Thread: Road Rage

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I think that people are just getting more inconsiderate of others for some reason. I live out in the country about 25 miles southwest of Dallas and find that as my little town grows and more people move in from other locations, that I’m having more trouble with other folks on the road. I think its happening all over the country, people doing things to other folks that they wouldn’t dream of doing if they were face to face or sharing a sidewalk. Now I get my ration of road rage too especially the cell phone people, but sometimes you just have to wonder. What did I do?

Just yesterday I was going into work (I leave the house at 0530 by the way) I was driving my Silverado up the highway with my cruise set at 75 mph in a posted 65 zone and noted to myself how nice the drive was and how empty the road seemed to be for a work day. A few minutes later a car came flying up behind me and started flashing their high beams at me. Can you say Farvegnugen? I knew you could… Ok Ok I admit I was driving in the left lane, but the right lane was completely empty and with no other vehicles on the road, I promptly moved over into the right lane. I had seen them coming up behind me albeit too late, but didn’t move over because I didn’t know what they were going to do because they were moving so damned fast. So the car sped past on my left, got about 25 yards ahead of me and just sat there. What the???? I still had my cruise set and ended up passing this car on the right. A few miles up the road this person decided to start F%*cking with me. Passing and then slowing down, changing lanes when I did etc. It is still dark at 0530 so I couldn’t see whom I was dealing with, and didn’t feel like playing silly F-ing games at that time of the day anyway, so I sucked it in and let them have their fun with me. To make a long story short the other car got stuck in a line of traffic and I ended up going around them again on the right. Saying to myself there is a God; I got off at my exit and was sitting at the intersection stuck at a left turn signal light when this WOMAN who has the green light pulls up to my right starts honking the horn in her ricer, mouthing something, I could only assume she wanted a date with me, and flipping me the bird. I just looked at her smiled closed my eyes and blew her a kiss. That sent her into over the top. She rolled down her window and started screaming something. I just sat there with an oblivious look on my face, waited for my arrow and made my turn. She was still screaming when I made my turn. Just what the hell is wrong with people nowadays?

The problem is, you never know how crazy the other person might actually be. We had an incident right here locally where 4 off duty officers were going to a football game. Some nut case cut them off then proceeded to take a tire iron out of his truck and started to smash their windows in. One of the officers fired a shot at him and killed the guy. Now here is the kicker, the family of the dead guy sues the Sheriff Dept for excessive force. I think when a guy picks up a tire iron and starts beating on your car, he has given up all rights.

One day I am going to work and am in the slow lane. A car speeds up beside me and the guy starts yelling profanities at me, in an absolute rage. Starts swerving his car toward mine, and telling me he was going to kick my a**. I had never seen this guy before, and don;t even know where he came from. Finally, he cuts in front of me and stops his car, so I stop. I have a loaded .38 under the seat, but I start thinking what a hassle this is going to be if I have to use it and wound or kill the guy, so instead I reach for my cell phone and dial 911. He sees me on the phone and luckily pulls away. What a stupid incident that could have been very deadly. I still have no idea what made this happen, and I had never seen him before, or luckily, after.

You just never know who you are dealing with sometimes.


Don

Apparently she doesn't know of the finer points of,
" Proper Roadster Etiquette ".,.. let alone the basic ones.
Just think , she talked about you all morning with all her co-workers. Obviously she has no friends.....

i think she was just lonely. you shouldve gave her the bird back and really made her day, or better yet backed your truck over her hood....

i carry a load stainless .45 1911 a1, its pretty intimadating for those that look at you wrong..

Harmon

I live in Miami...
you think you have problems!

It's nuts down here...
every macho male (and female) think they own the road.

AND... if your driving a hotrod and don't respond, they take it personal.

From what I am reading on other sites, probably STRESS caused by money problems, and people can't handle it. To a lot of people there does not seem to be relaxation anymore. It is allways compete,compete, compete.

My personal opinion is that alot of people feel so "out-of-control" in their lives that they go nuts when the are "in-control" of a 4000 lb weapon....

I drive 40 miles one way to work each day and fortunately have not experienced as much road rage from my fellow man lately. Several years ago it seem like everybody had a bad case of it. I think alot of it is driven by either their uncontrolled ego or their depression about their lot in life. In either case I usually just let them go past me and hope they don't stop.

Had a guy riding my ass several years ago in the evening, when he passed me he slowed down and shouted something (not nice I am sure) and then waved is single finger indicating his IQ level. He then proceded to pull in front of me and slow to a craw or to hit his brakes and then speed up. He did this for about 5 miles. Somewhere he lost sight of the fact that I was no longer behind him when he slammed on his brakes. He got his rear clipped by a dump truck that spun him off the road and into a ravine. I understand that a number of witness stopped to tell the attending officer of the guy's a**hole antics.

