When is it Time to Fight Back?
Posted on 01 Nov 2008 under Journal/Life Updates
First off, wow! No post for almost 2 months. I would have posted earlier, but for some strange reason, I just felt like keeping October post-free. I’m just crazy that way. Anyway, I hereby expect that I have probably lost a lot of readers and/or search engine hits because of the near complete lack of activity (I worked behind the scenes to upgrade my WordPress from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, and now it’s telling me to upgrade to 2.6.3, which I don’t particularly intend to do anytime soon. Don’t worry, I checked the upgrade and it’s not a major issue). From now on, I’m considering posting a little more regularly.
And now, we return to today’s post. I was driving back home today from class, at about 9:30 PM. I generally dislike driving at night. The car’s windshield isn’t always squeaky clean, especially as far as oil is concerned, and headlights from the oncoming traffic can make it a little hard to see. Today, I was on the scooter, and I had the same problem, particularly from motorists who refuse to dim their lights. For your information, high-beam should only be used when you’re driving in a particularly dark area and when there’s no oncoming traffic. That is something I generally do, switching on my high-beam only when the idiot coming from the opposite side is driving on high-beam. Normally, I switch it back “low-beam” once I pass the offending driver. Today, however, there were about three or four such drivers, and I didn’t quite bother lowering my headlights till I drove all the way back home.
Now see, the thing is…it would normally be something I’d consider myself above to drive with my high-beam on. But on the other hand, there’s the “Give people a taste of their own medicine, particularly if it tastes bad” ideology. Hmm…thoughts?
sometimes, i feel like attaching a few halogen lamps to the top of my car… when some jerk puts his high beam on, to blind me, i’ll just give the halogen lamps a flick. muahahahaha.
i hate the purple thing next to my name!! can’t u get something better? or let me put up my own pic?
For easy wordpress updating: http://wordpress.org/development/
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Look at the files that are updated an just update the files, if you hadn’t realiased
Hey I hate a typo, correct it now!
from the title of the post i thought you were gonna beat up someone for real.
I agree with the whole high beam low beam thing. pisses me off too when people do that. Worst part is when I’m totally blinded and some old guy tries to cross the road.
Try flicking your lights from high to low and back, kinda like when you wanna pass. Some chaps realise and switch to low beam.
happens rarely though.
@Tripti: Yeah, I wish I had those kinda lights too. It wouldn’t hurt if they were searchlights either
@Yunheng: You made a typo in both comments!
I’m not gonna correct them. And yes, I know that 2.6.3 only needs a couple of changes from 2.6.2, but I’m too lazy. I’ll do a complete upgrade when required.
@homer: Dad used to flash the high-beam at people in Bangalore, and it worked quite a few times. I tried doing that here, and I had people flash it back at me (before switching back to high beam of course) as if we were exchanging greetings or something!
This drives me NUTS. I have driven quite a bit at night and I hate it when people don’t use low beam. It’s like driving blind. I have tried the thing Homer mentioned, and most of the time, it does seem to work. We spoke about this a few days back and yes, it is a pain in the ass.