Last Saturday must have been a full moon...I had to drive to Winston Salem from High Point. I HATE driving to Winston, because all of the drivers there are completly insane. Anyway coming back that night on a 2 lane highway, there is a white car in the left lane and a Ford Focus in the right. Going the same speed :mad
I got in the left hand lane and got close enough behind the guy to get my point across, but not close enough to be dangerous. After like 3 miles the f**cker hasn't moved yet :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I turned my brights on (my driving lights are upgraded too). This must have really blinded the guy, but the trouser stain still refused to move! :mad :mad
Finally the guy gets over, and the Ford Focus cuts me off and gets in front-and the two cars are going the same speed again!!!! :cuss :mad
At this point I am pi$$Ed, so I get really close to the guy, who starts slamming on his brakes. He finally gets over and I pass...then he starts flashing his lights at me!! :skep:
Of course at that point I am GONE :D
ARRGH, I was mad!!! :boxing
Anyone else have stories to share?

 

I try not to get too fired up while driving, its just not safe. Not to mention pointless at the end of the day. Ive come to realize that there are idiots on the road everywhere. :yesnod:

 

Oh I do, but none that I could post here without either getting kicked off, or arrested for. I have no patience for stupidity on the roads... I, unfortunately, have a problem with road rage.. I'm signing up for anger management tomorrow :reddevil


EDIT: But the weird thing is, I'm always so happy to be out in the Vette, that my frame of mind is completely different then when I'm in my truck. The ONLY thing I can't tolerate are people who feel the need to ride my **** so close they can see the color of my eyes..
:smash:


[Modified by JB666, 10:38 PM 4/10/2004]

 

just take a deep breath tell them there are number 1 and pass them :chill: :auto:

 

I sometimes have to fight off road rage too as I don't suffer stupidity well. I tried anger management one time. How'd it go you ask? It just pissed me off............

 

I also suffered from road rage, long trip home in rush hour then the last streach of open road and some moron cruzin well below the speed limit. Used to really get me :mad :mad :mad Lifes to short to always be steamin mad plus doesn't get the guy in frount of you to move any faster. So now I just try to relax and know I'll get home later than sooner and there's really not much I can do about it

 

hehe, when I first got my car a while ago, I followed a C5 down a sideroad for a bit, because he blatantly ignored my wave...actually looked over at me, saw me, then looked away... :mad

No harm, no foul...he did end up waving though...

Ive calmed down since then, to say the least....but anyway, some people can be real morons!

for instance!

on Thursday, I was coming home from school, on a 2 lane road, Speed limit is 45.
It 1 lanes just up ahead, and the beater van in front of me is struggling to meet 40..so I check mirrors, pull out and get around him, pull back into the lane that gets merged into.

Up ahead, just before the merge, there is an offramp from the interstate (I-10). I see a car pull into the opening in the middle divider, waiting on traffic. Then I see an old longbed dodge pull up to the edge of the road, coming off of the interstate. He must not have seen me. Though Ive got my fogs ,and parking lights on, and im red...Im close too! I can actually make out his head! Anyways, he apparently thought that the car was going to go, so he decides to pull out behind them...blocking the whole road, except for about 1/2 of my lane...

I get on the brakes, and feel the right front break free, let off a bit to regain control...then try and put the car straight through the opening behind the truck...Made it through..but barely! If I had my arm out the window, It would have been ripped off by his tailgate...

As I went past him, He never looked at me...in fact, I doubt he knew I was there.... :bb

The beater behind me ended up jumping the 6" curb and getting into the side median...

Stupid TOOL could have hurt me...or worse, messed up my Car!!!! :eek:

 

You should have gotten out, ripped the guy out of his van and proceeded to smash.. Wait... Wait... I am a kinder, gentler person.. I will refrain.. I have self control...

 

I try to let stuff on the road just slide off me. But admittedly sometimes people do things that can only be deliberate, that they are doing to f**k with a guy in a nice Vette. Like yesterday. Out in the Vette, top down driving with the bride in the co-pilot seat. Going out to eat as preamble to the night together kid-free since the boy was staying the night at a friend's house who was having a birthday bash. In a really good mood, but at a stop light this d**khead in a dark blue 03 or 04 Chevy 4x4 p/u truck starts tailgating me. At the nexct light I'm stopped and I literally thought he was going to bump me he was so damn close. Not 'object in mirror' close, but I cranked my head around and looked back and he was like a foot away at best. I feel myself getting pissed, which pisses me off even more because I don't want to get pissed, but you know how that goes. I mean, there is NO WAY he can tell how close he is to actually bumping me due to his angle of view past the end of his hood, being so much higher up in the truck than the back of my Vette is :mad: I let if slide off and just motored on when the light changed, nothing dramatic. But he's still gating me down the road. Next light, same story. So I adjust my rear view to wear I can see his face clearly and he can see me looking at him and, although i should not have let myself fall victim to his stupidity, i did and I said F-ING AZZHOLE deliberately exaggerating the mouth movement just in case he had any problems reading lips, because we were eye to eye at the moment. My inner child was controlling me and I probably would have welcomed a response from him, but there was none and he backed off from that point on, and our turn off eventualy came up and he didn't follow.

