To the jerk who I got stuck behind for the 2nd day in a row when driving home on my lunch break:
Drive the fing speed limit! 55 mph means 55 mph, not 40, not 35… 55 fing miles per hour!!! You would think that there is a reason that people are backing up behind you and then giving you dirty looks when they finally are able to pass you.
I don’t know why the F*** you think you need to drive so damn slow. Get your car fixed! Get your head out of the clouds. Remove the helium from your gas pedal, or take your foot off the damn break, but go the F***ing speed limit!
I feel better now. Anyone know if you can get a citation for going slower than the speed limit?
I believe the answer to your question is “yes, but.”
The person driving too slow must present a hazard to others on the road; 40 mph in the slow lane is a nuisance but manageable, 40 mph in the fast lane is a definite hazard.
IANAC, and IANAL, however, so I could be mistaken.
Would the 40 mph in a single lane present a hazard? That was what we were driving on: Single lane road with speed limit at 55 mph. It didn’t turn into a double lane until I got to my destination.
I don’t know why the F* you think you need to drive so damn slow. Get your car fixed! Get your head out of the clouds. Remove the helium from your gas pedal, or take your foot off the damn break, but go the F***ing speed limit! **
I believe the phrase you are looking for is “Hang up and drive!”.
Yesterday afternoon I thought I was going to see my very first incident of honest to goodness road rage in action.
Kid in a compact goes shooting down the street ahead of me at about 10 miles over the speed limit. He gets behind another car and tries to pass him on the left. Problem is, there’s no real left lane. The left lane is one of those duel lanes that both sides of traffic can use to turn left. Well, there’s a car in it, stopped. The kid almost hits it, swerves back into his own lane, and then swerves off to the right, nearly cutting someone off in the process.
We all get up to the next light. I wasn’t paying attention to the first part, but apparently they must have been communicating through the windows because the guy who nearly got cut off opens up his car door and sticks his head and foot out. The kid opens up his door and grins wickedly back at the guy. I thought for sure the guy was going to get out and a beat down would commence.
Then the guy thought better of it and gets back in his car. He turns right, kid goes straight, and that’s the end of that.
I live 5 miles from work. It usually takes me 20 minutes to get there because it seems that I always get stuck behind some moron who can’t pay attention to the speed limit!!
One day I managed to get every light green and was able to do the speed limit the entire way to work. It only took me 7 minutes! Ugh!
Today I got trapped behind what appeared to be an 80 year old going 15 miles under the limit. It’s a 45mph zone and I’m doing 30! Worse yet, there’s no passing the whole way.
To relieve my stress, I’ve been taking the long way home from work at night. It’s longer mile-wise, but it’s less time on the road.
There are times when I wish we could prohibit people who do not need to be on the roads (retirees, those who don’t work) from being on the roads from 5am to 9am (morning rush “hour” around here) and then from 2:30pm-6:30pm (evening rush “hour”).
Proof positive why we need more guns. I’m not saying that we should shoot each other, but a casual tip of a Glock out your window would surely help Gran’pa find the vertical pedal to the right. Or, should he be on a highway, remember that the left lane is for passing, not spacing out into a world all his own.
If he thinks he’s right, fine. Exchange gun fire. But I suspect that 99% of the idiots on the road are simply ignorant of their surroundings and need to be woken up. Maybe if they think the roads are full of homocidal maniacs they’ll pay a little more attention on the road.
BTW: I drive the NJ Turnpike 2 hours per day to work and back. It’s not as bad as you might think. If it weren’t for the friggin’ Pennsylvania drivers!!!
I live in Boston where the traffic is so bad it’s a form of mental torture. So, yes, I regularly get put out, pissed off, made late and generally horribly inconvenienced by slow and incompetent drivers.
But then - phuque it, it’s usually an old person, or a new driver, or some poor foreigner (i.e. non-Bostonian) who’s lost.
Give them a freakin break. You can wait an extra few minutes to get whereever the hell you’re going. And if you can’t, then go see a shrink, learn how to time manage, take a ritalin. Get off the road.
The people who should be summarily executed are the tailgating, traffic weaving, usually SUV-driving bastards who are willing to take your life in their sociopathic hands to make up five minutes in their miserable constipated lives. They know the risks they’re taking, and when they kill they should be prosecuted for murder. “Vehicular homicide” my ass.
I would like to add the following observations, based on what I saw during my 20 minutes driving today:
If I have a stop sign, and you don’t, you have the right of way. That does not mean that you stop and begin waving me on. I will not follow your little hand signals, because if I continue and you hit me, I’m at fault. I know my little Suzuki Swift looks like an incredible danger to your big Excursion, but if you hit me, I will be hurt and I don’t want that to happen.
If you have a stop sign, and I don’t, I have the right of way. Please stop appropriately. That doesn’t mean that you get to continue through the sign after looking at me heading towards you. My car is little and light, but it does not stop on a dime, especially on wet roads.
If there is a 4 way stop, that means we both stop, and whoever was there first continues through the intersection first. If we’re facing opposite directions and going straight through, this isn’t a problem, and we can both go at the same time with no problem. You don’t need to stop when I begin moving after it is apparent that you are going straight. If you intend to turn, please use your signal, and I will grant you the same courtesy. That way, we’re not attempting to occupy the same space at the same time, something I believe to be impossible.
Or to those turning left at a stoplight when I am turning right:
The light is green for both of us; However, I HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY! Do NOT continue through the intersection giving me a blank or dirty look because I honk my horn at you to wake you up to the fact that I am in the interesection and you’re going to hit me if you continue to turn into my path!
This has been happening more frequently on my way home from work lately. In the morning I get those who can’t do the speed limit, on the way home, it’s those who don’t seem to know the rules of the road!
Well one time we had someone do that but they didn’t know a cop car was right behind us. Yep, you guessed it. Lights and siren. We pull over to leave the cop get those stupid asshole teenagers. They stopped down a block or two with the cop yelling at them. We just went by waving.