The Swamp

On longer trips, I either try to use siri to take voice notes (with various degrees of success) or if one of the kids is riding shotgun make them text me.

Need that dashcam2php plugin

TL;DR:

There are so many more vehicles to see day-to-day with a larger percent of them paying the extra bit of money to get their custom plates and driving conditions dictate that I'm not focusing on crashing as much, yet the drivers are worse, IMO.

So I think there's a couple of things that contribute to this, Mister D.

In my situation, driving out west is a completely different thing than driving back east. The roads have very wide lanes. And many of these roads are 3/4 lanes. There's a great deal of stop and go traffic because, where I live at least, there's a lot of stop lights. (Look at a map of Tucson...and then look at where the highway is.) This creates a less-focused driving situation so your eyes wander more. My theory is all of this extra space to drive actually contributes to more accidents and shittier drivers. (I drive past way more accidents here than anywhere I've been.)

What do I mean by 'less -focused'? Compare that to driving on the east coast where a single lane is two ways and you have to be extremely vigilant around tight turns or even have to get behind parked vehicles to let traffic pass. You aren't looking at license plates. You're always anticipating a crash. Out west, I'm just cruising along and can see traffic well ahead of me.

Also, AZ seems like a cheap place to get personalized plates, comparatively. I noticed that the first time I lived here.

Everyon always thinks they're a better driver and every else on the road is stupid. One MPH below what I'm going? GET OFF THE ROAD, GRANDMA! One MPH above? WHAT IS THIS A FUCKING nascar RACE?

So while we probably experience lower personal insurance rates because we're middle aged men, there's a pretty good chance that of the 40-50 or so that I'd call regulars, half are shitty drivers.


Half of you guys, of course. I make Kyle Busch look like Richard Petty.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:52 pm Everyon always thinks they're a better driver and every else on the road is stupid. One MPH below what I'm going? GET OFF THE ROAD, GRANDMA! One MPH above? WHAT IS THIS A FUCKING nascar RACE?

So while we probably experience lower personal insurance rates because we're middle aged men, there's a pretty good chance that of the 40-50 or so that I'd call regulars, half are shitty drivers.


Half of you guys, of course. I make Kyle Busch look like Richard Petty.

I feel targeted

The other day, on a blue Subaru: P1CKLRCK

This one stumped me:

E-A-B7

With the dashes.

V3NOMU5 on a Shelby F-150. FL plates, obvi.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:43 am V3NOMU5 on a Shelby F-150. FL plates, obvi.

I didn’t even know they made Shelby pickups.

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:06 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:43 am V3NOMU5 on a Shelby F-150. FL plates, obvi.

I didn’t even know they made Shelby pickups.

Looked a lot like a Raptor.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:07 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:06 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:43 am V3NOMU5 on a Shelby F-150. FL plates, obvi.

I didn’t even know they made Shelby pickups.

Looked a lot like a Raptor.

“Better not be Vince Carter because fuck that guy sideways!”

- Pruitt probably

Giff wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:30 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:07 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:06 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:43 am V3NOMU5 on a Shelby F-150. FL plates, obvi.

I didn’t even know they made Shelby pickups.

Looked a lot like a Raptor.

“Better not be Vince Carter because fuck that guy sideways!”

- Pruitt probably

Lol

Black TX plate - OFF-RO8D.

SIS HAZY - NY plate, dark olive green Subaru, perhaps a big, yet casual fan of a band?

DR4RVETS - NY plate, a Kia or something

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:17 am SIS HAZY - NY plate, dark olive green Subaru, perhaps a big, yet casual fan of a band?

It’s hard to say…

rass wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:14 am

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:17 am SIS HAZY - NY plate, dark olive green Subaru, perhaps a big, yet casual fan of a band?

It’s hard to say…

Gainesville's second finest!

former swamper so the unintentional submission counts

Seen just a minute ago in the Safeway parking lot:

3CUBED, hunter green Toyota Sequoia. Arizona Science Center license plate variant.

Seen yesterday:

NYE, red Audi TT. Arizona education plate variant.

BTLSCRS - Gray Nissan Xterra. Arizona Science Center plate

BESTBUG - Red Ford Fusion

Saw today on a pickup that had a lot of equipment in its bed:

BEE KEEPA

(Perhaps an apiary rancher from the Boston area?)

Some that I saw on my road trip this weekend:

(Arizona plates, unless otherwise specified)

LAADIOS - white Audi A3
KORNUTZ - blue Toyota suv
GOATMJ - silver Nissan Maxima. Chicago plate decoration
MOWGLI3 - black F-150 platinum
PIRAT - silver Dodge 3500 dually, Iowa fishing plates
HI NANA - white Kia Sorento
BOS5MOM - Gray Chevy Traverse
METSGRL - blue jeep wrangler. Nevada plates
CUDDLE - black Chevy Silverado, Nevada plates
LAADY J - blue Honda Civic, ASU plates
FOODUDE, white Mercedes s class
DOGSSS, maroon Toyota tundra
4CHIEFY, blue Ford F-150

Anytime you can work in "NUTZ" is good work

Could just be a fan of nu-metal and shitty potato chips.

Forgot I took this one over the weekend ...

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:10 pm Forgot I took this one over the weekend ...

Frank Abagnale?

(I looked him up but still don't get it.)

I'll never forge it!

(or they're really against Gitmo?)

They just are really into 5G.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:44 pm I'll never forge it!

(or they're really against Gitmo?)

Ohhh ... I read it as like Larry the Cable Guy honoring 9/11.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:53 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:44 pm I'll never forge it!

(or they're really against Gitmo?)

Ohhh ... I read it as like Larry the Cable Guy honoring 9/11.

Or the Steal.

Imagine their disappointment when -GET was already taken.

SPN VNYL - New York, green Mini Cooper Clubman

From this past week:

SLOWX6 - New York, white BMW X6, flying through a red light in a 25 MPH zone during school commute time, 2 blocks from a church with an elementary school and 3 blocks from a public middle school

WMNWRK2 - New Jersey, black Mercedes sedan

400WINS - New Jersey, pewter Infinity Q50

WEPRINT - Vermont, white Chevy Blazer

Clearly that’s Martin Broduer very old Infiniti.

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:09 pm Clearly that’s Martin Broduer very old Infiniti.

Look at you making a regionally appropriate hockey joke!

And I considered speeding up to get a look at the driver just in case but I had already had Siri take the note and it might have been too obvious to everyone else in the car.

There are three answers for me in hockey on swamp crash. Broduer. Brett hull. And the goat keith yandle.

They’re usually wrong.

RABBITT - New Jersey, white Kia Niro

I was behind then for a while in traffic. Went from thinking “rabbit” with two t’s to “Rabbi TT”.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:22 pm “Rabbi TT”.

Now I’m imagining our friend TT dealing poker down in Texas, dressed like a Hasidic Jew.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 7:12 pm Subaru outback, NY plate - UTICA

Paid extra for that when most would try to keep that secret.

Saw this one again Wednesday. You can do that in a small town.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:22 pm RABBITT - New Jersey, white Kia Niro

I was behind then for a while in traffic. Went from thinking “rabbit” with two t’s to “Rabbi TT”.

Was he driving his life away?