Another reason to hate other drivers
4 wheel drive is a great thing to have while driving in the snow, but there are two things you need to know first:
1. How to drive in 4WD and what it’s good for. 4WD does not give you 4 wheel stop on ice.
2. Just because you have 4WD, it doesn’t mean those idiots in their sports cars do. They’re the dangers. I’ll never forget driving home from Baltimore in a snowstorm a couple of years ago. I watched a helpless Corvette trying to make his way around a bend and getting nowhere fast. Even my pitiful little Kia Sportage made it around that bend…
And a quick request to everyone else who leaves their cars out when it snows: Before driving out of your driveway or off your street, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE clean the snow off your car. This means more than just a hole in the front of the windshield and a small section of the rear window. You know all that snow on top of your car? That stuff likes to freeze over in the course of time and go flying off the roof and directly at cars behind you on the road. So clean off your &*^% car, @$$hole. I don’t care how short you are or how tall your car is. There’s no excuse. If you don’t clean off that snow, you’re an ass.
Thanks. I feel much better now.
29. December 2002 at 18:27
When I read problems like this, it makes me appreciate living in the South so much more.
When it snows here once every year, the town just shuts down.
30. December 2002 at 18:11
Bravo, Augie!
Each time I’ve seen a chunk of snow or (…even worse) ice go flying off a moving vehicle, I’ve wondered where the driver’s brains were… besides up a narrow, winding organic tube, surrounded by soft, mushy, smelly “brown stuff” of their own making, that is!
Joe Torcivia (…vastly prefers winter to summer — except for driving!)