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2012-03-18 08:01:12 PM
no florida tag?
 
2012-03-18 08:11:39 PM
Stay in the right lane!
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-03-18 08:31:27 PM
The governor could pardon road rage guy from thread 6513107 and suggest to Floridians that the beating victim deserved it. (Herald Tribune story) While road rage guy deserves jail time, there may be greater value in a million left lane blockers suddenly fearing physical harm. Florida doesn't have recall for governors as far as I know. The old, slow people can shake their canes all they want. Rick Scott still has two more years.
 
2012-03-18 08:52:46 PM
dtdstudios.com
 
2012-03-18 09:02:27 PM
If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

Yeah, they might be a bit rude, but you're really stupid.
 
2012-03-18 09:13:42 PM
Cyclometh: If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

You have no idea how slow your pokey ass really drives do you?

I'll give you some conception. I used to have a nigh 30 mile commute. I had to allow two hours to get there. On a good day, it took me 45 minutes to complete the commute. But, there were no passing lanes. Often, it would take 1:30 to do, even when there wasn't much traffic except some slow mother farker like you.

If someone has a job interview and they don't know where they're going, how the fark do you expect them to allow nearly double the time it should take just in case your entitled ass decides to go cruising along at speeds so slow little kids on big wheels are passing you? That's pretty entitled of you.
 
2012-03-18 09:26:42 PM
doglover: Cyclometh: If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

You have no idea how slow your pokey ass really drives do you?


hah. When I do drive (which isn't often, as I live close to work) you can rely on me being faster than you. Most of the time I'll be on two wheels with a bike that has an engine larger than your car. But you go ahead.

I'll give you some conception. I used to have a nigh 30 mile commute. I had to allow two hours to get there. On a good day, it took me 45 minutes to complete the commute. But, there were no passing lanes. Often, it would take 1:30 to do, even when there wasn't much traffic except some slow mother farker like you.

If someone has a job interview and they don't know where they're going, how the fark do you expect them to allow nearly double the time it should take just in case your entitled ass decides to go cruising along at speeds so slow little kids on big wheels are passing you? That's pretty entitled of you.


When I worked 75 miles away from here (for over a decade), I ran into a lot of people driving slowly. But instead of biatching about them being slow, I factored their presence (which will not go away) into my planning. On the other hand, I could have whined, biatched and moaned about it and blamed other people for my inability to plan for objective reality.

I have fifty THOUSAND miles on a motorcyle alone commuting 75 miles one way, five days each week. That doesn't count the miles on the car, or the innumerable trips on trains and buses (depending on time of year, weather and work schedule) I know whereof I speak. The way it works is- you leave early enough to arrive, or you're late. If you don't plan, you're a dumbass. I stand by exactly what I said.
 
2012-03-18 09:33:08 PM
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2012-03-18 09:34:50 PM
I give a little leeway: more than an hour in any direction and I'm okay with someone driving slow/confused. I'm on the Indiana/Kentucky/Illinois border. If I see a North Carolina plate on a car not going with traffic, I'm not pissed because I'd expect the same courtesy. Live the next county over and drive like a farktard? Your death shall not be quick and painless.
 
2012-03-18 09:35:22 PM
Cyclometh: I stand by exactly what I said.

It's true. And I while I can usually be accurate to the MINUTE for when I arrive in a place these days thanks to Japan's policy of executing train drivers who are more than 45 seconds off schedule or however they do it, I was never late in America because I too allowed extra time.

However, you really have to drive behind someone from Ohio going 50 in the left lane of a highway keeping you boxed in next to diesel spewing big rig to understand that some people just CANNOT drive and should be forced to at least re-take the license.
 
2012-03-18 09:38:57 PM
Slow drivers are annoying and all, but oblivious drivers make me see red. This morning for example, I had 3 intersections to go through where people had driven into the intersection and got stuck by traffic, meaning that it was causing gridlock for the people going the other direction. The idiots who drove into the intersection and parked are farked in the head. The far more annoying ones are the idiots in front of them who have left themselves a 2 car gap and have no idea what's happening just 3 or 4 cars behind them. If these idiots just inched forward a bit, then the gridlock wouldn't exist in the first farking place.

