Rude drivers.(bit of a rant)
 

Now I'm only 16 and I know I act like it's Daytona sometimes, but there are some rude http://www.msn101.com/content/emotic...key_QZ3N6Q.gif(it's a donkey) drivers out there.
Give ya an example of what happened to me about an hour ago;
Headed home from picking up some gas from town for the toys and the mower, I was in my grandfathers truck(2010 Dodge but it ain't bad at all). Now my grandfather is getting on in his years so it has a disabled persons tag for his back, but he's nice enough to only use it when he's really bad off, and one of the "in memory of" things for my grandmother so I guess this woman thought he was driving but I digress, I was in the right lane going a steady sixty and there was a smallish box van for one of the local furniture stores about two hundred and fifty feet up ahead in the left going about fifty nine by my guessing cause I was creeping up on him slowly.
This newer Lancer comes flying up behind me and pulls behind the box van like like she was gonna cut me off and then continue on her seventy mile an hour way like I'm sitting still, well I look over and accompanying this woman is a kid that looks about ten or so and I can see this woman is looking between the van and my pop's truck thinking about trying to gap between me and this box van. Now we've started up hill and the van is slowing down a bit because I'm guessing he's loaded down or he might have seen what was going on behind him.
I'm holding my sixty and starting to pass him because he's now going about fifty six or seven, the woman in the Lancer swings, not pulls or anything steady, but swings behind me and rides my http://www.msn101.com/content/emotic...key_QZ3N6Q.gif all the way till we crest the hill and pass the van. She then cuts the van off, gives me the finger and gets back on her seventy mile an hour way.

Is it me or do people just not think when they drive?
I'm a trucker's son so during my whole learning to drive experience and even now when we jump in the truck to go somewhere, I was and still get taught how to check my speed without looking at the gauge and how to measure distance while traveling, how to gauge distance between two vehicles and stuff like that so I think have a pretty good bearing on what's safe and what's not and by my thinking, this woman was just too focused on getting there but not necessarily safely.

Welcome to America.

She should of flipped the van driver off. July 1, 2010 it becomes law in KS that you cannot be in the passing lane out of city limits on a 4 lane roadway unless you are passing another vehicle or merging for emergency vehicles. As it should be. Drives me nuts when people drive the speed limit and stay in the passing lane.

Rude driving is the norm now.

I wouldn't have to carry a gun if peoiple would just use their turn signals.

Summer driving is worse, I know because my ammo cost almost doubles.

you should come down to houston in 5 o'clock traffic sometime

You must have the bumper sticker "Keep honking I'm reloading".:lol:

X100 that is my pet peeve some ahole cruising in the left lane about 60 or 65 the whole damn time and the right lane has been clear for miles. Here in texas they either drive in the left lane or in the ditch trying to let people pass :lol:

it's worse in Germany (except they don't flip you off), France, Italy etc

As much as I appreciate the offer, I'll pass.
You do it for me :thumbsup:

This is where I have a problem. With the way the driver acted, I would have driven next to the van for miles blocking her attempt to pass - after all, you were in the RIGHT lane so its not like you were doing anything wrong by going slower. I have no patience for people who drive like that.

yeah man welcome to america now see if someone does that to me i do the opposite of what you do i get pissed and then i speed up pass the jerk off give him the finger get in front of him and slow down real good for him and if its a slow car i get real slow and then lose em

Are you sure she wasn't giving the van driver the finger? It's always the morons camped out in the fast lane that are a primary source of road rage.

I'm pretty sure she was giving it to me, she reached across the kids lap and nearly pressed her knuckles against the passenger glass.

I would worry about, it's just another confused female with misplaced aggression.

For the past few weeks, I've had this persistant lady in a car that sometimes either tailgates me, tries passing me, or cut in front of me and drives fast then slow... well reality finally caught up to the lady today. She was following too close to me this morning. There was a dead buck out in the middle of the road, and I drove right over it. She was driving a little car, and she tried swerving but she missed, lost control, and hit a concrete barrier and then did a 360 and hit the guard rail which more than likely totally destroyed the car. Luckily no one was tailgating her.

Did I stop? No... but I was thinking about calling it in... but nah... I needed to make her have a miserable day just like how she tried making mine miserable for the past few weeks.

She deserved it though. :smoke: