VX meets steel shopping cart head on in parking lot

[sature]

i have two instances for that one.. bulldog

i was driving on a busy highway when the traffic stopped.. a 18 wheeler was behind me going full speed.. i have two choices 1. be crushed to death or 2. drive into another lane and risk hitting other faster lane traffic. As you can see... which choice i picked already.

this other time i was going up this hill in the snow. A 18 wheeler was infront of me but all of a sudden.. it started sliding backwards.
this time i also have two choices..
1. get crushed by truck from the front while anchored by other cars behind me.
2. drive over other ppl front yard and fences so the car behind me can get crushed.

in both instances i have to make my own path and hit something or die.....

there's my two cents. or two life experence that not in the defensive driving book.

Teaching defensive driving or driving alone should be left to teachers.... we're all here to share stories.

[Bulldoggie]

You mean there was a Semi-truck closing behind him, and that's why he didn't let the other car go first????
I missed that part.

[sature]

i also missed the part where there was a baby or anything in the cart.

also.. was he avoidiing a car crash... no..

i was talking about how you all seem to get away from his whole point that he was not stopping to hit the empty cart in an almost empty parking lot with 2 to 3 cars.

"the lot had only 2 or 3 cars in it, & they were parked on the far side of the lot, which gave me a lot of space to go around w/o hitting another anything but a childless shopping cart."

and i was replying to you ideal defensive condition.. of sitting and waiting.


I'm sorry to read everything in the whole thread. maybe i'm just too literate.

[Bulldoggie]

maybe i'm just too literate.[/QUOTE]


Now I'm illiterate too?????
that's why safe driving is wrong? I don't know how to read?


PISS OFF!!!!!!!

[sature]

come on .... this was a good ranting... don't need to use that language
like they say in Saturday Night Live

"Simmer Down..."

[psychos2]

The problem i have with this is that someone could have been hurt or killed !!! "It was an empty parking lot." It was not empty enough. The shopping cart could have easily been someone. I do not know how anyone can look past that possibilty. Maybe i am just old or illiterate. But would you have been as proud if you killed someone? I know no one was in the cart or near the cart but he did not know that before he drove around the other car. Then it would have been too late. shawn

[WormGod]

Anyways guys, whats done is done. The would'a-beens and could'a-beens are what they are. Nothing happened, nobody got hurt, and thats that. Its best that way.

Lets just pretend this debate never happened. Too many nerves are getting touched here and there is simply no need to get this involved since, none of us are capable of changing or doing anything about it anyways.