Yard sales and cell phones. (rant)

[Farmwithjunk]

I'm about 25 miles south of Louisville Kentucky. A suburb of Louisville, Jeffersontown, was recently the site of a road rage incident where an ex cop and another man had words over which one had the right-of-way to exit a parking lot. They threatened each other, and the ex cop started shoooting. The victim is severly brain damaged, paralized, and on life support a week and a half later. He was shot 6 times in the head and upper chest at close range.

It can happen just that quick.

Is it worth all of that just to be the first one out of the parking lot? Wouldn't it be OK to just let it go? Do you suppose either one of these guys needed to be ahead of the other bad enough to ruin all the lives that are now ruined? Is it so important to prove who's right or wrong that you have to shoot someone? Or GET SHOT?

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Not doing something stupid that'll destroy your life and your family is the better part of acting like you have half a brain.

 

[N80]

Yep, and I'll admit it, I used to road rage. I get it. I understand the anger and the frustration. And it being dangerous really wasn't enough to deter me. But it finally dawned on me that the bad drivers (neither the self absorbed inattentive idiots nor the reckless jerks) are ever going to go away. Did I want to get that mad and act that stupid every time I left my driveway? Because every time you leave your driveway, you're going to run into them. On top of that, even if you could actually talk to these bad drivers, even calmly and rationally, you could never convince them that they are bad drivers. And you could never improve thier driving. They think they drive just fine....especially the hothead road ragers, who are the ones you're most likely to have a scrap with.

 

[wallace]

O-my....
I can't believe I have upset so many of you.
I am so sorry!







sorry couldn't resist

 

[Egon]

Aah -- I'm glad I'm perfect!! -- I just drive the roads in blissful oblivion

 

[CinderSchnauzer]

My wife has decided that my primary purpose in life is to cause road rage.

I've gotten into the habit of doing various things to upset bad drivers.

Deep down I might support your line of thinking and from time to time may be tempted to employ similar tactics, HOWEVER, even in Ontario, there are enough "wannabe gangstas" driving around with guns or baseball bats in their cars, if you continue, it is only a matter of time until we read of a middle aged guy with glasses and a mustache, being killed by some driver he cut off or "dissed" in some way.

Anyway - Good Luck. I hope your tactics don't backfire. It onlytakes once.

 

[YanmarFever]

Life is to short to be stuck in traffic

I left the rat race behind a loooooong time ago.


Ernie

 

[czechsonofagun]

It depends, sometimes I get pretty upset, other times I am more relaxed. But here are some of my favored situations:

- car in a hurry to get on my road. In such a hurry he cuts me off and than proceeds 5 miles under the speed limit.

- car slow to get to the traffic light - where he turns right and I miss my green across

- soccer mom with nothing else in the world to do but to f$#&k her husband to make her living - taking all the time she needs to get from point A to point B talking on the phone for hours, driving in the left lane with no clue who is behind her

- car in the left lane ready for the left turn he/she is gonna do in 5 miles, in the mean time blocking the fast lane


- drivers who slow down before going up the hill

- rubbernecking

- slowing down when cop pulls somebody over - hello, he is not looking, no need to hit the brakes.

 

[Defective]

Hmmm. doesn't that make you....one of them? To me, folks who sit at green lights are part of the problem. I tend to wake them up with my horn too.

Nope...

I'm not talking about honking to wake up an inattentive driver. I actually appreciate reminders if I'm not paying attention.

The idiots that annoy me are the ones sitting so close to my back bumper that the first clue I have of their existence is the prolonged horn blast that starts as I see the red light go out. The one in my earlier example actually started with the horn before the green came on & I wasn't even the first in line.

 

[knute_m]

I think we need to sometimes look at ourselves.

On the way home from work tonight I came through town. Usually, I go around the outskirts, but I had to pickup a few things. I made my stop, and traffic was absolutely awful when I got back on the road. Where it normally moves at about 25 MPH through the 4-lane downtown street, it was moving at less than 5 MPH. After about a mile, I finally see the problem. I catch up with it, and pass it just before a traffic light.

It was John Deere 530 with FEL, and the biggest red sickle bar mower I've ever seen. The mower was obviously a lot more than that old tractor should have ever been carrying. He had the blade folded up, and it was bouncing nearly into the left lane of traffic -- he was in the right lane. With each bounce of the mower blade, the front end of the tractor came off the pavement. Each time it bounced, it looked like it was going to seriously scratch his back.

I didn't see any road rage, but I could see that many of the other drivers questioned the sanity of the man on the tractor.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

FWJ, you need to rant more often as I enjoy reading them

I always hated driving thru towns when I use to ride a motorcycle, and I hate it even worse if I am pulling a trailer, and it gets downright ugly if I drive a tractor and baler thru town or pull a loaded hay wagon. One town is worse then the rest though and I try to avoid it