Comments on: Winter Driving Isn’t Rocket Science http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/28/winter-driving-isnt-rocket-science/ Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:47:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Liz Pyne http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/28/winter-driving-isnt-rocket-science/#comment-207 Liz Pyne Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:14:26 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/28/winter-driving-isnt-rocket-science/#comment-207 Reading your post reminded me of a time "some years ago" when i had a little Austin metro (reckon only UKers will know which car i mean). The village where i used to live ALWAYS got "snowed in" in Feb. One day i decided to use the car to go to feed my horse and while on my way back had to drive up a very steep hill. As i got to the bottom of the hill some "clever so and so" raced past me in a flashy car. He then tried to get up the snow packed hill !!!!!!!! HA HA, the more he tried, the more he skidded and slid back. I stopped at the base of the hill so he wouldnt slide into me. When he got back to the base, his flashy car had overheated and he had to pull over for it to cool down. I said i would have a go in my car and he replied "in that thing lady, you got no chance. There is no way a woman can drive better than a man up that hill. You need something like mine to get up there". HA HA, thats what he thought !!!!!!! I got in my little car, switched on the engine, put it into first gear and drove straight up the hill NO PROBLEMS. I didnt even slide !!!!! Ooooh the look on his face. It was a picture !!!! I LOVED IT. LOL Reckon there's something to be said for living in the countryside. At least then your ready if animals suddenly stray into your path. Anyone else ever tried rounding up cattle BY CAR !!!! Liz Reading your post reminded me of a time “some years ago” when i had a little Austin metro (reckon only UKers will know which car i mean). The village where i used to live ALWAYS got “snowed in” in Feb. One day i decided to use the car to go to feed my horse and while on my way back had to drive up a very steep hill. As i got to the bottom of the hill some “clever so and so” raced past me in a flashy car. He then tried to get up the snow packed hill !!!!!!!!
HA HA, the more he tried, the more he skidded and slid back. I stopped at the base of the hill so he wouldnt slide into me. When he got back to the base, his flashy car had overheated and he had to pull over for it to cool down. I said i would have a go in my car and he replied “in that thing lady, you got no chance. There is no way a woman can drive better than a man up that hill. You need something like mine to get up there”.
HA HA, thats what he thought !!!!!!!
I got in my little car, switched on the engine, put it into first gear and drove straight up the hill NO PROBLEMS. I didnt even slide !!!!! Ooooh the look on his face. It was a picture !!!! I LOVED IT. LOL

Reckon there’s something to be said for living in the countryside. At least then your ready if animals suddenly stray into your path. Anyone else ever tried rounding up cattle BY CAR !!!!

Liz

]]> By: Debbie http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/28/winter-driving-isnt-rocket-science/#comment-167 Debbie Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:53:49 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/28/winter-driving-isnt-rocket-science/#comment-167 We haven't received any snow here in NJ yet (temperatures have been in the high 50's!), but I'm bracing myself for it. Not because I don't like the snow, because I do. I love it when I am inside my warm home, logs in the fireplace, something good like "It's a Wonderful Life" on the tv, and just looking out our picture window at the snow falling on the trees. What I am bracing myself for is driving in the snow! Oh I can drive fine in the snow - it's all of the other NJ drivers who fly by me on the highway still doing 60 mph when they should be slowing down to about 30. I absolutely dread it. I have had people tailgate me, and mind you when it snows I am driving in the right lane, going slow. Not too slow - but slow enough so that I am not on the butt of the car in front of me, just so that if I have to stop I will have plenty of room and time. I just got an SUV this year - my first one. I really don't think that's going to change my driving style at all! We haven’t received any snow here in NJ yet (temperatures have been in the high 50’s!), but I’m bracing myself for it. Not because I don’t like the snow, because I do. I love it when I am inside my warm home, logs in the fireplace, something good like “It’s a Wonderful Life” on the tv, and just looking out our picture window at the snow falling on the trees.

What I am bracing myself for is driving in the snow! Oh I can drive fine in the snow - it’s all of the other NJ drivers who fly by me on the highway still doing 60 mph when they should be slowing down to about 30. I absolutely dread it. I have had people tailgate me, and mind you when it snows I am driving in the right lane, going slow. Not too slow - but slow enough so that I am not on the butt of the car in front of me, just so that if I have to stop I will have plenty of room and time.

I just got an SUV this year - my first one. I really don’t think that’s going to change my driving style at all!

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