The horror stories?

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   1. drunk driver last year, kept veering off, then slowed down to 40-45mph when he saw a cop. luckily the girl in the back was asleep; she didn't have to witness anything. i really couldn't do anything but hope for the best.

	2. car broke down 2 exits away from our stop on the way back home to horner. the guy was super pissed b/c it was in the shop the week before and was going to yell at the mechanic on the phone with the way he was talking and when he finally got a hold of him all he did was make another appointment. no yelling; i would have. other rider had AAA so she called a tow truck. Still had to wait an hour for his wife and daughter to come give us a ride.  Cops came not because the car was broken down but because one of us was sitting on the jersey barrier and someone called it in. thanks to the humanitarian for calling for help for the RIGHT reasons.

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MNMNT Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote MNMNT Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: The horror stories? Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 9:52am
	1. drunk driver last year, kept veering off, then slowed down to 40-45mph when he saw a cop. luckily the girl in the back was asleep; she didn't have to witness anything. i really couldn't do anything but hope for the best. 2. car broke down 2 exits away from our stop on the way back home to horner. the guy was super pissed b/c it was in the shop the week before and was going to yell at the mechanic on the phone with the way he was talking and when he finally got a hold of him all he did was make another appointment. no yelling; i would have. other rider had AAA so she called a tow truck. Still had to wait an hour for his wife and daughter to come give us a ride. Cops came not because the car was broken down but because one of us was sitting on the jersey barrier and someone called it in. thanks to the humanitarian for calling for help for the RIGHT reasons.

BIGNAT Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote BIGNAT Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 2:59pm
	Crazy stuff here on this topic. Well, I usually drive but now I'm riding. I usually fight sleep on the way home but I never fall asleep. Since I've been riding, I'm wide awake for the ride. Don't trust folks. As soon as I get out and get in my car, I'm sleepy as heck! LOL. I will tell you that if someone is driving and so sleepy that we almost die. I'm getting out and or calling the police if they won't let me out. You will see me walking on 395/95 so pleae pick me up! BigNat

getmehome pweeze Members Profile Find Members Posts Master Slug Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 501	Post Options Post Reply Quote getmehome pweeze Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 3:21pm
	Year ago my husband and I climbed into a mustang convertible, with me in the back behind the driver. I drifted in and out of nap state, to be jerked awake by the car swerving, hard. Apparently the driver decided to switch lanes without looking, or she was nodding off-cant remember.. my husband thankfully was watching- he grabbed the steering wheel and yanked it out of the ladies hand- she was just about to smash into a car directly next to us.. I was wide awake for the rest of the trip. The driver was embarrassed, my husband had to apologize for elbowing her to yank the wheel. This is a shared system folks. Most of us were raised with manners, it's time to start using them. XOXO- sluggin' girl

slugguru Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 17 May 2004 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote slugguru Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 2:47pm
	Sometime last year me and another slug caught a ride home from L'ENFANT to Horner. A gentleman was driving and kept falling asleep on the road. We were headed straight for the guardrails! I was up front(PRAYING), the lady in the back seat was hysterical. She kept asking him to pull over and she would be more than happy to drive. He insisted he was okay, but kept falling asleep, again we were headed for guardrails, she screamed again asking him to pull over....he insisted he was ok! This was the scariest ride ever......If it wasn't for the woman in the backseat screaming, we WOULD have been in an ACCIDENT. I remember he was listening to a book on tape! The guy was very calm...When we finally reached Horner, he said he would drive us to our cars! We said NO THANKS and hopped out!!!!......

mpatoka Members Profile Find Members Posts Junior Slug Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote mpatoka Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 12:19pm
	There's been a few times I wouldn't mind telling the driver to pull over, hop in back, finish taking your nap and I'll drive the rest of the way.

Pele Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 27 May 2008 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pele Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 11:59am
	quote: Originally posted by langloisrg a lady pulled up to the pentagon and said, and I quote "I can to 3 but I have been drinking so someone else has to drive". An army officer drove she got in the back seat, 2 other slugs got in and off they went as myself and several other slugs stood there and watched in sheer bewilderment. That's AWESOME! Next time I knock back a few beers after work, I gotta remember I can pick up a few DDs at the slug line!

langloisrg Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Location: DC Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote langloisrg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 4:34pm
	Wow the worst thing that happened to me is I once rode with 2 ladies singing and clapping to gospel at the top of their lungs from the Pentagon to Stafford and another were a lady pulled up to the pentagon and said, and I quote "I can to 3 but I have been drinking so someone else has to drive". An army officer drove she got in the back seat, 2 other slugs got in and off they went as myself and several other slugs stood there and watched in sheer bewilderment.

mpatoka Members Profile Find Members Posts Junior Slug Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote mpatoka Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jan 2010 at 2:16pm
	Pweeze, That happened in my first year of slugging and have continued slugging for over 7 years now. I didn't change my routine but it took both of us about 6 months to get over the fear of being rear-ended again. Everytime the driver would hit the brakes, we'd both tense up and immediately look in the mirrors to see if someone was coming up behind us. Just one of those things. The bad part was the driver that caused the accident was a regular driver until he retired about a year or so later. I had ridden once or twice with him and he would drive drowsy so he was one of those cars you tried to avoid if you knew him.

getmehome pweeze Members Profile Find Members Posts Master Slug Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 501	Post Options Post Reply Quote getmehome pweeze Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jan 2010 at 1:09pm
	Wow Mpatoka- Did you continue to slug your regular routine after that? I'd probably be afraid too for a bit after that. I remember the storms of 03. This is a shared system folks. Most of us were raised with manners, it's time to start using them. XOXO- sluggin' girl

mpatoka Members Profile Find Members Posts Junior Slug Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote mpatoka Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jan 2010 at 12:05pm
	Here's the scariest that happened to me. We've dubbed it the St Valentine's Day massacre (no fatalities fortunately). Valentine's Day, Friday Feb 14, 2003. It's a 3-day weekend plus it's V-day so afternoon traffic is heavy. My co-worker and I get in a car at the Pentagon headed for Stafford. Traffic is all backed up at Springfield so we're stopped in the left lane at the last HOV on-ramp. Get the sudden jolt from being rear-ended so we get out of the car to see what happened. A black Saturn rear-ended a minivan which in turn hit our car causing us to nudge the car in front of us, a total of 4 cars involved. The Saturn must've been going near full-speed at impact and totally demolished the rear seat of the minivan. The minivan has a mother with a baby and young child. The child gets scared so immediately gets out of the van and runs across the right HOV lane almost getting hit by the moving cars. The Saturn driver gets out OK with just a bloody face. The two slugs are pinned in and they have to call out the Jaws of Life to extricate them and then they are medevac'd to the hospital. I think I heard one had a broken back because the Saturn trunk was full of firewood which flew through the back seat at impact. Everything gets shut down to land the helicopter in the HOV lanes. We realize that the two slugs in the Saturn were standing right in front of us at the Pentagon and we got in the next car so it could've been the two of us there instead. We're OK but our car has to get towed so we end up hitching a ride to Stafford in the Mustang that we hit but was still driveable. Two days later we get hit with the numerous snowstorms that shut down schools for a total of over two weeks.