My Highway Driving Irritation - Rant!
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Originally Posted by cracka350z
im not reading this anymore...im getting pissed off just reading about it lol....im gonna go out and run some bastard off the road for pullin something now....
yeah me too.
I just thought I'd catch up on this thread during my lunch break, and I was relaxed before, now I'm just pi$$ed off again, hehe
Originally Posted by odin
yeah me too.
I just thought I'd catch up on this thread during my lunch break, and I was relaxed before, now I'm just pi$$ed off again, hehe
now i don't mind people pulling out before i pass so long as the get in the lane with the car that is behind... so if i'm closer to him he/she needs to pull into a lane other than mine...
and as for slow *** people driving in all the lanes... I've noticed this and i'm mainly in the DFW area... you can have three slow drivers... all in the same lane, and if you watch them... they will all spread across the lanes so that they are not following anyone...
WTF
!!!! they are not going any faster than the person they were just behind... why not stay the MuthaF*** where they were!!!!now i've actually thought about this... getting a small, compact 9MM pistol with a sound supressor, and shooting the tire out of any person that has commited a stupid act on the freeway... but... i don't fancy the idea of spending time in prison...lol
I actually saw a section of news where someone or some company makes little flip-style signs... that you can flip through to get your message and show it to the person with the hopes that they will see it and get your point...
i also had a B*** in a tahoe ride my butt once on my way home... if he/she was any closer to me he would be in my trunk!!! and i got extremely tired of this very quickly...i tolerated it for about 2 miles... so i SLAM on my brakes... and he nearly hits me... so he switches on his High beams... i have the auto-dim rearview so it didn't bother me one little bit... i wish i had a sign that says (Auto-Dim B****!!!)
ok... i think i'm done venting....
Originally Posted by BENSIN
Dude you are not kidding about Jersey drivers, good LORD, for any one who has to sit on route 208 which is a 2 lane highway until you hit parts of route 4 good LORD. Every morning I end up passing a bunch of slow **** biters in the fast lane, 75% of the time there ARE NO CARS IN FRONT OF THEM!!! and it's a slow driver in the fast lane side by side with a slow driver in the SLOW lane! And get this, whenever the 'GAP' finally opens up in the road, so I can get around, THEY JUMP INTO THE GAP/SLOW LANE and move aside!!!
I can't tell you how many times I've gone around a slow driver in a fast lane and cut them off so hard that their ***** jump out of their throats when they brake. I can't tell you how many times I've gone past double yellows, and I can't tell you how many times I almost punched someones driver side window in. Oh and all this happens in TOTALLY DESERTED parts of road, places where they can MOVE, or places where they can just wait a second for me to pass instead of waiting until I get closer and closer and then finally deciding to be a dumb ****.
Then, when I get OFF the highway, I'm in 'cut you off and drive slow'ville' it's MADNESS. I'm going to mount a gun onto my car and let loose!!
Another thing I can't stand is tail gaters, if I'm doing 85+ in a 55, get the **** off my tail unless you want to get brake checked on a highway, guy nearly caused a huge pile up once because he was doing that to me and decided to take a blind chance to go around a car in front of him after switching to the other lane, surprise, there was a mini van right there and he ended up braking so hard he probably shat out of his mouth. Either that or people who tail gate you in the fast lane, when the right lane is totally open and instead of going around, they tail gate, and ya move out of the way and THEY DON'T GO ANY FASTER!!!
Sorry I get really get epic amounts of road rage...
I can't tell you how many times I've gone around a slow driver in a fast lane and cut them off so hard that their ***** jump out of their throats when they brake. I can't tell you how many times I've gone past double yellows, and I can't tell you how many times I almost punched someones driver side window in. Oh and all this happens in TOTALLY DESERTED parts of road, places where they can MOVE, or places where they can just wait a second for me to pass instead of waiting until I get closer and closer and then finally deciding to be a dumb ****.
Then, when I get OFF the highway, I'm in 'cut you off and drive slow'ville' it's MADNESS. I'm going to mount a gun onto my car and let loose!!
Another thing I can't stand is tail gaters, if I'm doing 85+ in a 55, get the **** off my tail unless you want to get brake checked on a highway, guy nearly caused a huge pile up once because he was doing that to me and decided to take a blind chance to go around a car in front of him after switching to the other lane, surprise, there was a mini van right there and he ended up braking so hard he probably shat out of his mouth. Either that or people who tail gate you in the fast lane, when the right lane is totally open and instead of going around, they tail gate, and ya move out of the way and THEY DON'T GO ANY FASTER!!!
Sorry I get really get epic amounts of road rage...
Dawg...I thought I was bad...But you, my friend, have MAXIMUM road rage..in full effect! I'm in South NJ, near Philly, and If I'm doing 85 mph in a 55 mph highway and some phuckboi in a Camry V6 even TRIES to tailgate me...it'll last for all of 60 sec...cuz they I downshift and go into MF Warp Drive and leave da MF in da dust...
