Smashed car... AGAIN.

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once again i have smashed my wife's Buick into a concrete pillar. last time, it cost me or shall i say her... 2000 bucks to get it to new condition.

now it will be another 2000 bucks to fix it.

i have driven sports sized cars for 9 years of my life. it is obvious to me, that I, Dave Hahn cannot drive big cars. I am a complete incompetent boob.

oh Lord why.

you know, i used to zip around traffic in my old Nissan and now i lumber along the highway in fear for my life that i'll make a bad lane change.

do you know tires squeal when i make a soft left hand turn?

and to top the cake, i smashed it into the SAME DAMN PILLAR.

:rolleyes:
 
At least you didn't damage yourself or any khukuries.

You're just perpetuating the asian driver myth. :rolleyes: ;) :)
 
Dave, have you checked your tire pressure lately? They should not squeal on easy turns.

Also, please explain again why you are considering moving to another country. Does your driving record have anything to do with it? :p


(Sorry, but I smiled at the 'same damn pillar' concept. I'm thinking the odds are against that happening.)
 
Which Asian Driver Myth? My daughter spent 6 months in Korea and said that she never saw so many drunk drivers.
She hasn't driven in Illinois lately. Here, when people see a pedestrian crossing a street - they speed up!
When I lived in NC, I saw a church on every block.
Here in Illinois, there is a body shop on every corner....
it is the college student driving "myth."
 
Ah, Korea...where taking a taxi ride qualifies as an extreme sport. :)

My first taxi ride in Pusan, a guy on a moped cut us off. The taxi driver swore, sped up, maneuvered in a dangerous manner to get ahead of the moped, then literally ran him off the road and onto a sidewalk. He thought it was the funniest thing in the world and seemed quite proud of himself. We gave him a good tip after the ride for the vicarious pleasure of it if nothing else. Good food, inexpensive prices, Russian mafia out the yin-yang and street cops armed with submachineguns and bokken...not to mentioned mayhem on the roads. I wonder what their insurance rates are like?

Dave, the problem here is obvious. That concrete pillar has to go. Once is happenstance, but this time the pillar made it personal.
 
as for the asian stereotype, well... damn. well, i'll have you know i stand by my record. one collision (the bastard ran a red), no speeding tickets, one parking ticket, and a concrete pillar with a roman numeral "II" on it. all in all, i am not a reckless or careless driver. it's just that this concrete pillar in our underground condo is possessed and has some secret demonic purpose to bring me down. why doesn't anyone believe me?

moving to a different country. guess i'm getting tired of seeing 40% of my pay check go to the government, and than going out to buy food and paying 15% in sales tax. i also am very cold here. this year we had no summer, just kinda went winter, less winter, and now back to winter.

Toronto has also gotten very "tense". it's hard to explain, but you can just feel it here. Or maybe I'm just young and ignorant and don't know any better.

anyways, keep the shots coming, i deserve it. ;) :p
 
Satori, Korea sounds like Turkey.

My first Taxi ride from Airport to Town 20 miles. I hung on for dear life. I thought (in Turkey) Red light was like a Green Light in the States, at least that is the way the driver treated them. When I got to my final destination and received an 'in country' briefing.

If the cab driver has an accident that you have hired, you are at fault. You hired him, he wouldn't have been where the accident happened if you hadn't hired him.

If an accident should happen, you should throw some Turkish Lira on the seat and get out far away from the taxi.

Turkish bus lines and Turkish airlines are another story....
 
arty said:
Which Asian Driver Myth? My daughter spent 6 months in Korea and said that she never saw so many drunk drivers.
She hasn't driven in Illinois lately. Here, when people see a pedestrian crossing a street - they speed up!
When I lived in NC, I saw a church on every block.
Here in Illinois, there is a body shop on every corner....
it is the college student driving "myth."
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I'm afraid I was born and raised in a relatively rural part of old Scarborough so I'm a bit out of touch with my own people. I have never been to Korea nor do I speak the language. I married a beautiful Korean girl who was born and raised there, so that's gotta count fer sumptin!

You know, it brings back some memories. I faced alot of racism when I was a kid, but I found out that by knocking some heads around (and me getting knocked around even more) got me respect and eventually friends. i have to admit that I'm for some reason less sensitive to such things now. maybe b/c i'm older i don't know.

i miss the days when you could fight someone, get up, and regardless of who won or loss, shake hands later and make up. now today in my old community, fights now involve weapons and gangs.

and i'm not that old by any stretch of the imagination. oh well, off to bed for me, i'm rambling. damn 14 hour work days, gets me into a mind where i speak before thinking. :footinmou
 
Dave Hahn said:
damn 14 hour work days, gets me into a mind where i speak before thinking. :footinmou
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It's not the Asian driving myth, it's the damned 14 hour work days that is causing the same damned Pillar to jump out in front of Dave.

