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Old 04-30-2009, 11:15 AM   #81 (permalink)
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Earlier this week, I was waiting at a red light to make a left turn. It was a one lane road and I was #1 in the waiting line, so obviously everyone behind me would also need to wait for green. Apparently not the guy behind me waiting to turn right. He inched up SO close to me trying to sneak between me and the curb on my right side that I would have hit him with even an inch of rollback. He then proceeded to lay on his horn and wave his arms angrily... I waved back. Did he expect me to drive out into the intersection so he wouldn't have to wait for green?

An unrelated incident: waiting to turn left out of a parking lot, heavy traffic. Angry guy drives AROUND my left side, makes a right turn in FRONT of my car, and flips ME the bird. I love when terrible drivers think the law-abiding drivers are in the wrong.
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Old 04-30-2009, 01:13 PM   #82 (permalink)
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The other real menace is cyclists. It literally makes my blood boil when you come to a set of lights and some cock-arse on a bike comes wheeling past and goes straight over the red light. They jump off the pavement without looking, menace pedasterians, wildly swing in your way while going too fucking slow, jump their place, get in the way, show no consideration for other road users, dont have propper lights at night, etc etc. Three Quarters of road accidents are caused by bikes in my guess, and half of them actually want to get run over for the compensation.
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Old 04-30-2009, 02:34 PM   #83 (permalink)
 
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What really pisses me off are people so very clever and manipulative,
they are able to fake ADHD, obtaining a script for Adderall,
so's they can drive three days non-stop. ( and be popular with their friends
who use it to cram study..etc.)

Hopped up drivers (of cars and trucks) are easy to spot.

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Old 04-30-2009, 07:39 PM   #84 (permalink)
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This one also drives me nuts. Clear, sunny day. Going down the highway. Dork in front of you hits their windshield washer fluid spray and showers your nice clean car and windshield with overspray. If someone is behind you and you are at highway speeds, don't spray your windshield, you will also dirty theirs. If you made it that far on the highway, you probably didn't really need to do it right there.
So if a bird shits on my windshield, I should just let it run down my windshield, so that I respect you and your nice clean car? pfft. Fuck that. Cars get dirty, and are dirty most of the time. Live with it.
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Old 04-30-2009, 08:41 PM   #85 (permalink)
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3. The worst of all: when you get to an intersection with a traffic light and it's green, the person across from you is turning left, and you're turning left. THIS MEANS YOU BOTH HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY. AS IN GO AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. I hate when people wait for the other person to turn and then go.
I do this all the time. After several close calls with drivers who decided to go straight despite having their turn signal on, I've decided it's better to piss off people behind me than risk an accident.
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Old 04-30-2009, 08:56 PM   #86 (permalink)
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I do this all the time. After several close calls with drivers who decided to go straight despite having their turn signal on, I've decided it's better to piss off people behind me than risk an accident.
Yeah, this has happened to me on my bike a few times. Scary shit. People need to use their signals.
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Old 05-01-2009, 09:58 PM   #87 (permalink)
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People who think Yield means Merge.

People who think I left 30 feet between me and the car in front of me so they could pull their 20-foot long SUV in between us.
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Old 05-04-2009, 01:59 AM   #88 (permalink)
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I think some things that bug when people are driving are:

+General carelessness/not being a defensive driver (no turn signal, swerving on accident, pulling too far out into my lane, etc).
+People sitting at a red light, in the right lane, blocking anyone behind you who might want to turn right until the light turns green and you get the heck outta the way.
+People on their cell phones- IT'S ILLEGAL IN CA, PEOPLE! GET OFF THE PHONE!
+People who turn on their EMERGENCY lights while they're dropping someone off at the grocery store- uhm, hello, yes, you can park and walk in.
+People with deep bass music blaring, or playing loud rap/rock music with their windows rolled down. Believe it or not, I (along a lot of people around you) don't wanna hear your trashy, disgusting, and offensive music!
+People who block traffic because they decide to pull up next to their buddy (also in a car), lean out the window, and start yacking.
+People who wave you on at a four-way stop sign because they think they're being courteous. No, you are just disrupting the flow of traffic and confusing things.
+People not letting you in when you have to merge, despite having your turn signal on, so you end up shoved into the shoulder or left to slam your brakes on.
+Bicyclists who don't follow driving rules, but don't get ticketed for it- I mean, come on, I've seen bicyclists riding into traffic ride right past a cop, and they don't get stopped. If I were to do that, I would a) probably die and b) get stopped immediately by police.

And number one (and you see a lot of these where I'm from!):

GIGANTIC TRUCKS! Guess what? Having your ride raised so high that I cannot see around you is not going to make your junk any bigger, so please, do all of us on the road who actually CARE about the environment a little bit a favour and get rid of the disgusting monstrosity.

