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** A common joke in Washington State is that the perception of Washington's climate as perpetually raining is in fact a mass conspiracy to deter Californians from coming up. This is also the real purpose of the state of Oregon.
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I've never seen the second one, but the gag happened in the first one too. Let's assume both.
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** In Rome you'll see Smart cars parking like Clouseau did in the new ''Pink Pather'' movies (I think it was the second one), you'll see motorcycles and mopeds zigzagging through stationary AND moving cars. No standing near the street while waiting to cross it, you may have your toes run over... I can't count on FOUR hands how many times my family almost got run over... in the span of less than five days.
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** In Rome you'll see Smart cars parking like Clouseau did in the new ''Pink Pather'' movies (I think it was the second one), movies, you'll see motorcycles and mopeds zigzagging through stationary AND moving cars. No standing near the street while waiting to cross it, you may have your toes run over... I can't count on FOUR hands how many times my family almost got run over... in the span of less than five days.
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* Jordan Baker in ''TheGreatGatsby''.
** Daisy Buchanan, too, [[spoiler: which leads to the death of Myrtle Wilson.]] WomenDrivers, huh?
** Daisy Buchanan, too, [[spoiler: which leads to the death of Myrtle Wilson.]] WomenDrivers, huh?
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* Jordan Baker in ''TheGreatGatsby''.
**''TheGreatGatsby'' states that she trusts other drivers to get out of her way. Daisy Buchanan, too, [[spoiler: which leads to the death of Buchanan also has an episode [[spoiler:when she drives while emotionally distraught and kills Myrtle Wilson.]] WomenDrivers, huh?
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* ''MenInBlack'': [[CrazyAWESOME Agent Kay]] OWNS this trope. That is all.
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*** The heretics were masochists. So no, ''nobody'' minded.
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** It's by Jan & Dean.
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* DJ Shadow's "Mashin' on the Motorway"
-->So much hostility...Y'all just keep checking your rear windows!
-->So much hostility...Y'all just keep checking your rear windows!
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* "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar.
* Legendary indie band Drive Like Jehu took their name from the UrExample of this trope (see below in Myths and Religion)
* Legendary indie band Drive Like Jehu took their name from the UrExample of this trope (see below in Myths and Religion)
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* Nefer-tina of MummiesAlive is actually a good driver. Unfortunately, she never fully understand that red means stop and green means go.
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* PaniPoniDash has Old Geezer, who Becky is lead to believe is the owner of the shiny green ''[=MGB=}'' parked out on the school grounds. Old Geezer tricks her into taking her for a ride with the car, only for Miss Igarashi to come out and ask who just drove off with her car. The following scenes afterward show Old Geezer driving so fast over ''Antarctica'' and nearly hitting a frozen woolly mammoths. [[SpaceIsNoisy Becky's scream could be heard from space]], and she understandably develops a fear of cars.
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* PaniPoniDash has Old Geezer, who Becky is lead to believe is the owner of the shiny green ''[=MGB=}'' ''[=MGB=]'' parked out on the school grounds. Old Geezer tricks her into taking her for a ride with the car, only for Miss Igarashi to come out and ask who just drove off with her car. The following scenes afterward show Old Geezer driving so fast over ''Antarctica'' and nearly hitting a frozen woolly mammoths. [[SpaceIsNoisy Becky's scream could be heard from space]], and she understandably develops a fear of cars.
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* PaniPoniDash has Old Geezer, who Becky is lead to believe is the owner of the shiny green ''[=MGB=}'' parked out on the school grounds. Old Geezer tricks her into taking her for a ride with the car, only for Miss Igarashi to come out and ask who just drove off with her car. The following scenes afterward show Old Geezer driving so fast over ''Antarctica'' and nearly hitting a frozen woolly mammoths. [[SpaceIsNoisy Becky's scream could be heard from space]], and she understandably develops a fear of cars.
