[quote]larryb wrote:
I always thought people speeding up as you pass them was a subconscious thing. Then one day my friend’s brother was driving us somewhere, and as someone passed him he sped up and muttered “I hate it when people try to pass me.” From the tone of his voice, it sounded like he was somehow threatened by someone passing him. Needless to say, I smacked him on the back of the head and spent the next five minutes telling him what an asshole he was.[/quote]
Myself, I actually like to have people pass me when I am not in a hurry and they are. If I am not in a hurry on a two-lane road with a small number of cars behind me and there is a wide shoulder to my right, I will usually pull over so they all pass by and I don’t have to think about them anymore.
[quote]eengrms76 wrote:
jp_dubya wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
On the way there, I’m doing about 75, speed limit is 70.
Speed limit 70, you were doing 75, you were in the wrong. No two ways about it.
WTF? Can you tell someone is going 5 over just by looking at them? Is it your responsibility to police someone who is going 5 over?
I routinely go at least 10-15 over the speed limit on most roads and rarely encounter anyone who cares (except the cops).[/quote]
Considering the extreme contrast between driving 5mph over the speed limit vs. swerving into somebody and trying to force them away from safety; combined with the short, deadpan delivery: it seems pretty clear this was meant as an ironic-type joke.
[quote]NealRaymond2 wrote:
Myself, I actually like to have people pass me when I am not in a hurry and they are. If I am not in a hurry on a two-lane road with a small number of cars behind me and there is a wide shoulder to my right, I will usually pull over so they all pass by and I don’t have to think about them anymore.[/quote]
Some people just will not pass, no matter how much empty road lies ahead and no matter how slow you go. I’ve tested this by actually coming to a stop on the road.
I think its because they know they can get away, so they know they wont get a beating. case in point:
Parked on the side of the road with the blinker on in a sub division that was newly being built. some of the roads where gravel and there was no traffic (1am). anyway, i was there looking at the model homes and some guy comes up in a suv and stops behind me. after a minute he spins out and drives around. he stops a little up the road and turns around, speeds back down swerving toward me and yells “Fucker”. I was like, WTF and my girlfriend was stunned. I wanted to chase him down and fucking curb stomp him, but my girlfriend wanted to keep looking around at the houses.
[quote]tumbeh wrote:
As big strong weightlifters we should all adopt my wonderful rule.
When you drive, pretend you are walking on the sidewalk. You wouldn’t flip someone off or shake your fist and go ballistic if someone did something stupid in front of you.[/quote]
Right, probably because you aren’t moving 1 ton and a half of glass and steel at faster than walking speeds. Not a real good analogy, dude.
You wouldn’t maybe. What excuse, on a sidewalk empty except for me and the person walking too close to me, would they have for stepping on my heel? Sounds like they already “provoke(d) shit”, to me. I would turn around and give them a second to apologize, and if I didn’t get an apology, they’d at least get a “problem, motherfucker?”
I agree.
Learning that there are people out there that won’t tolerate their unsafe, rude driving habits just might, you never know. At the very least, it makes the person they wronged feel better.
And the big guy was wrong? What excuse did the minivan have for endangering his life?
