Driving rant

[smokey the elder]

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Why are the drivers this week such a pain??
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[Laura's Babies]

To many people are wrapped up in their own worlds without regards to the world around them.

[Jessika]

Drivers are ALWAYS a pain for me... tailgating, impatience, not using blinkers, cutting me off when I leave more than an inch between me and the car in front of me........ /sigh

Every morning, gotta love that 7am traffic going into the city!

[RedHedd]

I noticed that this morning. One left turn on a red light just as I was crossing the street as a pedestrian on MY green, several other stop sign/light runners, driving slow in the fast lane, tailgating and no CHP anywhere to be seen! No one talking on cell phones, tho; I guess they got the word out.

[DJFyrewolf36]

I get my fill of almost getting run over and glared at too! I really think people need slow down thier lives and quit being so impatient about everything
Smell the flowers people!

[smokey the elder]

I thought we were supposed to be driving slower to conserve gas; it worked in 1973. I guess if you're driving the speed limit you're driving too slow. Basically everyone is on vacation EXCEPT the tailgaters. I must have pulled over 10 times this week to let someone pass who was so close I could see their nose hair (sorry, TMI!)

[Glacier]

My top driving peeve....if you are going to drive in a different country, learn to convert speeds. 55 km an hour is not the same as 55 miles an hour....the highway speed is in METRIC, like everything else in Canada! If I get stuck behind one more tourist driving 55km an hour on the Alaska Highway when the speed limit is 90km(which is equal to 55 milers per hour), I may come unglued.

And if you are going to drive an RV the size of a tractor trailer, perhaps you should take some lessons before heading out! You are going to kill someone!

six more weeks to the end of tourist season!

[Catty1]

As the saying goes: "If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?"

Anyway - some town somewhere did an experiment. Instead of say, 55 MPH, they made it 53.

If all speed signs were changed to end in an odd number like that - 51, 62, etc - it might create enough of a mind trip to make a difference!

[Medusa]

And why are people in such a hurry anyhow? To get to their jobs? Doubtful. Just where are they going in such a hurry that they need to endanger your life, theirs and others, too?

[JenBKR]

Oh I am with you on this rant. I am absolutely sick of careless drivers. Now with a baby in the car, I get especially upset. I've already had a bad accident with him in the car because someone couldn't be bothered to stop at a stop sign. And another pet peeve of mine - when did it become too difficult to use a turn signal??

[RedHedd]

Ah turn signals! I do have to ask - do Mercedes Benz even come equipped with turn signals at all or is that in the deluxe model and an extra they forget to ask for? Oh, wait, I forget - they have SPECIAL driving rules for Benz drivers

Shall we start a pedestrian thread too or can I post that rant here?

[Freedom]

10. Don't Honk: Driver yappin' on cell phone.

Oh goodness, I LOVE this one!

when did it become too difficult to use a turn signal??

For YEARS, Dad has said about such a person: "Guess they didn't make turn signals on that model." Now it's ME saying the same thing.

[boomersooner]

Totally agree with everything that has been said....we were out running errands today, and people were absolutely crazy...My husband was driving, and I was sitting in the front passenger seat, and there were several times, I closed my eyes because I knew some idiot was about to hit us.....Here in the Dallas area, even with the $4.00 gas, a lot of people aren't going to give up their stupid pick up trucks....which is fine, but don't go weaving in and out, tailgating, etc just to end up side by side at the light anyway.....drives me nuts!!! It is a wonder my two kids didn't learn a lot of new words today!