The driver was doing what?!
#51
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I saw someone doing this when I was on tour near Sleepy Hollow, NY. Maybe it was the same guy.
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#53
No one said SLEEPING yet??!!
Mostly I see them sleeping at red lights. Red...green...red...green - car in center lane just idling - cars behind blowing horns, then giving up and going 'round. But once on an early AM weekend ride I glance in my helmet mirror and see this car coming up behind me STRADDLING the fog line. I am lined up perfectly with the hood ornament. I think I heard his wheels in the dirt first. Anyway, I hook a hard left into the next drivway - waaaaay up next to the house and watch this fellow get all John Deer on some hedges and landscaping before "coming to" and stopping.
Technically, most New Orleaneans do not go to sleep and wake up. We tend to pass-out and come-to.
Mostly I see them sleeping at red lights. Red...green...red...green - car in center lane just idling - cars behind blowing horns, then giving up and going 'round. But once on an early AM weekend ride I glance in my helmet mirror and see this car coming up behind me STRADDLING the fog line. I am lined up perfectly with the hood ornament. I think I heard his wheels in the dirt first. Anyway, I hook a hard left into the next drivway - waaaaay up next to the house and watch this fellow get all John Deer on some hedges and landscaping before "coming to" and stopping.
Technically, most New Orleaneans do not go to sleep and wake up. We tend to pass-out and come-to.
Last edited by JoeyBike; 05-05-09 at 11:13 AM.
#54
Riding to work one morning, about a block from my office, a car stopped next to me at a light. I glanced over through the open window and saw that the driver was smoking. Nothing too unusual about that, until I smelled WHAT he was smoking. I've got no problem with pot, but I don't know that I'd be tokin on my way to work. He pulled in to the office across the street from mine.
#56
While I was a passenger in a furniture truck I saw a guy eating a hoagie with his left hand while drinking a milk shake with his right. He steered with his big fat belly.
Item 2: While a passenger in my friend's car during a blizard, we were traveling in the middle lane of the interstate at about 35 mph, which was absolutely the fastest you could go w/o fishtailing. Suddenly an idiot driving a Camaro appeared in the left lane doing about 60 and fishtailing like crazy. He got about 50 yards ahead of us and went into a skid, straddling OUR LANE. Fortunately his frantic efforts to straighten out his car sent him into a snowdrift in the median. After we calmed down, we laughed at what a moron he was. 15 minutes later he passed us AGAIN!!!! I would pay serious money to find out EXACTLY where he was going!
Personal item. Someone asked if they saw sleepers. I WAS a sleeper....on my bike. No idea how I feel asleep while riding, but it WAS 5AM and dark. Woke up by a pothole and didn't crash. But I was WIDE AWAKE the rest of the comute!
Item 2: While a passenger in my friend's car during a blizard, we were traveling in the middle lane of the interstate at about 35 mph, which was absolutely the fastest you could go w/o fishtailing. Suddenly an idiot driving a Camaro appeared in the left lane doing about 60 and fishtailing like crazy. He got about 50 yards ahead of us and went into a skid, straddling OUR LANE. Fortunately his frantic efforts to straighten out his car sent him into a snowdrift in the median. After we calmed down, we laughed at what a moron he was. 15 minutes later he passed us AGAIN!!!! I would pay serious money to find out EXACTLY where he was going!
Personal item. Someone asked if they saw sleepers. I WAS a sleeper....on my bike. No idea how I feel asleep while riding, but it WAS 5AM and dark. Woke up by a pothole and didn't crash. But I was WIDE AWAKE the rest of the comute!






