Truths about driving we don't discuss, but we all know

[Dennis in MA]

Labor Day Weekend is upon us. Driving will be up eleventy-billion percent. Here are some truths that we never talk about openly, but are true nonetheless.


1. If you are driving down the road with all of your windows down blaring music, you are not appreciating it at a higher decibel level. You are just doing it so everyone will notice you. You are insecure.

2. If someone is entering the highway and you are in the right hand lane, only two things can occur.
- A - You can't move over - and the driver entering the highway will not accelerate at all, or not very quickly.
- B - You CAN and DO move over, and it's Mario Andretti at the wheel of the other car and he wizzes by you.

3. Everyone fears a highway construction merge. 3 lanes to 2 is the worst. People are so uptight, they leave the merged lane as soon as possible. If not, they may get stuck at the end of the merge and be there forever. :upeyes:

3A - Advantage YOU - ALWAYS move to the lane that will be merged and you are guaranteed to go faster than everyone else. NEVER get into the 3rd no-merge lane. Due to 3. above, it will be the SLOWEST lane.


I encountered all 3 in the last 24 hours and thought, "Wow. These aren't random - this ALWAYS happens!"

Which ones did I miss?

[okie]

You about covered it my friend:supergrin:

[vote Republican]

Which ones did I miss?

don't get stuck in the left lane driving behind someone wearing a hat (not a baseball cap, but an old-fashioned hat)

[airmotive]

Nothing about Mexicans using the shoulder as an express lane whenever traffic slows below 50 MPH?

Must be a Texas thing....

[Atlas]

Labor Day Weekend is upon us. Driving will be up eleventy-billion percent.

Eleventy-billion percent ?
Source, please.

:supergrin:

[woodasptim]

1. If you are driving down the road with all of your windows down blaring music, you are not appreciating it at a higher decibel level. You are just doing it so everyone will notice you. You are insecure.


Is there an exception for people who don't have doors?

[heyTJ]

Nothing about Mexicans using the shoulder as an express lane whenever traffic slows below 50 MPH?

Must be a Texas thing....

It's far to cold up here to have these Mexicans you speak of. :rofl:

TJ

[WINGS]

Eleventy-billion percent ?
Source, please.

:supergrin:

Has to be AAA because they are very reliable:whistling:

[ShelbyGoat]

If I person suddenly slows down about 5-10 MPH, it probably is a younger woman who just answered the phone. Most likely in a V6 automatic Mustang convertible, while driving in the fast lane.

[HarlDane]

Nothing about Mexicans using the shoulder as an express lane whenever traffic slows below 50 MPH?

Must be a Texas thing....Never encountered that here in CA, but in Puerto Rico it's completely normal, they make an extra two lanes out of the shoulders/median that get used just like normal lanes during heavy traffic.

[Dennis in MA]

Oh yeah. Virtually all 80's & 90's era Mustangs are drivin by either young chippies who don't know how to drive. . . or aging ugly cougars. . . who don't know how to drive. ROTFL!

[Vic777]

1. If you are driving down the road with all of your windows down blaring music, you are not appreciating it at a higher decibel level. You are just doing it so everyone will notice you. You are insecure.I wish I knew exactly what was going on here ... I just think it's a moron ... but why is the moron making so much noise? You don't see this in Germany or France, not much in London either. You definitely hear it in Toronto.

[bchandler]

Ok, I'm going to take some flak for this, but I think you forgot:

4) Most women are horrible drivers.

[Flying-Dutchman]

2. If someone is entering the highway and you are in the right hand lane, only two things can occur.
- A - You can't move over - and the driver entering the highway will not accelerate at all, or not very quickly.
- B - You CAN and DO move over, and it's Mario Andretti at the wheel of the other car and he wizzes by you.

Variation of 2.

You are behind a 40mph driver in a no passing zone on a two lane highway.

As soon as you reach a passing zone, the slow poke will floor it and you will have to reach 85mph to pass (200 horses does the trick nicely).

More passive aggressive driving...

If you are waiting behind a motorist making a left turn with a green arrow, they will take as much time as possible making the turn so you miss the light.

If you stay behind the driver during the turn, suddenly the car in front goes from feeble to flying.

If you are waiting for a motorist to leave a parking spot or gas pump when finished they are certain to take extra long to leave (this has been studied and proven true). This has something to do with territory, like a dog lifting his leg to urinate.

[tat2guy]

This may make me unpopular, but...

If you are behind a car with handicapped plates, you are behind the worst driver in the area.

[mikeivan]

A friend of mine used this rule to keep his cool in Houston traffic:
"On average, in Houston commute traffic, you will encounter an azzhole at the rate of about 4 per hour. Expect this and do not react to them, it is just the law of averages."

[aspartz]

If you are at a stop sign waiting for oncoming traffic, said traffic will slow down (some to 10 mph). The driver of the offending vehicle will routinely be older than Moses.






This is actually what is taught in "55 Alive" class. "Slow down, because the person at the stop sign MIGHT pull out in front of you."
*Why do you think people pull out in front of you? **Because you slowed down.

[heyTJ]

Ok, I'm going to take some flak for this, but I think you forgot:

4) Most women are horrible drivers.

You better hope Jane doesn't read this.
She is krazy. :whistling:

TJ

[aspartz]

If you are waiting for a motorist to leave a parking spot or gas pump when finished they are certain to take extra long to leave (this has been studied and proven true). This has something to do with territory, like a dog lifting his leg to urinate.
Personally, I will intentionally loiter if I see someone waiting for my parking space who is holding up traffic, especially if there are plenty of spaces withing 50 feet.

ARS

[Flying-Dutchman]

Personally, I will intentionally loiter if I see someone waiting for my parking space who is holding up traffic, especially if there are plenty of spaces withing 50 feet.

ARS

Yep, that is why I never wait for a parking space or gas pump. I will pay 2 cents more across the street to avoid a wait.

Another truth from someone who used to drive 50k miles a year.

If you are riding a motorcycle, motorists will pull out or make a left turn in front of you without concern; if you are driving an '82 Dodge pickup in primer with a rusty brush bar they won't.

[johnd]

As a state trooper, the drivers scare me, really scare me. REALLY scare me.
You name it, Ive seen it or had it happen.
Ive even been sideswiped when a driver changed lanes and then said " I had my signal on " like it was his right to just change lanes.
They are really really scary here.

[TheeBadOne]

don't get stuck in the left lane driving behind someone wearing a hat (not a baseball cap, but an old-fashioned hat)

:rofl: True!

[NYC Drew]

3 lanes to one are the worst, when the remaining lane is the middle lane.

Also bad? Lane reduction (3 lanes to two) plus lane shift.


The absolute worst is lane reduction + night + flashing police lights at construction site.

Might as well park the car and walk.


'Drew

[JMag]

Encounter some cones or barrels...brain function ceases...you're going to be late...face it.

[gjk5]

An alternate to the "hat theory": if the driver in front of you has blue hair, you are screwed. Or if the car in front of you is an impeccably maintained 25 year old Town Car or Caddy, you are hosed.


