[rant on]
Why the hell do I always hear this while driving through a neighborhood? I go the speed limit and even under sometimes, yet someone always yells at me to slow down. And these people yelling, "slow down!" speed though the neighborhood all the time and I have even seen them run stop signs. Just because my car may be louder than theirs does not mean I am speeding.

I got fed up yesterday when a middle aged mom yelled at me to slow down. I didn't slow down at all. I stopped and had a little conversation with her. I explained my story and how I wasn't speeding. Then I let her know that I have seen her speeding through the neighborhood in the middle of the day. Her reply: "Well, watch out for children." :rolleyes: [/rant off]

 

people are just stupid

 

:yesnod:

 

People just assume Corvette's are always going faster than they actually are...I have people tell me to slow down all the time, and I try not to speed in the vette ( I don't need more tickets )

Kate

 

I have people tell me top slow down and I'm parked :cheers:

 

Yeah - the "public" suck - wouldn't this be a great place to live if it weren't for all the people?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

OK, here come the flames, but I'm one of those middle age guys that yells "slow down!" a lot. My threshold is pretty high-the standard I use is if the car gets airborne at the rise in the road beside my house, I get vocal. :cuss

The point is-they shouldn't yell at you if you are doing the speed limit, but if it is anything like my neighborhood, they are probably sick of having people use their subdivision as a NASCAR track. Maybe you were unlucky enough to be the last car (looking like you were going fast, but not) in an all-day parade of ricers, pickup trucks and SUVs flying through a quiet neighborhood, sending kids, pets, joggers, runners, etc. flying in every direction. I can't count the number of times I've had a Chevy Subdivision clip my curb at 60, being driven by a tiny housewife with a cell phone the size of a chicklet crammed into her ear. The ones that were unlucky enough to be confronted by me usually don't do it again-a change in their driving behavior, at least in my neighborhood, is the goal.
Yes, a good many of the offenders were neighbors, and once we had a friendly chat after everybody calmed down, they have always been much better at observing the posted 25 mph limit.

So-on behalf of "slow down" yellers everywhere, I apologize for your unjust chastisement. We occasionally have a lower threshold than we should.
Please, just SLOW DOWN in the neighborhoods. The speed limit is not necessarily a license to do up to that speed-keep in mind the presence of pedestrians, kids, pets, school buses, etc. I'm one of the world's nicest guys, but run over my wife or my kid or my cat, and the excuse "but I was doing the speed limit" isn't gonna cut it! :mad :cuss
And, as always, after you are out of the "hood" and in a safe place, light em up!
Thanks for letting me rant,
Mark

 

 

I just told a guy to slow down tonight! Of course I was walking my dog and he came around the corner on what seemed like two wheels! :mad You know it usually doesn't bother me that much, but the sun was setting and if I'm in the street, if anybody is in the street DON'T SPEED!! :yesnod:

Sometimes you just have to ignore the ignorant people......

 

Well, that is a downfall of a Vette I geuss...but I could handle that if I had the pleasure of owning a Corvette.

:cheers:

 

I know how ya feel, happens to me all the time and I am very cautious around the neighborhoods and drive the speed limit, especially when kids are around...but it pissed me off a few weeks ago when some middle aged mother yells at me to slow down and i was behind another car and doing the speed limit on top of that! I was pissed. Do these people lose their brains after they have kids? I was behind another car..duh! At least yell at the guy in front of me too...sheesh. Next time some middle aged woman does that im gonna give her a reason to tell me to slow down. :mad :nonod:

 

In my neighborhood, 30 mph is too fast. I usually drive 15-20 because there are toddlers playing in the street. :crazy:

Parents hear a car and start to go grab their kids until they see it is me. :rolleyes:

Backyards are for kids, streets aren't.

 

people are idiots. She tells you that and she probably dose 60 mph. in her suv around the neighborhood.

 

nope, she is one of those minivan soccer moms. she flies around with little kids in her car :nonod:

 

Probably all bouncing around with no seatbelts on too! :eek:

 

Those are just bored miserable fckn' people with nothing better to do than fck with others. I would have told her thats she's not a traffic control officer and to mind her own business. People like that are a serious nusiance b/c they distract drivers causing a potentially dangerous situation.

 

One of the worst offenders in our neighborhood is the school buses! I have clocked them at 45 mph in a 25. When you call to complain, the district just snickers and says, "Sure".

Rich

 

Cap'n Rich,
If school buses are a problem, you might want to try what I did...
A fight occured on a bus my son rode (he wasn't involved). One kid struck another so hard that the kid that was hit was knocked out, and suffered a broken jaw and fractured cheek. The bus driver drove off, with the kid laying face down, out cold at the bus stop after he fell off of the steps of the bus.
When the principal of the school failed to return several phone calls, I called the superintendant directly, and spoke with him. He wasn't familiar with the circumstances, but promised me an answer within 30 minutes.
Lo and behold, 10 MINUTES later, I got a call from a very helpful principal, who explained that he had placed the incident under investigation, and would keep me informed of the outcome. The next day he called to let me know that the driver had been fired and that the kid who injured the other kid had been arrested for assault (he was a 19 year old 10th grader :mad ).

I said all that to say that sometimes ya gotta go right to the top of the chain of command.
Hope this helps,
Mark

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: . The age and grade tells the whole story... Some tough-guy druggie gets mad about some nice guy' comment, and beats the crap out of him. Stupid people...

 

Funny story, I had the same problem in my neighbourhood, some little geek in his daddy's mustang convertable used to light the tires up evertime he rounded the corner. The biggest problem was the fact that you can't see over the hill halfway down the street and he would almost get air as he flew over the top. One day I heard him coming, while i was watering down the soil i just spread in my front yard, stepped out to the side of the road and flaged him down. The stupid kid actually stopped and says "what's your %^%^% problem" , well after i fired off about 5 gallons of water into his and his buddy's face there was a long silence until i started laughing at them. Well they don't come round anymore, can't say I miss them :D