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Originally Posted by stevem
Happens all the time up here in Vermont. Cars with MA, NJ and NY plates drive in the left lane and NEVER pull over. They must figure us hicks can't drive fast enough to keep up!
?Living in NY, I could easily say the same about VT drivers (and I have been stuck behind a VT driver in the left lane with 2 other lanes open, not just 1)--or anyone with out-of-state plates. Truth is, as we're seeing from this thread, there're dumbasses all over the world.
After driving back to my parent's house over 4th of July weekend, up 87 with about 8 million other people from all over the northeast I got the idea to make a website dedicated to this kind of stuff. It'll be sort of a driver's ed and unspoken/untaught rules of the road, and maybe a forum where people can rant and be there to support others who've just had a troubling experience. Look for it in the future!
Personally, one of my biggest pet peeves are people that just plain old don't know rightaways--even when they're yielding to let you through or something. For example, you're at a 4-way stop. You and and another car coming from the opposite direction stop at the light at the same time. You're turning left, they're going straight, but yet they let you go ahead. And, of course, there's always the people who stop at a yield with no traffic coming. Let's not forget about people who are entering the highway and expect you to move over--it's your lane, you don't have to yield to them at all.
I could keep going and going....(obviously enough to want to make a website dedicated to this junk)
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Originally Posted by hotspur
In some countries people drive on the opposite side of the road, so the left lane is the "slow" lane and the right lane is the "passing" lane. The internet is international, and not all of our members drive "on the right."
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Originally Posted by LegionnaireZ
man i didn't know i could get that pissed that quickly... ALL my road rages expressed in one compact place...
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ok... i think i'm done venting....
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ok... i think i'm done venting....
I know I started this thread, but I dont think I will be visiting it anymore, as my doctor has just told me my blood pressure is to high.
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Originally Posted by NewJerZ
Dawg...I thought I was bad...But you, my friend, have MAXIMUM road rage..in full effect! I'm in South NJ, near Philly, and If I'm doing 85 mph in a 55 mph highway and some phuckboi in a Camry V6 even TRIES to tailgate me...it'll last for all of 60 sec...cuz they I downshift and go into MF Warp Drive and leave da MF in da dust...
Now cops in that area are total ***** biters, so I don't want to pass the double yellows and go in front of this douche, so what do I notice then? In my rear view some douche **** blaster is UP MY ******* I'm like hoooollyyyy SHIZNOOTCH I can see this guy's nose hairs! So I'm like ok, fine, he backs off, and then I'm like ok all is good, then he's up my *** again! and he's making gestures that all amount to F.U.
so I roll my window down just so he could see me in the side view a little bit and I gesture 'are you talking to me' and he then proceeds to flip the funk out. and he starts tailing me like a cop who has to take a **** at a dunkin donuts! So anyway I'm like, ok this dick bomb in front of me cut me off and is going slow, and this kid behind me is obviously ignorant of the fact I can't go any faster, so let's add:
Cut me off + drive slow in front of me + tail gate me + plus flip me off
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I'm the DEVIL
So I put the window down the whole way and I'm like, PULL OVER (insert vulgarity) so, I find the first available back road and take it, and he follows and I see a boys and girls club, so the guy pulls into that parking lot FULL OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, and I'm like...w...wh..what the hell? I can't fight a guy in that setting.
SO I ended up just going home, I think I ate a burger later that day too.
So that's one of my stories.
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Hey BENSIN:
Yeah, Ive experienced that before too. Its amazing how many guys with kids and families will drive like a$$holes without regard for their families in the car???
Thats why I like the 350Z, cause its normally single driver, or single driver and he's crazy speed freek buddy saying "go faster!"
Yeah, Ive experienced that before too. Its amazing how many guys with kids and families will drive like a$$holes without regard for their families in the car???
Thats why I like the 350Z, cause its normally single driver, or single driver and he's crazy speed freek buddy saying "go faster!"
Originally Posted by BENSIN
Bro, I don't know if you've ever been up in the Wayne area in Northern NJ, but one time, get this, I'm driving minding my own business, when this P.O.S. mini van that looks like a crusty cookie on wheels cuts me off and drives SLOW as hell...
