Archive for the ‘Driving’ Category

I went north to Tulalip yesterday and played poker, and while nothing really exciting happened while I was there, I did have a fairly eventful drive home. It started when my radar detector went off, not for radar like usual, but because a cop had tagged me with a laser. I never really understood why [...]

There was a parking enforcement vehicle parked outside my apartment two nights ago, and I can only assume that the person was walking around the neighborhood giving tickets. This wasn’t one of those little three-wheeler things you usually see; it was a full-blown truck with “Parking Enforcement” written on the side. I only noticed it [...]

I just read one of the most interesting articles I’ve ever come across. It’s all about Alex Roy’s multiple attempts to break the 25-year-old Cannonball Run record. For those of you who don’t know what that is, the Cannonball Run was an illegal cross-country race in the 70’s; you had to get from New York [...]

Dear Washington State,
I just got my vehicle registration renewal notice in the mail, and while it was nice to no longer have to pay 9% of the value of my car every year for a monorail that you never built, I did notice that there is a pretty significant Sound Transit tax there in its [...]

I was almost run over by a car tonight. I was walking back to my apartment with my food, and as I was walking across one of the streets at a roundabout, a car came through without paying attention. I actually dove a little bit to get out of the way. It was a pretty [...]

While wandering around the internet the other day, I stumbled onto the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) website. Don’t ask; I wind up at some pretty random sites sometimes. Believe it or not, I have a real problem with MADD, and since that probably seems a little strange to everybody but me, I decided to [...]

I have a friend who always drives in the carpool lane on his way home, even though he’s by himself. He did some math on the time he saved vs. the amount of money he could expect to spend in tickets, and decided it’d be a good idea. He’s been doing this for about 2 [...]

I’ve noticed something strange recently, and figured it was worth commenting on. First let me preface this post by saying that I have not been in any kind of accident. Everything is fine. I’m fine; my car’s fine; there was no accident. This is just something that I noticed while driving around Seattle and wanted [...]

I was driving home today, and traffic was especially bad, so I decided to take a shortcut. This particular shortcut was basically me getting off of the backed up highway, taking side-streets through residential neighborhoods for a while, and then getting back on the crowded highway. I’ve taken this particular shortcut before, and it’s a [...]

I just finished test driving a new Audi S4. For those of you who don’t know about this car, it’s best to just never test drive one. After you test drive it, you start thinking of ways you can squeeze it into your budget. It’s not like test driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or [...]