Driving the countryside (2 Viewers)

[egg_]

I've been living in the sticks for 2 and a half years now and still have trouble with driving ... you're sharing the road with tractors, slow-driving oldsters who can hardly see, farm animals, wildlife, boy racers and pedestrians. And the roads themselves are bumpy, full of potholes and blind corners (especially at this time of year when the ditches are bursting with life) and often too narrow to allow two cars to pass each other.
It can be fairly hair-raising, even for a careful driver like myself. This morning a builder's lorry nearly reversed into me as I passed, his windows were so dirty he didn't seem to be able to see me

 

[shower another shower]

Yes, but its brilliant waving at everybody you pass.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

You need to inject some more recklesness into your driving arsenal.

 

[Pantone247]

Yes, but its brilliant waving at everybody you pass.

cooler again is the lifting of one finger off the steering wheel

cool, calm, just the right side of low key...

 

[MDR]

cooler again is the lifting of one finger off the steering wheel

cool, calm, just the right side of low key...

As a pedestrian I prefer the ZZ Top wave-through.

 

[Mitchum]

As a pedestrian I prefer the ZZ Top wave-through.

The Warren Ellis patented kiss-blowing/karate kick is what all the cool kids are doing.

 

[RSJ]

We'd a hiace years ago that we called the welly waver, as every time you passed someone in wellies, you were guaranteed a wave.

 

[Rachel666]

i totalled the car last week. hurray for the country roads! although it was more me mixing up brake and accelorate ...

 

[classic seanc]

I've been living in the sticks for 2 and a half years now and still have trouble with driving ... you're sharing the road with tractors, slow-driving oldsters who can hardly see, farm animals, wildlife, boy racers and pedestrians. And the roads themselves are bumpy, full of potholes and blind corners (especially at this time of year when the ditches are bursting with life) and often too narrow to allow two cars to pass each other.
It can be fairly hair-raising, even for a careful driver like myself. This morning a builder's lorry nearly reversed into me as I passed, his windows were so dirty he didn't seem to be able to see me

The secret to driving in the country, I’m told, is to look through gaps in the hedges at corners for anything that might be coming up ahead.

 

[wild_cat]

Those pot holes are fun if your sitting on top of a load of bails.

The young boggers have a new wave, its kinda like you cup your hand slightly and rise it like youve got your elbow to your wrist resting on top of the wheel. Rise it as soon as you see the reg of your friend coming, the keep it up till you go past.

 

[Diddles]

I like to drive the smaller country roads in second gear. It wrecks the car, but I enjoy the noise.

 

[therealjohnny]

I never thought going to work would be the highlight of my day but since I got my car I drive the twisty backroads of Kildare to work, all the while pretending I'm in the end credits of Sesame Street. These summer mornings when there's hardly anyone else on the road..i wish the drive wasn't so short



and work wasn't my destination

 

[La La]

driving down to kilcoole was always fun.

heaps of those soft humps in the road to go careering over

 

[Rachel666]

i nearly vomitted today when i got a lift from a boy in my class. he's not boy racer, he drives fairly confidendly but he was going too fast in all these windy country lanes in the black hole area of wicklow (roundwood) and he kept taking both hands of the steering wheel. oh jesus.

so has anyone ever been in a crash? did you find it hard to relax in cars after?