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i was driving the delivery van across town. left the main street and headed into the suburbs. turned around the corner to find a immaculate scenery of white. not a single spot of mud nor conrete. the majority of the snow already compressed by other vehicles it appeared like a unexpected ski slope from a childhood vacation right in front of me. car stereo started playing #8 rotate electrolyte. i began steering the vehicle safely downhill but ever so gently slid when cornering or accelerating. down and up, left, down, right slide, another right, no pedestrians anywhere just fenced road, sliding another left in slow motion, cautiously going uphill... |
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We have windment. Does that count? |
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what is that blue stuff coating that car? where are all the compact cars and anything not floaty truck boats gmc jimmy chevy cavalier the inescapable f150, and of course some "crossover SUVs" are about as small as i see big trucks CAN be good in the snow. but if you're a contractor in texas driving an F-150 you don't know none of that shit, you don't have the right tires, but more importantly, you don't have a clue how to drive in winter conditions, it'd be bad enough in a honda civic but now you're doing it with a truck, for which it is infitely more crucial you respect the nonlinear arc of vehicle weight vs. being utterly fucked driving on ice i do feel bad for these people, sure -- once it snowballs like that, you can be mario andretti and still get swept up in it because of everyone else and that's kind of the root of it, i guess, back of my brain is screaming "do not ever drive in texas in winter conditions because these unseasoned fools could end you with their trucks" also imagine they don't know the pleasure of doing donuts in a deserted, snow-covered mall parking lot on a bored sunday. i don't think trucks do that very well that's actually a good way to learn how a car handles differently in the snow -- go to a giant empty mall parking lot and just try out all manners of silly extreme shit, nice little laboratory |
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definitely can pull off that feeling in music. the squirt of gas to twitch the car on ice i figure i'm almost too comfortable; i should probably listen to my own advice. just giving it a squirt of gas on a turn because i know there's ice and if you spin the tires just so the car hurridly rotates in a delightful manner i need to get a new car. i miss going out for drives during insane new england weather at 2am mom always used to have meltdowns because i'd go off to a full running tilt, then jump and skid on my socks as far as possible, over the smooth wooden floors STOP IT! YOU'RE RUINING YOUR SOCKS now i pay for my own socks, it's my house, and no one can stop me with cars i respect that i am operating a two-ton piece of machinery, but i haven't been able to completely stop that childhood attitude from influencing my style i have utterly, utterly avoided learning how to drift, to do handbrake turns, because i strongly suspect i would love it more than ice cream, and then eventually get myself arrested ot killed. juicing the gas on ice is probably already pretty close to drift, actually, just different timing/tolerances feels the same when i play car video games, anyways. it's about being keenly aware of the threshold between static and kinetic friction |
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chevy cavalier ~ no, whoops, utterly wrong, crossed my wires, the cavalier is the 80's/90s sedan boat classic. i meant a chevy suburban, built sort of a pitbull that is disconcertingly about 1.5 times as long as the usual pitbull is. the visual cortex rebels and says: there is something wrong here physics would be inclined to agree is the ford excursion still around? for the sake of america -- texas, in winter, in particular -- i hope not |
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Can you name the truck with four wheel drive? Smells like a steak and seats thirty five?   Canyonero!      Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown    Canyonero!      Canyonero* * canyonero not recommended in winter |
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whiplash! |
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there's also the video i shot in early 2009, blasting invaders must die, just after it'd come out. my friend and i were driving back from the berkshires to more civilized massachusetts, separate cars, icy conditions, both of us young and admittedly somewhat stoned, just goofing around on the icy roads in our cars, whooo, wheee. what almost does me in is i get out my canon powershot G3, because filming on fones is not really a thing yet, and keep doing this, filming a video, driving one-handed, until i predictably overcash my chex and almost wipe out; hastily put away the camera. apparently i deleted it off my youtube. probably for the best. after that, anyways, i went back to using both hands while goofding about and things were smooth the rest of the way |
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was just thinking: stay focused, keep both hands on the wheel, don't let your right hand get lost in a vanity camera, and you'll do ok, cars are good teachers |
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im glad i didnt have a license nor car when i was a youth stoner. figured during driving lessons that we were no match back then. thought nothing was gonna make me drive a car until my gf drove us 900km in a day to camping. i swore to make that license so we could take turns next year, so i got it done. i see myself as a very careful driver and hope for it to last. |
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smart thing to get rid of the evidence btw! |
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i am not sure if i got marijuana or my driver's license first, i was a bit late on both compared to most, 19 or so. but i do remember my first time driving while stoned. a friend and i had blazed it up in a park, and we get my inherited honda, and i very frankly announce, "i've never driven stoned before, i'm not sure how this will go" about three minutes later i am all THIIISSS ISSS AWEEESOMMMEEE and about a minute after that my friend very tensely asks COULD.YOU.PLEASE.SLOW.DOWN.A.LITTLE i look at the speedometer, and, yeah, wow, i am going kind of fast. there seems to be some sort of speedometer dilation going on with this weed stuff; duly noted. i slow down. he calms down |
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was nuts enough to get driven in cars like that many times. never got into an accident. cant say the same for my friends. luckily they are all still alive and didnt hurt others. roads are full of crosses and road signs showing who wasnt as lucky. can you imagine back in the 70s we had 30.000 deaths in traffic per year in germany? pop was 78 million back then. thats a whole town every year, just gone, mashed and squished or burned to death. that was before safety belts became mandatory and other advances in safety. |
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think i posted this before, it seems so unreal |
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and that was before selfies |
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i remember being on some family vacation, or heck, it's a jumble, was it dad with me minding me as i shopped for my first new car? in any case, there's this old 60's/70's car they have on display, and my dad is commenting: wow, look at that. it's terrifying how little there is there. look at those shitty welds and frankly, that took deep root in my brain, dad was right, 70's cars are fucking terrifying death traps. and it's terrifying how little there is there, if you look at a 70's car. jesus god nudge someone and you're ended |
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well, at least you went in style... |
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