Open message to the idiot driving behind me yesterday

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Greyd

You're just as much of a punk as the guy who is trying to go faster. The only reason you don't change lanes is because YOU think you own the road. Pot calling kettle black?

I think he, like everyone else in the left lane, didn't change lanes because they were going faster than the people in the right lane, or at least attempting to.

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

um if someone has an opportunity to pass you on the right, you are a worse jack off for not letting it happen, "just because" as someone else stated, there could be an emergency or something

DrPizza wants to get where he's going just as much as everyone else. Just because someone had the opportunity to pass him, that doesn't mean he wasn't going as fast as he could at the time - it just means he was leaving a reasonable following distance between himself and the person in front of him. The guy who tried to pass him on the right was trying to get where he was going faster - at the expense of Dr. Pizza and everyone else he passed. There's no reason DrPizza should have let him pass.

 

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Oh, and when you see that 50 yard break in traffic in the right lane and think you're going to zoom past 10 of us again, be assured that we'll close ranks again and not let you succeed in passing on the right.

For some reason, I really enjoy acting as a "hive-mind" with a crowd of perfect strangers to shut down some douchebag.

- M4H

Absolutely! Truckers for some reason are excellent at that, especially in the case of lane closing. They ride up 70/30 on the closing lane, preventing douchebags from flying down and cutting people off right where the lane ends.

I'm one of those aforementioned douchebags. Know why I fly all the way up to the end of the merging lane, then merge? Because traffic shouldn't come to a fvcking HALT when 3 or 4 cars try to merge into traffic. The people in the lane right next to the ending lane, are, more often than not, the ones that can't drive.

Actually it's dbags that have flown down that lane before you that make the traffic halt. Without them people would actually merge ahead of time, as opposed to making the whole single colum stop because you feel the need to cut them all off and merge where the lane ends.

In Tampa, traffic moves just dandy after the point where incoming traffic merges, FL drivers really do not know how to handle merging traffic. Here's a hint, STAY AT THE SPEED YOU WERE PREVIOUSLY AT. Hopefully, the people trying to merge aren't idiots, and can easily adjust their speed so that they just slot right into gaps in traffic. That's why onramps are several hundred feet long, so you can gauge traffic and get on the highway without backing traffic up for 5 miles.

I've noticed that Tampa residents (as I am one now) are particularly good at this, even in gridlock they will keep both lines moving (both the onramp and the right lane of the highway). I was impressed that people actually would actually take turns with the lanes instead of one being held up for 15 minutes because people in the other are being greedy.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Look buddy, yes, I know the left lane is for faster traffic. I realize you want to go faster than 65, but I'm not moving over and getting out of your way. You see, I also want to go faster than 65 too. So does the guy in front of me. And, the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him... As far as I know, this string of cars stretches all the way across the country to California and the reason this lane is traveling so slowly is that people are hesitating for a moment before driving into the Pacific Ocean. So, quit flashing your lights and quit driving like an (3 letter word for donkey). Oh, and when you see that 50 yard break in traffic in the right lane and think you're going to zoom past 10 of us again, be assured that we'll close ranks again and not let you succeed in passing on the right.

What's up with these idiots who think they own the road?!


And more observations after driving 1500 miles in a couple days:
Pennsylvania idiots: You aren't supposed to use high beams when there's oncoming traffic.

Sounds like you think you own the road.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
um if someone has an opportunity to pass you on the right, you are a worse jack off for not letting it happen, "just because" as someone else stated, there could be an emergency or something

Traffic was traveling at 65 miles per hour. That's a little over 95 feet per second. Even if there *was* an emergency, gaining 50 yards is only going to save him about 1 and 4/7ths seconds. Then again, when some other jackoff does the same thing half a mile further up the road, the chain reaction of everyone putting on their brakes when he "fits" himself into traffic is going to delay the guy with the "emergency" by a few extra seconds. In heavy traffic, jerkoffs who weave in and out, passing on the right instead of staying in the left lane actually end up slowing down the lane even more for the people behind him.

 

[BabaBooey]

YAWN....:beer:


And it is not the fast lane,it is called a PASSING lane ...

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: bababooey
YAWN....:beer:


And it is not the fast lane,it is called a PASSING lane ...

Yep, except when there are more cars than would fit into the "regular lane".

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: crazySOB297
Two words:
Dallas, Texas

I'll see your two words, and raise you two; rush hour, Atlanta, Georgia

 

[Squisher]

Look I'm the most considerate driver out there. I always try to move out of the way. But, with a long line of people in the passing lane, who is to decide who should move over for whom?

Unless you want us all to post a sign on top of our cars in 24" letters what our perferred cruising speed is and then allow the one biggest number to move to the front, it's all just unworkable to allow all that want to pass, to pass, in a moving traffic jam.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Look buddy, yes, I know the left lane is for faster traffic. I realize you want to go faster than 65, but I'm not moving over and getting out of your way. You see, I also want to go faster than 65 too. So does the guy in front of me. And, the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him... As far as I know, this string of cars stretches all the way across the country to California and the reason this lane is traveling so slowly is that people are hesitating for a moment before driving into the Pacific Ocean. So, quit flashing your lights and quit driving like an (3 letter word for donkey). Oh, and when you see that 50 yard break in traffic in the right lane and think you're going to zoom past 10 of us again, be assured that we'll close ranks again and not let you succeed in passing on the right.

What's up with these idiots who think they own the road?!

And more observations after driving 1500 miles in a couple days:
Pennsylvania idiots: You aren't supposed to use high beams when there's oncoming traffic.

so there was someone in front of u also at 65 and the jerk behind u was flashing his headlights?
instant brake check time!

edit:
Quotes in wrong place

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
What's up with these idiots who think they own the road?!