Now cops in that area are total ***** biters, so I don't want to pass the double yellows and go in front of this douche, so what do I notice then? In my rear view some douche **** blaster is UP MY ******* I'm like hoooollyyyy SHIZNOOTCH I can see this guy's nose hairs! So I'm like ok, fine, he backs off, and then I'm like ok all is good, then he's up my *** again! and he's making gestures that all amount to F.U.
so I roll my window down just so he could see me in the side view a little bit and I gesture 'are you talking to me' and he then proceeds to flip the funk out. and he starts tailing me like a cop who has to take a **** at a dunkin donuts! So anyway I'm like, ok this dick bomb in front of me cut me off and is going slow, and this kid behind me is obviously ignorant of the fact I can't go any faster, so let's add:
Cut me off + drive slow in front of me + tail gate me + plus flip me off
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I'm the DEVIL
So I put the window down the whole way and I'm like, PULL OVER (insert vulgarity) so, I find the first available back road and take it, and he follows and I see a boys and girls club, so the guy pulls into that parking lot FULL OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, and I'm like...w...wh..what the hell? I can't fight a guy in that setting.
SO I ended up just going home, I think I ate a burger later that day too.
So that's one of my stories.
Now cops in that area are total ***** biters, so I don't want to pass the double yellows and go in front of this douche, so what do I notice then? In my rear view some douche **** blaster is UP MY ******* I'm like hoooollyyyy SHIZNOOTCH I can see this guy's nose hairs! So I'm like ok, fine, he backs off, and then I'm like ok all is good, then he's up my *** again! and he's making gestures that all amount to F.U.
so I roll my window down just so he could see me in the side view a little bit and I gesture 'are you talking to me' and he then proceeds to flip the funk out. and he starts tailing me like a cop who has to take a **** at a dunkin donuts! So anyway I'm like, ok this dick bomb in front of me cut me off and is going slow, and this kid behind me is obviously ignorant of the fact I can't go any faster, so let's add:
Cut me off + drive slow in front of me + tail gate me + plus flip me off
=
I'm the DEVIL
So I put the window down the whole way and I'm like, PULL OVER (insert vulgarity) so, I find the first available back road and take it, and he follows and I see a boys and girls club, so the guy pulls into that parking lot FULL OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, and I'm like...w...wh..what the hell? I can't fight a guy in that setting.
SO I ended up just going home, I think I ate a burger later that day too.
So that's one of my stories.
OMG...I'm literally in tears laughin' so hard right now, Bensin....
Yeah, I'm actually from North Jersey (Jersey City) and went to college at Seton Hall (South Orange, NJ near Wayne)..so I know the area.
Do they still have those small "2 lanes in 1 direction twisty somewhat mountainous roads" going up into Livingston and Short Hills, NJ??
That's gotta be a pain during rush hour...but fun at 2 in the AM with no traffic
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Originally Posted by NewJerZ
OMG...I'm literally in tears laughin' so hard right now, Bensin....
Yeah, I'm actually from North Jersey (Jersey City) and went to college at Seton Hall (South Orange, NJ near Wayne)..so I know the area.
Do they still have those small "2 lanes in 1 direction twisty somewhat mountainous roads" going up into Livingston and Short Hills, NJ??
That's gotta be a pain during rush hour...but fun at 2 in the AM with no traffic
Yeah, I'm actually from North Jersey (Jersey City) and went to college at Seton Hall (South Orange, NJ near Wayne)..so I know the area.
Do they still have those small "2 lanes in 1 direction twisty somewhat mountainous roads" going up into Livingston and Short Hills, NJ??
That's gotta be a pain during rush hour...but fun at 2 in the AM with no traffic
I got pulled over in on route 23 racing a spec V with CAI and exhaust, 2 am, NO other cars except me, the guy I was racing, and the sleeping piggy who got us. Gotta' be careful!
My thoughts on the way home: "Well at least I won..."
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Odin,
Yea man no kidding, I've had bouts with guys going nuts with children in the car totally oblivious to what is going on. Totally dumb if you ask me...I pull some crazy **** off but no one is ever in the car with me when I do... If I have any one in the car with me, I take it easy and try my best to mesh with traffic, even if it's slow and my blood pressure rises.
Speaking of which, I had yet another crazy drive to work today but I don't want to spam this thread with my stories of road rage that not even steven segal could pull off.
Yea man no kidding, I've had bouts with guys going nuts with children in the car totally oblivious to what is going on. Totally dumb if you ask me...I pull some crazy **** off but no one is ever in the car with me when I do... If I have any one in the car with me, I take it easy and try my best to mesh with traffic, even if it's slow and my blood pressure rises.
Speaking of which, I had yet another crazy drive to work today but I don't want to spam this thread with my stories of road rage that not even steven segal could pull off.
Here in Spain we get things called dumb a$$ convoys. You'll have about 10-15 cars all driving in the fast lane, and nobody in the slow lane, but of course there all driving like granny's. Then you take the risk and overtake them on right, and by some miracle they all seem to swap over to the slow lane AT THE SAME TIME!! They must have some telepathic ability.
Originally Posted by odin
****Begin Rant***
Man one thing that really pees me off are these slow drivers on the fast lane, driving way below the speed limit.
