TN drivers

[stellinacadente]

NOw I do not like to put everyone in the same buket... but ya know what? TN drivers CANNOT drive!

Just today I was coming back from house hunting and I was on the interstate (2 lanes  ) ... at a junction a minivan merges right nex to me....

I am going a little faster then he is... and what does he do? Cuts right infront of me with no signal... I'd say a good 5 feet away from my hood...

Good for him I was going just 55 mph...

Pissed to no end (I had my little one in the car)... I overtook and I was side by side with him... I gave him a piece of my mind...

this episode is only the last (and not the worst) of a series that has been goign on for the past week...

Is these people's intention to try to get us killed? because if so... well they're doing a damned fine job!

personally I would send them all to get a driving boot camp in the fine jungles of SoCal... they either get killed or learn... either way the rest of us will be safer 

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Want to get revenge?

Follow their car, wait until they park.

Then, paste a bumper sticker on the front bumper with something like, "All Cops Are Pigs" or worse.  Put one on the back, too.

After several tickets, it may dawn on them why....


_{and no, I cannot take credit for this prank, I read about it in a novel. Unfortunately, I have forgotten which one...}

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I've noticed a rash of it out here, too. And usually it's SUVs (which are California's minivans) that jam themselves in front of the tiny Scion I drive.

I like Bob's idea. I really do.

[stellinacadente]

paste a bumper sticker on the front bumper with something like, "All Cops Are Pigs" or worse.  Put one on the back, too.

I woke up my daughter with my laughing! But you know what??? it ain't bad at all.... even though I still would like to see them going to a South California boot camp...

[anthrobabe]

I learned to drive in Los Angeles--- there should be a boot camp out there-- but now days it just seems to be slow moving hell out there anymore.  For a real nasty wake up-- Boston-- yes Boston
or Houston or Phoenix or Atlanta(notice that all have some type of motorspeedway for car racing events(even as large as NASCAR)---- hmmmmmm I think it wears off on the population) Phoenix is also loud- the drivers have one hand on the cell phone and the other on the damn horn all the time- it is deafening. 

The bumper sticker idea is a good one. Very funny! Another idea is to put a sticker or something on the car advertising the drivers 'wares and skills'--- sort of a 'for a good time _________ ' sticker. Of course that might be dangerous-but funny as hell. Maybe just a price list....

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

My god, LA is horrible. HORRIBLE. I will never drive there if I can help it. I'll die. I'll get run off the road and die. 

Or a sticker suggesting all cops are interested in is doughnuts (can't remember the exact phrase).

[pieces o nine]

When I moved to Denver I was given this Metro driving advice:

1. (4) cars will follow you through the red light.
2. Let (2) cars cut you off as they're zooming up the on-ramp, but plow that third bastard into the wall.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Lol, my uncle recommended the same thing when I was considering moving back to Denver (am still thinking about it, but that'll be a few years down the road).

[anthrobabe]

When I moved to Denver I was given this Metro driving advice:

1. (4) cars will follow you through the red light.
2. Let (2) cars cut you off as they're zooming up the on-ramp, but plow that third bastard into the wall.

Add Denver to the list-- I have heard about it as well. Is it a form of altitude sickness?

[Darlica]

People in Big Expensive Cars™ will always act like the people in older, smaller or less expensive cars are their minions and should just give room for them (possible also bow deeply) when they drive on the road in all their glory...

Me thinks that's a universal law...

The only time the people the Big Expensive Cars™ actually stayed out of my way was when I was driving a U-haul truck during my latest move... My old trusted Volvo 945 was good too big, boxy and not a beauty to behold. It didn't keep the SUV's at bay but pretty much everyone else.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

People in Big Expensive Cars™ will always act like the people in older, smaller or less expensive cars are their minions and should just give room for them (possible also bow deeply) when they drive on the road in all their glory...

Seriously. I drive one of these:

And I've nearly been run off the road or shoved off a shoulder at lane merges. Always by trucks and SUVs. Those hulking cars (think a Dodge Charger) and the mid-size SUVs like to cut me off, too, since I drive with a bit of distance between me and the guy in front of me.

Ack, anyway. Stelli, had any more issues with the TN drivers?

[Aggie]

And I've nearly been run off the road or shoved off a shoulder at lane merges. Always by trucks and SUVs. Those hulking cars (think a Dodge Charger) and the mid-size SUVs like to cut me off, too, since I drive with a bit of distance between me and the guy in front of me.

I used to love taking on Hummers in my old Firefly.  Especially tailgaters...  if you're gonna keep on my ass, I'm going to SLOW DOWN MORE.  When they finally pass, I return to normal speed.

I HATE those idiots that cut into your response-time space, Scrib.  One goes to all the trouble of being responsible and leaving a few car-lengths, and it's an open invite to any arsehole who thinks that parallel-park spacing is appropriate at 110 km/h.  So you back off again, and some other arsehole moves in.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Isn't traffic a lovely topic? Miami would seem like hell on wheels if I didn't knew better: I learned to drive in Bogota, and the funny part is that I've heard tales of Mexico City and different cities in India that make my home city a pleasure to drive in comparison.

Stelli, I'm surprised, haven't you driven in Rome  

[Pachyderm]

Try driving in Africa someday. It certainly heightens your sense of hazard perception. For a while Uganda had the most dangerous roads (statistically, anyway), and they don't like using their lights, it runs down the power, apparently. They get switched on microseconds before impact, to see if they know the hapless pedestrian, or occupant/s of the target vehicle. Throw in the joy of potholes you can hide a tank in, and the chance of seriously large wildlife. (I almost gave a buffalo a two-ton metal enema on several occasions)

But, driving along and seeing an elephant is cool. I only had to look in the mirror, admittedly, but it's still cool.

[Griffin NoName]

Stelli, I'm surprised, haven't you driven in Rome  

Was just about to say the same thing when I read this Zono!

Rome has a lot to recommend it. If found it really helped me lose my fear of traffic back in the UK.