Posted on 05/29/2011 12:00:23 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That would be hogging the fast lane while driving at or below the speed limit. The only justifiable reason I know for a driveby shooting.
>>It causes me to have the urge to Ram.<<
My king for a day ultimate scenario: I drive an H1 hummer with big cow catcher in the front. I come up on cars in the passing lane not passing anybody. I flash my lights. If they don’t move over within five seconds, I flash them again. If they still do not respond, I rear end them, spinning them off the road. Fewer people would block if this happened more often.
A guy can dream, right?
Amen, to those idiots. I wish I had a rear mounted RPG to get tailgaters off my tail. And, to slow drivers, don’t they pay attention to what’s going around them?
Been doing that for 40 years.
Same here in San Diego. Green doesn’t mean “go” like on the drag strip. We get used to the line of cars making a left through amber-to-red left arrows in heavy traffic conditions as you stated.
However, I have witnessed individuals who will speed through a red left arrow while the intersection is somewhat clear of oncoming traffic only to narrowly hit someone. They usually speed up from further down the lane in hopes they will make it through, only to find they are going too fast and are committed to the action.
Of course, Cyber Liberty is right. There are those who will insist on their right-of-way (green light) even if it means flirting with disaster.
I rather have Grave Digger and go right over top of them. Then there is the guy at the light in the left turn lane that waits till it turns Red instead of pulling out where you can turn after the red. Then you have to wait 5 more minutes for the green arrow. Urge to Ram.
I don’t know which is worse, the drivers who think a turn signal is a magic forcefield that causes traffic to give way (usually female) or the rolling roadblock control freaks who will actually speed up and slow down, blocking and refusing to move over to let you merge from the onramp (usually male).
Hint to both: nobody knows nor cares who you are, you’re just going down the road like so many thousands of anonymous others. Just play nice, that’s all that’s required to keep somebody from being killed or injured, again, today, tomorrow, the next day and days on end after that. That’s all it takes.
When I took Driver's Ed (remember that?) in school, we were taught to brake with our left foot. That way, in tricky situations where you may need to rapidly alternate braking and accelerating, your foot can hover over your brake while your right foot is still on the accelerator. You also never mistake the brake for the accelerator.
>>In theory, that is perfectly correct. Unfortunately, zippers don’t have independent unpredictable brains on each half of the device.<<
Actually I see it work like a zipper all the time. The biggest problem is the guys in the merging lane that cross the gore strip to enter too early, or the ones that push it as far as possible where they start entering the shoulder before forcing them in. And the worst is the guy on the highway passin and onramp where cars are trying to enter the flow of traffic and he won’t let them in.My ex-father in law was classic. I watched him actually speed up to block a guy on an on-ramp because the guy should “wait his turn”, whatever that means.
Nate is the kind of guy that I love to trap behind slow traffic by driving abreast of him. I never give him the courtesy of acknowledging him by flipping the bird or even glaring at him. I just trap him until he makes some futile move to get out of his little box then I just accelerate to normal driving speed. Fun for me and instructive for ole Nate.
That would be the right lane in Oklahoma. The slow lane is the left lane...
My Uncle told me the most dangerous animal on the planet was a 16-24 year old female driver.
And he told me that BEFORE cell phones.
>>That would be hogging the fast lane while driving at or below the speed limit.<<
Actually, even above the speed limit.
I’m mostly Overconfident Owen due to Middle Lane Mike....
My Uncle told me the most dangerous animal on the planet was a 16-24 year old female driver.
Insurance companies would disagree with your uncle, and they have to know statistics--as opposed to anecdotal evidence and bias--in order to stay in business. The most dangerous driver is the young male.
Another time Copo parked his car in the slow lane of a 4-laner in order to run a check on another car which was on the shoulder, forcing me to veer into the fast lane. Traffic was very light, so the fast lane was nothing but about 6" of slippery slush.
I always pretend I’m early to an IRS appointment when I’m driving...lol...
My brother used to always drive the left-turn like that, because he was confident nobody would drag race the light and clobber him. I think he’s since wised up. Haven’t seen him do it in decades.
I had two people yesterday wait at a red light with a green right arrow before they took their right turn. It turned red just as I was trying to get in before the mass of cars that was going to enter from the left. I do give these guys some slack because I find it common that people who will always notice a green left arrow don’t notice that they have a green right arrow. I’ve done it myself a couple of times and I am a VERY attentive driver. I have to be to drive the way I do and still survive.
They should be charged an aggravation tax.
“Probably the same one that pounces on a fresh green light without checking for oncoming traffic...”
If I take them out, it’s their fault!
My 65 pickup probably won’t get hurt but i will total their rice rocket!
Drive no less than 15 mph over the speed limit!
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