Why is it so #$%^& difficult

[Hotfoot]

Why is it so #$%^& difficult to back off and let someone into the lane in front of you? I was signaling for 1/2 mile to move left so that I could turn. Everyone just kept pulling up beside me and blaring their horn. after the 6th car I started pulling over where there was a half a gap and the B$%^& accelerated to block me. My signal had been on for over 1/2 mile and not one person wold back off. Worst part traffic was flowing in both lanes at about 30 mph. Is it really that frigging difficult to let someone over?

[rcbats1]

oh...I have a million of these complaints. As I commute everyday. The one that kills me other than most drivers these days are totally inconsiderate, is someone that stops at a yeild sign and has the lane all to themselves.
I could go on but wont.....drivers these days!
Remain calm...that's my driving motto.

[jp1969]

Common courtesy has gone out of style.
Everyones in a hurry to get home and chill in front of their computer.

:yeah::wink:

[Adam West]

Courtesy has gone out when it comes to driving. Most of my issues also deal with on ramps. I have had this happen on more than one occassion. I am entering the highway and there is plenty of space to enter without the car even having to slow down. Instead, I see the car start accelerating to the point where I have to come to a complete stop to allow the jackhammer to go by. My other big headache is a spot on the highway where two lanes converge to one. There isn't a prodominent lane and both need to move in. Courtesy would say go one at a time but I have literally had cars basically tailgate the car in front of them so I can't get in. Their actions are not only rude but serve no purpose. There is traffic so they are only getting one car length in front of me...reducing their time by 5 seconds or less.

[Adam West]

Why is it so #$%^& difficult to back off and let someone into the lane in front of you? I was signaling for 1/2 mile to move left so that I could turn. Everyone just kept pulling up beside me and blaring their horn. after the 6th car I started pulling over where there was a half a gap and the B$%^& accelerated to block me. My signal had been on for over 1/2 mile and not one person wold back off. Worst part traffic was flowing in both lanes at about 30 mph. Is it really that frigging difficult to let someone over?

When multiple people do this, I simply pick the right point and poke my nose out into the lane so they have no choice but to let me in or run into my car. It's unfortunate that you have to do this sometimes.

[Meule]

Oooooooh, I'm staying far away from this thread. Once I get started...

[Hotfoot]

When multiple people do this, I simply pick the right point and poke my nose out into the lane so they have no choice but to let me in or run into my car. It's unfortunate that you have to do this sometimes.

Thats what I was doing yet they still tried to push past me!

[Brazoo]

Getting rid of my car and moving into the city were the two best things I ever did.

[Megotu]

I HATE it when there I am toodling along in my automobile and some yahoo who has had a turn signal on for half a mile starts trying to edge into my lane. It's like this French Fry Guy has never heard of the rule that if ONE person gets in front of me, then I lose. Just the other day I had to accelerate and leave a 3 ft gap with the car in front of me when this Milk Shake for brains tries to creep into my lane.

[Brad]

Some years back, in the mid 1990s, 3 of my friends and I were going to a Bears game. I was driving my 1976 Chrysler New Yorker and we had to get over into the right lane to enter the parking lot about a half mile up. I was getting blocked by some jerk in a nice, new, black 7 series BMW. My best friend, who was riding shotgun, said "just do it" so I just started changing lanes. The site of a battered land yacht coming right at his pretty new car must have made the BMW driver nervous because he backed off real fast and let us in! This maneuver is now known as the "swoop move" by my friends and my wife.
:smiley1::smiley1:


Driving in Chicago is unlike anywhere else! I love it but most people hate it.
:yes:

[Hotfoot]

Some years back, in the mid 1990s, 3 of my friends and I were going to a Bears game. I was driving my 1976 Chrysler New Yorker and we had to get over into the right lane to enter the parking lot about a half mile up. I was getting blocked by some jerk in a nice, new, black 7 series BMW. My best friend, who was riding shotgun, said "just do it" so I just started changing lanes. The site of a battered land yacht coming right at his pretty new car must have made the BMW driver nervous because he backed off real fast and let us in! This maneuver is now known as the "swoop move" by my friends and my wife.
:smiley1::smiley1:


Driving in Chicago is unlike anywhere else! I love it but most people hate it.
:yes:

I learned to drive in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. The drivers down here are worse it seems.

[Brad]

I learned to drive in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. The drivers down here are worse it seems.

Most of our driving is on I90 either into the city or through the city on our way to split off onto I80 in Indiana when we are headed to PA. It has progressively gotten worse. Used to be traffic jams during rush hour but now it is nearly all the time. Mostly East bound around the Des Plaines oasis (or just before it) all the the way to Ohio Street exit. And they always seem to have sections tore up and lanes closed for construction. Nothing like going from 80mph (which only keeps you flowing with the rest of the traffic) to stopped in a matter of seconds!
:ugh_y:

The joke is that 90 is both the highway designation and the speed limit.
:smiley1:

And don't get me started on all the squids doing wheelies on their sport bikes while doing 80mph or more on the highway!
:no:

[torgospizza]

I know where you're coming from, Hotfoot. Sometimes, the worst part of my day is the drives to and from work. I'm trying to find humor in them, though.

