MFFY du jour

"Dave" > wrote in news:1135122177.297832.233820
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

>
> DYM wrote:
>> "Dave" > wrote in
>> oups.com:
>>
>> >
>> > gpsman wrote:
>> >> necromancer wrote:
>> >> > This morning I'm heading north on a 2 lane blacktop doing about
60
>> >> > MPH (posted 55 zone) apporaching a curve. Closing in behind me is
>> >> > an older model Contour that passes me at a rather high speed (can
>> >> > hear his engine revving inspite of my closed windows, A/C blowing
>> >> > and Buffett blasting on the sound system) - on the curve - in a
>> >> > marked nopassing zone (double solid yellow centerline) - and
>> >> > southbound traffic approaching.
>> >>
>> >> > After passing me, this guy catches up to the car ahead of me
(about
>> >> > 1500 ft) and proceeds to ride his tail as the speed limit drops
to
>> >> > 45MPH - he couldn't pass that car due to oncomming traffic.
>> >> -----
>> >> You shouldn't be Slothin' around holding up traffic...
>> >>
>> >> You admit you saw him coming, why didn't you get out of his way?
>> >> Surely you don't expect us to believe the 85th percentile is 60 in
a
>> >> 55 zone?!
>> >>
>> >> You admit the nearest vehicle to your front was 1500 ft. distant,
why
>> >> were you holding him up? You have no right to block faster
traffic.
>> >> His passing manuever is your fault. Your slothness is dangerous,
you
>> >> could have caused a crash and killed both yourself and the other
>> >> driver. Strike the last; 60 isn't very fast. My bad.
>> >>
>> >> I hope you learned your lesson. Try to not be so MFFY yourself in
>> >> the future.
>> >> -----
>> >>
>> >> - gpsman
>> >
>> > You're becoming almost as pathetic as Judy.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Nah, he's just hitting too close to home.
>>
>> Doug
>
> So you're saying it's okay to pass in a no-passing zone? Or you're
> encouraging speeding? Or were you once again too stupid to read what
> you were arguing?
>
> Since you defend bad drivers so much, I'll have to assume you are one.
> That's really scary considering the size of a school bus.
>
> You're probably just like that MFFY I saw blocking an intersection
> today with his big yellow bus that just wouldn't fit through on a green
> light, or yellow light, or the first 40 seconds of the red light.
> Nevermind the ambulance that was delayed a good 40 seconds till the
> dymwit was able to move his precious bus out of the way.
>
> Of course, you probably think that a school bus avoiding delay is more
> important than gridlock laws, or just having some ****ing courtesy
> towards emergency vehicles.
>
> Dave
>
>

I saw gpsman's rant for sarcasim. And I'll bet you can't find one quote
of mine defending bad driving. May have some argument as to what bad
driving is, but I would never defend it.

BTW, not even an emergency vehicle/police is not exempt from passing me
with my reds on. Of course I'll do everthing I can to get them shut down
quickly. The situation has never occured as I plan my stops and I am well
aware of emergency vehilces in my area.

Doug

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:10:35 -0600,
(Matthew Russotto) wrote:

>I was behind one such Sloth with DV plates this morning. He was going
>about 35 in a 45, though erratically slowing down and speeding up. It was a
>tough choice whether to blast past him when I got a chance, because
>the idiot behind me was tailgating and I didn't think I should reward
>her by getting out of her way, but I figured she'd just tailgate the
>Sloth, and they deserved each other.

I was behind a similar moron today. Going very slow, until traffic
cleared and she had to speed up to prevent others from going around
her. Unfortunately for her, a superior driver (me) got around her and
came to almost a complete stop in front of her. Boy was she ****ed.

DYM wrote:

> >> Nah, he's just hitting too close to home.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
> > So you're saying it's okay to pass in a no-passing zone? Or you're
> > encouraging speeding? Or were you once again too stupid to read what
> > you were arguing?
> >
> > Since you defend bad drivers so much, I'll have to assume you are one.
> > That's really scary considering the size of a school bus.
> >
> > You're probably just like that MFFY I saw blocking an intersection
> > today with his big yellow bus that just wouldn't fit through on a green
> > light, or yellow light, or the first 40 seconds of the red light.
> > Nevermind the ambulance that was delayed a good 40 seconds till the
> > dymwit was able to move his precious bus out of the way.
> >
> > Of course, you probably think that a school bus avoiding delay is more
> > important than gridlock laws, or just having some ****ing courtesy
> > towards emergency vehicles.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
> I saw gpsman's rant for sarcasim. And I'll bet you can't find one quote
> of mine defending bad driving. May have some argument as to what bad
> driving is, but I would never defend it.

