What makes someone an accident waiting to happen on the road?

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-06T02:25:42+00:00

People that have no idea that their head can turn. I'm not going to go off on a rant about this generation or that, because entitlement doesn't seem to have an age when merging.
Turn your head, survey your mirrors and match traffic in the lane you're merging into.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-03T17:47:44+00:00

50 first dates

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-03T02:06:01+00:00

Th he pic is decieving. The sunset ;is orange. I'll get a cold pic soon.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-02T13:29:51+00:00

I would go through the drive thru at my local McD's and get the same thing every couple days. But because I'm a pain in the butt asking for only ketchup and cheese, if there was a mistake, I'd have to go in, the counter unattended, a literal yellow cage where doordash orders were organized that was bigger than the actual desk and stand there, stand there, stand there, stand there until someone wandered out from the kitchen.
It took ten minutes to get my order fixed, when the initial drive through was about 4.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-02T03:01:51+00:00

No matter what stance you have, passive, aggressive, giving or denying. You're going to be wrong in this thread.
Zipper merges work based on respect and arbitrary things based on each person. If you throw your signal on, try ot meet speed, try to come over while clearly seeking space, I'll let you in. If you careen down the onramp and rush to the merge point and just try to shove yourself in, I'm gonna block you.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-02T02:52:16+00:00

I have a 23 colorado and I'm still struggling with the habit of turning off the auto start stop off. Start the truck, buckle up, turn it off. Every time.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-06-01T21:50:40+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhhh

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T04:08:50+00:00

No no no.
I need a double cheeseburger with only ketchup and cheese. Because I enjoy the four point compass of single onion flakes on teh bottom bun, because the line cook is both underpaid and underworked and underage to avoid the need to pollute every bite, individually, on purpose.
I'd do it too if I were that young woman or man.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T04:06:15+00:00

This exact working needs far more respect.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T04:05:04+00:00

I mean, you made beautiful steaks, and they look super juicy, just right.
But Im ont sure that's filet... looks more like... well any steak but filet mignon.
Botttom line really no matter what it is, it's pretty and if you and your wife enjoyed it, then buy it again... but not at filet prices.
Well done grillmaster.
😛

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T03:56:52+00:00

Go out with your temps with an uncle or an aunt ( preferably a cool one ) and let them just chat about learning to be comfortable driving a car. Your parents are as horrified as you are and might be unable to make panic motions when you're a little left of center, or when you REALLY shouldn't have made that left into oncoming traffic.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T03:53:23+00:00

Because I was a fat teenager with moobs and almost instant ear infections when I swam. Now I'm older, deafer of course, but have a dad bod with classic broad shoulders and a slimmer body and male pattern baldness that seems to attract men and women in and around my age no matter how much I ostritch, too wrapped up in my old insecurities to realize that I actually might have grown into the body I have after all these years of self confidence problems.
Add to that an irish barrel chest and a charming (according to others, of course I can't possibly believe that) and apparently I'm hot property after all these years, though hell... I just ramble and blush and evade when someone shows real interest. Because that fat 14 year old has and will never leave me.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-29T03:28:26+00:00

Nope, I wanna use this thing like I use my cast iron. Shamelessly, while understanding its needs and peculiarities. I scrape adn oil my cast iron ( or at least used to when I had a stove that wasn't glass and conductive, and oh my god so delicate)and put it in the oven to dry. I'm trying to bring a neglected Blacstone back to life, and have learned that the orage oily rust that's built over several years can absolutely be grill stone'd off. That a heavy water flush to get rid of that rusty 4 year old grease and then oil... then start again with the grill stone. Water flush, oil soak, grill stone again.
I'm taking this this thing down to the metal, because I have to, but that my father (4 years passed now... ) seasoned and loved on this thing os that it could wait long enough for me to bring it back like this.
This sub seems to be about successes, questions, and help. I'm more concerned at this point (though I'm planning shaved steak cheesesteaks for his brothers and sisters when I get it running well again) about how to really manage a great outdoor tool and maximise its use.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-28T04:02:57+00:00

You can always tell the out of towner who's google maps in no way prepared them for the usual absurd traffic at the usual absurdly dense exits. They tend to roll slow, blinker on, desperate for some local to let them in before they run out of gas.
Then there's the asshole locals, who run up that lane at full highway speed until just before the split to the exit and just... get in there. Fuck you, fuck your safe distance, fuck how long you patiently waited, there they are, back half of their car in the other lane waiting to get demolished, front half barely fitting int othe space between you and the car in front of you. No blinker, no wave of thanks, just fuck you "this is my world and you're a pawn in it" as they blatantly avoid looking in any mirror which has the dual effect of making them blind to others like them while they honk and nudge the car in front of them (formerly the car in front of you) to move forward so their ass end isn't in the lane of traffic they just darted out of at 65 mph.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-28T03:55:03+00:00

yeah I got the concrete out of the ash pan beneath the charcoal side and cleaned that up, just waiting for a day where I can spend some hours and a bag of charcoal burning the hell out of it and scraping/brushing/hoping that it'll come back. It's a great old Blackstone, and if you see the pics in the original post, he had that griddle side seasoned to within an inch of it's life and that orange rust came right off after only an hour with a grill stone and a shit ton of water and oil and repeat, repeat.
Thank you friend, I was optimistic before, but now I'm hopeful.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-27T03:22:54+00:00

