sweetpee_1993
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Yes! Good grief! My father-in-law once merged onto the interstate in Atlanta doing 45 mph. I put my head down and started praying. I just knew we were about to be killed....
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Driving Pet Peeves
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Yes! Good grief! My father-in-law once merged onto the interstate in Atlanta doing 45 mph. I put my head down and started praying. I just knew we were about to be killed....
flynnibus
Premium Member
Alas.. not around here. Some police just have it out for you.. I wasn't even speeding.. driving in the middle of a pack in the morning commute. Pass a state trooper on the side of the road finishing up a previous traffic stop. Said trooper hauls to catch up to us (we're doing 65mph), pulls along side of me, gets half a length in front of me, and then slows down to pull in behind me. He pulled me over for my safety inspection sticker for being expired (the car was only 14m old and I had missed that it had expired). Sometimes driving a high performance car is just asking for it..
Or the other fun one they do here.. they sit at the toll booths where everyone has to slow down obviously. They just stand there and wave people to the curb for whatever violation they chose to write people up for.
Then there is the 'above the law' aspect. One night driving home on the freeway, a county officer passed me doing well over a hundred. It scared me it made my van rock so much and because I just caught a glimpse of him approaching me. Nevermind they aren't supposed to drive above the speed limit without their lights on.. which I know for a fact because I called the sherrif to report that one and they started an internal investigation. Actually feared what that kind of speed differential would do.. because I always pulled into his lane!
Oh, and a police car just last month somehow drove off the road.. down an embankment and into the front of a Taco Bell.. literally through the front of the store. Yet suspiciously... no story in the local paper about the incident...
sweetpee_1993
Well-Known Member
True. It's like I had to explain to my hubby, there's jerks in every profession. It's always the jerk-offs that make the rest look bad. Ya know?
My dad got pulled over by a young cop for speeding after passing a log truck on a 2 lane highway many years ago in his 300ZX (it was brand new & he lives in a pathetic little po-dunk town). The cop told him straight up, "If you can afford a car like this you can afford a ticket." My dad called in on that one. What a jerk. It's not that he didn't think he deserved the ticket. Technically he did. That kind of attitude isn't necessary. My dad is a 24 year USNavy veteran and at the time worked in a paper mill. Yeah, he could afford the car and a whole slew of tickets but that's because he worked damned hard for it his whole life.
Troopers here will stand under overpasses where cars pull thru slow in the turnarounds. They pick people off one after the other for seatbelts and inspection stickers.
You're totally right, police are subject to the same traffic laws all of us are unless they are running code to a call/emergency. If they're running fast they are supposed to have lights & sirens on. Glad you called that one in. That's dangerous. I love when cops are flying down the highway well above the speed limit without lights & sirens on because I'll fall right in behind 'em and zip along with them. If I get a ticket he will, too. Right?
No doubt boneheaded stuff cops do won't make it to the news if it can be stopped. I could tell some tales about some of their antics. Info is closely controlled in so many aspects. Generally the news people want to stay in good graces so they can have a good working relationship. No story about a boneheaded cop might get the news people a dozen other great stories vs. publishing a story about a boneheaded cop and nothing else.
Dad 2 M & M
Well-Known Member
Where did Atlanta rate? Has to be near the bottom!! I travel the Southeast, including Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston, Nashville, Birmingham, and Montgomery; I have to adjust my driving when I leave Atlanta!! Turn your blinker on in Atlanta, someone will cut you off!! The other cities I mentioned, most drivers will slow down and let you merge when use your blinker.
And my pet peave is those who drive with their hazard lights on when it is raining!!
sweetpee_1993
Well-Known Member
Has anyone ever experienced this maneuver? Zipping along on a multi-lane interstate, fairly heavy traffic. The person in the car next to you is impatient and wants over in the lane you're in. The car starts to ease over or sometimes swerves over like they're coming over on you so you jam on the breaks to avoid being hit which creates the perfect spot for them to get in your lane like they wanted. It's not accidental. You've made eye contact with the driver several times prior to and during the maneuver. They know you're there. I fell for that once on the Causeway bridge that crosses from New Orleans to Mandeville over Lake Pontchartrain. Every single time I've experienced it since I've held my ground. Of course the other driver doesn't like that I know this game. It's the little things that bring a bit of sunshine to your day...like totally ing off a driver trying to pull the old swerve-n-go routine and failing. LOL!
maryszhi
Well-Known Member
when they do not use a turn signal and nearly cause an accident. Also the person who drives super fast in the rain and again, nearly causes an accident. being from chicago we have some of the worst drivers, however, i do have sympathy for tourist who are scared out of their mind trying to figure out how to do the parking garage with all the loops and turns that have multiple entry/exit points that are blindspots.
