Driving rant

[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!)

[RedHedd]

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!)

I want a bumpersticker that says "Please go tailgate somebody else!"

[Jessika]

I want a bumpersticker that says "Please go tailgate somebody else!"

Heck, I want one of those scrollers to put in my back window and when someone zooms up on me I can change the message or something, haha.

I love/hate though when morning traffic comes to an IMMEDIATE STOP out of nowhere, you know the slam-on-your-brakes stop, and the people behind me countless times have had to swerve onto the shoulder to avoid rear-ending me... oddly enough after that, they back waaaaay far away when we start moving again!!!

But tailgating scares the living **** out of me in rain... even when I left enough room (in my opinion lol) between me and a person in front of me, on wet pavement I had to slam on my brakes and skid for a good... oh 30 or so feet and stopped literally centimeters from their back bumper... and I was a lot farther from the person in front of me than the person behind me was to me!!!! Its just scary. I'd rather someone rear-end me though and have to pay for me to get a new car than me be the cause...

[Karen]

Every time I have noticed odd, careless behavior from a driver lately - and I am talking months here, that person has been talking on a cell phone.

It is sad, and scary. People don't even pay attention to where they WALK when on a cell phone, why do they think they should do so while behind the wheel of a ton of steel?