Sucky Drivers! (longish)

[Beckpatton]

not sure if this goes here, feel free to move if necessary...


So I am off work today sick, and am driving myself to the doctors for my appointment, when I encountered these two morons within 2 minutes of each other..

Me: Beckpatton- fantastic driver!
SFD: sucky female driver
SFDP: sucky female driver's passenger
SMD: sucky male driver


Story 1

Here I am sitting at a red light, waiting for an arrow to turn left (in Oz now people, driving on the left here just FYI)

Me: la la la.. waiting for my light, enjoying the music and hoping to get to the quacks without barfing
SFD and SFDP are in the car in front of me- the only car in front of me.

Green arrow appears

SFD and SFDP sit there, still chatting, not noticing the light..
Me: ok girls, time to move..
SFD and SFDP still sit there chatting away..
Me: ok seriously now, time to go...

I then very lightly and ever so briefly toot my horn.. seriously, it was almost a non toot

SFD comes alive and moves through the intersection
Me: follows quickly barely making it through the amber, (which just goes to show how long I waited before hitting the horn)

SFDP: sticks her finger up at me!

Story 2

Continuing along the same street I have just turned into, still following the 2 moles who cant tell green from red, when the road splits into two as you go over a bridge.

This street then quickly splits into 3 as you approach another set of lights, my doctors office is on the corner of a street just before this intersection, and the new 3rd lane is the one I have to move into in order to make my turn.

Note: this 3rd lane also serves as an onramp for traffic travelling on the road that goes beneath the bridge.. (it's hard to describe I hope you are all with me)

Anyway.... there is a Give Way sign where the on ramp joins the new 3rd lane. it is there to basically slow people down and have them take a good look before joining the main road, as there are always cars moving into the far left lane to make the turn down past the doctors. enter SMD

Me: coming down the bridge, glaring at said moles in other vehicle now travelling beside me... am already indicating my intent to move into the left lane

SMD: driving giant range rover in suburbia and going well over the reccommended speed limit for that street is quickly approaching the give way intersection

Me: noticing SMD, continue to indicate, but watch him closely as I suspect he is not going to stop.

SMD: right on cue, he drives right through the give way sign without so much as pausing, and is now heading straight for me.

Me: still moving over into far left lane, with giant rover up my ass... I force my way over as I am completely in the right here and will miss my turn otherwise.

SMD: starts waving his arms and cursing me out for being an idiot driver.

Me: now completely in the 3rd lane, he is now in the 2nd- roll my window down at the speed of light and scream some very unbecoming words not fitting of a lady such as myself.

SMD: realising his mistake, scurries off, tail between his legs.


What is it with idiots on the road??? Every frickin time I have to go somewhere, someone is trying to kill me!

[portia911]

Move to NZ! we have the worst drivers ever (even worse than Italy) and crappy Jap imported cars so any little 15 year old munt with $2000 can drive a turbo charged death trap. I can't count the number of times I've had Aussie tourists in and warned them about locals on the roads to see their face turn white and say they have never encountered such shocking driving

[jerkface11]

You guys should try driving in Oklahoma some time.

[wagegoth]

I'm thinking about starting a weekly thread about the insanity I see commuting to work, and I take public transportation.

However, tonight my husband picked me up at BART. We're heading down a main street, two lanes in each direction. We're approaching a major intersection and my husband signals, then moves into the dedicated left turn lane. Across the street to the left, a white Yukon (massive, old SUV) makes a left turn, but not into our lane, into the lane next to the station, GOING THE WRONG WAY! Cars turning from the other street start honking, driver seems to recognize her error, backs up, then turns into the left turn lane a car behind us.

That's NOT the end. She then proceeds to play Need for Speed, while putting on her sunglasses (on a cloudy day). Cutting in and out of traffic, doing a good 20 miles an hour over the limit, she flew past us before I could get her license (started with a 4). My husband tried to catch her to report her, but there was no way we could do that sanely.

So, here's the pool? What drug was she on? Any guesses?

[Kiarna]

Hey I'm in Oz as well, and according to people who have driven both here and in the states we are the more agressive drivers.
Apparently they are nice (Compared to us) according to what I have heard.

I'm only hitting my full license now (in NSW stupid P plates) and it astounds me the stupidity and inconsideration of drivers....

I'm such a road rager though!

[Phantomgrift]

My wife used to think my driving was alarming...... Until she moved out here to Virginia Beach with me and realized my alarming driving tactics were needed simply to avoid every other piss-poor SOB with a car that lives out here.

[Bramblerose]

I have come to the screaming conclusion that no matter where I live, I must share the road with idiots.

I will say that the driving around the HOme Office of Wal-Mart is from hell- 1) that county refuses to acknowledge teh growth that has happened, so teh roads are woefully inadequate and 2) Dear God THey Can't Drive!!!!!!! I'd rather drive in downtown St. Louis during rush hour than that county!

[JLG]

While driving to work the other day I was on a one lane in each direction road. There is an intersection where you can get into a left turn lane. There are three cars in front of me that are going into the left turn lane and I am going to continue going straight. Both lights are green and after I pass the three cars turning left Iam now behind a car just sitting at the green light to go straight. I wait thinking maybe she does not realize the light is green. Finally she turns on her left signal, she decides she now wants to turn left. Only problem is that lane is now full of cars turning left and she is preventing me from going straight. I finally honk because she is holding up our lane so she can turn left. But of course I am in the wrong and her friend flips me off

[digilight]

hehehe try leaving dodger stadium (parking for around 10-20 thousand cars or so i think) after a game that hit extra innings plus fireworks night so everyone stayed until the end. Yeah that wasn't fun trying to get out.

