DON’T fucking stop in merge lane, assholes. Bring your car up to highway speed and MERGE – see how that works?
DON’T change lanes in the middle of the fucking intersection. This is specifically directed to all you idiots who take the outside lane from Horseshoe Lake Drive to Chain Lake Drive (Cops apparently don’t enforce this particular little driving rule). And yes, when you DO cut me off because of your illegal and ridiculously erratic driving…I AM the guy who refuses to make way for you. Fuck you, go ahead and sideswipe me.
DON’T fucking sit at the traffic line when you have the green light on a left hand turn. Go ahead, princess – take control of the intersection. THAT way, maybe two or three others behind your sorry ass might be able to make the light too. I realize that you probably got your license in some back road little Nova Scotian burg before moving to the big city of Halifax where there IS traffic, but your ignorance is not only irritating, it may actually kill someone someday. By stopping the flow of traffic on a busy two-way street to let someone cross the road, you’re not only disrupting the orderly movement of traffic, you’re going to get someone killed. No, you’re not being kind or polite, you’re being fucking ignorant. Driving is a privilege that you have to earn – and you haven’t. —AngryGuy
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
Great points. All of these are also my biggest pet peeved on the road
the first don’t is the worst, and the most dangerous. why am i in third? aarghh
Thank you OP. PS – the cops now ‘hide’ just below the entrance to the former Courtyard building with their radar gun. Worst times are the start and end of the month when they need to meet their quota. We watch them from out offices.
Dude- perhaps you just need to chill out. I get it too people can’t drive, but no matter what you’re doing there is someone who sucks at it. When I get filled up with rage I just remind myself that I am lucky to be able to have a car and drive.
I hear ya, OP. IN particular, your point about folks stopping traffic to let people cross the street is spot-on…I’ve witnessed lots of close calls with that one.
Most of the time I think like the OP, but I wish that most of the time – hell, all of the time – that I thought like Woot. Because until we as a society come down on bad driving like the Wrath of God things will never change. And there’s too many of us who know that if standards became sufficiently strict to address this problem that they wouldn’t be on the road either…so it’ll never happen.
So given that, rather than stroking out, it’s much better just to adopt an attitude of gentle, forgiving pity when you drive. Think about it – what’s the point in getting angry at frightened imbeciles? It’s not like they can help themselves.
“go ahead and sideswipe me” …I hope OP won’t do that…it will hurt or you might die. Not worth doing that only to prove the other driver’s lack of safe driving skills.
“forgiving pity” excellent rid…always accompanied by a deep breath and a sigh
“I pity the fool”
Well, I used to pity but then I switched to amusement and laughter. I laugh at them and keep a distance. Pity didn’t work for me too well, I felt like an arrogant asshole. Laughing makes me feel better knowing that I can find humour in every situation.
Ya know it’s a tad difficult to merge when there is no opening to get in, nomatter how fast you’re going.
And Seb, there are no quotas no matter how much you’d like to believe. That’s not to say they set up radar/lidar in problem areas.
OP …for a second I thought I wrote this !
I too find it irritating that so many assholes feel they are ‘being nice’ to someone while being an asshole to the 5,10 or more people tied up behind them because they don’t know the damn rules of the road.
Nice Bitch.
… and I bet you’re fecking Jesus on the road.
I certainly hope not because whether the OP is male or female, a radical re-evaluation of their belief system is in store for millions of people. *Squak*
Forget about it. You think stupid Haligonians who can’t drive (90 percent of the pop) actually READ let alone READ the Coast???? Please. They live wit their head up their arse, in the land of impunity and stupidity. You can either cope or do what I did: get rid of your car and walk. It’ll add 20 years to your life.
Walking won’t add 20 years to your life, especially in Halifax. 😀 But it would definitely help if you need to lose 20 lbs from your thighs.
So how does getting rid of my car add twenty years of my life? Please explain. Also consider the fact that some people who drive also exercise and workout on a regular basis.
Good point Juggernaut. I live in Forest Hills area of Dartmouth, and would not be able to efficiently get around without a car. Does that automatically take away 20 years of my life? What an ignorant to say. I work out 3 times a week, and am probably in better shape than most “walkers”. Think outside the box for once…
I was waiting for this car to pull out of a busy parking lot. I had my blinker on indicating that I was about to pull in. After the car pulled out and took off, there was a truck that was already parked behind her and just pulled ahead to park making me go around the bend and take his old parking spot. WTF. What did he accomplish? My wife gave him the finger and as we stepped out of our car he blew his horn at us.
I love it when there’s a flashing left turn signal and the idiot in front of the line doesn’t turn, and no one behind them uses their horn… so usually the flash ends (mind you even if I’m like 5 cars behind I always lay down my horn). It’s bad enough that many people on the road don’t know how to drive, but they also don’t know how to use their horn either!
Sigh… no wonder I have road rage lol
the willow tree is tough for the stupid bags of mostly water. too many lights, too confusing, they become mesmerised and don’t do anything