In another instance, on a major interstate near me, a guy driving an 18 wheeler got pissed off with a guy in front of him who was driving the speed limit. The 18 wheeler nudged up against the guy's rear bumper and proceeded to push the guys car down the road at over 65 mph, before the cops got there. The truck driver is still serving his 10 year sentence and rightfully so. He was just one freaking idiot we don't need out there.

Try NY if you want road rage. I was coming home from work on a 30 mph backroad and was doing about 38 when this car come barreling up behing me doing about 60. I can see it's a youg girl and she pulls right up(and I mean right up) to my bumper. Since I was only about 1/2 mile from my house I step on my brakes just for the light to flash and she almost spun out of control. Thats all it took as she ram her car into my back bumper giving me the finger and screaming at me. I pulled up right in the middle of the road so she couldn't pass me, got out and let me tell you I was pissed. I got right into her face and said what the hell are you doing. She opened the door and hit me with it and then pulled a knife and started waving it at me. I pulled out my cell phone and called the cops. She tried to get around me and went int a ditch and them got out and started running away. The cops came and caught her and threw her in jail. Now thats what you call road rage.

Originally Posted by allengator

My personal opinion is that alot of people feel so "out-of-control" in their lives that they go nuts when the are "in-control" of a 4000 lb weapon....

Yeah, this is probably pretty close to the truth. I read an article one time about how people who would never think of being rude or pushy when out of the car, turn into a different person when inside the car. The metal cocoon gives the person a feeling of anonymity that they are somehow detached from everyone around them.

Here in Florida driving is a real experience, because everybody is from someplace else, and different States have different rules. Evidently, in some States it is not a law to pass and get over into the slow lane, because so many drivers just loaf along in the fast lane, oblivious to a line of cars trying to pass. Of all my pet peaves, that ranks right up there. Another is the idiots who toss lighted cigarettes out the window. (Florida is a tinderbox in the dry months)


Don

I just love left lane driver. For some reason thier seems to be more on the Indiana toll road than any where else. I just got back from a trip to Grand Island NE. took 80 both ways not much trouble till IN. There was one woman who refused to get over and driving about 5 under limit. I looked in my review and there was a car coming at a high rate of speed. I was in the left behind her and some others. I moved over to see what this guy was going to do that no one else could. I soon found out. Unmarked cop. turned on his lights and she just kept going like nothing was wrong. He had his siren on lights going and she just kept going in the left lane. We all slowed so he could pass her on the right. He then got in front of her and slowed down. Then she decided to move over and tried to pass him on the right. I don't know what he finely did but she did pull off the road. Wish I could have heard her reason for all this.
I think that was the first time "Wheres a cop when you need one" didn't need saying.

Well I have to admit that I am am guilty and do most of my driving in the left lane. However, I will move over when someone comes up from behind and I don't wait till the other guy has to touch their brakes either. I try to be a very professional driver and am very aware of what/who is around me. My habit of using the left lane comes from riding street bikes when I was younger. The guys I rode with called the right lane the death lane. Thats the lane where you lost a leg when grandma came pulling out of a side street and didn't see you.

This does not quite fall into the category of road rage.

My stepdaugter Diana was telling me of a time that an intruder broke into her home and staeted assulting her. She grabbed a hockey stick, whack ed him in the face and knees several times and 3 times in the fork. Broke some kind of bone in there, plus broken nose and broken teeth. She called the police they called the ambulance. Aparantly he was out cold. Went to court as the guy laid assault charges. The judge had one look at Di nd one look at the guy, and said "this is ridiculous" and threw the case out of court. So I dont rark her up to much.

That thing of just riding in the left lane is something I just can't understand. Just this morning I am heading to work, and there is a car going under the speed limit, just riding there beside another car, so you couldn't get past. She evidently was proving something, because she knew we were there (I had about 5 other guys behind me) but she just didn't really give a d***. Finally, the guy in the slow lane slowed a little and I was able to squeeze over and get past, and then I kind of pulled in front of her maybe a little too close with my rear end. She had to hit the brakes, and I would have thought she got the message, but as I looked in the rear view mirror for the next couple of miles she was still riding there.

I was always taught to pass and get the heck over, and most States have signs to the effect of slower traffic keep right. Evidently some States don't enforce or care about that. Ohio comes to mind as one where I have driven and noticed very few people move to the right, ever.

I think it is just common courtesy.


Don

0600 Saturday. Pulled onto hwy 97 after coming out of a gas station ( pulled in to let a cop go around, hoping he wouldn't notice my cracked windshield) painting contractor in a new chevy van, tailgating me. I go up to speed limit and cruise. As soon as the guy could see in front me, he floors it, over a double double yellow line to pass me on the left, past the cop at McD, doing 70. Cop passed me doing 90 and nailed the guy, we slid by and tapped the horn.
Good idea for a thread BTW