Road Rage
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I can't tell you how many glares I get for this, sometimes the dummies like to pull out into your lane to try to stop you, especially last fall after football games on I35 south of US 20. Up here in MN, they actually post signs after the first road construction sign that say "Use Zipper Merge in Backups" then the final two merge signs.
As ****** as I might get I am not going raging. I just try to go all Frozen like. :smile:
Guy cut me off bad and I flipped him off. He came to a complete stop in the left lane of I235 during rush hour and started getting out of his car. Can't believe it didn't cause an accident. He only got about half way out and all the honking and ****** off people I think persuaded him to get back in. Scared the crap out me.
Honk at me, flip me off, whatever, I ain't flipping back and I am not stopping to fight.
The crazy mother****ers up here in the Twin Cities are the only thing that actually gets me thinking of getting that carry permit. Seriously dangerous dudes driving around up here. The crazy one who will try and drive you off the road or follow you to get crazy.
The crazy mother****ers up here in the Twin Cities are the only thing that actually gets me thinking of getting that carry permit. Seriously dangerous dudes driving around up here. The crazy one who will try and drive you off the road or follow you to get crazy.
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My brother used to live in the Dallas Metroplex. One day he was coming home from work and a guy started following him - apparently thinking my brother cut him off or something. When they got in his neighborhood instead of going home, my brother floored it and eventually lost him in the maze of streets and alleys. Finally my brother came to the end of an alley to see the guy go by and out of the neighborhood holding up his handgun for my brother to see.
Yes, you need to be careful.
Yes, you need to be careful.
McCully in Honolulu northbound trying to get on to H1 West every single day. It's a two lane road with a ton of stoplights. You need to be in the left lane if you're taking the interstate, because the right will branch off into a neighborhood. Being it's always congested and there's so many stoplights, you have to plan on traffic so you don't get caught in the middle of an intersection. Yet people will zoom up in the right lane and cut you off at the intersection. Every ******* day I get stuck in at least one intersection because of this crap.
Some stupid lady passed both me and heilsquavador while we were in a combine and grain cart going around 45 mph curves. Completely blind to oncoming traffic. That's about the only time I've ever been mad, it really does no good and makes you a danger to everyone else on the road whether they deserve it or not.
I had this happen a couple of times. I used to commute to work (long story on why) about 80 miles one way and I'd be driving home after midnight most nights on this winding road. A couple of times on this drive, I would catch up to a car that was taking the curves slower than I do (I set the cruise control and never hit the brakes for the curves). So I pass the guy on a straightaway or try to and he speeds way up as I try to go around. So I pull back into my lane and he slows way down to about 35. when we get to a straightaway again, I try to go around him, but he speeds way up. I pull back in my lane and this time he slams on his brakes, trying to get me to rear-end him, but I just move out around him. He then speeds up again. This goes on like this for a good 10 miles until he gets bored and finally just takes off.
Like I said, this happened twice on this same road and I have no idea what set him off. Maybe he thought I was tailgating? But I think the more logical explanation is this was a ********* who was just out driving slow, waiting for someone to come up behind him so he could play with them.
Like I said, this happened twice on this same road and I have no idea what set him off. Maybe he thought I was tailgating? But I think the more logical explanation is this was a ********* who was just out driving slow, waiting for someone to come up behind him so he could play with them.
anyone that is flipping people off and ragin on the road need to ******* chill.
I get flipped off often for blocking traffic on the interstate so trucks can make a hill. I just smile and wave.
I get flipped off often for blocking traffic on the interstate so trucks can make a hill. I just smile and wave.
I don't really want to start the debate, but there is one stretch of road on my commute where I have opted to take the street rather than the bike trail (glorified sidewalk) in one direction. When I am coming home I cross multiple side streets from the right on that bike trail. I have numerous times almost been hit because people come up to the stop sign, look to their left for traffic and turn right without ever looking right. Despite having the right of way I have only avoided getting run over several times there by slowing to the point I can stop if they don't look. I've discovered that I am much safer riding with the somewhat sparse traffic in the lane of traffic.
