To the self-important douchenozzle driving the black Corvette with the vanity plate on Highway 102 this morning: While I recognize that you feel that you are superior to other vehicles on the road (and probably compensating for something), driving behind someone and flashing your lights to get them to pull out of your way is fucking idiotic. There’s a speed limit, follow it—like the rest of the traffic on the highway.
I realize that the weather has been nice lately and you feel the need to take your car out of storage and flaunt yourself around like a peacock, but here’s friendly reminder for you: It’s still March in Nova Scotia and for every kilometre of road, there’s two kilometers of ditches, so here’s hoping that you find yourself in a ditch sooner rather than later, fucktard. —Pissed-Off Commuter
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
“for every kilometre of road, there’s two kilometers of ditches
Best thing I read all day!!!
Seriously though, get out of the passing lane and you can avoid this kind of shit! You are no better than the douche behind you if you are staying in that lane just to be a prick!
OP sounds like one of those people that’s driving along at the limit and feels the need to pass someone doing just slightly less. Taking twenty minutes just to pass, meanwhile traffic is backing up behind them, and they still have no clue why people a flashing their lights.
I know you’re doing the limit but you’re being a complete douche about it.
I question who is really being the self-important one.
It is now illegal in many states to “cruise” in the hammer (passing) lane…and in Florida you must maintain at least 65 mph in it, or face a ticket.
Flashing headlights is in many driving handbooks as indicating someone is about to pass.
It’s not the driver of this beautiful high-performance vehicle’s fault that there is someone blocking the passing lane…
Keep to the right, or face Bro’ Tim and the full extent of the law!
Agreed, OP is the one who will hopefully end up ditch bound… I cant stand people who get all worked up over someone passing them… These morons will speed up just to stop someone from passing them and then get all bent out of shape about it. Idiots… I dont think the vehicle has anything to do with it either, except for the fact your clearly jealous… I enjoy nice cars too (I dont however enjoy the car in question), hardly because I’m over compensating… Why does liking nice thing always have to mean something…
It’s not only Corvette drivers that do it. If it bothers you that much, give him a little ‘brake check’ next time.
L0GiC… I’ve often wondered the same.
how does liking nice cars lead to lacking in any other area… besides owning a nice car perhaps.
I also agree OP is a chicken Mc-douche-nugget
“”If it bothers you that much, give him a little ‘brake check’ next time.””
With the increase in use of vehiclular black boxes that record a/v, gps location and are time-stamped…that is very bad advice.
If you “brake check” me as I approach to pass, there will be 3 copies each featuring your license plate and the back of your noodle head…
The clearest one goes to your insurer…
It doesn’t bother ME that much, hell I’ve passed/been passed thousands of times on the 102/118 and other highways. I guess my point is – to be cruising along at 65+ MPH and to look in your rear view and see nothing but someone’s front end, can be be a touch unnerving, I guess it was just the pretentiousness of the flashing headlights…
They do that a lot in the EU, where I drove lorry for 7 years…and it IS annoying at first…until you realize that, oh yeah, I don’t own the road…
😉
I am the OP and this person in the ‘vette was riding bumpers, flashing lights and then speeding past vehicles.
The posted speed limit on the 102 is 100 km/h and I was doing 110 km/h. So, right off the bat, I was in the wrong (speeding). This assclown clearly felt that the right lane was their’s because they did it to the car behind me, then me, then the car ahead of me and as soon as each was clear, they blasted well above the 110 km/m most cars were traveling.
The make and model of the car – doesn’t matter. It could have been a Hummer or a Hyundai, we have all been there where some douchnozzle driver drives like they are entitled to the road.
Also, seeing as it’s March, it’s hardly prime ‘vette season. Most ‘vette owners I know keep their cars stored during the winter months.
I stand by my original comment.
I agree with lorilulu.
Hooligan – Passing lanes are ment for passing. If your not passing someone your in the wrong lane. Your not the law so don’t try and enforce it. If buddy wants to speed and act like a dick let him. Just get out of the way so you don’t get caught in the middle of it.
Do you look in your rearview? You should have seen them coming!!
Why were they flashing their lights? a. to get you to switch lanes? b. for you to speed up and pass?