The left turn lane is NOT a merge lane, and it's purpose is to allow you to leave the main lane and THEN slow down to turn, you do not slow to 3 MPH before ENTERING the left turn.

Also: if my wife wants to drive, close my eyes or clench my butt the whole time, she seems to be totally unaware that there are other drivers on the road, and apparently if you brake and the vehicle doesn't nosedive, you're doing it wrong.

[Flying-Dutchman]

Encounter some cones or barrels...brain function ceases...you're going to be late...face it.
Very true.

And then there is the gapers delay.

[Dennis in MA]

Some great truths there.

[1811guy2]

Ok, I'm going to take some flak for this, but I think you forgot:

4) Most women are horrible drivers.

Mujer al volante peligro constante.

[Ragnar]

This may make me unpopular, but...

If you are behind a car with handicapped plates, you are behind the worst driver in the area.


Add to that:

If you are behind a sports car or jacked-up F-350 with handicapped tags the driver will be a perfectly healthy man or woman gaming the system.

[Short Cut]

If you go on a long freeway trip and use cruise control you will pass and be passed by some cars repeatedly.

The person in the fast lane only wants to go slow when you are behind them. When you go to pass them, then they want to haul ass.

[mike7465]

Texting is the biggest danger on the road. No you can't read and type while driving. Lets face facts: you can't surf your ipod, read, type and eat while driving.

Road rage incidents have spiked due to people doing everything, but driving safely, when in their car.

[Turtle13]

Labor Day Weekend is upon us. Driving will be up eleventy-billion percent.

The possibilities that lie within the numbers of that statement entertain me. :supergrin:

[Razoreye]

For some reason people will whip out in the lane in front of you to get into traffic and then either take forever to get up to speed or they zip to 10 miles under and stay there. :headscratch:

A tiny bit of rain/snow/construction will immediately make drivers drop down to 20 mph in a 55 mph zone.

[John's 26]

If I person suddenly slows down about 5-10 MPH, it probably is a younger woman who just answered the phone. Most likely in a V6 automatic Mustang convertible, while driving in the fast lane.

Or everybody else is slowing down to see young woman in Mustang convertible with HER top down. :wow:

[andybob]

A tiny bit of rain/snow/construction will immediately make drivers drop down to 20 mph in a 55 mph zone.

That drives me insane, especially when there are just little flurries and people think you have to drop it down to 15 MPH.


Andybob

[Swanny]

The left lane is for passing. The right lane is for driving.

Minorities seem to have a problem figuring this one out.

[PlaneJane]

You better hope Jane doesn't read this.
She is krazy. :whistling:
TJ

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z120/planejanel/lipstick_small.jpg

[Big A]

Which ones did I miss?

Don't back up on an on ramp :whistling: I've had 3 people do that to me.

[brickboy240]

1) How about using a turn signal?

2) Yes...YOU on the friggin phone weaving and going 10mph below everyone else....we'd like to shoot you!

3) Better to roll your windows up and turn the thumping stereo down a little and have everyone THINK you might have bad musical taste than to roll down the windows and remove all doubt.

4) Hey you, tailgating me in the little car with plastic bumpers...guess whats going to happen if I tap the brakes on my truck? Guess where that stainless hitch is going...back the hell off...ok?

5) Yes...we're ALL giving you dirty looks because you're doing 50mph in the left lane on a major freeway! Want to stop the dirty looks? Move over speed racer!

6) Could you possibly play with MORE crap while you drive? Cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, GPS, magazine, CDs....I don't know how you find th time to actually drive!

7) It is possible to make a right turn onto this street WITHOUT a mile of clearance left and right...I do it all the time in a 17yr old Volvo 4 banger...you can do it in a Lexus!

8) Why don't you pull over to eat that sub sandwich that is as big as my dog? Your'e driving as eratically as a teenage girl with a cell phone!

I could could go on for days! LOL

- brickboy240

[Short Cut]

Here's one that drives me nuts.

If you're on a two lane highway, one lane each direction, and want to turn left, get over to the far left side of your lane so people can go around you while you are waiting for a clear spot in oncoming traffic.

I see people that want to turn left and they'll sit on the right side of their lane which takes up enough room that people can't go around. jackasses

[PeterJasonMN]

Worst driver I've EVER been stuck behind: Elderly handicapped female driver from Wisconsin! 30 in a 55!!!!!!!!!!!!



Re road construction: It brings a smile to my heart when you see the a-holes driving as fast as they can down the soon to be extinct driving lane, locking up their brakes in front of the cones, then wondering why no one will let them in.

[Berto]

When you're the only one on the road, no one behind you, someone will haul ass to pull out in front of you and drive slow.

[Peace Warrior]

People that come to a complete stop 100 feet from an intersection with a green light showing, on a 45 mph rated road which is going 45 mph at the time, just to let in a car from an entrance-exit parking lot driveway.

:steamed:

[Razoreye]

Worst driver I've EVER been stuck behind: Elderly handicapped female driver from Wisconsin! 30 in a 55!!!!!!!!!!!!



Re road construction: It brings a smile to my heart when you see the a-holes driving as fast as they can down the soon to be extinct driving lane, locking up their brakes in front of the cones, then wondering why no one will let them in.
Brings a tear to my eye everytime a big rig puts his truck in both lanes so these jackasses can't tear up the closed lane to cut line. Course the line shouldn't be that bad to begin with but people will always slow to a crawl and then 3 miles into the contruction zone find their balls and get back up to legal speed.

[PeterJasonMN]

When you're the only one on the road, no one behind you, someone will haul ass to pull out in front of you and drive slow.



Welcome to my neighborhood. People will wait til they can see the stubble on your cheek, then pull out in front of you. Many times they'll do it just to go a block or two.

[Arquebus12]

Here's something you don't see everday... an absolute:

Fact: I drive better with my knees than most people do with both hands.

Thank you, that is all.

[Glockdude1]

People that pass you at 100 mph, then slow down to 50 once they get in front of you.........

A-holes talking on Cell phones not paying attention.......:steamed:

[Rooster Rugburn]

When you are on an interstate, with only one vehicle within 10 miles in any direction, that one car will be in the left lane, in your blind spot. The way to remove the vehicle from said spot, is to start slowing veering toward and then across the center line.

Turn-out lanes are designed for cars doing 52 mph to pass the car holding up traffic at 51mph.

When you pass a sign that reads "Right Lane Closed Ahead", cars will start moving into the right lane and getting beside other cars.

People mistakenly think when they are in a lane that is closing, this automatically gives the them right of way to the other lane, irregardless of it being occupied.

When behind a car waiting for the green turn arrow, the driver in front will always get distracted and look away just as the green arrow comes on.

It's really cool to stay in the far left lane until just before your exit, then take all lanes at once to exit.

The driver in the car you are overtaking, who realizes you are about to pass so he floors it, will slow down again when he realizes you are using him for a point man, and it is he that will get the ticket.

Stay away from blue and silver hair.

[Daryl in Az]

If you have no one behind you for a long ways, and are followingthe care ahead at a normal distance, someone in the inside lane will pass you, cut in front of you, and then slow down to make a right turn.