So because he posts a hypocritical rant for effect, that is so far off
base that it makes no sense you have to attack me? There is such a
thing as MFFY behavior, yet anytime someone brings it up you attack
them.

> BTW, not even an emergency vehicle/police is not exempt from passing me
> with my reds on. Of course I'll do everthing I can to get them shut down
> quickly. The situation has never occured as I plan my stops and I am well
> aware of emergency vehilces in my area.
>
> Doug

I must not have made it clear. This bus had no flashing lights on and
was making a left turn. It entered a very busy intersection with a
green light, but not enough space to get through the intersection. The
light they faced in the intersection went yellow. Still no space.
Red. Still no space. 40 seconds passed before he could move out of
the intersection.

The whole time he kept an ambulance that had lights and sirens on
coming at him waiting by blocking nearly the entire intersection. My
view of his ID # was blocked by a large pickup, or I'd have made sure
to log a call into SD Unified about this driver's actions.

Could the bus not have just stopped at the green until it had space to
get through the intersection? I see semis do it, I do it, are busses
immune to gridlock laws?

Dave

In article >,
DYM > wrote:
>
>BTW, not even an emergency vehicle/police is not exempt from passing me
>with my reds on.

You're in PA, right? Vehicle code Section 3105 says otherwise.
--
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

(Matthew Russotto) wrote in
:

> In article >,
> DYM > wrote:
>>
>>BTW, not even an emergency vehicle/police is not exempt from passing me
>>with my reds on.
>
> You're in PA, right? Vehicle code Section 3105 says otherwise.

My bad. I missed that one. I had bad information from one of our
instructors. I'll bring this up with him.

Thanks,
Doug

necromancer wrote:
> I don't know, do those handicapped plates give their holders some sense
> of MFFY entitlement that says they are perfectly OK to endanger others?

My theory is that a lot of them are now being issued for mental handicaps.

In article >,
John David Galt > wrote:
>necromancer wrote:
>> I don't know, do those handicapped plates give their holders some sense
>> of MFFY entitlement that says they are perfectly OK to endanger others?
>
>My theory is that a lot of them are now being issued for mental handicaps.

I think it's mostly moral handicaps. Though after my recent Philly
parking experience, I can understand. All the metered spots in a large
area are 2-hour parking... until 10pm. So if you arrive for a 7:30 pm
dinner reservation, where do you park? Garages are naturally full.
If you've got a handicapped placard, not only do you get an extra spot
every block, you get an hour's leeway on the meter.
--
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

As long as I'm posting MFFY tales, here's one that got me Monday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transp...condary04.html

-------------------------
A little too much ice on Crystal Mountain Boulevard, a little too much
downhill speed in the wrong place, and all of a sudden a 2001 Ford four-door
sedan found itself in a heap of trouble Monday.

And for nearly five hours into the evening, so were the hundreds of cars and
their occupants stuck behind it, either spun out themselves or unable to
pass on the narrow, twisting roadway leading from the ski resort 85 miles
southeast of Seattle.

---

Making matters nearly impossible Monday, some witnesses said, were the
downhill travelers who tried to beat the clog by going the wrong way in the
uphill lane.

These scofflaws soon found themselves with nowhere to go and wound up
blocking both lanes, preventing the Crystal Mountain sanding truck from
descending with its load -- and taxing the patience and tolerance of
everyone else, who sat hungry, cold and possibly as ticked off as Suzanne
Mager.

"I wonder why the road wasn't being sanded and patrolled as snow was falling
and the temp was in the sort-of-wet/sort-of-frozen zone," she said Tuesday
in a copy of the angry e-mail she fired off to Crystal's management.

"It was also curious to me that Crystal appeared to have no vehicle
preventing numbskulls from zipping past us to drive ahead of the line-up."

------------------------------
So those MFFYs unconvinced 500 cars...

As a passing note (weird entendre there), Crystal Mt. (who maintains the
Blvd) switched to calcium chloride de-icer several years ago and no longer
*has* a sander. Because the temperature was dropping below where de-icer is
effective, we were left with a layer of water on compact snow & ice. If
they had had a sander, they could have fixed things. MFFY profit motives at
work.

FloydR