Welcome to the Super Bowl

[Doug Novelly]

Ken,
Thats about the funiest thing I've ever read.

Doug

[Dennis C]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Doug Novelly
	Ken, Thats about the funiest thing I've ever read. Doug

The scariest part is that ....it's true

[Boulder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Doug Novelly
	Ken, Thats about the funiest thing I've ever read. Doug

Like Dennis said, it's a shame how true it is

[Doug Novelly]

Yah, I never did understand the arches over telegraph. Everytime I went to the airport we passed those things.

Doug

[bodywerks]

So, then, these Colorado Natives I live with would be like goldfish in a pond full of Piranahs. Here, they think "Yield" ALWAYS means "Stop", 55 means 40, if their turn signal goes out while they're driving, they pull over and call Triple A to have their car towed, if the light is already green before they get to the intersection, they slow down as though they're sure it will turn yellow soon, and when it goes green again they interpret it as a suggestion to go ahead and start moving - they often look as though they are waiting for the light to get greener!

[Boulder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by bodywerks
	So, then, these Colorado Natives I live with would be like goldfish in a pond full of Piranahs. Here, they think "Yield" ALWAYS means "Stop", 55 means 40, if their turn signal goes out while they're driving, they pull over and call Triple A to have their car towed, if the light is already green before they get to the intersection, they slow down as though they're sure it will turn yellow soon, and when it goes green again they interpret it as a suggestion to go ahead and start moving - they often look as though they are waiting for the light to get greener!

Yep, they would be TOAST!!!!!

In all fairness, though, we have some of "them" here also. Always watch out for the old man with a hat

[bodywerks]

Problem here is it's a military town, so you have other driving styles to deal with. To me, being from California, Yield means "find a way to squeeze in there", yellow means "GUN IT!", turn signals don't create the space I need to move over to - I do, so what's the point? At an intersection, I'm looking at cross-traffic's lights, so that when theirs turn yellow, I know to put my left foot on the break, right foot on the gas, and stall the torque converter and try to get that perfect "400" light (drag racing thing)! Oh, and speed limits are only for when my radar detector says "slow down, dude - five-o up ahead"...

[Dennis C]

	Quote: Originally Posted by bodywerks
	So, then, these Colorado Natives I live with would be like goldfish in a pond full of Piranahs. Here, they think "Yield" ALWAYS means "Stop", 55 means 40, if their turn signal goes out while they're driving, they pull over and call Triple A to have their car towed, if the light is already green before they get to the intersection, they slow down as though they're sure it will turn yellow soon, and when it goes green again they interpret it as a suggestion to go ahead and start moving - they often look as though they are waiting for the light to get greener!

LOL.....That sounds like a retirement town

[bodywerks]

Pretty much. I literally see an accident almost every day here - I mean, people blatently turning left in front of someone or changing lanes and sideswiping the car next to them. Any time you see a rear-end collison, you can practically bet that it happened at a "Yield" sign, and the guy up front is a Colorado native that misinterpreted the sign, and the car behind is a Californian that knows what the sign really means and was looking back at the traffic he was about to merge with and ran into the Coloradan that stopped at the "yield" sign...

[wizard]

I have noticed that people respond in a strange manner in my area while driving on a highway with stoplights.

Red - they don't slow down because they think the light will turn green before they get there, then slam on their brakes when it doesn't.

green - they slow down because it might change before they get there.

Yellow - stomp the gas pedal to the floor to try to make it through before it turns red

[Kitman]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Torqued-Up
	Well, in deference to those folks from DEE-troit, I dare say driving in that city is akin to driving Miss Daisy compared to driving in Rome, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas, Manhattan, Tokyo and my all time favorite Hong Kong... I've had sooo many near-death experiences driving / riding overseas that anything this country has to throw at me ain't squat... Even though traffic in the US is bad at times, most drivers here will yield when facing imminent death... No so overseas... It's gonna be a great Super Bowl though... My money is on Seattle...

Hell Torqued, going the the store, get gas is a near-death experience in Detroit!!!!!!!

Kitman