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Tablefor5 · #1 09-12-2008, 09:23 AM

Ok, It is raining like crazy out today and it pisses me off how people drive in the rain. So how do you drive in the rain? I'm not talking about just a little drizzle...I'm talking about a damn rain! I nice downpour.

How do you drive in the rain?

1. I hate driving in the rain! Won't do it.
2. Bring it on Bitches! The rain doesn't scare me!!!
3. I'm normally the one pissing everyone off behind me b/c I drive so damn slow in the rain.
4. I actually enjoy driving in the rain.

**~~DSF Guest 6~~** · #2 09-12-2008, 09:38 AM

haha i fucking hate it!

Mrs.BlackCrypt · #3 09-12-2008, 09:39 AM

Here even a light drizzle is horrible for me because I get so pissed at the way people just can't seem to drive in the rain. Locals say it is because people on vacation leave their brains at home when they head here. Visitors think locals are just idiot drivers who are impatient with vacationers who don't know where they're going etc. I think it's both. I've seen driver's ed here. It scares me. Some people who have had local driver's ed do not know that it is perfectly legal to make a right turn on red unless there is a sign prohibiting it...or they're in Columbia where it's mostly illegal. A lot don't know U turns are legal unless there's a sign. Now, I don't expect visitors to know that, but I know it and I am a transplant so why don't people who took local driver's ed know the right laws? GRRR!

And don't get me going on snow. The one time we had more than a dusting of snow, I got behind a woman (I think, she was old and short and it looked like a car no one was driving from behind) doing 10 MPH. The roads were actually dry. But, she stuck to her 10 MPH. Needless to say, I passed her. People here are scared of snow though since we rarely see it. I learned to drive in snow.

deadinabottle · #4 09-12-2008, 09:56 AM

It doesn't bother me one bit to drive in the rain...however in Arizona, people freak out at the sight of rain and causes them to drive about 5mph

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goonarms · #5 09-12-2008, 10:46 AM

If I can still see its 60 for me... But if its so bad my visability is impared... fuck if I'm going to drive

tlock · #6 09-12-2008, 01:40 PM

doesnt bother me driving. i only get pissed off because some people dont know how to deal with it

ms. cellany · #7 09-12-2008, 03:24 PM

We get so much rain here that's it really doesn't bother me to drive in it. And luckily most people here are used to it so they do fine driving in it. Plus where I lived for 6 years before moving up here also got a ton of rain, so it's been a major part of my driving experience for quite awhile now.

abitskrewd · #8 09-13-2008, 02:00 PM

In NJ people suck at driving period. so the rain just makes it worse. i dont mind any driving conditions, except for ice....that kinda sucks...but as i said its a pain on a nice day here

beastley · #9 09-13-2008, 03:17 PM

it really depends on how much rain it is.

if it comes down where the wipers wont take care of anything, ill go really slow and put the blinkers on.

a normal rain is fine, but i will slow up a little(brakes arent as responsive) because i actually want to live the rest of my life.

i dont really feel the need to keep going really fast unless im in a rush.

Mr Handlebars · #10 09-13-2008, 06:49 PM

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No insult to you Heat, but ppl in Florida don't know how to drive in the rain. YOU drive what I feel is the right way to drive in FL. The roads down here sux. We have some of the highest Auto Ins. rates in the country.

Too many old ppl drive like snails in the rain because they never drove until they came to Fl. and kids drive like a bat out of Hell, because the old farts drive in the left lanes going 40 mph in the rain with their right hand blinkers on. Half the time the wife is screaming at the man to slow down and the rest of the time is just a tuft of blue hair just barely over the reaching the top of the steering wheeling. I keep waiting for a periscope to pop up.

Another problem here in Florida is constant road construction. It makes driving the rain treacherous. Add in no car inspection, so any junker can drive the roads. A light drizzle brings up the oil to the top of the surface making it a giant slick. It is more dangerous to drive in a light rain than a downpour.

Bottom line, when it rains, I try to stay home, not because I can't drive, but because Florida road's sux. When I do drive I drive just like Heat, except no blinkers. I'd rather go back to Jersey. It was safer to drive there that it is here.