So I'm in my 64 Deville today, top down, enjoying the rare sunny day here in the north east lately. Some moron in a Lexus is behind me. I'm doing maybe 30 in a 35. All of a sudden I hear a honk.. I look in my rearview mirror and I observe this jerk giving me the annoyed hand signals that I should speed up and do the 60mph this guy probably wants to go. The horn beeping is all that was needed to tick me off. What did I do? Well... 30 is waaay to fast.. lets go to 20-25 and wave at him. Nothing obscene... just wave and smile. Heh.. This guy was fuming..

Finally the road opened up to a passing lane and the guy sped past me. A few hand gestures, then the guy gets in front of me.. slams his brakes nearly sending me off the road and puts his flashers on.. then speeds off to about 65. Where oh where is a cop when you need one? That would have been fitting.

If I were in my Ford.. I don't think I would have let him pass. Plus I had my girlfriend in the car with me... Ugh, what a moron.

 

Hey, ya did the right thing man...
Let that fool floor it and have a wreck and hurt someone..
Then we see how he feels

 

...I concur, slow way down...smile, wave (all fingers) and wish him/her a great day...If they still dont get the message...ram 'em let the insurance companies sort it out

 

Na, if that was me, and I slowed down, and he tried to pass me(wow, long run-on sentence ) I'd would then speed up so he can't pass me. This tickes them off even more. The best part is smiling at them as they go by, and watching their mouth going 100MPH.
If I'm in a good mood, I'll let them pass, If I'm not, (most of the time I'm not) I make them suffer.

My favorite, is when your at a traffic light, and someone pulls next to you (namely the Civic's) as soon as the light turns green, they put their foot down.
This is NOT Indianapolis

As to where are all the cops when you need them ?
--Try the local donut joint.

 

Mil1ion, I was doing about 30 in a 35... he just probably wanted to go 60 (as most people like to go 15-25 over the speed limit around here..)

 

Ah, Now I have more info.

Me.....I like to "Cruise" too,but I just pull over instead of causing road rage.

We have enough idiots on the road these days.


Thanks!

 

I'm sorry if some nut pulled that pass me then brake hard stunt I would have used the cell phone to sick the local police on them. Get the license plate and make of car and call it in. Not "911" call but just the local number. The bored traffic patrol cops love tracking down jerks like that and ruining their day. Just a friendly community complaint is all it takes to have them pulled over down the road, that way if the nut was in a hurry then his commute just got alot longer. Thats about the only decent revenge you can take without endangering anyone, who knows maybe you even end up saving a life.

 

Actually I am on both sides of the fence. You were passive aggressive. Going 30 in a 35 is marginally rude. If I was behind you I might have more subtly have tried to urge you up to 35. When you slowed down that would po many drivers including myself.

The guy was wrong to pass and then slam on the brakes. I in 90% of such cases will just pass and maybe tap my brakes and continue on, fuming to myself. If you were blantantly a PITA, I might have slammed on the brakes, but you would have had to be very obvious to trigger this stupid response on my part.

It has been shown statistically that slow drivers are the cause of many more accidents than we thought. The slow drivers disrupt the safe flow of traffic and they often cause stupid driving behavior on the other drivers parts. I have "experimented" long ago with "drive 55 stay alive" and in the one or two instances where I tried this, it was very unsafe. People even passed me on the shoulder when I was going 55 out in the middle of no where on a 2 lane highway. In that case I was rude but following the letter of the law but I still might have gotten a ticket for obstructing the flow of traffic.

I was always taught to go near the limit, plus or minus, but most importantly go with the FLOW of traffic whatever the speed. If you can't go with the flow, get off til you can.

Your driving was slightly rude and slightly unsafe, the other guy was stupid and very unsafe.

I have done both behaviors so I can't point blame, but I almost always make an effort to go with the flow and if I am unable to do so I try to get out of the way as soon as is safely possible. Besides, I always like a speeder to run interference with the cops for me. Why play games, it is unsafe foreveryone, and even if you win, you won't really feel good about it.

Just my opinion,

Jim Henderson

 

haha, i got a fitting story, we were driving to a concert, me my friend and his brother, and this guy in a truck starts swirving in and out of our lane cutting us off, so we got infront of him and slowed him down, well he was yelling and such, and we just werent paying him any attention, well, we had to get in a turn lane, so he was screamin and hollerin at us, but the windows were closed, so i rolled the window dowon, and he was like you guys need to learn how to drive, get off the road, yada yada... anyways i was just like awwww im sorry your having a bad day sir, i hope you can make the best of it, have a nice day... kindness kills people like that.....

 

Wow, from what I have read it sounds like I was in the wrong. It's the first time I have ever seen or experienced someone getting honked at for going 3 or 4 miles per hour under the speed limit. I pretty much always keep up with traffic, which I was (there wasn't too much out that day). Traffic in front of me was going around the same rate up further ahead.