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Old 05-04-2009, 04:41 AM   #89 (permalink)
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People who think I left 30 feet between me and the car in front of me so they could pull their 20-foot long SUV in between us.
+1 for this. I feel like I'm the only person on the road following the "1 car length for every 10 mph" rule. Can't tell you how many times people have passed me only to pull right back in front of me, leaving me to slam my brakes and get some distance between us.
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Old 05-04-2009, 06:08 AM   #90 (permalink)
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This thread is funny because in all actuality no one really knows how to drive. We all do the best we can to not get into car accidents, but I guarantee you've all made silly mistakes on the road from not signaling a lane change to running a red. Stop acting like you're holier than thou.
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Old 05-04-2009, 10:35 AM   #91 (permalink)
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I'd hope everyone agrees that they aren't perfect. This kind of discussion is usually pretty biased and self-serving, but it's easy to vent about with other people who feel the same way.

Everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac while everyone who drives slower than you is a moron. If everyone could just start being perfect like me, we wouldn't have any problems
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Old 05-04-2009, 04:04 PM   #92 (permalink)
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I drive from Boston to Western Kansas several times a year. I've become acquainted with all of these drivers. Let me introduce them to you.

Amblin' Alfred (who just ambles along at 50mph when everyone else is going 70mph+
Blinker Bernese (blink, blink, blink,blink, blink, blink, ....)
Cell phone Cindy
Driving lights Durwood (buddy of high beam Hank)
Extrawide turn Edna, who swings her Durango halfway into the left lane before making a right turn.
Fart muffler Frank (hate those raspberry mufflers)
G-force Georgette (takes the 35mph exit at 65mph)
High beam Hank (buddy of Driving lights Durwood)
I must have three hands Isabel (cell phone in one hand, cigarette in one hand, steering wheel in one hand)
Jalopy Jolene -- unsafe at any speed. Sister of Temp spare Tammy.
Kolache Karen (enjoying that pastry at 80mph)
Left lane Lanny (we all know who he is)
Middle lane Mildred (cousin of Amblin' Alfred, sister of Left lane Lanny -- but she never leaves the middle lane)
Monster truck Maurice
No mirrors Norval
Oblivious Oprah
Puppy loving Paula, who can't stand the anxiety of being separated from her dog, so she drives around with the dog in her lap, even if it's a St. Bernard.
Quagmire Quentin, who pulls his monster truck from muddy dirt road onto the highway, thereby flinging shoebox size chunks of mud onto your windshield
Raised suspension Ralphie (whose headlights shine downward into my rearview mirror) Brother of Quagie Quentin.
SubWoofer Simms (rattling my fillings from 3 lanes over)
Temp spare Tammy (driving along in her Dodge Neon with the donut spare tire -- at 80mph)
Ultracautious Umberto, who, when encountering a pedestrian in a crosswalk or parking lot, will come to a complete stop about forty feet away.
Vacillating Victor (his car keeps wandering back and forth from one lane to the other -- cousin of Weavin' Willie)
Weavin' Willie (in heavy traffic Willie is constitutionally incapable of staying in the same lane for more than one minute)
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Yellow light Yehudi (who thinks a yellow light means speed up, even if you're in front of him trying to stop)
Zoom-up Zane (who drives up to your tailpipe at 80mph when you're stuck crawling along behind an eighteen wheeler at 55.

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Old 05-04-2009, 05:28 PM   #93 (permalink)
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This thread is funny because in all actuality no one really knows how to drive. We all do the best we can to not get into car accidents, but I guarantee you've all made silly mistakes on the road from not signaling a lane change to running a red. Stop acting like you're holier than thou.
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I'd hope everyone agrees that they aren't perfect. This kind of discussion is usually pretty biased and self-serving, but it's easy to vent about with other people who feel the same way.

Everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac while everyone who drives slower than you is a moron. If everyone could just start being perfect like me, we wouldn't have any problems

The both of you are wrong, Today as I was driving in my new stick shift hooptie that I own outright and lurching down the road because I've only driven a stick like twice in my life and I intend to not go a millimile over 25 till I get the hang if it, I still think I'm better than all of you.

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Old 05-04-2009, 05:31 PM   #94 (permalink)
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The both of you are wrong, Today as I was driving in my new stick shift hooptie that I own outright and lurching down the road because I've only driven a stick like twice in my life and I intend to not go a millimile over 25 till I get the hang if it, I still think I'm better than all of you.

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Old 05-05-2009, 11:58 AM   #95 (permalink)
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This thread is funny because in all actuality no one really knows how to drive. We all do the best we can to not get into car accidents, but I guarantee you've all made silly mistakes on the road from not signaling a lane change to running a red. Stop acting like you're holier than thou.
I make a conscious effort to be a courteous driver, keep a safe distance, and not disrupt the flow of traffic. I'm not perfect, but if everyone would put a bit of effort into it, we'd be doing a lot better.
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