/Took me 30 minutes to get into work today.
//Normally takes about 5-10 minutes
 
2012-03-18 09:48:27 PM
Ed Finnerty: [dtdstudios.com image 350x256]

Nice!
 
2012-03-18 09:57:36 PM
Oh it's this thread again. Driving is an annoying waste of time. Get used to it because apparently the alternatives aren't profitable enough for the companies that own US politicians.
 
2012-03-18 10:22:32 PM
I just can't think of left lane drivers as anything other than self-involved, self-entitled assholes.
 
2012-03-18 11:04:17 PM
My great-grand dad got the first slow ticket in Santa Clara Valley.

Supposedly
 
2012-03-18 11:05:53 PM
I always seem to get behind the slow car with the roid rage idiot riding my tail. I don't know which is more annoying.
 
2012-03-18 11:06:14 PM
What's the age distribution of Floridians, anyway? Isn't it mostly retirees down there?
 
2012-03-18 11:08:08 PM
Personally I hate tail gaters and the idiots who think flashing their brights while doing so are entitled to tell you how to drive. If I'm in front of you there is likely a good chance I can see why I wouldn't want to do 80mph+. Perhaps there is an actual car in front of me, perhaps I can see brake lights up ahead it really doesn't matter.

But when I'm doing 5 over and someone decides they can dictate to me how to drive while close enough for me to count their nose hairs I get a bit irritated simply because of the fact that if I have to slam on my brakes I'll probably lose my car.

/slow drivers aren't nearly so bad
//just annoying
///especially 15 under
 
2012-03-18 11:08:25 PM
WorldCitizen: I just can't think of left lane drivers as anything other than self-involved, self-entitled assholes.

This is it in a nutshell. I drive defensively and really don't care much what other drivers do, as long as people honor the passing lane. People who hang out in the left lane oblivious to those who actually, you know, want to pass, should be rounded up and sent to the ovens.

It really is the only solution.
 
2012-03-18 11:10:02 PM
Slow drivers are farking horrible. I fully advocate honking, yelling, throwing things, etc... Whatever it takes so that they get the message. Let's speed up the roads!
 
2012-03-18 11:12:07 PM
I believe that anybody that drives any signifigant amount under the speed limit and causes 3 or more vehicles to be caught at a red light they normally would have made it through should be subjected to a $1500 fine per vehicle effected.

The reasoning is their worthlessness is costing others money through the unnecessary waste of fuel by idling, vehicle wear and tear by stopping more than necessary, additional pollution and general stupidity. A second offense would be loss of driving privilages forever and a fine of every single penny they have. Yes that means they lose their house as well. Incompetence that results in expenses to others should be punished harshly.
 
2012-03-18 11:12:35 PM
"Others say they use hand gestures"

Hahahaha. I bet they do.
 
2012-03-18 11:12:57 PM
While I hated the slow drivers from that area, the ones who scare the shiat out of me are the ones who drive the wrong way down the highway.
 
2012-03-18 11:13:04 PM
Leave the house earlier, jackasses.
 
2012-03-18 11:14:19 PM
Here in Jersey, it's the law that you have to be passing if you're in the fast lane. I've noticed some states are worse than others. I go between NY and DC all the time. Maryland drivers seem to like drive very slow in the left lane and abandon their cars on the shoulder.
 
2012-03-18 11:14:20 PM
They also cause more wrecks than speeders.
 
2012-03-18 11:15:04 PM
ChaffedTitty: They also cause more wrecks than speeders.

Yep. By far.
 
2012-03-18 11:15:56 PM
APE992: Personally I hate tail gaters and the idiots who think flashing their brights while doing so are entitled to tell you how to drive. If I'm in front of you there is likely a good chance I can see why I wouldn't want to do 80mph+. Perhaps there is an actual car in front of me, perhaps I can see brake lights up ahead it really doesn't matter.

