07-28-2009, 01:58 PM
Barbara's post just kills me...too many chuckles with that one for the descriptive view.
Yes, in the slightest of over-cast conditions I instantly turn on my headlights in hopes that one of those idiots sees me coming before they suddenly decide to slig-shot themselves out onto the hiway. I have never figured out if it's just a case where they assume everyone else is on-the-ball and will automatically dodge them or what? Countless sightings of small children jumping from front-to-back seats, nobody restrained, while the parent blasts down the hiway. Yes, helmet law or not, it IS scary to be on a motorcycle here (refer back to the sling-shot vehicle).
Oh and how about "merging traffic" and what that means? Don't trust that anybody on the roads here actually knows how to drive. Never let your guard down. At least there is never a dull moment I guess, seems I always have a comment I make aloud to myself in my car with every trip to Hilo and back [
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Yes, in the slightest of over-cast conditions I instantly turn on my headlights in hopes that one of those idiots sees me coming before they suddenly decide to slig-shot themselves out onto the hiway. I have never figured out if it's just a case where they assume everyone else is on-the-ball and will automatically dodge them or what? Countless sightings of small children jumping from front-to-back seats, nobody restrained, while the parent blasts down the hiway. Yes, helmet law or not, it IS scary to be on a motorcycle here (refer back to the sling-shot vehicle).
Oh and how about "merging traffic" and what that means? Don't trust that anybody on the roads here actually knows how to drive. Never let your guard down. At least there is never a dull moment I guess, seems I always have a comment I make aloud to myself in my car with every trip to Hilo and back [
][:p][8D][xx(][?][^]