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Low-Head-1493 t1_iw2yqnp wrote

Reply to comment by SquashDue502 in Have you guys ever seen rain before by SquashDue502

Eh. That’s anecdotal, as is pretty much all of the discourse on this thread.

I find that Mainers often take turns/corners more painfully slowly than any other drivers I have ever encountered, then there are others who speed pretty aggressively, but they also are often perfectly normal drivers… just like you might encounter in any state, including here!

I drove to Saco, Maine last night on windy back roads in pissing rain. Normal driving in both ME & NH by both yours truly and the other drivers… with the exception of one driver who came up behind me fast & probably didn’t like that I was slowing down on curves (just in this one meandering hilly section I’m unfamiliar with). I pulled over. Problem solved for both of us.

I do have one hypothesis that fits your opinion though: New England is FULL of old people. They can drive just fine in the snow as they’ve been doing it their whole life, but can’t see shit at night in the rain. (I’m not that old but am blind as a bat and use contacts… glare at night for me while driving is awful & precipitation makes it way worse.)

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movdqa t1_iw5yij6 wrote

I have a pair of night driving glasses. I started having problems driving in the dark about 20 years ago so I told my optician and he said that the pupils expand when it's dark to let in more light and that this changes the geometry of how corrective lenses work. So he made me glasses with about a quarter less power.

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Low-Head-1493 t1_iw74sv2 wrote

Thank you, that is really helpful and sounds exactly like what I need to do.

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SquashDue502 OP t1_iw3bm9y wrote

Honestly you might be right about the old people, it makes sense.

One thing I’ve noticed that’s similar in the south is that the Ford F-150 drivers are assholes here too lol

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