Nine years ago, in Dublin, it was Mercedes.
It is.
They’ve got minds of their own! Run! Run!
Used to BMWs, but now it’s pickups.
Stupid, speeding, swerving, tail-gating … and they’re always doing that obnoxious slidle, where they keep edging toward your lane, trying to get you to move over or slow way down or teleport somewhere else.
You have a directional, I have a horn; we will be using one or the other.
Disturbingly large pickup trucks that sit on my ass on icy roads. Probably many makes and models but far too many equipped with jerkish drivers that will do things like the aforementioned ass-sitting, as well as fun things like passing in the fog in no-passing areas.
Also, tourists from Utah. Sorry, Utah Dopers, but the drivers we get up here? There is a definite pattern of jerkish driving, and I have driven through Salt Lake and they do it there too. At least in winter a good number of the Californians are actually scared, the Utah people are not. We get a lot of people from Utah. Hell, the company I work for is owned by a company out of Utah. Lovely state, great scenery…the drivers scare me, though.
The Crown Victoria is still the rudest car on the road. Soon it will be whatever the dominant police replacement vehicle is.
Why? Because they are typically cars driven by Old Man River or his wife Mary Bluehair at a maximum speed of stopped in the left lane, but you don’t dare pass them until you confirm that they are not in fact police officers. Once you’re free of them and start to relax, that’s when you get whacked by a REAL cop driving his Crown Vic.
You know what? Just click here. It’s still relevant. The bottom line: police should be forced by law to buy distinctive cars that are easily recognized so that one yutz can’t cause a 2-mile traffic jam because the rest of us don’t want a ticket.
(One of) Mine.
For me, it’s any large vehicle kitted out for maximum attention. Escalades or other uberSUVs with sports flags and window wraps on them, or a variety of bumper stickers count (bonus points for sexist or politically insulting stickers) or bright screaming “look at me” yellow Hummers.
Also, I automatically give exceedingly wide berth to dark gray and dark blue oversized Cadillac sedans.It’s been my experience that they’re invariably driven by, uh, let’s say gentlemen of a certain age whose ability to afford an outsized gas guzzler is in directly inverse proportion to their ability to actually handle such a vehicle while maintaining proper speed and observing both general traffic law and acceptabletraffic etiquette.
My vote is for the Georgia State trooper, almost had one take out me and my So on our mtorcycles once. He was hauling ass up the freeway, hadd be going over 100mph. We Floridians were safely passing a car, and out of nowwhere does this cop appear in my mirrors. No lights, no sirens, just booking it. He’s tailgating us, we’re passing as fast as we can, barely do we move over and he’s outta there like a rocket. asshole.
I haven’t seen a cop in a Crown Vic in AGES. Around here they drive Chargers and Impalas.
I actually have a whole list of indicators that some asshole driver is about to piss me off.
- vanity plates
- religious themed bumper stickers
- pro-life bumper stickers
- Jesus fish (or Jesus fish copiers; doesn’t matter what they say)
- the decal across the windshield that tells you what kind of car it is*
- Calvin pissing on… decals
- Rebel flags
- honor roll student bumper stickers
- pretty much any bumper sticker**
- that dickhead in the yellow Focus with the racing strips, spoiler, ground effects, etc.; it’s a FOCUS***, you asshole
- My favorite around here is an ancient Buick Century that has “CENTURY” in a really pompous font.
** The best thing I’ve ever seen is a '93 county fair bumper sticker on a '96 Taurus. WTF.
*** I drive the same car except mine isn’t all yellow and douchebaggy. Race car it is not.
“A BMW it had to be!” has pretty much become my leitmotiv for rude drivers, since I moved down here. I can’t comment on the Mercedes, but it may be simply because there’s less of them.
Around here, anyone with a “Thin Blue Line” sticker is guaranteed to be a menace on the road.
Also, disturbingly large pickups that blaze by you in winter conditions. Hey asshole, you might be driving the giant 4x4 workhorse with tires from a John Deere, but I’m in the family sedan just trying to get home without spinning out. This is made worse by already narrow streets made narrower because of snow accumulation. Your truck is taking up 1.5 lanes, yo.