I'm getting real tired of ignorant things people do on the road. 1) I'm at a stop sign with two lanes. I am the second car to go (Behind the guy that is first at the light). The light turns green and both cars that were in front stay neck and neck 20 MHP below the speed limit until both lanes go to one, stacking cars behind them that need to be somewhere before Christmas. 2) I'm about the 30th car behind a fat soccer mom in her van doing 48 in a 55 on a country HWY. When she gets to the two lane section, she pumps it up to 70. Cars are passing her and honking with hand signs. I did not make passing her when the two lanes became one. She slows back down to 50! Whats your 'favorite'?
Left lane hogs. People who are glued to the right lane on a hwy and won't move over for 10 seconds to let you merge on safely. The list goes on.....there are 'way too many idiots out there. Neil
...anyone else notice on three lane freeways slow IDIOTS sitting in the middle lane instead of the right? ...the dreaded triple threat-a woman driving an SUV while talking on a cell phone ...people who stop in the middle of the lane when they could have moved slightly to the left to let drivers turn right and so on and so on....
I needed to get in the right lane yesterday to exit. I had an adequate amount of room, so I wasn't cutting the guy off or anything. I started moving over and put on my blinker at the same time I started heading in. The second the guy sees me even remotely move/turn on my signal, he JUMPS ahead. I was in an SUV I really have no attachement to, so I don't care if this jackass gets hurt in his little car. Really pissed me off. I was tempted to lightly tap my brakes to scare him a little, but after I saw the arrest on the news for some guy doing that and being the cause of two peoples' deaths, I figured it would be best if I abstained! Oh, also, people that want to feel like race car drivers and get up inches behind you before they change lanes. Morons.
Bingo!! This is the winner! And don't you love it when the guy in the 'overtaking' lane, suddenly puzzled to find himself in danger, starts to brake? Im sorry, but there are only three types of drivers out there: The dawdlers. The maniacal. Me. Its the dawdlers that kill me too. I used to do a horrible thing to people who got in my way on 154 going down hill into Santa Barbara. The road meanders and there were really no passing spots at all, for miles and miles, leaving you to sit and fume while someone would chat on the cell phone or just plain lugubriously drive down the road 20 mph. below the posted limit (oddly enough trucks and camper vans never seemed to do the blocking). My rotten party piece would take place on 101 Southbound. You see, 154 would join 101 through an on - ramp that would turn into a lane, that would then turn suddenly into an off ramp into Hope Ranch. As the wandering driver would join 101 I would accelerate, pop out into the middle lane right beside him, match his speed, and then drive parallel and unseeing until my boy suddenly found himself leaving the highway and looking at a sign that read Exit Only. Getting out of Hope Ranch wasnt easy, what with no left turns, cops everywhere, and a bit of a one way system. The way I saw it, whomsoever had time to drive down 154 twenty miles an hour below the limit, had plenty of time to enjoy the back roads of Hope Ranch, no harm done. Sadly the roads are now all changed, a condition that makes me a better person in deed, if not in thought.
...and when merging, the IDIOTS who insist on speeding up to get in front instead of slowing down to get behind. What is the mindset of those people? ...someone behind you changes lanes, speeds up, passes you, gets BACK in your lane only to slow down to exit-MORONS
How about you are heading down a ramp onto a hwy...........and the car behind you feels obligated get onto the hwy just a bit before the ramp really merges with it.......so now he's blocking your way onto it. (and I was by no means going slow down the ramp to merge)
One more: I was behind a large extended cab truck last night. There was an exterior cab light above the rear window that was almost blinding (Set of two lights). Whats with this?
Yeah, not to brag or anything, but all those people are angels and Einsteins compared to the drivers here. The road death rate among young Arabs is something like 30 times higher than for me, on the same roads. Some time-honored favorites: Getting out of the lane that doesn't end, into the lane that's ending, to get ahead of a few more cars before jamming himself back into the proper lane: you know, the one he was in just a minute ago. Driving down the empty lane going straight until the head of the left turn lane, then cutting in at the front of the long line of people waiting to turn left. Honorable mention to the wanker who lets him in. When enough people are waiting to break in line, a THIRD lane forms to cut in front of those cutting in front. Cruising in the left lane at the same speed as the person in the right lane 100 yards back, until that person moves into the left lane to overtake, then flooring it, rushing up on their bumper flashing their lights. Then swerve and brake-check the 'offender' when they move back over. I could go on forever, but you wouldn't believe me....
I'm a courteous driver. I try to follow the rules and give other people breaks. Some experiences: I'm in the left lane doing the speed limit, I'm trying to get in the right lane, I've got my blinker on and I'm looking for an opening to safely pull into. A guy pulls up behind me and starts honking his horn and flashing his lights. What the hell you want me to do Buddy? I'm at a stop light, there is a line of cars behind me. The guy on the other side is turning left. The light turns green and I wave the other guy through ahead of me. The guy behind me honks his horn and I can see him gesturing in my rearview mirror. What the F? Is it going to kill you to wait 2 seconds for this other guy to go? Traffic is heavy and merging at a "Y", everyone is being real nice and every other car is going, left, right, left, right, going smooth and you get some idiot who can't wait his turn and tries to squeeze in behind the guy in front of him. How much time is this guy shaving off his commute? The traffic is stopped on the highway. Bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, just inching along. The left lane is closed ahead. I'm in the left lane, I want to be in the right lane. I put my blinker on and look over at the guy next to me and politely gesture if it would be alright if I squeezed in ahead of him. He scowls at me and wags his finger no and then rides on the bumper of the guy in front of him. WTF? It is going to kill you to be polite and let me in?
