NS drivers have to be among the most addled in the country. The 3 cardinal sins that make my blood boil:
– slowing down in the merge lane of a highway (speed up and merge morons)
– slowing down on the highway before exiting (slow down on the exit ramp turkeys)
– tootle along below the speed limit and then accelerate when a passing lane comes up (don’t be such a jerk)
I swear legions of NS drivers got their licences out of Cracker Jack boxes.
This article appears in Jun 12-18, 2008.
OMFG!!! Me too.. seriously.. Those are definatly up there on my HUGE list of things that piss me off when I’m driving!!. Why the FUCK do people feel the need to speed up when there is a passing lane? LIKE REALLY??!?!The lane exiting the Highway is called a “Deceleration Lane”.. If the speed limit is a 100-110klm/ph and you slow down BEFORE you pull in, your putting your self at risk!same with the “Acceleration Lane”… Pull out on to a busy Highway doing 60 or 70? like, WTF!!! Actually happened to me today on the way back from the Valley… Had to practically slam on my breaks cause someone was doing 60 in a 110…. scary….
hear hear!!You forgot about people:pulling out on the road (from driveway or intersection) and the doing only 30 clicksbeing dickwads when the light turns yellow (even red) and keep going even though the traffic is at a standstill (Quinpool-Connaught intersection) and block in the intersection. Us with the green light can’t go. Well I drive up to the car and hold the horn on until traffic moves.who aren’t in the proper lane they need and at the last minute, usually at the light, they try to nerve you to stop and let them in. I keep up, get the fuck in behind me, and if you hit me you’re fucked (my neck is stiff, can’t quite turn it to the left), all for being a jackass. The stupid part is there was ample time and room to properly merge 100 m earlier. Not to stereotype, but it tends to be the SUV drivers who do this.
It seems like this is the majority when it comes to driving in Nova Scotia… I don’t know where they got their licenses, because I recall my instructor/ evaluator being pretty strict…and I appreciate it now, because I know enough to anticipate the moronic moves most drivers in HRM will do… Even still, people will never cease to amaze me with their shockingly bad driving habits.