I Saw The Stupidest Guy In Town Today/Tailgater Gets Schooled

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Stupidest Guy In The City

Rush hour. Particularly brutal multi lane road in less than awesome section of town. Dude in front of me...who I was giving plenty of room...riding a moped.

Wearing no shirt, no shoes (flip flops), no helmet. Was wearing shorts. Also? Headphones.

Weaving back and forth in the lane, bobbing side to side the way bikers do sometimes on an empty road.

This road, suffice it to say, was not empty.

Oh, and did I mention he was tailgating the car in front of him? I predict he becomes a pizza before Sunday afternoon.

My daughter asked me if that guy "was like Patrick" (from Spongebob.)


Tailgater Gets Schooled...makes a passing D

Not the same dude. By now, I'm on an even worse road for traffic. Two lanes. Cars like strings of beads in both directions. Because I always leave safe driving distance this was not a real problem for me, but I saw it happen in front of me. Dude in front of me in a shitbox is tailgating the guy in front of him. Who stopped, because it's a two land road and the guy in front of him had to turn left. Shitbox guy slams on brakes so hard smoke and dust flies up in a cloud and he veers off the road into the shoulder, narrowly missing the chain link fence and LAKE to the right.

I was like " did that guy just do? I could totally smell his brakes. He then failed to look to see the traffic behind him (which fortunately was me, and I'd slowed way down. I wasn't sure at that moment why the guy had pulled over the way he did, but as soon as I got a whiff, I did. I kept on moving...slowly...and the guy just fumbles his car back onto the road, cutting me off, no signal, no mirror check. I mean, had he showed any intent at all, I'd have let him over no problem, but he looked stalled to me. The way he was smoking I sure wasn't expecting him to just climb back onto the road and keep going.

I was behind him for another half mile or so, smelling his brakes the entire time. He damn straight didn't tailgate anyone in front of him after that for as long as he was in front of me.

He'd have made a better grade if he'd been a little more careful getting back onto the road.

[Dips]

Saw a guy on a motorcycle on a crowded 3 lane highway yesterday. T-shirt, shorts, knee socks and sandals, helmet (mandated in Mass.) hanging down his back by the chin strap, riding with both his feet propped up over the front fender. And yup, he was tailgating.

It would be nice if these idiots would leave us out of their suicide plans, you know?

[protege]

Weaving back and forth in the lane, bobbing side to side the way bikers do sometimes on an empty road.

This road, suffice it to say, was not empty.

There's a guy who does that on Route 28. I used to see him every morning on his red scooter. That piece of shit could *barely* do 40mph, spewing out huge clouds of blue exhaust, and he couldn't understand why most of us (keep in mind that the speed limit turns to 55 once the road opens up) moved over...and passed him. Some people went so far as to flip him off. Can't understand why...since 55mph is the *slowest* people drive on that road

[blas]

Sad to say, but most bikers (meaning motorcyclists, not just leisure bikes but also crotch rocket riders!!) around here don't wear helmets, don't wear proper attire, in fact, most of them are usually in flip flops, shorts, tanktops or t-shirts, sometimes even shirtless!

Oh, and as far as shitboxes go.....damn I really hate that with most of my options in my car, the air has to come in from the outside...I really hate smelling other people's nasty burnt oil and bad brakes. It happens often. Also sad to say, at least once per month I get stuck nearby someone who has a giant cloud of blue smoke trailing them.

[RichS]

Sad to say, but most bikers (meaning motorcyclists, not just leisure bikes but also crotch rocket riders!!) around here don't wear helmets, don't wear proper attire, in fact, most of them are usually in flip flops, shorts, tanktops or t-shirts, sometimes even shirtless!

All I can think of when I see that is, knowing first hand, high-speed skin abrasion with pavement does not feel or look good...

[telecom_goddess]

small moped like scooters are only designed to do 35 to 40 and should never be on a highway of any kind, just surface streets.

Although once I was riding one and some douche passed me on the right and scared the crap outta me.

[Sleepwalker]

If you're going fast enough, it'll take off more than skin.