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* PaniPoniDash has Old Geezer, who Becky is lead to believe is the owner of the shiny green ''[=MGB=}'' parked out on the school grounds. Old Geezer tricks her into taking her for a ride with the car, only for Miss Igarashi to come out and ask who just drove off with her car. The following scenes afterward show Old Geezer driving so fast over ''Antarctica'' and nearly hitting a frozen woolly mammoths. [[SpaceIsNoisy Becky's scream could be heard from space]], and she understandably develops a fear of cars.
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* Bloo in ''{{Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends}}''. Insert the relevant quote below.
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* Bloo in ''{{Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends}}''. Insert After hijacking the relevant quote below.Foster's Bus, he takes Mac all over the place, getting part time jobs as delivery boys in the process, and by the end of the episode, has the entire police force waiting outside the front door when they get back home. Oh yeah, did I mention that Mac was the one driving at one point, completely hopped up on sugar?
-->"Best. Roadtrip. Ever."
-->"Best. Roadtrip. Ever."
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* There was once a study that concluded that there is one thing that *EVERYONE* in the world can universally agree on. No matter how good or bad their own driving skill, everyone ''THINKS'' that everyone ''ELSE'' is a bad driver.
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* Greece. Traffic laws are vague suggestions, the roads are dreadful and EVERYONE seems to be in a hurry. The exception is driving legally. Yeah.
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' (above) is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the [[TropeMobile Yukari-mobile]]." ("[[MadnessMantra Pleasestoppleasestoppleasestop...]") According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' (above) is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the [[TropeMobile Yukari-mobile]]." ("[[MadnessMantra Pleasestoppleasestoppleasestop...]") ]]") According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the [[TropeMobile Yukari-mobile]]." According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' (above) is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the [[TropeMobile Yukari-mobile]]." ("[[MadnessMantra Pleasestoppleasestoppleasestop...]") According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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** Notably, the car ''doesn't even belong'' to Yukari, but to her parents. How is that allowed, [[HandsOffParenting we may]] [[ParentalObliviousness never know]].
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*** They have company in their compatriots way over in Singapore. Someone went as far as writing an editorial in a newspaper on this. An entire web site has sprung up around it, too - http://singaporetaxi.20m.com/ (Warning! Web site looks like an ugly 1990's Geocities web page!).
* And speaking of Singapore, luck be with you should you get on a public bus - it's a roulette between a good and safe driver, a bad driver, and a bad driver that drives like mad. Expect to end up with the latter two more often when taking buses from a company called SMRT (which happens to be Slovene for "death").
** And if you are taking the late night after-hours bus routes that operate on weekends, kiss all hope goodbye when you get on the ones operated by the same company mentioned above (called, wait for it, [[{{KnightRider}} Night Rider]] ([[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} Yes, I know]]). They will not hesitate to push the bus over 80 km/h on everything from expressways to narrow streets. This in a country where the legal speed limit for buses is 60 km/h.
* And speaking of Singapore, luck be with you should you get on a public bus - it's a roulette between a good and safe driver, a bad driver, and a bad driver that drives like mad. Expect to end up with the latter two more often when taking buses from a company called SMRT (which happens to be Slovene for "death").
** And if you are taking the late night after-hours bus routes that operate on weekends, kiss all hope goodbye when you get on the ones operated by the same company mentioned above (called, wait for it, [[{{KnightRider}} Night Rider]] ([[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} Yes, I know]]). They will not hesitate to push the bus over 80 km/h on everything from expressways to narrow streets. This in a country where the legal speed limit for buses is 60 km/h.
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* Similarly, vehicles in ''UnrealTournament 2004'' don't suffer damage from falling. This results in behavior like driving a tank off a bridge to get to the bottom of a canyon quickly. And since CarFu is a favorite tactic and FriendlyFireproof is in effect, there's no reason ''not'' to drive like crazy and run over anything that moves. There's even a Daredevil award for pulling aerial stunts with ground vehicles.
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* Within Canada this trope is often applied to drivers from Montreal or Toronto.
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* Within Canada this trope is often applied to drivers from Montreal or Toronto.
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** Montreal cab drivers in particular, if the stand-up at the ''Just for Laughs'' festival is to be believed.
