Been thinking about posting this for some time now. A few months ago, I backed off on interstate speeds from 72-75 to 67-70. Actually picked up 1-2 mpg. Prior to slowing down a bit, probably 60 to 70 per cent of traffic went around me. Now it seems folks can't wait to find out what is in the bed of my truck.
In town, I typically drive 34 in a 30 mph zone. They are still trying to have a peek in the back of my truck.
Things that annoy me:
-tailgaters
-no turn signals, even if they work
-people using cell phones while driving
-people that "creep" at a red light (are they "creeps" ?)
- I'm waiting to make a right hand turn and some ***hole comes up on my left and blocks the view
-Young punk drivers that have a stereo going BOOM,BOOM,BOOM
Feel free to add to the list
Sparks
I hate it when the light is green for me and I make a right turn and the person coming from the opposite directions makes a left turn at the same time and cuts me off or pushes me out. The person making the right hand turn has the right of way. They do not do this when I am driving my big 350 diesel truck. somehow the see me.
Yes, I also hate when people pick their nose and flick out the window...
Be decent about it, rub it on your jeans.
Boogers out the window, you are killing me. rofl rofl
Does the wind carry it back to your windshield Stinkerbell?
Yes, especially when they roll the booger with their fingers before they flick. It's hard on the paint job.
rofl rofl rofl
You are soooo ga-ross, Stink.
heh
Just thought of another one .....the driver that flies around you and then slams on the brakes to make the exit ramp.
How about the bunch of dumb party kids who pass you and spray silly string all over the front of your Kenworth and throw stuff ........until they find out that you can go faster than they can? hmm
Put them in the ditch.
I have actually seen an elderly person back up on a free way cause they missed their off ramp. No, not back up on the shoulder, but in a lane.
I don't think they will try that again. I believe they soiled their panties. They had to take a mountain side road with low trees to get away. I didn't hurt them but figured they needed to learn a little respect for their own good. Some people around here shoot for things like that.
Not me. I didn't have a gun. heh
Stink --- respect your elders. ::)
Going up to and returning from the mountains this weekend...
... bicyclists riding 2 abreast on the two lane highway.
... car turning around on a curve on the highway; speed limit 45 with road very curvy.
... car passing us on a double yellow line section.
I hate anyone driving a Pinto.
I just hate those cars.
Don - check your e-mail regarding this.
I can see this list could go on forever. But I will add a few.
City dwellers are not accustomed to driving on mountain roads or curvey pieces. They act like the straight pieces are the interstate and the curvey parts are their driveway. 40 mph on the turns and then 60-65 on the straights. Problem is there are not that many straight pieces. So after following them for 2-3 miles at 30-40 MPH you are all set to pass on the upcoming straights. Then they excellerate to interstate speeds. Ok out of the straight and back to the turns again following them for another 2-3 miles at 40 mph.
On a related note. I wonder just how much gas is saved by driving at or below the speed limit. Say your trip is 60 miles. You decrease your speed to 50 miles per hour. So now you have traveled 50 miles in one hour. You still have to drive the other 10 miles @ 50 miles per hour. If you drove at 60 miles per hour you would be there. Is the additional driving time any less gas consumption than driving at the higher limit in less time. Yeah Yeah they say so. But think about it.
ohh, I have some of these too.
people who do not stop at red lights. Mostly these are the tailgaters that just sneak in behind the car in front of them even when its red. The other class of red light runners are the "right on red" guys who somehow misunderstand that while they may turn - they still are supposed to stop at the light before doing so. It makes me mad to be going along at 50 or 60 mph only to have someone make a turn onto the highway and go 20 in front of me when I have the green light.
commercial vehicles who have the audacity to have stickers that say not responsible for damage, or driver cant see, or wide turns etc. The signs basically say to me that the driver does not need to adhere to the same rules of the road as everyone else. You cant refuse responsibility with just a sign.
I don't like bicyclist on the road unless its in the neighborhoods. I know this is a polarizing topic, but I dont see any reason for a bike to be on a 50mph street. Especially those numbnuts that drive out to the country in their SUV then unrack these 1100 dollar roadbikes and silly clothes and then ride side by side in a 70mph 2 lane country road. It is not a vehicle. Within the neighborhoods, I would prefer they use the sidewalks, or at least stop at the stop signs.