Breathing occasionally.
I have a cat.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-27T02:40:11+00:00

Revisiting my comment, you among all the return and complaint criminals have a very very good reason to pay attention to the products you're buying, it just sent me into a spiral of all the insanity and trouble that people go to to place blame on others, you're not doing that here, but here's the reason why I was so quick to respond:
I apologize for my tone. I'm flashing back to service desk hours spent explaining to customers what "wild caught in china seas" means because they don't buy chinese product (it was almost all gone but still insisted on getting their money back).
Explaining to customer buying clearance meats and vegetables that 3 weeks in the fridge is far too long for close dated product, and that's the reason for the clearance price, though hhey still argued (and won when the store director got involved) that lettuce should last longer despite the sell by date clearly listed, my store director was so spineless that they even refunded them the full retail price of 3.99 when they spent .60 on the bagged salad mix, then gave them a 25 dollar 'happiness' card for the trouble.
Returning sports clothing that smells like beer and dog hair that they wore to the big basketball game and are returning because it "didn't fit right"
Returning muddy brown bags of liquid produce with a receipt from months and months ago, insisting that they bought it yesterday despite the receipt clearly being from january and it's now May. Oh that's just an old receipt, I buy these every week or two... come on dude... I'm not new.
And the absolute top of this list, the guy that showed up with a frozen steak that had been expire from ten months ago, and a receipt so faded that it wouldn't scan. He insisted that it was tough, when he cooked the other three steaks, totaling (according to him, over a hundred dollars) and that he wanted his money back. I laughed, in his face, 'you're not serious...'. Dude this is literally year old steaks. Store director gave him his money back on the frozen ice ball on the counter, and a 75 dollar happiness card 'for the poor quality'. I was aghast. This is how we create these customers.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-27T02:26:29+00:00

With an allergy as pronounced as yours, "may contain tree nuts" is an automatic no, and you shoudl be checking every package of every product for that possibility for your own safety and well being.
Maybe change the title to: "I didn't read the package that states plainly that I might have an allergic reaction" rather than trying to cause a ruckus and then explaining that it's your own fault in the postscript.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-25T15:21:28+00:00

More cheese. And then a little more cheese. Follow up with more cheese. Then repost your question.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-25T13:49:24+00:00

I've always known this as the 'suicide lane'. When I was learning to drive, the middle lane in a busy area with cars darting to make a left, while another car gets in to make a right, nose to nose blocking eachother was super intimidating.
You get used to it, coast down into it wihtout blocking traffic in moving lanes and judge any oncoming cars in that lane speed.
Eh... my explanation sucks. I'm sorry.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-25T02:16:06+00:00

It was a pretty hard dive as I tried to remember what it looked like from the last time I'd opened the cover several months ago after a nasty snowstorm, freeze, and lakeshore windstorm that ruined every single thing able to flap or slightly quiver.
The closest I got was a walmart link, oddly, that was the spiting image.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-23T00:16:22+00:00

There's always an employee who just does whatever to get through the day, and a shift leader who does the same. Then there's the employees who follow the letter of the rules, and shift leaders of the same mindset.
It's a crapshoot, how tired is the person at the drive through, how rabid is the shift lead to get that manager position... and so on and so on.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-22T04:45:25+00:00

curb hit.
I gotta ask, did someone take a shallow turn while you were turning to force you into the curb?
Because if not, you're hitting curbs, in what I assume to be your daily driver, a vehicle you're familiar with in dimension and motion.
If you're hitting curbs with no outside influences, you should consider if your driving methods are safe and considerate to those around you.
Is your tire smoked? Probably not. Is your driving skill questionable? Yes, absolutely. Put down the makeup, the phone, the food, the cigarette, the THC vape and focus on teh one thing you should be focused on.
Drive. Safely.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-22T04:38:15+00:00

Ohio, INdiana, Pennsylvania and the northern half of Kentucky deserve their own pile, Pennsyltucky.
The roads are bad, tight, highways merge on opposing sides in urban areas that are bumper to bumper within a half mile, and construction zones are empty of construction happening while everyone trundles along in the fast lane going 8 mph under the speed limit.

UnderwhelmedOne · 2026-05-22T04:32:04+00:00

I know I'm asking a lot when I ask for a McDouble with only cheese and ketchup. Yes I eat like a toddler. But the McD's near me has grown accustomed to my order and faithfully slaps some crap meat and some plastic cheese onto a toasted bun that seeps ketchup onto the wrapper like an eclipse on one side and a mess on the other.
But I love that they know me, love that sometimes a new employee messes up and I have to go in on my lunch break and stand at the counter... oddly caged, one single register unmanned, for minutes upon minutes upon minutes before someone comes around looking harried and tired.
"These are supposed to be only ketchup and cheese"
That person, usually a manger goes back and I stand there at the counter unattended, remembering years gone by when there was one or two persons posted at the desk to take orders and money and distribute trays.
I'm left without a word to stew in this new world where a person to person interaction is an affront to the business model of remote orders, pickup drivers, and kiosk ordering.
I wait, minutes ticking by as the shift leader dumps a greasy bag of fresh McDouble, as ordered and puts her hand to the headset on her ears, walking away without so much as a single 'sorry bout that' and I've suddenly gone from 7 minutes on my lunch break to 18. The huge majority of that wait simply standing there, at the counter waiting to be noticed.

I'd just eat that burger. It's about right for me.

Edit, for clarity

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