No more flashing!

Little boys like to play with big toys.
When little boys become big boys
but they don't grow up and still want
to play with big toys like little boys ---
Cracker Barrel is a good place for them.
I'm thinkin' IN one, not AT one.

One of the best dispatchers I ever worked with
had a sign hung on the wall above his desk. It read:
Some People Are Still Alive Only
Because It's Against The Law To
Kill Them.

 

I had one old time driver rip me an new one for flashing him over, says he's been driving long enough that he doesn't need the help. I simply said "you're welcome" and oh by the way you left your turn signal on.

 

I flash truckers over all the time when i see there turn signals just for the simple fact im in a smaller car/truck then them and i was taught its a nice thing to do for truckers when they want over.

But i have to admit on the move up here when we had our fifth wheel attached to our pickup and the big uhaul about 3 truckers flashed me over when i was in the uhaul which i thought was nice since i was driving that monster and pulling a car trailer. Sorta ticked me off when the truckers who didnt flash me over gave me the finger when they drove by me and turned there signals on. I still flashed them over though lol just to tick them off even more.

 

Don'cha just love it when that happens?

 

Don't ya just love guys like that?

 

that is just plain funny!

 

I will never thank someone for flashing high beams at me. Never. I will always thank someone for on/off flash of courtesy lights. High beams are never courteous and at night they are dangerous.

 

So, even on a bright, sunny, non cloudy day where there really isn't a difference or possibility of blinding someone with highbeams, you still refuse to "say thank you" in what ever manner you use if me, or anybody else flashed their highbeams at you during the day to let you know its safe to come back over strictly as a courtesy? Wow, too bad there's not a special marking on the back of trailers that are being pulled by drivers like you warning courteous drivers to not offer their help at all regardless of the situation simply because of such a degree of warped sence of accepting help. But, in reference to what aftershock said quite a while ago, if I flash you over and you don't thank me, the sun will still rise in the morning. Life will continue to go on.

 

You expect me to thank you for being rude? Why would I thank you? You are not being helpful regardless of what you may think.
You are not being courteous by flashing high beam in my mirrors. No matter how you wish to spin it you are wrong. It is rude, dangerous and illegal.

"Headlights are for illumination, not communication," State Patrol trooper Cliff Pratt said. "The specific law requires drivers traveling in the same direction to dim high-beam headlights before approaching and within 300 feet of vehicles to the front and if approaching an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet."
Chapter 46.37 of the Revised Code of Washington deals with Vehicle lighting and other equipment. RCW 46.37.230 gives the details Pratt outlined.
"The main concern is temporarily blinding or creating blind spots for other motorists while operating their vehicles, thus creating and obviously hazardous situation," he said.
The fine is a $124 traffic infraction, according to the State Patrol."

 

LOL.... I can understand at night, but not during the day, but ok, if thats how you feel, put a sign on your trailer that informs people not to flash their lights at you even during the day because in the past 5 weeks while driving by my self during the day, there were plenty of drivers that thanked me for flashing them over with my highbeams as with flashing their highbeams at me for the few times i was able to pass someone.