Note to Kansans

[featherynscale]

Note to Kansans:

1. Vote, ya bastaads!

2. Figure out how to build a parking lot in which the entrance to the parking lot from the road is in some way obviously related to the building or buildings the lot serves. Which is to say that this thing where you have to turn half a mile past the place you're trying to go, then use a service road to spiral around the building complex several times until you can make final approach on your target, it's not working for me.

kthxbye.

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Driving is interesting

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I went halfway airborne Sunday night because I misjudged the incline on a business' driveway, and took it at 25 mph. I went to Taco Bell at Atlantic/Hodges, and then went to Burger King because I wanted a milk shake. But of course, their milk shake machine was down, so I went across the street to the McDonalds. That driveway has a pretty sharp incline, but in my defense it was 9pm and dark, and I was trying to cross 3 lanes of traffic that was traveling at 50mph+, in a gap. I felt my front tires leave the pavement (by a goodly amount, or so it seemed) for a second or two then bounce back down. It was interesting, to say the least. Good thing my current ponyset of wheels has good suspension and shocks, that's all I'm sayin'. ;) And I sure was completely awake after that, sure 'nuff.

*snork* at least it wasn't a freeway offramp.

Re: Driving is interesting

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Did this once, in Dallas, in the driving rain.

Parking lot entrance was something like this:
~~~curb~~~\__entrance__/~~~median or curb?~~\__entrance__/~~~...

I'll leave it to you to guess where I tried to enter. Dented my rim, had a slow leak in my tire that made me forego the stopping-at-a-hotel-between-OK-and-FL thing. Arrived at my mom's place at about 7am, having also lost a headlight and my rear view mirror in later adventures of the same trip.

In retrospect, it's probably just as well that I gave that car to featherynscale's ex to lose in Las Vegas...

Re: Driving is interesting

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

lol...win-win scenario? :D

Yeah for mine I actually was in the driveway, it just went up at an approximately 30 degree angle, for about 6 inches or so, then right back down again. It was fun.

As featherynscale can tell you, I have really decent ground clearance on my vehicle. It's about 8-12 inches, I think, but I don't have the exact measurement. :)