Here is something that really gets on my nerves here.
Preface:
I am a recent graduate in adulthood. I ignore others in their haste and their perceived stupidity. I educate the ignorant. I am also damned proud of my success (because where and what I’m from) following the axiom: success is just like feces, only the smell of your own is sweet. Currently, our only “true goal” is to sell ourselves to a potential employer. And if you are driving along the highway at 90 mph, you’ll see me obeying the speed limit because paying 500 dollars a year for my insurance is probably the cost to ensure you a month. Go get that job because you obviously need it more than I do! Hrmph.
Problem:
The American Highway System has a plague. The Black Death is simple: the speed limit and how it is disobeyed.
Rebuke:
Who are you, “Great” American Outlaw that gets on my bumper and flashes your lights at me as I travel the legal top speed in the fast lane? Who are you to say I should move over for you? Shouldn’t you have started five minutes earlier for that interview or commute if you were so late? Is there really an emergency? Did I miss seeing those hazard lights over your flashing brights? Emergency vehicles are regarded and yielded accordingly: that’s my only allowance! I often wonder if that person that flies by me in the slow lane really wants to pay my taxes, insurance, and car maintenance if he/she really thinks it’s of such warrant to make a fuss. It’s that same type of person that yells and gestures obscenities through a closed window. Coward.
Rebuttal:
Drop that cell phone, the factual article, the Steak & Ale, turn off the massaging leather seats (in the car you gamble to keep every month), and slow down. I am not impressed by your Mercedes 190 (the poor, rich man’s car). If you’ve got the gripe, merge into the slow lane, and I’ll honk going past you and the cop that cuffs you for going too fast and killing the mother of three.
Solution:
“Original Bumper Stickers”
Honk If You Have Patience
I Ignore Flashy Objects
Each Complaint Gets Me Closer to Your Money
I’m a Sunday Driver, EVERYDAY.
Conclusion:
It doesn’t hurt to slow down and appreciate the beauty or positive energy in the scenery.
Abstract:
Now, let’s drop all this imagery. I demonstrate an unyielding to you. Good. I want to actually see some form of worthwhile exchange instead of all this haste in “correction.” I can’t stand to see the hasty driving and conclusions!
Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, you’re a self-righteous asshole?
Given all your rhetoric about obeying traffic laws, I’d expect you to be aware that if there’s room for someone to pass you on the right, you should be in the lane to the right–since you’re supposed to keep right except to pass. So you’re at least as much in the wrong as the other guy.
In a muddled diatribe about driving the speed limit, why is there a supporting link to an article about electronic litter?
Why are you using the passing lane if you aren’t overtaking someone? A safe driver doesn’t intentionally clog up the passing lane in order to make a point.
I don’t know what to say about the majority of your incoherent rant (“Currently, our only “true goal” is to sell ourselves to a potential employer.” ), but I cannot ignore this part.
I’m glad you can judge everyone else’s lives. Must be nice to be God.
About a month ago, I was speeding in the left lane on the highway while rushing my beloved pet to the nearest animal emergency room as she was having seizures in the seat next to me. If you were the asshole going 52 in the left hand lane to stay below the 55 mph speed limit, I hope that you are proud of extending my pet’s suffering even one extra minute. She ended up having to be euthanized, but knowing everything, I guess you knew that already.
Oh, but of course, you were protecting that “mother of three” I was going to kill by going 65 instead of 55. Thank you, oh omniscient one. :rolleyes:
I live in a very rural area, and last year I sliced open one of my wrists (not on purpose, I was trying to fix a window). The nearest hospital is over 45 minutes away at the speedlimit. Rather than wait for an ambulence to make the entire trip, a friend of mine phoned the hospital and started the drive to meet them. Fortunetly for me when she flashed her highbeam lights people got out of her way.
My point is you don’t know why people are speeding, and even if you did, you aren’t in charge of the road, you asshole.
Would it be that difficult for you to get over in the far right lane? The way you describe it, it sounds like you’re just trying to piss people off.
I wish more people learned to drive from the guy who taught me: he basically told me to ignore the speed limit and go as fast as the rest of traffic. I feel much safer doing that.
Hunter Hawk: Fair enough. Although, if I am going the legal speed limit why should I move over (in a line of slower cars) for someone that wants to whip in and out of traffic? I can’t read minds, so I don’t know if a true emergency exists. Yes, I am a self-righteous asshole… I believe I’m allowed to be one since everyone else has that freedom.
Waverly: The link is provided to express the parallel to the Information Superhighway as well. I find those same attitudes exist on the road as well as they do online. I thought it was a nifty metaphor.