I take the bike lane in the other direction because I have only been almost hit by traffic coming up behind me and turning right in front of me a few times in that stretch going toward work.
My husband is the one who gets more ticked off at stupid drivers, although it's slightly rubbing off on me.
One of his biggest pet peeves are tailgaters, especially when we're either doing the speed limit in congested traffic, or 5-7 over on fairly clear roads. If you're sitting on his bumper, he'll tap the brakes to hopefully get you to back off.
Northbound 680 in Omaha, we're in the center lane. Basically above scenario happens. Husband taps brakes, guy doesn't really back off. When he gets the chance, he zooms around us, cuts us off, and then taps his own brakes. I remember muttering "Go." as my husband pulled around him and floored it and put some distance between us and him.
One of his biggest pet peeves are tailgaters, especially when we're either doing the speed limit in congested traffic, or 5-7 over on fairly clear roads. If you're sitting on his bumper, he'll tap the brakes to hopefully get you to back off.
Northbound 680 in Omaha, we're in the center lane. Basically above scenario happens. Husband taps brakes, guy doesn't really back off. When he gets the chance, he zooms around us, cuts us off, and then taps his own brakes. I remember muttering "Go." as my husband pulled around him and floored it and put some distance between us and him.
Rather than tapping the brakes I usually just get off the gas and coast. It gets people's attention better since they don't see brake lights to react. It also gets them to go around quicker.
I used to work with a guy that I was certain would wind up on the news for road rage. He had a commute that was pretty sizable and he had a temper. he was a great employee, but I was happy when he left, for his own safety.
One day he reportedly passed a guy on the shoulder and then discarded his "chew cup" out the sun roof and onto the car behind him.
I get a little miffed at car drivers who get bent out of shape on the Mpls parkways. They are parkways not commuter thoroughfares. The paths at Cedar Lake are two-way with a bad mix of pedestrian cross path traffic. If you are biking fast it is safer to be on the parkway which is supposed to be only 25 mph anyway for cars.
Unfortunately the sense of road and path entitlement runs to both ***-hole drivers and ***-hole bikers. On Saturday I passed a gal pulling a Burley and baby on the Cedar path and the next two bikers on the path are two dudes on high end road bikes coming directly at me riding side-by-side at over 20 mph. They should have been on the road but there is a hefty bunch of these guys who think the road or path belong totally to them and that yield signs, stop signs and traffic lights do not, ever, apply to them. Side-by-side high speed bikers ran me off the two-way path at Wirth three times last summer (only crashed once and they never even slowed down although they peeked over their shoulder to see me sprawled out on the ground).
When I drive I see plenty of the bike dudes being arrogant road pigs. When I bike I see plenty of ***-hole drivers and others that just don't see you like the lady who almost ran me over at a 4-way stop on Saturday (I was on the pathway and had stopped and she still tried run to run me over as she rolled through the stop sign and turned). Conclusion, people on any sort of wheels are ***-holes?
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People always bring this up when talking about this issue. It works great in theory, but the problem is it only takes one or two *** clowns who don't let drivers in the closing lane merge into the continuing lane to completely jack up the works and slow everything to a crawl. Anyone who drives on I-235 eastbound from the western suburbs to downtown sees this happen every morning at 8th Street toward 63rd Street.
If you're going to do this, I recommend going the same speed or close to the same speed as the cars in the lane that you plan to merge into, turn on your signal and wait for a kind driver to make an opening for you. It's the drivers who go full-throttle right up to the lane closure, passing the continuing lane of traffic at a 20+ mph faster rate that **** off those other drivers and cause them to not want to let them into the lane.
I got honked at crossing an intersection (while on the trail) this week after waiting for the light to turn green and the traffic to clear, by a car making a left turn that arrived after I was halfway across the street. I also agree though, that bikers who think they can do anything are jerks and will probably get themselves hurt someday.
