Do NOT signal your intention to change lanes anywhere near Indianapolis.
DO expect vehicles overtaking in your right rear anywhere in the environs of Atlanta.
Just give up and walk or stay home in any of the Florida tourist areas.
We have the same problem with ramps on I-270 in Ohio.
There’s nothing like slowing to take the off-ramp while avoiding onrushing traffic from the intersecting on-ramp.
Ramps can be tasty though.
I <3 Illinois suddenly and with great passion. If you are not passing you should not be in the left lane. Also, I should be allowed to drive a large garbage truck with the forklift front so I can scoop up slow left lane drivers and pitch them and their cars off the side of the highway into the trees.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
Conversely, there are places where the traffic coming off the main road doesn’t have a stop sign at a nearby intersection so as not to cause a backup on the main road, but the crossing road does. I learned long ago not to assume that the morons who have the stop sign will stop.
I’m starting to think it’s my car - no one wants to be behind the Scion xA - apparently it’s a badge of dishonor. At least that’s the only reason I can come up with for all the vehicles that insist on passing me or cutting me off. I do find it amusing and gratifying when the idiot who roared past me is the very one I find myself behind at the next stoplight. So how’d that layin’-rubbber work out for you, Skippy?? 
[Following behind slow car in middle lane.]
Hey, fuckface, what the fuck is your problem, you assclown? There are 3 lanes on this fucking highway and you decide to get in the middle lane and go slower than absolutely everyone else on the road? Fuck! You are such a pathetic loser idiot!
[Finally get an opening to get out and pass, and see the little old lady white-knuckling ten and two, barely able to see over the steering wheel.]
Aww, shit. Now I feel like a total jerk.
Being a Mass driver, I admit we are pretty bad…but I can’t tell you how many times I get stuck in the left lane behind either someone with a Maine or Rhode Island (the absolute worst offenders!) plate that is going no where, with nothing in front of them for at least a quarter mile.
lol… when I first got my license, my dad let me drive his old Chevy truck with a V8… but I had to buy the gas.
That thing is why I’m actually, in spite of my rant, fairly patient on the road. It got to the point where I’d pass someone, and have the sickening realization that I just burned up $5 worth of gas!
I drive a silver Corolla - I always drive with my lights on. I call it driving in stealth mode - other cars act like they can’t see me. Especially larger vehicles for some reason - they act like the right-of-way on the road is based on size of vehicle (which is kind of true for semis, but these aren’t the larger vehicles I’m talking about - just SUVs and half-tons).
See my response above. 
The stop signs work differently here - here the rule for four-way stops is, if you don’t stop, you get to go first. Mind you, the cops will still give you $150 ticket for not making a complete stop. You don’t have to stop for any stop signs, actually. Or red lights. Jesus, I don’t know how I manage to not get hit constantly.
I disagree - if little old lady can’t handle the highway, she needs to stay off of it.
Ohio Street and Union Street, right? My first experience there was as a 15-year-old with a shiny new permit (not a license) and maybe 10 total driving hours (most of them in the K-Mart parking lot after hours) under my belt. I was like Stacey Dash in Clueless, but badly dressed.
Excellent advice; the parkway merges are almost calm and relaxing after a couple of days in the in-law pressure cooker.
Yep. My boyfriend will get into the left lane on the highway and set the cruise control for 5 MPH below the speed limit. Then he wonders why I’m bracing for the rear-end crash that seems inevitable. :mad:
I made a discovery a few years ago: a certain section of the driving population doesn’t think about headlights in terms of visibility for other drivers. They figure, hey, if I can see during dusk, no headlights, right? It never occurs to them that headlights serve two purposes, not one.
When I explained this concept to a former co-worker, she was genuinely stunned.
Eh. I live in Rio de Janeiro. Other countries have people who drink and then drive; I have to deal with people who are drinking and driving at the same time. You have to deal with people who talk on cell phones while driving; I have to deal with people texting while motorcycling on the highway. Other drivers complain about buses slowing down traffic; I have to deal with buses and taxis figuring “lights are for Christmas trees”, to the point where I once saw a bus run a red light across the centre’s main artery just to block traffic for about 20 minutes - while three fire trucks and a pair of ambulances were trying to get to the scene of an accident. I don’t want to know how many people died because of that prick. Crossing my street to get home is a daily threat to my life because nobody respects the red lights and pedestrian crossings.
…so my driving pet peeve? Motorists who feel that driving is a right, not a privilege, and a state that doesn’t terminate that privilege for motorists who are dicks.
Not to be mean or anything, but your boyfriend kind of sounds like a dick.
This, I swear those motherfuckers are worse than drunk drivers. Why can’t people wait five minutes to reply to a text message?
A certain section of the driving population are oblivious idiots, in my experience.
I call that section “everyone else”.
Bitch, I’m going the speed limit (or maybe slightly faster)… don’t pass me in the left lane, cut in front of me and then slow down!
I’m on cruise control here! :mad:
Makes sense to me.
Yeah, Dr. Girlfriend, if your BF is that inconsiderate of other people, it’s only a matter of time until he starts treating you like that. We’ll understand if you change your screen name to "Dr. FreeAtLast".
(if he’s big and scary, do tell him we’re just joking here…)
As someone who was born and raised in MA, drives frequently in Maine and currently resides in RI, I have to tell you, no one drives like as much of a head up the ass dipshit as a true Rhode Islander does, and truly, no offense because I know us Massholes aren’t much better at it…but we at least follow some rules. A Rhode Islander will typically go out of their way to say fuck you to any smart, conventional measure of driving. They are absolutely allergic to turn signals, for starters. Get on 95 anywhere from Warwick to Pawtucket and there is simply no concept of speed relative to lane. Left lane’s going 60, ok, next lane is going 70, oh here comes guy going 88 weaving through all lanes, apparently trying to activate his flux capacitor (no such luck!) Theres grandma going 47 (hi grammy!), theres guy constantly hitting his brakes while tailgating instead of simply changing lanes (glutton for punishment, I suppose). I tell ya, shit wouldn’t make less sense if everyone was driving in reverse (I realize this could describe greater Boston area traffic too, but damn it, I live here now).
That reminds me, if you’re hitting your brakes on the highway, there’s a 10% chance it’s for a good reason like slowing traffic or something in the road, and there’s a 90% chance you’re just a birdbrain dickface who ought to be pulled over and have your license forcibly removed from your wallet and cut into pieces. There are very few reasons to be brake jacking on the highway. Anyone with a sense of driving pride understands this. DON’T FUCK UP THE FLOW. I see brakelights on the highway, I think the worst. I think, car accident coming up. Traffic jam. Road work. Tire in road. Dead animal. I don’t think, heres a vacuous boob who doesn’t understand that he can’t drive 78 when the car ahead of him is going 73…but now I do. Jesus, what is your god damned malfunction, fella? It’s like someone trying to hammer a nail into a board with checkbook. It’s simply not going to work, find another method.
One more thing, off the highway. Please don’t be overly courteous to the point where you are abandoning basic right of way traffic laws so you can Mother Teresa some poor soul across two lanes of traffic (one blind), when you are only setting them up to get t-boned by a White 96’ Ford Windstar who couldn’t see them either. Talking about Mr. Mcgoo who stops dead in the left lane of a 4 lane road to wave someone in who’s waiting to turn. Thats all fine and good until you factor in the 347 other drivers with right of way who don’t really notice or care about your noble deed. The guy you’re waving on is most likely cursing you for blocking his vision and daring him to play chicken with oncoming traffic, so just cut that shit out, well intentioned as you are.