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Road Rage; what gets you miffed while driving?
Topic Started: October 5, 2008, 12:34 pm (166 Views)
Silverwing Wolf
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I was heading home from the pictures today and when joining the freeway some moron (who didnt even notice me on the slip road) was matching my speed.

So that got me miffed.

what gets your miffed while driving?
anything you have seen?
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As George Carlin said, "Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot; anyone driving faster than you is a maniac."
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Optimal Optimus Primal
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I could go on and on with this one. I didn't use to have road rage, but the more I've been driving, the more it has been growing inside. :lol

Running red lights. I see it EVERYwhere. A camera should be on EVERY stop light, as far as I'm concerned, not just the major intersections so whoever runs a red has their license plate photographed and are ticketed in the mail.

Rolling through stop signs. I'm so sick of people rolling through stop signs. Stop means STOP, not yield. It isn't hard to come to a complete stop and take turns if it's an all-way stop intersection.

Cutting people off is constant. I HATE it when I'm driving down the road, there's NO ONE behind me and the guy who has to stop at the intersection pulls out in front of me (either he's stopped or just rolling through his stop sign). :mad1 Why couldn't he or she WAIT for me to pass?! Now I have to hit my breaks and slow down before I rear end them. And what's worse than that? They TURN at the NEXT intersection! I think that's probably the one that happens to me most, and I can't help but honk my horn anymore and tailgate.

Get off your cell phones, people! It's bad enough you can't drive well without talking or texting on your phone, so put it away or pull over!

Watch out for motorcycles!

And pay attention! Drive, don't day dream. Look at your rear view mirror, watch your blind spots, look both ways twice when you're at a stop sign, when the light is green look both ways before you go and look for speed limit signs and No Turn On Red signs. I hate it when people honk behind me when we're sitting at a red stop light waiting to turn right. Uh, hello, I'm not turning until it's green because there are clearly TWO signs that say "No Turn On Red!" Duh!

I'm not perfect but my clean driving record speaks for itself so far. I'm so sick of stupid, inconsiderate and selfish drivers. And I think I'm done my rant now. :foflol
Edited by Optimal Optimus Primal, October 5, 2008, 6:11 pm.
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Drivers on the phone
Drivers on the phone
I'd like to pick a bone
With drivers on the phone
If you just hang up and drive
We might get home alive
Menace on the road

There's a looser on the phone
His mouth is running like a drone
Pick milk up on the way
Get Timmy to his play
My safety could depend
On gabbin' with your friends
Drivin' on the phone

This girl is talkin' to her man
They're makin' dinner plans
She ran into a van
And hit a homeless man
If you just hang up and drive
We might get home alive
Morons on the road

Drivers on the phone
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John Aversin
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I don't mind folks that either run red lights or don't stop. I work nights, so I often find myself on the road when most normal folks are asleep. I simply refuse (unless there's a cop behind or adjacent to me) to sit through a whole red light cycle when I am the only one on any of the intersecting roads as far as the eye can see. Same with stop signs. Sometimes you're in a hurry and, barring a few really difficult to see spots, you can usually tell when approaching a stop sign whether its necessary to stop all the way or not.

I simply abhor the idea of cameras on street corners. Big brother has already eroded privacy in this country (world) down to almost nothing, so I can't applaud something that further takes government and sticks its nose into my business. I know its public business, being the road and all, but it goes back to personal responsibility and driving safely. If person A is driving safely/defensively, then 99 times out of 100 that will make up for person B being an idiot. That 1 time out of 100...we call those accidents, and they happen.

My biggest problem is when you are on the highway, or interstate, and people get in the passing lane and don't pass, but idle next to whoever is in the right lane, thus blocking anyone from passing. Its called a passing lane for a reason. Move over, and I won't ride your tail like a maniac. You wanna go slow? Fine. But do it outa my way.

That is all.
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Well... here's something to remember and think about (and I'm not saying that I never swear at the other drivers, because I get road rage too)

If you think of it, how many times to you go 'oops, sorry' or think 'whoops, that was a little too close' or do some other bonehead maneuver in traffic. It might not happen a lot, but then think of how many people you see in traffic on a daily basis. Even a once in a while occurance, when multiplied by the sheer numbers, suddenly jumps up the possibility of you seeing these small errors in other people's driving.

My point is, though you may think the other people are crazy, bad drivers, maniacs, often (and granted, not 100% of the time) you are just seeing a small mistake in the 2-3 minutes of your contact with that one person. It may be the only thing they've done all week, all month, or heck, all year. But now you're swearing and getting angry at them for how horrible a driver they are.

