My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.

The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.

Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

  • @ryathal
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    91 month ago

    I once saw a car driving the wrong way on a one way, make a turn to drive the wrong way on a second one way.

    I’ve seen two people clearly on phones hit each other as they were accelerating at a stop light, and then keep going. Fortunately the really only screwed up their front quarter panels from what I could see.

    I’ve seen someone use an entry ramp to pass on the right.

    I’ve seen someone who missed their exit try to still make it by driving through the grass, it didn’t really work.

    I’ve seen several impromptu street races, the best was a hellcat and some crotch rockets.

    The craziest was probably a pickup truck with a huge load of straw bails that had caught on fire.