They think it will cut their driving time by 1/2, but it's more like 1/2 second at the most.

Daryl

[larry_minn]

Truth about driving? That many posters here are a large part of problem... And they don't even realize it..... :(
Driving is NOT a competative event. You do NOT get extra points for ticking other drivers off. Just because you are comfortable taking the corner at 65mph on a road rated for 55 UNDER PERFECT CONDITIONS but it happens to have started to rain. (so you have the oil,crap is now wet) but I have a pickup with a trailer with a fairly top heavy load. It is SMART to slow down to 45mph around curve.
A smart driver allows for enough time that they don't need to get worked up because of a MINOR traffic delay.

Then again I have been taking others on drives and they remark that "Larry why don't you get upset/yell at other drivers" (its happened more then once) ;)
I find joy in driving smart. I "tag" speeders and get a chuckle when I see them pulled over down the road. Or when I pass them once we get into town. (me at speed limit+5 max) or less and they blow my doors off but once traffic jams up they get themselves caught.

[Peace Warrior]

A "Pastor," oops, make that bishop now, at a local church here in Jax would actually take time out of his busy schedule to drive around and find his parishioners driving somewhere and then would purposely cut them off or do something to dangerous towards while driving to make them mad and react towards him. He would then act all apologetic at the same time letting the parishioner see it was their own "Pastor" bishop driving the other car. He would then publicly, a lot of times while at the pulpit, describe how people would get all calmed down after they noticed it was him that, quote, "made the mistake while driving and cut someone off."

After the people got to know his new car, he would actually take time out of his busy schedule and borrow other people's vehicles to do the exact same thing to his parishioners, because they didn't recognize the other person's vehicle.

Long story short: A lot of his parishioners now do the exact same thing while driving around town. What a good teacher! :upeyes:

[sharpshooter]

Around here, big rigs can't go over 65 even though the limit is 70 for cars, and most cars drive 80 (cops won't touch you as long as you stay under 80). Big trucks are always passing each other for some reason, even though they all drive 65. But when they pass, the truck being passed slows down to 62, and the passing truck slows down to 63. The passing truck inches past the other and it usually takes about 2-3 minutes for it to pass and move over. Meanwhile nobody can get around the trucks because they're blocking both lanes. As soon as the passing truck is back in the slow lane, both trucks speed back up to 65. I'm not making this up, this is the standard practice out here. Drives me INSANE.

I have a LONG commute on this major highway and I see this happen several times every day. No to mention, the trucks don't wait for an empty fast lane before they pull out to pass, they pull out right in front of you and cut you off so you have to SLAM on the brakes, then they SLOW DOWN to pass. This drives me NUTS! I'm supposed to not let this get to me?

[MarkG]

While you are stuck behind a long line of the clueless, who seem to be enjoying a nice leisurely ride in the left line an precisely the same speed as the cars next to them, some genius will whizz by on the right and jam themsleves into the grudgingly appropriate following distance you so graciously maintain, forcing you to either follow dangerously close to the left lane vacationer in front of you, or back off so that another genius can do the same damned thing.

[DrMaxit]

If I person suddenly slows down about 5-10 MPH, it probably is a younger woman who just answered the phone. Most likely in a V6 automatic Mustang convertible, while driving in the fast lane.

NAILED IT!!! Women Drivers. Enough said. (puts on flame suit, again)

--Chuck

[Beware Owner]

You missed the ones where people are on their phone and don't notice that pesky thing called a brake pedal and have a close encounter with your bumper kind.

[vart]

Having just returned from a 3-hour trip into Prescott, which is a mere 20 miles away, I have very fresh perspective on bad drivers.

In my area, if you see a black BMW with California plates, you can bet the farm that the vehicle in question will cut people off, tailgate, run red lights, and basicly flip others off for simply daring to being on the road with them.

The guy I saw today did all of the above, in addition to pouring out his starbucks on the road so that it splashed on other cars. People like that guy beg for someone to pull up next to them and put a round into their head.

Being such a retirement mecca, I am used to elderly drivers and try to give them room and respect; they are my elders and have diminished abilities. To get angry at them and insult them makes no sense. They have an excuse for being bad drivers.

[MarksGlock22]

Just a few minutes ago, I watched a lady on a cell phone, driving a SUV with a child in the back at a stop light almost run over the lady in front of her when the light turned green. And the driver in front of her did pull out when the light turned green at a reasonable speed, but SUV lady apperantly needed to be somewhere quicker than everyone else.:dunno:

[Beware Owner]

Two days ago I saw a car run right into the vehicle beside me while we were stopped at the red light! :wow:

[Woofie]

People mistakenly think when they are in a lane that is closing, this automatically gives the them right of way to the other lane, irregardless of it being occupied.


People who criticize dumb drivers with words that aren't real.

Most people don't want to go faster than you, they just want to be in front. Many of these drivers will race up behind you, flash their brights in your back window, and expect you to move over into even slower moving traffic rather than get into the third lane to go around.

[PeterJasonMN]

Around here the teeny girls don't drive Mustangs. Those are reserved for middle-aged women. What you WILL find the teenyboppers in is Saturns, Aleros, or other GM rustboxes.

[BManoftheyear]

Nothing about Mexicans using the shoulder as an express lane whenever traffic slows below 50 MPH?

Must be a Texas thing....

I seen em do it in phoenix.They were really bad there.We had a carpool lane and I seen ppl with blow up dolls in the car to try to prevent getting a ticket.
It is restricted during certain hours and you have to have so many ppl in the car.One guy had 3 blow up dolls in his car,I pulled up next to him and he started laughing about it

[JellyBelly]

don't get stuck in the left lane driving behind someone wearing a hat (not a baseball cap, but an old-fashioned hat)

You forgot about the white Cadillac or Buick.

There oughtta be a law prohibiting the sale of white painted, American made luxury cars to old people. It only causes problems.:rofl:

[PeterJasonMN]

I'm rather partial to the "Wisconsin Turn Signal".


That is: You tap your brakes twice, then turn.

[CaptCave]

3. Everyone fears a highway construction merge. 3 lanes to 2 is the worst. People are so uptight, they leave the merged lane as soon as possible. If not, they may get stuck at the end of the merge and be there forever.

3A - Advantage YOU - ALWAYS move to the lane that will be merged and you are guaranteed to go faster than everyone else. NEVER get into the 3rd no-merge lane. Due to 3. above, it will be the SLOWEST lane.


I love it when a lane is closed or ends.

I get over when I can after seeing a notice of the lane being closed. From that point on there are only 2 options for the others still in the lane thats gonna be closed shortly ahead. Speed up and hope the guy infront of me lets you in, or get behind me.

I am not letting you in, I'm not scared of a little fender rubbing. You're not going to force your way in, and I will run you off the road.

Its my pet peeve, because those people that refuse to merge until the lane is completely gone, makes every slow to almost a stop to let their dumbass in. When all they had to do was get over when they could safely do so.

[Jack22]

Huh? 64 posts and nothing--NOT ONE THING--about Asians? Are you people from Mars?
:supergrin:

Q: How do you blind an Asian woman?

