturdaynight are the worst, because besides driving like idiots, portuguese people also like their wine and afterdinner alcohol.

I’m getting my driverslicense here. (SCARY!)

A few years back I was thinking of getting my Motorcycle license too, but I’ll never, ever go for it in Portugal.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:26:08 +0000

Wow, that’s really something. I thought Phoenix was bad, with their 10 per 100,000 or whatever it is this year. I wonder what the drivers-per-capita numbers are like in each of those countries. (In Phoenix, it’s probably 1:2 like the rest of the country – except for San Francisco, Chicago, and New York where it’s more like 1:100.)

By: Mig

Mig — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:19:04 +0000

I drove delivery truck a couple summers and try to be nice to truck drivers etc. I figure they’re just working men doing a job. Of course there are exceptions.

Joeri, that’s a very funny animation. It reminds me a lot of Austrian drivers, though. Or maybe Viennese drivers. Viennese drivers of Mercedes, to limit it to the most hated group of drivers in Austria.

I suspect Italians would drive like that, but haven’t witnessed it in Austria – maybe the visiting Italians are on their best behavior; maybe it just doesn’t stand out. Maybe it’s a southern Italian thing.

By: joeri

joeri — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:11:00 +0000

Have you seen the Italians ? ;) http://www.websitehunter.com/euro-taly/

By: chris

chris — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:00:02 +0000

Here in the U.S. for about five minutes in the ’80s it was all the rage to carry little flip-signs you could hold up and show to people in other cars with pre-printed messages on them, i.e.: ‘Your Driving Sucks’, ‘How long were you in prison?’, ‘Madonna In Trunk’, etc.. I think its popularity waned when a few times the response turned to gunplay though…

By: peggy

peggy — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:04:06 +0000

I once gave the driver of an 18-wheeler the finger, for driving one inch behind my bumper, both of us doing 70.
What a mistake. Imagine my relief, when an exit ramp finally offered itself to me, the almost-crushed-like-a-bug motorist. My poor little car that never knew it could do 90 was happy, too.