KT gets teh road rage - TR

[27offsuit]

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27,

If you actually think passing on the right is a "dick move" when there's someone just cruising along in the left lane blocking traffic, you're in a very, very small minority.

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That's not really what I said

blinden84 had the answer I most agree with:

"I hesitate, but just long enough to beep 3 times and flash them some high beams to try and make them realize they are being an ass, then I pass them in the right lane. "

What I said was:

If you hate something other people do, and then do the exact same thing when you deem it appropriate, you are a huge, huge tool.


For example, there was a time in my life I would sit there and rant to myself while driving "Well, maybe if you put your [censored] cell phone down and just drove..." to the lady in front of me.
Then one day my cell phone rang shortly after one of these rants and I found myself doing the exact same thing I was bitching about someone else doing.

I just try to apply how I think others should act to how I should act as well.
Now this concept will surely put me in 'a very, very small minority'.

[ZenMusician]

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If you hate something other people do, and then do the exact same thing when you deem it appropriate, you are a huge, huge tool.

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I have a theory that many of these motorists are the same
people in your Yambag thread. Also, I think we need a
separate forum for the Massholes who invariably swarm to
any other MH's posts [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

-ZEN

[daryn]

ugh last night i'm behind a pickup truck when the guy throws a cigarette out the window and it hits my car, sparks flying. i was so pissed off that i got close so i could read his license plate. i want to do awful things to his car. maybe i'll talk myself out of it by the time i find out where he lives.

[J.A.K.]

Had a semi almost put me in the left wall of the interstate when I was in college. Traffic is moving at a decent clip and I am in far left lane passing said semi. He has his left blinker on for a while and procceeds to just come on over when I am not quite halfway by him. I have to slam on brakes and swerve onto left emergency lane and barely miss the concrete wall. As I am doing this I see his arm gesturing out the window for me to GTFO of his way. 1) he's not supposed to be in the far left lane 2) he did not have to move over as the lane he was in also went the direction he needed (the highway split), and there was no one in front of him anyway.

I go absolutely crazy. I floor it and swerve back onto the highway, speed past him and see a hiil coming up that he needs to get a run at. I get in front of him and slow down to like 5MPH and he can't go around because now all the people in the left lane are passing us on the right. His entire body is almost out of his driver side window wishing me death and I am basically doing the same. Finally I just take off knowing he has to climb that hill in his lowest gear in the fast lane.

All-in all, a pretty dumb move by me that affected many more drivers than psycho trucker...but I was insane mad.

[27offsuit]

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Also, I think we need a
separate forum for the Massholes who invariably swarm to
any other MH's posts [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

-ZEN

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This is funny, and by 'funny' I mean 'very true'.

I'm telling you, it's those Central MA games...

[Slow Play Ray]

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I'm telling you, it's those Central MA games...

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speaking of which..................

[27offsuit]

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I'm telling you, it's those Central MA games...

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speaking of which..................

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Hey, you're the one with the new house...

[KilgoreTrout]

Zen,

You're just a hater. A hater with MA envy. I just may have to take you to the shed for a perspective change [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

BTW - did I see you on TV a while back? Do you work for some suburban recycling broad? If so, you looked balla. If not, someone's ripping off your look, bro.

Now, back to the thread.

Inconsiderate people are just a fact of life. I get hated on because of my big stupid truck. Nobody will let me merge, people are constantly crawling up my ass (wtf? you can't possibly see around me), and I get passed on the right all the time (because the moran behind me is too close to see that there's traffic in front).

Passing large vehicles on the right is dangerous. It is very hard for me to see that little Miata/Civic/Jetta/whatever in the lane next to me on the highway when it's trying to pass on the right. Sucks to have to scrape them out of the wheel wells.