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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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donaldtoo said:
This is similar to Port Aransas down here.
There are the dunes, the 2-way sand road (speed limit 10mph), the parking and then quite a good length of sandy beach before you get to the water. You can also take your vehicle (including RVs) closer to the water, in certain areas, if you want...

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And here's what it looks like during Spring Break...!!!!!!! :eek:;)

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We were able to drive our car on the beach on The Outer Banks of NC. It was pretty cool to be able to take a short walk from the car to the water. :)
 
21stamps

21stamps

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Goofyernmost said:
The number one rule in defensive driving. I have done that all my life. I never assume that people are going to stop for a red light or stop sign. One should never assume anything while operating a motor vehicle. Hopefully not jinxing myself here, but, this coming July, I will have been driving, both personal and professionally for 54 years. I have never even been involved in an accident during all those years for what I know was mileage in the millions. I've never filled out an accident report for a vehicle that wasn't parked at the time.
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I have been t-boned before in a large intersection, it will happen, or it won’t. If you are turning left with that many lanes, there is no way to see the person once you are actually turning.

Two people ran a light, the first was when sis was pulling into the intersection and was able to stop, the second person hit her mid turn.

I totaled my own car and 3 others when I was 19. State Farm dropped me as a result. I was in traffic from VA Beach to Norfolk.. we were all going about 40mph, CDs slid under my foot by the gas peddle, I cautiously bent down to remove them, still keeping eyes on the road..except for one quick second.,and suddenly the person in front of me stopped.
I slammed into them which created a chain reaction. Woke up in the hospital.
Those people couldn’t have avoided me.

If a drunk driver or texter crosses a double line on a two lane road with a guardrail on either side, there is no defensive driving that can prevent it.

I have a fear of car accidents (which is why I kept my kid rear facing until first grade and researched car seats for months, and why I still have him in a proper height booster at age 8) because things can happen so quickly that it will be impossible to avoid, no matter how cautious you are. We just have to all hope that the worst never happens to us, and take as many safety precautions as possible.
Including harsh punishments for careless offenders.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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I'm worn out!! Today is Harry Potter Day, and they had a whole event where DD has her musical theater lessons, and this year her group did a musical about a magic school, etc, so she got to perform it again today. It was kind of fun....they had places to make your own wands, you could hold an owl, you could ride a mechanical bucking broomstick, you could play wizard's chess, etc. And you could buy tshirts with your house crest on them, and add your name. 1 Tshirt for 4 euro, 2 for 7, or 3 for 10, and 1 euro extra to add a name. So we go and order 3 Ravenclaw shirts, 2 with the kids' names on them. The guy says it's 14 Euros. I'm like....no....it's 3 shirts for 10 and he says "Yes, but you have two with a name on them". Yes....and the name is 1 euro each. "Yeah....so each shirt is 4 euro...." no....it says 3 for 10. He's standing there arguing with me and it's not even difficult math!! Finally a supervisor comes over and immediately adds it up to 12 Euros....the kid looked like he didn't get it, but ok, supervisor says. So we pay, he tells us they'll be ready in about 30 mins. We go do other things, come back after an hour and a half, get the same kid, who doesn't seem to remember us at all, and he comes back and says they aren't done yet. So I tell him....but...you said they'd be done in 30 minutes and that was an hour and a half ago! He looks confused, then asks me to write down our order again. So I did, and then we came back in 30 minutes....not done yet and the printer is down and they can't guarantee that they will get it running again, so all the people ordering now don't have to pre-pay. But we've already paid. So we come back later....still not done, but the girl writes our stuff down....again. It took 3 hours to get our tshirts that were supposed to be done in 30 minutes. Good thing we had nowhere else to be!! DS was afraid even to be sorted...he wouldn't even walk into the room with the sorting hat. Not sure what was going on there, but we had fun anyway. DD LOVES owls and was ecstatic that she got to hold one!!!
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21stamps

21stamps

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Sorry, not trying to sound morbid. It was just reminder to me that even if we buy a new car with every feature available, the safety features still aren’t enough to protect us from all scenarios.

Maybe someday it will happen. :)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
There is a theory that when one has a new car, they become more cautious in the wrong way then they normally would be. If they are afraid of having an accident they tend to overcompensate for normal highway dangers. Going slower or not keeping up with traffic is something that causes a lot of accidents. Are they at fault? Not legally! Did they, by, their actions of not going with the flow of traffic, put themselves in a position to be hit? An argument can be made for that. At that point not being at fault is of little joy. There are probably cemetery's filled with people that could have "But I had the right of way!" on the tombstone.

