@cutter99
I believe the things you listed would be included in “conditions” as far as evaluating and setting a posted speed limit…
My apologies, I had forgotten how precise and literal we must be here on COTH.
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But it’s the cows fault
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You must have missed the part in my post where I said in my area.
Clearly if you live in a fence out area with free ranging stock, the rules are different.
You get very silly when you are just plain wrong.
I know the horse that was killed in the road recently (and caused the people in the car to end up in the hospital) was considered the fault of the horse owner, because the horse was loose.
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What is wrong with you? Saying I “get very silly when you are just plain wrong” wtf? I wasn’t arguing with you or saying that your experiences are wrong. I was simply bringing in another facet of a road danger. Yeesh
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I think her intention was to be directing the answer at Annie10, not you. She is the one who has proven quite stubborn about how ANY incident HAS to be 100% the fault of the vehicle driver and we just keep providing responses about how silly Annie10 sounds.
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Annie10 and I have certainly butted heads a lot on these forums, but she is having a really bad week. Maybe we just extend some grace?
Of course, you would not know this if you haven’t been following other threads, but for the moment, could we just err on the side of kindness?
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Sorry for the confusion, was not directing that comment at you.
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Because she treats other posters the same way? Not so much.
COTH is a forum where you tend to get what you give. Not everyone reads the entire board.
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That is certainly fair, and she can put a burr up my tail (and has, she does rile me up) but maybe just this once?
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Why is Annie10 having a very bad week?
Rainbow Bridge.
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So driving home from dinner, doing the speed limit on RT3 and a deer jumped out, the car in front of me hit it…it flew through the air and the person in the other lane slowed a bit. Deer landed in Median, car lost some of the headlight. I was far enough behind that I could slow when the car that hit it slowed down. There was just no way they could have avoided hitting it…now I need to go unsee it.
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Some of us are exhausted from always being required to be the bigger person.
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I was on the PA Turnpike. A deer jumped off the embankment that was about 3 feet higher than the mini van. It landed directly in front of the mini van. We were all doing the 65 mph speed limit. The minivan hit the deer and flipped on its side. The back passenger was not seatbelted. He flopped around like a rag doll.
It was February and cold. The front seat passenger sat in my truck with 2 horse empty trailer until the police got there to keep warm.
Sorry for Annie10’s bad week. No excuse. I lost my 22 year old cat suddenly to liver failure 1.5 weeks ago. I picked up her cremains today. That does not give me a pass to be insensitive, argumentative, or caustic. IMO Annie10 already has those personality traits.
Oh wait, I lost 5 relatives (BIL, MIL, step-mom, Dad, Aunt) in 6 month last year. 8 in 18 months- add FIL, step-dad, my husband of 34 years. I am still not rude or argumentative.
I am tired of giving grace to those that never seem to give grace to others. We can all choose to not post when we are in a pissy mood.
I will probably be smacked for making this personal towards another COTH poster. So be it.
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Can I add in my Lab and foxhound going right before my husband died? Within 3 weeks of each other
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@SonnysMom thank you for putting things into perspective for all of us! Sending cyber hugs your way!
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I hear you on this; however, I respectfully have to call out this is not a fair ask. Sometimes the kindest thing we can do when someone (this is not just specific to Annie10) is being difficult to interact with (that can manifest in many ways–argumentative, mean, overly sarcastic, reactive, cynical, constant complaining, etc) can be to help them find that self-awareness that they’re behaving out of sorts and to take a step back from whatever or whoever they’re interacting with others.
That doesn’t mean that others should not be empathetic (and that empathy may vary depending on emotional bandwidth); but they also shouldn’t bear the full emotional burden here. Each opposing party has some responsibility.
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Sometimes it seems like the universe is saying “Well, you handled that catastrophe well. How about this one? and this one? and this one?”
Sending more hugs.
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