HAH! Loving the responses to this!
Here's a couple more I thought of from my own collection:
Here's a couple more I thought of from my own collection:
- There are two lanes, one is a right turn only, a huge line of people in the left lane - The dolts who decide to use that right only lane as a passing lane and then wonder why I refuse to let them in. You are not better than everyone else who is patiently waiting to move forward in the correct lane buddy.
- Big sign that says "no turn on red" and you turn on red and wonder why the car coming over the hill that you couldn't see nearly hits you.
- Big sign that says "U-Turn Yields to Right Turn" (i.e. you can't do a u-turn at a left arrow unless the people on the cross street who have a right arrow have cleared out) and the dolts sit there and nearly hit you and give you dirty looks when you're that person trying to turn right and getting nearly killed by the u-turner.
miles1
Active Member
Great thread! Thanks for letting me vent:
1. Toyota Camry.
In the area that I live, the people who pilot these rolling roadblocks are ALWAYS incapable of driving more than 20 miles per hour, obeying stop signs, staying in their lane, or paying attention to what they're doing. Invariably they'll cut you off exiting a parking lot or gas station, then proceed at 15 mph in a 25 or 30 mph zone. Each time I get behind one of them I just know my 15 minute drive will turn into a 30 minute ordeal.
I don't know why these moronic drivers are attracted to this particular vehicle, but the next time you're about to reach road rage, take note of the model of the car causing the problem.
2. "Slammed" Hondas
I cannot understand why anyone living in New England would think that lowering the ride height of their car to 2 or 3 inches off the ground is a good idea. These guys nearly elminate all the suspension travel on the car and replace the muffler with a tomato soup can thinking it will make their accountant-mobile Accord go faster. We have potholes here that swallow small dogs and rail crossings that are like driving over a monorail beam. This means that these jokers have to slow down to 5 mph and weave all over the road to avoid ruining their car on nearly every street. They also think that they have to wind the motor all the way up to the redline before shifting, with the aformentioned tomato soup can for a muffler, for added ambiance.
1. Toyota Camry.
In the area that I live, the people who pilot these rolling roadblocks are ALWAYS incapable of driving more than 20 miles per hour, obeying stop signs, staying in their lane, or paying attention to what they're doing. Invariably they'll cut you off exiting a parking lot or gas station, then proceed at 15 mph in a 25 or 30 mph zone. Each time I get behind one of them I just know my 15 minute drive will turn into a 30 minute ordeal.
I don't know why these moronic drivers are attracted to this particular vehicle, but the next time you're about to reach road rage, take note of the model of the car causing the problem.
2. "Slammed" Hondas
I cannot understand why anyone living in New England would think that lowering the ride height of their car to 2 or 3 inches off the ground is a good idea. These guys nearly elminate all the suspension travel on the car and replace the muffler with a tomato soup can thinking it will make their accountant-mobile Accord go faster. We have potholes here that swallow small dogs and rail crossings that are like driving over a monorail beam. This means that these jokers have to slow down to 5 mph and weave all over the road to avoid ruining their car on nearly every street. They also think that they have to wind the motor all the way up to the redline before shifting, with the aformentioned tomato soup can for a muffler, for added ambiance.
Todd H
Well-Known Member
Here's a couple that happen in my small town all the time...
I hate people that jump into the middle lane and either sit there until someone lets them in or cruise in the middle lane and force their way in. The middle lane is for turning morons. It's not a merge lane.
I also hate the people that are at the light turning left and as soon as it's green they gun it and cut off the people coming through the light. I hit an old man once that did that. Light turned green, I started driving, and he turned right in front of me.
I hate people that jump into the middle lane and either sit there until someone lets them in or cruise in the middle lane and force their way in. The middle lane is for turning morons. It's not a merge lane.
I also hate the people that are at the light turning left and as soon as it's green they gun it and cut off the people coming through the light. I hit an old man once that did that. Light turned green, I started driving, and he turned right in front of me.
luv
Well-Known Member
Atlanta was 161.
