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Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 309
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:26 pm: |    |
I am so mad!•• Why is it that metro Detroiters forget how to drive during the first snow?
It took me 45 minutes to drive from OP to Midtown yesterday morning and I saw an Aveo in the window of CVS at Woodward and Bethune! How did they miss the turn? |
1953
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Username: 1953
Post Number: 1493
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:40 pm: | |
Who abbreviates Oak Park? |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 400
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:41 pm: | |
I'm mad that this region has so little civic pride that it seems like a race trying to be the first person to talk about how bad the area is to anyone who is visiting from outside the region.
That REALLY pisses me off.
Now who wants to challenge me to feats of strength?
(Message edited by el_jimbo on December 06, 2007) |
Detroitstar
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Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 832
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:45 pm: | |
I'm mad that festivus is being celebrated prematurely. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4042
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:46 pm: | |
I'm mad that people have the nerve to live and drive around Detroit in a Honda. If they get a flat tire, they are on their own! |
Chris_rohn
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Username: Chris_rohn
Post Number: 358
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 4:57 pm: | |
The Aveo in the CVS window was hilarious sitting on top of those newspaper boxes like that.
I have no idea how that maneuver was even possible for a little car like that. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 997
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:16 pm: | |
"I am so mad!•• Why is it that metro Detroiters forget how to drive during the first snow?"
When you have young drivers that haven't experienced heavy 12' snows or severe ice storms on a regular basis (as such in the past), then y really can't expect much from them. |
Spiritofdetroit
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Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 791
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:32 pm: | |
young drivers are only in metro detroit?
her point was metro detroit is worse than other places. |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3987
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:37 pm: | |
quote:The Aveo in the CVS window was hilarious ... Was it a drive through window? |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 998
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:57 pm: | |
"young drivers are only in metro detroit?"
Why are you trying to put words in my mouth when you don't even know what you're talking about.
"her point was metro detroit is worse than other places."
No, that's just your poor assumption. |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 1772
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:53 pm: | |
No one knows how to drive during the first snow here in the Lansing area its the same way and I am sure it is everywhere else it snows too. What am I mad about is the fact that no one has a picture of the Aveo in the CVS window because that would have made my day assuming no one got hurt. |
Alan55
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Username: Alan55
Post Number: 837
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:58 pm: | |
Read a review of the DIA upgrade and installation in Time Magazine today (or was it Newsweek?). Great review overall, but of course, the writer just had to begin the article with the "Urban decay, abandoned streets" cliches. What, is there some sort of Writer's Code of Conduct that says articles about Detroit are required to start with a gratuitous comment about the city's economic situation? |
Mrsjdaniels
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Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 310
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 9:00 pm: | |
I wish I had a picture of that! it snuck up on me...I was driving, saw some flashing lights and then pulled up past the cop car and BAM! I was so confused by what I say I didn't think to turn around a take a pic!
----oh and I call Oak Park OP...so there |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5216
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 9:52 pm: | |
I'm mad that people in East Detroit keeping ordering tons of ribs, chicken, and pizza, then not paying for it. |
Gsgeorge
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Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 380
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 10:19 pm: | |
metro detroiters driving badly in the snow? You should see what happens in LA when it rains. |
Fareastsider
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Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 709
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 10:24 pm: | |
Im sick of the attitude of not caring! I am also sick of everything being broke or not working properly in the city. From broken parking meters, broken lights, no hot water, more often than it should stuff is broken or wrecked around town! Went to DPL today and had five instances where something was not working right. Every now and then is acceptable but it seems far to common in Detroit |
Fareastsider
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Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 710
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 10:28 pm: | |
Another thing. Today at the Burton Collection I was doing some historical research out of personal interest into the city and was amazed at old news papers and circulars of the city. From the directories to the photos and other interesting tidbits I dug up the amount of care and civic pride as Detroit was growing from 1910-1940 was amazing. The detail of road planning, homes, stores and more was so positive. It seems like when Detroit was built out the region continued building out and never slowing down to maintain and appreciate what a magnificent city that was created. (compared to the crappy boom towns of the sunbelt) Now fifty years later Detroit is left in ruins of what it was and it did not have to be this way. A true world class city was built and then left in the dust for greener pastures in the suburbs! That pisses me off so much!•• |
Sharmaal
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Username: Sharmaal
Post Number: 1257
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 10:42 am: | |
I'm mad that I have to listen to Festivus Music for two months! |
The_ed
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Username: The_ed
Post Number: 1340
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 11:28 am: | |
I'm sick up and fed about the trees in Detroit that are not being cared for.
There are so many trees that need a good trimming....not tinsel...branches falling....
who's to take care of this problem? ? ?
Property owners need to step up and take care of their property! |
Higgs1634
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Username: Higgs1634
Post Number: 243
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 1:04 pm: | |
I hate having my car broken into and having nothing but misc homemade mix CD's and maybe 60 cents stolen. I really hate it when I look up and down the row of cars and see that every one of them...maybe 10 in each direction, suffered the same fate. (I mean how long could that have taken and how much noise did it have to make!?! I really, really hate it when this happens in the CBD that is, allegedly, a crime free oasis.
I hate myself most of all though, because it is my fault for having a car, having a tiny amount of change in it, parking it on the street, and expecting it to be intact upon my return. |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 136
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 2:39 pm: | |
I hate that the Father of Festivus ended up on a crappy sitcom like King of Queens. |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9987
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 5:20 pm: | |
The provincialism of this entire area. It is killing us yet idiots can't see it. |
Swingline
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Username: Swingline
Post Number: 969
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 5:26 pm: | |
That sucks Higgs. Where and when did you get hit? It wasn't the infamous block that is catty corner to the Garden Bowl, was it? |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 3234
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 5:55 pm: | |
That is terrible Higgs, I've seen that on Adams before by GCP |