Who is sick of driving today with all the jerks on the road

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What gets me is I am driving down a main road, it runs north and south, then we have 1st through 19th that run east and west, they all have stop signs, the main road doesnt, well I am coming up on 11th. and this highschool girl pretty much rolls halfway into the street, and I am like wtf are you doing? and she finally looks up, her friend has this look like, I am about to die, I look like, **** you and this is probably going to hurt. and Im thinking about my car as well, I mean what do you do in that situation to avoid a wreck? None the less, if an A body gets hit in the Driver side door at 30 mph, I am more than sure its going to mess it up beyond repair?
 
Tow a trailer with a car on it and you'll find every jack-wad, idiot, retard on the road.

I almost put a fiarly new Mercedes into some K rail next to the right lane trying to get over and exit. I guess having the signal on and going about 55 wasn't fast enough. After she squeezed through she had to change over 2 lanes to get into a lane that continued on the freeway. Dumb byatch had at least 1/8 mile to move over behind me and merge into the lanes.. BUT NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

If my Dart wasn't on the trailer, I would have likely pinched her, maybe using the dovetail as a launch ramp.
 
I drive all over So. Cal from Seal Beach to Goleta 5 days a week in loaded van. Downtown LA, the hoods, Beverly Hills, mountain canyons... I'm numb to it all. Stuff like people cutting me off or not letting me turn into thier lanes doesn't even register with me anymore.

So I just got back driving today on this road...

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autoxcuda said:
Stuff like people cutting me off or not letting me turn into thier lanes doesn't even register with me anymore.

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Well I drove a week in Las Vegas, was great after I got the hang of it.

As for not letting drivers in their lane, well maybe you should have gotten over sooner if you were planing on turning.

Drivers by my home are too darn polite, just flip your turn signal on and others slow down to let you in--and clogs up the lane of traffic. Yeah sure I let others in but not for crossing over 2 lanes right by the traffic light. You can always turn back or take a different way.

That is another thing, drivers who think they HAVE to get over. Even stop--back up--not to miss their turn. They are the ones who cause accidents.

If you don't pay attention or push too hard to get ahead, you are not always going to make it. Might end up taking 5 mins longer but at least you made it there.
 
Do they have to be on the road??? I routinely see uncourteous jerkwads EVERYWHERE nowadays. Case in point... I'm with Nella in her lift van, park in the handicapped spot at the bank. The spot is on the end of the parking and there is a striped unloading zone at the very end by the cutout. We go in the bank, wait in line and come back out. There is a car parked in the striped area RIGHT next to the lift door, and get this...he has a handicapped hang tag on his mirror!!! ARRGHHH!!! So I pull the van out in the middle of the lot and back it right up behind his car, load Nella and wait for him to come out. He comes WALKING out and sees me behind him so I approach him and gave him most of my pent up anger about uncourteous people, told him he should know better, him being "handicapped" and all, and then I drive off around the back of the bank. There is a back door and three more handicapped spaces to park right by it!!! Thanks D@*#head!!! People nowdays!!! Geof
 
I was out driving last friday and these crazy guys in there Darts cut me off, were doing burnouts and reving there motors. Then when we stoped at a light they they were yelling to soma girl at a drive inn they were trying to pick up. Some people man some people:-D LOL


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ramenth said:
The easiest way to get to the shop is through the city then into town where it increases to 40mph. On the way home it never fails. Some idiot doing 30 in the 40... and, you guessed it, when it slows down to 30 in the city they slow down to 20... I always have to ask: if you can drive 30 in the 40, why can't you drive 30 in the 30?
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Along the same lines we have a 40-->30 reduction right by my house wehre they run radar religiously. I know this, so I slow down. And it never fails taht there's some soccer mom in an Excursion riding 24" off my bumper flashing her brights at me like I'm the asshole. The only thing that lets me keep my cool is that three times now that said asshole has passed me and gotten pulled over for it immediately. All three times I stopped and waved. The looks on their faces? All absolutely priceless.

I get tailgated, honked at, and flicked off in construction zones a lot too b/c I adhere to the 45mph rule. These assholes don't realize that all traffic control is done at night. And that the civil engineers have to come out and pick up concrete samples mid-day on a Sunday. And that fuel and water trucks make their rounds off-hours. They seem to think that i'f it's not Mon-Fri 9-5, the zones must be empty, and how dare the state leave the barrels up if nobody's working, and why should they do any less than 90 mph through the zone. Luckily, I haven't lost any of my friends to these shitburgers, but plenty others have.
 
I'm getting tired of all the idiot's on the road anymore,especially the first of the month when Social Security check's come out,all the old fart's and their Buick's are out in force,they can't send a check,or heaven forbid have a family member drive them.Couple of year's ago I was in the Secretary of States office renewing my CDL and there was a geezer ahead of me taking the eye exam(you gotta be blind not to pass that test)he was up there 10 minute's ranting and raving till he finally guessed all the letter's,couldn't believe he got outta there with a license,lost a lotta faith in the system that day.Enjoyable drive's are getting to be a rare occasion anymore,now it's defensive driving 101.Enough said on this subject,be carefull out there everyone,and happy motoring.
 
There is a comedian who stated something like
"Did you ever notice that whe nyou are driving on the road, everyone in front of you is an idiot and everyone coming up behind you is a moron? Like...Ok, I have to get around this guy....SPEED UP IDIOT!!!!! Ok...good. Made it.....Wait...what the....what is this MORON tailgating me for?"

