Maybe you should have left your house a bit earlier. Now you tried to make time on the road and are even later since you have to change two tires. Changing one tire can make you a bit late, changing two tires makes you much later. Much more than twice as late as one tire, since you probably don’t have two spare tires.
You see, passing on the shoulder is never smart. After all, there could be someone, like you now, changing a tire, or two. They are not always easy to see, it is not like they have a gigantic dayglo orange sign saying “Work on the shoulder” like the one you just ran over. Maybe they should put a sign warning shoulder-passing drivers about incoming signs. Wait, that wouldn’t work.
Anyways, I hope you really are the stupid asshole I make you to be, and not someone in a genuine hurry to get somewhere important, because you most definitely won’t be there on time.
I’m not getting what happened. Did the speeder guy blow out two tires by riding on the shoulder? And now he’s getting his ironic comeuppance? Not following.
Dude tried to overtake a bunch of cars on slow morning traffic. Did so by passing on the shoulder until he reached a “Work ahead” sign which he ran over and blew two tires. It was scary for one second, very funny for the remainder.
Shoulder passers must die. What the fuck do they think? That everyone else is waiting in the long line of traffic because they like it? That they aren’t just as late as you are? Entitled assholes. If I had seen what was described in the OP, I’d have slowed down and loudly cheered as I passed by the stuck motorist.
That is one of my husband’s pet peeves. As he IS the poster child for road rage, he handles it by blocking the shoulder if necessary. Which didn’t work out for him real well one day when going down Route 53 and he tried blocking a car coming up behind us. It was a cop in an unmarked.
I got a laugh out of it anyway…and he doesn’t do that crap anymore.
I was sitting in a huge traffic jam on the highway and I saw a guy coming up on the shoulder. I eased into the shoulder a bit and so he had to go into the grass to pass me. And he honked at me!
I was on a bus on Lake Shore Drive once during the rush hour and watched as someone drove past on the inside shoulder. Then a few blocks further on I saw him again, sitting behind a police car which was parked on the shoulder.
Most of the time I dont mind shoulder blockers but one time I was stuck behind a shoulder blocker when the next exit was less than 1/4 mile ahead and I had decided to take that as an alternate route :mad:
There’s nothing quite as good as the schadenfreude I feel when I see the asshole who’s speeding past me in a snowstorm end up stuck in the median. It’s often one of the few bright spots.
I was wating at a bus stop one evening when I noticed a pickup in reverse on the nearby overpass, the driver was presumably intending to use the shoulder to back out onto the nearest onramp instead of dealing with the extraordinarily heavy traffic on the 14th Street Bridge. I tried to flag down a county patrol car that came by about a minute later but couldn’t get the officer’s attention.
Incidents like this are what proved to me there is no value in prayer; it is simply not possible to pray any more fervently than I that some of these jackasses would be smote with lightning but, alas, it has never happened
During hurricane season a few years back, traffic was backed up on the Turnpike. It took me over an hour to get home, twice the normal time. So, I’m sitting there when some blonde twit in a black SUV comes flying by on the shoulder.
Grumble grumble…oh my God! What’s that, coming up behind her? Flashing red and blue lights! One of Florida’s finest, also on the shoulder! Wooohooo!
I made sure, as I inched my way by her, that she saw me laughing at her.
Every year it seems we hear about something like this in Milwaukee, often times, it’s not the shoulder that they’re using, but a construction area. A few years back it was a doctor, in a really big hurry no doubt. She moved over to the construction area where here motorcycle got stuck in wet cement and she went over the handlebars and did a faceplant. Needless to say the result was very bad and involved reconstructive surgery. All so she would get to work 4 minutes earlier.
Oh, one more. The brother of a friend of mine. School bus had it’s flashers and stop sign out so all the traffic around it was stopped. He decided to pass all the stopped traffic on the shoulder (I have NO idea if he was on the side with the bus or the oncoming side). Cop saw him, gave him a ticket, and to top if off is was his third strike and he wound up with jail time for it. Idiot.
When I’ve had that happen and the good fortune to see the ticket being written, I drive slowly by, honk my horn, wave and produce the one finger salute.
