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Post by OneEye on Mar 27, 2005 19:59:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I left the bullshit at the cave. I recently started working for this houseboat rental company that runs 3 resorts on Shasta and has a fleet of 90 boats. These things are tits. They rent for 5 or 6 grand a week in the summer, and I can take one out for $250.00. Fucking floating hotel suites. I'm pretty excited. Anyway, what's not so cool about driving is that after I made that last post, I went out in the rain with my kid who was bugging me about picking her up some new toy, and we fishtailed and did a 180 on the fucking freeway onramp at 44 and I-5. Fuck. I tried to correct 3 times and by then I'm sideways in the fastlane. Miraculously, no one slammed into us, and I spun around facing traffic in a side lane. Stalled, and I didn't even tap the guardrail. Amazing. Be careful. |
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Post by Shevy on Mar 28, 2005 5:39:41 GMT -5
Cool and cool.
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Post by 1:( on May 25, 2005 14:22:46 GMT -5
I just got my permit back today after getting somewhat screwed out of it before. I haven't driven since I crashed the car, hopefully I'll do better this time. My driving test is in a month...finally, I'll have my license and just in time for the summer.
Road trip number 1 will be to the Municipal Waste show(assuming I pass). I'll go by myself if I have to.
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Post by DelDescaras on May 26, 2005 0:51:43 GMT -5
White line fever, brother. Not that I endorse the fuel. I have thousands of miles behind me to shows. Welcome to the punch.
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Post by 1:( on Feb 20, 2006 0:22:11 GMT -5
Hey! Let's bump a good thread and talk about some road trips.
I went on one today, pretty spurt of the moment. Down to New Haven, up to Hartford, then took US 6 back to Rhode Island and home. It was a cool drive for sure. Too bad my friend in the passenger's seat wouldn't quit bitching. I went in another circle that ended up in me going to the Mass Pike and back down another road into Providence. That was a good one too.
I'm sure some of you guys have better road trip stories than me.
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Post by Shevy on Feb 20, 2006 6:05:51 GMT -5
Uncle Meat and I and our wives decided that we were going to go to New Jersey to visit Six Flags back in '97. I had never driven past Mass., but had volunteered to drive using our way rad '93 Olds Achieva (aka The Unda-Achieva). Meat was going to navigate, so he had some maps and whatnot, we packed up the rest of our gear, and then took off.
First thing I noticed was the car was revving awfully high. Like it wouldn't shift into the next gear. Plus it was even slower from a stop than usual. Come to find out about 20 minutes into the ride that I accidentally slapped it into Drive 3 instead of just drive. Taking a little four cylinder sedan onto the highway in third gear makes for some excellent engine noises, especially when packed with people and luggage.
After that, things went pretty smooth. With Meat as navigator, he decided that it would take way too long to just take the easiest route, so he mapped out a really intense short cut which ended up taking us into southern New Jersey in about five hours. He's a pretty good navigator so we only got lost once. Unfortunately, it was in downtown Hartford, CT. Nice looking town, but it was a bastard getting back onto the highway. Another thing about Southern Mass and CT...we were driving an average of 90mph and there were still people passing us like we weren't even moving. Those commuters don't fuck around.
So finally we get to Jackson, NJ, we know how to get to Six Flags, but we have no directions on where a hotel is. We're driving all over the fucking place in hillbilly land looking for a place to stay. We finally come across a HoJo's in the middle of nowhere at about 11pm. Meat and I walk in, there's absolutely nobody in the lobby, but I ask anyway, "Do you have any rooms available?"
The guy at the desk assured us that there were, so we crashed there after hitting the bar downstairs real quick. Meat also found it in our best interest to take a scoop full of ice and just dump it in one of the chairs in the hall. Anything to help out the cleaning crew.
So we do Six Flags, had a fucking blast, and then take off for sunny and warm New Hampshire. Of course we get lost in the backroads of NJ this time. Against our better judgement we stop and ask a cop for directions. The conversation basically went like this...
Me: Can you point us towards Rte 73 North?
Cop: Where are you from?
Me (not sure what he's asking since our license plates say New Hampshire right on them): Uh...do you mean where are we coming from or where do we live?
Cop: Where are you from?
Me: New Hampshire, I guess.
Cop...smirks and blatently gives us the wrong directions.
Once we got out of New Jersey it was smooth sailing home. It was a Monday night, and managed to make it to Portsmouth just in time to catch Return To The Pit. I still have a shot glass in my cupboard from the trip.
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Post by abc123 on Feb 22, 2006 3:41:09 GMT -5
if you like driving i can't imagine why you wouldn't want to shift I'll take speed over absolute shifting control and focus my attention on other things like finding the apex around a curve or something. Hahahah, i hope you're not serious about the apex thing. Onto the subject of road trips. I once made the wonderful journey up to Echuca for some New South Wales paintballin' fun. Of course the paint ball was good, but the fact i discovered there are zero cops working at 7am on a Sunday morning in country towns made my trip even more awesome. I dropped no less than a 8 metre burn-out in the main st of a town called Kilmore. Ruining my tyres was never so much fun. |
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Post by Shevy on Feb 23, 2006 6:04:18 GMT -5
Hahahah, i hope you're not serious about the apex thing. Only half serious. I do love to drive, but in all honesty I was trying to spin some people up with the manual transmission comments. I actually love to drive with a manual, and the only reason I don't is because they don't offer them in my style of truck. I would rather drive what I want to drive than settle for something less but with a stick shift. |
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Post by abc123 on Feb 24, 2006 2:08:52 GMT -5
Check the new rims cunts... now this is fucking 17" style.  |
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Post by 1:( on Jul 11, 2006 11:15:58 GMT -5
Damn...one year ago today was the day I got my license.
Strange.
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Post by thrashed on Jul 11, 2006 15:10:40 GMT -5
I remember when this thread was first made.
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Post by 1:( on Jul 11, 2006 16:16:10 GMT -5
You know, now that I think about it, this is also the three-year anniversary of Shevy signing up to the message board where I met him. So...there's that too, I guess.
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Post by Follow The Hollow on Jul 11, 2006 17:33:02 GMT -5
Why dont you celebrate with some champagne and lingerie...
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Post by 1:( on Jul 11, 2006 19:13:08 GMT -5
Because champagne is even more foul to my mouth than beer.
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Post by Shevy on Jul 12, 2006 9:03:29 GMT -5
But the lingerie is still a possibility.
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