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From: lil abner on 20 Jun 2010 00:28
Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
What gives?
From: Nate Nagel on 20 Jun 2010 10:45
On 06/20/2010 12:28 AM, lil abner wrote:
> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

People are dumb, what I can I say?

Saw this yesterday, traveling in medium heavy traffic, guy in right lane
decides he wants to turn left (no turn pocket) - changes lanes right in
front of another vehicle and immediately brakes hard and puts on left
turn signal. Ought to be legal to shoot other vehicles with a paintball
gun so other drivers have a warning of who the idiots are and be extra
careful around them.

nate

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From: richard on 20 Jun 2010 11:59
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:28:24 -0400, lil abner wrote:

> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

Just another day on the road with idiots behind the wheel.
I've had them cut me off so close you could stand on both bumpers with feet
side by side.

Picture this:
I'm driving a ryder rental truck with tow dolley.
On I-40 just about to enter Knoxville on their nice big 3-lane.
Approaching sloth in right lane. Check my mirror, see no one near me for
over a mile. Put blinker on. Enter center lane. Pass the sloth. Check
mirror, put blinker on, enter right lane.
What the hell?
I'm being passed on the right shoulder by some dumb jackass no less!
Now what the hell was wrong with the left lane? He had no cars in that lane
for two miles, yet he chose to pull this stunt.

Still have never figured that one out.

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I learned my lesson well. You can't please everyone, so you got to please
yourself.
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From: Nate Nagel on 20 Jun 2010 12:23
On 06/20/2010 11:59 AM, richard wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:28:24 -0400, lil abner wrote:
>
>> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
>> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and
>> proceeds to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
>> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
>> What gives?
>
> Just another day on the road with idiots behind the wheel.
> I've had them cut me off so close you could stand on both bumpers with feet
> side by side.
>
> Picture this:
> I'm driving a ryder rental truck with tow dolley.
> On I-40 just about to enter Knoxville on their nice big 3-lane.
> Approaching sloth in right lane. Check my mirror, see no one near me for
> over a mile. Put blinker on. Enter center lane. Pass the sloth. Check
> mirror, put blinker on, enter right lane.
> What the hell?
> I'm being passed on the right shoulder by some dumb jackass no less!
> Now what the hell was wrong with the left lane? He had no cars in that lane
> for two miles, yet he chose to pull this stunt.
>
> Still have never figured that one out.
>

I got a better one, I was doing the same thing, 24' Ryder full of two
people's household stuff (including a piano even...) and a car trailer
with my old GTI on it. Going down I-66 in NoVA after driving straight
through from Pittsburgh. Ended up coming off the Beltway during rush
hour so I was on the shoulder (it's a travel lane during rush hour) here
this knucklehead in a pickup truck is sitting on one of the turnouts and
just as I'm coming up on him he starts to pull out. I lay on the brakes
and horn at the same time and he stopped about 6" away from me turning
his pickup into a pile of scrap metal (there was no way I could change
lanes, as I said, this was rush hour.) Dunno if he was blind,
distracted, or what, but that could easily have been VERY ugly.

I guess that was my official "welcome to northern Virginia" - that was
the first time I moved here, and I hadn't been in the state more than 10
minutes at that point. (and I was only 10 minutes from my destination,
too, after having been on the road for probably about 5 hours...)

nate

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From: Daniel W. Rouse Jr. on 20 Jun 2010 12:55
"lil abner" <@daisy.mae> wrote in message
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> Wife driving, we were doing about 5 over, in the right lane.
> An idiot passes, on the left, looks over his shoulder, at us and proceeds
> to cut us off. Nobody ahead, of him for a eighth mile.
> OK; one time but this has happened before, perhaps to you too.
> What gives?

It's just another form of road rage.

Clearly, it was an MFFY driver who just had to "teach you a lesson" by
cutting you off because you "made them pass". Once they completed their
pass, it was obviously their sworn duty to force you to slow down in
retaliation.

I've seen this happen in the left lane too. Reasonable speed passer gets
passed on the right by the MFFY passer/speeder, then the MFFY passer/speeder
completes their pass, merges left, and then the brake lights are seen
blinking a few times as they slow down to teach the reasonable speed passer
a lesson because, once again, they made them pass.


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