What the fuck?!
So I’m on my way back to work today and on the 102 outbound, approaching the spot where the hwy changes to 3 lanes for exit 1A to Peggy’s Cove/Exhibition Park.
I see this blue honda civic (you know who you are) pulled off on the shoulder of the hwy with his signal on that he’s pulled over. He’s fairly close to the exit.
Since I’ve gotta take the 1A exit, I move from the middle lane to the inside lane, even though when someone is pulled over on the hwy I generally try to give them a lane’s space for safety reasons.
This is when douchebag decides to pull out in front of me. Without signalling. Or looking.
I’m going 100 km/hr and in the split second it takes for me to realize what’s happening, I lay on the horn and slam on my brakes – thankfully, just in time.
But no, he continues on his merry way and I continue on my way back to work. I’m still shaking when I think about how close that was.
It pisses me off – not to mention scares the shit out of me – just how oblivious some drivers are. —Just wish I’d gotten his license plate
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.
another case why head-checks are oober important.
your head does rest on a nice swivel… use it people!
also… notice to all broken-neck’d people..
you probably shouldn’t be driving.
and you didn’t nail him/her, why the fuck not?
Life sucks: because it would be his fault for hitting someone from behind.
Also because accidents, no matter how small hurt people badly, for life generally.
OP: what would getting her license plate number do for you? You gonna cry to the police and think they will do something about it?
He could say he suspects they’re drunk and I’m sure they would do something, at the very least go to their house and make them feel stupid.
And they say it’s safer to pull over to talk on the phone…
Kirbul: it is, provided you make sure traffic is clear before pulling back onto the highway.
well now if not for you, you are the one who is incorrect. if you are on the side of the road and pull out in front of someone causing someone to run into you…that at the very least is failing to yield, so life sucks is on the right track if your willing to play the insurance write off game.
Should have nailed them. They would have been responsible. You would have gotten a new car 🙂
It’s just all the other douche-bad drivers in Halifax who think that they ALWAYS have the right of way. Guess what @asswipes – you don’t!! I’m so frigging sick and tired of getting cut off by people who turn right from a cross-street, a driveway, a parking lot – whatever – doesn’t matter – STOP and WAIT your turn you fuckheads! And when I end up right on your tail because you cut me off, don’t slam on your fucking brakes! You’re MORONS!!! It’s amazing that there aren’t more accidents with such a bunch of idiots on the road. I’ve driven cross-continent six times and have never encountered anything as bad as the stupid Halifax drivers!
oh come now… quebec has far worse drivers…
at least every time I’ve passed through there they were.
They seem to drive like they don’t want to live.
Quebec drivers are fine once you figure out they only care about whats ahead of them, motorists to the left, right and behind are tuned out. At least they all drive agressively in the same manner.
Here in Calgary it’s a free for all, nobody drives the same way, you get lots of newcomers who don’t understand the rules of the road, etc etc. And they think putting a handwritten “new driver” sign in their back window means they can drive as they please.
Today I witnessed a newly-arrived taxi driver try to squeeze his minivan between a dumpster and the garbage truck that already had the forks lowered in preparation to lift it. When buddy realised he was in a bad spot he cranked the wheel, though in the direction of the truck so he now has one hell of a hole in the right side door. People like him are the dangerous ones.
at our old shop we had a guy try to squeeze between a garbage truck that was doing a wide right turn. crushed the front end when the trucks wheels met their mark…the guy just sat in his car while sweaty angry sanitation engineers let fly with very colourful language
“you red bleeding, purply-turquoise bastard!”
“ectoplasms, billions of blistering blue barnacles. thanks tintin and captain haddock
Painuchka – check out Teeside Tintin on utoob. A pair of lads from Middlesborough have taken a bunch of old cartoons and redubbed them with northern accents, explicit profanity and decidedly northern sensibilities.
Fookin’ champion, that.
merci mon cher, i am just leaving the shop. will check it out