My little B**** fest of other drivers

[G-Radical]

I am beyond baffled! After reading many posts about sucky customers not reading signs or pay attention or even listening, I wonder how they survive on the road??

Other drivers are a major component for my agitation.
- If you are lost, pull over and figure out where you want to go before pissing off the rest of us!
- Check your freaking blind spot!
- THE LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING!!! that should be a law in every state! If someone is passing you on your right then you need to move to a slower lane.
- Don't even get me started on people that drive while TEXTING! gahh!
- But most importantly, every time you get behind the wheel of a car you are taking the chance of endangering your own life as well as the lives of other drivers, passengers, and pedestrians so you should be on your utmost top guard!


Oh I have many more rants lol. It's probably because when I was younger my dad made sure I took defensive driving courses and everything. Anytime it snowed he would take me out to an abandon parking lot and teach me how to get out of skids and stuff like that. So I expect other drivers to be well prepared for any possibility. (I think that was in the driver's manual too; always have a second plan for the unexpected or something like that).
I am an aggressive driver to a point but I have not been in a car accident (*knock on wood*)!


I feel like the oblivious, entitlement whores are the ones constantly causing accidents. That's just my honest opinion.

/end rant. thank you.

P.S. I am an American and have only driven on my own soil. So I don't know what driving conditions are like around the world. I hate *HATE* when people say the rest of the world drives on the wrong side of the road or vice versa! It's not wrong if it is the general consensus for that society!!!

[Aut]

I'm right there with you G. I hate getting stuck behind people that don't know where they're going. And the last time the hubby drove like that, we ended up having an argument after I saw the line of cars behind us. Not that he didn't know where he was going, we were just going for a random drive.

[HYHYBT]

- THE LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING!!! that should be a law in every state! If someone is passing you on your right then you need to move to a slower lane.

You know what usually happens to me? I'll be in the left (of two) lanes to pass somebody, behind another car several already making the same pass. Or I'll have passed one vehicle, but the next one up is slowish as well. Somebody behind gets impatient and passes me on the right, because I try to leave a safe but not excessive distance and they just *have* to be first. So they get by me and squeeze in front, forcing me to slow down so as not to ram their bumper, which gives the next car a chance to do the same thing. If you give me the chance, I'll move over the first chance I get after completing my own pass, thank you; if you try to go around, you only block me from getting out of the way.

Also, consider that in many places it's not so much "slower traffic keep right" as it is "all the lanes go different directions so find the one you need."

[Magpie]

- THE LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING!!! that should be a law in every state! If someone is passing you on your right then you need to move to a slower lane.

While I agree that this is generally the rule, it only applies when traffic is really light. (And, of course, when there's no snow on the road). If changing lanes is challenge, I will drive in the left lane for most of a kilometre before reaching my turn.

[G-Radical]

Sorry I generalized the "left lane is for passing" spiel. I travel a two lane highway with very few exits that are only on the right side to work everyday. There a signs every few miles that say, as a courtesy, left lane is for passing only. So that's really what I meant but I should have elaborated.

My mom calls this the "sardine effect" where people like to drive in clusters. That makes me bonkers. I prefer the open road with the occasional other car. . . in a perfect world lol.

One time I rode with someone who was afraid to have cars pass on her left side so she would drive in the left lane at the minimal speed on the highway. If you are skiddish about other cars then maybe you should really reconsider if you should be driving!

I have to admit the best drivers I have encountered thus far are drivers from Vermont. I have only driven in the state once but everyone was so considerate of other people on the road! It was smooth sailing!

[EricKei]

One time I rode with someone who was afraid to have cars pass on her left side so she would drive in the left lane at the minimal speed on the highway. If you are skiddish about other cars then maybe you should really reconsider if you should be driving!

I used to be really nervous on highways...As in, driving just barley barely over the limit....Thing is, I stayed in the RIGHT lane when doing so ^_^

...I got better