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If I can get someone to give me a dime every time I say “IT IS NOT NECESARY TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP BEFORE TURNING RIGHT” I will be a millionaire in ten days.
Also: What the hell is it with the people who cannot find their fucking accelerator until twelve milliseconds before the light turns red? You drove slow JUST so you could make the light and make me miss it? Seven times today, in the six miles between the expressway and my office.
Assholes.
And the hypermilers who refuse to speed up on the entrance ramps. . .
And yeah, the slow-asses that finally pay attention to the traffic flow pattern just in time to leave you sitting at the light. You are a god, sir.
Please let everyone know that driving with your emergency flashers on in the rain or fog or whatever is illegal and stupid. Emergency flashers mean you are stopped on the side of the road. If in a white-out situation, who the hell knows where the traffic is moving and stopped? Idiots.
People are daydreaming when they drive. I see it all the time. It is also not necessary to take a right turn at 5 mph, but they do that anyway. It is, however, necessary to come to a complete stop on a red light before you turn right on red. These same idiots then take left turns at 20 mph, “cut the corner” and almost clip your driver side bumper as they enter into your lane at the end of their turn.
Then there are those fucktards that go around you in the right lane, then force you to slam your brakes because they have to make the right turn right in front of you.
You’re supposed to turn on your flashers on the highway if you’re going 40 mph our slower.
The hypermilers are all fucking morons. The gas they save is offset by the wear and tear on the tires, wheels, steering control, chassis, etc, caused by the stresses involved in taking turns so fast that their tires screech. I hope they all fucking crash into a manure truck, eat shit and die.
Kill them all.
I’m with you on the lights-in-the-rain issue. I pulled over on 465 this weekend because it was pouring down rain with visibility nil, and maybe one in 10, one in 20 cars had their lights on. I was terrified I was going to rear-end someone.
Also, don’t change lanes without signalling and then honk when you find me (having signaled) already trying to take up the same space. And don’t drive 55 in the far left lane because you’re talking on your cell phone. And don’t slow down when everyone behind you is itching to get past that huge honkin’ semi. And don’t …
AUGH my blood pressure.
Here’s what I hate.
I was backing out of a handicapped parking space in front of Lowe’s last weekend (Sally has a busted foot so we’re abusing Mom’s handicap tag for the moment), and I had very carefully checked my mirrors and looked behind me and all that good shit before I shifted into reverse…
…and some son of a bitch in a pickup truck honked and whizzed by me at about 20MPH. RIGHT IN FRONT OF LOWE’S. IN THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AREA.
Good thing I wasn’t carrying that day, or that fucker would have been missing his back window. And maybe his head.
BTW, Joanna, I am convinced that truckers slow down on purpose when they pass each other. They’re whipping along, speeding, doing 70MPH with the four-wheelers, and then suddenly one of them decides to swing out and pass. Then they all drop to 60 or whatever the truck speed limit is until he does.
I call it the truck game. I do not appreciate being a member of the audience.
In Florida, emergency flashers are for just that: emergencies that have brought your car to a stop.
Slow-moving vehicles are illegal on the highway, as we have a minimum limit. It does no good to have a minimum limit if you’re going to allow folks to drive under it with their flashers on.