This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Bonus: Thoughts on Drivers' Impatience

Episode Date: April 24, 2024

We have a Bonus episode.  Because our intrepid host and producer got into a minor car accident and narrowly avoided two others - in the same day!  And he has some thoughts on that.

Hi, I'm Mike Chernivsky, and your listen to this podcast is Un Called For. Hi, everybody, welcome to the podcast. Welcome to a bonus episode of the podcast. It occurred to me, I want to do a wrap-up of the UFL season. And I kind of like my episode numbers, even when we're finishing seasons. so that will be coming in June but I want to do a special today this bonus because I'm still upset about something and this is something that's we talked about a little bit on the podcast before certainly when Braden was still on we talked about the

gig economy and I'm still a little upset about this so I'm just going to put it out there so I record this on 42024 so happy weeds day to those who celebrates unfortunately I cannot because I still live in a state where weed is highly illegal and the Topeka refuses to do anything about it. So if you happen to be listening to this in the Wichita area, folks, time master, and the fuck out of office. All right, seriously. So what exactly am I upset about?

Well, for a call from our gig economy discussion, one of my biggest pet peeves is people who delegate. you know follow too closely in a car all right we are already going to speeds that aren't impossible for humans on barefoot in uh in uh machines

that's weigh a couple tons and traveling high speeds and there are rules there are in fact you have to get a special type of identification in order to be able to operate these machines. Of course, I'm not driver's licenses. And it can touch back on the whole downtown ballpark debate and the need for public transit.

Well, here's another need for public transit. Some people shouldn't be on the fucking road. And there were two examples of this just yesterday, 419 1 of which involves me actually getting into an accident well three actually

one of which involved me getting into an accident and two of which involved me almost getting into an accent so we'll go chronologically here and yes this is DoorDash related

so you can't think of this as a sequel to that gigacami discussion so so the first near miss was after the first delivery by the way i'm going to say this again tip your drivers all right if you are using door dash as soon as you put in your order it gives you an option to tip um especially if you're making me cross the stand line. I want double digits. All right. I'll forgive the this particular customer because turned out he was an elderly man in a nursing home.

But it was still $6.50. That's why I made on that one delivery. So tip your drivers. coming back i get my second to order of the day and i have to turn around it's this south of me i'm heading north on stay line so i come to the intersection i'm ready to get ready to turn left and the asshole behind me decides he's going to try to intimidate me and honk his horn twice look There's traffic coming from the north towards me and I'm waiting for an opportune time

to make that turn. I feel because of that horn, I'm feeling pressured to make that turn which I do and narrowly avoid getting clips by an oncoming car.

So fuck you to that. asshole who almost got me killed and bright created came close to creating a big mess on Stantline Road at an hundred and third so number one the other miss and the actual hit happened on the same delivery the near miss first because that happened first so go in to the restaurant and make the pickup all right unfortunately there's only one way in or out there's usually two but the streets right there this is that a little Oak Park Plaza thing right across the street from Oak

Park Mall that street that little side street that separates the Plaza from the mall area is being worked on. So that way is not accessible. So everyone has to get at the same way. So I'm seeing in this mini traffic jam in a parking lot for God knows how long. And finally getting an opening or so I think because the guy who wants that opening is trying to cut me off. Yeah, F him too. Um, uh, that's a situation, uh, I wish Ovalin Park police would, uh, dispatch someone to handle that situation, you know, at least control traffic flow.

Because, uh, what I saw in that party line can accurately be described as a cluster fuck. And once again, people not knowing how to. drive. So only one direction, people come in, three directions that people want to get out. So at the very least, I'd put a security guard, since it's a private property, or I would contact Oakland Park Police and say, hey, could we get someone to handle traffic out here? But that didn't happen. I'm lucky to get out of there, which leads directly to the accent. I managed to get across the lanes, heading north on Quivera, getting that right, that left-hand turn lane, and the light turns green and like that.

feel a thud. The guy behind me decided to run into me. So I complete the turn. I pull into the nearest parking lots. And the son bitch just runs off. Nothing. If you have a fender bender like that, yeah, you're supposed to stop, assess to damage,

trade, information, and just go from there. I did my part. on to do my parts. I pulled into the party line and I checked it down. Luckily nothing nothing too major. I think I'm still a little shaking and I'm still a little angry, obviously.

And thank you and sorry to the postal worker that happened to be right there. Sorry for spell my guts out at you. But thank you for at least listening

to why I had to say and I helped run the rest of the day so I was able to complete that delivery despite the parking on a traffic jam and being unconscionably rare-ended look the light had just

turned green okay I was ready to go and this asshole just can't wait so he bumps me yeah um anyway right of that yeah i um down the phone uh get doordash to connect me with lenoxa pd because oh yeah i was turning into lanexa at that point's uh in that part town laennaxa and An ex and O.P. are separated only by Quivera. Yeah.

So. So they say, yeah, yeah, just coming in. And I know they're getting ready to move here soon. Are you still at the old police station on 8.7th? I'm nearby. I can stop by. And credit to the officers who, uh, to my, took my information into my case and

hopefully they're able to figure out what exactly happened and that is a major intersection that does have police cameras so they can easily find out who did this and everything

probably find him probably take away his license I don't care but the asshole who honked at me and the asshole who rammed into me they both need to stop driving all right any of their licenses revoked or something

because what they uh that's a that's something I hope people are going to take away from listening to today's bonus episode is that's you got to be patient on the road if I may quote Star Trek

Next Generation Conspiracy Patience is one of our virtues Captain Especially with driving Patience is a virtue You know

Be patience With the guy in front of you No They teach you this in driver's ed All right All right It's been a long time time I've taken driver's ed

folks But still, you're supposed to give the car from you and count one Mississippi, two Mississippi, when until you get to two Mississippi, and then you can go. Give the guy in front of you, play a space before you go. Again, they teach you this shit in driver's ed in high school. all right apparently those two assholes missed that

missed that day in class and samplas for way too many drivers in the Kansas City area into quote Braden he said he had a confirmation from New Yorkers

that Kansas Cityans drive the way New Yorkers wish they would drive if they had more space yeah well New Yorkers I know traffic is very much a situation

there and you do have to follow each other pretty closely if you're driving so thank God you guys have

public transportation i.e. Subways and Kansas City I hope we get to that point sooner rather than

later because way too many people in this fucking town tailgate tell you they follow way too closely and you wonder why I'm pissed off all the time when I'm driving because of these

fucking morons following me way too closely if I'm looking at my river mirror and I see I see the grill or I don't see the grill and I just see a windshield and I'm not even seeing where the tires meet the road that's pretty close that's way too close for my comforts

and those people need to fuck off or retake driver's ed or something because that's my pet peeve and that's why it is my pet peeve because you're unnecessarily putting pressure on me or anyone who happens to be in that situation and you're putting me in danger you're putting yourself in danger

and like you don't give a fuck safety first when you're driving remember cars are well they're not cheap they're not cheap to maintain

and they weigh a couple of tons apiece and you're again traveling at speeds that humans naturally cannot cannot go

we are ill equipped to go those types of speeds for those types of distances so that's the big thing don't tailgate be patient

follow the rules of the road remember what they taught you in driver's ed if you took driver's ed and give the person in front of you plenty of space all right all right

and if you still refuse to do that you can fuck off go to hell and pray that's your not caught all right so that's all I wanted to talk about today thank you for listen remember those two last sins in particular be patient and don't tailgate all right have a good rest of the day