I am SO SICK of people cutting me off when they pull out onto the street/road in front of me, when there are no cars behind me, and then take like 5 minutes to get up to the fucking speed limit, which is usually 50! Seriously, what the fuck?! If you felt that it was so god damn important to get ahead of me and out of the tim’s parking lot, then you should’ve learned to get your head out of your ass and your foot on the fucking gas pedal. It really makes me wonder what the fuck is wrong with some poeple.
—Defensive Driver
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2009.
Maybe they hadn’t had their coffee yet. You’re a caffeine junkie, OP. You know how it is…. can’t function until the addict in you is all better, right? Show some mercy
Driving bitches bore the hell out of me.
9 out of 10 people think they’re above average drivers.
What were they driving in that took so long to get to speed?? Dodge Neon?
maybe they didn’t go fast because they didn’t want to spill there coffee they were trying to sip on while reaching for a timbit. We all have been there…..
hmm, this driver cuts you off ( reluctant to hit the brakes ) and accelerates really slowly?
this sounds like you encountered a hypermiler. For those of you who are unfamiliar. This is a sub culture of people who like to modify their driving style to see how much mileage they can squeeze out of a tank of fuel. They all get together, usually in online chat boards and compare notes to see who got the best mileage.
fascinating to read about, frustrating to drive behind if you are in any kind of a hurry.
http://www.hypermiling.com/
How about the idiots on the street who stop for a red light and block other vehicles from entering either their lane or to make a left turn. If there is a car theregive it room to get out.
Lovinglife- Or maybe the person was another self-absorbed shit-for-brains that seem to be teeming around this city more and more.
Why give them the benefit of the doubt- this happens WAY too often for it to be hyper-milers… More like hyper-droolers.
I suggest a paintball gun juiced to the max….that’ll get em out of yer way!!
Guyute – sadly, your scenario is probably the most likely one.
You know how when someone in a car does something that almost kills you or pisses you off you take note of their plate number, but are always at a loss as to what to do with that stored info once the blood pressure goes back to normal? the police won’t care, you probably won’t ever see them again… here is the solution
There should be a website were you submit a drivers licence plate number everytime they do something stupid in traffic and almost kill you, then at the end of the year they count up all the complaints and the licence plate # that has the most complaints logged against it gets the drivers info, name and current address pulled and one of those car crushers show up and cubes their car right there in the drive way. A mass email gets sent out the night before so the people who submitted this guys plate numbers can show up and watch his car get crushed into pancake and yell taunts at him.
“hey buddy…last October, Robie and Quinpool, I was in the green Honda and you changed lanes in the intersection and almost clipped me….can’t so that on foot fucker!!”
It would be like car Darwinism, survival of the best drivers.
Since this would technically be a public service tax dollars can fund it. You KNOW the government has spent much more money on much more ridiculous things than this! When the think tanks in this city are having their million dollar ” think sessions” for ways to better this city I wonder if this idea has ever been tabled?
who do I talk to about this, is the Coast having another “submit you idea to make the city more livable” article anytime soon?
OP, you must be talking about Quinpool Rd. I feel your pain dude!
LL, that idea would be worth paying admission for, more than it would cost to actually crush the car.
*reminds himself to drive recklessly with 800series buses if this ever comes to fruition. Those things need junking*
The worst are the idiots who feel the need to jeopardize everyone’s safety by constantly racing ahead and cutting in front of people to get, oh, a few feet ahead in slow moving traffic. These people were no doubt conceived accidentally by contact with old dead felching sperm.
By the way, there is a number whereby you can call HRM Police and complain about a legitimate violation. They call or visit the person, get their side of the story and go from there. You may not get the person emasculated like you wish (hard to produce an impartial witness), but the call is logged and the constable I talked to said that they take the calls as serious as they can. I guess they realize that drivers are getting out of control.
Also, I remember reading years ago about a guy in the US who put red Kool-Aid in his headlight washers and turned the jets around. Do something stupid to him, and suddenly your car’s rear window gets bathed… LOL great idea.