Thread: Pet Peeves?

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Being a cantankerous sort, I could write a pamphlet of driving peeves.

This is a fresh peeve that I captured a picture of today...

Airline bottle of cinnamon-flavored whiskey in the road in front of my house. Isuspect people are driving around spiking their convenience store soda and throwing the empties into the street.

I'm going through this thread & decided to stop right here to reply. I went out to walk my dog yesterday & found an empty half gallon of McCormick whiskey in my yard. I saw another one 3 weeks ago on the street coming into the subdivision & was going to pick it up if it was there the next day but someone did as I was going to do but when I first saw it, I didn't want to give my neighbors the wrong impression. Apparently someone, possibly young teens are driving around the neighborhood getting lubricated.

Now, as for truck drivers, most of them are very respectful, a lot more than the people driving cages as us bikers call them. I rode my Harley to Milwaukee & back in '08 for their 105th anniversary celebration & on my way home, in Arkansas, it started raining due to hurricane Gustav moving up north from Louisiana into Arkansas. I had my rain gear on & it was pouring rain, so I was in the slow lane on the right. All of the truckers saw me from way back & got over way back but the cagers would come ride my ass, pass me, then pull right in front of me but the truckers would stay in the left lane, pas by & kept on for quite a ways before changing back into the right lane.

Now as for people on their call phones, that is my top peeve since people use one hand to hold the phone & are too tight to buy a blue tooth & they use the other hand to steer with unless they are reading the newspaper or texting & steering with their leg, so they can't use their turn signals at all. They might as well break the turn signal arm off since it is obviously in their way & they don't need it. Beginning March 1st of this year, my town made it illegal to drive with a cell phone unless they used hands free which is a blue tooth or like newer vehicles, is incorporated into the sound system. it was already illegal in school zones previously.

As some already know, my Harley was totaled 2 months ago when the light ahead of me was green so when I was approaching a crossover just before the light, a moron waited for me to be just about in front of them, then pulled out in front of me, then kept tried to keep going but the light changed & they had to stop behind 2 cars that stopped in front of them or they might have run the light causing another accident. People came running to my aid, at least 50 + & were asking if I was okay & if I needed EMS. I finally got to my feet, dusted myself off, bleeding & so on & said I think I'm okay, that if I felt worse by the time I got home, I would go to the ER. Then someone asked who else was involved & I pointed at the car whose occupants acted as if nothing happened, & I asked someone to call police & to also take pics of the license plate before the light changed & they get away. I was afraid I was going to get a ticket since they we're so close when they pulled out, I hit them from the rear & went down. The officer arrived & asked if I was okay & got my story, then he went over to them & got theirs. He came back to me & said our stories didn't match & I said that's because they're lying so he didn't write me a ticket & gave each of us a form to fill out which was our info & we exchanged it. My insurance company found them to be at fault because of their different inconsistencies of the stories they were giving. When they finally did get out of their cage, I noticed the female passenger looked at their rear bumper as she walked past it, so they knew something had happened. It never ceases to amaze me these days at how people are in such denial. They don't want to be responsible for their actions, instead they want to run like cowards. I couldn't tell if the driver was on a cell phone but they were trying to make the green light & just ignored the fact I was there or thought because I'm on a motorcycle, I could stop in time with only inches between their rear bumper & my front wheel.