I've never even been tempted to post about a driver here, but I'm still shaking my head at what I just saw about half an hour ago. There was at least one child in the van, and it appears that this woman might be other kids around.

A Gray/Silver Ford Econoline van with the VA "Children First" license plate "KHAL1D" almost caused an accident changing lanes without a signal on Edsall. The driver she narrowly missed honked, so she floored it, and cut him off a little further down. I was behind the second driver.

At Eisenhower and Van Dorn, she wasn't paying attention, and once all the other cars had pulled away he gave a pretty quick honk, and she took off up the hill toward Franconia.

Coming up the hill on Van Dorn just before the Comfort Inn, he signalled and shifted to the right, passing her. As he did, she almost hit him again (no turn signal), so he honked once more. She fell in just a foot or two behind him, and I was torn between laughing and bracing myself for the likely impact.

They both shifted to the left at about the same time, and she laid on the horn as if it were personal. I guess it did become personal then, because he "flicked her off". Not cool, really, but honestly, I had trouble blaming him - she was clearly a menace. She went apeshit at this point... she started honking as if her horn were a death-ray, and she could just make him disintegrate.

In the space of a next half mile, she must've made five or six lane changes through traffic, honking the whole time, trying to catch up with him. He stayed to the left (I was behind him again) and she kept honking, managing to get beside him briefly. I was wishing for a camera... I thought he was going to be shot.

She ended up dodging right again, and I think she made a right turn onto Franconia while he and I were in the left turn lane.

I've rarely seen anything of this magnitude, and never from a woman with a kid in the car. The van appeared to be outfitted as a bus, though I can't say that for sure. The rest of the way home I was thinking about the likelihood that other parents trust her with their kids every day...

So, here it is. Do with it (and your kids) as you will.

Amazes me to see people drive like aggressive idiots with kids in the car.

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WingNut Wrote:
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> Amazes me to see people drive like aggressive
> idiots with kids in the car.


Quit bein' such a wuss and mind yer own g-damn business.

Hey buster I was just trying to give a little support and validation. Just trying to help.
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Hell hath no fury over a scorned woman driver. I was harping on my woman once for driving slow in the left lane. She floored it and started screaming at me. I thought she was going to run off the road and kill us both just to kill me. I haven't ridden with or complained about a woman driver since.

Perhaps the DMV is hiring 3rd world non-driving new immigrants nowadays to do their drivers training and testing? Two days last week I saw two separate people two seperate days----in traffic--who were in the right lane of a 2 lane westbound street, both dive from the far right lane left across oncoming traffic behind them in both lanes traffic in the left passing lane to have to stop in the middle of the opening there before they could finish their U-turn and go back in the other direction(!). Since when are drivers allowed to hang a U-turn across traffic from the right lane? Maybe I beter go and get and re-read a new Virginia DMV Handbook--looks like things are falling apart traffic- wise these daysaround the VA Commonwealth!

Testing for non-English speaking folks is a joke. Spanish might be an exception, but when I was at the DMV getting a license renewed years ago, I saw two people working together on a test.

I asked the person behind the counter about it. He told me that if you claim you can't read or speak English, then you can bring your own translator for the written test. That was before "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", or else I might've made a joke about it being "Phone a Friend - on Steroids".

The DMV clerk went on to say that the arrangement must work well, because people who came in that way NEVER failed the test.

Who translates road signs when they drive?

The red octagon and yellow triangles are easy enough, but how many signs actually require reading?

This person was an a-rab weren't they?

DJ Kalid Wrote:
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> This person was an a-rab weren't they?


This is why Saudi Arabia does not allow women to drive. This is the one and only thing that I agree with Saudi Arabia on!!!! THEY GOT IT RIGHT ON THIS ONE!!!!

itchy Wrote:
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> Hell hath no fury over a scorned woman driver. I
> was harping on my woman once for driving slow in
> the left lane. She floored it and started
> screaming at me. I thought she was going to run
> off the road and kill us both just to kill me. I
> haven't ridden with or complained about a woman
> driver since.

My Gf was the same way. It wasnt driving to get somewhere it was driving like she was in a race. Cutting people off tailgating and screaming at other drivers. Out of the car quiet as a mouse but let her get behind the wheel.

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> This person was an a-rab weren't they?

You are a racist.

And no, I don't think so. She had very dark skin, though she was wearing headgear that seemed to indicate her religion.

Obviously a towel head. Cars are harder to drive than a Ox cart

Is it racist to point out that immigrants are lousy drivers?

So are soccer Moms, old people and teens, just to be fair.

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Right to lifers putting their own progeny at risk by their idiotic driving (that can only be outpaced by a moronic ethos) has a fantastic ironic possibilities.

Crash and burn

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> Is it racist to point out that immigrants are
> lousy drivers?

I would say not. But, their inexperience gives them something of an excuse. They do stupid shit, generally display a lack of skill and experience, but if you take a look, half of them seem to be as frightened as the people around them... you don't see a lot of "road rage".

> So are soccer Moms, old people and teens, just to
> be fair.

Soccer Moms are often either distracted as if driving is some unimportant thing to do while they catch up with their friends on the phone. Old people have slow reactions, are often afraid, and I don't think half of them can see over the dashboard, if they can see at all. Teens think they have skills and that they're immortal... that's why we send them off to war.