Dave, my advice is to get another Nissan, or a Toyota.;)
 
Satori said:
Never been to Turkey. How's the food?
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I enjoyed it. They do use alot of lamb. Being from NM and AZ I liked my spicey food. They like hot peppers , too.
I was in the AF assigned to a Turkish Base. Apt down town Eskeshir. I would stop at a little vendor for a nice spicy sandwich.
My age has caught up with me. I can't eat spicey food now without taking an acid reducer tab.
 
Dave,

I know well the frustration and sense of powerlessness these things bring. You gotta forgive yourself and figure you really are a human, not a device.



munk
 
Dave - If you like I can get you a litttle bit of det cord. Not enough to take out the pillar, but enough to get it's attention, let it know you're not going to take this harassment any more, and perhaps round off the corners a bit so you have more of a chance to miss it. Our concrete is better behaved in Ohio.
 
Dave that really stinks man. We've all done it,,, well maybe not twice. :D I think I'd take Nasty up on his offer of help. You need to show that thing who's boss.
There may be some weird gravitational pull or magnetic force at work here. Maybe some wrinkle in the space/time continuum.

Sorry man. :(

Steve
 
You have to understand that some vehicles are just cursed. My law partners honda prelude was hit not once, not twice, but three times by the snow plow in the parking lot. Nobody elses was hit once. He was also in two accidents with it.
 
Lucky you didn't do a "Princess Diana". Sometimes you don't get a second chance at all, much less to nail that same cursed pillar. I'm with Nasty. Take it out with some det cord. If you can't do that, pay some really creative street gangstas to spray paint something really meaningful on it.

Some ideas:
• Clown Face O'Death
• A "No, Dave, No!" warning sign
• Non-reflective black coating so OTHER people can hit it, too
• Buddhist mandala so others can focus and meditate right before they hit it

Finally, MOVE. Canada rocks, best beer, friendly folk, pretty girls, but that 40% to gov thing isn't where it's at.

Also, the car may need to have "eyes" painted on the front of it. In some cultures, people wouldn't get on a plane because they believed it couldn't "see". Even if YOU don't believe this, it's possible your car does.

Good luck.

AA
 
I'd use some tugboat technology. Hang some tires from the side of your vehicle. :D

(Not to be confused with Viking technology.)
 
I am a complete incompetent boob. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE said:
ha ha. You said boob:) Seriously, Dave, we've all done it. There is an old saying in construction. There are two types of concrete: Cracked concrete and concrete that's gonna crack. My family has extended this saying based on the tradition of women we tend to marry. There are two types of concrete: Cracked concrete and concrete that's gonna crack...when my wife doesn't watch her blind spot;) I'm guilty of hitting a concrete pillar on a couple occations at the gas station with my big nosed Camaro I had in Highschool.
If ya hit it again, plan on spending $2015.00 next time. 2000 for the car plus 15 for a good 10lb sledgehammer. I'll bring my concrete saw to cut through the pesky rebar after you "kill" it. we'll mount a chunk of it on your wall at home;)

Jake
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Dave Hahn said:
you know, i used to zip around traffic in my old Nissan and now i lumber along the highway in fear for my life that i'll make a bad lane change.

do you know tires squeal when i make a soft left hand turn?

and to top the cake, i smashed it into the SAME DAMN PILLAR.
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I think that it's the uncomfortableness of driving that car that is causing you the trouble. I have several friends that race, and everyone I've managed to get an answer out of told me of their best experience on a track gave me an answer when compared and after suggesting words came to be very similar.

"I wasn't thinking about what I was doing, I was looking and the car was driving."
I'm afraid I was born and raised in a relatively rural part of old Scarborough so I'm a bit out of touch with my own people. I have never been to Korea nor do I speak the language. I married a beautiful Korean girl who was born and raised there, so that's gotta count fer sumptin!
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Koreans are fun! I love Kimchee, but if you weren't raised there, or speak the language then aren't you Canadian or English or something?
I'm an American, I was born here, and sometimes speak something that resembles the language in a few ways... But if you go back, I'm Irish, German, and welsh, with just enough English to hack off the rest of me...
 
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