You're either a person that does cool stuff, or a person that takes pictures to make it seem like you do cool stuff. There isn't really time to be both
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You're either a person that does cool stuff, or a person that takes pictures to make it seem like you do cool stuff. There isn't really time to be both
I used to get annoyed with my ex when we would go hiking, she wanted to take pictures of everything. Some stuff is fine like making it to the summit, but damn let's just enjoy the moment.
It was just a joke, our health is the most important thing we have. Lot of idiots out there, stay safe.
A Lulu of an idiot was interacted with on my way to dance class tonite. I always stop off at McD's on my way there, when I come out of their parking lot, I turn right onto a 4 lane divided boulevard. The dance studio is right across the street, so I have to get into the left lane IMMEDIATELY to get into the left turn lane to get into the studio's parking lot. Street is VERY busy, 45 zone.
So, I pulled out, turning right, into the RH lane. There was a little shittin' car or something about 150 feet behind me as I did the turn. There was another car in the LH lane - where I needed to go, that was about 20 feet back. I immediately turn on my LH signal so that the car 150 feet back would know what I was doing. The car in the LH lane passes me as expected, but the asshole behind me in the RH lane changes lanes and tries to get around me. He took exception to my changing lanes even though I had my signal on and if he'd fucking stayed where he was, I would have been out of his way and he wouldn't have even had to touch his brakes. But no - he's gotta be a jerk and try a stunt like that.
It took my poor dance teacher 10 minutes to get me calmed the fuck down, and the only reason she was able to was because we both have the same HPs, and she (teacher) referenced the current life lesson we're all working on... I was so mad that I was shaking.
But now - DEEP BREATHE - I'm ready to let it go. Thank you Bianca...
So, I pulled out, turning right, into the RH lane. There was a little shittin' car or something about 150 feet behind me as I did the turn. There was another car in the LH lane - where I needed to go, that was about 20 feet back. I immediately turn on my LH signal so that the car 150 feet back would know what I was doing. The car in the LH lane passes me as expected, but the asshole behind me in the RH lane changes lanes and tries to get around me. He took exception to my changing lanes even though I had my signal on and if he'd fucking stayed where he was, I would have been out of his way and he wouldn't have even had to touch his brakes. But no - he's gotta be a jerk and try a stunt like that.
It took my poor dance teacher 10 minutes to get me calmed the fuck down, and the only reason she was able to was because we both have the same HPs, and she (teacher) referenced the current life lesson we're all working on... I was so mad that I was shaking.
But now - DEEP BREATHE - I'm ready to let it go. Thank you Bianca...
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KennethS
TJ Addict
I had a similar moron on the interstate coming home from work. I was doing 60-65 in the left-most lane of a 5 or 6 lane stretch, and this person in the lane to the right of me decided to cut right in front of me with less than a car length room and then go slower than the traffic in the lane she was in originally.
Difference here is that you were ALREADY in the LH lane, you didn't switch lanes and accelerate to cut off a car that was signaling and starting over.
I think you need to edit your initial post, you got LH and RH mixed up in the middle sentence of the 2nd paragraph. But yeah I've had that happen.
I always make a right turn into the right lane like you are supposed to, then I'll signal left immediately if I need to move left for an upcoming turn but plenty of assholes here will be turning right behind you making a wide right turn into the middle or left lane and try to shoot past you. Same with left turns, they will turn left into the right lane to get around you before you have a chance to signal and move over.
It's far too easy to get driving privileges here.
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You're right - editing now.
EDIT: Fixed and thank you. I also deleted my other response as no wonder my OP was misunderstood with that mix-up!
One of my pet peeves is people who follow close to the car in front just so nobody can get in. Sometimes they speed up to shut you out. It's pretty easy to squeeze in there in a TJ though, which pisses them off.
Nobody has the right to intentionally block someone from making a legal lane change IMHO.
Nobody has the right to intentionally block someone from making a legal lane change IMHO.
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speeding_infraction
TJ Enthusiast
Man, if that sort of thing pisses you off to the point of shaking mad... Maybe you shouldn't drive. I've long since learned that expecting other people to make common sense moves is pointless. We have something here in TN called "dangerously polite" which involves slowing down to 35 on the interstate to let somebody merge. Cause a lot of almost accidents and causes way too much traffic.
You gotta know the @Zorba. He’s already wrecked the Mercedes twice now? Trouble with the people running into the Jeep trailer etc. Trouble hunts for him and occasionally finds him.
I have a friend that would call when he was on the road. He would have random outbursts (Tourette’s style) about the idiots on the road.
I would concur with him, yes there’s lots of idiots out there.
Then I had a chance to ride with him.
We were taking his fishing boat out. Driving on a 4 lane road. 2 lanes each way with a common turn lane in the middle.
He gets in the turn lane with boat and trailer speeds up and starts passing everyone. A car he was close to overtaking moves into the turn lane for a left turn and in my friends words: “the son of a bitch cut me off”.
I took a minute to explain that the turn lane isn’t a passing lane and most people wouldn’t expect a car to be passing them and might not look behind them before taking the lane.
I have another friend that would pull up to an intersection in the left turn lane and not use his turn signal. “People can see I’m in the turn lane”.
I explained that if I saw you there with no signal, I’d have to guess whether you are actually going to turn or shoot straight across when you get the opportunity.
Sometimes of you’re constantly running into assholes and idiots on the road….maybe look in the mirror.
I would concur with him, yes there’s lots of idiots out there.
