Sadly, this is standard driving procedure here. I have lost what little faith I had in the human race.
Yep. Lots of people here donāt know how to handle a zip merge. You get idiots right on your tail and then not slowing down, or speeding up to get in front of youā¦ grrr.
Yep, this happened to my wife last night (I was a passenger). The other driver seemed to take it as a personal affront if anyone tried to move into āhisā lane as as he did the same thing to 3 other people (that we saw). One time he literally got within 6 inches of the other carās bumper before backing off.
And aimed at that driver:
Itās not a competition to see who can get there first (thatās called a race and itās done under controlled conditions), nor is it a competition to see who is the biggest d&*k (if it was you would win that hands down).
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I worry sometimes that Iām that jackass doing the speed limit when everyone else wants to go much faster. But Iām not doing it in the left laneāand my seatbelts, like the rest of the car, are 43 years old.
I havenāt been in a hurry since before Afghanistan. If no one is shooting, it just aināt that serious.
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I can agree with that, wholeheartedly.
You know, when itās during commute hours, the middle lane is now the fast lane. Either get up to freeway speeds, or move over.
Yes, there is snow on the ground. It is more important to maintain a consistent speed and direction than a slow one. Going 40 and changing lanes like an Indy car driver is not driving safely.
P.S., 4WD may make it so you can get going fast, you have just as much traction as anyone else when those four tires lock up on snow packed on top of ice.
PPS, yes, thatās a fucking idiot in a ditch, and those are police lights, weāve seen those before here, just keep driving along and weāll all be ok, unless you want to be the idiot pulled over on the side of the road with another car up your tailpipe and police lights behind you.
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Bad weather excluded, if you are going more than 10 mph slower than the rest of the traffic, you are not being cautious. You are causing a traffic hazard.
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If I find the ijjit that decided it would be a good idea to put that obnoxious beeping noise on vehicles that are usually backing up at 2:00 AM in the morning, theyāll be carrying his remains to the morgue on a cotton swab.
If you are doing 10 under the speed limit on a single-lane road, do NOT plant the boot and do +20 when an overtaking lane appears and then drop back to -10 at the end of it. You really, really, really piss me off when you do that.
Before I forgetā¦ Do you see all those little parking bays marked āSlow Vehicle Bayā?? F**king use them and let the rest of us past.
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[quote=āViking, post:62, topic:686ā]
You really, really, really piss the whole world off when you do that.
[/quote]Fixed that for you.
How about you wait until youāve actually overtaken me before you try and change into my lane you moron.
Hereās a clue: If you are overtaking me and you canāt yet see me in your mirror then you are not far enough in front of me to safely change lanes.
Well, if you hadnāt been on their road in the first placeā¦
If they werenāt spending so much time on āovertakingā and more time on āpassingā, they could use that time spent on two less syllables on getting in front of the other car faster.
(begin snarky discussion about differences in languages in 3ā¦ 2ā¦ 1ā¦)
See those speed signs just before the corners? Theyāre advisory signs. Which means you can go through the corner a fair bit quicker than the sign says.
Following you through the corner at (posted speed / 2) just pisses me off. Especially when I know I can do it at (posted speed * 1.5), and the little shit-box of a car in front of you just did it at (posted speed * 1.25)
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Nahā¦ We know you Americans weird speak. No need for another flame-fest about it. 
Drivers who do that are often also the ones who speed up during passing lanes.
There is a special place in hell reserved for them.
A police officer can ticket you for going over that speed if he believes you were being unsafe.
Which means he can ticket you whenever, like right meow.
Your car is worth probably 10 times what mine is, do you really want to play chicken like that?
I didnāt blink when you ignored normal merging procedure and tried to bully your way in front of me, what did you think was going to happen when you deliberately swerved into my lane after the road widened out? Iām certainly not going to be making any sudden movements with a trailer attached to the back of my car.
Incidentally, my wife had her phone out and was preparing to dial the police emergency number if you had actually hit me.
This road has many lanes.
This piece of lane is mine, and mine only.
Please do not use my piece of lane.
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