A: Put a windshield in front of her!

[Jack22]

Truth about driving? That many posters here are a large part of problem... And they don't even realize it..... :(
Driving is NOT a competitive event. You do NOT get extra points for ticking other drivers off.

Sorry about that, ma'am.
:supergrin:

[Glock&KimberLady]

Please, by all means, drive with one foot on the gas and one on the brake so that your brake lights are forever stuttering on and off. Make sure to rest your left foot on the brake occasionally, particularly at night when there are no streelights so that everyone behind you hits the brakes too. Then jam on the gas pedal and zoom up to speed again. Do this repeatedly between Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene until you reach your Best Western hotel.

Tool along at 30mph in the right lane. But wait! Someone is going to pass you in the left lane! Suddenly wake up to the fact that you're doing 35mph under the posted speed limit, slam your foot to the floor, driving 85mph until they give up in disgust, then go back to sleep and drive 35mph again. Lather, rinse, repeat until the attempting passer either (a) drives you off the road, (b) pulls the shotgun off the rack behind them, or (c) puts the pedal to the floor and breaks the sound barrier trying to get past your stupid ass.

Look, I know you're a tourist, but the sign says to do 60mph on the curve, not 20mph. They've taken into account your obscenely bloated RV busomobile and you won't drive off the road. We kinda hope you would, but you won't. So could you speed it up before I pee my pants trying to get home?

That's an intersection. When the light is red, you stop. When the light is green, you go. The beautiful view will not become any more beautiful if you ignore the stoplight. It might dim and go out because the pissed-off people behind you exited their car and punched you in the head.

We may be yokels and rednecks, but we don't like your McDonald's trash on our road any more than you like it in your car. The fine may be only $300 for littering up here, but it's a far cheaper price to keep it in your car than to get a bag full of trash jammed up your ass by a local who's sick of out-of-staters wrecking his backyard.

I'm sure there's a million more; many reasons for me to keep "going to town" a once-a-week event.

[vart]

Look, I know you're a tourist, but the sign says to do 60mph on the curve, not 20mph. They've taken into account your obscenely bloated RV busomobile and you won't drive off the road. We kinda hope you would, but you won't. So could you speed it up before I pee my pants trying to get home?


Hey, you chose to live where everyone else wants to be. Now suck it up and stay home, or move to Minot, ND...:tongueout:

I was actually going to pay you a lovely comment on your succint oration, but it's more fun to give you a hard time...:wavey:

[TylerDurden]

Please, by all means, drive with one foot on the gas and one on the brake so that your brake lights are forever stuttering on and off. Make sure to rest your left foot on the brake occasionally, particularly at night when there are no streelights so that everyone behind you hits the brakes too. Then jam on the gas pedal and zoom up to speed again. Do this repeatedly between Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene until you reach your Best Western hotel.

Tool along at 30mph in the right lane. But wait! Someone is going to pass you in the left lane! Suddenly wake up to the fact that you're doing 35mph under the posted speed limit, slam your foot to the floor, driving 85mph until they give up in disgust, then go back to sleep and drive 35mph again. Lather, rinse, repeat until the attempting passer either (a) drives you off the road, (b) pulls the shotgun off the rack behind them, or (c) puts the pedal to the floor and breaks the sound barrier trying to get past your stupid ass.

Look, I know you're a tourist, but the sign says to do 60mph on the curve, not 20mph. They've taken into account your obscenely bloated RV busomobile and you won't drive off the road. We kinda hope you would, but you won't. So could you speed it up before I pee my pants trying to get home?

That's an intersection. When the light is red, you stop. When the light is green, you go. The beautiful view will not become any more beautiful if you ignore the stoplight. It might dim and go out because the pissed-off people behind you exited their car and punched you in the head.

We may be yokels and rednecks, but we don't like your McDonald's trash on our road any more than you like it in your car. The fine may be only $300 for littering up here, but it's a far cheaper price to keep it in your car than to get a bag full of trash jammed up your ass by a local who's sick of out-of-staters wrecking his backyard.

I'm sure there's a million more; many reasons for me to keep "going to town" a once-a-week event.

I was just about to chime in about drivers from Idaho... seriously. My super Haiku thread began with a Haiku about an Idahoan driver that screwed up my commute. :supergrin::wavey:

[PlaneJane]

I love it when a lane is closed or ends.

I get over when I can after seeing a notice of the lane being closed. From that point on there are only 2 options for the others still in the lane thats gonna be closed shortly ahead. Speed up and hope the guy infront of me lets you in, or get behind me.

I am not letting you in, I'm not scared of a little fender rubbing. You're not going to force your way in, and I will run you off the road.

Its my pet peeve, because those people that refuse to merge until the lane is completely gone, makes everyone slow to almost a stop to let their dumbass in. When all they had to do was get over when they could safely do so.

This is utterly childish and grossly irresponsible behavior. I do it every chance I get. :supergrin:

Jane

[Glock&KimberLady]

I was just about to chime in about drivers from Idaho... seriously. My super Haiku thread began with a Haiku about an Idahoan driver that screwed up my commute. :supergrin::wavey:

*laughs wildly*

Most of them are from Washington. :tongueout:

I'm telling you, vart, Eastern BFE of North Dakota is starting to sound better all the time. Now there's some honyak who wants to put in a fricking strip mine by my house because the highway is...someday...going to be widened and he's looking to make a quick buck. The guy has done none of the impact testing or reports required, he didn't even notify the fricking PIPELINE people about a strip mine (with blasting) and the Bonner County commissioners were all set to ram this on through with a few modifications. Fortunately a few people decided to involved everyone instead of privately wringing their hands about it. Just amazing.

Ever been to Eastport, up on the border? Grizzly country, the nearest grocery store is in Bonner's Ferry, an hour plus away. Heaven.

[TylerDurden]

I love it when a lane is closed or ends.

I get over when I can after seeing a notice of the lane being closed. From that point on there are only 2 options for the others still in the lane thats gonna be closed shortly ahead. Speed up and hope the guy infront of me lets you in, or get behind me.

I am not letting you in, I'm not scared of a little fender rubbing. You're not going to force your way in, and I will run you off the road.

Its my pet peeve, because those people that refuse to merge until the lane is completely gone, makes every slow to almost a stop to let their dumbass in. When all they had to do was get over when they could safely do so.

This is utterly childish and grossly irresponsible behavior. I do it every chance I get. :supergrin:

Jane

I had a guy flip out on me because of something like that... it was one of those two turn lane situations and he tried to turn into the wrong lane and I wouldn't let him in.

He screamed and threatened me and starting revving up his engine like he was going to ram me (traffic was at a complete halt). So I put my car in park, got out and approached him... he suddenly rolled up his windows and started playing with his iPod.

[dfowler21]

Worst driver I've EVER been stuck behind: Elderly handicapped female driver from Wisconsin! 30 in a 55!!!!!!!!!!!!



Re road construction: It brings a smile to my heart when you see the a-holes driving as fast as they can down the soon to be extinct driving lane, locking up their brakes in front of the cones, then wondering why no one will let them in.

