Minor things that bother you

[kkt]

Historically, West Virginians drove across the center line in every curve to round out and tack on another 5 MPH in speed.  The extra speed was also necessary to help avoid in the opposing lane doing the opposite manuever in the same curve (both vehicles manuevering at the same time).  Amazingly, I never ever heard of any head-on collisions in curves.  Cannot imagine anyone doing this today without tragic consequences.

On the other hand, this same driving technique was used on narrow hilly roads without pavement striping.  There were plenty of occasions where folks ran off the road to avoid a sideswipe.  After I had graduated, my sisters were riding a school bus that "got run off the road" and got stuck in the mud alongside a 30-foot cliff above the creek.  After a few minutes, the bus flipped onto its side and braced up against a bunch trees suspended over the creek.  In the aftermath, it became clear that it was the bus driver that got a little too aggressive riding the inside of the curve (ergo, the other side of the road) and needed to overcompensate to avoid collision.

I saw the aftermath of such a collision.  It was after a rafting trip in the Sierra Nevada foothills.  We were with a group that raften down a stretch of river that's now part of the New Melones Reservoir.  Anyway, the rafting company was busing all the rafters back to the launch point in the river where we started and where our cars were.  One of the people on our trip was a doctor and called on us to stop so they pulled the bus over.  A motorcyclist and a car had come too close to each other on a blind curve.  The car ended up about 30 feet down the hill.  The bike was so far down I never even saw it, but the first people on the scene had already got the biker back up to the road rather than try to do CPR on a steep slope with bushes all around.  We stopped for about an hour while the doctor did what she could.  As it turned out, not much for the guy but did tell the group that had been doing CPR for a couple of hours already that they could stop and recorded his time of death.  The doctor did stay for the ambulance to come and get him since she signed the paperwork.

[LilianaUwU]

I'm stretching the definition of "minor", but the fact that a triple digit number of people who are paid over $35/hour can take the entire city hostage with a bus strike.

[thspfc]

I'm stretching the definition of "minor", but the fact that a triple digit number of people who are paid over $35/hour can take the entire city hostage with a bus strike.

At that hourly rate how is a strike effective, other than the strikers essentially firing themselves?

[Max Rockatansky]

When people hit "reply all" on congratulations emails.  Just email the affected person directly.

[kphoger]

I have heard in rural Nevada it's common to just straddle the yellow line because that makes it easier to not go off the road at triple-digit speeds.

On a lot of Missouri's lettered routes, I routinely straddle the centerline on purpose because they're narrow, have no edge line, and/or aren't well maintained.  Yes, I find it's easy to tack on an additional 5 to 10 mph that way.

Historically, West Virginians drove across the center line in every curve to round out and tack on another 5 MPH in speed.  The extra speed was also necessary to help avoid in the opposing lane doing the opposite manuever in the same curve (both vehicles manuevering at the same time).  Amazingly, I never ever heard of any head-on collisions in curves.  Cannot imagine anyone doing this today without tragic consequences.

I've never driven in West Virginia, but I do this all the time when driving in the Ozarks.

[on_wisconsin]

Tree based interference of distant TV signals and rando patches of Wood Sorrel in the lawn.

[kurumi]

early morning birdcalls that are just trills of the same note, over and over and over again. We have nice weather, but all the birds seem to be belligerent crows and these things. All cranked up to 10.

[GaryV]

People that post a poll, then give statistics that give the answer to said poll.

[tchafe1978]

When you eat something (like an apple or popcorn) and get bits of food stuck in your teeth, but you don't have a toothpick handy, so you end up playing with the bit of food with your toungue for half a day until you finally get home and can get a toothpick to get the bit of food out.

[kphoger]

When you eat something (like an apple or popcorn) and get bits of food stuck in your teeth, but you don't have a toothpick handy, so you end up playing with the bit of food with your toungue for half a day until you finally get home and can get a toothpick to get the bit of food out.

I had a filling fall out fifteen years ago.  Food gets stuck in the hole every day, so I end up doing the tongue-tip game every day, multiple times a day.

[bugo]

Tree based interference of distant TV signals and rando patches of Wood Sorrel in the lawn.

I have satellite internet, and I lose signal every time it rains hard.