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CITY DRIVING RULES APPROVED FOR REVISION

BIBBER

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Just to inform fellow BCF'ers today the TOP 10 DRIVING RULES FOR CITY DRIVING have been approved for revision as follows:

1) Turn signals are clues as to your next move. A real city driver never uses them.

2) Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you or the space will be filled in by somebody else, putting you in an even more dangerous situation.

3) The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.

4) Construction signs only tell you about road closures immediately after you pass the last available exit, but before the traffic begins to back up.

5) Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and apparently not enforceable in most metro areas.

6) Just because you're in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over, doesn't mean that the driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn't think he can go faster if he was in your spot.

7) It is mandatory to always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.

8) Learn to swerve abruptly. Cities are a great place to learn high-speed slalom driving thanks to state DOT's (Dept. of Transportation), which put potholes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.

9) It is now tradition for city drivers to honk their horns at cars that don't move the instant the light changes.

10) Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left and right and left again before proceeding, unless you have side impact airbags and good insurance.

REMEMBER it is the mission and duty of every city driver to get there first, by whatever means necessary.
 
BIBBER said:
9) It is now tradition for city drivers to honk their horns at cars that don't move the instant the light changes.[/b]

Bob Greene of the Chicago Tribune one said (approximately), "the shortest interval of time in the known universe is the time between a light turning green and a NYC cabbie honking his horn."
 
Whom ever wrote these has been driving on I-15 North bound between Salt Lake City and Farmington Utah between the hours of 3:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M.
Although there are no traffic lights on this stretch ALL of the rest deffinately apply here. You don`t dare leave a space between you and the next driver, if you do, some IDIOT will risk his/her life as well as yours and others to attain said space.

I drove my 33 1/2 Ft. M.H. through there at that time frame once, what a blood curteling experiance that was!

Not to mention the mad dash across four lanes of 70 + M.P.H. traffic to catch thier exit.
 
You must've been driving in Huntsville, AL lately!!
 
I was on the way to Connecticut and i think it was the I90 southbound I was doing about 20 over and I felt like I was going backwards, holy snappin scared the bejesus outta me
 
OK boys. Dale is the guy who has to drive in Puerto Rico everyday and ask Ben, Them folks is "CRAZY".
Makes the rest of the Americas a picnic.
Dave
 
AweMan said:
Whom ever wrote these has been driving on I-15 North bound between Salt Lake City and Farmington Utah between the hours of 3:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M.

I used to do that commute every day (Ogden - Salt Lake), often on a motorcycle. So true!
 
You forgot on a two lane road, the mandatory three wide drag for the green light.

Driving blocks on the right shoulder and passing everyone is okay, if and only if eventually you will be making a right hand turn.

And also in NYC, it is okay to make a right on red as long as you slow down first (and of course drive a few blocks on the shoulder while proceeding).

OH, Yes and when you do get on a three wide parkway, always hit the left lane as soon as possible, because that is the only place to be.

Driving on Zebra's (cross hatched lanes is okay as long as you have illegal limo tint).

Sorry, I can't give anymore of our secrets out.
 
The most used item on a car in NYC is the horn. They wear out faster than tires. I think their considering giving a 20,000 mile warranty on new horns. The insurance companies have probably eliminated them from their list of replacement parts. I heard that the first thing a New Yorker does when entering their car is toot the horn. They can't drive if it doesn't work! Beep, Beep! Honk, Honk!
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I recently had a guy in a BMW try to turn a single lane into two lanes at a stop sign. I got irked when I saw him attempt to pass me on the inside, matched his speed, and gave him NO WHERE to go until he had to stop because of the parked cars at the end of the intersection....
 
My kinda guy, Rob.

"No quarter given" for that kind of arrogance (or stupidity). /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
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