I don't honk. But I got ways... ha haha hhaahhaaha
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In a Miata you have to make yourself heard, because to most idiots you are invisible. Better to have a quick trigger on the horn and be thought an asshole than to have my car hit again.
On most of the multi-lane roads around here I have no problem just going around slow people. If I can't, it's usually because there's enough traffic that I wouldn't get very far ahead anyway. But I occasionally have to honk when the dumbass in front of me thinks it's a good idea to merge onto the beltway at 30 mph. Sometimes it still doesn't work, and I can see their confused eyeballs in their rear view mirrors as they wonder why the fuck I'm honking at them. The only 4-way stops I encounter on a daily basis are on the grounds of my workplace. We have a lot of foreigners here, many of whom never drove a car in their native country. Many of these folks are incapable of pulling into a single parking space among an entire row of empty parking spaces without doing a 5-pt turn and opening their door several times to look down and check where the painted line is this time. So, at the 4-way stops here I racially profile harder than El Al airline security. If one of them pulls up at the same time as I do and has the right-of-way, I give them 01 seconds to take it before I take it from them. I don't bother giving them the wave to "go ahead" because they'll just try to be nice and give me the "go ahead" wave right back, and we'd be there all goddam night. Slow people also piss me off if they're preventing me from tearing ass around off/onramps, but in that case I don't honk because it's just not reasonable to expect everybody to drive that fast. But some people are just so goddam slow it's like they think their cars will fly right off the road if they try to hold 0.2g through a corner. |
Oh another thing...
This is on residential streets... Two lane road. I'm in the right lane, driving next to someone. No one is behind me. The person next to me speeds up to pass. So far so good. Then as soon as they get in front of me they turn on their right turn signal and slow down to turn right. Why oh why can't you just slow down, pull behind me and take your turn. That way I don't have to slow down to 5mph. Gah. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 622347)
I try hard to control my road rage, but there's one specific situation that really just kills me for the 1.5 seconds that it costs me.
Approaching a 4 way stop. Another car is approaching from the right hand side (perpendicular to my path). Other car reaches the 4 way stop before me. Instead of stopping, and then continuing, they stop, and the WAIT till I get to the 4 way stop, then finally once I've come to a complete stop, they crawl through the intersection, forcing me to sit there and watch them. OR, as I'm approaching the intersection, I stick my hand out the window, encourage them to hurry up and go with an insistent wave. |
Originally Posted by ScottFW
(Post 622430)
We have a lot of foreigners here, many of whom never drove a car in their native country.
I racially profile <slowpokes> harder than El Al airline security. |
Originally Posted by FRT_Fun
(Post 622431)
Two lane road. I'm in the right lane, driving next to someone. No one is behind me. The person next to me speeds up to pass. So far so good. Then as soon as they get in front of me they turn on their right turn signal and slow down to turn right.
Originally Posted by ScottFW
(Post 622430)
I occasionally have to honk when the dumbass in front of me thinks it's a good idea to merge onto the beltway at 30 mph.
Slow people also piss me off if they're preventing me from tearing ass around off/onramps, but in that case I don't honk because it's just not reasonable to expect everybody to drive that fast. But some people are just so goddam slow it's like they think their cars will fly right off the road if they try to hold 0.2g through a corner.
Originally Posted by Stein
(Post 622390)
I will slid up next to a semi that is already in the correct lane and pace him. Inevitably there will be a line behind me. When it is forced down to one lane, the truck driver who is also normally pissed because people slide in front of him every surge because he can't start and stop quickly, always let's me in, I look, point and always get a wave in. The cheaters behind me are stuck there, literally stopped. They have a tough time getting in because right at the merge it is usually picking back up to normal speed and they are parked there in the absolute head of the line and everyone knows exactly why.
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 622405)
I wish I had links to studies that suggest filling up all available road space (rather than merging early) reduces congestion. but it was only something i heard a long time ago on tv.
All this signage is making people dumb drivers, but sometimes a lack of signage can create a 'panic' state- like the lack of an exit only sign, people will freak out to get out of that lane and do some crazy shit. |
Oh, just remembered one that drives me crazy.
There are several places here where 1 road merges into another, EXCEPT it's not really a merge...the road continues into a new lane, so you don't have to yield, you can just continue on in the same lane, and then when there's a break you can move over if you need to. AND YET! Despite the clearly posted sign that demonstrates existence of said lane, I'm ALWAYS behind the guy that thinks he has to yield, and sits there with his head craned back trying to watch traffic. Of course, the other lane isn't slowing down at all -- there's no need to, since the entering traffic has its own lane. And once that guy has his head turned watching for his "break" in traffic, there's ZERO chance he'll turn back around and realize there's a sign 5 feet from his door that shows the new lane. |
I used my air horn today, it was epic.
