How to Drive?

[1ofthem]

Can’t be as bad as this guy, and I’ve seen something similar like this on the highway, who keeps going is beyond me.

Had a motor blow a rod through the oil pan coming back from Atlanta, GA. We were in the far left lane. It was grid locked at about 85 or 90. Can't remember if it was 4 or 5 lanes of traffic. All I can remember is it filled the place with smoke and how my ex got it off the right shoulder, I don't even know, but he got it off the road.

Traffic like that is dangerous when you have a mechanical issue with a car.

 

[1ofthem]

What I cannot stand....absolutely fires me up....is when two get beside each other and run miles side by side because both are loaded and one will not speed up or cannot speed up in hills to over take the other one.......and the idiots will pull out to pass in an area where they cannot get by......

Yeah, I absolutely can't stand when they do that. Where I'm from it's coal trucks; they act like there running blocker for each other. You can't get around them and then a piece of coal falls off and cracks your windshield. Lost several good windshields due to this.

So if any truckers from coal country is reading.... Please stop this nonsense...and pass that on to a coworker. LOL

 

[JamOn]

Had a motor blow a rod through the oil pan coming back from Atlanta, GA. We were in the far left lane. It was grid locked at about 85 or 90. Can't remember if it was 4 or 5 lanes of traffic. All I can remember is it filled the place with smoke and how my ex got it off the right shoulder, I don't even know, but he got it off the road.

Traffic like that is dangerous when you have a mechanical issue with a car.

Gees I heard that, I had the same thing happen to me I left the truck on the side of the road towed to the junk yard lol. least your EX got it to the shoulder

 

[JamOn]

The above is a parody thats supposed to be funny / all in good fun..

I thought it was a good counter
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That was a good counter to funny.

 

[1ofthem]

Gees I heard that, I had the same thing happen to me I left the truck on the side of the road towed to the junk yard lol. least your EX got it to the shoulder

Yeah, good thing he got it off the road. If I was driving we would have probably gotten killed. I'm not used to that kind of traffic.

I wanted to leave it there too, but my uncle came the 3 or 4 hour trip to tow it back home. It was only like 3 years old and he said he couldn't see leaving it there...lol

 

[JamOn]

Yeah, good thing he got it off the road. If I was driving we would have probably gotten killed. I'm not used to that kind of traffic.

I wanted to leave it there too, but my uncle came the 3 or 4 hour trip to tow it back home. It was only like 3 years old and he said he couldn't see leaving it there...lol

i have driven in traffic since my learners permit lol. that’s good he took care of it.

 

[1ofthem]

i have driven in traffic since my learners permit lol. that’s good he took care of it.

I'm used to a 2 lane curvy road. Where I'm at...Bumper to bumper means you need to call your insurance agent because you just got hit...lol

 

[crossnote]

he agreed that the attitude our dear friend Ouliphant expressed can create dangerous traffic conditions, and encourage road rage and more dangerous behavior by frustrated drivers behind you,

My wife, who likes to poke on the freeway, will find a slow moving truck and camp out behind it.
OTOH, I like to move and will continually move into open lanes with plenty of space (if available).

 

[posthuman]

My wife, who likes to poke on the freeway, will find a slow moving truck and camp out behind it.
OTOH, I like to move and will continually move into open lanes with plenty of space (if available).

mythbusters did a segment about drafting behind trucks and demonstrated a really big increase in mpg.
the large box in front of you basically pushes the air out of the way, so behind it, your air resistance is greatly reduced.

i like to do that too; altho, some truckers get very annoyed if you're whatever they determine is 'too close'

in general i try to make as much space between me and the rest of the traffic as i can. i don't trust other drivers; i don't want to be near them when i can avoid it. but i tend to trust truckers more than any ordinary vehicle -- these people, driving is their profession; i figure, they're better at it than the average random anonymous car.

 

[tourist]

Looking at the OP, I never saw a parking lot move 55-90mph...but then again...Florida, where they go to court over 'hanging chads'

Yeah, there are always issues in the general election. )

 

[crossnote]

Yeah, there are always issues in the general election. )

Yes issues that nearly cost a centrist candidate his presidency. They do know how to count in Fla., no? LOL

 

[tourist]

Yes issues that nearly cost a centrist candidate his presidency. They do know how to count in Fla., no? LOL

Apparently not. They have to use their fingers and toes to calculate the results. Bush won the 2000 election by something like 500 votes. My family gave him about 10 of those votes. It was certainly true in this instance that every vote counts.