He said right lane, not left
Actually, the right lane is NOT a “passing lane”. There is no such thing. The posted speed limit that exists on the highway is the same – regardless of the lane. Look in the traffic act if you don’t believe me.
In theory, a driver COULD drive in the right lane at the posted speed limit and be in the right.
That being said, read my post. I was already exceeding the posted speed limit, so one could assume from that that I was passing a line of vehicles already – the same as SEVERAL OTHER VEHICLES that were in the right lane.
While I do tend to speed (110 km/h in a 100 km/h), I only use the left lane for over-taking “slower” moving vehicles. Once I am past and in the clear, I move back to the right lane.
So, clearly this individual was more interested in clearing the lane to allow them to pass every other vehicle.
Sorry – I meant the LEFT lane is NOT a “passing lane”
Is this like two minutes inside a women’s brain? Type stuff?
Hooligan sez: “So, clearly this individual was more interested in clearing the lane to allow them to pass every other vehicle.”
Presuming it was the left lane (your posts on this subject make it seem you have difficulty telling right from left) that is his/her prerogative. That’s how it works in Euroland and is the way it should work here, except we have a culture of rolling speed bump busybodies who think it is their duty to tell other people what to do. Get out of the left lane for a few seconds, let him by, then continue on your way please.
“Slower traffic keep right.”
You can be speeding and still be “slower traffic”. The guy does sound like a douche with the way he handled it though.
while he was being a douche about it (because he was going to blaze past you once you got the fuck out of his way)… still… you know you won’t have to deal with him anymore if you just let him by as soon as you can.
Best place and highway to speed: 107 between Preston and Porter’s Lake. Long, straight, flat piece of road usually with not too much traffic. It’s only 100, but you can easily get up to 150, if you want. Fun fun! So I hear, not that I speed or anything…
Seriously though, some speed limits are bullshit. Obey the law and don’t get a ticket, fine, but when you’re crawling along at 50 when you could easily and safely, without significantly increasing the risk to ANYONE, go 10 or 20 faster, it’s stupid and frustrating. Barrington Street north of downtown and Quinpool between Connaught Ave and the Armdale Roundabout are some examples.
barrington north of downtown is usually ripped to shreds… you’re asking for auto problems if you speed too quickly.
and WHAT?
quinpool between connaught and the rotary???
down the hill around that fucking blind S, you’re insane. people park on the street at the bottom all the fucking time there… I almost smeared myself against a green jetta just this past weekend there. I’m sure there are examples but you picked some pretty shitty ones there q
Those are some examples, but you’re right, there are some better ones. Especially some highways over in Dartmouth. I know you “can never be too safe,” but you can be way too overly cautious.
Hardly anyone does 50 along Barrington north of downtown, I have (err, I mean I do, because I never break the law) and it literally feels like you’re just fucking walking with cars zipping by you. Cops love that area too since, hey, the speed limit is 50! They also love the hill leading down to the Rotary.
i’m with zZz…let them go bye bye, i’d rather have the aggressive drivers ahead of me not riding my bumper
Awesome post.
you mean the guy with the plate that says big 1, but really is a short dick in reality.
i would say in my travels about 80% of people with vanity plates are fucking morons; just getting a pers. plate ruts you dangerously close to the majority
I loved it when we let this station wagon zoom past us on the way home a few winters ago in one of the storms…
about 20 mins later, we saw them on the side of the road…. pulled over by the popo’s.
you wanna be a douche and speed past in bad weather… go right ahead!
I’ll gladly be the tortoise to your hare.
Why the misguided hate-on for the Cheverolet Corvette, that’s the more important point.
Have you ever even SEEN an early 60’s model in this salt-soaked burg?
The newer ones out-perform a Porshe for a third of the price…what’s wrong with you people?
i would say in my travels about 80% of people with vanity plates are fucking morons; martym – i have a vanity plate and I AM a moron, that felt better!
Was the driver of the black vette the owner of a large nose? There’s an old fucker in Timberlea area who has a black vette drives like a wanker and has a huge shnozz – i affectionately refer to him as shonkface
Get the plate, call the cops….maybe it’ll work.