Farding Women
LivindonSouth
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What bugs me almost as much as these women with a cell phone slapped upside their head in traffic is women riding up and down the public roadways farding.
This is one time when the Pennsylvania Quaker women have it all over most of American women. They don't wear makeup or use cell phones. Or use cars for that matter.
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This is one time when the Pennsylvania Quaker women have it all over most of American women. They don't wear makeup or use cell phones. Or use cars for that matter.
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Please let me know what "farding" means.
They swerve, are all over the road, cross the yellow line, totally unaware of the weapon of mass destruction they're piloting.
I was seriuosly thinking about getting the new hybrid Accord to replace my current Accord, but after another near-miss with one of these domestic terrorists this morning I am seriously considering getting one of those new behemoth SUV's. Environment and gas prices be dammned! I want to live to see forty.
Gene
Cheryl C.
They swerve, are all over the road, cross the yellow line, totally unaware of the weapon of mass destruction they're piloting.
I was seriuosly thinking about getting the new hybrid Accord to replace my current Accord, but after another near-miss with one of these domestic terrorists this morning I am seriously considering getting one of those new behemoth SUV's. Environment and gas prices be dammned! I want to live to see forty.
Gene"
Or, as an alternative, if any of you know of any reputable military surplus dealers, let me know. I may very well invest in a good, used, reliable "deuce-and-a-half" truck. I'm also amenable to a large combine or other agricultural apparatus for those in farming states.
Down here we pride ourselves in letting people in and out of traffic all the time, waving people into your lane who are sitting off on a side road, stopping to let someone at a stop sign pull in, etc. The only thanks we want is a two finger wave, or a nod or a smile. I've almost quit letting women in line, because they never will wave or say thank you. It's because they have a cell phone slapped upside their head in one hand, are attempting to steer with the other hand while holding a plastic cup and they have a diaper bag or candy bar squeezed between their knees. How the hell can they think about thanking me. They're already trying to drive, yak, keep something from falling onto the floor and watching three kids in the rear view mirror.
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Don, my Nebraska-raised sister-in-law spent nine years in Mongtomery, AL, in the USAF, and was transferred to the AF Academy in Colorado Springs about nine months ago. She has expressed that southern drivers were, well, the opposite of how you describe. She said no one would ever let her in, they always sped up so she couldn't get in if her blinker was on.
That said, I always try to give a little wave with my candy-bar holding hand when someone lets ME in. :>)
Gene, GREAT commentary! I upgraded from a diesel 2000 VW Jetta to a diesel 2005 VW Jetta a month ago. It's a little bigger, gets great mileage, and I have side curtain air bags that won't do me a lick of good if a WMD I mean SUV t-bones me at 45. Running the odds, though, I went with the 45 miles per gallon.
I rarely apply makeup, but I have been known to have long, intense talks on my cell phone while driving safely inside the lines on my own side of the road. x0:)
Cheryl C.
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My hat is off to you Don.
Coming up with Farding - I admit to thinking you had misspelled fart on purpose to avoid some sort of gestapo edit.
Linda
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I wonder how long before the likes of P. Diddy, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg start rollin' on these?
Gene
These people are NOT Southerners! The ones who don't let you in to traffic and flip you off are yankees stationed down in the South, not Southerners. Natives of Montgomery, Alabama would never act like that. Surely you know that water flows Southward, seeking it's lowest level, and turds float downstream. The people who treated you that way were temporary, military transplants from the northeast or northwest who, like green turds, floated into our midst and remained until they were purged further downstream or shipped back where they came from.
Maybe it's a 'small town' thing, where we aren't so hurried and frantic. Like opening a door for a woman, or a man for that matter. Or coming out of Home Depot, spotting a young mother with two kids trying to load a boxed lawnmower into an SUV and saying, "Here, let me get that for you." And her feeling comfortable enough to smile and say thank you. And constantly letting ahead of you in line people who have fewer items than you do.
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There's nothing small-town or Southern about that. It's simply chivalry and plain good manners. My great-grandfather, whom I was very close to, shortly before he died at 101 years of age, "gently" reminded me as we left a restaurant one evening that my place while walking next to my wife was that closest to the street so as to shield her from cars that might splash water. He specifically rememebred having that conversation with me some 25 years earlier while I was a youngster. Shame on me. He was right.
Gene
Gene, you're absolutely right! They can be found in any state of this great union. Unfortunately, so can jerks, female or male chauvinists, and bigots.
Cheryl C.
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We are avid campers and needed the power to pull the camper to the likes of Hilton Head/Myrtle Beach. Also have a jet ski that we take along. It's a 3-4hr drive to the beach and it sure is nice to have some quiet time while the kids watch a movie. And don't give me that story about how you were forced to ride 10 hrs to Disney with no entertainment. So did I. I don't think letting my kids watch a Disney movie along the way makes me a bad parent. And with family close by, I need to be able to haul 5 kids around most anytime. Maybe I don't get the best gas mileage, but when we had a freak ice storm a couple years ago, guess who was calling to get them out? You guessed it, my Camry/Accord driving friends. They also freqently call when they need furniture moved.
P.S. I only fard at stoplights. Red ones that is.