In fact, I experienced this on the Hanshin Expressway from the moment we got to Osaka. Tokyo's generally scary too, but Osaka's really something else!
I think Sanae-san would have started crying if she'd been driving, so drinking beer and passing out may have been the right answer. :-)
Reader-added tags include "Green means go, yellow means go, red means proceed with caution", "It's Initial D, Kogasa-san", and "Good for you for making it back, Kogasa-san".
Reminds me of the time we went to New York City, although I didn't do any driving. (We walked or took public transportation everywhere we went.)
One of the reader-added tags reminds me of a line from the movie "Starman", after the eponymous character had learned to drive through observation: "Red mean stop; green mean go; yellow mean go very very fast."
Decrepit roads, definitely. I can handle speed just fine, and I'll freely admit I rarely respect posted speed limits (in Hungary, generally speaking, they're either leftovers from roadworks, or plain stupid most of the time), but if the drive train or the axle broke in a pothole, I'd be royally screwed...
Skyknight said: {looks at first tag} So what means "stop", besides a wall of metal? This is sounding like the stereotype of Boston drivers...
Boston's nightmare is of it's own making it easily has the crappiest and most incompetently designed system of streets I've seen up and down the east coast (can't vouch for anything west of the Ohio river though). It seriously makes NYC and urban NJ, which are both still bad, look like friggin paragons of city planning.
Nya ha ha... In the South, it's Green means Go, Yellow means Go Faster, Red means... Go Fast enough they can't catch you.
But yeah, Kogasa hasn't been in the big D/FW around Rush hour... Worse than alomst anywhere else, everybody there drives their own car (or carpools). I went an entire week without seeing a taxi.
I don't blame Kogasa-san and Sanae-san for being scared to drive; it's not yourselves you have to worry about, it's everyone else on the road! It's stuff like this that I'm glad that I don't drive.
For the poll, a decrepit road would be the worse, nothing screams "horror movie setup" like a decrepit road out in the middle of no where.
Pff needs "snow covered mountain roads" nothing more fun then feeling your car slide a bit when breaking with a hundred foot sheer drop three feet off the edge of the road.
The survey explores our driving fears: Where's the scariest place?
Dallas... This is nothing compared to Dallas. I hear LA is even worse.
Otherwise I'm going with shopping districts. People still drive crazy, and you get the added bonus of pedestrians that just don't care.
Yeah...I'm rather scared myself...VreeowwmVreeowwmA Fire-Engine Was Taking Part in the Fight, TooSheeowwSkrikikiiiVrrmmBlink
BlinkYou know, Kogasa...What is it?VvrrrrmmmI'm...not really confident I can drive in Osaka...