Just another complaint

Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
What gives?

On 06/20/2010 12:28 AM, lil abner wrote:
> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

People are dumb, what I can I say?

Saw this yesterday, traveling in medium heavy traffic, guy in right lane
decides he wants to turn left (no turn pocket) - changes lanes right in
front of another vehicle and immediately brakes hard and puts on left
turn signal. Ought to be legal to shoot other vehicles with a paintball
gun so other drivers have a warning of who the idiots are and be extra
careful around them.

nate

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On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:28:24 -0400, lil abner wrote:

> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

Just another day on the road with idiots behind the wheel.
I've had them cut me off so close you could stand on both bumpers with feet
side by side.

Picture this:
I'm driving a ryder rental truck with tow dolley.
On I-40 just about to enter Knoxville on their nice big 3-lane.
Approaching sloth in right lane. Check my mirror, see no one near me for
over a mile. Put blinker on. Enter center lane. Pass the sloth. Check
mirror, put blinker on, enter right lane.
What the hell?
I'm being passed on the right shoulder by some dumb jackass no less!
Now what the hell was wrong with the left lane? He had no cars in that lane
for two miles, yet he chose to pull this stunt.

Still have never figured that one out.

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On 06/20/2010 11:59 AM, richard wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:28:24 -0400, lil abner wrote:
>
>> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
>> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
>> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
>> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
>> What gives?
>
> Just another day on the road with idiots behind the wheel.
> I've had them cut me off so close you could stand on both bumpers with feet
> side by side.
>
> Picture this:
> I'm driving a ryder rental truck with tow dolley.
> On I-40 just about to enter Knoxville on their nice big 3-lane.
> Approaching sloth in right lane. Check my mirror, see no one near me for
> over a mile. Put blinker on. Enter center lane. Pass the sloth. Check
> mirror, put blinker on, enter right lane.
> What the hell?
> I'm being passed on the right shoulder by some dumb jackass no less!
> Now what the hell was wrong with the left lane? He had no cars in that lane
> for two miles, yet he chose to pull this stunt.
>
> Still have never figured that one out.
>

I got a better one, I was doing the same thing, 24' Ryder full of two
people's household stuff (including a piano even...) and a car trailer
with my old GTI on it. Going down I-66 in NoVA after driving straight
through from Pittsburgh. Ended up coming off the Beltway during rush
hour so I was on the shoulder (it's a travel lane during rush hour) here
this knucklehead in a pickup truck is sitting on one of the turnouts and
just as I'm coming up on him he starts to pull out. I lay on the brakes
and horn at the same time and he stopped about 6" away from me turning
his pickup into a pile of scrap metal (there was no way I could change
lanes, as I said, this was rush hour.) Dunno if he was blind,
distracted, or what, but that could easily have been VERY ugly.

I guess that was my official "welcome to northern Virginia" - that was
the first time I moved here, and I hadn't been in the state more than 10
minutes at that point. (and I was only 10 minutes from my destination,
too, after having been on the road for probably about 5 hours...)

nate

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"lil abner" > wrote in message
...
> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and proceeds
> to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

It's just another form of road rage.

Clearly, it was an MFFY driver who just had to "teach you a lesson" by
cutting you off because you "made them pass". Once they completed their
pass, it was obviously their sworn duty to force you to slow down in
retaliation.

I've seen this happen in the left lane too. Reasonable speed passer gets
passed on the right by the MFFY passer/speeder, then the MFFY passer/speeder
completes their pass, merges left, and then the brake lights are seen
blinking a few times as they slow down to teach the reasonable speed passer
a lesson because, once again, they made them pass.

On 06/20/2010 12:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. wrote:
> "lil abner" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
>> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
>> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
>> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
>> What gives?
>
> It's just another form of road rage.
>
> Clearly, it was an MFFY driver who just had to "teach you a lesson" by
> cutting you off because you "made them pass". Once they completed their
> pass, it was obviously their sworn duty to force you to slow down in
> retaliation.
>
> I've seen this happen in the left lane too. Reasonable speed passer gets
> passed on the right by the MFFY passer/speeder, then the MFFY
> passer/speeder completes their pass, merges left, and then the brake
> lights are seen blinking a few times as they slow down to teach the
> reasonable speed passer a lesson because, once again, they made them pass.
>
>

If you got passed on the right while you were in the left lane, you were
in the wrong. Period, end of story. I am sure that someone can come up
with a situation in which that is not the case, but it is so rare that
it can be safely ignored. Please learn to drive more considerately for
your fellow road users in the future.

nate

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lil abner > wrote in :

> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?
>

define "cut us off".

did he force you to brake,slow,or to swerve in avoidance?
(note I said "force"..)

just how close did he merge in front of you?

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Jim Yanik wrote:
> lil abner > wrote in :
>
>> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
>> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
>> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
>> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
>> What gives?
>>
>
> define "cut us off".
>
> did he force you to brake,slow,or to swerve in avoidance?
> (note I said "force"..)
>
> just how close did he merge in front of you?
>
10 ft??
Yep he slowed down. then he took off at about 20 over. traffic was
really light.

lil abner wrote:
> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

A couple of things:

1. Did you recently allow a LLB to pace you for several minutes not too
long before this occurred?

2. Were you driving significantly slower than the rest of traffic by
just going only 5 mph over? If the speed limit is 55 mph and traffic is
going between 68 and 78 mph, then going 60 mph is too slow and disrupts
traffic unnecessarily.

lil abner > wrote in :

> Jim Yanik wrote:
>> lil abner > wrote in :
>>
>>> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
>>> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
>>> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
>>> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
>>> What gives?
>>>
>>
>> define "cut us off".
>>
>> did he force you to brake,slow,or to swerve in avoidance?
>> (note I said "force"..)
>>
>> just how close did he merge in front of you?
>>
> 10 ft??
> Yep he slowed down. then he took off at about 20 over. traffic was
> really light.
>

I would have leaned hard on my horn when he began edging over.
(did he signal? probably not..)
The "looked over his shoulder" was an indication he was going to move.


Maybe he was "yanking your chain",not that I condone such actions.
BTW,was there another car approaching HIM(in his lane),and maybe that's why
he moved over too soon,to get out of the other guy's way?
It's still bad judgement on his part.

I once "played hopscotch" with such an idiot,until he cut me off,and then I
ran him literally off the road,then he left me alone after that.


"hopscotch";
where you pass someone,they speed up,pass you,and slow down again,then when
you pass,they do the same thing all over again,and it repeats.


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