Background: As a Fleet Risk-Control Manager in a major city, our drivers are taught to reduce their "driver reaction distance" (gas to brake time) by entering into a "preliminary pad grip," (brake pad to rotor with minor, unnoticeable contact); this is also known as "gripping pad."
Example One:
Driver: "It's not my fault I hit that truck that shot out of the mouth of that blind alley."
Fleet Safety Director: "Yea, but you should have been "gripping pad" going through there..."
Example Two:
Driver: "Don't blame me that I knocked that person down; she came out of nowhere."
Fleet Safety Director: "You should have been "gripping pad" going through there with all the people present!"
The act of putting one's hands upon wood grain, an often faux-wood type of molding often found in luxury automobiles, especially on the steering wheel. However, in some cases, the wood is actually real. Gripping grain is often paired with leaning to one's right while driving.
If you're driving down Peachtree Road on a saturday night, you better be grippinggrain.
"You peeping him take a picture, that chrome and that paint official
You smoking then take a swisha, there's plenty just take 'em wit ya
You chilling you ain't a sipper, then I'ma be hanging wit ya
Take a hold of the grain and grip a, handful and smile for the pictures nigga"