Princess Fix IT: Bag o' Princess Thoughts

Few things...

Ran across this lil gem at work and I highly recommend watching it. It's hysterical! "The Blood Gulch" series is so creative and yeah, I may be a bit late on this find, but hey, what else is new? I'm always late. So save your lil "Princess, that is so last Tuesday," or whatever smartass comment you have in mind.
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I consider myself to be a good driver. Sure, I can't park my truck worth a damn, but I can drive those straight lines and take those corners like nobody's business! To be honest, people really piss me off on the road. What are they thinking? This is my latest road adventure. Drivin' along, probably singin' a song and the schmo in front of me just can't be bothered to drive over the manholes. He's all over the road and almost hits a guy on a bike! He doesn't care, just as long as his vehicle doesn't cross over the dreaded manhole. I feel sorry for the guy on the bike cause he's already got it tough. No one ever pays attention to bikers unless they're on The Discovery Channel. Back in the day, we'll call it BK (Before Kevin), if I was on a bike with a guy, I couldn't believe how little other drivers would pay attention to us. I eventually had to give up on dating bikers because I didn't want to wind up as a splattered Princess! That's just not pretty. (OK so that's not the real reason I quit dating biker boys, but let's roll with that, shall we?). But I digress...This isn't the only fool I've noticed in the Chicago area doing this particular suspicious maneuvering. What's up with that? What is so scary about driving over a manhole? I've driven in several major cities and have never seen this phenomenon. Do I just write this off as another Chicago oddity or is there really something to this? School me, people!
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Karl Malone just took his shirt off on "Best Damn Sports Show Period" and wow, who knew he was packin' all that under his Jazzy jersey?

Comments

Didn't you get the news? The Supreme Court recently decided 5-4 that the Red vs Blue thing is sooo two weeks ago.

On the driving over manholes: you have to remember not everyone tools around Chicago in a big-ass gas guzzlin' truckster like they were back on the ranch in Texas. We have lower ground clearances. While I've never had the bottom of my car scrape against one of those things, I really don't want to find out whether or not my car will clear them. "Gee, I guess I didn't have enough room to clear that. Hey, look, my axle!" Hence the swerving.

Posted by: vince | August 8, 2003 12:35 AM

OK good comment, I won't yell at you for that one. Using the Supreme Court was a nice touch.

As far as the truck thing goes, I'm not talking about the manholes that are raised several inches about the pavement during "construction". I'm talking about manholes even within a half inch of the pavement! I've also seen several people in 4x4 vehicles avoiding the holes like the plague. That's another reason I'm so confused. These things are not really affecting the driving path, but people insist on avoiding them.

Again on the gas guzzling: I PAY FOR IT! I will use it as I please :)

Posted by: Princess | August 8, 2003 9:54 AM

We all pay for it.

Oh, I thought you meant the ones that are exposed during construction (which seems to be the case on about 50% of the streets. Gotta keep that Chicago construction contract machine churnin!). Yeah, that is wacky. Maybe they are all on their cell phones.

Posted by: vince | August 8, 2003 10:33 AM

I must not have gotten the memo. Now that I know about it, Red vs Blue is pretty damn funny. Gotta respect their work ethic for getting new episodes out every week.

Posted by: crowdpleazr | August 9, 2003 3:43 PM

i'm one of those assholes that avoids all pot holes.

i'm not on my cell phone, either.

i've had one too many friends that've had to spend hundreds of dollas on repairs 'cuz of them there pot holes.

damn 'em to hell!

Posted by: jojo | August 10, 2003 12:51 PM

Not pot holes, woman! MANHOLES!

I totally understand trying to bypass a pot hole...big ass hole in the ground, major vehicular damage, etc.

Manholes though....fairly even and flat, no vehicular damage, etc.

Funny thing: on the way home Friday from work...the car in front of me, that's right, swerving to get by the deadly manhole. Oy!

Posted by: Princess | August 10, 2003 9:01 PM

I still go by the "some drunk is stalking you 15 seconds in the future" explanation.