I hate going to LA cause the trafic sucks balls sometimes. Hell even in our neck of the woods (about 45 minutes from Los Angeles) we get our fair share of mental whack jobs behind the wheel.

[Darkmage]

My favorite happend a several of years ago in the 'burbs of Chicago. I was riding my motorcycle to work in the morning and met one stupid woman and one stupid man who I am surprised didn't kill someone. I was in the right lane and came up on a woman doing her makeup in the rear view mirror while zooming right along. I realized this was bad and was trying to decide what to do when I noticed a car to my left and it was a man reading the newspaper on the steering wheel. He gets ahead of the woman doing her make up and then just drifts in front of her with inches to spare. At this point I was hitting the breaks before these two idiots get me killed.

[scroob]

So, here's the pool? What drug was she on? Any guesses?

i have a gambling problem so i'm game. my bet would be ALL OF THEM

[depechemodefan]

The story of SFD happens a lot to me. One intersection the light turns green, and it turns red again really fast so there's this guy in the car in front of me, he doesn't move so I honked quickly. He gives me the finger. Ugh, asswipe.

The story of SFM reminds me of Monday, when I was trying to get to the off ramp but it's right after another ramp from another freeway enters. So I see a white truck, and yes, force my way in front of him and behind another person. The white truck honks, even though earlier it was passing cars in it's one lane that gets into this freeway.

One day I almost got in an accident with this idiot who decided to drive the wrong way up a blvd. The exit from his apt complex would make him have to u-turn to get on the side of the blvd he wanted to get on. So I'm watching him and he hits the gap in the blvd, he applies his brakes and of course keeps on going, about to hit me! So I swerved to the next lane and luckily no one was there. If I didn't the idiot would have hit between my bumper and front tire. Of course, the guy keeps on going.

[Interior Desecrator]

I have trouble with the old people in the HUGE cars that like to drive 15-20 miles under the speed limit...in the FAST LANE! And it never fails, there's always someone in the other lane preventing me from going around them. *grumbles*

As for impaired drivers *shudders*, one did a couple thousand dollars worth of damage to my little SUV. I was waiting at a red light where a two-lane road turns into two lanes plus a right turn lane. Now, traffic was backed up enough that anyone turning right was SOL for the time. There was no way to get around the line of cars and up to where the turn lane split off, unless you jumped onto the sidewalk. This nutjob tries to pull around me, crunches the back corner of my car and sideswipes me until her window is even with my passenger window. She then proceeds to back up (more scraping of my car), turn around...and take off! The police caught her when she rear-ended another car after fleeing my accident. No one got hurt, fortunately. But she was definitely charged with a DWI. (At 3:00 on a Sunday afternoon!)

[mattm04]

I was sitting in traffic at a light. Their is a funeral home on my left(passenger side) and a CVS on my right, I am in the right lane for straight or right turns their was left turn lane next to me also full of cars.

Some old guy tries to leave the FH via the exit. He tries to go between me and the car in front of me, their is no room, but he keeps pushing forward. I give honk of the horn, he doesn't stop, just looks at me and slowly edges forward. He is about to hit me so I give a long blast of the horn. He punches backs up, goes to his left and punches it, hitting the car in fornt of me, and the car in the left lane, crosses the double yellow and enters the CVS via the lawn. He stops when he hits a lamp post and a parked car. He gets out and enters the CVS.

He was arrested for no insurance, no license and hit and run among sever other charges.

[smileyeagle1021]

-snip- He stops when he hits a lamp post and a parked car. He gets out and enters the CVS.

He was arrested for no insurance, no license and hit and run among sever other charges.

i wonder if he needs more meds from CVS or if he needs to cut back some... either way I'm hoping he wasn't of sound mind.

Being in Reno visiting my mother I can rant on my oldest driving idiocy pet peeve and my newest.

To enter 395 going northbound from the south valleys there are 2 lanes that enter... without fail I'll be coming off of Gieger Grade and have to fight all the idiots who just have to get all the way over to the far right lane even though the second lane goes onto the freeway as well... and these people are grade A stupid because the far right hand lane ends only about 3/4 of a mile up so they'll have to fight to get over a lane again... morons...
my other pet peeve is u-turns... I'm sorry with few exceptions the only reason you should be doing a u-turn is that you are too stupid to plan ahead (I will forgive the people who are going to places where there really is no way but to do a u-turn or are doing it because they are honestly lost)... my best case in point is the intersection of Virginia and Gieger Grade... right next to Sierra Summit Mall... despite the fact that NHP representatives have gone on the local news, columnists have pleaded, there are signs in the mall, and for a while even employees would tell patrons to exit onto Mount Rose Highway to get to 395 north people all the time will exit onto Virginia st. fight their way across 4 lanes of traffic and do a u-turn slowing down the already backed up turn lanes, all to save them the extra minute it would have taken to just exit on Mount Rose highway like they had been told to do.