I hate pick up truck drivers who allow their trash to fly out at speed from the back of the truck. I guess they think the trash fairy takes care of their trash in the back and they have a clean truck bed after thier drive. I hate it when people towing trailers full of what ever and not securing their cargo down. I've had two flat tires at one time because of some knob head home remodler let his trash fly off it and land on the road and not picking it up. I also had a 5 gallon water bottle hit the right front of my Porsche when doing 75 on I-10 in NM while I was passing a p/u truck towing a trailer. It flew off and nailed my car and I pulled over to inspect the damage and I found only a scuff mark on the clear bra. (It buffed out) I caught up to the truck and gave them my piece of mind.
Here's my short list in no particular order: People who seemed to doze off/not paying attention at the head of a stoplight when it's time to go. People who leave at a slow roll from a stoplight with nobody in front. Slow meaning NO acceleration. It's like they just take the foot off the brake and let the car coast. People in the middle/left lane driving slower than the outer/right lane. Cutting in at the last second at a merge. What's the deal with that?! It slows everyone down! This is the main problem with Seattle traffic and the geniuses at DOT think we need more lanes to alleviate traffic congestion. Proper merging at bottleneck areas would improve flow many folds. Rude minivan driving moms cutting everyone off. They're always on the cellphone. Driving on the far left lane and suddenly cut off everyone on the right to take a turn or exit on the right side. This also happens in reverse from right to left. Saw an aftermath of an accident where the offender got T-boned by an oncoming truck. Not pretty. What's the deal with VW drivers? They all seem so hyper?
I'm a VW driver! This one will make you feel better: once saw a local do the usual local thing, cut across four lanes at the last second to take the exit, forcing everyone to slam on their brakes. So far, just normal everyday driving. But the good part came when he tried to take the sharp exit too fast, and there was road construction, so he plowed straight on into a big hole. Better still, he wasn't wearing his seatbelt, (of course) so the last thing I saw as his car nosed over into the hole was a guy in a white dress kissing the windshield, upside down.
My problem doesn't necessarily stem from being on the road, it's being a pedestrian. This past year I've had about five close encounters while crossing intersections or in a parking lot- at best the people hit their brakes before I started to bolt but the worst actually had me leaping over the hood of a Civic that decided to take off from a stop. Gwen laughs when I take my car to drive across the street (her place is located on the corner of my Civic incident) but I'm not tempting fate anymore. If they choose not to pay attention and smack into my ride it's preferred over being dragged under some Escalade for half a block. As for the actual driving part, I generally can see problems coming and adjust speed/switch lanes to accommodate.. The stop-light sleeper just can't be avoided, however.
oh, i've got lots to add to this.......... 1) person that is getting on the freeway and decides that they're going to lazily take the turn to the onramp and drive right down the middle of the 2 lanes. meanwhile im looking for a way around so i dont have to merge onto the freeway at 45 because johnny ******'s POS SUV couldnt accelerate to freeway speed if it had a JATO system 2) people changing lanes with no blinkers, or those that just whip it over to the next lane (mainly its the ricers that do the latter in their excellent handling civics and integras) c'mon people on the freeways most are going 80+, is that even safe? do you even have a brain? 3) the usual crazy mom in SUV on cell phone 4) people that wait to the last second to merge, which often leads to slamming on the brakes so they dont exit 5) people that sit in the right lane of a 2 lane stop light (at a red), the left lane is open and i am right behind them with my right blinker on, waiting for the whole light cycle so i can turn left 6)i also love how any bend in the freeway is viewed as a difficult situation, and therefore everyone slows down for a turn that could easily be taken at 2x the posted speedlimit (65mph). the 110 into LA is a different story though, when they say exit at 5mph, they mean 5mph 7) i love how there are 2 lanes that exit at a freeway interchange, but somehow all the lanes 1 mile back are stopped, because so many people insist on trying to squeeze in at the last second so they have to wait 30seconds less in the back up. its the usual zoom up, slam on brakes, no blinker, whip into an opening the size of a shoebox, back up the whole lane when your car doesnt fit and is now sideways in 2 lanes 8) and i also love to get reved on by fools in their civic, integra, accord, etc... because honda made the civic super type R evo-killer. or ricer blows past you, brakes, emergency flashers (aparently this stems from street racing, im not quite sure how it works, but its supposed to taunt you to race them). 9) quite possibly my most favorite. sitting in traffic (hey, this is LA what do you expect?) and there is a guy next to you revving, tring to get me to race him....where are we going to race? 10 feet into the back of the car infront of me? fking morons. usually i give them a thumbs up what a "what an idiot look", but if i was packing, i could purify the freeways 1 day at a time
Well, if you were in the hospital, you would have some time to get some things done with your laptop!
I hate the fact that even though i keep my beater pickup quite clean, folks just love throwing their rubbish into the back. I can't tell you how many times i've been driving down the highway and see a bit of junk fly out the back. I didn't put it there; It wasn't there yesterday. I hate the fact that other people think i'm the littering jerk in this situation!
Non use of turn signals. Those types are either stupid or ignorant. But most definately rude and inconsiderate. Turn signal use does not cause sterility nor does it make your ding-a-ling shrink. Be thoughtful and considerate. Use 'em.
Two tractor trailers drag racing up a inclined grade on the highway. They start at about 65, by the time they hit the top of the hill they're doing 40, and neither one will give way to the other, as they run side by side, leaving us no place to pass. THANK GOD THERE'S A SHOULDER TO THE ROAD. Nothin' more fun than blowing by both of them, spewing gravel as I go..... Just kidding, I'd never really do that........ NEVER......... Well, almonst never, except when I'm in a hurry, or annoyed. WHICH IS MOST OF THE TIME.. D<
