I’m sure most of us have had an absolute white-knuckled drive through a terrifying road - whether it’s a terrifying mountain switchback or just a poorly designed miserable highway. Go nuts!

  • Dylpickles
    2•1 year ago

    I’ll give two but both of them are more situational than they are explicit design flaws.

    The more recent one: I was driving with my current girlfriend to Tennessee from Georgia on an incredibly twisty, narrow mountain road that was simultaneously undergoing construction. Not too bad right?

    Well this construction meant big ass barriers blocking the shoulders entirely. That + it being 2-3 AM, pitch black, and raining it’s needless to say my steering wheel still has the imprints from my terrified grip that day. I wish I could’ve stuck my head out and asked the other drivers if they were as stressed out about that road as I was.

    Second one: first ever driving in snow back in December of 2019 I wanna say. I was I dunno 21?

    My now ex-girlfriend and I decided to take my car on our road trip from Georgia to Colorado because I had just gotten new tires. Sounds like a good idea, right? Little did we know my fuckin heater would give out maybe two hours into the trip. Cut forward a few hours we’re in the flat hell that is Kansas and there’s a whole ass blizzard happening.

    Driving through heavy snow for the first time in my life was daunting enough but add on the fact that my windshield would not stop freezing over/fogging up, my now ex-girlfriend yelling at me about how cold it was, and my extremities losing feeling as my ex hogged the space heater I wired to my car battery and you have a pretty miserable ass trip.

    I drove the whole way through. I drove all 24 hours without switching off to let her drive because she was too scared to drive in those conditions. I mean I can’t really blame her for that but I can blame her for being really mean to me the whole time and I can blame her for how she acted when we broke up the next month.