# Get out of my lane! The biggest road-rage triggers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-lane-the-biggest-road-rage-triggers/689132>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 23, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-lane-the-biggest-road-rage-triggers/689132 "2014-05-23T22:43:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-lane-the-biggest-road-rage-triggers/689132/181 "2014-06-11T16:01:41Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> I’m a pedestrian, and I think it should be legal to shoot any driver who is blocking any part of the road’s pedestrian walkway with their car. Is that really going to get you there faster?
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> Is it more polite to open their car door and walk through it, saying “Excuse me” or climb over their hood?

Oh hell yes! I hate that. I want to walk over the hood. I’ve never had that happen when I was walking (see: Nobody walks in Mesa(exceptions)) so I am just an armchair bitcher, but I’ve seen it so much driving I want to get out and bang on their window and ask them what the fuck they think those lines are for, dammit. But I don’t (see: Mesa, open carry allowed).

Look at the intersection I linked to. The intersection is typical for Mesa. There is a white line a few feet before the crosswalk that you are supposed to stop at. i don’t know where these idiots out here learned to drive (if at all…) but I have seen cars waiting with their front wheels PAST the intersection edge of the crosswalk! And, as often as not, when the light changes, they sit there for 5-10 seconds.

How do these people function in life??

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**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-lane-the-biggest-road-rage-triggers/689132/182 "2014-06-22T19:57:46Z")

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> [@Patch](#):
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> Maybe his brother is coming the other way?
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> In Driver’s Ed I once stopped for a stop sign and patiently waited for it to turn green.
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> I was nervous, ok? ☹

Cross post [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17453227#post17453227)? 😉

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