But when I'm doing 5 over and someone decides they can dictate to me how to drive while close enough for me to count their nose hairs I get a bit irritated simply because of the fact that if I have to slam on my brakes I'll probably lose my car.

/slow drivers aren't nearly so bad
//just annoying
///especially 15 under


Thank you! I've been tailgated when going 5 or even 10 over in areas where that is about the socially acceptable norm in good conditions. I have been tailgated on foggy mornings when I am driving slower than usual because I know there are kids around waiting for their big yellow limos to arrive. Some people need to chill out and think.

/Hate tailgaters.
//So much.
 
2012-03-18 11:17:03 PM
After moving to the sticks, my biggest annoyance is overly-polite drivers at 4-way stops. I'm 30+ feet from the intersection when the other car stops. They wait until I get there, then wave me through after I've stopped and sat for a couple seconds. Ya know, if you'd just gone while I was still slowing down, both of us would have been on our way faster. :P

/white people problems.
 
2012-03-18 11:17:15 PM
What I never understand is when the speed limit (around here at least) is 55mph, people will be going typically 15 over. But when you get to a nice area where it's posted at 70mph people will be doing 65 tops.
/and don't get me started on WI driving, it's like farking nascar over there. nttawwt
 
2012-03-18 11:17:22 PM
Most of the delays I experience occur at bottlenecks and on-ramps. Most people have no problem merging at a good speed, but there are a handful of jackasses, always, that either tighten up to the car in front of them so no one can get over, or ride out the closing lane all the way to the end to get ahead by a few cars. The subsequent aggressive maneuvers cause sudden stops, and the flash of brake lights just chain reacts through dense traffic.

This also happens when people try to pass on the right but don't have the stones to actually cut someone off, and when people try to tailgate a slow driver and the slow driver just slows down.

And as long as theirs a traffic-biatch thread going:
Turn signals aren't a request that you can decline, neither do they legitimize an otherwise unacceptable maneuver.
 
2012-03-18 11:17:47 PM
One time on a trip from Atlanta to Charleston, there was a slow driver in the left lane. Everyone was passing him on the right, but contrary to what the article says, a cop can and will still give you a ticket in that situation.

When I got behind him, I flashed my brights...and he turned on his hazard lights. Myself and many others went around him on the right. Once we had all passed him, he turned off his hazard lights and continued to stay in the left lane.

What a dick.
 
2012-03-18 11:17:50 PM
7of7: Oh it's this thread again.

farm1.static.flickr.com
 
2012-03-18 11:18:22 PM
there's...

/damnitsomuch
 
2012-03-18 11:18:44 PM
APE992: Personally I hate tail gaters and the idiots who think flashing their brights while doing so are entitled to tell you how to drive. If I'm in front of you there is likely a good chance I can see why I wouldn't want to do 80mph+. Perhaps there is an actual car in front of me, perhaps I can see brake lights up ahead it really doesn't matter.

What pissed me off when I lived in Socal, was the asshats intentionally driving with their brights on. They would tail-gate anyone and presumably use their brights to force people across the road
 
2012-03-18 11:19:16 PM
Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.
 
2012-03-18 11:20:32 PM
wolf_in_cheapclothing: Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.

Yeah, but you're driving a Geo Metro.
 
2012-03-18 11:21:33 PM
wolf_in_cheapclothing: Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.

Is it worth all that time you could be doing something else?
 
2012-03-18 11:21:37 PM
calbert: no florida tag?
You think the [OBVIOUS] tag could use a redesign?
farm1.staticflickr.com
 
2012-03-18 11:21:57 PM
LOL...My Dad lives in Orlando and we no longer let him drive on the highway but for years (at least the last decade) he has been incapable of judging his speed. He'd pass people going 70 mph, pull in front of them, and slow down to 45 mph. They'll in turn pass him and he'll do it all over again. Once they'd start honking their horn at him he'd give them the bird and call them aszholes.

