Road Rage/Reckless Driver Incident

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You haven’t seen rude until you’ve spent serious time driving the metro Phoenix area/the Valley.

Lotsa’ CA, NY, NJ, IL plates with bad behavior to match.

Blacktop Hell. I hate Phoenix.

You mention karma and then calling in someone who looked DUI.

Maybe those two will combine, if you happen to see his vehicle at a local watering hole.

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Originally Posted by Doc Safari

There's a nearby town where it seems like half the streets are under construction. Two lane streets that suddenly become one lane are the worst. The line of cars in the open lane might be miles long, but people will rush up to where they can't go any further in the closed lane, and then try to cut in line in front of cars in the open lane. That really pisses me off to no end. I'll go out of my way to avoid those streets.

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That's called a zipper merge.

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Originally Posted by jmp45

You sure that wasn't Ohio? Common for drivers here to watch you coming up to pass in their rear view mirror then pull out to cut you off.

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I-80 OH-PA.
At least once per trip

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Originally Posted by Doc Safari

There's a nearby town where it seems like half the streets are under construction. Two lane streets that suddenly become one lane are the worst. The line of cars in the open lane might be miles long, but people will rush up to where they can't go any further in the closed lane, and then try to cut in line in front of cars in the open lane. That really pisses me off to no end. I'll go out of my way to avoid those streets.

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You are a road rager.
People just want to drive properly and get on with their lives, and it pisses you off to no end.
And yet, here you are complaining about another persons ‘rage’.



Ho-lee ****.

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Originally Posted by AKDoug

I'm working with my 22 y.o. son on this right now.

Right lane merges into the left. Dude stuck in the right looks in his mirror and realizes all the cars in the left lane are packed tight, he accelerates because there is a gap in front of my son, son accelerates to block the guy, I give my kid a giant WTF?, son says "no way that asshole gets ahead of me", I say "why not? It's not an F'n race and what would you have done if you were the guy in the right lane?" As long as the guy in the right lane continues on at a rate of speed that doesn't impede me, I don't care any more. Life's too short to get wound up about shit like this.

Do I get annoyed when a guy gets out of line, knowing the lanes are going to merge, and pass on the right.. hell yes I do, but I just move on with life.

BUT.. as a commercial truck driver, it more annoys me when the lanes merge to one and I'm signalling for over a mile and not one asshole will let me in.

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Newsflash: no one wants to get stuck behind a slow-ass semi. You chose the job.....

The asshats who go at or under the speed limit UNTIL you get to a passing zone piss me off. If it takes 100mph at that point to pass them I will. If they speed up to make it difficult or be cute I will cut it REAL close to their front end.

I'd like to ask one question, and the answers will say a lot about your driving demeanor: if you are in the left doing 85 on a 4-lane interstate (say 70mph limit) and someone comes flying up from behind (maybe they're going 100), what do you do? Do you stay in the left lane thinking "I'm going fast enough damn it, screw them" or do you move to the right and let them pass? My answer might surprise some of you given what I wrote above.

Let it go.

Move to the right, let them pass. No skin off my ass if they want to run interference for me voluntarily!

My guess is that Doc RoadRage will try to make them slow down. Because in his mind he’s the arbiter of what constitutes proper driving.

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Originally Posted by ABNAK

I'd like to ask one question, and the answers will say a lot about your driving demeanor: if you are in the left doing 85 on a 4-lane interstate (say 70mph limit) and someone comes flying up from behind (maybe they're going 100), what do you do? Do you stay in the left lane thinking "I'm going fast enough damn it, screw them" or do you move to the right and let them pass?

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I'll always move to the right and let them pass, even if I'm going fast myself. Then I'll usually fall back a bit then match their speed hoping that if anyone gets a speeding ticket, it'll be them and not me (unless we're nabbed from behind, lol).