Thread: Road rage....WARNING, foul language...

hey guys. how would you like to drive a truck over the road like i do.. this stuff goes on everyday and night. some people have a death wish, they will pull out in front of me on purpose and then flip me off and laugh and think it is funny. i sometimes just want to hit them(probably would kill them), but most have family in the car with them and i know if i was to kill a little child that my driving career would end right there. i would not be able to live with myself. it is hard to just let them go, but that is about all that can be done.
another not so nice thought i sometimes have is somebody else may hit them and take them out of the gene pool due to their stupidity.

Guys like those are why I carry a gun. Dangerous.

I once had a pedestrian rage at me, she stepped right in front of me from between two parked cars (neither were hers) I slammed on my brakes to and slide to a stop inches from her. She starts pounding my hood and yelling at me. Clueless. I just popped it into neutral and floored it.

I must admit that if someone pulls out in front of me, you know leaving themselves barely an inch to spare, I have a tendency to just keep that distance, an inch off their bumper, until they get out of my way. I figure that if they were comfortable enough to pull into that amount of space they must be comfortable with me that close behind them in my full size van.

I tell ya people are crazy! I don't drive because I'v 15, but in a few months I will be able to weather or not my parents will let me is a diffrernt thing. But my father is a truck driver, mainly through New England. I go out on the road with him usually 1 time over the summer and I really enjoy it but over this past summer we had to run out to Chicago and it was crazy the way some people drove! We were commming up on a turn off ramp, I don't know the exact wording for it. But we were about to turn off onto it and some idiot barly misses the barrells and cuts right in front of us and my dad had to slam on the breaks to stop from hitting him.

Then later on that night around 11:30 we were heading out on the highway and there were probably about 4 lanes of traffic at a steady pace but alot of people on the road, we are going down the road and some idiot in the lane to the left of us comes over and dang near hits us, seriously, who thinks that when they are in a SUV or truck or car that they are going to fight with a Semi and win. People are crazy.

And some people may be used to stuff like this depending on where they live. I live in a small town in Maryland where there isn't alot of traffic and people don't drive like idiots much.

My dad actually ran somone into the barrels because they tried to get around him and he had no where to go.

What a bunch of muppets! I'm just glad that there wasnt an accident, or worse..! Some people really shouldnt be allowed on the roads, they're just too stupid and aggressive.

I remember coming back up to London on the A3 and this guy in a total rust bucket keeps trying to overtake me, pulling out and then dropping back again, blue smoke pouring from his exhaust and riding 3" off my bumper the rest of the time.

I wasnt hacking along here, I was doing maybe 80, no more than that, but this guys car was totally shot and just couldnt get past me. There was plenty of room for him to get past, he just couldnt do it. I think it was just that he wanted to show that, even though he had a pile of crap, it was still faster than my car!

This continued until we got to the bit where the speed limit changes from 70 down to 50. Now anyone who knows the A3 knows that this is danger zone! Loads of speed cameras once you get into the 50 zone, and the first one by the bridge ALWAYS has film in it to catch the people who dont slow down after the speed limit change. Its always catching people out.

So I slow down and this guy belts past me at 80, flipping me the finger as he goes and blunders right into the trap...

*FLASH*...*FLASH*

And that'll be a £60 fine, plus three points on his licence. Unless the Police decided to issue him a court summons for being so far over the posted speed limit, in which case the fine was probably more like £400 and he probably got 6 points on his licence.

Ahh... There is a God! Hehe!

smokelaw1,

Whew...Glad that your encounter with Leatherface didn't escalate into something physical. He could have been high on meth or something even worse, so its a good thing you didn't confront him.