Driving Gripes

Grrr...I don't have road rage or anything, but I certainly have moments when I feel like screaming at certain other drivers on the road. First of all - I hate how people with enormous cars bully me on the road because I have a small car. I've noticed the people with the enormous cars like to try to tailgate me, when I am going *perfectly* the speed limit. It makes me really mad - usually I just glare at them in my rear-view mirror, but I've gotten so mad before that I've tapped my brakes, slowed down and tried to annoy them even more just because they're pressuring me to speed. Stupid jerks. Then, I hate it when people go way under the speed limit, on a fast-moving road. I always get stuck behind them. I don't ever tailgate people, but what the hell - hurry up! You can't just mosey onto a 45 zone and go 30, and expect the entire universe to slow down to accomodate you.

I love people who decide at the last minute to cut me off because they thought they weren't going to need the turning lane, but suddenly they do. It would be their fault if I hit them because they're cutting me off. Stupid jerks. They're lucky I'm paying attention.

I also love it when I'm behind some fool who's driving down a lane which forks off into two opposite turning lanes, and they drive exactly in the middle of the lane until the very last second, giving no turn signal, brake lights or any kind of warning to let me know what they're planning on doing. Good Lord.

I like it when gigantic trucks and SUVs behind me with their blinding headlights ride my ass to the point that I can't even see anything but ungodly headlight madness everywhere. I swear I wish I had rear headlights to turn on and blind them with.

I HATE IT when I'm stopped at a T-intersection preparing to turn on to the other road, and the people who are turning onto the street I'm on try to cut the corner, nearly hitting my car. That really makes me want to beat some ass.

Grrr, I just had to vent. lol.

I think we all have been there, sister ! I like to flip em off when that happens, but, I always make sure its not a cop! They tend to be asswipes up here in the sticks!!! Of course, we have all kinds on the road. But I hate more than anything to have someone on my bumper. You could always carry a carton of eggs with you, and when they are that close, just open your moonroof, and toss one high up !!!!!

Basic Rules For Driving

1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real driver never uses them.

2. Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.

3. Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane-change is considered going with the flow.

4. Remember that the goal of every driver is to get there first, by whatever means necessary.

5. Never, ever come to a complete stop at a stop sign. No one expects it and it will inevitably result in you being rear ended. If you want your insurance company to pay for a new rear bumper, come to a complete stop at all stop signs.

6. Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It's a good way to scare people entering the highway.

7. Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and are apparently not enforceable during rush hour.

8. A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how many people can cut in line by passing you on the right as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same jerks to squeeze their way back in before hitting the orange construction barrels.

9. It is traditional to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant the light changes.

10. The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.

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Freebird feeling a little anti-social — Come on what gives. . Bad day ? If I had your job, it would be a bad day every now and then, at least for me. Hope you feel better tomorrow!!

lol!! Love the jokes guys...

* shakes head

lol, Parallax it sounds like I would never survive driving in New York. One time this son-of-a-***** behind me laid on his horn because he was in a big hurry to turn left off of an intersection onto a residential street, but what he failed to realize was that HE couldn't see the oncoming traffic that was preventing me from being able to safely turn, so yeah, I got stuck through 2 red lights. My boyfriend at the time was with me and I didn't actually have my license yet, I was still learning, he was teaching me. And so, I'm sitting there in this terrible traffic, and I'm panicking because I'm stuck and I *cannot* turn without being hit, and this old man behind me is freaking completely out, honking and honking constantly, and my boyfriend is now turned around and screaming at this guy to back the f- off, and the guy's honking even more, and I start to cry, I just couldn't handle it, being a new driver. Finally I rolled down my window and flipped him off for a good two minutes, then sped around the corner just to get away from him, when the opposing traffic cleared of course. Horrible.

Probably, the bastard. I couldn't believe a total stranger was being that mean to me, though, it was insane. I forgot to tell this part of the story...turns out the jackass lived literally one block down from me. Right off of the road we were both trying to turn off of. So he was in a big baby hurry to drive 20 more feet and be home. What a jerk! Ugh, traumatizing...literally...I wouldn't drive for a while after that.

hmm...hmmmm

you Americans...🙂