But, whenever I react that way to another's stupidity and/or testing of me I feel disappointed in myself.

Perhaps this post is therapy though. No next time... yeah, that's the ticket. No more letting them upset me.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: That's a good one.

 

Say a little prayer...Lord give me patience & PLEASE HURRY! :)

 

Hey RED....I remember that story well... :D ...got quite a few folks stirred up.....glad to hear you have calmed down.... :thumbs: Even if its just a little... :yesnod: :lol: :flag

 

Now, how would you feel about yourself if his entire goal was to **** you off, which he obviously succeeded at doing quite admirably?

You have to learn to turn the tables on these types of drivers. As soon as you succumb to anger, then have the upper hand.


Case in point.. I was following some ***** in an Infinity on a two lane road. He was yakking on his cell phone and weaving in and out of the lane. When the passing lane appeared, he straddled both lanes. I flashed my lights at him a few times to wake him up, and blew past him near redline... and waved my hand out the window at him, (not flipping the bird), and made swerving motions with my right hand in the rear view mirror.

The fool became enraged, and thought he'd chase me down. LOL! Chase me? I stepped it up to 90mph in an instant, passed a few more cars, merged back in line, and then turned off on a side road. He followed of course. So I slowed and waited... he lurked behind me like a puzzy. I stopped and waved him down.. finally he pulls up beside me, his face turning red, like he's about to pop. Cursing and yelling,

"What the hell is your problem?"
"You. Why don't you hang up the phone and move over when there's a passing lane!?"
"I saw you flip me off, so I thought you were trying to pull some s**t on me."
"I didn't flip you off. I was just trying to pass you. You were weaving all over the road like a drunk."
"Oh. Well, I thought you flipped me off."
"I know we're all enemies out here... just relax and stay in your lane. And you didn't actually think you could have caught me do you?:lol: "

Anyways, we departed with a virtual handshake and laughs. Who had the upper hand? Don't ever get mad. :yesnod:

 

Serenity now....serenity now......but as Loyd brawn says serenity now insanity later.

My case and point.....I will be driving down and I do get the tailgating thing too. It seems that people like to mess Vette's for some reason.
What I like is when they come up on me to do that. I drive off and they start to ride up on me and I can watch there eye's go to the left of my plate and see the FOP badge. Problem solved :thumbs:

 

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That's why I have a daily driver... When I'm in the Caddy I have the, "go ahead and hit me" attitude... I'm a lot calmer in the Vette because it's a weekend only car and I control when I'm out as far as time and traffic load...

 

I am always running across some fool that has nothing better to do than poke along in my way, and then when I try to get around them they get a stick up their ---! I wish all I had to get mad about was some one who has somewhere to go faster than I do. I've actually had numerous incidences where people get so bent out of shape that they chase me or yell at me. If you are in the D--- way MOVE!!! :cuss

 

:iagree: I have a serious problem with road rage. :sad: But nothing gets me like a driver who hangs out in the left lane... just because. That is the worst. Last I checked, the left lane is for passing. So, I try VERY hard not to hang out in the left lane, and ALWAYS try to stay out of the way of faster traffic. Just my .02.

 

Oh those slow ***** in the fast lane are all over here in Florida. I just don't understand the fascination for driving in the left lane. I always stay in the right lane no matter my speed unless I'm cruizing through Louisiana and the Right lane is simply unbearable to drive in (those who drive down I-10 know what I'm talking about).

During my last road trip back from Louisiana I was about 1 1/2 hours from home (I'd been driving about 11 hours at this point and am getting tired) and I just got through an hour hold up do to a bad wreck. After traffic pretty much starts to get back to speed everyone slows down, speeds up, slows down...I'm dying here. After about 20 minutes of this I come to find out there is a slow butt Land Cruiser poking in the left lane and everyone is having to make their way around. When it comes my turn I pound'em with the highs. He won't move...pound'em with the highs again. Nope, he still won't move over. Of course I find a hole, smash the gas and make sure to cut in front of him (with out being too close) so that he knows that I wanted by. This jerk off then speeds up (it takes him like five minutes) then tailgates my butt till I have to hit the gas and leave him again. I never saw him again. I hate that. How do you not know your holding up traffic, then have the gaw to get pissed when someone tries to get around...oh well life goes on.

 

If road rage tends to get the best of you... the first thing you should do is check yourself....

Always move over to let others pass, be the first to dim your lights, and just make room for everyone else out there... :yesnod: My goal is always to help traffic flow more smoothly.

I'm willing to bet, that for every driver I **** off, there's five more that I just made the drive easier for. :blueangel: