Some People (driving rant!)

[volvodrivincashier]

K, first, visual: my current car is a BEAT volvo 240. flat burgandy in color. finish has dulled, no shine left in the paint, rust everywhere, and a nice big dent in the drivers side rear door.

So I'm coming home from work today on a fairly busy 4 lane road, doing the speed limit (50mph in this case). Right lane is mostly clear, left is fairly busy.

I get near the merge point and begin to slow down, locate a break in the line in the left lane, and signal to move over. Just before this, I passed a E430 convertible driven by an upper-middle aged woman. I guess she couldn't handle my rusted rattling hunk of junk passing her pretty little mercedes, because for no reason she guns it and closes the gap in an attempt to force me behind her. WTF? Seriously, c'mon. Furthermore, according to my latest driver's manual, the driver that is further ahead at a merge point has the right-of-way.

Well, having had a bad day at work, I decided to dish it right back out. See, I drive a rusted rattling hunk of junk that I don't really care much about the exterior appearance of. If I have the right-of-way and I don't feel like giving it up, if I'm in this car, I don't. This case would be no exception. I glance in the sideview, make eye contact with her, give her the "authority look" and start moving over. When she realized that I was dead serious, she locked 'em up and let me in with a rather dirty look on her face.

2 lights down comes my left turn. She goes by me with the horn blaring and the middle digit up. WTF is the deal with some people these days?

Oh, and don't even get me started on the portsmouth traffic circle. People who try to cut me off when they have YIELD signs staring them in the face get the same treatment as mrs. pretty-little-mercedes.

k, deep breath, I feel better now :lol:

[ditchdj]

Ever hear of that old "if it quacks like a duck" saying???? I like to replace "duck" with "jerkoff" and end it by saying "......well it sure as hell aint The Pope!" ;)

[Greenday]

Ooh, yay, a driving rants thread! I love these. Why, just the other day, a Benny cut me off without using a turn signal. And then later on I almost rear-ended another one because they thought it would be ok to stop in the middle of the road and not use a turn signal. OR there's the one who wanted to tailgate me, while I was already doing five over the speed limit, on a street with two lanes on each side. I just lightly breaked, went down 10 mph, and when the Benny went to pass me, hit the gas and didn't let them pass me. Silly Benny's. Did I mention they suck at parking too?

[Binky]

AHHH yes driving...my least favoright past time...I don't know about America but I know in Aus there are two sets of rules when it comes to merging...the first is, if there is a dotted white like between the merging lane and the lane that you have to merge into then the person merging HAS to give way to the main lane e.g. if your merging into the middle lane then you have to give way to the people in the middle lane, if there is not room for you to get in you have to stop and wait...the other is if there is no dotted line and the lanes just merge together..in this case the person in front has right of way...these rules are often mixed and matched...I mean jus the other day a car was trying to merge into my lane...I wasn't going to let them in I had let someone in already, and if I let him in then the car behind would come in...and it would just keep going...so I stayed close to the car in front...thig guy actully kept going and started coming into my lane even tho I was tehre and kept trying to force me to let him in...the lane was ended and he just stayed at my side till I had to let him in or risk having my car side swipped...I mean SOME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ditchdj]

I think the amount of terminally stupid drivers in your area reflects in your insurance rates. Here in Southern Indiana I pay 180 dollars for six months of basic liability car insurance. When I was living in Michigan I was paying a gargantuan amount of 134 dollars A MONTH!!!!! :eek: What I paid in insurance living in Michigan for just one month almost equaled what I pay down here for six months of insurance. It's ridiculous when you have to pay for everyone else's stupdity on the road.

[volvodrivincashier]

Wouldn't be surprised. I pay 480 every 6 months for basic liability only on this heap.