I'm not saying that is the case for everyone, but, it happens a lot more then we would like to think about. That is why when one is buying insurance you might be paying higher rates because you had to many "not at fault" accidents. There is a reason, even if we aren't aware of it, why they are always where the accident is even if they were not at fault.
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This is a big fear of mine with DS. He's a stickler for rules. The problem is that not everyone else is, and if he's determined that the rules should be followed, it can cause problems when someone else breaks them. He has no insight into what other people are doing. I've tried to explain to him that you have to be aware of what's going on around you and try to figure out what someone is going to do. If they are coming from a parking lot, yes, you have the right of way (on the bike), BUT, you have to watch that person....is he slowing down? Does he act like he's going to stop or does it look like he's just going to go for it? You have to adjust yourself....better to give up the right of way than be under a car! But he just can't read those situations...he can't interpret others actions, etc to tell what they might do. I can't allow him to ride his bike himself, because he can't make the necessary judgments about what he should do based on what's going on around him. And that's his thing...I shout to him to stop, or slow down, and he says "But I have the right of way!" Yes, sweetie, you do....but that won't do you any good if the other guy isn't willing to give it.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Sounds familiar.:rolleyes: Didn't get any leftovers though. Apparently there weren't any. I was told by the guests that the food was delicious. I do wish I could have had some of it though.:confused:
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I've been told that a lot of catering companies do not give the leftovers and they use the excuse that it's a safety issue with food storage or something. But we didn't run into that. We had BUCKETS of leftovers. Them closing it down early, coupled by half of our guest list not coming because of Sept. 11th, and we had a LOT of food. It didn't go to waste though....poor college students that my brother's friends were, they didn't mind stepping up and eating something other than cafeteria food or ramen noodles. One heck of an expensive dinner party for us though.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
I'm worn out!! Today is Harry Potter Day, and they had a whole event where DD has her musical theater lessons, and this year her group did a musical about a magic school, etc, so she got to perform it again today. It was kind of fun....they had places to make your own wands, you could hold an owl, you could ride a mechanical bucking broomstick, you could play wizard's chess, etc. And you could buy tshirts with your house crest on them, and add your name. 1 Tshirt for 4 euro, 2 for 7, or 3 for 10, and 1 euro extra to add a name. So we go and order 3 Ravenclaw shirts, 2 with the kids' names on them. The guy says it's 14 Euros. I'm like....no....it's 3 shirts for 10 and he says "Yes, but you have two with a name on them". Yes....and the name is 1 euro each. "Yeah....so each shirt is 4 euro...." no....it says 3 for 10. He's standing there arguing with me and it's not even difficult math!! Finally a supervisor comes over and immediately adds it up to 12 Euros....the kid looked like he didn't get it, but ok, supervisor says. So we pay, he tells us they'll be ready in about 30 mins. We go do other things, come back after an hour and a half, get the same kid, who doesn't seem to remember us at all, and he comes back and says they aren't done yet. So I tell him....but...you said they'd be done in 30 minutes and that was an hour and a half ago! He looks confused, then asks me to write down our order again. So I did, and then we came back in 30 minutes....not done yet and the printer is down and they can't guarantee that they will get it running again, so all the people ordering now don't have to pre-pay. But we've already paid. So we come back later....still not done, but the girl writes our stuff down....again. It took 3 hours to get our tshirts that were supposed to be done in 30 minutes. Good thing we had nowhere else to be!! DS was afraid even to be sorted...he wouldn't even walk into the room with the sorting hat. Not sure what was going on there, but we had fun anyway. DD LOVES owls and was ecstatic that she got to hold one!!!
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That is so darn cool!!! What an excellent day, except for the shirts of course.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
This is a big fear of mine with DS. He's a stickler for rules. The problem is that not everyone else is, and if he's determined that the rules should be followed, it can cause problems when someone else breaks them. He has no insight into what other people are doing. I've tried to explain to him that you have to be aware of what's going on around you and try to figure out what someone is going to do. If they are coming from a parking lot, yes, you have the right of way (on the bike), BUT, you have to watch that person....is he slowing down? Does he act like he's going to stop or does it look like he's just going to go for it? You have to adjust yourself....better to give up the right of way than be under a car! But he just can't read those situations...he can't interpret others actions, etc to tell what they might do. I can't allow him to ride his bike himself, because he can't make the necessary judgments about what he should do based on what's going on around him. And that's his thing...I shout to him to stop, or slow down, and he says "But I have the right of way!" Yes, sweetie, you do....but that won't do you any good if the other guy isn't willing to give it.
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You always have to worry about the other guy. You can be the best driver in the world, but if you ignore the ones around you, that is when trouble can happen.
 


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