[Hulk]

I had to look at where you lived, and it all made sense. I have lived in NY/NJ, Atlanta and Phoenix, and driven with the best and worst in between. I was literally telling someone today that in Georgia, a turn signal means "please speed up and cut me off". With out a doubt, it is worse there than anywhere else. My theory is that Georgia folks are so sugary sweet to each other in person all day, that when you take away that face to face contact, people become dog eat dog behind the wheel.

[Hulk]

The cure for this is of course, to never use your turn signal when you absolutely need to get in a lane, just sit in someone's blind spot, wait until a small gap opens up, then floor it and pounce in front of them. Trust me, they might flip you the bird, but they will respect you more than using a turn signal.

[Tothiro]

I HATE it when there I am toodling along in my automobile and some yahoo who has had a turn signal on for half a mile starts trying to edge into my lane. It's like this French Fry Guy has never heard of the rule that if ONE person gets in front of me, then I lose. Just the other day I had to accelerate and leave a 3 ft gap with the car in front of me when this Milk Shake for brains tries to creep into my lane.

... Sir, you win the internets!! Ima ship you a no-prize!

[Hotfoot]

I had to look at where you lived, and it all made sense. I have lived in NY/NJ, Atlanta and Phoenix, and driven with the best and worst in between. I was literally telling someone today that in Georgia, a turn signal means "please speed up and cut me off". With out a doubt, it is worse there than anywhere else. My theory is that Georgia folks are so sugary sweet to each other in person all day, that when you take away that face to face contact, people become dog eat dog behind the wheel.

Problem is they are so intent on sniffing each others rears that they dont leave enough of a gap to jump into!

Time to get me an F-650 Super Truck!

[domino]

I really hate to drive anymore. It seems like I can't go anywhere without having my blood pressure rise. Getting cut off, people not letting others in, running red lights, stop signs etc.

Back in 1999 I was driving a 1970 GMC Crew cab. It only got about 7 miles to the gallon on a good day but nobody ever came near me. It would cost an arm and a leg to drive today but I kind of miss that truck.

[livnxxxl]

I am surprised people have not started decking out their rides with shark graphics on the front of their cars. Kind of like the old war planes. :grin: For every car wreck they cause they can put another star under their driver window.

Some people are just in a hurry to die. :sad:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/47/20091223144446!Liberator_bomber_crosses_the_P-40_fighter_planes.jpg

[Duncan]

It's interesting - watch enough NASCAR, and you start to think in terms like "sheet-metal damage" and "tradin' paint." I'm just saying...

[Adam West]

I HATE it when there I am toodling along in my automobile and some yahoo who has had a turn signal on for half a mile starts trying to edge into my lane. It's like this French Fry Guy has never heard of the rule that if ONE person gets in front of me, then I lose. Just the other day I had to accelerate and leave a 3 ft gap with the car in front of me when this Milk Shake for brains tries to creep into my lane.

Explain your logic to me. I'm not a french fry and I don't see trying to get home as a race. If you are serious, please explain your logic in accelerating when "milk shake" is trying to get in.

It is pretty evident that your comment was made to make this thread contraversial. Everyone has ignored your comment; so explain your french fry and milkshake comment as though your IQ is higher than mine. For me, I'm just trying to get onto the highway from the merge ramp and presume that decent humans are compassionate and caring. This had nothing to do with intelligence so please give an explanation as to your thought process so I can better understand why it is important to you not to allow someone to merge in front of you...reducing your commute time by less than 20 seconds.

[Adam West]

I HATE it when there I am toodling along in my automobile and some yahoo who has had a turn signal on for half a mile starts trying to edge into my lane. It's like this French Fry Guy has never heard of the rule that if ONE person gets in front of me, then I lose. Just the other day I had to accelerate and leave a 3 ft gap with the car in front of me when this Milk Shake for brains tries to creep into my lane.

I'll bite on your stupid comment and how it apparently relates to someone's IQ based on french fry and milkshake....I love the cliche overused Mickey D's references. So explain to me why you feel so good cutting a french fry off so you can get home 20 seconds faster....this post won't even need to be closed. If you even want to make a comment on IQ's specifically mine to yours...bring it on $1 menu.

[Duncan]

Explain your logic to me. I'm not a french fry and I don't see trying to get home as a race. If you are serious, please explain your logic in accelerating when "milk shake" is trying to get in.

It is pretty evident that your comment was made to make this thread contraversial. Everyone has ignored your comment; so explain your french fry and milkshake comment as though your IQ is higher than mine. For me, I'm just trying to get onto the highway from the merge ramp and presume that decent humans are compassionate and caring. This had nothing to do with intelligence so please give an explanation as to your thought process so I can better understand why it is important to you not to allow someone to merge in front of you...reducing your commute time by less than 20 seconds.


I can't speak for the writer, but I took his comment to be a joke at the expense of the idiots who won't let anyone merge. "...if ONE person gets in front of me, then I lose." He may have been jerking Hotfoot's chain a bit, but I didn't read any hostility into the post. Just my opinion.

[Hulk]

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