Things you wish the other driver could hear, v3.0

As far as I know, anything 50cc or smaller is classified as a moped.

Trying to remember, but I think Michigan required 150cc for the highway - any highway. In other words, not allowed to drive on dirt-road, middle-of-bum-fuck-nowhere, State Route 50-miles-from-civilization-and-running-water.

It’s funny when that actually happens. My stepdad used to drive a Ford F150 and he would totally do that to everyone. Now he drives a Chevy Impala and gets pissed off when people do it to him. My mom takes great joy in laughing when this happens.

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Gee, Mister Andretti, what brings you to this town?

Another a$$hole sniffer. This time in a truck.

I’m so going to put a windscreen sprayer on my car’s rear bumper, and when some inconsiderate tries snogging my car’s beafter, will start spritzing water…

… or vegtable oil?

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Or paint stripper…

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…or brake fluid

Buhuhahaha

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I got hit by one of those from a guy driving a minivan 35 mph in a 55 zone - with no-one else in sight. I dared to pass him, so he passed me and let go with his rear window sprayer.

I don’t know what he had in it, but it took some doing to get it off my windshield.

I would have lost control of my vehicle and hit him, and then when his vehicle stopped I would have accidentally punched him in the stomach until I saw his breakfast.

Or, just sighed and dealt with it.

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My friend is addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time he wants.

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Driving with a cell phone against your ear isn’t smart and is illegal in many states. Driving inside a parking garage with a cell phone against your ear is even stupider.

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I’ve watched someone reverse out and through the retaining barrier of the second floor of a multi-storey carpark because they were fiddling with their phone. At least it was handy for them to call a crane to get them out of the tree outside…

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No, you don’t have the right away when you stomp on the accelerator to get to the intersection faster than I can complete my left turn.

And I did not get dive-bombed seven times today.

Stop making stupid lane changes like this. All of you are causing traffic problems when you do this, and this is already a spot that causes a bottleneck on the highway due to the onramp less than a mile previously.

If you’re in that far-right lane where you’re forced to make the exit, do not move one lane to the left only to take the exit anyway via the optional exit lane, as shown in the red path. Likewise, don’t follow the blue path. You’ve got at least a half mile more where you can decide which of the exit lanes you want to be in.

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Just because there are two people in your car doesn’t mean that you have to be in the carpool lane. This especially applies if you’re going exactly the speed limit, and the cars in the other lanes are moving at that or more too.

In a lot of places in Indiana the blue line would cut into the far left lane to go around the red car, then zip in front of the red car to get into the far right exit lane, all while trying to slow down from 80 to 65.

Then 500 ft farther on they realize this isn’t really their exit so they get in the left exit lane to take the entrance ramp back to the highway, where they’ll ride the entrance lane until the broken down van in the emergency lane forces them to merge, at 45 MPH into a 70 zone.

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Woman drivers in biggencars sniffing a$$, yo.

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We used to have a driving tips thread a few years ago, so I guess this would go in there.

If you’ve got a semi that’s been close behind you for a while and suddenly they’ve dropped back a ways, you better get ready to stop. Those drivers sit higher than you do and they’ve probably seen stopped/slow traffice up ahead that you can’t see due to the car you’re behind.

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Also : if you’re on a long downhill, remain behind the semi that’s in front of you. Especially when there’s lots of traffic on the road.

You never know when you’ll need to make a sudden stop, and a sudden stop with a semi behind you is not a good idea…

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Please don’t use those stupid exhaust pipe splitters. They look ridiculous and they can actually impede airflow, so they do the reverse of what real multiple exhausts do.
And if you insist being stupid, please at least make sure that the split is hidden underneath the car. Having a 3-4 inch extension just makes you look like a wannabe.

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