SOMETIMES....

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Have you ever gotten the urge to pull up behind someone, get out of your car, walk slowly to the other one, tap on the window and say you wish to speak to them, and when they do, just smack them up side the head??

Was coming home today on SR 52 as I do almost every day, and was soooooooooo ready to do that just as I hit I 19....traffic was heavy (round noonish) and the speed limit is 45...Everyone was driving along, doing just dandy, stopped at the light and across the intersection (further up 52) comes a blue volvo out of a clinic parking lot...(bet Hairy knows where lol)....Light changed and I was on my way again behind the blue volvo....and the blue volvo with a guy driving talking away to his passenger ( you could see he was as he was using a lot of hand gestures) and doing a flipping 25 miles per hour .......
And you just know, you just know they are going to turn right on 19 too....but at least there I was able to get around him....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh would I loved to have slapped him silly...

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Sometimes ... when you cry ... no one sees your tears...
Sometimes ... when you are worried ... no one sees your pain...
Sometimes ... when you are happy ... no one sees your smile...
But break wind just one damn time ... [:o)][:o)]




Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.

volenti non fit injuria

dcon12

Not very ladylike. Don

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So?...


Your point is?..

whiteclouder

We have minimum speeds only on the freeway around here.
I'd suggest you pull over for 90 seconds, heck, maybe as much as 100. Chances are, you will not see him again that day. Easier than bloviating about what you'd like to do. In the grand scheme of things, it's pretty trivial.

Clouder..

dcon12

quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
Your point is?..



You mean you missed it? Don

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quote:In the grand scheme of things, it's pretty trivial.


Just posting along the same lines as you and others do..[}:)][}:)]

JackBwr

I did meet somebody this way, only the guy was in front of me. I was in the middle of a long line of traffic on a 2 lane road going onto a bridge across the river one afternoon. I was in a hurry and maybe a little close to this car but not what I would classify as tail-gating by any means. [;)] Anyway, the guy starts putting his breaks on to pi$$ me off (which works very well) and starts looking at me in the rear view mirror and saying something. So I made sure he could read my lips when I said "Just go a** hole." Then he flips me the bird, so I kindly returned the favor. At this point we're just coming onto the bridge and he's so angry, he slams on his breaks and stops the car. I'm stuck behind him. Since we're not a CC state, I left our vehicle in drive because I was prepared to run him over if he came out with a gun. Fortunately he didn't. So this old guy gets out and comes back to give me a lecture on what the speed limit is on this bridge and asks if I'm in a hurry. (Speed limit's 45 but normal driving speed is 55 there) I tell him, yeah, I am. (I was trying to get somewhere before they closed.) Then he says go, go around!! Then I got stubborn and said no, I'm not going anywhere. So we sat there and I got lectured while we backed up traffic for half a mile...semis, everybody. He finally gets back in the car and I let him drive across the bridge by himself so he'd have plenty of space, before I took off again. I couldn't believe somebody could get that upset, but apparently people do.

bpost

Speeding, broke down trucks, bimbos on the phone, rich a-holes in-a-hurry, sales pukes reading notes, granny's on prozac and illegal non-speak, no license-no insurance, but have health care for free drivers are what make American roads a real pain in the *.

wanted man

Someone driving a little slow don't bother me so much, you usually find an opportunity to go around them, sooner or later. People who do dangerous stuff, cause bad situations for others (me) are what gets me going. 3-lane changes, tailgating at 70 mph when the other lane is clear, rolling through wayyyy red lights, just driving like getting there ALIVE is a foreign concept. More than once I've been blessed enough to have NOT had a firearm with me at a time/place that I might have been REALLY tempted to use it (self defense, in MY eyes!)

dcloco

Related story, but only because it is driving.

13 year old son and I were driving home at 11.30 pm on a Friday night. We are in my 65 Chevelle SS (it is in black primer). Roll up to the stop light. 1999/2000 Z28 pulls up along side us, gives us the once over and he stomps on it when the light turn green.

I calmly take off, speed up, and slow down for the next light (I know the timing of the lights and knew he would have to stop).

He looks over, nods, I nod back. Ask my son if he is buckled..."yes dad". Ask son if door is locked...."YES dad".

I reply, "good, and DON'T tell your mom!".

"ok dad".

Watching the lights, yellow for the cross street...in 1st gear, check....bring the revs up to 3K...check....slightly letting the clutch up...check.....and we are off. I hit second, then third...I have 1/2 a fender on him....and let off (next stop light).

Other driver grins, reading his lips, he says "one more time"....I nod.

Son, is now WIDE awake....revs to 5K, in 1st gear, blah..blah.....light goes green....launch...2nd gear...3rd gear....slow down.

Camaro gets in the left turn lane...and will not look over.

"dad...you beat that new car...easily. So cool dad. That was fast. Dad, can I have your car?"

"Yes. Remember, don't tell mom."

"ok dad."

Second we walked in the door....well...I was grounded...by the wife.

Yeah...I know...street racing...but it is a good story.

Rebel_James

It always works like this:

1. If you just happen to leave early, no one else is on the road, all the traffic lights are green.... etc!

2. BUT, if you leave one damn minute late... everybody is on the road, including the farmer in the pickup truck goin 30 mph in a 55, and all the traffic lights are RED!!!

Henry0Reilly

Your story reminds me of a couple of songs:

Blue-hairs driving in my lane by Pinkard & Bowden

Snailman by Tom Griswald

yawarakai

There is a one intersection I drive through where they have signs posted no driving on marked shoulder. Well of course everyone pulls on to marked shoulder to make right turns. Today while waiting for light I am pulled over a little onto should getting ready to turn right when the cars in front of me move. A large dump truck come barreling up behind me, pulls onto shoulder, never slows down and misses the cars ahead by inches while turns right. This is blind intersection next to a jagged turn and an underpass where cars coming from the other direction turn while you are stopped. he almost hit one that was coming at him. He kept chuggin along down the road so I never was able to get any info.

rogue_rob

well I know of at least ONE person on this board who would have pulled over to the side of the road to let you by JUST IN CASE you were trying to get your sick son/daughter to an emergency room.[:p][:p]

select-fire

I absolutely love tailgaters who think they will shove me out of the way. I always slow down to the speed limit then. Just remember one thing going up to that ONE car or truck to beat the person up... Remember they have a .357 [xx(]

fishermanben

I'm with you BR. 3 things that piss me off on the road.

People who won't yield right of way to faster traffic.

People who have kids unbuckled in the vehicle.

People who tailgate for no reason, and refuse to pass.

Ben

Glock23Expert

Just last week I was driving in town (Greenville, SC) in the right lane of the highway. Since gas prices started going up exponentially, I've eased back on the speed limit to be more efficient. But back to the story. I was doing the speed limit in the right lane, keeping pace w/ 3 semis in the left lane when an idiot gets behind me so close I can barely see his hood in the rearview mirror. I wasn't gonna speed up cause just up ahead the area is known as for being a speed trap. He stays behind me for almost 2 miles and when I turn right to go to the bank, he pulls in after me and comes up to my window to cuss me out while I'm trying to do my business with the teller. I told him he obviously wasn't in as much a hurry as he thought, he had time to pull up behind me and berate me for doing the speed limit.

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For the record, I wasnt tailgating.....I dont like anything right on my butt and I dont do it to anyone else either.....He was just doing 25 miles per and there was no way to get around him, I was close to 19 at the time...and when he turned on 19, I was finally able to get around him....and yes he was still doing 25 even though the speed limit in that area of 19 is 50.