Automotive Addicts

No one likes to sit in traffic jams. However, if you live anywhere near a metropolitan or city-type area, traffic jams aren’t just inevitable; they seem to be part of your daily routine. Recently, I moved into a new apartment in a different town. Since moving, I have had several appointments in the city that required me to travel during morning rush hour. Normally, it wouldn’t have been a problem; but I had forgotten that I had moved. Having said that, I failed to take into account the fact that the traffic might be different since I was now living in an entirely different area.

Sure enough, once I was on the road, I sat in traffic for an hour. In that entire hour, I only traveled two miles! Two miles! Anxious to know what the problem was, I found myself fighting back the urge to become angry out of frustration- or worse- to perform an illegal driving maneuver in order to get through the traffic more quickly. Instead, I decided to patiently (as patiently as was possible) wait out the traffic jam and see what the cause of all the backed up traffic was. Do you know what I discovered after sitting in traffic for what was easily over an hour by that point? I discovered that the cause of the traffic jam was merely due to the fact that there were too many people on the road at one time. Continue reading ‘The Dreaded Traffic Jams’ »

Have you ever tried to have your car moved to another place? Perhaps, you need to go upstate permanently because of a job offer you can’t resist or you need to relocate to another country because of rising costs of living. No matter what your reason is, if you have had your car moved by an auto transporter from one place to the other, then you are familiar with the exhilarating feeling of having to just sit around and wait for your car without the need to tire yourself.

When you try to have your car moved, it cannot be denied that you would initially feel apprehensive at the prospect of having your beloved car carried by a heavy vehicle. You might be afraid of the possibility that your car could sustain damage along the way since you would have no way of knowing whether the road and weather conditions would be favorable in transporting your vehicle. Continue reading ‘auto shippers, auto shipping, automobile shipping’ »

The other day, I was driving on the highway and was passed by a yellow Smart Car. Approximately two to three minutes later, a blue Smart Car passed me. It seemed a little ridiculous to me, and I had to laugh. There I was, driving down the highway in my Jeep, and I was being passed left and right by cars that were a quarter of the size of mine. I wondered whether or not I was going fast enough. Looking down at my speedometer, I realized that I was driving just over five miles above the speed limit (which is relatively slow by most people’s standards).

Lately, since I accepted the fact that I am going to be stuck with my sport utility vehicle for some period of time, I came to the conclusion that I should try to conserve gasoline and money by driving slower. Back when I had my Nissan Altima, I was a true speed demon. Sometimes, looking back at those days when I had that little 2001 Nissan Altima, I wonder how I didn’t manage to get pulled over even once for breaking the law so much. I remember getting that little car up to 95 miles an hour on the local highway back on Long Island, New York. It was reckless and stupid, but I loved the thrill of driving fast and seeing how I could control the car. Continue reading ‘Very Tiny Cars’ »