Comments on: Driving School

By: LS

LS — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:22:59 +0000

I know!!! Arco!!! It’s funny as hell. When I moved there I worked for the park service. apparently high school graduation was the day after my flight came in (a ridiculous adventure getting to Arco from D.C., I might add) , and people were already talking about “the new girl in town.”

I also knew a girl there who got in a car accident on a backroad w/ her grandmother, just by coincidence. And everyone there is named Cody, but that’s a whole nother story.

And Todd! I’m in VA now, and… well. Okay, you’re right.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:45:02 +0000

HEY!!!! tennessee drivers aren’t bad, it’s those damn virginia drivers that get in everyone’s way.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:53:08 +0000

Arco!

I used to teach volleyball camps in the summer and I ended up teaching one in arco.

I kid you not, people came out of stores to stare at me as I drove down the street. I am guessing they didnt recognize the car.

One of the kids on the team couldn’t come to the camp because she hit a horse with her car the day before and broke her legs.

By: LS

LS — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:26:28 +0000

I totally hate to admit this, but I used to live in Arco, about 2 hours west of Idaho Falls. A nightmare. A nightmare involving a small town that publicizes itself as “the world’s first town powered by stomic eneergy” and who’s high school mascot are the “Butte Cty. Pirates.” And, I definitely saw someone flip a Jeep over only doing 30 miles per hour. You are right on so many levels, it’s disturbing.

By: wordboydan

wordboydan — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 07:46:02 +0000

jon, you lived in the bay area for how long? have you forgotten about the idiot drivers who terrorize our streets, highways and bridges? last summer i drove from here to new orleans and back. i saw more near-accidents on a 5-mile stretch of I80 than i did on the entire 5,000 mile trek through the south and midwest. yao ming! and that included l.a., where the drivers are equally insane but much more competent. the only drivers i’ve encountered who can even touch bay area standards are the blue-haired nazis cruising the streets of west palm beach, fl. luckily, they rarely hit double-digit speeds in their oldsmobile delta 88s.

By: the propagandist

the propagandist — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:30:18 +0000

oh, how soon you forget.

L-O-S A-N-G-E-L-E-S freeways, jon. the latte, scone and cell phone juggling routine on the 101. the chinese acrobats in hyundais on the 60. the FREAKING PSYCHOS at hollywood and highland.

and damn, man, i kept expecting Humungous from Mad Max to surround the Grove.

By: coley

coley — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:23:32 +0000

i always make an ass of myself when i comment…

anyway, the sentence that reads ” the concept of speeding up on the on-ramp to get on the highway so as not to impede the traffic that is already moving on the highway” should read ” the concept of speeding up on the on-ramp to get on the highway so as not to impede the traffic that is already moving on the highway is a completely alien idea to them.”

duh.

By: coley

coley — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:21:54 +0000

obviously you have never driven behind a tennessean, which is surprising as they are ubiquitous. i’ve been visiting grandparents in INDIANA and seen tennesseans there.

anyway, tennesseans are slow. and they don’t have a vehicle inspection law there, so any vehicle they drive eventually ends up looking like the rental car in planes, trains, and automobiles. i’ve seen cars trailing sparks because the muffler is hanging from the car onto the ground.

and they apparently don’t know how to get on and off highways. the concept of speeding up on the on-ramp to get on the highway so as not to impede the traffic that is already moving on the highway. and they will ALWAYS make a complete stop before turning off such highways.

it’s also insane.

By: to your north

to your north — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 22:16:02 +0000

Yeah, Idaho! Hey wait a minute — I resemble that remark. Always got your back, friend.