 

[JesusLives]

So if you observe the speed limit does this mean you are a Judaizing driver because it has been told to me if you believe we should try and keep God's law I am a Judaizer?

 

[p_rehbein]

Da Blond has a heavy foot so in this case I'd be a lawbreaker accused of being a Judaizer......go figure....something only a blond could do..... Tourist's words to me as I leave the house..... Don't speed.... My reply..... no more than normal.

 

[crossnote]

So if you observe the speed limit does this mean you are a Judaizing driver because it has been told to me if you believe we should try and keep God's law I am a Judaizer?

God's law is on thing and often man's law is another. Remember God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden (some say) in His 'Fury'.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Gen 3:24)

 

[ArtsieSteph]

Sadly when safety is the issue, you have to keep with the traffic. I would try my best to keep the closest to the speed limit as possible in the fast one, I usually always drive 5 over at all times so I'd make it in the 60mph bracket. I'd have to keep in the slow one how slow the traffic is going. You have no choice.

 

[p_rehbein]

At the ripe old age of 17, on a Friday night, getting off work at G.C. Murphy's, I headed home at a high rate of speed. 10PM, roads almost empty. State Police had a speed trap set up in the middle of nowhere! Got me doing 75 in a 65, and I got a ticket. $27.50. Back then, that was $3.oo less than a week's pay.

Since then, I drove a 10 speed Jimmy with Georgia Overdrive delivering carpets all over the South East......…..from 18 to 19 years old......about 15 months. Never sped, never got a ticket, AND was never late on any delivery. Never had an accident.

In the Military, I had an International Drivers License and drove all over 9 different Countries. Never sped. Never got a ticket, and never had an accident, and when one is talking about the Autobahn where there is no speed limit, I STILL did not impede traffic.

When I got out of the Military, several years later, I drove for a Lumber Yard, and delivered Lumber/Building Supplies all over North Alabama, South Tennessee and just into parts of Georgia and Mississippi. Did not speed. Never got a ticket, and never had an accident. Drove in some of the worst weather and some of the best........

52 years ago I got a speeding ticket.........STILL have not had one since. Have never had an accident, and I do not accept that safe, responsible, and a Christian approach to driving will not cause ANYONE to suffer some dire consequence.

Yeah, I know folks got all sorts of ways to justify habitual speeding...........folks got all sorts of ways to justify lots of things they do that they know can/will kill them. Does not make it right, or legal.

Is Gods Law different from Mans Law? Of course. However, Christ said to OBEY the Laws of Caesar, not pick and choose which ones we want to obey, and justify not obeying the others. Way I see it, if folks can justify breaking mans Law, they can justify breaking Gods law as well.

Y'all do what you want. I'll pray that any habitual speeders here do not get into an accident were they or someone else is seriously harmed OR killed. Because playing Russian Roulette is what they are doing......…..... And the consequences can be deadly!

 

[crossnote]

Is Gods Law different from Mans Law? Of course. However, Christ said to OBEY the Laws of Caesar, not pick and choose which ones we want to obey, and justify not obeying the others. Way I see it, if folks can justify breaking mans Law, they can justify breaking Gods law as well.

I think the question was asked, 'does keeping the speed limit make one a Judaizer?'
So I answered it accordingly.
Of course Rom 13:1 holds true regardless...

Romans 13:1 KJV
[1] Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

 

[Lanolin]

OP are you asking how to drive?
Drive safely.

Yes observe the speed limits. When you do so, everyone else will need to slow down to the pace you set which is the safe speed rather than you speed up to everyone else. Sure they may get annoyed being behind you and they cant over take but thats their problem not yours.

I think in life this can apply as well. You do not need to be in the rat race and get stressed out by what everyone else is doing that is sinning so that you fall in sinning with everyone else too. When mothers say if everyone jumped off the harbour bridge would you do so as well? They re really asking are you so weak you cant resist?

Practicing resistance and self control is hard for some people to learn. Everyone else is doing it! Is a common excuse.
But self control or temperence is essential for a christian. It is the fruit of the holy spirit, as is kindness. Dont forget it just because you in the drivers seat.

 

[Grandpa]

So if you observe the speed limit does this mean you are a Judaizing driver because it has been told to me if you believe we should try and keep God's law I am a Judaizer?

Only if you observe the speed limit in Israel. And apply it somewhere else.

If you observe the speed limit anywhere else you would just be a legalist.