We'd try telling him that he was the one being the a-hole but he'd never believe us.Oh, and he also drove with one foot on the gas and the other on the brakes so this further infuriated drivers as he'd be excelerating with his brake lights on.
 
2012-03-18 11:22:02 PM
schief2: wolf_in_cheapclothing: Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.

Yeah, but you're driving a Geo Metro.


I was picturing an old, diesel Rabbit.
 
2012-03-18 11:22:13 PM
Around town, I'm a "speed limit hugger" - if the speed limit is 30 - I go maybe 32, 33. If I'm turning left within the next block, I'll be going 32, 33 in the left-hand lane. If you don't like it, well, I don't care.

/not my fault the speed limit is so low - I'm not pay $50 to a big brother camera cop
//worst is construction zones - fines are doubled, as the BIG ASS SIGNS say, and you still want me to speed?
 
2012-03-18 11:22:49 PM
If you're in the left lane and someone is right behind you, move a lane to the right.

It's that easy.
 
2012-03-18 11:23:07 PM
12349876: wolf_in_cheapclothing: Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.

Is it worth all that time you could be doing something else?


People who brag about clogging the roadways probably don't have a lot going on... Just sayin
 
2012-03-18 11:23:51 PM
Cyclometh: If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

Yeah, they might be a bit rude, but you're really stupid.


I have left early and still gotten to work late because of somebody who is driving below the speed necessary to hit the traffic lights how they're supposed to be timed.

If I leave my house and only get a third of the lights red, i can be at work in 10 mins. If I leave my house and get stuck behind somebody that basically causes me to hit every light (6, at about two minutes each), it might take me almost 20 minutes to get to work. Even if I leave five minutes early, they can still make me late.
 
2012-03-18 11:24:23 PM
Ain't nobody else's fault if you are late to an appointment. Sorry.
 
2012-03-18 11:26:19 PM
Molavian: If you're in the left lane and someone is right behind you, move a lane to the right.

It's that easy.


But I'm turning left in, like, 300 feet. Hang on for 15 seconds and deal with going the speed limit for a very brief period of time (and save a little gas - you're welcome)
 
2012-03-18 11:26:46 PM
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i will get out of your way if you really want to go faster than me. odds are some jackass is doing 60 in front of me.
be patient. i'll let you by, then follow 1/2 mile behind you so you can get the ticket while i'm slowing down as the detector beeps.

/yes my SRS light is on, it was a short near the front bumper sensor and has been rectified.
//typical morning commute, 10am no traffic
 
2012-03-18 11:27:24 PM
crispyone: We'd try telling him that he was the one being the a-hole but he'd never believe us.Oh, and he also drove with one foot on the gas and the other on the brakes so this further infuriated drivers as he'd be excelerating with his brake lights on.

Why do old (and it is ONLY old) people do this? I see these two-footing codgers around here all the time. They start out from a red light and their brake lights stay on till they get up to about 25-30 mph.

Was this accepted driving technique back in the days of hand-crank starters or something? I have to think that's hell on a modern car. Not to mention probably the cause of 90% of the "it just accelerated into the front of the store all by itself!" accidents.
 
2012-03-18 11:27:51 PM
ChaffedTitty: They also cause more wrecks than speeders.

This is the biggest problem by far. When people are chugging down the left lane at 65-75 (Speed limit of 55-65) and some self-important busy-body decides to do 45-50 they're going to get rear-ended or (more likely) get somebody behind them rear-ended. People expect the left lane to at least go speed limit and to do under is to be unsafe. If you're going to be an impediment, have the common courtesy to put on your blinkers so people become aware something's different a lot sooner.

I'll fully admit to being well and truly pissed at people like that, but I can generally find a way around them. Far far far far worse are the people who pull out of a side street in front of a car obviously at speed and then do under the speed limit. Nothing on the road makes me more red-assed.
 
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