I try not to complain about speeders and the like. I think everyone who drives faster than me is crazy, and everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot. Problem is, I drive at different speeds at different times too, so I guess some days I am the madman and some days I am the idiot.
Any vehicle will reach a point where aerodynamic drag exceeds the frictional losses. That's the point when it costs you more to go faster. That point will vary between vehicles. My Jeep with it's 4.5" lift hits that wall a lot sooner than the Honda Civic. At the far end if the gas hog scale is the RV. It hits that wall around 40 mph or so.
I do not like it when a snotty nose teenagers is driving a better car then me heh
That happens with frequency with me. It doesn't bother me though when I know that mine are paid for and there's very well might belong to Mom & Dad and is not paid for.
Quote from: Redoverfarm on September 02, 2008, 07:29:22 AM
City dwellers are not accustomed to driving on mountain roads or curvey pieces. They act like the straight pieces are the interstate and the curvey parts are their driveway. 40 mph on the turns and then 60-65 on the straights. Problem is there are not that many straight pieces. So after following them for 2-3 miles at 30-40 MPH you are all set to pass on the upcoming straights. Then they excellerate to interstate speeds. Ok out of the straight and back to the turns again following them for another 2-3 miles at 40 mph.
Amen Red
and....
School buses that stop every block....When I was a kid you were lucky to be dropped off within a mile of your house. I killed my first bear with my loose leaf notebook on the way home from the bus stop. ;D
You forgot to mention the shoes. Didn't have any until the snow started did ya. ;D
Quotecommercial vehicles who have the audacity to have stickers that say not responsible for damage, or driver cant see, or wide turns etc. The signs basically say to me that the driver does not need to adhere to the same rules of the road as everyone else. You cant refuse responsibility with just a sign.
The problem here is that once the driver starts the tractor around the corner, his mirror only shows the side of his trailer. The sign is to warn people in little tiny cars, (That includes Hummers when compared to an 18 wheeler) that if they try to sneak in on the right and make a right turn in the area the trailers walks over, they will likely be run over. The driver has to stay left to clear curbs, poles, signs , etc. Trailers on big rigs can walk to the right 10 feet or more depending on how much room the driver has in front to make the turn.
The court will likely not hold the truck driver responsible for running over a car who snuck into the danger zone especially if it has a sign. The car legally has to wait until the intersection is clear before proceeding and is in the wrong if he sneaks in and gets run over. I know drivers who have run over cars that did that --- no problem.
For me up here it's usually "tourists". They don't understand that this is a place we live, and not some big National Park. I can't tell you how many times people will slam on the brakes, fail to pull off the road, and get out to take pictures of wildlife in some way, shape, or form. d*
I always wondered why it is called "tourist season", if we can't hunt them. :) I want to know what the bag limit is........lol.
I recall when I lived up in Anchorage some Einstein decided to place his two year old on the shoulder of a young bear that he started feeding in his backyard.
Can't even remember in 25 years the number of accidents that I went to where someone passing on the right was a contributing cause. Mostly in rural settings with exrtra wide lanes or wide berms. Wasn't really legal unless there was a lane designated having sufficent width.
Then comes to mind Ski Season. I think that when the people come from the city to a ski area they would have sense enough not to stop in the traffic lane of a blind mountain turn to clean their windshield wipers or headlights. Sort of like the show "What were you thinking".
Another little tidbit. Here in WV if you overtake a vehicle proceeding in the same direction you have to give an audible signal. That's why you hear so many horns on the interstate ???
Is WV in the US, John?
Horn when you come up behind someone on the freeway -- I haven't heard that one. They would never stop blowing here.
How about bikers who ride about 4 feet left of the side even on blind corners?
Friend of mine ran over the front of a guys car who snuck in beside him.. Got out - told him he shouldn't have pulled in there, got in and drove off.
Quote from: StinkerBell on September 02, 2008, 02:58:38 PM
I recall when I lived up in Anchorage some Einstein decided to place his two year old on the shoulder of a young bear that he started feeding in his backyard.
