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Keraunos · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail Yep, the Idaho panhandle is pretty famous for people driving like shit. I've actually lived near Spokane, and half the time you can tell who's going to have an Idaho plate well before you get close enough to see it.
Granted, WA-plates in Spokane drive like shit, too, but they're not [i]quite[/i] as bad. They're more just assholes who will go out of their way to fuck with you for no reason, while north Idaho is that same behavior with incompetence sprinkled on top.
Granted, WA-plates in Spokane drive like shit, too, but they're not [i]quite[/i] as bad. They're more just assholes who will go out of their way to fuck with you for no reason, while north Idaho is that same behavior with incompetence sprinkled on top.
nonsensiclesnail · F
@Keraunos totally agree. Every few weeks I have to go back to Coeur d Alene and it blows. I HATE driving in that town. Did you know you need to come to a complete stop at ever right hand turn? And it seems that changing lanes with less than 100FT of space between you and the asshole in the pickup is considered cutting someone off.
Keraunos · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail Oh man, Couer d'Alene is fucking crazy sometimes. I got used to it when I actually lived out there for a few months (thankfully that was during a heavy winter, so less people had the nerves to go out on the roads), but even after that, I think I'd still pretty much be on DEFCON 3 the minute I get east of the Liberty Lake exit on I-90.
In one trip out there at about 8:00 p.m. a few years back, in the space of about three minutes, I had a beat-up old gray van try to lane-change into me, nearly rear ended someone who slammed on their brakes in the middle of an arterial downtown (there were no other vehicles nearby on the road provoking this), and narrowly avoided hitting a man who looked to be in his early thirties who was jogging in circles right in the middle of the next downtown arterial I turned onto. And by that point I was kind of just like, "Eh, that was annoying, but what do you expect? That's pretty normal for this place."
In one trip out there at about 8:00 p.m. a few years back, in the space of about three minutes, I had a beat-up old gray van try to lane-change into me, nearly rear ended someone who slammed on their brakes in the middle of an arterial downtown (there were no other vehicles nearby on the road provoking this), and narrowly avoided hitting a man who looked to be in his early thirties who was jogging in circles right in the middle of the next downtown arterial I turned onto. And by that point I was kind of just like, "Eh, that was annoying, but what do you expect? That's pretty normal for this place."
nonsensiclesnail · F
@Keraunos I grew up there :) and yes, that's all very typical. The traffic in town irritates the hell out of me. There really are far too many cars for their road infrastructure these days. And it does not help that people either lollygag or drive like they are on fire.
I do love my mother regaling me with stories of having to wait 20 minutes in traffic traffic during the 20 minute 'rush hour' though. It's almost sweet.
But! it is pretty - prettier farther north though. I may have to find a way to get myself a vacation home in the Sandpoint area.
I do love my mother regaling me with stories of having to wait 20 minutes in traffic traffic during the 20 minute 'rush hour' though. It's almost sweet.
But! it is pretty - prettier farther north though. I may have to find a way to get myself a vacation home in the Sandpoint area.