I see it all the time. These are the times I really start thinking about getting one of those train horns

 

Or a very large sign that says, "HANG UP AND DRIVE!"

 

"Hang up and drive" is polite, around here, we see "shut up and drive" on bumper stickers.

Of course, our lawmakers have made it illegal to use any hand held device while driving a couple years back, but it doesn't seem to stop the soccer moms from yakking holding something up against the side of their head.

It's to be expected with 37 million in our state, more than half of them drive, with a good portion of them in the southern half without a license, insurance, current registration, or the ability to read "stop" unless it's spelled "alto".

Though what burns me up the most is seeing folks buying food at the market with food stamps talking on their new Apple I Phone smart phones, while waiting in line at checkout. Pretty retarded if you ask me.

 

Yea, Me too - I drive the interstate between here and San Antonio - a lot and see the folks talking/texting slow & speed up all the time...

Cell Phones have their place when out on rural highways (uncrowded) but not on some of these busy - "Suicide Alleys"

My favorite - "Lead, Follow or Get the Hell out of the Way"

 

I sure miss my blue FJR!! I love the wing...but miss the cornering clearance of the FJR.

 

Did this yesterday except the young woman was TEXTING while driving! I gave the horn a good blast and waited for her to compose herself. I followed that up with a wagging index finger and a disapproving look. She gave me the sorry-it-won't-happen-again look back. As far as I'm concerned, the total cost of the train horn was repaid in that one instant.

 

"Composing herself" = Changing her shorts !!!

Next time we want video (or it didn't really happen)

 

What about the drivers who pull out in front of you and hit 0-60 in 10 minutes (seems that long...).

 

I'm sure he has the video....just needs to edit it down!

 

Wouldn't he be a hypocrite if he took a video of scaring a girl for texting.

 

I figure "Epic Productions" has some high class - vehicular mounted camera system that is hooked into the train horn switch to automatically film reactions from vict... I mean subjects.

 

Ha ha ha... that was a good one. I need a Google Street Maps car camera, it sees everything...

 

Passed a F150 driver a few weeks back driving way to fast down a small road with speed bumps.
He had both hands on the top of the steering wheel (driving with his wrists) typing on his phone with both thumbs while going over the speed bump at no less than 35 (I bet that was fun).
I was approaching the speed bump and all I could picture was this F150 smashing into my truck but he must have been a professional driver texter and he seemed to handle the bumps well.

I do talk on my phone while driving from time to time but I don't like it.
Texting while driving scares me.
One because I can't do it and two, I don't want to kill someone.

 

Yeah he's like the McGyver of these trucks.

 

Thanks for the great stories. Unfortunatly there all true and thankfully no one was injured due to the ignorance of others sharing the road with us. My story takes place at about 9pm in a raging snowstorm in the mountains of southern British Columbia. Me and my buddy are driving home after a weekend of late season archery (dec10) hunting. I am doing about 60km/h and being careful of the trecherous road conditions. About 15 min outside of Grand Forks i come up behind 3 cars doing about 40km/h. I slow down and fall in behind as i am in no hurry in these conditions. I mention to my buddy that the car in front of me seems to have awfully bright headlights(hes 3rd car in line). Here comes the oncoming traffic and low and behold the car at the front of the line hits his low beams and so does the guy in front of me. Cars go by and once again the guy in front of me flips on his hi-beams. This goes on for about 45min until the next town when the first 2 cars pull off the highway(towards the local pub?) when suddenly this guy in front of me slows to 20kmh and continues at that speed for the next 20 min. Well i know this highway well and feel comfortable and safe doing 60kmh in the snows. So when we come up to the nice long sraight passing lane i try to pass him and guess who wants to speed up now. So i slow down and pull back in behind him aaaannnddd he decides to slow back down to 20( at this point my buddy is pissing him self laughing). Down the road we come to the next passing lane and i try to go by again and he speeds up again. Crap. i slow down and back in behind him again. At this point i start to understand how road rage can start. And here we come to another passing lane(oh boy), Well the snow has let up and i can see farther up the highway and tell buddy that im going around this guy cause when he ends up in the rhubarb i dont want to be anywhere near him. I speed up and pull out he speeds up 30....35....40....45... now im finally beside him 50 oh good passing him. Made it by him and im doing 60kmh and remember the high beams? Yep still on and hes on my a$$ now. I flash the cargo lights on the headache rack to let him know his lights are really bright. Nothing happens. Well the snow starts picking up again and hes staying glued to me with high beams on. Now im getting frusterated as i can barely see from the snow in front and the searing white light from behind. I decide that if he wants high beams on he can lead, So i slow down and signal that i am pulling over i get down to about 10km before he decides that he should go around me. I pull back in behind him and he stays at ......wait for it ...... you guessed it 20kmh. I do 60 hes glued to me, he leads and drops to a crawl. My buddy in the passenger seat say " well youve been nice for the last hour and a half light him up and get away from this a-hole" Well light him up is a set of aircraft landing lights, 6"-100w kc's, and high beams. (this is where i belive one would say road rage). So i light him up and he doesnt even twitch. I speed up to 60 and creep by him (cause he wants to speed up again and high beams still on). Once in front i speed up to about 75 and finally start pulling away. Once I was aways in front of him and around a few more corners i slowed back down to 60 and relaxed. What is normally a 2 hour drive took almost 5 hours but we made it home safe.

I dont say what i did was the smartest thing but i didnt want to be around when the other guy screwed up.

After reading all the other stories it comes down to " You cant fix stupid"