Originally Posted by oh4-f350

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"

Originally Posted by kper05

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.

Originally Posted by juneau92

I tried texting while driving ONCE. I was on the freeway, clear day absolutely no traffic nobody around me, front or back, or either side. So I thought "It's Okay now". So I looked down, quickly typed a sentence, sent it, and then looked back up to find I had moved THREE LANES OVER!! Lesson learned, never again.

Originally Posted by juneau92

I tried texting while driving ONCE. I was on the freeway, clear day absolutely no traffic nobody around me, front or back, or either side. So I thought "It's Okay now". So I looked down, quickly typed a sentence, sent it, and then looked back up to find I had moved THREE LANES OVER!! Lesson learned, never again.

Originally Posted by oh4-f350

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"