Rant: Motorcycle Safety and black beetles

Ok, so I drive 40 minutes to my boyfriend's house today, and normally I'm 100 percent for Motorcycle safety and awareness as my uncle was killed on one years ago although he was drunk and it was his own fault. But, back to the story, I'm 3/4ths of the way there, a guy and his wife come up behind me and a rent-a-van on a motorcycle with a trailer on the back. He started to pass me and the truck in a no passing zone got into the passing zone while still passing us and doesn't even make it before we hit the next no passing zone. All this while we were going up and down huge no visibility hills. Now that right there was just being stupid, the van thing and I were both doing the speed limit and I would have been fine with him passing me in a somewhat flat road situation, but that was just stupid passing when he was in a blind situation.

O.k. next rant...

Got to his house, parked my bird with the windows down behind the diesel since I didn't think anybody would be using it. Later on we decide we need to run down to the farm to check on things and want to use the diesel. So I move my car to next to a shed under a tall property light like they have in towns. We leave, come back, no biggie. Come 11:30, I need to start heading home, we walk out to the bird and can see the black beetles in a layer on the outside of my car. The inside on the other hand, basically couldn't see the shelf under the back window due to the little (bleep). I believe we vacuumed over 200 of the things out of my car and everytime we thought we got done and shut the doors, 20 more came crawling out from who knows where.

The ones that wouldn't come out are gonna get what's coming to them tomorrow in a hot car with no ventilation, let the suckers die!

As I sit here typing this, I swear I can feel them crawling over me so I am constantly smacking myself. grrrr.

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Ugly story.
Well Steph, I guess you learned a valuable lesson. Close up the car.
Glad you are not hurt.

Next time someone tries to pass like that either brake so they get past quicker ( thus it's safer for everyone) ,or simply edge over and cut them off so they can't pass (ok this one is NOT recommended but they do deserve it...and it is for their own good)

I'm with Ron, as much as its annoying to watch someone driving like a dick just slow and let them past. They'll no dount end up in an accident (or a ditch) sooner or later but do you really want to be the other vehicle involved?

Either that or use the second suggestion but if you do I can recommend doing it while driving a beaten up '95 Dodge Ram 2500 as they will hopefully realise you don't give a crap.

Did you have a macro lens for the beetles?

Seriously, I don't like bugs either. They're a nuisance. When I first gave my car a big clean out, about 2 years ago, I pulled off the backseats, and under the seat was a crab! Dead of course, but it had got in under the seat and died it seemed. It was pretty big too. All the weird things seem to get into cars.

As to bad drivers, yeah there's plenty of those around. Usually a full beam light works well after they've done something stupid.

Thanks guys, actually I did slow down and my 93 t-bird is crap so I wouldn't have really cared had they hit me, long as their ins. co. paid for the damage.

Wazza, no I have no macro lens. I was more worried about gettin the d@mn things out, esp. my camera/bag. But how in the world did a crab get in there? Did you ever think of checkin the V.I.N. or whatever it is that they call them over there? Maybe someone tried drowning the car before you got it...

My boyfriends cat normally climbs in the cars if the doors are open, the big outside fuzzball that she is, but she wouldn't climb in this and I don't blame her.

I went back and reread the beatle story.
Very funny but frustrating no doubt!

There was a story on the radio a few times back here (Car Talk on NPR) about a northern california woman who discovered her car had become infested with blackwidow spiders. She'd had it repeatedly sprayed and still they were coming out the cracks and crevices.

They also had a person who's car sprayed out powdered dog food whenever she turned the a/c on. For her it turned out some mice were nesting in her car's air ducts and eating the bag of dried dog food that she'd stored in the garage.

Makes me happy about my biggest concern is food abandoned by my kids.

So who's your favorite beatle? I always liked George the best.

Damn mice get into my AC, so i occasionally have to take it apart to remove all the shredded newspaper ,etc

haha,ok it looks like a spelled beetles wrong

And some people still have doubts about the power of natural selection as an evolutionary process . . . . riders/drivers like these will get their due . . . eventually.

As for bugs in the car, that sounds really creepy, but I can top that.

One fine spring day, I hopped into the old ford pickup to drive down to the lake for a barbecue party. It was the first time I drove it that year on a hot day, and since I was going to the lake, I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Rolling along at about 45mph, I reached down and flipped open the vent on the kick-panel (I said it was an old truck), and a nest of little black beetles blew into the cab, up my shorts, all over my legs, even got a few in my mouth before I stopped cussing and shut it. By the time I got the old ford pulled over and hopped out, they were crawling all over me, and I had to strip off my clothes, shake them out and use them to swat the little buggers off my privates. I was glad it was a lonely two-lane back road . . . .

Ok, yea you can top that lol. thanks a lot, now you got me shivering again!