So tonite I was on my way to take some movies back to BlockBuster. I pulled out of the neighborhood my house is located in, onto the main thoroughfare. I noticed a bright yellow “Lancer” behind me. They quickly pulled into the left lane beside me. We met at the stop light and when the light changed to green I started out on my way. I got up to the speed limit and was cruising along happily when the Lancer jolted in front of me and then slammed on their brakes at the next light. I don’t know what set them off, I figured they were just in a hurry to make a right turn as everyone in our town seems to be. But they just drove the speed limit to the next red light. I turned right at that intersection and thought to myself that they just must have wanted to be first because statistics prove that when you cut some one off and fly through traffic you on avereage arrive at the same destination approximately 5 seconds earlier. Maybe they wanted to get to the BlockBuster first. Kinda like the kid in school that had to be done with the test first. Ridiculous! I didn’t see them when I was at the movie store so I guess they were just in a hurry in general, in a hurry to get in front of me and go the speed limit! Idiots!

Here are some other driving practices that drive (hee hee) me nuts!

1. Slamming on your brakes at a yellow light, c’mon! Don’t you realize that means you still have a chance to make it?

2. Cutting you off and then braking hard so you almost hit them and then flipping you off because they felt you were driving too close to them while they were slamming on their brakes repeatedly and unexpectedly, at times like this I wish my Jeep Rubicon was a monster truck so I could just run them down!

3. Purposely stealing your parking space as you were just about to pull into it-you know who you are…

4. Stealing your gas pump and then not pulling up so you can use the other one

5. Honking when you are trying to pull out safely into traffic, I mean the guy behind you is in a hurry so just pull out and die already!

6. Tailgating you on the freeway when you’re already going over the speed limit by 10 miles an hour and you’re in the middle lane trying to stay out of everyone’s way-along with the people that don’t go the speed limit and wreck my gas mileage on long road trips forcing me to turn on and off my cruise control-Ugh!

7. Running neck a neck with you while you are signaling to get on the freeway, these people act like points are earned by running others off the road

8. Parking in the middle of the driving area of a parking lot with no blinkers on just parking, hanging out, maybe waiting for someone to come out of the store, or maybe just thinking about possible parking in the real stalls but you’re just not sure so instead you just drive -1 miles per hour or you just stop dead in the middle of where the rest of us normal people are driving through the parking lot-when you figure it out I will have driven around you, parked and gone in the store and got the last vibrating bead back massager, I guess you’ll have to keep paying that chiropractor! LOL!

9. Signaling you to “GO” when you are making a deadly left turn out of a parking lot, you are fully expecting to wait until all the traffic near the light has gone so you can get into the left turn lane and then merge with the next rush of cars heading the opposite direction. But no, this guy wants you to trust him that the other lane of traffic on his other side that you can not see is clear and that the oncoming 2 lanes that you will be making this death turn into are clear too! Yeah right, I generally just look away when someone signals me on like that, I have tried to signal them back, like as to say, “No Thanks, you go ahead,” this usually leads to the driver re-signaling you and pretty soon it looks like a sweltering day in August and everyone is just fanning themselves.

10. Loading items in your car and then putting your car in reverse but not moving just sitting there and having a conversation with your passenger while the rest of us are trying desperately to find a place to park. This usually happens to me and while I am waiting for you to get a move on, the guy behind me honks because he has falsely accused me of Rule # 8 thanks to you!

 

If you have any more to add I’d love to hear them!

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