So, last night I was walking Daphne. I decided we would go meet Sonja for dinner at her studio. Actually, it wasn’t Daphne’s idea . . . but she had no choice.
As we were walking down Pacific, I noticed this person trying to parallel park (trying being the optimum word). People parallel parking to me is always a comedy of errors.
Here’s something this person was doing (which I’ve seen people do before) which I just don’t understand. So this person is backing into the spot (right on the bumper of the car behind them), they hit the car behind them, and they never look forward to see there’s about four feet of room in front of them. Then as they continually hit the car behind them, pushing that car back, as they continue to try to parallel park.
I do have one rule of thumb when it comes to my own parallel parking. When I parallel park, I always look at the bumper of the car in front of me. If it’s all scratched up, then I find another spot. I don’t want to be the next victim of that bumper.
While we’re on the subject of driving, let’s talk about some obvious signs of interest while driving.
So, are you checking me out? C’mon now . . . Am I that hot that you’re checking me out?
Already you’ve flirted with me by honking your horn like a maniac. You’ve swerved to get away from me, but now as you’re passing me you are checking me out? What’s wrong with you?
So I got in front of you. So what? It’s because you were unapproachable to begin with, and it’s because you gave me enough room. I am not sure, though, what the purpose is of you slowing down and checking me out as you drive by me.
Why do we feel the need when someone cuts us off, to speed up and look them as we pass them? You know that they’re not looking at you, but yet we do it. I mean you’re not going to get the satisfaction you’re seeking.
Do you think that looking at them is going to change how thoughtful of a driver they are? I mean you can’t even see their eyes through their sunglasses. Highly unlikely, but yet we feel the need to do this over and over again.
So I have an idea. The next time you cut someone off and they give you a dirty look, simply flash a sign at them with “(your area code) f*^k-you” or with a smiley face and (310) fuc-kyou on it, because really you would want to f*^k them if you could . . . just in a different way.
You know what’s funny. If people slowed down when they found someone attractive, then this might actually work. So there’s something to be learned by cutting someone off.
oh those idiots the other day someone hit me and left me with no note why can’t they just follow simple advice.
This is so weird. A blogg about assholes that cut you off on the road the day after a big accedent happened on I-75 and 9mile sorta by my house in ferndale Michigan. And for the same reason, some jackass cutt of a GAS TRUCK, and it crashed and blew up. No one died tho.
Thank you for another great blog!
you know whats another funny thing, people are so serious when they are driving like they want to kill you LOL
I agree Leo there are so many nuts out there drivin:)g
OK i will admit David i am one of the worst driver when it comes to parallel parking, and one of the worst thing i have done is this one time, i was parking in downtown, man it was so hard to park, so i hit this car behind me, and when i try to get out i hit a car front of me, then tried to back up, i hit that same car again, i started to panic, so then i managed my car to get out, as soon as i got out, i hit this other car on the side that was passing by me, that guy came out, and i told him to pull over to another location since i didn’t want to be responsible for the other to two cars. Man that was a night mare LOL
what the hell John what were you thinking that was my fcukin.. car man!!!
i am just messing with you :”)
but your story is hysterical, and are you sure you have license?
i know man, i do have license lol
what were you thinking John LOL
This blog is just gets better each day, David has a gift of getting everyone to say the truth:)
I got to agree Dr.who that i like that blog is deep, and David never edit himself, and he sets a great example for everyone here!
John- gotta agree with everyone here that is a crazy story man thanks for sharing:)
i am gonna make sure i don’t park anywhere close to your car lol
yo CJ- getting ready for the nyc bootcamp?
you bet Jimmi i just can’t get enough of it, we will have a kickass weekend!
what city is your favorite for bootcamp?
i enjoy every city, but if i had to pick one it would be nyc- i think i have an emotional attachment to the city:)
is that b/c that’s where you first started????
it could be jimmi you are a clever guy:)
well wish you the best tomorrow some day I want to do a bootcamp with you, when I can save up some money.
Yes Jimmi bootcamp’s are amazing let me know when are ready, don’t wait too long to let life pass you by!!!!
Thanks CJ and i won’t take too long.
whatsup CJ where is KEN now days???
and also where is my ladies Marina and Sandra?
Dave
I like your introductory page of your blog…now I am going to read the blog.
Driving in Nashville isn’t any different…my story:
I can be sitting in a left turning lane and the light is not for me to go yet…Then a car will pull up behind me and blow their horn. I can see the traffic coming toward in the suicide lane. Then in my rear view mirror I will motion for them to go on. But when they do they think the suicide cars are stopped yeah right the green light starts and the person behind me went around and when they did the other cars started and almost hit them. I bet they will try that one again. Well come to find out the next the car behind me was driven by someone I work with. another story.
The Wal Mart I work for there is a buggy ramp that is level with the parking lot and also there is a MTA bus stop some damn idiot thinks it is part of the parking lot almost hit some of my co-workers when it jumped the curve when Metro (police) came out the person started to complain and the law officer told him that he was going to take him or to jail with serious charges. Then one day this car comes up and faces me while I was sitting there and I looked at the person next to me and say I hope they know how to drive that car. But before they did stopped and pull off the area of the buggy carts.
oops! take him home or to jail
Hello to all you guys. I’ve been reading all of the things that David posted and just was amazed. BUT I have a really big problem. Anyone who thinks they know the answer tell me. So it’s like this. David says this…. Wow it’s so obvious I get it. Another thing..I get it…and so on. But after the 10 thing I start forgeting what was the first few things I’ve learned. That really drags me down. If anyone know how can I solve this problem and remember all the things he tries to teach please tell me.
By the way I’m from easten europe so forgive me if my spelling mistakes. And David thanks for all the help!
Mike,
Start a journal with the tips and how they worked or did not work for you and reread it again and again. This is a great practice for yourself to write what is going on with you down.
Indeed but I can’t try it out so often . I’m not making excuses here is a different mentality I mean most women if you aproach them on the street for example they think your some kind of freak cause normaly those who do that here are a bunch of retards. That’s the reason I just can’t try on every woman a different aproach. When I’m alone I know the details..at least some of them. But when it comes to practice in real life I have my old happy attitude where I’m a bit like David says but I just talk a bit tooo much sometimes. The problem is that I do the talking thing with women that I’m atracted to and that kinda ’scares?’ them. But where I talk to women I’m not interested I realized after I had the perfect atitude and I connected to them. I want to have the same attitude when I talk to women I like but i just get to enthuziastic(sorry for the spelling). So…I have a problem there
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Btw thanks for answering I posted o question on another blog but nobody answered. It really means a lot just answering.
I read a sci-fi novel years ago about a civilization that decided NOT to build cars because they thought about it in advance and estimated that so-and-so many people would get killed by cars every year.
There are lots of frustrated people in this world and if you give them a car and allow them to drive with 200 KM/H or more (Germany), things REALLY get dangerous…