38 Replies to “Bad Female Drivers”

  1. I live in China Town in Toronto and parked a ladies car that couldn’t put it in a parking spot after several comical attempts last year.
    She was blocking the alley behind the Asia garden supermarket that I use to access Spadina.
    When I hopped in the drivers seat of her car and looked in the rear view mirror to back up, I was kind of surprised to see the ladies husband calmly smiling back at me from the back seat.
    Both were very thankful.

  3. LOL. Ticket dispensing machines really could be designed a little better — and with drivers like that around, they may have to be. The crash I can’t understand is the black and white film where the car hits the entrance gate and then flips completely. How can that happen? Just how unstable is that model of car?
    There’s only one more type of prang needed to make this a complete highlight reel. That’s the kind of crash where a large semi-trailer pulls wide left in order to make a right turn and a female-piloted Volvo behind it then drives along the right side of the trailer and is squished when the right turn is made.

  5. CJ, looks like they hit the post for the gate, drove up it a bit and was enough to send it over.
    I watched a guy last Christmas trying to parallel park his Smart Car into a spot that I could easily get the Sierra crew cab pick up from work into. After about 3 minutes he just gave up.

  9. like my old guvnor told me years ago….the REAL rot in society started when they gave women the vote….as for their deplorable driving skills it’s actually because their wrist bones are different…..they’re designed for stirring stuff….or wiping things…and their eyes only designed for looking into mirrors..
    go ahead and check it out …it’s all on google..
    …in fact harry enfield has a WW2 doc(youtube) on the subject called “women know your limits)..
    it’s all out therONLY if you progressives have the guts to face the truth…

  10. HA! I love it!
    Reminds me of the suburban females in New York who -stop- at the bottom of the on-ramp to the highway and wait for a break in the traffic. When said break (obviously!) fails to materialize, and they have like 20 cars lined up behind them blasting their horns (this is Noo Yawk, right?) they will blindly enter the 60mph traffic stream from a standing start.
    I did not see this particular farce played out only one time. I saw it on average once a month. Always women, always in SUVs.

  11. I’ll say one thing for the gal with the gas-pump hose; she’s tenacious, some might say … stubborn.

  12. A friend of my mother is one of those “I’m a strong,empowered,educated feminist women that doesn’t need a man for anything” types who can’t drive for S#!T and she parks a car just like the woman in that YouTube video starting at 0:44 seconds!

  13. This can happen because some drivers have been taught to “drive the road” and have forgotten or were never first taught how to “drive the car” as an extension of themselves. They cannot comprehend how the position of the car changes with steering inputs, especially in reverse.
    Many years ago my father was involved in the building of a downtown Toronto power plant that for some strange reason could only be accessed from the end opposite where the equipment he was responsible for needed to be assembled. He would tell in amazment how a tractor trailer would arrive almost daily with huge components from the factory and the driver would have to back up several hundred feet through a forest of steel girders with about ONE INCH clearance on each side. The driver was exceptional of course, even more so when you considered that he had to sit on a booster seat and there were blocks bolted to all the pedals so his feet could reach them. He was a jockey and this was his off season and second job to make ends meet.

  14. But Kate, my university education taught me that women are superior to men in everything. Now excuse me while I go sit on the toilet to pee.

  16. “suburban females in New York who -stop- at the bottom of the on-ramp to the highway ”
    Well… some of the parkways arounf Greater NY (no-truck highways) have on ramps designed in 1930/40’s and they are about 3 cars long.
    You really have no choice, seeing as traffic is rolling at 65mph, to wait for a break in the traffic because there’s no way you could acclerate and merge. It is scary to a good driver on some of those ramps in any sort of traffic or weather.
    That being said the A. Inability of people to accelerate to merging speeds B. Unwillingness of people to allow you merge is legendary around here.

  17. “Just imagine the chaos if motor vehicles were operated under Burquas.”
    Actually here in Doha the Burqua babes are very good drivers. Perhaps since they only have a narrow peep hole to see through it makes them cautious without being pokey. Now the Qatari men, that’s another story. They can race their Nissan Patrols around a traffic circle on two wheels, sometimes with a friend hanging out of the window or sunroof. And if they roll it, well that must have been Allah’s will.
    Have a look:
    http://tinyurl.com/yh4mu5p

  18. John Begley:
    I think you’re right about the consequences of women’s suffrage. The nanny state that we dislike reflects in part the maternal urges of women and their preference for collective action as opposed to individualism. In education, too, the modern emphasis on “group effort” reflects women’s desire to socialize everything, even subjects like mathematics, where correct answers are now to be found through endless discussion.
    If I were of school age today, I think I’d be a dropout. I don’t think I could take it.

