What in sam hell is WRONG with people?

[Rosemary2205]

They just really need to scrap the car names and come up with the "Battering Ram", "Bulldozer", "Aggressor", "Intimidator". Bejesus people, ping ponging through 6 lanes of 70mph traffic at 90MPH and running up on people until you are a foot from the bumper is just idiotic. Get home 40 seconds later already.

:rant:

[alfredo]

1. That was you? Sorry

[2rth2pwr]

2. Mine says "Smashing Machine".

[mak3cats]

3. I'm not usually up so late at night (I'm Eastern time)...

...but I haven't heard the phrase "sam hell" in years! Both my parents used it, and I had the misfortune to lose one of them in 1980, and the other in 1997 (and I'm still under the age of 50). Thanks for giving me a laugh! (Besides, you sound just like me in traffic. My rant is, "If you're in such a god-damned hurry, leave home earlier!")

[Rosemary2205]

8. Yep

I'm eastern too. Should be sleeping. Maybe why I'm so grumpy. :)

[spag68]

4. Those people may be on your road

However, the "Intimidator", went to a racetrack far away a few years ago in Daytona. You should drive the Long Island Expressway during rush hour just to get some prospective.

[Warpy]

5. Longest parking lot in the world!

I do NOT miss driving back east, not even with the bozos in the penis extenders camped on my back bumper out here.

[Rosemary2205]

9. I thought that was I-75

Around my neck of the wood the people with the penis extenders are mostly tall thin blond women with the blue thing in the ear. - and definitely need to trade in the "Excursion' for the "Bulldozer".

[magellan]

6. Tell it, sister

I stay in the slow lane whenever we take the I95 in FL, doing 72mph, and we count the packs of cars that fly past us. Damned dangerous with all the bumper riding and zipping in and out they do (competing with each other, not to get around us).

What is it with traveling in packs anyway? We just tootle along. Rarely have to slow down or pass others. My greatest fear is one of the speed freaks wrecking and taking us out too.

[man4allcats]

7. My advice? Hit the brakes!

They'll die never knowing what they ran into. I've done it, and it got me killed (and yes, the satisfaction was worth it!). I'm writing this now from the Far Side.

[canetoad]

14. Flick on the hazard lights

and watch in the rear view mirror. Works a charm.

Edited to add: Of course we don't have roads full of aggro people who may or not be armed. Don't try this at home.

[KT2000]

10. It is getting downright mental

out there.
Some new things I have seen:
*passing someone (me!) on the freeway on-ramp
*when cars pull over for ememrgency vehicles, the cars from the back speed up to get past the forward cars
*passing with the intention of causing the on-coming car to veer off the road.
It really is getting out of control and there are a few road rage murdered people to prove the point.

[tkmorris]

11. I have a "Dodge" "Ram"

I think the car companies are already on board with your suggestion.

[flor de jasmim]

12. I remember my first experience driving the LA freeways...

I was pretty worried, arriving at LAX during rush hour, wondering whether I would be able to figure out the highway system and read the signs in time, etc. I soon discovered that traffic was moving at SEVEN miles per hour! No need to worry at all!

:rofl:

[warren pease]

13. Well, I kind of like my...

... brand new 2008 GlutcoWerks SuperSecs V-16 AutoErotix All-Terrain Aggressivo 4-MPG Combo SUV/Armored Troop Carrier with optional pivoting mini-cannon.

In fact, you'll have to pry the steering wheel out of my cold dead hands if you think I'm going to stop terrorizing my fellow motorists at every opportunity.


wp


And for the irony challenged:


:sarcasm:

[Donnachaidh]

15. ahh -- a typical day on the i-75 in Atlanta!

I used to think Los Angeles drivers were rude and aggressive, but Atlanta drivers have them beat. If they are not ping-ponging across lanes, they are riding people's bumpers trying to force them to go faster - even if the car in front is already doing 20 miles over the speed limit.

And NOW we have the law that allows people to carry concealed weapons! Hot DAMN -- I cannot wait to hear Sonny's explanation of what went wrong after the first bumper-riding hothead decides he'll get them slowpokes moving faster by firing his gun across the ass-end of the car in front. :sarcasm:

[Rosemary2205]

17. Yep

I'm counting the days. (no sarcasm)

[tomreedtoon]

16. Never get between a pickup driver an' his BEER!

In Orlando, the worst drivers EVER are the guys driving pickup trucks. They have no excuse to own these gas-guzzlers. They aren't hauling fertilizer or furniture. They just drive them because they're "country cool." And they're the most rude and intrusive drivers in America (I wouldn't try to rank them against the French).

And the worst time to drive is Friday rush hour, when these guys are breaking every law of the land, and some of physics, in an unstoppable rush to get away from work and get to their BEER! (Although the tend to pronounce it "ba-aa-aare." Takes too much jaw movement to make that "long e" sound.)

[hack89]

18. I want a Pious with a heavy duty smug filter. nt