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i propose an awesome road system where every 2 miles, the right lane ends or exits and a new left lane is added from nowhere.
end result, ultimately all brainless left lane campers are shoved over to the far right of the road. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 622491)
i propose an awesome road system where every 2 miles, the right lane ends or exits and a new left lane is added from nowhere.
end result, ultimately all brainless left lane campers are shoved over to the far right of the road. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 622491)
i propose an awesome road system where every 2 miles, the right lane ends or exits and a new left lane is added from nowhere.
end result, ultimately all brainless left lane campers are shoved over to the far right of the road. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 622450)
Oh, just remembered one that drives me crazy.
There are several places here where 1 road merges into another, EXCEPT it's not really a merge...the road continues into a new lane, so you don't have to yield, you can just continue on in the same lane, and then when there's a break you can move over if you need to. AND YET! Despite the clearly posted sign that demonstrates existence of said lane, I'm ALWAYS behind the guy that thinks he has to yield, and sits there with his head craned back trying to watch traffic. Of course, the other lane isn't slowing down at all -- there's no need to, since the entering traffic has its own lane. And once that guy has his head turned watching for his "break" in traffic, there's ZERO chance he'll turn back around and realize there's a sign 5 feet from his door that shows the new lane. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 622450)
Oh, just remembered one that drives me crazy.
There are several places here where 1 road merges into another, EXCEPT it's not really a merge...the road continues into a new lane, so you don't have to yield, you can just continue on in the same lane, and then when there's a break you can move over if you need to. AND YET! Despite the clearly posted sign that demonstrates existence of said lane, I'm ALWAYS behind the guy that thinks he has to yield, and sits there with his head craned back trying to watch traffic. Of course, the other lane isn't slowing down at all -- there's no need to, since the entering traffic has its own lane. And once that guy has his head turned watching for his "break" in traffic, there's ZERO chance he'll turn back around and realize there's a sign 5 feet from his door that shows the new lane. Usually it's one of those roads that run parallel with the highway, and you 'merge' into off ramps. Well where the off ramp meets up with the road running parallel it just becomes a two lane road. The parallel road has the yield sign. That is definitely a legit sign cause if you have to take a right, you only have a small amount of time to get over in the right lane when you are coming off the highway. So it pisses me off when people don't yield to me and I have to slam on my brakes and let them get passed me so I can get into the right lane without cutting them off. But I could see how if there was no turn right after the yield it could get annoying. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 622491)
i propose an awesome road system where every 2 miles, the right lane ends or exits and a new left lane is added from nowhere.
end result, ultimately all brainless left lane campers are shoved over to the far right of the road. |
i propose public floggings for leftlane morons
idk why this unleashes my inner Fuhrer, but fuck i want to kill these people seriously, i can set my cruise @ 85mph in the SLOWEST lane b/c every ---- thinks they need to be in the furthest left lane |
Originally Posted by scandmx5
(Post 622662)
i can set my cruise @ 85mph in the SLOWEST lane b/c every ---- thinks they need to be in the furthest left lane
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Fuck slow drivers. I think they should all be made into curry paste and fed to goats.
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LOLz @ fooger's posts.
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 622405)
I wish I had links to studies that suggest filling up all available road space (rather than merging early) reduces congestion. but it was only something i heard a long time ago on tv.
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The entrance into my apartment complex is a roundabout. Not a large one, maybe 15 meters in diameter. Takes less than 10 seconds to drive around if you're going slow. To the south is the entrance from the main road. To the north is the office building and a few office parking spaces. To the east and west are the gated accessways into the complex proper. Like all roundabouts in the LHD world, the designated flow of traffic is counterclockwise.
This afternoon was the second time in two days that, upon entering from the main road, I've nearly run head-on into someone just coming out of the east entrance and turning left to take the shortcut through the roundabout. It usually happens only once a week or so. Been getting worse lately. Always a female driver, always in a Lexus / Infiniti / BMW. It occurred to me today, while I was in the process of slamming on the brakes in fact, that I'm driving a total piece of shit car that's already three different colors and has paint peeling off of every panel. And these asshat drivers are going the wrong way in vehicles upon which it would cost more than my whole car just to replace one fender. I'm seriously tempted to just start crashing straight into them. Nothing major, maybe a little tap at 3 MPH. Just enough to crumple a fender or a driver's door, maybe take out a headlight cluster in the process. That'd be an easy $1,000 repair bill, and all I'd have to do it straighten out my front license plate a bit afterwards. (It's already bent.) Some research into CA motor vehicle law is needed to determine whether I'd have any liability in such a situation. |
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