  20. That was hilarious! Definitely worth the price of admission ; ) Though to be fair, the last guy who backed up into me at the parkade was, well, a guy.

  21. > I watched a guy last Christmas trying to
    > parallel park his Smart Car
    Good Lord, really?!? They’re designed so you can back straight into a spot, facing the street, and be legal. That’s one of the major selling features.

  22. Well I’m not really convinced that gender is much of a factor as much as societal conditioning….like the bizarre driver of the ME…..the same bizarre effect that causes some citizens to vote in ways which defy simple logic—-OBOZO’s election for example.
    Yeah those greater NY ramps are tiny—they are also a feature of the Penn. tollroads.
    Cultural factors may explain the ME driving habits…..I put it down to genetic stupidity…..like roaring up to the rear of a military convoy….dumb.dumb dumb dumb……

  24. that’s right RSP….ever listen to woemen trying to split up a restaurant bill including a gratuity?(personally i’d rather undergo a root canal)….numbers per se have no meaning to them but God bless their curly little shopaholic heads anyway..
    i mean like we ALL got a Mom don’t we ?

  25. I live right by the beginning of a school / playground zone . 2 years ago , just after the first snowfall that year a lady was driving through it . She was driving a 3/4 ton truck with a large protruding ball hitch at the back . The fella behind her was too busy talkin to his buddy and never slowed down . So the ball hitch gets stuck in the grill and there they are . She pulls ahead while he holds the braakes and then they try the opposite . All the time this is goin on she’s getting madder and madder .

  26. haha, I love those.
    They are almost as bad as the accident I was in in July where someone was driving the wrong way down circle drive here in saskatoon… oh wait… that was a man….

  28. I used to laugh (and stay out of the way) at the gaggle of drivers in Calgary who seemed to forget everything they knew about driving in snow after two or more clear winter days. I don’t recall the malady being gender based but not being able to see over the steering wheel seemed to coincide.

  29. But Kate, my university education taught me that women are superior to men in everything. Now excuse me while I go sit on the toilet to pee.
    I know several guys whose wives make them sit down to pee, the one has taken to going in the back yard.

  30. Heck…I use the backyard all the time.
    Having spent most off my time in a rural setting,its always a pleasure to check out the bush entertainment(birds/sqirrels) and after dark,the night sky.

  31. I thought it was a fact that men are equipped with better spatial relations than women. Whenever I want to pack more than a few items in a small space, I ask a man. It works every time. And, I always try to choose a checkout boy at the supermarket, having noted that they are much more efficient packers than the girls.

  32. Violet:
    I thought it was a fact that men are equipped with better spatial relations than women.
    Close, my dear. In fact, most men come with a built in a natural primitive (but effective) inertial guidance system. You may know them better as “testicles”.

  33. Hilarious. Men, driving badly, tend to be either overly aggressive twits or decide they are human speed bumps when they get behind the wheel but few of them are actually incapable of operating their vehicles. How did some of these people ever get a driver’s license, however?

  34. Thomas_L….. – “How did some of these people ever get a driver’s license, however?”
    They offered sexual favours to the driving instructors. That’s how we all get them.

  35. well. the dear gal’s mascara MUST be put on right. even if done whilst negotiating the family mobile collection of dents.

  36. KevinB: “Close, my dear. In fact, most men come with a built in a natural primitive …”
    Well … that, and our willingness to ridicule other males for their own good.

  37. They’re(Smart Car) designed so you can back straight into a spot, facing the street, and be legal. That’s one of the major selling features.
    ~Sean
    Legal?
    The law says you can’t park with the passenger side tires more than 22 inches from the curb.
    I’m fairly certain that Smart Cars are longer than 22 inches.
    Not very many people know this law exists, but one of the reasons it does is because some morons park their vehicles on the wrong side of the street facing oncoming traffic leaving the blind spot over their right shoulder vulnerable to rearend collision.

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