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kenderman1 t1_jap2uox wrote

Reply to comment by Live_Oak123 in HVAC Recs? by phenixflyer

I will second this. They installed full HVAC system for me. AC unit as well. Very professional. Went right to work. They were responsibly priced imo.

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PalPubPull t1_jaotj8c wrote

Reply to comment by Wrinklestiltskin in Visiting Birmingham, AL. Looks like someone has Dr. Brad Bradshaw beat in the sign department. by arcticmischief

This is so random, as in what does this have to do with driver behavior?

I will say we traveled through Birmingham recently and it was mostly fine, but Florida was a madhouse for me.

I saw an emergency vehicle a few hundred yards behind me and pulled to the shoulder on the highway in October.

Not one single car yielded before or after me. Never seen anything like it. They didn't give a fuck.

My cousin who lives down there blamed it on the vacationers, but there is no way all 100 cars that interacted with this in my vicinity were all vacationers.

We have some bad drivers and decision-makers, but other than the odd occasion of one or two drivers that didn't yield in similar situations, I'd never seen anything like that.

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arcticmischief OP t1_jaopn9v wrote

Reply to comment by Wrinklestiltskin in Visiting Birmingham, AL. Looks like someone has Dr. Brad Bradshaw beat in the sign department. by arcticmischief

Au contraire. I have never complained about Spfld drivers. After having lived in five different regions of the country and driven half a million miles of road trips, I actually think Springfield drivers are mostly fine.

The worst are drivers from the Pacific Northwest—5-10mph under the speed limit, in the left lane while not passing anyone, and slam on the brakes for the tiniest hint of drizzle.

Second are slow older pickup trucks in the rural South who are in no hurry to go anywhere.

Third are Florida retirees who shouldn’t be operating cars anymore (either barreling along way too fast for their reaction times and making sudden panic corrections or holding up traffic and driving entirely too slow).

Fourth are Branson tourists from flat states who panic at the hills and curves in the Ozarks and who insist on taking the Strip at 15mph to take in all the sights.

Springfielders (and Missourians at large) are middle of the pack, if not even slightly higher—they (mostly) keep right except to pass, mostly drive at a reasonable speed (5-10 over the limit), mostly use turn signals, etc. They’re mostly predictable. (I have no problem with fast or aggressive drivers, as long as they’re predictable. It’s the unpredictable ones that are dangerous.

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