Some teenage girl gave me the finger because I passed her!!!

Golf Balls and spare change works well too. Not that I would endorse that sort of thing. I may or may not have thrown a milkshake out of my convertible though.

 

I'll reply.

<Sam Kinison>There's a reason!</Sam Kinison>

Nice car - a Lexus, she was dressed like a real go-getter, probably 50, hair dyed black, oversize frames on glasses with that Beverly Hills/Locust Valley wannabe swoopback hairstyle, didn't even notice or seem to care that I, Doctor Do-Not-Litter was next to her...

Anyhoo, psycho-***** was "cleaning her car out" at a stop light in Wilshire @ San Vicente by throwing everything out - 2 KFC Boxes, a Burger King & McDonalds bag, cups from those places & water bottles, soda bottles, even a 2-litre - could have almost filled a 13 gallon bag, but, nooooooooooooo... Wilshire was getting it.

Soooooooooooooooooooo... she got the 90's equivalent of a seltzer bottle.

Thus, I can proudly say, I once chucked the contents of an entire big-ass soda cup through an open passenger window.

 

Just don't take offense to it, I give people the finger when I'm driving on a regular basis.

 

I like George Carlin's view:

"You ever notice how anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster is an a**hole?"

 

Just blow her a kiss and mouth "I love you too!", then lick your eyebrows

 

As one of the young people you are addressing, you can't imagine how silly this seems, both looking at myself and my peers.

 

Yeah, to every "idiot" driver.

 

Yeah I guess I should have said some young people do not respect others - instead of grouping all young people together as not respecting others. My fault there.

 

Hmm, I don't know, maybe because you are already breaking the speed limit and you decide to pass her? You don't have any reason why she did that because you saw you were doing nothing wrong, even though you are already breaking the law. Basically, you gave her a big "F U" when you passed her even though she was driving with in a reasonable speed limit and being respectful of the law while you weren't. Coincidentally enough, I did this to some fat ugly broad in a Tahoe the other day. I'm going 65, and she floors and it and passes me even though it's a FM and the SL is 65. So, I gave her the two finger salute. Now, if I'm on the hwy, and doing 55 or so(which I'm known to do) and the SL is 70 and someone passes me even though I'm in the slow lane I have no problem with that. Why? Simply because know I'm going way under the speed limit. She probably thought you were being an ass for passing her since she was going the speed limit, you were breaking the speed limit, and you decide to say "screw you, you are to slow for me" by passing her. I know I would've thought that if I were her(only thing is with a SL of 50 I would've been doing 50). I think that it's rude, and I think that she thinks that it was rude, kizdan. The point is that it wasn't corteous to pass her while she was already driving with in a reasonable speed limit, while you on the other hand weren't driving reasonable (i.e. you were speeding).

 

if you can see anything in your rearview mirror you're driving too slow.

 

I had the same kind of thing happen to me but it was a guy and his wife on a motorcycle. i was going down a hill on my way home from school and I caught up to this guy, i figured like most people that he would move over in the next 5-4 corners or so. But the 4-5 corners went to 4-5 minutes and still nothing so i flash my lights and get closer to him. Still nothing; then finally when the fun mountain roads are done a speed limit sign says "35" and he has the balls to point to the sign. I was really mad at that point he’s just lucky its against the law to run people off the road. I think people just need to learn common courtesy on the road. For example not doing the speed limit in the dimond/#1 lane and not moving over on mountain roads.

 

After observing local traffic, I've concluded that the behaviour of drivers while on cell phones is the origins of the rumor that cell phones kill brain cells.

"Drive" is a verb.

Oh, and regarding speed limits: While I generally pay attention to posted limits, I'll still say that it's none of my business if you want to (safely) pass me at better than the limit. If you crash, you were going too fast and should face the consequences. But don't condemn someone else for going faster than you'd feel capable of.

Which is just another variation on a comment I feel a need to make to people when I'm in the Ferrari:
"You drive your car, and let me worry about this one."

 

The finger is a completely acceptable form of communication. When you get the finger from someone it can be a very rewarding experience. For me getting the finger means its time to freeking unload. When you give the finger be prepared to take some flak.

