(10-12-2015 05:56 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 06:49 PM)Stephen Shirley Wrote:  Our only beef was 1) with the timid WKU coed who passed on the opportunity to proceed in the three car gap at the Nashville Rd roundabout and 2) with the power hungry BGPD traffic cop who made me stop may car and lectured me about traffic after I yelled at the coed stopped in front of me. Those traffic cops would be FAR better placed at the light at Storey Ave to alleviate the backup there. Past that light, the road opened up and we were on our way to TN where we stopped for a late lunch before driving the last hour home.

LOL. I live in BG but work at the Rivergate area... BG drivers make me crazy. They slow down in CASE a light turns yellow. I just want to scream at them. They go 5-10 mph below the limit on major roads. When a light turns green they wait a three count before moving. How can a city that drives this cautiously have as many wrecks as it does? Its maddening.

Couldn't agree more with you!! Driving in Bowling Green is maddening! The driver's are always preoccupied with something other than driving, and it's ridiculous.

Yep that is one thing I do not miss living in Lexington now compared to BG is the entire city of slow drivers....When one drop falls out of the sky, you can forget it also trying to drive in BG...

Agreed about BG drivers. I live in Nashville and I get more road rage driving in BG than Nashville.

(10-12-2015 05:56 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 06:49 PM)Stephen Shirley Wrote:  Our only beef was 1) with the timid WKU coed who passed on the opportunity to proceed in the three car gap at the Nashville Rd roundabout and 2) with the power hungry BGPD traffic cop who made me stop may car and lectured me about traffic after I yelled at the coed stopped in front of me. Those traffic cops would be FAR better placed at the light at Storey Ave to alleviate the backup there. Past that light, the road opened up and we were on our way to TN where we stopped for a late lunch before driving the last hour home.

LOL. I live in BG but work at the Rivergate area... BG drivers make me crazy. They slow down in CASE a light turns yellow. I just want to scream at them. They go 5-10 mph below the limit on major roads. When a light turns green they wait a three count before moving. How can a city that drives this cautiously have as many wrecks as it does? Its maddening.

That goes on in most southern cities including Nashville...

I drive fast, too fast, at times...132 is the new high on my GPS memory. I slowed down some since paying $700 in tickets last year. Now I limit it to high 70s (low 80s in Texas when it jumps to 75mph limit) on the interstate unless there's a few rabbits I can get in line with. Then I will push mid to high 80s.

People in Tenn, Alabama, and KY, love to get in the fast lane and sit there and go right at the speed limit and back up traffic. In all three states they start slowing down waiting for the light to turn even if it's green. They make sure it's clear for a block before pulling out from a side street. No one knows how to drive in a roundabout...most use it like a stop sign.

I loved the bumper to bumper driving in NYC and if you leave a 1 inch gap someone was switch lanes in front of you. If there's a green light cars go till it turns red...not yellow. Roundabouts are smooth driving and on my last two trips (driving) to NYC I never saw a fender bender or a cop stopping someone for a ticket...in the city.

On the way back from the Vandy game I bet I passes 150 cars driving in the fast lane...right at the speed limit and not one car in the slow lane. You get behind them run up on them the back off expecting them to move over...

nope they sit there doing their 1 mile under the limit or right at it. So you/I pass on the right. Alabama is the worse state to drive in and South Carolina. South Carolina is like taking a step back in time with all the older big gas eating fords on the road

(10-12-2015 05:53 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 08:01 PM)MTowho Wrote:  Twas me.

Seriously or joking?

Seriously. The way I remember it was there was a conversation going about naming our rivalry on one of the Blue Raider boards - can't recall which one. People had mentioned some of the trophy-less rivalry names, and the one that had always stuck out to me as an awesome name was "Clean, Old Fashioned Hate" between Georgia and Georgia Tech. For one reason or another I took to google maps to map out the distance between our schools - right at 100 miles. I threw out 100 Miles of Hate. Another poster, I believe it was theboro, suggested "A Hundred Miles of Hate" after that, which I actually liked better but that didn't catch on. The rest is history I guess.

I was out of town at a wedding, so I actually got to see the graphic and hear the announcers talking about it on TV. That was awesome. The game was not.