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Haha. Always, if there’s someone driving really dumbly I have to take a glance at them when I go by.
Just spend 6 hours driving between Cambria and the High Desert is So Cal today, can confirm.
I used to drive between Philly and DC a lot for work. I just don’t think that stretch can be beaten for the combination of sheer incompetence and utter insanity. Some places are more insane (e.g. Houston) and some places are less competent (like Ohio or Arizona), but not both.
Houston is a world of its own, with its like 3 highway systems interwoven with dogshit signage.
My “favorite” Houston freeway experience was driving in the right lane in bumper-to-bumper traffic going 95 mph - and getting passed by ten cars on my right, all driving on the shoulder (and Houston shoulders are closer to outright garbage dumps than clear paved lanes).
I feel like this is a phenomenon that should have a name, but I don’t know what it is…
As you get older and more experienced, you get better at driving. The average driver, though, generally does not get better because of turnover due to age on both ends. This means that from your relative perspective people seem to be getting steadily worse at driving.
Of course there is day to day fluctuation, and some factors (e.g. cell phone use) may have large impacts, but I’m convinced that most of what we feel is connected to the former effect.
I feel the distracted driving is a large impact that reverses that effect you describe. Maybe trust is the wrong word, but I trust a teenager texting before an 80 year old. 80 year olds will slow down to 5mph and drift over lines to text. They’re fucking horrible at it and they don’t see it that way. These days teens have multitasked on their phones for 5-10 years before they were able to drive. Maybe they don’t understand the rules of the road as well yet, but they’re a lot more present while distracted.
I often just want to see their stupid fucking face
my main reason for checking is to see if my assumption about their stereotype was correct, based on the vehicle and how they drive
I drove for about an hour today. On my way I met two drivers who broke excessively. Like every slight bend, they were on the breaks. And this wasnt even on the same road. Two completely separate and unrelated drivers, driving like pricks at 30 miles an hour in a 60 road. Also, assholes who dont give a fuck about lanes. They start of in one lane, hit a turn or a roundabout, and all of sudden they are taking turns like F1 drivers. About 4 of these types of dicks. And last but not least, on my way home, some little boy racer prick in a ford fiesta with go faster fart noises coming out of a gaped exhaust that looked like an only fans chicks arsehole. He was on the motorway, hogging the fuck out of the outside lane. After so many arseholes, I just said fuck it, and drove right up his arse to force to get the fuck out of the way(I know, dont care). And the wee prick had the cheek to look at me like I was the asshole I booted past him.
Honestly, the sheer amount of terrible driving, obliviousness to other road users, and lane hogging is enough to drive you mad. No cunt knows how to zipper, no cunt knows how to indicate BEFORE they start their manoeuvre. No one keeps a 2 second distance. Everyone is just out there, being a fucking arsehole. I exaggerate, of course. The majority of drivers are fine. But theres just so many cunts, it feels like youre driving the fury road most days.
It’s a small thing, and irrelevant to your comment, and I’m sorry for any embarrassment I may cause you. You’re using the wrong word. When a car actively decelerates it is braking https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/brake-or-break-difference
Other than that, I do agree with you, I put about 50k km (30k miles) on the odometer each year, and the amount of shitty drivers out there is astounding. The other day I saw an elderly couple trying to enter a roundabout. It was a busy section of road during rush hour. Driver was looking both right and left, instead of just looking left like you’re supposed to. They had a clear left, but oh no car is entering the two lane roundabout to our right, we better yield … Generally roundabouts, it’s like people didn’t hear about them when training for their license.
Them fuck are you talking about???
The difference in spelling between “brake” (as in, the thing that stops your car) and “break” (as in, what happens to your car when you don’t stop it in time and it hits a tree).
I got ya now, cool. Spelling mistake. Np.
Your anger management issues.
Saying “fuck” doesnt make me angry. Im Scottish, I say shit, fuck and cunt for any and all reasons under the sun. Including, but not limited to, greeting a close a friend. Okay dokie, cunty chops? :)
Might be, but getting so angry while driving that you drive like an reckless asshole as some kind of weird revenge on an unrelated third party is an anger management issue.
One that should disqualify you from driving.
Depends what you mean by angry? Out of control, yeah. But I was never out of control. Thats you putting that on me, to make yourself feel superior. Classic case of redditor syndrome.
Using multiple punctuation marks comes across like yelling.
See??? It’s like I’m yelling with my keyboard!!!
It’s like a step below caps-lock.
Sure. You totally weren’t out of control when you were recklessly driving and endangering yourself and everyone else around you. That’s was a totally reasonable thing to do, right?
“Out of control” when being angry doesn’t mean that you feel out of control. It means that your frame of reference shifts so much that you do idiotic things while fully believing that you are in control. That’s what you call an anger management issue. You don’t even realize that you are out of control with anger and feel totally justified in the idiotic things you do while angry.
I don’t write in my native Danish, gør jeg vel pikhoved? Because doing so would not be understood very well.
If you want to come off as an insufferable cunt with anger issues, who’s watched too many fantasy movies, you can keep writing in Scottish. But be advised that you can’t dictate how what you write is interpreted.
Good for you. What do you want, a hero biscuit or something?
There’s also the people who will be driving along the road at the speed limit, and will suddenly slam on the brakes start turning, and then indicate because they’ve got to their road.
Usually they are in Range Rovers, who’s closest they have ever been to off-road is when they have to park in a field that one time in a national trust overflow car park.
Radio: “Watch out, there’s a wrong way driver on the highway!”
Listener: “One? I see hundreds!”
and drove right up his arse to force to get the fuck out of the way
Sometimes the one complaining about asshole drivers might be one themselves.
Congrats on the reading comprehension, matey. Youll go far in social media land…
Honestly, looking at the amount of US police videos on YouTube where people are driving without a license, it wouldn’t surprise me that it’s on the rise.
Here in the Netherlands, the cost of getting a license also skyrocketed the past decade. The past few years more people got caught driving without one.
People should be punished severely for that, as well as traffic infractions in general.
Sadly here in the US it isn’t the cost of obtaining a license. Most offenders aren’t allowed one for criminal violations but continue to drive anyways. It’s mostly DUI offenders.
In my city, some people don’t even have license plate numbers, let alone, liability insurance.
Say you’re from Houston without saying you’re from Houston
See my mind went to San Antonio, but I guess this really could describe any city in Texas.
