So true, the law is "slower traffic keep right" so regardless of if you are speeding or not if someone is going faster you should let them pass. Theoretically you could get a ticket for not letting people going faster pass you, but that isn't exactly an easy law to prove... especially if you are both speeding.
Anyone else notice it's mostly the older fockers doing all the bad driving? I think it's because their first cars were like those Ford Model T cars or something. You know...the ones where they had to hand crank to start the engine. lol It's almost always some really old guy or gal in the fast lane who, once you pass them, you look back at them and they are totally clueless. Unfortunately, they seemingly dominate the roads. I hope when I get older...I still obey the rules of the road and don't end up as some old geezer driving 50 in the fast lane with cars stacked up behind me a mile long. I understand we have to get old but isn't that what the right lane is for?
I also don't like it when people pull out of a parking lot onto a street with a relatively high mph limit (say 40 or more) into the lane that you are driving in....WHEN THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT HAD NO CARS TRAVELING DOWN IT. Now I have to switch lanes or slow down to a near stop while you slowly accelerate. All you had to do was look up the street and choose the unoccupied lane...but you couldn't do that. Anyway, that's all I got.
We know that's the law. It doesn't matter. The point is the speeders deserve their car being keyed just for the the stupid ******* speeders.
That's annoying. Another one is people who tailgate you when you're in the middle lane.. I've actually had to point at the passing lane to get them to move. One trick I'll play is I'll keep my foot on the accelerator and then lightly tap my brakes. Scares the **** out of them.
Again I say...the fact that it is a passing lane does not give someone justification for speeding. If you are going 95 and catch up to me going the speed limit and I don't move over so you can pass, well maybe I was in the wrong for not letting you pass. But you know what, you were in the wrong first for speeding. Now I may be in a nice mood and just let you pass. But if anybody gets up on my ass when I am already going over the speed limit, well they can just suck it cause (depending on my mood) I'm not conceding jack s**t. In addition to most everything said here, I'll add that the people who don't put their carts up where they belong and instead put it behind my truck so I can't get out or put it in the middle of a space... Well thank you for wasting my time having to move it.
I have something similar to that. You are going down a highway and no one is behind you yet some dickweed HAS TO PULL OUT IN FRONT OF YOU. It is like they can't wait 5 seconds for you to go by and then pull out since there is no one in sight that was behind you in the first place. Now, it is not too bad if they actually move their car at a decent speed - I can stomach that. But most of the time that doesn't happen - these stupidasses go at the speed limit or slower. That really boils my blood - that is probably the one thing that annoys me more than anything else about driving and other drivers.
some mother fu)ker always hogs up way too much space right next to me in the parking garage. I can barely get out. He does it over and over again. Not to mention all the random cars that are parked there all the time. I swear Ive seen a Focus, Suburban, Camry, Jetta, Lexus, and maybe one or two others. He's probably a drug dealer, because I dont know anyone that cylcles through cars that quickly.....
I love doing this after someone has been tailgating me. "I only get to go 10mph over the speed limit" Boo-freakin-who, next time don't tailgate *******.
Q: What about the cars covered in pro-whatever magnet ribbons with an ad as well asking you to buy them, as if you are a lower person for not damaging your car's paint job as a show of support? A: Perhaps you'd like a key mark to go with your debris scuffed magnet silhouette? And no, I don't want a GIT-R-DONE TROOPS ribbon. If I want to support a comedian, and the troops at the same time I'll give to the USO. Q: Or the person who swings the door of their 1976 Cadd L-Dog into your car to see if the paints will exchange, and could care less because they used their insurance money from the '03 hail storms to get a system and rims? A: Perhaps you'd like a bright silver, deep penetrating, key mark to go with your new chrome 24's? You's a playa now, money. Yeah. Try Maaco this time. Oh, and by the way... that Jensen manual eject button CD player and 4"x6"'s you got from Wal-Mart in a blister pack is not a system. Q: Or say, the guy who's do-it-yourself-in-the-yard (seemingly in a rain storm) painted "camofluaged" mudder truck, covered in grime so thick it touches the city limits from here parks so close to your child's door, while you're standing there with it open trying to get your child from inside the car to a shopping cart in 30 degree weather without ruing your clothes or theirs before dinner, and then gets out, ignores you, and walks towrd the to-go door talkin' bout "them boys can't hang" in his best ghetto on his Tracfone while his girlfriend listens to Paul Wall unedited, unsuitable-for-a-3-and-6-year-old at full, ear bleed level? A: Perhaps you'd like a key mark across your "natural" look to ensure that the deer, or hog, or panther, or whatever you're trying to fool into believing your truck is "natural" into actually spotting you and your can't-decide-if-I'm-a-redneck-deer-slayer-or-eminem self? As if they wouldn't smell you from miles away with that "Stetson" mixed with "Adidas" cologne concoction that your girlfriend made you in the chlorine drenched meth lab. No wonder you go muddin'... Meth addicts usually like everything spotless. Have you seen your girlfriend? Not only is she deaf, but you're blind. I really can't see keying a moving vehicle as a successful venture. As an alternative, try the rush of keying an occupied parked one. Don't worry, it can be hidden... just make sure the little golf cart security doesn't spot you. Actually, I wouldn't recommend doing anything of the sort, because I'd hate to be on the receiving end.