Time for more bleach in the gene pool, huh? I saw something that wasn't as bad about a month ago. Guy was out of his car on the Old Glenn where the bridge passes over the railroad tracks, chasing a black bear down the road to get a better picture. He was about 15-20 feet behind him. Lucky for him, the bear kept running.
Well at least part of it is that isn't joined by Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
Strangely here the bicycles are given the same right of way as the cars. In the same token they have to obey the laws just like everyone else. That's why I am a big fan of Mountain Bikes. They stay on the trails and not on the tails.
Instead of bleach in the gene pool, why not just take those select few out to the tide flats at low tide and encourage them to go out and find some pretty sea shells.
Quote from: StinkerBell on September 02, 2008, 06:01:58 PM
Instead of bleach in the gene pool, why not just take those select few out to the tide flats at low tide and encourage them to go out and find some pretty sea shells.
rofl rofl rofl
Quote from: StinkerBell on September 02, 2008, 06:01:58 PM
Instead of bleach in the gene pool, why not just take those select few out to the tide flats at low tide and encourage them to go out and find some pretty sea shells.
Just ouside the levy in New Orleans.
Quote from: desdawg on September 02, 2008, 08:54:13 PM
Quote from: StinkerBell on September 02, 2008, 06:01:58 PM
Instead of bleach in the gene pool, why not just take those select few out to the tide flats at low tide and encourage them to go out and find some pretty sea shells.
Just ouside the levy in New Orleans.
Actually here in Alaska. When the tide goes out, what's left is a combination of silt and mud, and is extremely good at getting you sucked in and stuck. There have been people(as well as animals) who have walked out there in the past, only to get stuck, and have the tide come back in. [toilet]
It is like quicksand. [hungry]
Mad dog, that toilet emotican tells it all. [cool]
Guess mine would have to be the guys driving combines or 12-row planters at about 10-15 mph and then hugging the center line so you can't see around them to pass, even when there is a paved shoulder that extends 6'-8' beyond the right lane.... I mean, would it hurt to pull over a little so that folks could see around you?
Another one is folks who speed through parking lots... where are they going that is so dadgummed important that they'd risk running over kids or little old ladies going into Piggly Wiggly?
Sunday afternoon, I stopped by the health food store to buy some wheat. As I was getting the kids out of the car, I heard an insistent honking. Hardly anyone honks around here unless it is to say, "Hey, I know you." Well, in the adjacent parking lot (incidentally a Hooter's parking lot) a little Prius was carefully picking its way over the speed bumps. Two Mexican guys in a red shortbed Chevy pulled up right on the back end of the Prius and just leaned on their horn. They guy in the Prius got mad and just stopped halfway through the gamut of speed bumps, so the guys in the truck, still laying on the horn, rammed him from behind. He started moving again, very slowly, over the next few speed bumps, with the truck following and honking constantly, and coming up and hitting his bumper. When the Prius cleared the last speed bump, it reminded me of what happens when you lift up something and there is a mouse under it; it shot off and swerved all over the bigger parking lot, tires screeching and desperate to get away. The truck took off chasing him, but they gave up the chase before he got very far... a few minutes later they were cruising the parking lot to look for someone else to harrass. >:( Don't know what's gotten into people....
Oh, the other one I hate: litterbugs!!! Can't stand it when people throw stuff out the windows of their cars going down the road (yes, Stink, including boogers!)
We all seem to be on the same page here. But Stink has a very unique perspective with the flying boogers and 'snotty nosed teenagers'
Is there a connection ? d*
They are trying to stop being snotty nosed. That is why they throw it out the window. I don't think they can win.
how 'bout smokers who think the whole world is their ashtray as they flick the butts out the window of their vehicle. i too hate litterbugs and this action also increases the chance of starting a fire. of course they will be long gone. i won't even date a gal that smokes. >:(
They seem to be the ones who start many of our fires. The roads are a patchwork of burned land along them -- nearly all started at the edge of the highway. Had one a mile away where the big fire was a couple weeks earlier. Had another on Monday.
Millions of dollars damage for the sake of cigarettes and idiots.
