Saw a women blow through a school zone. When I caught up to her at the red light I saw through her rear view that she was flossing her teeth. When the light went green she continued on like that, steering with her elbows.

/why yes, I did change my route!

Seems relevant for this thread:




"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

Most Floridiots smear food on their faces anyway, so no big deal.

Cup_O_Jo: That happens in GA all the time.

All those people have NASCAR fantasies. I once saw someone back up and travel down the shoulder to access an off ramp. I don't remember the interstate but it was whatever main one that runs through Atlanta.
People that text, apply makeup or such when they should be concentrating on their driving should be run off the road and summarily beaten, daily.

spreading marmite on grey poupon sandwiches.
while drinking earl gray.

Using a laptop while talking through a radio and eating donuts

Delawheredad: As a cycling commuter I can not believe the crap I see drivers doing. Guts tooling along with the sports page draped over the wheel. Women putting on make up, Random animals like cats sitting on driver laps yet they treat ME like I'm the biggest hazard on the road.

I'm totally sure you stop at all stop signs/red lights, use proper hand signals when turning, and stay off sidewalks too, right?

"je me souviens"=Canadian for: I'll drive my very overloaded, tree trunk/loggin', hauling semi any damn way I wants, 90+mph or so, on the Northway (NY state side), dipolomatic immunity=no tickets-per my friends up there.

/Shudder-those over loaded logging truck sway like a thin cotton curtain in a breeze
//Will find an alternate route if I ever have to drive up there (NY side) again

I don't know if this is ironic or not, but I'm literally farjing from my phone while driving around right now. Steering with knee, as well!

Galileo's Daughter: but my favorite is the random drag races that seem to break out every now and again.

Oh god no.



/link is hot

Karma Chameleon: Delawheredad: As a cycling commuter I can not believe the crap I see drivers doing. Guts tooling along with the sports page draped over the wheel. Women putting on make up, Random animals like cats sitting on driver laps yet they treat ME like I'm the biggest hazard on the road.

I'm totally sure you stop at all stop signs/red lights, use proper hand signals when turning, and stay off sidewalks too, right?

Cyclists are frequently the most hazardous and unpredictable people on the road. Smug and entitled as well. Why yes, some dick on a bicycle f*cked up the mirror on my Volvo and another one damn near ran over my dog and acted like it was my fault.

Stuff like this happens because a driver's license in the US is criminally easy to obtain, and as a result there are millions of people out on the road who only have the barest idea of how to safely operate a motor vehicle. Not that you can ever get this sort of thing to go away completely, mind you, but if state governments stopped giving away driver's licenses in cereal boxes it'd help quite a bit.

SurfaceTension: JonBuck: I also want people to start using their headlights earlier when it just starts getting dark. Headlights are not just so you can see where you're going. They're so other drivers can see where you're going, too.

This is probably the least understood thing among drivers. Most people probably think low-beam headlights are for seeing other things, but yeah, they're also for people to see you.

This is a big thing way up north when it's getting dark at four o'clock - you need your lights on by three o'clock because the blinding glare from light at that angle makes your little silver car farking invisible.

Bathia_Mapes: The mascara brush was impaled into her left eye, clear up to the handle.

I refuse to believe this. Not because I think you're lying, but because that's one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. No no no.

For a little while I ate a bowl of cereal on the drive in to work. Fortunately I realized how idiotic that was before Darwin paid me a visit...

Indiana here.

Seen lots of stupid stuff over the years (reading newspapers or books...) but the cake taker was when I was stuck on a 2 lane highway with no room to pass for almost 20 miles. The woman driving the SUV in front of me, who surprisingly wasn't the problem, either had extreme mental problems or one hell of a nervous twitch because every minute or so she would freak the fark out and not only slam her body back and forth in the car (side to side), she would slam her head into her drivers side window.

Hard.

So hard I was completely enthralled in what she was doing in hopes of her actually breaking the window. We went around a turn at one point and she was far enough ahead of me I could see the side of her car and she was doing this at the same time and her window was literally shaking because of how hard she was slamming her head into it.

As soon as I finally got the chance, I blew past her and eventually got around the slow people. I've always wondered what happened to her and her window.

precia: Bathia_Mapes: The mascara brush was impaled into her left eye, clear up to the handle.

I refuse to believe this. Not because I think you're lying, but because that's one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. No no no.

Typically when people are impaled "in the eye" it's not actually into the eyeball itself. The eyeball usually slides to the side, and the object instead goes into the socket. Still horrifying, but a bit less so.

I have a cousin who was applying mascara while driving one day. We know this because the firemen found the tube and brush still in her hands when they pulled her from the car after she'd run underneath a semi and decapitated herself. Needless to say, I'm not a fan of distracted driving.

Weirdest things I've seen someone do while driving: folding laundry.

I once was driving on a back road and decided to squirt water and use my windshield wipers to clear up some dirt. About 300 feet behind me was some suit & tie in a BMW honking wildly and flashing his lights like a mad man. About a minute later we both come up to a stop light and he pulls up next to me, rolls his window down, and starts raging at me because some droplets of water flew up over my windshield and onto his spotless BMW. I was so taken aback by his raging that I didn't realize what had happened until after he concluded his rant with a loud "fark YOU!" and sped off. Those poor 1%'ers sure have it rough.

I once saw a guy strap his farking dog to the roof of his car. Then when the dog shiat itself he stopped at a gas station, hosed the windows clean from the feces and continued on his way.

I tied my shoes in the car before. Not really that hard when you're stopped at a light.

/limber

I am a cyclist and I hate most cyclists. They don't stop at signs, they ride the wrong way, they don't use lights at night. The less skilled ones ride single-speed bikes to be "cool" (or just don't know how to shift), or bikes that are too small, so they can't keep a straight line.

evoke: I once saw a guy strap his farking dog to the roof of his car. Then when the dog shiat itself he stopped at a gas station, hosed the windows clean from the feces and continued on his way.