Im with you. I think everyone that goes past a mile or more of "Right lane closed ahead" signs should be punished. Specifically, a trooper waiting where the lane is closed will make the pull over, get out, and work a shift on the paving crew. Not only will it help traffic, but it will help the highway workers. Win win I say.

[23skidoo]

The folks who fancy themselves as their favorite race car driver but can't hold a steady speed on the interstate, much less two lane road. Eighty m.p.h. in a straight stretch, down to fifty for even a gentle curve, back up to eighty on the far side of the curve. Listen to that big ol' motor roar.:upeyes:

That stalk thingy on the left hand side of your steering column? Guess what spanky, it does more than operate your headlights and windshield wipers! Yes! You too can use turn signals!

A yield sign means you wait til the intersection is clear before you proceed. It is not enemy territory you are attempting to take at all costs.

Green means go grandpa.

Always assume the other person could not drive a sharp stick in a bucket of lard.

Get that damn cell phone out of your ear and drive.

[Beware Owner]

The folks who fancy themselves as their favorite race car driver but can't hold a steady speed on the interstate, much less two lane road. Eighty m.p.h. in a straight stretch, down to fifty for even a gentle curve, back up to eighty on the far side of the curve. Listen to that big ol' motor roar.:upeyes:

That stalk thingy on the left hand side of your steering column? Guess what spanky, it does more than operate your headlights and windshield wipers! Yes! You too can use turn signals!

A yield sign means you wait til the intersection is clear before you proceed. It is not enemy territory you are attempting to take at all costs.

Green means go grandpa.

Always assume the other person could not drive a sharp stick in a bucket of lard.

Get that damn cell phone out of your ear and drive.

:rofl:

[goldenlight]

3 lanes to one are the worst, when the remaining lane is the middle lane.

Also bad? Lane reduction (3 lanes to two) plus lane shift.


The absolute worst is lane reduction + night + flashing police lights at construction site.

Might as well park the car and walk.


'Drew

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

I don't know why I'm laughing at this, because it HAPPENED TO ME last night!

[PBCounty]

NY, NJ and MA plates are to be avoided.

[goldenlight]

Here's one I have NEVER been able to figure out:

I was driving home, in the left lane, on the freeway about midnight, on a weeknight; virtually no cars.

Some Ahole pulled up behind me, and started tailgating me. I took my foot off the gas several times, to encourage him to go around me. There were NO CARS in the left lane, there wasn't an exit for over a mile, and he STILL KEPT ON TAILGATING ME.

So I took my foot off the gas, and kept it off. I came to a COMPLETE STOP on the freeway. The guy was 3 - 4 feet behind me. At a complete stop.

He stayed there, right behind me, for almost TWO FULL MINUTES, by the clock.

While I was waiting to see what the idiot was going to do, I got my S&W 6906 out and warmed it up in front of the dash vent. (It was winter; I had been outside, and the pistol was in the pocket of my parka. I was concerned it might be cold enough not to allow me to get off all 13 rounds.... The guy absolutely could NOT see my weapon).

Then, for no apparent reason, the guy went around me, and pulled away; in MY lane. Not slowly, not fast. Normal driving speed. (And his license plate was too dirty to read. Believe me, I tried).

I pulled over on the shoulder until he was out of sight.

I didn't pull onto the shoulder before this, because while the freeway was clear and dry, the shoulder still had ice and snow on it. I didn't want to be on the bad surface, while the other guy was on dry pavement: he could easily block me.

I have never been able to figure out what in the world was going on.

Can anyone even hazard a guess as to what was going on? And before someone asks: this was long before the days of cell phones, unfortunately. I did buy a CB radio after that little episode, though.

[J.P.]

Left lane campers suck!

Look, if I'm coming through, you have to move over and let me by...it's really that simple. case closed.

Then you can go back to illegally driving slower than everyone else in the left lane for all I care.

I won't be an a-hole about it, I'll give you a moment to move....so hang up the phone, find a hole, and take it.

There's no reason to get pissed about it and give me dirty looks, or bump your brakes....I promise I'm not impugning your manhood....I'm just tyring to get from "point A" to "point B" a bit faster than you, that's all.

If for some reson you feel like you're manhood is being challenged by me passing you, then you need to seek help at your nearest psychiatric facility.

If you are one of those people who think it's your right to control the speed limit in the left lane and/or get pissed because someone is "tailgating" you:
1) Check yourself. They are only tailgating because you are going too slow in the wrong friggin lane and won't move over like any courteous driver would.
2) You are probably going to burn in Hell at some point.
(for me,sooner is better than later)

Have a nice day!
:)

[aspartz]

When I was in college, Indiana plates starting with "84" were quite often a harbinger of crappy driving.

ARS

[Swanny]

I love it when a lane is closed or ends.

I get over when I can after seeing a notice of the lane being closed. From that point on there are only 2 options for the others still in the lane thats gonna be closed shortly ahead. Speed up and hope the guy infront of me lets you in, or get behind me.

I am not letting you in, I'm not scared of a little fender rubbing. You're not going to force your way in, and I will run you off the road.

Its my pet peeve, because those people that refuse to merge until the lane is completely gone, makes every slow to almost a stop to let their dumbass in. When all they had to do was get over when they could safely do so.

I just love those asshats that decide not to merge until the last possible second. The rest of us have been waiting in traffic for miles, but this guy evidently thinks he can whizz right past us because he knows some pussified soccer mom in her Honda Odyssey will let him in.

I reserve a supply of pennies in my center console just for these idiots. When I see them coming in my side mirror, I hit the window button, grab a handful of pennies and eject them so they go bouncing off the front of Speed Racer's car right as he goes past. By the time he realizes what happened, he is too far past to do anything about it.

[Tom B]

What amazes me down here is that people usually drive like maniacs BUT on a two lane road they will not pass. I usually drive 5mph above the speed limit and someone will ride my bumper but if the road is clear they will not pass. They just get madder and madder that I will not go the speed they want to drive. What I do then is wait until the road is clear behind us and I slowly come to a complete stop blocking my lane. The person behind me has to stop and by this time he is too close to me to go around. They usually STILL don't want to go around and we will sit there for a couple of minutes. They finally back up and then pull around. The other thing is here when a line of cars are stopped at a red light. When the light turns green the first car will start moving and the next car remains stopped for 5 or 6 seconds and then starts. This continues at the same pace so that a MAX of 4 cars get thru before the light turns red again. It's actually funny to watch.:rofl:

[Swanny]

Here's one I have NEVER been able to figure out:

I was driving home, in the left lane, on the freeway about midnight, on a weeknight; virtually no cars.

Some Ahole pulled up behind me, and started tailgating me. I took my foot off the gas several times, to encourage him to go around me. There were NO CARS in the left lane, there wasn't an exit for over a mile, and he STILL KEPT ON TAILGATING ME.

So I took my foot off the gas, and kept it off. I came to a COMPLETE STOP on the freeway. The guy was 3 - 4 feet behind me. At a complete stop.