LunaSea & Ilsa_Lund: Goodbye to prior threads perhaps. At the moment, I’m the asshole behind you flashing my brights. If you want to draw pretty pictures, I believe you can find my address online and you can send me a mailbox bomb or a finger painting. If you don’t have anything to add, do go on about your lives.
Rating on your drawing Ilsa_Lund:
Only you would be repetitive and unoriginal.
7 up yours: Yes.
LilyoftheValley: I can’t read minds. I am truly sorry about your pet. I have pets myself, and I do understand their suffering. Your anger doesn’t need to be directed toward me, though. Also, do you happen to have any reference material for me to improve my incoherence? This is the Internet you know, it’s easy to misinterpret…
Magayuk: I’ve called the cops in an emergency similar to yours, so I’m not too unfamiliar with the situation. The police met and escorted my friend and me to the nearest hospital. In light of your name calling, I don’t think you understood what I was trying to say… I refuse to move over to pay for a speeding ticket when I’m going the limit. The police would agree.
Hosayf: Would it be that difficult to go the speed limit? I feel safer going the limit.
Tedster: I am passing those going below the limit in the slow lane while going the speed limit… can you elaborate?
What happened to the guy flying by you in the slow lane? Did they just plow through the “line” of cars you refuse to merge with? Or, as I suspect, do you just piddle along in the left lane, oblivious to traffic around you, and expect everyone to drive your speed or slower?
You are a globule of cholesterol clogging up our nation’s arteries, move over!
BTW, in many states the law is to stay right except to pass. That means if people can pass you on the right, you are in the wrong as well, so don’t be uppity about being “law abiding” because you’re not.
Well, I’d rather go at the speed I feel safest at and not impede traffic.
I’ve only had my license for a bit over a year, but I’ve never gotten a ticket, and I speed all the time; I just don’t go much faster than most of the cars on the road (usually about 75 in a 55 zone.) The people I see getting pulled over are the ones who go flying down the freeway at 80+ miles per hour weaving between cars on the often congested Atlanta freeways.
I must ask, where exactly are you driving? I assume the freeways you’re driving on are two lanes in each direction… I’m used to busy freeways that are 3 lanes wide at their narrowest. Also – I’m a fairly new driver, and I don’t drive outside of the Atlanta area much – but it’s very rare for me to encounter someone going below the speed limit on the freeway, and if someone is going below the speed limit, then perhaps you could then use the left lane for its stated purpose, passing.
Ever notice that anyone that drives slower than you is an idiot, and anyone that drives faster than you is a maniac???
I, for one, vote for the middle ground. The biggest problem that I see on the roads is the pissing contest between someone who feels that it is his right to drive 54 in the fast lane, the the one behind him who feels that he has the right to drive 75.
Both of them are assholes. The pissing contest that inevitably ensues endangers the lives of everyone around them. “Can too!” “Can not!” “Can TOO!!” Can NOT!!" “CAN TOO!!!”
What ever happened to common courtesy? If you are in the fast lane (no matter how fast you are going) and there is someone behind you who wants to go faster, MOVE THE HELL OVER! And if you want to go really really fast and there is someone in front going slower, GO AROUND! Someone PLEASE choose to be the adult in this situation.
Just don’t risk the life of me or my family with your little pissing contests.
Ilsa_Lund: You have posted that drawing in other posts; therefore, you are repetitive. Attempting me to flame you in this thread like others shows your unoriginality. Grow up. 1… 2… 3… ignore! Try it, you’ll like it. :rolleyes:
Cheesesteak: I’m glad to be that “globule of cholesterol” in which you refer. It seems cheesesteaks are, too. I am obviously not oblivious to the traffic as I’m ranting about the stupidity of it. I’ll play the devil’s advocate here: show me an online resource where the DMV says I am supposed to merge into the slow lane if I’m going the speed limit and passing cars. The point of the rant is that I am going the limit; therefore, I am doing anything wrong excepting making an exceptionally bad day for the speeders out there.
Mr2001: Dick? I’m sorry, my name isn’t Richard. Since you mentioned being an outlaw, there is a far better outcry being a rebel without a cause than being the outlaw you crave to be. You should try it sometime.
Hosayf: We have the same point; however, we handle it differently. I don’t want to be the cause of an accident by speeding. In my understanding, more people cause problems by whipping in and out of traffic because of their impatience rather than my obeying the speed limit.
Dread Pirate Danno: I agree with you. I know I’m being an ass refusing to budge. I just think speeding causes more problems because of the impatience as opposed me obeying the speed limit (plus, I can’t afford the fines, insurance, or bad health from the stress). I would like to see links to some research if any one has them.
Isn’t it healthier to relax and enjoy the ride and easier on the car rather than getting upset over something beyond your control? Each person’s motives are different and are worthwhile for judgments, so this is within reason.
), but I cannot ignore this part.