And you didn't even think to ask Mitt Romney for his autograph?

evoke: I once saw a guy strap his farking dog to the roof of his car. Then when the dog shiat itself he stopped at a gas station, hosed the windows clean from the feces and continued on his way.

Was the dog at least in a crate?

Holy crap! All the cereal eaters out there... Haven't they heard of breakfast bars?!

I-95 in Miami-Dade has the highest fatality rate of any freeway in the US. IIRC the rate is more than two deaths per mile per year

TheCore: I once was driving on a back road and decided to squirt water and use my windshield wipers to clear up some dirt. About 300 feet behind me was some suit & tie in a BMW honking wildly and flashing his lights like a mad man. About a minute later we both come up to a stop light and he pulls up next to me, rolls his window down, and starts raging at me because some droplets of water flew up over my windshield and onto his spotless BMW. I was so taken aback by his raging that I didn't realize what had happened until after he concluded his rant with a loud "fark YOU!" and sped off. Those poor 1%'ers sure have it rough.

A BMW, huh? Wow, must have been a billionaire.

Enigmamf: I am a cyclist and I hate most cyclists. They don't stop at signs, they ride the wrong way, they don't use lights at night. The less skilled ones ride single-speed bikes to be "cool" (or just don't know how to shift), or bikes that are too small, so they can't keep a straight line.

Is there an explanation for the wrong way thing? I've seen dozens of cyclists do it around here, and they only logical reason I can think for doing it is to commit suicide.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: precia: Bathia_Mapes: The mascara brush was impaled into her left eye, clear up to the handle.

I refuse to believe this. Not because I think you're lying, but because that's one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. No no no.

Typically when people are impaled "in the eye" it's not actually into the eyeball itself. The eyeball usually slides to the side, and the object instead goes into the socket. Still horrifying, but a bit less so.

Things being jammed into eye sockets and eyeballs sliding over is completely horrible in its own way.

As a child I refused to be anywhere near my mother when she was sewing because I was terrified that this would be the time her hand would slip while pulling the thread through, and that needle would end up right in my eye. (And despite all these fears, I'm still thinking about getting contacts...)

Allornone: /I will say,though, the most dangerous thing I've done as an actual driver is put on lipstick during a red light. not while moving.

I did change my shirt in the car, once, but it was at a red light. (And judging from the fact that I got pulled over right after, I was also next to a cop car.)

/Got let off with a warning.
//He got my number.

Yeah sorry, as someone who frequently bikes around my city I can still say that I see cyclists being dicks at least as often as I see drivers doing it.

Most frequent problem I have are cyclists blowing through stop signs and then giving me indignant looks when I almost run them over. fark you, douchebags.

Recently while at a bar I watched a cyclists blow through a red light and get clipped by a truck turning around a blind corner. Dude on the bike was convinced he had done nothing wrong, but there were about 15 witnesses to say otherwise.

Besides all that, mindless bravado and sanctimony are terrible features to have, especially when your opposition weighs several tons, can move at least 4x faster than you, and might barely notice if it crushed every bone in your body.

OT: Multi-tasking while driving is not hard. There is a time and place for it. As long as you aren't: A) Around lots of other people, OR B) moving at high speeds, OR C) completely retarded; it's really not that unsafe. Hell, many drivers are just plain unsafe because they are (C). Give them 12 hands and full concentration on the road, they'll still drive like a farking doofus.

In WV a fire truck swerved into my lane and almost hit me head-on to avoid an empty plastic bag in the road.

I live and drive on I-4 in Florida, fact is this road takes you to Disney and Universal Studios, which means we import all the foreign drivers who either do 55 or 95.

Lets see - last week a dumbass kid on a crotch rocket skid across I-4 doing over 120mph.
few days ago, a french canadian stopped in the median of I-4 and tried to "Run" across it to get gas - which predictable results.

My all time favorite is an idiot who had his Bass and Radio so loud, I could literally hear him 4-5 car lengths behind him, coming up next to him - he was watching a Movie or Porno.

/Wish it was legal to shoot out tires

CtrlAltDestroy: Galileo's Daughter: but my favorite is the random drag races that seem to break out every now and again.

Oh god no.

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/link is hot

That's mostly in the Keys.

Cup_O_Jo: That happens in GA all the time.

Seconded

I ride a motorcycle 99% of the time and sit higher than most drivers. The shiat I see on 400 is stunning

I saw a guy in Boca Raton texting. On a moped. With no helmet. Barefoot.

Spanky McStupid: What about that chick who shaved her legs while her husband drove her to her date?

/Proud Floridian
//Florida: Not only for farking dumbasses

Ha ha ha ha! You're KILLING here! LOL

evoke: I once saw a guy strap his farking dog to the roof of his car. Then when the dog shiat itself he stopped at a gas station, hosed the windows clean from the feces and continued on his way.

Chevy Chase approves

I was stopped at a red light in the left-turn lane with my convertible top down, and someone in a jacked-up pickup truck flicked a butt out their window and onto my car. It was 1 inch away from bouncing in and falling on the passenger seat. I was that close to getting out and doing something foolish when the light turned green and they took off.

AbbeySomeone: Cup_O_Jo: That happens in GA all the time.

All those people have NASCAR fantasies. I once saw someone back up and travel down the shoulder to access an off ramp. I don't remember the interstate but it was whatever main one that runs through Atlanta.
People that text, apply makeup or such when they should be concentrating on their driving should be run off the road and summarily beaten, daily.

I-75. Being connected to Florida via asphalt umbilical cord may be responsible here.