** Montreal cab drivers in particular, if the stand-up at the ''Just for Laughs'' festival is to be believed.
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** The GTA-driving style is even lampshaded by Ryder in ''San Andreas'':
--->I'm saying that the East Coast made you drive like a idiot, fool! Man, you always crashing cars and shit. And for some reason, now you back, all it is is, "CJ, drive" here, "CJ, drive" there. Bullshit!
--->I'm saying that the East Coast made you drive like a idiot, fool! Man, you always crashing cars and shit. And for some reason, now you back, all it is is, "CJ, drive" here, "CJ, drive" there. Bullshit!
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* Houston drivers are fairly egregious examples.
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* [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment Houston]] [[RunningGag drivers]] [[RuleofThree deserve]] [[{{Understatement}} a spot on this page]].
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* Parker from ''{{Leverage}}''.
-->'''Parker:''' "Who knew a sedan could hit 140?"
-->'''Sophie:''' "Parker, you are never to get behind the wheel of a car again, okay? Never."
-->'''Parker:''' "Who knew a sedan could hit 140?"
-->'''Sophie:''' "Parker, you are never to get behind the wheel of a car again, okay? Never."
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*** Plus most of the missions you take involve trying to either kill someone or get away from someone by any means necessary.
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the Yukari-mobile." According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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* Yukari Tanizaki from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is hands down the queen of crazy driving. She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up mentally scarred after just one ride with her, and will get BlankWhiteEyes at even the ''mention'' of "the Yukari-mobile.[[TropeMobile Yukari-mobile]]." According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast, too slow, and tends to miss details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse... in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo... who is stopped at a red light...
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* An early mission in ''EliteBeatAgents'' centers around a taxi driver who compulsively rockets around town. He's threatened to have his license revoked, but a pregnant woman in labor hops in and demands he step on it. Unable to decide between rocketing to the hospital or obeying the law, he screams for help. That's where the EBA come in.
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** Jeremy Clarkson also indulges in this occasionally. His bout with a Reliant Robin? Well...Herr Clarkson is an exuberant driver, and Reliant Robins are very light and, thanks to having a single front wheel, not very well balanced. Rolling a car 7+ times in fourteen miles is just a bit excessive.
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I've never been to Damascus, but all sources are unanimous on the ... um, energy of their native automobilists.
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* The Middle East is worse. Cairo, Beirut, and Damascus are particularly notorious for horrible driving.
** One [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/ DA artist]] did a series of "Driving Manuals" dedicated to her native Beirut. [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-1-122383066 For]] [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-5-125093884 example]]...
** One [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/ DA artist]] did a series of "Driving Manuals" dedicated to her native Beirut. [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-1-122383066 For]] [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-5-125093884 example]]...
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* The Traffic laws exist to be ignored throughout much of the Middle East is worse. East. Drivers in {{Beirut}} are famous for just going as fast as they can, sidewalks, intersections, and hills (Beirut has a ''lot'' of hills) be damned. [[ModernEgypt Cairo]] is, if anything, [[BeyondTheImpossible even worse]]: though there aren't any real hills in Cairo, Beirut, Cairenes make up for it by actively refusing to obey traffic lights (and paying only casual attention to traffic police) and Damascus are particularly notorious barreling down the city's narrow alleys in at speeds usually reserved for horrible driving.
surface streets in most countries.
** One [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/ DA artist]] (the creator of MalaakAngelOfPeace, in fact) did a series of "Driving Manuals" dedicated to her nativeBeirut. Beirut, illustrating such motoring tasks as [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-1-122383066 For]] parking]] and [[http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Lebanese-Driver-Manual-5-125093884 example]]...dealing with congestion.]]
* [[DamnedByFaintPraise It is rumored]] that there are traffic regulations in Damascus.
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** Finland isn't much of an example. That skid pad bit is because in Finland you will be driving on frozen roads most of the year, and you will crash if you don't have the training. Finland has very zealous traffic police and plenty of camera surveillance on the roads, so crazy driving is limited to individuals who think they are lucky enough not to be fined.