It is especially bad here as 90% of the highways are 2 lanes. The slow lane and fast lane.
So now these egg heads drive slow in the fast lane......no! screw that...even if they are driving faster than the legal speed limit..this just pees me off...the law clearly states, well in NZ anyway..keep left unless passing, etc
So I get irritated when I drive at a normal following distance for a while, you know giving the said Egg Head the chance to look in his mirror and see that ther's a sports car behind his slow *** and he should move left.....never mind the fact this Egg head should be in the left lane to start with
Anyway....no response!!!
ok, so now I slowly creep closer, to indicate, listen dumb ***, go left....nothing
Ok, so now I give one or 2 brief flashes.......nothing
By this stage I now go into the slow lane, accelerate and overtake and one could say break the law and overtake on the wrong side of the road.
Now when I pull back into the fast lane, the Egg head behind me now normally starts flashing like crazy, and indicating to me that I'm a fu*&*ng crazy man and breaking the law, for speeding or whatever, when its him or she, that is actually breaking the law to start with.
Some people actually wait for you to start passing, then indicate and start pulling into the slow lane, then you gotta brake and move into the fast to overtake. SOmetime they will even smile at you when you pass...like there pleased with themselves or something???
***End Rant***
Man one thing that really pees me off are these slow drivers on the fast lane, driving way below the speed limit.
It is especially bad here as 90% of the highways are 2 lanes. The slow lane and fast lane.
So now these egg heads drive slow in the fast lane......no! screw that...even if they are driving faster than the legal speed limit..this just pees me off...the law clearly states, well in NZ anyway..keep left unless passing, etc
So I get irritated when I drive at a normal following distance for a while, you know giving the said Egg Head the chance to look in his mirror and see that ther's a sports car behind his slow *** and he should move left.....never mind the fact this Egg head should be in the left lane to start with
Anyway....no response!!!
ok, so now I slowly creep closer, to indicate, listen dumb ***, go left....nothing
Ok, so now I give one or 2 brief flashes.......nothing
By this stage I now go into the slow lane, accelerate and overtake and one could say break the law and overtake on the wrong side of the road.
Now when I pull back into the fast lane, the Egg head behind me now normally starts flashing like crazy, and indicating to me that I'm a fu*&*ng crazy man and breaking the law, for speeding or whatever, when its him or she, that is actually breaking the law to start with.
Some people actually wait for you to start passing, then indicate and start pulling into the slow lane, then you gotta brake and move into the fast to overtake. SOmetime they will even smile at you when you pass...like there pleased with themselves or something???
***End Rant***
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Originally Posted by 91ZCpe
my favorite is the people on the beltway up in DC and Baltimore. When they miss their exit, then they just stop, put the car in reverse, and get off...
try living in a military area. you got a holes from all over the u.s. and world confined to one area. its a wonder no one here gets killed in road rage. and on top of this, i live in a tourist area on the beach. every day theres some old person/tourist drving all slow. and ill i want to do is get home afer a 12 + hr day and ive got some idiot sighseeing in front of me
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Originally Posted by 04silverzcoupe
rofl
try living in a military area. you got a holes from all over the u.s. and world confined to one area. its a wonder no one here gets killed in road rage.
try living in a military area. you got a holes from all over the u.s. and world confined to one area. its a wonder no one here gets killed in road rage.
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Originally Posted by 91ZCpe
my favorite is the people on the beltway up in DC and Baltimore. When they miss their exit, then they just stop, put the car in reverse, and get off...
Haha here in Cali everyone either drives FAST!!!!! (90%) or the other 10% drive incredibly slow. Ugh.
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odin - - what's the speed limit on highway in NZ (we call it freeway here in California )? You have a steering wheel on the right side, right? So the right shoulder lane must be a passing lane, huh?
)? You have a steering wheel on the right side, right? So the right shoulder lane must be a passing lane, huh?
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Originally Posted by 350Zuser
odin - - what's the speed limit on highway in NZ (we call it freeway here in California )? You have a steering wheel on the right side, right? So the right shoulder lane must be a passing lane, huh?
)? You have a steering wheel on the right side, right? So the right shoulder lane must be a passing lane, huh?The speed limit is only 100 km/h (62 mph) on the freeway
and 50 km/h (31 mph) in the burbs
Crazy slow hey??
Whats it in the states?
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oh i know exactly what you mean. i live in boston and these idiots don't know how to drive. they drive slow in the fast lane, they talk on their cell phones, and most of all, they don't know how to merge! anywhere there's a merge in MA, you can be damn sure there will be traffic. drives me nuts.
here you go guys, test scores: http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/05/26/...ngs/index.html
massachusetts on the lowest 3....hurray for being the dumbest drivers
here you go guys, test scores: http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/05/26/...ngs/index.html
massachusetts on the lowest 3....hurray for being the dumbest drivers