pet peeve of the season

okay it has just snowed a bunch and the snow is everywhere.
People have to clean their windsheilds off in the cold and it freezes your fingers off.
BUT PLEASE sweep the snow off all your windows and the top. I can't stand seeing the drifts on top of vans especially. So your driving down the highway and snow chunks come flying at you because someone was to lazy to brush the snow away. COme on people!!!
Sometimes there is so much I think "wow let me go get my snowboard so I can go boarding on that drift on that car. "
Plus if it isn't all cleaned off you can't see out your windows and that is dangerous.
It takes just a little bit more time. If you can afford a new titan pickup truck get the mohawk of snow off the top and go buy a scaper with a brush on the other end. :mad: hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa :(

A very good point, Goosebear.
As a professional driver myself (44ton Articulated HGV), I despair at the total lack of consideration for other road-users, AND the general absence of road craft exhibited in 80% of drivers today....still, it ain't just confined to the roads :rolleyes:

I've seen people drive their KIDS to school, whilst trying to see where they are going through a tiny amount of clear windscreen that they've scrapped away with their credit card!
They obviously do NOT care much for the safety of their own KIDS, let alone other traffic and pedestrians.

I wonder how these people would feel, if one of their loved ones was KILLED because the guy in front hadn't bothered to clear their car, and had gotten struck by a sheet of ice that had flown off!

They probably wouldn't care....
After all, they drive their kids to school, whilst peering out of a 7 x 10" clear zone on their windscreen.

You know what the best thing to do is?
Dial 911, state the license plate to the operator, and let the police have a little chat with them.
I don't know about the States, but in the UK it is ILLEGAL to drive a car with snow piled on it!

It's what I'd do :D

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Originally Posted by RESiNATE

I don't know about the States, but in the UK it is ILLEGAL to drive a car with snow piled on it!

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It's illegal in Qubec too... but you still see people doing it, namely my father.... Maybe I should turn him in!

Gotta love Canadian winters!

Ppl just aren't driving fast enough. If you drive fast enough, the excess snow just flies off your vehicle. :) Scraper?!! Are you mad? Who uses a scraper?

Snowed way too fucking much here. I hate winter. I hate snow :(

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Originally Posted by F L E S H

It's illegal in Qubec too... but you still see people doing it, namely my father.... Maybe I should turn him in!

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lol..nah, don't turn him in, FLESH, just maybe drop the hint, and ask him to think beyond himself ;)
If he still doesn't comply...then, yeah, turn him in bwhahaha

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Originally Posted by maryjanemama

ppl just aren't driving fast enough...

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Absolutely, 100%, correct! :D

I'm lucky, in that all my windows are electrically heated :D
I almost look forward to icy mornings...get to use the gadgets! :D
(yup, I'm a gadget freak lol)
Of course, when comes to sweeping off the top of my trailor on the wagon....well, hopefully I'll get to drive into a head-wind...or start the journey by driving under some low trees!
lmaoo
Hey, I know I'm tall, but it's a fricking trailor, FFS!

I like driving on snow...mostly
I can get to do what I call 'slow-motion-rallying'..lol...I like to get the car sideways, but not too fast...mainly because I haven't got a 'reset to track button in my car, like I do on the PS2 lmaooo

:rolleyes:
:D