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My favorite professional drivers, encountered on a daily basis, are:
10. Drivers who wait and then pull out in front of you at the last possible moment.
9. Drivers who pull in front of you, and then slow down (especially awesome when there's no-one behind you).
8. Drivers who turn their radio up at the intersection in order to share their musical tastes with everyone else.
7. Drivers in queue behind you at the traffic light who blast their horn when you don't immediately accelerate at the green light.
6. Drivers who take an extra-special-long time to accelerate at the traffic light.
5. Drivers who drive under the limit in front of you, then speed up at the last second in order to beat the light--if they had just driven the speed limit the whole time, we both could have gotten through the light safely.
4. Drivers who sit at a busy intersection, where there's no traffic light, and wait until there are absolutely no oncoming cars, then pull out as slowly as possible.
3. Drivers who spin their tires at intersections, peppering my windshield with rocks.
2. Drivers who pull up beside you at an intersection and block your view of oncoming traffic...and creep forward when you pull out to see around them.
and the Number One Pet Peeve of the Moment....[drumroll aaaannnnddd rimshot!]
1. Drivers who go five or ten under the speed limit, don't use their signals, drift across the lanes, randomly speed up and slow down, brake at every traffic light, whether it's green or not, suddenly brake even when there's no-one in front of them (and we're already at or under the speed limit), turn on their signal after they parked in the turn lane... all while talking on a cellphone, f@*$ing with a GPS, or eating from a fast food bag.
BONUS!: √ Drivers who drive very slowly in front of you on the Highway, but speed up as you move to pass.
Personally I am all in favor of Judge Dred style punishment for extensive bad behavior on road - having one's car destroyed, crushed or otherwise anihillated.
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Corollary to 11. Drivers who don't turn on blinkers when merging... until they're halfway into your lane, where the let it blink once, maybe twice, then turn it off again.
Somehow more annoying than the ones that don't turn it on at all.
Pet peeve of the morning: people who ride your bumper (while you are going the speed limit) in a one-lane road, then when it becomes two lane speed up to pass you, get in front of you, then proceed to drive at 5-under.
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speed daemons
*adds to list of things to stat*
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Pet peeve of the morning: people who ride your bumper (while you are going the speed limit) in a one-lane road, then when it becomes two lane speed up to pass you, get in front of you, then proceed to drive at 5-under.
After growing up watching my dad drive, I'm convinced that the most aggressive passers don't really care about going faster. They just can't stand to have someone in front of them. It's not a speed thing; it's a control thing.
Pet peeve of the morning: people who ride your bumper (while you are going the speed limit) in a one-lane road, then when it becomes two lane speed up to pass you, get in front of you, then proceed to drive at 5-under.After growing up watching my dad drive, I'm convinced that the most aggressive passers don't really care about going faster. They just can't stand to have someone in front of them. It's not a speed thing; it's a control thing.
This is consistent with my experiences.
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My brother and I were stuck in a traffic jam from hell, trying to get across the Potomac. We're behind this one car for 20 minutes. All of a sudden, my brother says "Hey, where'd she come from?" Yup, there's a woman in the passenger seat, suddenly. We look at each other, and we both start laughing. And then, you guessed it, the window rolls down, and there's the cigarette!
That's one way to make the time go by in a traffic jam! We laughed about that one for a good few miles.
As long a she wasn't the cause of the jam...
I don't understand. Maybe she was taking a nap.
I have no problem with slamming on my brakes if there's someone tailgating me. In Texas, 99.9% of the time, the car hit from behind is not liable. I just tell the cop a cat crossed the road and I brake for critters.
Best part? Nice little insurance check a few months later, car fixed for free, and the jack ass tailgater's insurance premiums go up...
And, there should be a law stating that if you see some idiot talking on the phone while driving (or doing eye makeup or reading a paper or whatever), you can, if you catch them at a light, pull them bodily from their car and shove whatever it is wherever on their body the sun don't shine...
Just remember this the next time you think of doing something aggressively stupid to "correct" another driver.
The Bloods and the Crips gangs require a new member to quite figuratively "blood" themselves. In order to pick out a target they will frequently drive in dark conditions with the headlights off. If you flash them in the idea of signalling them to turn off their lights, they will literally force you out of your vehicle, and kill you. I don't take any chances, if I as a pedestrian, see a car coming up the street with it's headlights off, I make sure to make my white honky ass scarce long before it gets close.
That's an urban legend
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Just remember this the next time you think of doing something aggressively stupid to "correct" another driver.
The Bloods and the Crips gangs require a new member to quite figuratively "blood" themselves. In order to pick out a target they will frequently drive in dark conditions with the headlights off. If you flash them in the idea of signalling them to turn off their lights, they will literally force you out of your vehicle, and kill you. I don't take any chances, if I as a pedestrian, see a car coming up the street with it's headlights off, I make sure to make my white honky ass scarce long before it gets close.
Isn't that just an Urban Legend?
Years ago, a couple times in Baghdad, I found myself in a F350 (wishing I were in an 1151) surrounded by some very angry people who really would have loved to pull us from the truck and murdelate us on the spot--it's not as easy to do this as it sounds, so long as you don't panic or capitulate by actually getting out of the vehicle on your own (people who want to force you from the vehicle to kill you aren't likely to suddenly give way to better reason and human compassion).
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I really like* those people who do what a friend of mine once referred to as "island hopping": driving faster than everyone else, overtaking other vehicles and/or changing lanes into the smallest gap, only because they think they get a speed advantage by that.
Speeding in broad daylight within city limits is basically senseless. You have to stop at the next traffic light anyway.
*no, I don't
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I'll be a cab driver soon. So wait until you hear my peeves.
For the love of all that's holy please stop being an idiot and careening at 15+ over the speed limit through the freakin' construction zone. Please and thank you.
Also, the CENTER YELLOW LANE IS NOT A PASSING LANE. If you can't handle going less than 60 in the 40 zone, you have bigger issues, and passing me in the center lane isn't the proper answer.
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So, people are still people, with all their delusions, unreasonable reactions, tempers, stupidity, violence, distractability, sensitive egos, even behind a wheel, that about right?
Every year, traffic deaths are pretty common. But hey, the important part is that nobody gets killed by a TERRORIST attack, so let's spend ALL the money the terrorist prevention agencies say they need to prevent that. After all, it is about as common as someone being hit by lightning... Twice. Oh, and the measures taken don't actually seem to work, but hey, you can't have everything.
Also, if you're not in a Semi truck with a 20 foot trailer, or a school bus, or and RV, or other similarly sized vehicle, and certain ly NOT a mid sized SUV, you don't need to swerve way out right to turn left.
Oh, and the measures taken don't actually seem to work, but hey, you can't have everything.
Not that I disagree with the rest of your post (it's pretty spot on actually), but I can't think of anything people do that this line doesn't apply to. The more we tell people no, the more I find they tend to say "no screw you, I do what I want, especially if I think I can get away with it/not get caught".
When people start, y'know, actually following speed limits then maybe we'll see a step in the right direction, but frankly I think officers have a lot more important stuff on their plates than to be chasing down people for tickets every five minutes. =/ And because of that very fact speed limits tend to not be strongly enforced - at least in areas without automated cameras, which are their own bucket of worms - which leads even more to the mindset of "I can do this so long as I can get away with it", and we're right back where we started this silly little cycle.
Frankly I think the only thing that'll really solve this is when we get automated cars and roads and take the entirety of human involvement out of the equation. Given a choice between that and flying cars I'm willing to put my fantasies on hold for another fifty or sixty years.
Try driving behind a rolling advertisement truck on the strip and 6 PM. Only then do cabbie have a right to complain.