Shira & Arielle – The Road Trip Buddies (Driving Profile)

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Crazy Driving Stories:

  • Cross-country road trip from California to New York
  • Acceleration drained gas
  • Peeing while driving 
  • Car broken into in Austin
  • 18-hour drive from Mississippi to New York
  • Driving over neighbor’s lawn

Arielle:

Shira:

Type of Driver:

  • Enjoys driving by herself
  • Loves long drives with crazy turns and ups and downs
  • Can’t change a tire
  • Likes to be in control
  • Keeps a safe distance
  • Not a honker
  • Doesn’t read signs carefully
  • Used to hate driving
  • Anxious driver – sits upright and 2 hands on the wheel
  • Bad passenger when driver stops at last minute
  • Timid honker
  • Gets frustrated when people do something unsafe

Driving Pet Peeve:

  • No blinkers – its just so easy to do
  • When passenger needs to turn volume to an even number
  • When a neighboring car’s music is so loud – disrespectful
  • Music with sirens should be illegal

New Driving Law:

  • Implementation of European light laws – a warning light to get ready to go
  • Easier to obtain vanity plates and design your own plate
  • Any place that you can’t turn on red should have a sign

Tips for Drivers:

  • Listen to podcasts if you want to up your stamina while driving
  • If you are ever feeling tired, blast music
  • When you get pulled over, you are supposed to pull over to the right not left

Driving in Mississippi/South:

  • Can’t drive in the snow
  • No tolls
  • Jackson is not a walkable city
  • Long stretches with no traffic – barely any stop and go traffic
  • Open roads for long periods of time
  • Can go 100 miles before seeing another car or a streetlight 
  • Roads are really bad – built on Yazoo clay

Driving in Los Angeles:

  • It’s miserable
  • Can be going 5 mph and it takes an hour

Driving in New York:

  • Notoriously more aggressive drivers
  • Slightly more compassionate to out of state drivers, but still annoyed with your driving

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