He stayed there, right behind me, for almost TWO FULL MINUTES, by the clock.

While I was waiting to see what the idiot was going to do, I got my S&W 6906 out and warmed it up in front of the dash vent. (It was winter; I had been outside, and the pistol was in the pocket of my parka. I was concerned it might be cold enough not to allow me to get off all 13 rounds.... The guy absolutely could NOT see my weapon).

Then, for no apparent reason, the guy went around me, and pulled away; in MY lane. Not slowly, not fast. Normal driving speed. (And his license plate was too dirty to read. Believe me, I tried).

I pulled over on the shoulder until he was out of sight.

I didn't pull onto the shoulder before this, because while the freeway was clear and dry, the shoulder still had ice and snow on it. I didn't want to be on the bad surface, while the other guy was on dry pavement: he could easily block me.

I have never been able to figure out what in the world was going on.

Can anyone even hazard a guess as to what was going on? And before someone asks: this was long before the days of cell phones, unfortunately. I did buy a CB radio after that little episode, though.

Why were you driving in the left lane? Was the right lane broken? Why didn't you use it and allow him to pass you in the passing lane?

[costanza187]

Variation of 2.

You are behind a 40mph driver in a no passing zone on a two lane highway.

As soon as you reach a passing zone, the slow poke will floor it and you will have to reach 85mph to pass (200 horses does the trick nicely).




I have noticed this too... you can follow somebody on the road at about 45-50 and about run over them... it takes reaching speeds of 70-80 to get around them. Set your cruise at 55, and very soon they will be a spec in the mirror, in a few miles completely out of sight.


Here is another one I have noticed...

Some cars never change speeds to allow for speed zones, yet never reach full highway speed. You can follow them, almost running over them on the highway at 45-50, enter a town with a speed limit of 25, they run off and leave you when you slow down for the speed zone, then a couple miles down the road, you catch up to them again driving 45-50.

[PeterJasonMN]

As a variation of the "Wisconsin Brake Light", I don't know why it is what it is, but if I'm on the freeway between Duluth and the Twin Cities and I see someone camped out in the left lane, it's 99/100 that they have WI plates. WI people LOVE the left lane. There'll be no cars for miles, yet there they are.

[PoiDog]

Around here, big rigs can't go over 65 even though the limit is 70 for cars, and most cars drive 80 (cops won't touch you as long as you stay under 80). Big trucks are always passing each other for some reason, even though they all drive 65. But when they pass, the truck being passed slows down to 62, and the passing truck slows down to 63. The passing truck inches past the other and it usually takes about 2-3 minutes for it to pass and move over. Meanwhile nobody can get around the trucks because they're blocking both lanes. As soon as the passing truck is back in the slow lane, both trucks speed back up to 65. I'm not making this up, this is the standard practice out here. Drives me INSANE.

I have a LONG commute on this major highway and I see this happen several times every day. No to mention, the trucks don't wait for an empty fast lane before they pull out to pass, they pull out right in front of you and cut you off so you have to SLAM on the brakes, then they SLOW DOWN to pass. This drives me NUTS! I'm supposed to not let this get to me?


It's not just in California. I see the exact same thing every single day in Illinois. This is the behavior that makes me say that truck drives are the absolute worst drivers on this planet.

Nothing anybody can say will ever dissuade me from this belief. The above behavior is their normal driving mode. I swear they must be taught how to do this at their three-day driving schools.

I don't know the figures exactly, but I'd bet over 3/4 of all accidents are triggered by a semi-truck driver. Now I'm sure that somewhere out there, somebody knows somebody who's just a great truck driver, never does those things, a real saint, a knight of the road.

That's great, but I've never seen this mythical being in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan or Ohio. Or Georgia, South Carolina, Colorado or Arizona. Or Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut or New York. Or New Hampshire either.

He must be in one of the other states. More likely is, he doesn't exist, except on TV shows.

[Berto]

Most of them are from Washington.


BS!


:upeyes::upeyes:

Transplants ,I guarantee it. ;)

[Berto]

If you're from Seattle, you'll get this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgIvH0tu6Y

[larry_minn]

It's not just in California. I see the exact same thing every single day in Illinois. This is the behavior that makes me say that truck drives are the absolute worst drivers on this planet.

Nothing anybody can say will ever dissuade me from this belief. The above behavior is their normal driving mode. I swear they must be taught how to do this at their three-day driving schools.

I don't know the figures exactly, but I'd bet over 3/4 of all accidents are triggered by a semi-truck driver. Now I'm sure that somewhere out there, somebody knows somebody who's just a great truck driver, never does those things, a real saint, a knight of the road.

That's great, but I've never seen this mythical being in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan or Ohio. Or Georgia, South Carolina, Colorado or Arizona. Or Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut or New York. Or New Hampshire either.

He must be in one of the other states. More likely is, he doesn't exist, except on TV shows.

WOW. 75% of ALL accidents are caused by semi-truck drivers? Well I guess most cars are hauled by semi-trucks so going with anti gun thinking (non-thinking) I guess so.
Do you have any idea how many miles a professional driver logs a yr? Do you know they have to take medical exams, drug tests, keep log books, INSPECT their rig at LEAST daily (and having it inspected for them/fined if a SINGLE light is burned out) They are often MORE restricted then normal traffic. As mentioned a slower speed then cars, restrictions on which lanes they can be in/what roads they can take,etc.
I "played" as a OTR driver for a few weeks. (Friend had a driver get hurt and needed another driver for a East Coast run) So I took a team run with him. (so I have a basic idea)
The job is to get the load from point A to point B as quickly and SAFELY as possible. I have worked jobs where +200 miles in POV a day was norm. (didn't care for it) The truck drivers were the safest drivers I ran across. I had a CB and as a group they were the most friendly/helpful folks on the road. You do have a clue that trucks are the lifeblood of this country? Look around you. What do you see that was not hauled on a semi? (hint there is not much)
Like ANY job there are folks who shouldn't be doing it. I have gotten a few drivers into trouble who were pricks. BTW the orig post (IIRC) they (trucks) were limited to 65mph. Other traffic was going closer to 80? So you can tell me you can tell they were going 62mph and 63mph instead of 65mph? While you are slowing down from over 75 Why did anyone bother with radar/lazer to record speeds?

[blueiron]

The top speed of any 1990 or newer Buick automobile is always 15 mph less than the posted speed limit.

[Woofie]

Left lane campers suck!

Look, if I'm coming through, you have to move over and let me by...it's really that simple. case closed.

Then you can go back to illegally driving slower than everyone else in the left lane for all I care.

I won't be an a-hole about it, I'll give you a moment to move....so hang up the phone, find a hole, and take it.

There's no reason to get pissed about it and give me dirty looks, or bump your brakes....I promise I'm not impugning your manhood....I'm just tyring to get from "point A" to "point B" a bit faster than you, that's all.

If for some reson you feel like you're manhood is being challenged by me passing you, then you need to seek help at your nearest psychiatric facility.

