Especially during construction season which lasts like 9 months here in Milwaukee.
Okay, there is a difference between slow drivers and putzy drivers. Slow drivers can drive with purpose, be self aware of their surroundings and thoughtfull of other drivers. Putzy drivers are usually slow, have no common sense and don’t see others around them. I haaaate!!! them.
The list of things I see that makes me want to lob a grenade loaded with skunk scent and hungry badgers into the cars of these people follows.
Making a left turn across traffic and they think the front of their cars are 40 feet long and don’t make full use of the left turn lane. Get your fat ass all the way into the turn lane for jeezus sakes. Can’t you tell that your front end is still 6 feet from the even being close to the on coming traffic lane and that your trunk is blocking traffic trying to get around you? The hell are people honking at you for? Construction on this road dictates that there isn’t room for anyone to get around you if you aren’t all the way in the turn lane and using your head.
Pulling away from a stop light…you don’t need to let the guy in front of you get a block away before you start to pull away yourself. If we all did what you do then only three cars would make it through the light at a time. Use the gas pedal Sally! Your engine won’t explode and you won’t run into the back of the car in front of you. Procede expeditiously yet with caution and common sense.
Merging on the free way…Ugh. If you, again, think that using all of the travel in the gas pedal is going to damage your car’s engine you are mistaken. I have first hand empirical evidence that your precious little car will survive such brutal accelerations. You need to be going “at least as fast as traffic” to merge should be the rule of thumb here. If you have to use a little teensy bit of the emergency (brake down) lane to accomplish this DON’T PANIC and for god’s sake DON’T STOP!!!. You might hit the rumble strip too, your tires won’t fall off. There aren’t land mines in that lane. If you actually come to a stop you might as well set up a tent or call a taxi. If nobody will let you in then you are doing something wrong, the whole freeway isnt’t filled with assholes, it might just be you.
More later. Feel free to add your own.
Thanks, I feel a little better already.