Next time you do some little mistake, and think doh, that was silly of me, and grin and wave at someone (who probably doesn't see that) realize that you just became a horrible, horrible, terror on the roads in their eyes.

What am I saying? Think of this and try to summon a little more patience with people on the roads, because they are people. Sometimes they don't see you, sometimes they were momentarily distracted, and sometimes, yes, they are just bad drivers. However, they are people, not machines, and they are (hopefully) trying to do the best they can out there.

All your anger does is make you more prone to follow up with a similar bad mistake, or raise your blood pressure and make your day a little worse off than it was. To them, they just made a stupid mistake, and probably already feel kinda dumb for doing it. In the end, your anger only hurts you.
Edited by Roadbuster, October 6, 2008, 9:54 am.
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I don't mind folks that either run red lights or don't stop. I work nights, so I often find myself on the road when most normal folks are asleep.


That can be understandable considering the time you work. However, I work day shift, so on my way to work it's the beginning of morning rush hour and after work, it's the middle of rush hour. This is when traffic is really active and heavy, precisely the time when people shouldn't be running lights or stop signs, but they do. I don't understand why everyone is in such a rush. A few years ago, on my way home from college, I pulled up behind a few cars waiting at a red light at a busy intersection known to have many accidents. Most of us in line were waiting to turn left. When our light clearly turned green (which means the other lights are clearly red), a guy coming from our left ran his red light and t-boned the first guy in our line who was just pulling out to turn left. It's a tricky intersection because the people to our left were coming down a hill that's also somewhat of a blind turn. But there's a sign in or after that turn that tells you when the signal is red, warning you ahead of time to be slowing down. Well, who knows what the guy was doing that lead him to run the red light, but the guy in our line should've looked both ways before he went as well. It's "when green, if clear, then go." Not "when green, go." I don't think anyone was seriously injured, thank goodness, but both cars were a mess, and everyone sat still for a while.

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I simply refuse (unless there's a cop behind or adjacent to me) to sit through a whole red light cycle when I am the only one on any of the intersecting roads as far as the eye can see.


I can only agree with that if you're on a motorcycle that can't trip the sensors if the light isn't timed. Otherwise, no matter what time of night (especially during the times the drunks are out, something I'm 100% against), I stop and wait. Knowing my luck, if I decided to run it, I'd get pulled over by a cop. :disgust :lol

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My biggest problem is when you are on the highway, or interstate, and people get in the passing lane and don't pass, but idle next to whoever is in the right lane, thus blocking anyone from passing. Its called a passing lane for a reason. Move over, and I won't ride your tail like a maniac. You wanna go slow? Fine. But do it outa my way.


Ah, I agree with you, John.

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My point is, though you may think the other people are crazy, bad drivers, maniacs, often (and granted, not 100% of the time) you are just seeing a small mistake in the 2-3 minutes of your contact with that one person. It may be the only thing they've done all week, all month, or heck, all year. But now you're swearing and getting angry at them for how horrible a driver they are.


I rather like your point of view on that, Roadbuster. Thanks. Although, I still have to say, when it happens to me day after day after day, morning and evening, it gets old real fast, whether it's the same driver or not from the time before. And most of the time it's at intersections where they can clearly see if anyone's behind me. I just don't see the sense in it, especially if they're making a turn at the intersection. Why couldn't they wait? And if they couldn't slow down to stop, then they shouldn't have been speeding up to the intersection. Blind intersections are the only times that I can understand why people pull out in front of me because those are the only times I embarrassingly pull out in front of others. You just can't see until you've creeped out half way into the intersection. And then I waste gas trying to accelerate quickly enough so as not to annoy them anymore than I already have.

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To them, they just made a stupid mistake, and probably already feel kinda dumb for doing it. In the end, your anger only hurts you.


Or they were oblivious to the whole thing and have no idea what they just did, which really irks me sometimes. Am I invisible? :rolleyes I love it when (as seldom as this happens) a person makes a mistake and blames ME for it. Say what?!

Then there are the times, more often than not, when someone slow is front of me and I can't pass them (which I rarely do anyway because I'm on a lot of secondary roads) or someone causes me to stop or slow down when they cut me off, I just think to myself, "There might be a reason why this happened. The person in front of me might have just saved my life or indirectly avoided a possible accident that I might've been involved with simply because they made me slow down or because they're the first in line now." I never know. If they hadn't done it, then something might've happened to me or someone else. That usually calms me down. :drop It's another way of looking at it for me.
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One of my pet peeves is when someone comes barreling up on you from the LEFT lane, crosses dangerously close in front of you, and then turns RIGHT, or vice versa. They seem to think it's a great tactic to come up in whatever clear lane they can find then force you to brake because they need to move over to get to their turn, when all they really have to do is come up on the turn in an orderly fashion.

