What Grinds Your Gears...

[Marquoz]

Originally Posted by theknub

for me, it is crappy drivers and / or people not going the speed limit. i tend to not speed (maybe five over on a long stretch for a little while or 10 when on the 5... if you're in CA you know what i'm saying) but when there is someone going say 35 in a 50, i get pissed. of course, that may be because i live in a resort town and tourists are idiots.... but that is a different matter

Oh man, I hate that! I am so going to end up in jail for road rage one day after I buy a large axe and start threatening to behead people that can't learn to drive.

What gets me the most is people that decide it's smart to cut across 4 lanes of traffic and try to cut you off so they can make a left hand turn when there is NOBODY behind you and they could easily have gotten behind you and not made you slam on the brakes to avoid rear ending them.

It also drives me nuts when you wait in a turn lane, and somebody speeds up to the front of the line and tries to cut in, and then flips you off when you refuse to let them in forcing them to wait. I will NEVER let somebody in like that, if I had to wait, they have to wait!

[theknub]

Originally Posted by Marquoz

Oh man, I hate that! I am so going to end up in jail for road rage one day after I buy a large axe and start threatening to behead people that can't learn to drive.

What gets me the most is people that decide it's smart to cut across 4 lanes of traffic and try to cut you off so they can make a left hand turn when there is NOBODY behind you and they could easily have gotten behind you and not made you slam on the brakes to avoid rear ending them.

It also drives me nuts when you wait in a turn lane, and somebody speeds up to the front of the line and tries to cut in, and then flips you off when you refuse to let them in forcing them to wait. I will NEVER let somebody in like that, if I had to wait, they have to wait!

agreed. all that pisses me off. in general, i'm very calm and don't have many cares. behind the wheel, i get truckers mouth for the idiots on the road...

now, this doesn't mean i have never done anything dumb. but, i'd at least like to think i'm above average.

[Sylin]

I saw a device you can buy online (I tried Googling for a link but I'm at my office and don't have time to sift for it now), where you can put an LED display bar in your rear window and pre-program a variety of phrases into it that you can operate from the driver's seat. So if you're being tailgated, you could have it spell out: "no... not gonna happen" or "back off".

Something else that really grinds my gears are shopping malls. Thank you for making me suffer through ridiculous traffic so I can walk inside and be greeted by high prices and pathetic selection and your fake 30' palm trees. Add to it the overly-snobby rich women who cart around their DG shopping bag like it's an award for intelligence--I am not impressed that you paid too much for those jeans that you will only wear once. Or the douchebag teenagers who schlep around in groups and clutter walkways and perform ridiculous stunts on escalators with no regard to the woman pushing the stroller that they nearly toppled over, all the while using phrases like "oh my gawd" or "like, like, like" or "seriously" to obscene extents. I think the shopping mall is a testament to so many things wrong with our culture. Thank "gawd" for e-commerce.