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Honest to god, I encounter the strangest/worst drivers around here. I'm glad I've got a week of college left.
I've also noticed that the bulk of my threads now are driving related....
(And I almost wrote "bumped into" up there but...yeah)
I Wasn't Going for a Reason!
I hate this one light I sometimes have to hit so I can run errands when I leave the school. The road I travel on ends at a light that crosses rt. 30, and there's no sign saying that there's no right on red. However, people come flying down the hill from my left so quick I never chance it, and half the time there's somebody in the lane to my left so I can't see around them to check if the coast is clear. It also doesn't help this light is about a block and a half from the on-ramp to the Pike.
So I approach the light today and it's red. I can see traffic coming from the left so I know I'm not going anywhere because once that light changes the traffic across the light has right of way. So I wait.
Guy pulls up in a Nissan behind me and immediately lays on the horn because I'm not going, tossing his hands in the air. I ignore it. A longer blast from the guy and a flipped bird. I return the gesture before playing with the rearview mirror, because I can't see past the white truck that has now pulled in front of me and traffic was still coming at a steady stream.
Guy lays on his horn a third time and for a bit longer than the first blast, so I inch forward just a bit to see and almost have my front blasted off by a car coming from the left. I hit the brakes and Nissan dude, who had been following me since I had started edging, blares his horn again because how dare I stop and not allow myself to get smashed?!?.
I still waited until the light turned green. Sorry, I'm not committing suicide for you. I don't like you that much.
Tanning...?
Drove past a woman today who had one leg up on the dash...while she was driving.
Glad I wasn't going the same way.
Lot Jumpers
I'm not sure if anyone has dealt with this same problem before, but scattered down rt. 9 are many shops and plazas. Of course, they aren't connected, so you have to jump from one to another. I've dealt with this myself at least once. It's not fun, and it's can't be good for the car to have to make sharps turns like that into traffic and then out into another parking lot.
I wouldn't mind it as much if said lot jumpers didn't wait until I was only 20 feet away to swing out and back. Scares the daylights out of me every time.
Nice, Mom
I remember a thread here about the moms who drop their kids off at school and how bad they can be at driving. I can attest to this.
On numerous occasions I've been tailgated by parents who just have to get precious Timmy to school at 7:45 (the day doesn't start until 8:30, and most teachers aren't there until 8:10...where's the kid going to go?); two adults swung theirs cars in so close to mine after I had parked it that I couldn't even open my door to get out until they were done; and many of them still need to learn to park (at least one parked horizontally across three spaces, they were quickly dealt with because enough people complained)
I've also noticed that the bulk of my threads now are driving related....
(And I almost wrote "bumped into" up there but...yeah)
I Wasn't Going for a Reason!
I hate this one light I sometimes have to hit so I can run errands when I leave the school. The road I travel on ends at a light that crosses rt. 30, and there's no sign saying that there's no right on red. However, people come flying down the hill from my left so quick I never chance it, and half the time there's somebody in the lane to my left so I can't see around them to check if the coast is clear. It also doesn't help this light is about a block and a half from the on-ramp to the Pike.
So I approach the light today and it's red. I can see traffic coming from the left so I know I'm not going anywhere because once that light changes the traffic across the light has right of way. So I wait.
Guy pulls up in a Nissan behind me and immediately lays on the horn because I'm not going, tossing his hands in the air. I ignore it. A longer blast from the guy and a flipped bird. I return the gesture before playing with the rearview mirror, because I can't see past the white truck that has now pulled in front of me and traffic was still coming at a steady stream.
Guy lays on his horn a third time and for a bit longer than the first blast, so I inch forward just a bit to see and almost have my front blasted off by a car coming from the left. I hit the brakes and Nissan dude, who had been following me since I had started edging, blares his horn again because how dare I stop and not allow myself to get smashed?!?.
I still waited until the light turned green. Sorry, I'm not committing suicide for you. I don't like you that much.
Tanning...?
Drove past a woman today who had one leg up on the dash...while she was driving.
Glad I wasn't going the same way.
Lot Jumpers
I'm not sure if anyone has dealt with this same problem before, but scattered down rt. 9 are many shops and plazas. Of course, they aren't connected, so you have to jump from one to another. I've dealt with this myself at least once. It's not fun, and it's can't be good for the car to have to make sharps turns like that into traffic and then out into another parking lot.
I wouldn't mind it as much if said lot jumpers didn't wait until I was only 20 feet away to swing out and back. Scares the daylights out of me every time.
Nice, Mom
I remember a thread here about the moms who drop their kids off at school and how bad they can be at driving. I can attest to this.
On numerous occasions I've been tailgated by parents who just have to get precious Timmy to school at 7:45 (the day doesn't start until 8:30, and most teachers aren't there until 8:10...where's the kid going to go?); two adults swung theirs cars in so close to mine after I had parked it that I couldn't even open my door to get out until they were done; and many of them still need to learn to park (at least one parked horizontally across three spaces, they were quickly dealt with because enough people complained)
I still haven't figured out how we managed to fit everything/one comfortably in there.
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