I just got back from a long roadtrip and ran into every one of the problems others have listed here.....

Frankly I think we ALL suck at driving anymore....we all think the other drivers in front of us should get out of our way and all the drivers behind us need to keep their distance.

We are all in a hurry anymore....add to that distracted drivers on cell phones and blackberries, everyone being more stressed than ever and such and its a mixture for real chaos.

We all are lacking courtesy and tolerance now, and not just on the road.....
 

shadango said:
Frankly I think we ALL suck at driving anymore....we all think the other drivers in front of us should get out of our way and all the drivers behind us need to keep their distance.

We are all in a hurry anymore....add to that distracted drivers on cell phones and blackberries, everyone being more stressed than ever and such and its a mixture for real chaos.

We all are lacking courtesy and tolerance now, and not just on the road.....
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Lot of wisdom in that.

I think all drivers were more courteous when we all had tiny drum breaks, coincience? I think not.
 
My gripe is the ones blowing through the end of the yellow and start of the red. I fight on a nightly basis (worse around Christmas, as everyone is hurrying to get to the mall), and they are almost parked in the middle of the intersection and their light is RED, and my left turn is GREEN. I can't get accross when it is my turn, so do I do the same thing to the next group?
 
Burntorange70 said:
I was out driving last friday and these crazy guys in there Darts cut me off, were doing burnouts and reving there motors. Then when we stoped at a light they they were yelling to soma girl at a drive inn they were trying to pick up. Some people man some people:-D LOL


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Nice how they all just blew through that stop sign too. Nuff said.
 
I had a heart pumping experience comeing home from work today. I`m driveing in right lane @ 65 on a dual highway with a lady paceing me, a couple car lengths, in the fast lane @ same speed. The road is curvy with blind turns, wooded median, and woods each side. Come around a curve, here`s some Idiot driving the wrong way comeing straight at us. I lay on the horn, and the woman luckily seen him? comeing and darted over behind me. I believe he kept going instead of stopping and doing a U turn. My God I hope that dumbass did`nt kill anybody:angry2: And last week, same road, other direction, no more than 1 mile from this incident, We roll up on a car stopped in the slow lane, with flashers on. I and a couple other cars dart to the fast lane and slow way down to see whats up, I figured deer strike. No, car was parked to provide a blockade for the idiot that managed to flip his car on its roof. And this is on a straight section? Let me tell you I`ve seen a bunch, commuting around the DC metropolitan area. Quite a few bodys covered in sheets also. Scarey. I get so stressed driving to and from work, It`s a wonder I have`nt been driven to drinking:-D
 
ramenth said:
The easiest way to get to the shop is through the city then into town where it increases to 40mph. On the way home it never fails. Some idiot doing 30 in the 40... and, you guessed it, when it slows down to 30 in the city they slow down to 20... I always have to ask: if you can drive 30 in the 40, why can't you drive 30 in the 30?
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ho lee crap. I used to have this exact thing driving home from a previous job (when it was snowing). People would do 80 in the 100 zone (km's of course). Then when it turned into an 80 zone they'd slow to 60. I always wanted to pull up and ask them why they could do 80 in the 100 zone, but not in the 80 zone. Great minds think alike.

Here's another- a few weekends ago, all within about a half hour, I saw 3 bikers (together) make a left turn at a right turn only, another guy make a left at a different right turn only, and another] guy make a left at the same 'right only' the 3 bikers ran earlier. Can no one read anymore???
 
I just traveled from North Carolina to Massachusetts on Sat-Sunday. It was OK until I reached New York. Then it was a nightmare!!!!! people who will not yield for right of way. I am towing a cargo trailer and trying to get into the proper lane on the GW bridge was sheer hell!! Well I will be repeating this process tomorrow when I return to North Carolina. Hope It wont be too bad getting through the big apple during the middle of the day.
 
dustermaniac said:
I just traveled from North Carolina to Massachusetts on Sat-Sunday. It was OK until I reached New York. Then it was a nightmare!!!!! people who will not yield for right of way. I am towing a cargo trailer and trying to get into the proper lane on the GW bridge was sheer hell!! Well I will be repeating this process tomorrow when I return to North Carolina. Hope It wont be too bad getting through the big apple during the middle of the day.
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I do Pgh-New York all the time and just got back from NC....Virginia drivers have NY drivers beat when it comes to assinine moves, discourteousness and generally just being dickheads. I am in the left lane doing 70 in a 65, about two car lengths behind another guy.....and some jerkwad has to get from his right hand lane spot in thesame position in front of me because somehow, magically I guess, him being behind the guy in front of me will make traffic move faster. So the whole road is bumper to bumper, 70 mph. Nerve-racking and unsafe.....but if you slow down its even worse.

This wasnt just once, but constantly.....Once I stop seeing VA plates, all relaxes again.

New York drivers are angels compared to VA drivers. Although driving in Manhattan takes a certain amount of "oh well, here goes" attitude...LL
 
You have not lived until you have ridden a motorcycle thru NYC, in the rain, during Friday night rush hour. Very similar to playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic fire arm.....
 
inkjunkie said:
You have not lived until you have ridden a motorcycle thru NYC, in the rain, during Friday night rush hour. Very similar to playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic fire arm.....
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Been there, done that several times. Actually, I like motorcycling in NYC....you kind of feel connected somehow to the city.....its a rush.

I still say VA drivers are worse.

At least the NY drivers all seem to be playing the same game and are somewhat predictable. LOL
 
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