WOW.. that was good stuff there, I liked the part about the muddin guy, I knew a guy just like him in highschool..
This goes up there with my favorite threads off all time because so much of it is TRUE!! Some of these things, I was just so sure I was the only one who thought this way about them. Well I was wrong! Other people do have dumbasses pull out in front of them and choose your lane, causing you to slow down, when the others are empty, and you have nobody behind you. Other people do get tailed when they're already going 10mph over the speed limit! I could go on and on, but instead I'd like to tell a story..... I'm sure it's happened to us all a few times. Your coming up to a red light with 3 lanes, 1 left turn lane, 1 lane to go straight, and 1 lane to go straight or turn right. You need to go right, and there are 2 cars in front of you, the first one is sitting in the middle lane to go straight. The second suddenly decides they want to be at the front of the pack because being behind 1 car is just too much, so they pull into the right lane, cutting you off. Of course they're going straight, so now you get to sit through all of the lights to go right, just so they could move up 1 spot. Pugs
The caption is great! Top Ten Reasons Kirsten Dunst Deserves Handicap Parking 10. Kirsten is thespially challenged. 9. Kiki forgot her broom. 8. Spidersense says: Limo not coming! 7. Kirsten caught the crazies from Tom Cruise. 6. The peroxide has melted her brain. 5. When you drive a hybrid you get to lecture people, key SUVs, and park wherever you damn well please. 4. She's just been told Legolas is the prettier one. 3. Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked her in the nads. 2. When it rains and you're wearing suede boots, all bets are off! 1. She's tired of carrying around all that teeth.
I drive about 70-75 mphs, and I think that is a bit too fast, but when I drive that, i usually drive that in the far left, or middle lanes. I hate it when they ride my bumpers so what I do is slow down a bit gradually, and usually, they will move over to the middle lane. They then move towards the middle lane, and that is when I speed up again. There will usually be a car in the other lane, and I would drive the same speed as the guy next to me pinning that car behind both of us. In Houston, there is this place that does this. It is on I-10 heading west towards Katy. It is before the 610 Loop. The far right lane is going to close, and there are plenty of signs saying right lane is closing, and signs on the pavement saying to merge, yet cars continue to drive, and I always drive fast as I can so they get pinned up agaisnt the wall, and force them to slow it up. But, I hate it when there is traffic, because half of us is already merging, and then there will be idiots that will zoom real quick, and go all the way to where you cant drive anymore, unless you want to drive into the wall. You know where this happens the most? When people turn onto Westheimer from the 610 loop going in to the galleria. I think they do this because either, they are assholes, or are trying to get to the left hand lane to make that left on post oak, or which ever street it is. This also happens on Shephard. When you are going south on shephard, and make a right on Allen Parkway. You don't have to wait to merge to get on Allen Parkway. You got your own lane if you look to your right, and see that your lane doesnt merge. Hell they even have a sign that says you don't have to merge into the same lane. This also happens on the feeder roads. Like for example, When you are going 40 or 50 mphs on the feeder, and there is some idiot who decides that you know, they'll slow down so they go ahead and turn, and when they turn, they ****ing turn so god damn slow!~!@~~! You have to hit your breaks and ****. I hate that, I hate that, I hate that. I espcially hate it when I look in my rearview mirror, and I see nobody behind me. It's like, what, you couldnt wait til I have passed to turn? Also, what if there are people behind me driving 40 or 50 mphs, and they don't see me brake cause they are doing something else? My bumper just might get ****ed. And when they do turn, and they don't accelerate, that pisses me off too. And I look to my left, and I see a bunch of cars coming, and I can't go around that car. I ****ING Haaaaaaaaaaaate that !@! asddamnit. Yup. That sucks. If you change lanes, have a ****ing purpose. Yeah, pretty muched summed it up earlier. I hate that ****. If you only rear-end a woman, she won't come up pregnant. Damn Hollywood. Driving a Prius isn't going to save the world.
Concerning the 'Left lane is for passing', this is my view: If you are driving the speed limit in the left lane, and passing slower traffic in the middle and right lanes, you are under no obligation to move out of the way for someone who wants to speed. The whole purpose behind that law, or whatever it is, is to prevent a blockade of cars who like to drive side-by-side at the same speed, and generally F-up the traffic on the freeways. Likewise, you should NOT pull over from the left lane, and have to SLOW DOWN, JUST to appease a tailgater in the left lane. We want to keep traffic moving smoothly, which means NOT blocking lanes, and NOT slowing down unnecessarily. These actions have a chain effect, that can slow down a freeway and screw it up for hours. The same thing applies to insisting on flooding a lane that is going to merge a bit down the road. Everyone has to race to the front, and create a huge bottleneck in that area. If everyone merged as soon as they could, traffic would move much more freely.......but no, people are too stupid to comprehend these things.
