Road Rage/Reckless Driver Incident

[Coal Dragger]

Correct.

[Doc Safari]

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.

LOL. In best stoner voice, "You don't know me, man!" 😄

[Doc Safari]

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.
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What pisses me off is that more and more of them seem to want to force their way into the line whether there's an opening or not. I think they call that a "New York lane change." There's nothing road rage about not wanting some jerk to potentially ram you trying to cut in line. I don't call that "getting on with their lives." I call that "unsafe driving," " lack of road etiquette," "lack of common courtesy". This area used to not have that kind of crap. Must be all the Californians moving here.😄

[Diamondback]

Put a dummy Claymore on your trailer-hitch, maybe? I know *I* wouldn't wanna get too close to that...

[Doc Safari]

I just avoid the construction when I go to that town. I thought driving in Albuquerque was bad, but Las Cruces is getting worse every time I have to go there. Give me my small town any day.

[26 Inf]

Doc, if I might suggest, you need to ease off the throttle a little bit and maybe do some stress relief stuff when you are driving.

I listen to classical music on public radio and do breathing exercises because I know that people upset me when they drive like they have no cognitive function.

I also focus on commentary driving which helps me anticipate unsafe conditions, plus makes me feel good when I am correct in anticipating them.

Works for me and I'm pretty much a jerk.

[Doc Safari]

Doc, if I might suggest, you need to ease off the throttle a little bit and maybe do some stress relief stuff when you are driving.
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I just need to stay away from bigger towns. I'm actually surprised at some of the responses here like you guys think this stuff is no big deal.

You know what they say about the Rat Race: "Even if you win it you're still a rat."

I guess I just don't belong in a good-sized city. I'd never be able to actually live there.

[Coal Dragger]

I live in the sticks, and still don’t consider what happened to you to be a big deal. Even in the middle of nowhere, you can count on other drivers being morons or jerks.

We have more than a few two lane passing zones on hills that merge back to a single lane at the top. What you described happens all the time because morons want to pass, but seem clueless as to how it is accomplished. That pedal on the right is a complicated mysterious thing to them, and they pull out to pass and can’t seem to figure out what direction to move that pedal with their foot. So they dawdle, like morons, next to you all the way up the hill then at the last possible second they finally figure out what the right side pedal does and they stomp on it furiously in a last bid to get in front of you..... So that they can slow down again below your desired speed once it is single lane traffic again. As mentioned they’re stupid.

I count on them being stupid.

Once I near the top of any hill with a passing zone, or merging area of any kind with clear road ahead of me, I take note of these idiots and I make their decision for them. The most satisfying way is to roll into the throttle and put distance on them. By the time they realize what you just did, it’s too late for their last minute dick move. Works particularly well in a car with over 400hp, and less than 4500lbs to motivate. So make sure you drive a vehicle with a relatively decent power to weight ratio. You automatically eliminate their ability to pull dick moves when they literally cannot keep up with you, which in the case of a 400+hp car that is under 4500lbs will take care of 90+% of other vehicles you encounter.

[AKDoug]

What I hate is when I'm closing at +20 to a couple of semis out in the middle of nowhere on I-70 and the rear one decides to try to pass NOW- and I spend 5 min as they pass the other truck at 1-2mph takeover speed. Almost lost my mind last summer on I-80 in WY when there was on/off construction down to one lane and two trucks decided not to let anyone pass when it went up to two lanes- for the next 20 miles till the next construction... People . who say that you need to be trained how to torture someone weren't in the car with me that day when I came up with some pretty nasty things to do to that driver.

Pisses me off as well. When traveling south through Pennsylvania last year, as soon as we hit an uphill a couple of these clowns would try to pass 5 other semi's. Nobody has that kind of horsepower on an uphill. It would bring the whole interstate down to 35 mph.

[AKDoug]

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

90% of those assholes end up doing 54 in a 55 in that big line of cars and wonder why a big ass Pete is pushing them along.. but anyway, I just set the cruise and drink my coffee.