 

Dude today was F*CKed up!! I was on 3rd street, and turned left onto Keowee. At the exact same time a guy was going the opposite direction on 3rd and turned right onto Keowee. There are 3 lanes in Keowee and I got in the far left one and he got in the far right one (so I didn't cut him off or anything). Then I came to a stop light but I stopped like 2 car lengths farther back than normal so that I could switch to the right lane and get behind him. But for some reason he stopped at the exact same spot, so I moved up and then he moved up. So when it turned green I accelerated as fast as possible to get into the right lane because I needed to turn right soon. So I got in front of him and then started driving normally, made a few turns, and noticed that he was following literally a few inches behind me, and whenever I switched lanes he did. He was so close I couldn't even see his license plate or I would've made note of it. I really wanted to slam on the brakes so that he would hit my car and have to pay for it, but I was afraid that if I stopped at all he would get out of his truck and kill or rape me, so instead I moved to the far left lane of a 3-lane road, and of course he got right behind me. So to lose him, without warning I suddenly made a right turn into a parking lot (a right turn from the far left lane of a 3-lane road going about 30 mph). I barely made it in the parking lot and that bastard tried to follow me, he swerved to the right but he knew he wouldn't make it so he kept driving. I thought I lost him at that point, because I was in the parking lot and he kept going, so after a little bit I got out of the lot and started driving again and then what the f**k, I noticed that he was in another parking lot a few blocks down and as soon as I drove by he pulled out and tried to catch up. I went like 70 mph on a 35 mph road and barely made it through a light, and he got the red light so I escaped. That scared the sh*t out of me, what a bastard. I have no idea why he was doing that either, I didn't cut him off or anything.

 

All you should do is go into a Drive-Thru like in McDonald's, way back when, my 5th grade teacher's husband was being followed by "gangsters" and he pulled into the McDonald's and asked the Drive-Thru attendant to call the police for him because they showed him their guns and the cops came and they bailed and were arrested minutes later. Some people get offended, and decide they can put matters into their own hands and make it worse. I try to drive speed limit and people always flash their high beams, I just let them pass and flash my lights and go all crazy with the horn.

 

As someone who has been shot at on the freeway for passing someone, I just mind my own business now. Not worth having to change another tire cause a 9mm slug was in it...

 

I'd pull her over, pose as an undercover police officer and scare the willies out of her. If she's hot play nice cop, pretend to let her off and get a date out of her hehe.

 

And you were going 10 OVER. This kind of confirms what I thought, see what I mean? You don't think you're doing anything wrong and she's all to blame. If you step back a second and see it from a NPOV, "I was the breaking the speed limit and she was being mindful of the laws" then I think you might realize the problem. Paradigm shift as it were.

On a related story this morning, while dropping my sister off at the OAG I got a double flick from a fellow while trying to get to the next lane. For some reason not only did he feel the need to flick me off when I got in front of him (used signals light and the whole shibang) he thought it was best to channel his anger through his horn. I turned around, smiled and waved hello at him, lol he didn't like that at all. When I turned back around I told my sister that, "apparently, he thinks I'm #1, but I already knew that." she couldn't stop laughing.

 

When you're being "mindful of the laws", you're also minding your own business.

There's a difference between being law abiding and being a self-appointed hall monitor.

If you find nothing wrong with people engaging in hostile behaviour towards speeders, just where do you draw the line between that and a lynch mob?

And it gets worse. I see dozens of instances of two vehicles at well under the limit ... yep; right next to each other. They're talking on the phone, so they can't go faster -- so neither should you. This is just dragging society down to the lowest common denominator, and it's getting to be an epidemic in the US.

The number of people who want to feel better about their own choices by removing all the other alternatives are just exihibiting severe insecurity. There's a difference between "egalitarianism" and "hiding out in a crowd".

When we said, "Get a life", we meant, "one of your own", not "take away someone else's".

It's a terrifying trend of the modern apocalypse that towns are now regulating highways down to the level of the incompetent drivers, rather than requiring people to actually drive their vehicles.

If people don't mind finding, when it comes time to die, that they had not lived, that's their business -- until they insist that everyone else surrender from life as well.

Even a wounded rabbit has the good manners to crawl off to a dark place to die, rather than getting "all up in your face" about it.

 

kizdan, as soon as you post ANYTHING on an internet bulletin board, some cretin will show up to tell you that you're wrong. Chevarri is just filling a need.

 

Well, we can either try to educate the uninformed, ...

... or just mount sidewinder missiles on the hard points.

I miss Checker cabs; they were the real street sweepers in NYC:
"He who hesitates is taxi chow."
"You're either a driver or road-kill."
"What do you call a jay-walker in NYC? A hood ornament."

By contrast, in D.C., even the yellow cab drivers don't know their way around.
(This must be "never-never land": the roads are full of "lost boys")
I guess nobody teaches "map reading" anymore.
... and people get hostile to anyone that doesn't sit in the intersection dithering.

(Yes, I know: But I hate to see local politicos aiding the neurotically incompetent in taking over "the land of the free and home of the brave", just because it's easier to steal from the stupid.)