Stopping a full car length behind the car ahead at stoplight….
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I’m mostly a proponent of this. Why?
First, if that car in front of you stalls, you have room to change lanes and go around it.
Most importantly, though, if I find it necessary to ram into them, it gives me a bit of room to get a little speed going.
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I should have provided an example. Let’s say that I pull up to a stop light and don’t immediately notice that @CowboyUp is in front of me in his Prius. Hell, I don’t even realize it’s Cup until I see the “I’m with her” and Harris/Walz bumper stickers.
Well shit, bro. You’re not gonna need much of a run at that point. But every extra foot is gonna count.
Make more sense now?
Well shit, bro. You’re not gonna need much of a run at that point. But every extra foot is gonna count.
Make more sense now?
lol. I like it.
Plus, I’m jealous of the Wyoming thing. Anyway….
I take issue with it when I’m in a hurry and sometimes some ole sumbitch in their Harris/Walz/Cockholster special is on their phone just a text assin and twitch assin with their other Harris/Walz/Cockholster special drivers/friends/salami hider contenders…then *GASP*….the light changes….and instead of seeing it, this ole LBJ-QT-Butthole surfer has their head buried into a full on message about sammiches and bottom tales, and doesn’t go. When they finally get done typing their favorite flavor of edible dildo, the light has changed and now I’m stuck behind them like their buddy Billy. At the light. It’s maddening.
More often than not there’s a whole slew of these butt spelunkers and instead of 4-5 cars being able to go through the light that has the shortest duration green, only about 2-3 can go, so it just increases time stuck being Billy Behind.
All the gigglin Harris stuff aside, I don’t see the point in such practices when traffic is tight and there’s no way anyone is gonna be able to dart left or right anyway. Just suck up to the car in front of ya, keep your eyes off your phone and away from Billy’s package and pay attention, when you sense movement….push that little pedal on the right and enjoy the symphony under the hood…or, in the case of Billy Behind/Dildo muncher/Butt Pirate, smile gently at the sound of a whirring blender sound, and say a prayer that the batteries don’t run out….
But, that’s just my own opinion, I’m old school and remember when people peeled out at stop lights while listening to Billy Squire, and felt manly about it…..🤣
Plus, I’m jealous of the Wyoming thing. Anyway….
I take issue with it when I’m in a hurry and sometimes some ole sumbitch in their Harris/Walz/Cockholster special is on their phone just a text assin and twitch assin with their other Harris/Walz/Cockholster special drivers/friends/salami hider contenders…then *GASP*….the light changes….and instead of seeing it, this ole LBJ-QT-Butthole surfer has their head buried into a full on message about sammiches and bottom tales, and doesn’t go. When they finally get done typing their favorite flavor of edible dildo, the light has changed and now I’m stuck behind them like their buddy Billy. At the light. It’s maddening.
More often than not there’s a whole slew of these butt spelunkers and instead of 4-5 cars being able to go through the light that has the shortest duration green, only about 2-3 can go, so it just increases time stuck being Billy Behind.
All the gigglin Harris stuff aside, I don’t see the point in such practices when traffic is tight and there’s no way anyone is gonna be able to dart left or right anyway. Just suck up to the car in front of ya, keep your eyes off your phone and away from Billy’s package and pay attention, when you sense movement….push that little pedal on the right and enjoy the symphony under the hood…or, in the case of Billy Behind/Dildo muncher/Butt Pirate, smile gently at the sound of a whirring blender sound, and say a prayer that the batteries don’t run out….
But, that’s just my own opinion, I’m old school and remember when people peeled out at stop lights while listening to Billy Squire, and felt manly about it…..🤣
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Omgosh I was not ready for all that! But I do enjoy giving Cup a little hell every now and again. Call it a character flaw, but I can’t help myself.
Wyoming has its strong points. Lots of open spaces, mountains, wildlife. I sold one of my neighbors some hay and now the elk have discovered it and are raiding her haystack. Elk are cool, but losing your hay supply isn’t. Neighbor is going to have to get better fencing. My wife spotted about 100 head on the ridge above neighbor’s place yesterday.
Three of the seasons are just perfect. And then comes winter. It’s long. It’s going to snow for the next few days. It’s been below zero several nights already. It snows off and on, but it doesn’t melt off. It just piles up. I can count on a minimum of 2.5 feet accumulation over the winter. Couple of years ago it was 4 feet.
Overall, I’m glad to be here. But it’s not for everybody.
I see that Stillwater is supposed to be 60 today. I miss that sort of thing.
Wyoming has its strong points. Lots of open spaces, mountains, wildlife. I sold one of my neighbors some hay and now the elk have discovered it and are raiding her haystack. Elk are cool, but losing your hay supply isn’t. Neighbor is going to have to get better fencing. My wife spotted about 100 head on the ridge above neighbor’s place yesterday.
Three of the seasons are just perfect. And then comes winter. It’s long. It’s going to snow for the next few days. It’s been below zero several nights already. It snows off and on, but it doesn’t melt off. It just piles up. I can count on a minimum of 2.5 feet accumulation over the winter. Couple of years ago it was 4 feet.
Overall, I’m glad to be here. But it’s not for everybody.
I see that Stillwater is supposed to be 60 today. I miss that sort of thing.
I think/wonder some of it is that CAFE and other factors has trended the population toward a preference for higher sitting SUVs and trucks with square-ish (not downward sloped) hoodlines that degrade forward visibility. Point being, if people (especially shorter drivers) in these vehicles stop at the point where they no longer see the tires of the car in front, they've left, as you said, an entire car length or more of space in front. I hate that it chokes off the turn lanes near the intersections.
