Driving inadequacy; why is it so hard for people to pay attention?
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[QUOTE=credesniper;29726668]This is why I believe you should take annual tests to raise children, vote, and drive.[/QUOTE]
This is ridiculous.
Things that piss me off
~ People who race to red lights, Dude literally speeding off to it isn't going to make it turn green faster
~ I'm crossing the street and this red nissian beeps at me even though it was a red light so even if i wasn't there and he drove the extra 20ft he would still have had to wait, Anyway i jog to the other side and he gets to the red light. Fucker is on a cell phone but the great part is he turns his head and the light is also one where it turns green for a small time for right turns only. 5 People beeping at him cause the fuckhead wasn't paying attention and decided to talk on the phone. I walk up to his car and knock on his window and point at the light.
[QUOTE=Boom_Hedshot;29725265]Today while leaving a gas station I was stuck waiting behind a PT Cruiser whose single occupant was shuffling with something in her passenger seat. To my left was a gas pump, behind me was a Prius and to my right was a line of parked cars. The closest of the parked cars was a dual cab f-350. An overweight man wearing bermuda shorts and a tank top passed between the PT and my bumper, climbed into the cab, fired it up, tossed it in reverse and started to back up.
What the fuck? Here I am sitting less than 2 feet from his trailer hitch and this fucker is backing right the fuck up even though he'd seen me stuck there less than 30 seconds previously. The PT rolled forward and I dumped my clutch and slipped out of the way just in time. I caught my breath as I pulled right into the left turn lane to exit the parking lot. He came rolling up into the lane next to me, stuck his head out the window, his walmart shades slipping down the end of his fat nose, and said, "THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO GET THAT THING SMASHED".
I was left speechless by his comment. There I was, stuck behind his truck, and when he attempted to back into me it was MY fault?
Oh HELL no.
It's times like these that I draw a blank on what to say to someone so stupid. I felt that anything I might say might be too much for his pathetically small brain to handle. A surge of small dick jokes rampaged through my head, but I controlled myself and allowed them to exit via the middle finger on my right hand, to which he drew his head back into the cab.
This is just one of many circumstances that leave me baffled as to how people can be so unobservant. I've been driving for 2 years and not once have I had an accident, been pulled over, or even bumped something with my car. In many situations I've come close to having bad things happen, but they were easily avoided simply because I had my eyes on the road.
Why can't people learn to pay attention? Are they so self absorbed in the actions of their pathetic everyday lives that they can't stop and pay attention to the road for the 20 minutes it takes them to drive from point a to point b? How hard is it to use your turn signals and mirrors.
For the rest of you facepunchers with a set of wheels, what irks you the most out of the things your fellow drivers do?[/QUOTE]
99% of people act like this when they believe they're in the right. Half the times they're usually wrong though. Odds are then that he's probably been in a similar situation you have just been in, making him think that it's ok to do it.
That and as people get more experienced they get more relaxed and tend to underestimate new blood like yourself or yours truly.
I hate it when I'm doing 15 over and some clown with lights on his car starts following me around.
I'm super cautious when I drive, but not to the point where I'm a hazard.
One time I was driving along on a 2 lane road that allowed passing. There were 3 or 4 cars oncoming and me in my lane. One car in the oncoming lane was tailgating the first car, proceeded to try and pass said car, realized I was in my fucking lane and she would've hit me had she tried it and then flipped ME off.
Are you serious? Lose your stupid ass sense of self entitlement and realize you were at fault bitch! That was the first and only time I've been flipped off for driving in my lane.
Part of the problem is, I don't think bad examples are much help. There was this movie starring lesser known US actress Lauren German, I can't remember what she was doing, but this scene where she was at the stop light, the light changes green, but she is still fucking around, the guy behind her honks, and she flicks him off, even though she was fucking around, nice example Hollywood.
Myself, I also have seen people honk their horns trying to turn at a light in the city, but now I have seen driver and pedestrian confrontations. Actually I saw this delivery truck not allow woman right away, she was not even old, and she tries to walk behind instead, delivery truck then slips back the other way, the woman attempts to rush up to him, but then you know hes out of there. If he was really in a hurry, I would of thought he would of just sped the truck out of there in the first place. What was that about? I have to wonder if people are not so careless, but actually intend havoc.
Also, has anyone seen this situation at school yet: Girl texting while driving in the car, but another girl texting before going into the crosswalk, not even looking to see if there is any traffic coming, I may not like either of you, but I definitely don't want to see that happen right in front of me. This one girl I knew did tell me she lost a friend, because she was performing this action. Despite the laws against something, that does not mean everyone else around you is going to move safely too.
I got to say though, I think getting flicked off without a scratch is better then getting hurt and wrecked. I mean, this 2 lane highway thing happened to me the other day, but they were not trying to pass anyone, something was just wrong with them that they inadvertently went into the other lane.
Your lucky when you can avoid someone the wrong direction of travel, there are so much 4 lane divided roads around me, that numerous times, I have encountered those that go the wrong way, in heavy amounts of traffic, but the worse is when your on the interstate.
I used to work for my city painting lane lines, markings, putting up signage, etc., so I saw a metric fuckton of this. Everyday. On every street.
One of my favorite driver phenomena was the aptly nicknamed "idiot light", the orange flashing light on top of the roof of our by-no-means-small truck. Whenever that thing was turned on, nearly every driver within sight of that light has their IQ drop to the mid 30s. They'd hit traffic cones (not just the smaller ones, which I can kind of understand, but the big ass barrels you have to be on an entirely different road to not see), disregard lane changes, focus every ounce of their attention onto what we're doing instead of driving... yeah. It's pretty amazing what an orange flashing light will do to people.
My favorite has to be when we sign about 1/4 mile ahead that a lane is going to be closed off. People pull right up to the last cone of the change before even [I]thinking[/I] of changing lanes. Irritates the shit out of me.
I've learned to trust nobody on the road, and it's kept me from getting a single accident, my fault or someone else's. Knock on wood.
If you live in Michigan, I'll gladly take my Ford Crown Victoria (CVPI) and smash his truck with it, provided you know where he lives. It won't damage my car one bit, so....
one time when I was driving to school, I was on a one lane road (one lane each way), and some cunt coming from the opposite direction decided to come into my lane and overtake like five cars
luckily I saw him coming and slowed down. I was going around 45-50 mph, and he was probably doing at least 60 mph. shit would've been pretty bad if I didn't see him and slow down.
People driving in the [i]left lane[/i] at 35 mph in a [u]50 mph[/u] zone.
Fucking old people! :argh:
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