Yes, I realize following the speed limit is a great idea.
Yes, I also understand that you have a V4 and may not want to unduly stress your engine at ever opportunity…
Yes, I also know that you may shake your head and call me reckless when I eventually pass you…
But for god’s sake, did you really have to switch into my lane when coming up to an intersection because mine was free? If I’m approaching the intersection, and there are no cars already stopped in my lane, and you suddenly jump out in front of me and take the pole position, you better know what you’re doing.
To add insult to that by going as slow as a turtle on depressants while the rest of traffic accelerates at a normal clip just screws with my head.
Therefore, I pit you for being an insensitive clod who doesn’t have an ounce of patience when approaching the stop light, and chooses the path of least resistance, even though I’m already approaching the intersection.
Double the points if you switch over two lanes, or switch into the left-most lane. :smack:
This reminds me of when I’m walking down a hall or sidewalk, and some bum wad exits a door right in front of me (almost knocking me down), and then proceeds to walk at .000000001 MPH in front of me.
I’m driving down the road. In front of me is a steady line of traffic. Behind me there isn’t a soul. And yet simply because there is the tiniest of margins in between myself and the car in front of me, you feel the need to pull into traffic into that spot. Never mind that had you waited no more than three or four seconds you could’ve pulled out while cutting off no one, you also then proceed to go five under the limit.
My dream car comes with a gigantic spatula with which I can flip cars such as this out of the way.
This says less about other drivers than it does about your impatience. Calm down, it is just transporting yourself from one place to another safely. It is not a race.
Gonzomax, I know that’s definitely the case. I’ll freely admit I jackrabbit out of the intersection when the light turns green, but when someone merges into my lane near an intersection (even worse if they’re cutting me off in the process - which does happen every once in awhile), I can’t help but feel a little robbed
Like every other “reckless driver” out there, obviously, I’m driving correctly, and you’re not. Suck it
I also don’t like pedestrians who walk abreast of their chums, take up the entire sidewalk… and don’t yield to anyone coming the other way, forcing me to walk on the grass.
I am one of those slow drivers — yep, four-banger. I’d rather drive 25 and never stop for a light than to see who can get to the red first.
I’ve noticed recently that more and more people seem to enjoy the Tron pass. I’m in the right lane, putting along and listenening to NPR and I see someone approaching in the rear view mirror. It’s obvious they are going to pass me and the left lane is open, so they signal and move over, right? No, they wait until they get as close as possible before changing lanes and even then they try to get a little dust off the doors. I had a room mate who called it a contour pass.
My personal expression of road rage is to wait until the critcal moment and then hit my turn signal and move a little to the left as though I’m going to change lanes. Very juvenile.
I decided the other day that I don’t want to be able to vaporize drivers like that, after all. I mean, we all do boneheaded things on occasion, and I’m sure they have people who care about them. Instead, I want the power to send them back to the beginning of their trip, so that they have to do it over again until they get it right – sort of a combination of Chutes & Ladders and the movie Groundhog Day.
I think being unaware of what’s happening around you*, or being unaware of where you are in space *defines *you as a dickwad (or other epithet of choice).
the general you, of course, not **Mosier **in particular.
A friend came up with a useful invention. (He never even built a prototype, though). It was a gun that you could shoot idiot drivers with. It wouldn’t kill them, but it would make them look like cartoon characters who just got blown up. Dirty face, messed up hair, surprised expression, that sort of thing. The effect would last for about five minutes, and everyone would know that that driver is a moron. It also has a feature that if you use it too much, too often, it would blow up in your own face.
I realize that it’s just transporting myself, but the fact is that the whole thing goes more quickly, smoothly, and safely for everyone if people don’t act like selfish or oblivious assholes.
It’s like when the first guy at the light sits through 10 seconds of green light because he’s too busy daydreaming or checking his text messages. If i’m second in line, his idiocy might only cost me 10 seconds, but what it also does is ensure that only, say, 10 cars rather than 12 will get through on that particular green. That leaves two people who have to wait for a whole cycle of the lights because some moron wasn’t paying attention. It also, during busy times, makes the roads clog up even more because every time someone does this there’s a cascade effect back along the line of traffic.
Exactly.
Also, IMO, oblivious drivers are dangerous drivers. Even if their lack of awareness is not an intentional device to inconvenience others, the fact that they can’t/won’t pay attention while piloting two tons of metal makes them dickwads.
I agree. The selfish assholes who think they own the roads and will determine what speed other drivers go ,should be ticketed for driving dangerously and stupidly. Can you imagine the excruciating pain waiting at a light for a couple seconds can cause? Your tears of frustration are in my prayers. How can you go on .
How about when you’re in the far right lane, with your turn signal on, preparing to make a right turn, and that same jackass cuts across into your lane because it happens to be open. The only difference though is that he’s not making a right. He’s going straight. So here you are waiting behind this douche when you could have easily made your right turn on a red light. And, of course, you can’t honk at him because what he is doing is perfectly legal.
However, I believe in Hong Kong, you will get honked at if you do such a thing. (Though, of course, since they drive on the left there, it’s backward.)
