How am I Driving? 1 800 EAT EXCREMATE!

I got turned-in!
I have been accused and convicted of recklessly driving 90 MPH. Weaving in and out of traffic. Making unsafe lane changes and not using my directionals. That is what the offended driver reported (snitched) to the number on my Bumper Sticker. Now, it is all documented and in my personnel file and I have Zero recourse. What a bunch of Monkey Crap! I’d find considerable enjoyment shoving a Banana up the other drivers tailpipe! If your vehicle is dirty and another motorist is in a pissy-fit and decides they don’t like the color of your tires, they can call that number a make a Bogus complaint. Now, at the office, I am immediately under a cloud of suspicion. “Drive Safely”…“Slow Down”…“Be Curtious”
No recourse, No Not Guilty…Branded: Bad Driver!!! I’m Screwed!

So, was it all made up or did they exaggerate something that you did?

EX-CREMATE? Is that like the Walker Co. crematorium?

**ex cre mate ** - *n * - a person you think is your friend, but who is actually a shithead.

:smiley: Now that was good.

Bubba…
I’ve never driven 90 MPH in my lifetime. You can’t weave in and out of traffic in So. California unless you have a Death Wish & I know why the signals were installed on my steering column. I beleive the offended party was one of the Morons who persist to drive 55 MPH in the Fast Lane! I will usually go around these people ( weaving irratically in and out of traffic). Bogus!

I have great respect for truckers and give them a wide berth on the road. Their vehicles aren’t as maneuverable and have poorer fields of vision than others. That being said, I think there may have been some merit in the complaint, and that if you’re driving a large vehicle that has a “How am I driving” sticker, or even a business phone number, you should exercise a little more caution.

Why didn’t you smear mud all over the stickers, like everybody else does? :dubious:

Sounds like the pus bag who turned you in is a lying whore. What kind of impact will this negative report have on your job?

(The only time I’ve ever turned in a trucker was when I saw him pass a car in a no-passing zone on a two lane highway at night where he could have easily killed someone had they been coming in the opposite direction.)

I’ve always wondered what the follow-up was from one of those calls. It’s disappointing that a company will trust a somewhat anonymous phone call over its employee without even a cursory investigation.

Any idea if this will affect your job in terms of raises, promotions and the like, or will it be mostly ignored unless there are more complaints?

I know a guy who owned a landscaping company and someone called to report an employee’s bad driving, except it was him, the owner.

He told the caller to go to hell.

He was a bad/crazy/aggressive driver. He also knew it and didn’t give a shit.

So you’re a trucker with a Death Wish? Eeesh.

Maybe you can lobby your employer for installation of monitoring devices in the vehicles which will log speed and other parameters, if you think that will establish that you are a safe driver. :dubious:

"I’m so mad I can’t spell! :rolleyes:
Excremate = No Pschit! :stuck_out_tongue:
Excrement. The real thing! :slight_smile:

So how fast were you going?

This reminds me of an old David Letterman bit. He got in his car and started following one of these vehicles with one of these stickers on it. He called the number on his car phone and started giving them real-time updates on how the guy was driving: “He’s still doing very well. He’s making a right turn, now. He used his blinker. Now we’re proceeding up this street…” His point was that the sticker didn’t say to only call if the guy was driving BAD.

The speedometer only goes to 85!

Huh, I forgot David Letterman used to be funny…

I would hope that you’d have to get a certain number of complaints before any action is taken. One complaint could be a fluke, but if you got like 10 in a week, then…

I feel for you. When I was driving local delivery I won’t say my driving style changed when I was in a truck with lettering and a phone number on the side or not. However that dictated if I would use certain hand signals or not.

One morning I answered the phone in the warehouse and some guy politely asked to talk to the manager about an incident earlier that morning with one of the trucks that almost hit him. The boss was the only one who had been out and back so far that morning. When I put the call on hold and called for him to pick up I told him what it was about. “Oh really” he said.

click That was me you fucking idiot, what the hell were YOU doing scooting between a 20 ton truck making fucking beeping noises in reverse and a loading dock? Fuck off! slam

sniff that still bring a tear to my eye for his eloquence.

Well yeah, I’d hope so too, but it doesn’t seem like Mr Roboto’s company are going out of there way to listen to his side of the story at the moment so that’s why I asked.