I agree with you that driving under the speed limit might be a bit rude, I wasn't in a rush to get anywhere and traffic pretty much does that rate anyways since it's a pretty populated area. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have messed with the guy.. I'll admit that. The best thing I could have done is ignore him.. maybe speed up to the speed limit (wow, another 3 or 4 miles per hour) and continued on. If he persisted.. raise the cell phone and call it in. If I were to speed up over the speed limit and got nabbed for a speeding ticket? Who won there? The cop won't want to hear about the other guy.. he probably hears that one all the time.

 

When I'm in the mood for a lazy drive and the speedlimit says 35 or whatever, I'll go that limit if someone get's behind me. If they like my rear bumper enough to ride it, I'll slow to 30 to try to encourage them to pass. Most will. On the other hand, if they pull the crap on me like that TOILEToda (Lexus = overpriced/glorified camery/corolla anyway with high priced plastic on the seats) did to you, I simply dial 911 on my cell fone and report them as a reckless driver. Around here, the cops DO keep that info on file and if there are enough complaints they contact the driver. I like making my contributions and wish more people would too

 

I fully agree with Jim Henderson. I drive on a road with a posted 50MPH speed limit every day, and its about 5 miles long, with long straightaways, curves, and side streets. EVERY DAY there is a slowpoke going 35 even 30 MPH, and it doesn't seem to bother these slow drivers that there may be other people on the road with them. Just because they have all day to get where they're going, doesn't mean other people do too. Last year a model A car drove by me on this same road going the other direction with no less than 31 cars stuck behind him! What a tool! (my old lady counted them) This behavior leads to road rage, and the smart thing to do is pull over when someone is riding your bumper. When people get road rage, they do stupid things, and people get hurt. Share the road, don't be selfish. Steve

 

I think "The Fast and the Furious" and its soon to be released sequel are the root cause of alot of aggressive driving. How often do you see some kid with his sideways baseball cap, driving some tricked up Honda with an annoyingly loud exhaust that sounds like a lawn mower on steriods - driving like a complete idiot because he THINKS he is fast, cool, etc ?
There are lots and lots of those rice rocket types where I live....they mostly just annoy everyone with their "I am fast and my care handles great" moves.
Lara (my long time g/f) and I were coming home from seeing "Finding Nemo" on Saturday nite. Along comes a Honda full of dopes wanting a drag race..........
I could have used my low mileage, one owner 1990 Mustang 5.0 LX Hatchback to put them to shame....but Lara wasn't interested...........

Comments? Glenn

 

Last weekend I drove from Anchorage Alaska to Fairbanks (360 miles) and since I was heavy in the bed I decided I'd run 55-60 (limit is 65 most of the way. I got better milage and I watched for people behind me. Most of the time they got by me fast enough. Once I piled up 5 cars (legal limit and you have to pull over) and pulled over to let them pass. Just cause I want to go slower doesn't mean I should be a PITA. Just wish other people would. But when is the last time you heard of a 22 guy driving slow. Not all of us "youngins" are bad.

On time in a snowstorm I was driving and some idiot in a little car wanted to go more than was safe. I was doing like 25 in a 35 zone and I thought I was pushing it. He crawled so far up my rear end I could not see his windshield. Kicked on the KCs on my light bar and the bumper lights and he still didn't get the idea. I turned them off and went around a corner about a mile later and he never saw it. I stopped and turned around to make sure he was ok and he asked me if Ic ould pull him out. (winch, mud tires ect, easy extraction) I told him "nope, your right where you should be" and drove off.

But one of these days I'll probably hit one of those little snot heads cause they like to cut me off sometimes coming up to a stop light. Um hello a fullsize don't stop like a car. I'm even more careful when I drive a tractor.

Tyler
95 F-150 302 5 speed
94 F-250 PSD 5 speed

 

I can't ever see getting upset with someone doing the speed limit. What's everybody's big hurry? I have a 35 mile drive to work which takes 40 to 45 minutes. I leave an hour before I am supposed to be there so I have plenty of time if I get "stuck" behind someone. But I'm not gonna tailgate or get all bent out of shape. Then invariably someone will end up riding my bumper, but I'm not gonna pull over because they can't properly manage their time. Riding up on the car in front of me is not likely to speed them up, and it puts all three of us in a dangerous situation.

As far as obstructing traffic, some of us just can't help it at times! I get to work at 4 AM and jump in my 40 ton (when loaded), 67 MPH top speed computer governed gas tanker. Where I live, beautiful southcentral Pennsylvania, there is an abundance of left hand interstate exits. Not a day goes by I get passed on the right and the "brake jamming" upset driver signalling me to get over in the right lane, among other hand gestures...or the car riding behind me, riding over the left white line flashing their lights. Hey, I gotta make a left a mile up the road and it don't go any faster!!! But if you're feeling froggy in that Acura that under-ride bumper might line up with yours, go ahead and try and give it a push!

Add to the mix that the area is one of the heaviest travelled gateways to the northeast, local attractions like Hersheypark and the Carlisle Fairgrounds (UGH...if the weather ever gets nicer lol) and some days I'm ready to just hand in my keys and go work at Walmart! I'm just glad that most of these yahoos are just on their 10 or 20 minute commute to work in their 4 wheelers and not out on the road for 10 or 11 hours at a stretch in an 80,000 pound truck!