If you are one of those people who think it's your right to control the speed limit in the left lane and/or get pissed because someone is "tailgating" you:
1) Check yourself. They are only tailgating because you are going too slow in the wrong friggin lane and won't move over like any courteous driver would.
2) You are probably going to burn in Hell at some point.
(for me,sooner is better than later)

Have a nice day!
:)

If the traffic in the right lane is doing 60, and I am passing people at 70, and you come up behind me at 80, do not expect me to slow down and get into the slower moving traffic. When I get ahead of this pack of cars I will get over. You can wait.

[Zapfenstreich]

When you're driving on a 2-lane road in New Hampshire, and stuck behind some guy doing ten under the limit, oncoming traffic will only appear when you reach the beginning of a passing zone, then last the entire passing zone, and disappear for exactly the duration of the next no-passing zone. Repeat process until Mr. Ten-Under reaches his turn off, and hands the job of blocking progress to the guy who turns out in front of you as he is turning in.

This is a well-known rule of New Hampshire driving, and it is stronger and more consistent than any known law of nature.

[Zombie Steve]

Some think it's a good idea to come to Colorado and drive an RV up a 14,000 foot mountain that is nothing but switchbacks. I always seem to get stuck behind them. They are, almost always, from Texas. Smelling their brakes on the way down gets me excited, like I might see a huge RV go over the side when the brakes fail.

[RonS]

You need to drive 25 when the road has hills or curves so you don't fall off the edge. As soon as you get to a passing zone speed up to the limit so you can make up the time. Ignore the people behind you, drivers often foam at the mouth and chew the steering wheel.

[tous]

Some think it's a good idea to come to Colorado and drive an RV up a 14,000 foot mountain that is nothing but switchbacks. I always seem to get stuck behind them. They are, almost always, from Texas. Smelling their brakes on the way down gets me excited, like I might see a huge RV go over the side when the brakes fail.

Texans don't drive RVs. Them are Californians who illegally imigrated to here and have remained unremanded long enough to get Texas license plates. :upeyes:

[Ian_F]

having learned to drive in New Jersey, I'm well acquainted with substandard motorists.

I drive around with my windows down and the music kinda loud, but its not to get attention. I dont have air conditioning in my Jeep and I like my music loud...others will have to deal with it.

[vart]

I've seriously debated getting this windshield sticker:


http://www.leftlanedrivers.org/Images/BannerTemp.jpg

https://paytrace.com/cart/Images/SlowerTrafficFooter.jpg

[Eyescream]

Don't back up on an on ramp :whistling: I've had 3 people do that to me.

I had an old lady stop at the top of an onramp like there was a light or a stop sign. I was accelerating, so as to match the speed of the traffic I was trying to merge into, and I had to creatively bail out in order to not dead myself against her now-stationary vehicle.

It scared me so badly that, had I had time to think about it, I probably would've crapped myself, but it happened so fast that I was already a couple miles down the road before it really hit me.

[Eyescream]

I've seriously debated getting this windshield sticker

</snip>

I suspect someone will help you test the efficacy of your braking system if you get one of those windshield stickers.

[Cody Jarrett]

This explains why I have kids in baby seats flipping me off.

[Eyescream]

This explains why I have kids in baby seats flipping me off.

:rofl:

I had - no **** - an entire family flip me off one day. This lady flew aroud a whole line of cars (shifting over into on-coming traffic to do so) to get in front of us all, and I was in front.

I took umbrage to her acting like that, and gave her the finger.

So she gave me the finger.

Then I saw three tiny little fingers from her kids in the back seat. I started laughing so hard that I forgot I was supposed to be mad. It was awesome.

[NYC Drew]

A few weeks back I was in ...the midwest area.

It was late, (2am ish), I'm driving on a divided highway. All of a sudden, on the opposite side of traffic, a pickup roars past me - going in my direction.

The results 1 mile down the road was not pretty. I was wide awake after that for my 60 mile drive.

[NYC Drew]

:rofl:

I had - no **** - an entire family flip me off one day. This lady flew aroud a whole line of cars (shifting over into on-coming traffic to do so) to get in front of us all, and I was in front.

I took umbrage to her acting like that, and gave her the finger.

So she gave me the finger.

Then I saw three tiny little fingers from her kids in the back seat. I started laughing so hard that I forgot I was supposed to be mad. It was awesome.


Two stories:

One time we (a band) were in a medium sized bus (30-36 seater), and some people start giving the driver and wingman grief. A few choice words. Occupants of the other vehicle finger us, a few guys on my bus finger back. My drummer said "**** it", dropped his pants, mooned the other people and farted. :rofl:
Second story, we are driving (same guys, in a Ford Windstar)) down the NJ T'pike. Guy is in the outside lane driving real slow. The driver of our van pulls up to him in the inside lane, and started calling him a punk, a *****, to get the **** out the lane before he comes over there and **** him up. The guy could not be any less interested, which further enrages my guy. At some point, the guy gets in the inside lane, my driver pulls up to him on his driver side. The other guy has his hand resting on the window. On his arm, an insignia of some sorts....NJSP :rofl:(his hat was on the seat beside him). Less than 2 minutes later, we were being pulled over by his buddies, who apparently crept up on us. This was way back in the early 90s, everyone was fearful of arrest (unable to re-enter the country on that kind of work visa). :cool: I laughed at that (our) boy hard that day.I have one more, slightly grosser story (but true), for another time.

'Drew

[costanza187]

As a variation of the "Wisconsin Brake Light", I don't know why it is what it is, but if I'm on the freeway between Duluth and the Twin Cities and I see someone camped out in the left lane, it's 99/100 that they have WI plates. WI people LOVE the left lane. There'll be no cars for miles, yet there they are.

I do not know what the deal is with cars from WI really. When I lived in IL on many occasions trying to drive on the interstate, so many times you encounter that car that wants to ride right next to you for miles and miles. Usually the car would have WI plates.

[xd9er]

Brings a tear to my eye everytime a big rig puts his truck in both lanes so these jackasses can't tear up the closed lane to cut line. Course the line shouldn't be that bad to begin with but people will always slow to a crawl and then 3 miles into the contruction zone find their balls and get back up to legal speed.

And as a side note, I hate no one, NO ONE, more than a trucker that thinks this is his moment to shine, to bring justice to HIS highway. Never mind that blocking that lane is almost certainly illegal, as it is here. What does it matter to him if I get to the end of the lane, and get caught up, unable to merge? I'm obviously willing to drive fast enough that I'm not going to slow him down. It's because, for once in their miserable life they can exert some power. I hope death on any trucker doing this. Thanks for delivering the food, but if you block that lane, you're an A-hole, and don't deserve to live.

Case in point, travelling with a baby with colic, approaching my ramp 2 miles away, traffic is merged at the ramp due to bridge work. I don't need to merge, I need to take the ramp. Trucker with little weiner blocks my otherwise wide open lane and the shoulder, travelling at 6 mph for 2 miles, with screaming child in the back. I hope he died that day. What was the purpose? All he did was make my son, my wife and myself more miserable. I honestly wished him death then and today. He got both fingers from me, and wife, and every one of the 35 other cars that needed the ramp as we all PASSED him at the exit.

