Pet Peeves

NUTS!

Mahem: Exactly, lane traffic laws are written without concern of speed limit, which has it’s very own section. They are written so people would give way so others could pass, regardless if the perpetrator feels entitlement of that lane.

I suspect most of the general populous aren’t aware of “flash to pass” laws in their states and if in a newer vehicle, you push or pull your high beam indicator switch in the opposite direction from which it stays in place while high beams are on, they find it springs back to the center position, that is the “flash to pass” feature manufacturers include for compliance with those laws and not just a temporary high beam to warn of police in the area....lol.

~Allen

While in Oklahoma for a graduation I noticed they had signs on the highway that basically said "Do not impede traffic in left lane". I thought that was cool.

What I at times see is someone doing the speed limit or maybe 5 over in the left lane, so they don't feel the need to pull over even though there is nobody in the right lane anywhere near them. Then they cop an attitude because you're speeding AND passing them on the right.

I have been on roads in commuter traffic where 80-85 MPH was the norm and driving 10 over in the left lane would piss off a whole lot of people. Some people in the left lane feel like they have every right to be there instead of just asking themselves if they could be going the same speed in other than the passing lane.

In any event, I don't care if I'm doing 80 MPH. If someone wants to pass me and I'm not passing anyone, I move over. If someone is actually passing people in the left lane, I back off until I reach a point where I can pass. When I come across someone that does the speed limit to 5 over when I can't pass and then they speed up when I can, lets just say I'm glad for every one of the 8 cylinders in my car ;-)

I have run a dash camera, mounted up high on the windshield, for several years now, filming all the time that the car is moving. I have had a couple of situations where it helped me, and also several situations where it caught the actions of other people. Walmart has one on sale now for $17. I bought one of these to run shooting out the back window. I highly recommend running one, if not two.

Traffic passing you on your right was probably wishing that asshole slowing things up in the left lane would get the fuck over.

They also were probably wondering, at what age it is the best to reevaluate and possibly give up driving. lol

~Allen

Allen, GET A LIFE! Traffic to my right that is why the ASSHOLE like YOU passed on the left and then EXITED. F U!

So, you were hogging the left lane while not passing. Maybe he was bitching to you as he passed, the DE Code Title 21 Chapter 14(A)1 and B (§ 4114) for not staying to the right. Just saying...……..

:-P

~Allen

Crazy young driver. This road trip to Delaware I am on I-68 going east. I am doing the 70 MPH speed limit in the left lane. There is a curve to the right ahead with 6 arrows. Some MORON kid in a pickup tailgates me then passes me using the left shoulder of the road. Drives to the right and get off the exit. I was driving my F-350, crew cab is 22 feet long and high. I hope the bastard NEVER sees 25 years old.

Yep, had all of that happen as well. At night when I pass on the right they always speed up and put their brights on and ride my bumper until I pull away or manage to lose them in traffic. Also have had cars see me coming up on the right and swerve into my lane at the last second and brake check me.

~Scamp

Ugh, yes.

A couple of years ago I had to go out to El Paso on business. I'm out on I-10 in W Texas, and I'm the only one on the road for at least 3 miles in each direction. I have the cruise control set for 85 and I'm just minding my own business. This little Saturn comes up behind me going almost 100mph, and I watch her in my mirror for miles as she gets closer and closer.

She gets right on my ass, slows down and parks herself on my rear left quarter. If anyone was coming up behind, they would have been locked out. After about 5 miles of that shit, I started slowing down. Got down to about 60 and she stayed right there behind me. No way in hell that it was chance. So I punched it to just over 100 and sure enough, she tried to keep up. Asshole.

Figured that was a good time to pull over and refuel.

The ones that drive me the craziest are ones on long road trips that cannot figure out cruise control and are leap-frogging you the whole goddamn time.

Speed limit is 70. They are going 70. You come up behind them going 75 and pass them and get in front of them.

5 minutes later, they pass you are 80-85, pull in front of you, and then slow down to 70.

So you pass them at 75 and leave them behind.

5 minutes later, they pass you again and slow down.

ARRRGH!!!!!

Scamp...ditto. Even worse is when you try to go around and they speed up. I totally get how road rage happens.

Left lane squatters. Why must the slowest drivers travel in the “fast lane” and make everyone else try to find away around them? My commute to and from work is three lanes each way and every day the fastest moving lane is the far right one while trucks and cars doing 55 in a 65 zone clog up the left and center lanes.

~Scamp

Swinger, "Smart few that have him blocked" They are the ones who can't stand the heat, so they "get out of the kitchen"

You are welcome. I figured you were part of the Smart few that have him blocked and didn't see the post.

"point me towards people blaming their shit on ny and i will point out some crazy people. "

You called it.... It was a reference to a HFT post. LOL!!

I think he's referring to New Yorkers who, when people are taken aback by their sometimes being brash and rude, often just waive it off with "I'm from New York", expecting that this earns them a pass.

And yet they ridicule Florida on a regular basis.

Except in February.

Anyone else ever notice how many people blame the fucked up shit they do on being from New York?

Why is this?

"Punctuality is respect for other peoples time" I am always early or on time. Wife is, "fashionably late". An NYC thing.

After decades of demanding promptness myself, I have recently begun to embrace being casually late just for the fuck of it.

~Allen

Hallelujah Duke!

I'm extremely punctual. And part of my job is hosting meetings. I silently fume multiple times every day when people are late to my meetings. I've got 10-15 people waiting on them. Disrespectful, rude and downright frustrating.

Always on time, Never late , People who are late all time are very rude

Rabbit, thanks for the clue of how to get a space after the first paragraph. I have struggled with that, and until now, had given up on a solution. I never would have thought to hit enter FOUR times to get it done. Thanks

Rabbit hit on one of my pet peeves and provided valuable info too (I wasn't aware of the hitting space 2-4 times to create a new paragraph) thanks for sharing that simple solution, and the buzzing bees gets to me too, being an avid reader, the poor spelling, lack of punctuation and the droning, run on diatribes make me zone out too. (people, your writing a forum comment, not a Dostoevsky level manifest!?)