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Date Posted: 10:04:33 12/17/03 Wed
Author: Pouncer
Author Host/IP: 156.80.140.85
Subject: Wow.
In reply to: wwolfe 's message, "wwolfe's Morbidly Curious Question of the Day" on 15:52:21 12/16/03 Tue

I think the time I drove over the curb in a movie parking lot would have to be mine. It's this bizarre lot that just dead ends and I was with friends and about to miss a movie. We went up and over and through the dirt to get back around to a parking spot.

Nowhere near as exciting as yours!

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[> The Secret Life of Tennessee Car Enthusiasts -- Maye, 20:11:20 12/18/03 Thu (66.188.131.119)

I'd never experienced road rage in my life until I went to Tennessee for one of my clinicals. My boyfriend was visiting me in Knoxville, and we thought we'd take a day trip out to Gatlinburg, which is a tourist-y little town with a state park up in the Smokey Mountains. The drive should have taken us about an hour. On the way there, we hit some bad traffic, so it took us nearly two hours. We discovered there was a car show in Pigeon Forge (home of Dollywood), so we decided to stay in Gatlinburg all day in order to miss the traffic on the way back.

So at about a quarter to 10pm, we started driving back. SIX FREAKING HOURS LATER we got back to Knoxville.

5 of those hours were spent on the 10 mile drive between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.

It seems that as part of a quaint little custom there, for this particular car show, they CLOSE a SIX LANE HIGHWAY and allow red-necks in nice cars to drive around in circles while other rednecks sit in lawnchairs by the side of the highway and scream at them.

Now keep in mind, we're in the Smokey Mountains. There are no sideroads, and no exits.

There were no signs anywhere warning us of this event. There were no detours. There were no radio announcements.

The only contributions from the police were to ticket motorcyclists who were trying to get through the traffic.

I seriously wanted to kill someone. Violently.

Moral of the story: Tennessee is a beautiful state, but don't go there. Ever.


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