Posted on 05/29/2011 12:00:23 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Down here in Northern Mexico.....San Diego....we call these drivers illegals!
You, my dear, are the reaction to the stupid crazy drivers. You are safe beyond a fault...but the other drivers around you tend to do everything they can to PISS YOU OFF. I love how you drive, especially when the stupid drivers give you the bird because you DARED to pass them!
The dead guy!
Did you use to live in Oklahoma, or drive through there often? That’s a daily driving hazard in Oklahoma!!
I think that’s quite common. People just don’t know they’re doing it. I tend to check my speedometer.
I’ve experienced a similar effect at stop lights. Say I’m the fourth car at a light and have a large truck next to me. Since I’m not the first car at the light I can daydream a bit. The truck driver releases the brake and rolls backwards for a second. It feels to me that I’m moving forward so I start pushing my brake through the floor. It’s an odd feeling.
>>Another thing people do on the merge is that they only get up to 45.<<
On occasion, when behind a wimpy driver that is clearly going to do that, I’ll stop at the top of the on ramp and wait until they are a good ways down. Then I’ll have room to get up to speed myself and merge correctly.
On really long drives, I like to draft trucks. But I get close enough to their bumper that I don’t blind them with my lights. ;)
how about the moron in the pickup who flashes their high beams to get everyone else to pull over. no matter how fast or over the speed limit you are going, they will want to go faster.
last time smart susie was on the road she was seen putting on makeup and changing her shoes whil driving. (and she was talking on the phone and texting at the same time as all of the above)
>>It’s a fact that 95% of ALL drivers believe they are ABOVE Average....<<
I think I am a more skilled driver than 95% of them, but not “better”. I had my sales partner, when I was driving him to an appointment in Minneapolis, as we pulled into the parking stall, say: “You’d be a great NYC cab driver”.
There are cab drivers, and there are limo drivers. I’d be fired as a limo driver.
I recently saw a man playing a guitar while driving down a major city street.
Cannot stand idiots who force themseles in front of you making you brake or slow, and there is no one for a half mile behind you.
>The dead guy!<<
No. The speed is too low. It will be a minor fender bender, if there is any contact at all. That is why “free right turn without a full stop” camera tickets are so bogus.
You are probably being tailgated because you are blocking the flow of traffic. If you are on a multilane highway and being tailgated, they are requesting you move over so they can pass. After the faster traffic has passed, you can move back over...though the left lane should be reserved for passing. If you are not passing, stay to the right!
It’s like watching a film at Imax that was shot from a moving helecopter. When you look off screen it looks like the whole theater is tilting.
it is the “sexless” writing of the PC universities infesting the language.
thankfully the feminist who pushed that nonsense is now dead and her program can die with her.
I think a lot of the “offenses” listed in this thread actually come in categories. To use the tailgater as an example of this: There is the freeway tailgater that gets right on your bumper even though there is simply solid traffic in all lanes. They should back off. Then there is the tailgater on the freeway where the car in front of him is blocking the passing lane, he’s flashed his lights, patiently waited, done it a second time, and proceeded to get closer and closer to “intimidate” the driver in front. I’m the latter. I’ve gotten so close to the guys bumper that at a glance it looks like we are touching. It only gets to that point because the guy in front of me is slowing down. He doesn’t know how to deal with someone that is willing to get CLOSER when he does that. And the closer we are, the less “impact” there will be when we touch, if we touch.
And I don’t slow down for tailgaters. I slam on my brakes and immediately release them. When they see my nose dip they go into blue smoke panic brake. But when I do it it is because it is the first type of tailgater above who is doing it in a very aggressive way. I was almost rear-ended by a guy in a BMW M series a week or so ago.
I like this line from Fried Green Tomatoes: “I’m old and I have insurance.”
I experienced that once, long ago. It was a cross-country flight sort of thing. At one point the plane banked. Very effective.
Well, if the fool did that to my family, he’d not make it alive to the next exit on the Interstate.
Blocking traffic while moving with the flow of traffic and not hanging out in the left lane? That’s a good one.
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