The one problem I have with rain is that it turns the normally aggressive morning commuters
into mincing, prancing, dancing, tip-toeing little fairies. Best not drive through a puddle, the engine might explode! No, no it won't. What will happen is the precise sum of fuck all. You'd have to be driving through two foot's worth of water to risk that and if that was happening you'd have more immediate problems as you'd be driving along the bottom of a fucking river having mistaken your car for a boat.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:11, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

My friend was on a driving lesson when they came upon a huge puddle in the road
The driving instructor told her to drive through, turned out the puddle was quite a lot deeper than he thought, by the time the car had been removed from said puddle it was officially a write off. Mwhahahaha!
( Peej, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:13, Reply)

It's almost as if most driving instructors haven't got a fucking clue what they're doing.
Who would have thought it, eh?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:15, Reply)

I did my driving test*
in a downpour of biblical proportions. I did manage to slow right down before a massive puddle, but only because there were people standing on the pavement next to it. And contrary to popular opinion, I'm not that much of a cunt.

*the one I actually passed
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:18, Reply)

See, I can understand it if you don't know the road
and so have no idea if there's a pot hole under that puddle. That's acceptable. Starting a traffic jam because you've stopped to wait for oncoming traffic to pass so that you can drive around an inch-deep puddle is the action of a bender.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:19, Reply)

It's almost as if most drivers haven't got a fucking clue what they're doing.
Who would have thought it, eh?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:23, Reply)

Most drivers haven't the most basic idea of how a car works.
I'm sure if most people knew that the areas most at risk of water damage are the air filter and the alternator and that those things were two feet or more off the ground and protected by an undertray, they may not be such mincers.

Nobody fucking cares though, and so they get in my way.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)