Then I had a chance to ride with him.
We were taking his fishing boat out. Driving on a 4 lane road. 2 lanes each way with a common turn lane in the middle.
He gets in the turn lane with boat and trailer speeds up and starts passing everyone. A car he was close to overtaking moves into the turn lane for a left turn and in my friends words: “the son of a bitch cut me off”.
I took a minute to explain that the turn lane isn’t a passing lane and most people wouldn’t expect a car to be passing them and might not look behind them before taking the lane.
I have another friend that would pull up to an intersection in the left turn lane and not use his turn signal. “People can see I’m in the turn lane”.
I explained that if I saw you there with no signal, I’d have to guess whether you are actually going to turn or shoot straight across when you get the opportunity.
Sometimes of you’re constantly running into assholes and idiots on the road….maybe look in the mirror.
You gotta know the @Zorba. He’s already wrecked the Mercedes twice now? Trouble with the people running into the Jeep trailer etc. Trouble hunts for him and occasionally finds him.
I didn't wreck it, a fucking corner cutting Florididiot did. The way people drive down here is fucking unbelievable. Corner cutter sideswiped the MBZ, head-on hit the Fiat my wife was driving, and yea - tapped my utility trailer twice in as many weeks forcing me to put a pair of CB antennas on it so the idjits would fucking see it. I can't begin to tell you how many close calls my wife and I both have had - running stop signs/lites, not paying attention to what they're doing, farting around with their PHOOOOOONNE, etc, etc. One time a corner cutter behind me started cutting his corner 75 feet from the intersection, so when I turned (with turn signal ON - something else these fools won't do), I was looking at his grille out of my driver's window. I had to hit the brakes one time, otherwise I would have T-boned a corner cutting fool going the other way. My wife and I have both had close calls with cars full of Moslem women in hijab - they OBVIOUSLY don't know the rules of the road. Then there's the idiots who STOP on a RH turn where they have the right-of-way and their own lane to turn into.
Yea, I'm getting to the point of where I don't want to drive - neither does my wife. Every Gods-damned day its an ordeal just dodging the fools - esp. the corner cutters. I was riding with my daughter and she cut a corner, and I got in her face. I don't give a rolling red rodent's rangy rectum if there was "nobody there", fucking drive right or stay the Hell home! When I moved here, I expected people here would know how to drive in the rain - like they do in NOLA where it rains all the time. Nope, they're worse in the rain than Californians, and that's saying something. I've learned to not take the freeway when its raining, Florididiots will have it fucked up to a stand still within 10 minutes of it starting to rain. Indeed, I've started taking the back roads as much as possible - slower, takes more time, but I generally don't have to deal with the fools.
If I take the freeway to this dance class, it takes 35 minutes if I hit things just right. If I take primary surface streets, it takes about 45. My back way takes an hour - but as clogged up as that boulevard is becoming (and I can't avoid that), I'm going to start leaving 75 minutes ahead. The never ending road construction there doesn't help matters.
Oh, and don't forget this gem:
A new friend works at the county Sheriff's office and tells me that they estimate about 70% of the people who are driving are not qualified and should not have a license. Unfortunately, our society and the UAW have made it almost impossible to live without a vehicle, unless you are in a very urban city. Therefore, we enact traffic laws then ignore most of the violations.
I live on a street that is part of the NASCAR circuit. The speed limit is 40 mph and everyone drives at 50+. The sheriff's office is prohibited from even stopping a speeder unless they are going over 51mph.
I would help if the speed limits were enforced - the situation here is very similar to California where they generally are not. I think I've mentioned before that when I drove to Florida from California, a couple or three of the square states I drove through actively enforced the limits. If the speed sign said 45, that's exactly what everybody was doing. Cops everywhere visible with a RADAR gun pointing at traffic, and 2 or 3 other squad cars ready to pull speeders over. It was absolutely WONDERFUL to drive there.
Amen.
my sister complains that people always wind up behind her and then pass on a double yellow,which scares her especially on blind corners.
After further investigation i find that she's nervous about pulling over for cars and rarely does it.i tried to use the logic that if you pull over promptly you'll never have somebody behind you angry that you passed 5 turnouts,who then passes you illegally.
Part of driving is taking actions that keep others from doing dumb stuff. It isn't rocket science
Ah the pleasure of living in west Tennessee. We’ve got a very small share of those idiot drivers. It’s a retirement town too, but 99% of the folks I’ve encountered drive pretty good. The ones I’ve seen driving irrationally have Florida tags or…the smell of gonja comes from their vehicle. Driving topless helps you avoid the smokers.
Just poking at ya @Zorba so don’t take me seriously. Texting this while driving home.
And then there's the "blinkies" - found everywhere. Usually they're a person who is following somebody too close, but either way they're either on the gas or on the brake - very bad technique. This is but one form of BFNAR, "Biffnar" - Braking For No Apparent Reason. I back off of these fools if I can't pass them. In fact, I've been known to pull off the road altogether and wait a couple of minutes to let the fool just get away from me. The constant brake lights keep me hyper alert even though they're meaningless (until they're not).
Never mind the idjits who just won't fucking GO when its their turn for a variety of bad reasons. Usually because they're waiting for it to be clear all the way to (insert name of town 50 miles away here).
Never mind the idjits who just won't fucking GO when its their turn for a variety of bad reasons. Usually because they're waiting for it to be clear all the way to (insert name of town 50 miles away here).
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