Well duh, they're more important than you are. On the road, everyone is more important than anyone else.

And more observations after driving 1500 miles in a couple days:
Pennsylvania idiots: You aren't supposed to use high beams when there's oncoming traffic.

Yeah, some people don't understand that incoherent light does travel in multiple directions, and can appear quite bright at night. I hate when that happens; I just hope that there's never a pedestrian by the road when someone drives by me with their high beams on. I wouldn't have a chance of seeing or avoiding them.

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
For some reason, I really enjoy acting as a "hive-mind" with a crowd of perfect strangers to shut down some douchebag.

- M4H

My favorite example of this kind of civilian justice in traffic was when there was some road construction on a highway, and there are signs far ahead of the single laned section saying "MERGE NOW you morons." Ok, not really, but it did say "merge now." People kept zipping ahead of the slowed obedient traffic to try to gain a few seconds. So, a trucker behind me decided to stop this - he just centered his truck perfectly in the center of the highway and kept up with the rest of the slow traffic, forcing everyone behind him to merge.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Then you watch semis past semis going barely 2 - 3 mph faster than each other. This causes a slowdown of 4 - 5 min. Then you speed up to 90+ until the next group of semis and you slow down once again when people want to pass...

If you knew anything about semi's you'd be a bit more forgiving. Think of them as a frieght train, once they lose their momentum, it takes a long time to get it back, or imagine driving a
car that takes 3,or 4 minutes to reach 75mph, once you reach that speed you don't want to give any of it back, unless you absolutely have to, (can you say, Grapevine?).
So, keep that hammer down, keep on a truckin, cuz daddy needs his new storage shed.

 

[KillerCharlie]

In Seattle, people literally do not know that you should stay right and move left as you pass. People drive in whatever lane they feel like. They're pretty stupid.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: JEDI

so there was someone in front of u also at 65 and the jerk behind u was flashing his headlights?
instant brake check time!

I never do that. Why would I want to intentionally risk causing an accident, just to teach someone else a lesson??

 

[chuckywang]

If you were going any faster than 65mph, you would be breaking the law.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Look buddy, yes, I know the left lane is for faster traffic. I realize you want to go faster than 65, but I'm not moving over and getting out of your way. You see, I also want to go faster than 65 too. So does the guy in front of me. And, the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him, and the guy in front of him... As far as I know, this string of cars stretches all the way across the country to California and the reason this lane is traveling so slowly is that people are hesitating for a moment before driving into the Pacific Ocean. So, quit flashing your lights and quit driving like an (3 letter word for donkey). Oh, and when you see that 50 yard break in traffic in the right lane and think you're going to zoom past 10 of us again, be assured that we'll close ranks again and not let you succeed in passing on the right.

What's up with these idiots who think they own the road?!


And more observations after driving 1500 miles in a couple days:
Pennsylvania idiots: You aren't supposed to use high beams when there's oncoming traffic.

Sounds like you think you own the road.

Because he won't bend over and let someone push him around? Yeah, sure. :roll:

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Greyd
You're just as much of a punk as the guy who is trying to go faster. The only reason you don't change lanes is because YOU think you own the road. Pot calling kettle black?

You do realize him changing lanes and letting him pass is not going to magically negate the dozen cars in front of the guy that are going at Dr. Pizza's speed, right?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: swtethan
in europe i hear they let you pass


btw, pennsylvania drivers are the worst I have ever seen.

No way, I've driven from michigan to new york city multiple times and I can safetly state that NYC and the entire state of new jersey has *the* worst drivers ever.

No way. People from Quebec drive the worst.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Skeeedunt
The reading comprehension is weak in this thread.

:beer:

The winner.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: JEDI

so there was someone in front of u also at 65 and the jerk behind u was flashing his headlights?
instant brake check time!

I never do that. Why would I want to intentionally risk causing an accident, just to teach someone else a lesson??

Right foot on gas...left foot on brake just enough to make the light come on.

By the way, I'm with the OP on this one. DrPizza seemed to be doing what the @sshole behind him was trying to do...and that's pass the cars on the right. Not Pizza's fault that a line of traffic was holding everyone up. If I'm passing someone and someone else runs up on me and doesn't try to shove me out of the way, I'll actually speed up a little to get out of the way. Run up on me and tailgate me or flash your lights, it will only take that much longer for me to get out of the way. It's my road just as much as it's yours. My money helps build and maintain them too.

 

[DainBramaged]

Well written, humorous, and I lol'd at the California part.

8/10

 

[Rickten]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: RgrPark
how about idiots driving u-haul trucks on the passing lane on a two lane highway?
i was driving back from NY to VA on the NJ turnpike...at least twice traffic was held up by idiots on rental trucks on the left lane going like 65...IDIOTS

Umm, how about I-5. LA to SF. That's a PITA sometimes in the evening on Sundays when most people come back. Semis litter the whole right lane, so people pass on the left. Honestly, a lot of people drive ~90 going down I-5, but there are those who drive in the right and think that they can merge into the left to pass a semi by going 75. This is why I-5 has stretches where you go 90 and then you slow down to 75. Then you watch semis past semis going barely 2 - 3 mph faster than each other. This causes a slowdown of 4 - 5 min. Then you speed up to 90+ until the next group of semis and you slow down once again when people want to pass.

I feel that passing means you want to get around someone by going faster WITHOUT interfering with the passing lane's traffic. Then again, this is seriously not the case..

I've seen a porsche 996 pass on the shoulder at speed on that road. I love that huge billboard that says something like "13000 licenses were taken here in 2005" or something like that.