If you are running late in the morning

[SillyMe]

Do not expect me to drive 20 mph over the speed limit just so you can get to work in time.

I was flipped off this morning by some witch. She came up behind me out of nowhere, doing about 65 in a 45 mph zone...flew right up on my tail, so I slowed down and gave her a brake check (yes, wrong, I know). She starts flipping out, screaming at me and flips me the bird.

 

[Nancy]

She probably wasn't running late...she most likely drives like that all the time. I love it when people get all bent out of shape and have to zoom past me and then a few seconds later we are sitting at the same red light. I always turn my head and give them a really sweet smile!

 

[hiwaygal]

what I want to know is...why is EVERYONE in so much of a darn hurry to get to work?!?!?!

 

[kbkids]

what I want to know is...why is EVERYONE in so much of a darn hurry to get to work?!?!?!

My biggest pet peeve though is the ones who pull out in front of you, causing you to slam on brakes, and there is no one behind you for MILES!! Um, you couldn't have waited an additional 15 seconds??

 

[smilie]

I've had several people do that to me too. One morning I was driving to work (I drive through a mountain) and there was a truck riding my tail and a deer jumped out in front of me. It was either hit the deer or have the truck behind me nail me in the back bumper. Fortunately neither one happened, but people don't realize how dangerous it is.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

My biggest pet peeve though is the ones who pull out in front of you, causing you to slam on brakes, and there is no one behind you for MILES!! Um, you couldn't have waited an additional 15 seconds??

This happened to me this morning. I take some side streets to work. My street does not have a stop sign, the guy on the cross street did. He was stopped, could clearly see that no one was behind me but decided to cut in front of me anyway. I don't get it. What do you save yourself, 5 seconds?

The crazy speeders are also annoying. On LI, a posted speed limit means nothing. The parkway I usually take has a 55mph speed limit. If you do that you will get run over. So I usually do 65 to stay with traffic. People insist on doing 85 and get mad when I refuse to go that fast in the middle lane. If you want to go that fast, go around me. Sitting on my bumper is only going to make me do a break check.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I had something like that happen on Monday when my DD and I were outlet shopping in a little town. Why this man needed to be in such a hurry I don't know. I was going 40MPH, not knowing what the speed limit was and he came up on my tail so fast and close, throwing his arms up in the air. I then came to a sign and the speed limit was only 30MPH and I did the brake check like you mentioned (yes, I know...) and slowed to 35MPH, not to be a jerk, but I did not want a ticket in this little town. Before long the road went to 2 lanes in each direction and he went around us, or so I thought. He got in front of me and stopped, dead in his tracks, hoping I would hit him. We wrote down his license plate # and acted like we were taking his picture with our camera phone and he drove off. And yes, I did flip him off when he did that. Very stupid of me I know. In hindsight what I should have done when he stopped in the road is to have called 911.

 

[CheshireVal]

People do this to me all the time in the mornings.

I've always liked this saying: Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

 

[DaisyD]

My pet peeve is ones that are in the left lane yet aren't passing anyone. They just passed a law here that says you must not be in the left lane unless you are passing. Doesn't matter if you are doing the speed limit or not. We get plenty of folks that think just because they are doing the speed limit that they can hang out in the left lane. I do encounter the tail riders when I'm in the right lane though.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

what I want to know is...why is EVERYONE in so much of a darn hurry to get to work?!?!?!

I wish I knew. I can understand being in a hurry to get home AFTER work, or get home for the weekend, or for vacation, or a holiday. But going TO work...

BTW, I use the "brake check" frequently and have no qualms about it when people start tailgating me. My response to them when they flip out -- "If you're going to get that intimate with me, you'd better be prepared to at least buy me dinner first!"

 

[wvrevy]

My pet peeve is ones that are in the left lane yet aren't passing anyone. They just passed a law here that says you must not be in the left lane unless you are passing. Doesn't matter if you are doing the speed limit or not. We get plenty of folks that think just because they are doing the speed limit that they can hang out in the left lane. I do encounter the tail riders when I'm in the right lane though.

dingdingdingding...We have a winnah!

If you aren't passing, GET OUT OF THE PASSING LANE. No one asked you to play hall monitor and make sure nobody was speeding. Dives me

 

[LuvN~Travel]

People do this to me all the time in the mornings.

I've always liked this saying: Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

I have that posted where i work, even where the customers can see it.
Kim

 

[L107ANGEL]

I wish I knew. I can understand being in a hurry to get home AFTER work, or get home for the weekend, or for vacation, or a holiday. But going TO work...

BTW, I use the "brake check" frequently and have no qualms about it when people start tailgating me. My response to them when they flip out -- "If you're going to get that intimate with me, you'd better be prepared to at least buy me dinner first!"

 

[Crankyshank]

My morning pet peeve is when I'm stuck in traffic getting to work because someone is not driving under the speed limit, but they are letting everyone and their grandmother waiting to get into traffic from a side street in, which causes even more of a traffic back up.

and really crossing guards DO NOT need to stop traffic at a green light in order to let people from Dunkin Donuts cross the street to their cars.

 

[VSL]

People are the same here

 

[Cantw8]

Do not expect me to drive 20 mph over the speed limit just so you can get to work in time.

I was flipped off this morning by some witch. She came up behind me out of nowhere, doing about 65 in a 45 mph zone...flew right up on my tail, so I slowed down and gave her a brake check (yes, wrong, I know). She starts flipping out, screaming at me and flips me the bird.

Sorry I had to pee real bad

 

[MzDiz]

Tailgating is like an epidemic around here. My personal favorites are the people doing 85, roaring up to you, and tailgating with their brights on. Ahem - while you're in the *right* lane. Then they pass after a minute, roaring up to the next guy and doing the same. Rinse. Repeat.

This probably happens three times a week to me. It's unreal. We joke that since so much of this area is still fairly rural, these people must have learned to drive on tractors and don't know that you shouldn't completely sink the gas peddle in a passenger car.

 

[VSL]

dingdingdingding...We have a winnah!

If you aren't passing, GET OUT OF THE PASSING LANE. No one asked you to play hall monitor and make sure nobody was speeding. Dives me

Oh yeah - that definitely gets me!

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

On our way home from Orlando, everything was going fine, until we entered Texas.

Some bubba almost clips our right front fender, cutting us off on I-10 and when my DH honked at him, the (insert choice of words) slammed on his brakes and started gesturing to my husband.

I was begging my DH to just let it go. We hear about people getting shot during road rage incidents quite often here in Houston, and it's just not worth it. DH was shaking he was so ticked off.

That guy was nuts! The freeway was packed and when he slammed on his brakes, everyone behind us had to do the same thing. Who in their right mind does that on an interstate?????

If that guy would have made us get rear ended and my two daughters got injured, he'd wish it was my DH coming after him, because he would have been dealing with one , PMSing female. I'd have ripped him a new outlet.

 

[bdg100]

Do not expect me to drive 20 mph over the speed limit just so you can get to work in time.

I was flipped off this morning by some witch. She came up behind me out of nowhere, doing about 65 in a 45 mph zone...flew right up on my tail, so I slowed down and gave her a brake check (yes, wrong, I know). She starts flipping out, screaming at me and flips me the bird.

Were you in the left (passing lane)?