When i lived in North Carolina, one woman did this to me a couple of times at the same intersection. The third time, i saw her coming, and wouldn't let her in. She gave me an evil look and had to drop back and change lanes behind me (where she should have been anyway) to get to her turn.

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One of my pet peeves is when someone comes barreling up on you from the LEFT lane, crosses dangerously close in front of you, and then turns RIGHT, or vice versa.


That is rather annoying, and dangerous. I don't see it too often but I'm not on the major highways all the time.

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When i lived in North Carolina, one woman did this to me a couple of times at the same intersection. The third time, i saw her coming, and wouldn't let her in. She gave me an evil look and had to drop back and change lanes behind me (where she should have been anyway) to get to her turn.


Huh. Good for you! That reminds me of a time when I was approaching a four-way stop on a back road and heading down a blind hill toward it. The SUV behind me had been tailgating me the whole time to the previous three-way intersection (even though I was 5mph above the posted speed limit of 35mph) and decided to be impatient and pass me on the blind hill just to get to the four-way (Quicker or before me? It was dumb either way) and then go straight where as I was turning right anyway and wouldn't have been in his way after that. About a week later, I noticed the same pair of headlights ride my tail end up to the same three-way stop intersection. As soon as I started to go, he simply rolled through the stop sign and I thought, "He's going to try to pass me AGAIN!" Which is dumb because you can't see the opposite traffic coming over the hill before it's too late. I watched my rear view mirror and saw the SUV's headlights starting to leave my view. Completely unnecessary. So, I moved over toward the opposite lane and blocked him. He had to move back over behind me in our lane since we were rapidly approaching the four-way stop. I went right and he went straight. I don't think I had seen him again after that morning. That's just reckless and dangerous driving. There's no need to do that on a road you aren't supposed to be speeding on. Maybe the guy was late for work those two times but that's not my fault, so don't be making things harder for the rest of us on the road who wake up on time. If you're late, you're late. Either get there safely or don't get there at all.

Just this morning I was sitting at a three-way intersection with a traffic light. My light was red and I was waiting to turn left. When my light turned green for at least TWO seconds already, some guy blows through his red light from my left. Coming from his way, you can see down the road at least 1/4 mile before you get to the light, so the only way I can comprehend why he ran his red light is that his eyes must've been closed. I can't figure any other excuse. For my light to be green, his light was already red for a couple seconds after it was yellow. Luckily, I wasn't far enough in his way to come near to hitting me.

The other thing I really hate, probably most of all than the worst driver out there, is the potholes. Where do my taxes go? Why do so many roads have potholes for YEARS before they're finally fixed right, or the whole road is completely redone? I remember blowing one of my tires on a pothole I couldn't avoid because a car was coming from the other direction and the only way to miss it is to swerve to the opposite lane because the road has no shoulders, just deep ditches. I had to replace my tire AND my 17" rim that was cracked because that pothole hadn't been repaired right for several years. Do you know what really got me mad, though? The whole road was repaved the very NEXT week. I could not believe it. I kind of thought, "Gee. Maybe someone else should've paid for my car's repairs because that road should've been redone YEARS ago." If it had been, then I wouldn't have had a problem and wouldn't have had to spend the money. I just think it's ridiculous to be taxed when nothing gets done in a timely manner.
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When my light turned green for at least TWO seconds already, some guy blows through his red light from my left.
That's a problem around here. If you're the first, or even the second, car at a light, you have to be VERY careful no one is running their own light.

Now, to add to that problem, many of our roads are two and three lanes in each direction so there's usually a car next to you. If you can't see past that car so you can see what's coming, don't be the first one into the intersection; when a car runs HIS red light and skims past the front of the car NEXT to you, you're the one who's going to get broadsided and never even see it coming, or maybe you'll both get hit. It happens a lot.


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you ever drive down a slip road to join a freeway and someone is driving right next to you neck and neck not even noticing you on the ramp?
There are times I feel im gonna be in some big pile up due to someones idoiotic ways.

You ever wonder how these sorts of people ever got their licenses.
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sure, that happens around here. They figure they have the right-of-way and ignore you, unless they feel that you're going to move over as if YOU don't see THEM. :lol

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Potholes. Michigan in the middle of winter is quite possibly the worst stretch of roads I've ever been on. And not the interstate, but the local roads in Lansing. I was actually looking forward to the next freeze so that they would ie over and, even though it'd be ice, it'd be a solid sheet to drive on.
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