Where To Draw The Line...and When Do I Cross It?

I guess the conversion for ground vehicles would be, stopping is mandatory, starting is optional

I've always said if your truck won't go you call a tow truck, if your truck won't stop you call an ambulance. It's nice if the engine runs well but it's far more important that the brakes stop well.

Patrick said:

I guess the conversion for ground vehicles would be, stopping is mandatory, starting is optional. The whole point of the taking off saying is if something isn't right and you are not comfortable than don't take off. Once you are in the air, you WILL come down one way or another.

HAHAHA! Ain't that the truth!

Brett responded:

I've always said if your truck won't go you call a tow truck, if your truck won't stop you call an ambulance. It's nice if the engine runs well but it's far more important that the brakes stop well.

Amen to that!

I guess the conversion for ground vehicles would be, stopping is mandatory, starting is optional

I've always said if your truck won't go you call a tow truck, if your truck won't stop you call an ambulance. It's nice if the engine runs well but it's far more important that the brakes stop well.

I love these!! I'm definitely stealing them too!! lol

Nice one guys! 👍😜

Here's where I'd draw it....the chatting on the phone constantly thing. Of all the tendencies you listed...that's the worst one by far IMO. I think it's a joke that one can legally babble your way through an entire shift at the wheel (as both of my trainers would come near to doing when I first started out) as long as one is wearing a dorky headset...as long as you've been a good consumer and paid your dues to the 'tech' industry. I happen to think that having protracted and unnecessary conversations at the wheel is the dangerous distraction...not having one's arm bent. That is to say I think it's our brains that get distracted, not one's elbow or hand.

Not to mention that having to listen to those long, banal, tedious conversations drove me nuts. Rude..check. Dangerous...check. I'd be out of that arrangement pronto based on the phone thing alone.