Yes. I'm convinced the Canadian retirees and snow birds here think speed limit 50 = 50kpm. And, they are so paranoid about red light cameras, they wait a full five seconds after the light turns green, just to be sure.
Everytime I hear/read similar comments, I flash back to the 1st time I went down to my daughter's place in Arizona (in 2000).
I was driving my rental car on the '101' doing 60 or 65 (whatever the speed limit was...[
maybe 5 over]) in the right lane. I could tell that Kim (my daughter) was getting 'up tight' about something, and she finally blurted out; "Dad! You're driving like a Blue Hair!!! Lemme 'splain the DRIVING RULES down here! On the freeway - TEN OVER...MINIMUM! PREFERABLY 15...on surface streets, AT LEAST 10 over - OR YOU'LL BE RUN OVER! 'ONLY exception? School zones. In school zones you WILL do 15 m.p.h. or you WILL get a ticket. Period. Any questions? Now, COME ON!!! SHEEEEEEEZE!" :rofl:rofl:rofl
Maybe you can tell "she's her father's daughter"?!
Re: Canadian drivers...Wifey and I live near the Canadian border, so we see a LOT of Canadians on the road around here. I have c-o-n-s-i-s-t-a-n-t-l-y observed three things with regard to their driving: (1) they have only TWO speeds - flat out or crawling. Speed limit signs are just curios, evidently, (2) often they'll turn in
either direction from ANY lane, and (3) they like to get into the passing lane and PACE the guy in the right lane mile after mile after mile after mile. :mad
What follows is a true story, I swear to God:
Two Canadian cars were traveling about a mile ahead of me on I-5 as we approached the exit I was going to take. THEY took that exit...AND CAME TO A FULL STOP SIDE-BY-SIDE RIGHT AT THE MOUTH OF IT - BLOCKING IT - TO SIT AND "B.S." ABOUT GOD-ONLY-KNOWS-WHAT!!! 'Dead serious here, people. That IS exactly what they did. Knowing I'd be rear-ended if I came to a stop ON THE FREEWAY behind them, I approached the exit ON THE SHOULDER with my horn BLOWING non-stop. One of the drivers stuck his head out of the window yelled something at me in Chinese ('guess he figured I wouldn't need a translator!) and with that, BOTH drivers pulled right back out onto the freeway AT A SNAIL'S PACE - RIGHT IN FRONT OF AN ONCOMING SEMI.
'NEVER seen two bigger M-O-R-O-N-S behind the wheel in my life...and I've seen more than a few. (The ONLY reason those two clowns weren't turned into instant road kill was the fact that the semi driver somehow KNEW what the fools were about to do and he changed lanes J-U-S-T before they did it. 'Darned lucky the left lane was clear.)
'Sure glad I'm perfeckt.
I'm dunn now.