Whether the weather
28 Dec 2005 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misaffectionYou know, being a country fairly far north it's constant source of irritation that every year we go "omg snow!". It's winter people. And just days after Christmas - the day we wish was white. Well wishing it white means snow.
Apparently the roads are "dangerous". They have "claimed victims". Bollocks. Roads are inanimate objects, incapable of being dangerous. No, what is dangerous are the people out there with NO idea of how to drive on snow and/or ice. Revving the engine out of your car and jamming the accelerator down when the wheels start spinning is not how it's done.
Shesh.
The last time I had a driving lesson was over 15 years ago but I still remember that you start off in second gear (or even third) and go easy on the accelerator. And easy on the brakes. ABS will not stop you banging into the car in front when you leap on the brake pedal.
Save yourselves, other people and your insurance going through the roof and purchase a copy of the Driving Manual. Read it til you know it backwards.
And stop bloody moaning about a touch of bad weather. We don't have it bad - that was Indonseia and the Philippines last Boxing Day...
Apparently the roads are "dangerous". They have "claimed victims". Bollocks. Roads are inanimate objects, incapable of being dangerous. No, what is dangerous are the people out there with NO idea of how to drive on snow and/or ice. Revving the engine out of your car and jamming the accelerator down when the wheels start spinning is not how it's done.
Shesh.
The last time I had a driving lesson was over 15 years ago but I still remember that you start off in second gear (or even third) and go easy on the accelerator. And easy on the brakes. ABS will not stop you banging into the car in front when you leap on the brake pedal.
Save yourselves, other people and your insurance going through the roof and purchase a copy of the Driving Manual. Read it til you know it backwards.
And stop bloody moaning about a touch of bad weather. We don't have it bad - that was Indonseia and the Philippines last Boxing Day...