My dad is in the category of the "cigarrette flickers"... aggravates the soup out of me. He'll argue till he's blue in the face (which isn't all that long since he sometimes gets a little short of breath seeing as he's been smoking for 50 years) that it is impossible for a cigarrette butt to start a grass fire, but everyone knows good and well it can. And Apaknad, I don't blame you... I always wonder how folks who don't smoke can live with smokers, let alone kiss them! :P I also hate it when people dump their ashtray at a stop sign or light while they're waiting for their turn to go.
Oh, and drunk drivers, but that's a given, isn't it? By the time I was 21, I'd already lost six friends in drunk driving accidents (none of them were the ones drinking.) Another girl I knew from high school was left permanently brain damaged and crippled in the same accident that killed her boyfriend, one of my friend's older brothers.
good one HT,
i forgot about the ashtray dumpers. makes me cringe just to think about it. i see piles in parking lots too. last summer i was talking to a good friend of mine and we were discussing changing our engine oil and i asked him where he recycled his old oil. he said he dumped it in the back yard on the ground. i offered to recycle it in the future. made me feel bad. this is a hard working intelligent man. :-[ i just feel that there are somethings that we can't do anymore. i know 100% recycling is not the answer for everyone but at least pick the low hanging fruit off the recycling tree and try to help future generations(if we have any).
;D Re the dumping used motor oil in the backyard... when I was about 8 years old, my aunt and uncle had a massive fight because he dumped some motor oil by accident (tripped on the oil pan) and it spilled into my aunt's tomato patch. My mom was working nights, so I was spending the night at their house. Even though my parents had divorced three years earlier, I'd NEVER seen them fight. Well, my aunt and uncle were at it all night, and my poor little cousin was scared to death by it. I can still see my aunt out there with rollers in her hair and in a terry-cloth house dress, beheading the defenseless tomatoes with the sharpened hoe raised above her head and bawling and shrieking through her teeth, "Shtupid, shtupid, shtupid!!!" It's funny in retrospect, but was sort of scary at the time. My aunt is one of those women who always has makeup on, so when she isn't wearing it, she looks kind of scary, and then add the rollers, old house dress, and the temper, and she was a sight! It was an honest mistake on my uncle's part (or at least I really think it was) and the tomatoes probably would have survived if not for my aunt. I remember being amazed that they were still married a week later because my folks never fought and yet divorced, and here they were up ALL NIGHT screaming and yelling, and they're still married. I don't ever remember them fighting before or after that day, and I was over there a lot, but that one stands out in my memory. I felt sorry for my uncle and thought my aunt had truly lost her marbles.
I get mad at people who don't know how to merge into freeway traffic when coming from on-ramp or those who are in such a hurry that they will pass you & pull in right in front of you, just about hitting you when they're not going to get there any faster as the traffic is all backed up in front... [frus] I like to keep a little room in front of me when driving so in case someone stops suddenly, I don't hit them in the rear - but noooooo, this idiot will pull into that safety area although he's still not gonna go any faster d*
btw, I think everyone who throws out a cigarette butt should be fined as much as someone would throwing out a piece of paper - here in lots of places, it's $5000... maybe that'd teach em! >:(
they actually started doing that a while back in my college town when we were having a spell of dry weather and wildfire
Now if they could only catch more of them.
Re-activated my CDL med certificate today.
My regular crew truck driver got canned last week.
Nuff Said. >:(
I did mine a few weeks back. The whole procedure is one of my favorites. Not. ::)
Today was my first time driving the company equipment in years. An Int'l 4700 loaded, with trailer and backhoe in tow. In and around Baraboo, Wi. (very hilly)
Here's my Andy Rooney impression:
-Int'l 4700's suck; underpowered, lousy transmission
-40000 pounds of total weight is not fun (see below)
-Spartan brakes
-15 mph uphill in 3rd gear
-Too much noise
-And ALL that BS paperwork!
Waaaaahhh.
Wasn't a good day.
But I got to where I needed to go safely, and no one was hurt. ;)
Go down em the same speed you go up em, Sparks
- wisdom from my buddy who chases drunks on the sidewalk with a Peterbilt.