[Dennis in MA]

I don't get it. What does MERGE mean?

1, then 2. 1, then 2. 1, then 2. Not "everyone better be over before they get here."

The problem with merges is BECAUSE people dive out of the closed lane miles before necessary. If everyone just stayed in their own danged lanes until the merge squeezed you over, the slow-down would be minimal, if at all.

It's people diving over at every opportunity - causing everyone behind them to jam on the brakes and slow everyone else down - that causes a slowdown and stoppage at a merge. Stay in your stupid lanes! And tough crap if someone is willing to STAY IN THAT LANE AND GET AHEAD OF YOU. Newsflash: You could have stayed there too!

(Looks like 3 and 3A are truths people don't understand.)

OR, perhaps the highway departments should create signs saying, "Left lane closed someplace ahead. Good f'ing luck." and then just make it a right-angle CLOSURE instead of a merge.


Another TRUTH - Holiday weekend causes roads to be filled with men who have been driving longer than I've been alive but have no clue how to drive on a highway. How is that?? How can you own a car for more than 4 decades and not know how to get onto and off of a highway, stay in and out of lanes, pass, and be aware of traffic????

[larry_minn]

LIke I said most people don't know how to drive (and post here) but think they do. With some common sense/basic understanding of rules of road and a HINT of patience most problems wouldn't happen.
I am sure anti gunners love being able to show posts threatening death (repeatedly) for minor traffic infractions.
BTW in my (limited) experience many of the people who I KNOW who do block traffic (attempt to be traffic Nazi) are also some of the WORST drivers, break the most traffic laws. (be it in car/truck/van/semi)

BTW feel "Empowered" Many semi trailers have a TOLL FREE NUMBER for you to call if they are not driving legal. Note the trailer number, location, time,etc (if possible) then call. (be polite and give a statement with your name/address.)
Kinda hard to do that for idiot 4 wheelers.

[SweetG21]

When you're in a hurry(as my job can make me) the lights always seem to change to yellow just before you get there:brickwall:

[Nestor]

Chinese drivers are cool.
They are using the hands for swinging, dramatic waving and other stuff, but not for driving really...and you always wonder what they will screw next...:supergrin:

[SomeDay]

Never encountered that here in CA, but in Puerto Rico it's completely normal, they make an extra two lanes out of the shoulders/median that get used just like normal lanes during heavy traffic.


Travel a bit further south, you'll see it.

[Eyescream]

Two stories:
One time we (a band) were in a medium sized bus (30-36 seater), and some people start giving the driver and wingman grief. A few choice words. Occupants of the other vehicle finger us, a few guys on my bus finger back. My drummer said "**** it", dropped his pants, mooned the other people and farted. :rofl: That is, like, twelve different kinds of awesome.

My last semester of college, my buddy Jamie (who plays in touring bands) and I drove down to Atlanta to see Flogging Molly play at the Roxy. Out drinking, we joke about the dumb **** they do on tour, like giving people pressed hams (mooning against the window glass and whatnot), among other sorts of vicious humor that we like.

So we're driving back after the show, trying to stay awake, and this pickup truck comes flying past us, and there's this dude's ass hanging out the driver's side. So we crack up laughing as it pulls away.

Lo and behold, it ends up on my side of the car Jamie's driving, and we return the favor.

Apparently I returned the favor too hard, cause that truck absolutely disappeared. It was awesome. :supergrin:

[SVTNate]

Soccer moms in SUV's and Mercs are the reason I have 120db Hella horns on a custom mount directly behind the lower grill on my BMW, with no plastic or metal between them and the atmosphere.

I am considering train horns on a separate, hidden switch.

[Glockdude1]

BTW feel "Empowered" Many semi trailers have a TOLL FREE NUMBER for you to call if they are not driving legal. Note the trailer number, location, time,etc (if possible) then call. (be polite and give a statement with your name/address.)
Kinda hard to do that for idiot 4 wheelers.

What if the Toll free number is this one: 1-800-328-7448?

Look at the letters on your phone to decipher........ :supergrin:

[PeterJasonMN]

Soccer moms in SUV's and Mercs are the reason I have 120db Hella horns on a custom mount directly behind the lower grill on my BMW, with no plastic or metal between them and the atmosphere.

I am considering train horns on a separate, hidden switch.


I was going to go that route too until I remembered that with all the parts needed, my Civic would damn near be riding on its back wheels. I also want the train horns for the bicyclists we have here in town. I gave one a nice "How YOU doin?" the other day when he nearly caused a crash.

[PeterJasonMN]

I suspect someone will help you test the efficacy of your braking system if you get one of those windshield stickers.


I helped a young man test his a few years ago. It.Was.Beautiful.:supergrin:

[aspartz]

You can be the only person on the road, but grandpa with his 5th wheel trailer has to pull out in front of you.

ARS

[Beware Owner]

I've seriously debated getting this windshield sticker:


http://www.leftlanedrivers.org/Images/BannerTemp.jpg

https://paytrace.com/cart/Images/SlowerTrafficFooter.jpg

I like this!

[sappy13]

[QUOTE=Dennis in MA
1. If you are driving down the road with all of your windows down blaring music, you are not appreciating it at a higher decibel level. You are just doing it so everyone will notice you. You are insecure.
[/QUOTE]

What if i like riding down the road with my windows down because it feels good and i would rather use that than air conditioning? Unless i turn my music up i cant hear it as well. I dont think it makes me insecure at all to do this.

[PlaneJane]

What if i like riding down the road with my windows down because it feels good and i would rather use that than air conditioning? Unless i turn my music up i cant hear it as well. I dont think it makes me insecure at all to do this.
I think that's your right unless you impose your taste in music on others.


Jane

[Dennis in MA]

Logical - until your level of volume-enjoyment can be heard in 3 counties. I can see somewhat loud b/c you like loud. But we all know what passes as annoying has got to be UBER-DEAFENING in the vehicle.

Make sure your head is bouncing too. And get that angry pout going too. Required accessory to the "too cool to notice my music is too loud" look.

[PoiDog]

WOW. cut for space

As I said, nothing can convince me otherwise. I also knew that someone would pop up with the other viewpoint. "Truckers are the best drivers, blah blah"

Save it, I ain't buying it. I see way too many pulling the same stuff me and the original poster mentioned.

But if you know otherwise, good for you. We must drive on different highways.

When I was a child, in the '50s and '60s the semi drivers were considered the knights of the road. Those days are LONG gone.

[Beware Owner]

When I was a child, in the '50s and '60s the semi drivers were considered the knights of the road. Those days are LONG gone.

No, they're not. They're still jousting. :supergrin:

[mike7465]

Didn't the trucking laws change so that Mexican truckers can now drive in the US without passing the US driving test?
Having driven around in Mexico I think this is a very bad idea....

[FLGUY]

You better hope Jane doesn't read this.
She is krazy. :whistling:

TJ

+1000 :thumbsup: Good ole PlaneJane!

[PlaneJane]

+1000 :thumbsup: Good ole PlaneJane!
Jeez, you've still got your nose out of joint about that; it was months ago. :upeyes:

Jane