How I HATE slow drivers!!

I got back from a late lunch and I'm dashing home to get back to work, and some idiot in a Mini Cooper does a left only 2 seconds in front of me - and I'm doing 45mph. I slam my brakes, grit my teeth, and s/he speeds up a tad. We get to 30mph, he (could have been a woman but I never saw) hits the brakes, and continues at that speed, or as we go round very gentle bends, actually slows to 22-25!! No room to overtake for a half mile.

I cannot STAND these goody-two-shoes, time-rich people who insist on dawdling at 30mph in front of me. The final straw is when we arrive at the roundabout, s/he indicates right, and I'm thinking...."I bet that arsehole is the old-school type who will pass the first exit, then turn his indicator on LEFT for the 2nd exit".. which is where I am going.

BOOM - the left indicator light goes on, just as I thought. The red mist descends, I'm thinking of the time I wasted so far, how much time I'm gonna waste sitting behind, how much time I'll waste writing this post!, and now, DAMMIT, I will overtake.

Columns of cars stream towards us, it's a good 15 seconds before I can get a clear run, then some idiot on the left sees what slowcoach the Mini driver is and decides to pull out in front of him, towards us, I realise I cannot now overtake as he will move into his rightful lane. He passes, as do two cars behind him, and there is now a gap of 5-6 seconds. I've got a fast car. I kick her down, my beautiful baby zooms around the Cooper with seconds to spare, and then, what do I do?

I slow down, initially with my brakes, I get down to 30mph. After that, I shift down from D, to 2, to 1 as we both approach the busy junction. I have now ground our speed down to a crawl towards the queue at 8mph, and we are still a couple of hundred yards away. I don't make direct eye contact in the rear view, but I do look back and wave.

"You want attention? Fine, I'm GIVING it to you".

The junction is nearly clear by the time we arrive, I see a gap, and dash through, still going straight as it clogs up again behind me. I get up to 40, huge grin on my face, turn the music up, kick it up to 55mph, looking back every few seconds...2 minutes later, almost out of sight, the two little white dots that are his headlights have not moved. He is STILL pondering at that junction.

Moral justice. I love it. :smt106

 

Yeah, I'm not a crazy driver who drives fast, but I do like to get where I'm going in as quick and safe a manner as possible.

I always seem to get stuck behind the "Sunday drivers". It drives me crazy!

There should be a lane strictly for the people who literally have nowhere they need to be at any given time and who are just out driving to annoy the rest of us. :smt043

 

I have this same issue with 2 cars every morning a woman in a white Y plate Toyota rav 4 who drives it like a Robin Reliant for fear it might shatter at the next pothole, every morning she comes in the opposite direction straddling both sides of the narrow lane, numerous times i have F*** and blinded at her she is impervious it seems to the outside world nothing exists outside of the Rav 4.
Once I'm across town i'm unfortunate to be in the same schedule as a arrogant bastard in a navy X Reg mondeo (oh how i hate this man) he ignores priority right of way traffic daily ( in other words ME!) and a little while ago we had a bit of a Mexican standoff where i refused to give way to him AGAIN! and made the bastard reverse back down the road, we have exchanged verbal abuse twice now, but fortunately we are both too busy getting where we are going, to cave each others heads in.

I pretty much hate slow drivers or anyone who doesn't abide by the rules and has a better car than me.

Oh Oh I especially hate little tossers in Ka's, Saxo, citroen C1s, Fiesta's who think they got a mini M3 on there hands and take up valuable parking space in Mc donalds car park revvving engines that sound like Postman Pats Van.

 

LOL

Well my mom is a slow driver.... it is so hard to drive in a car with her.... because I always check on the faces behind her.
But evertime my mom goes faster, she gets the police to take her out and pay a fine. So she drive the way it is written on the signs. But there is one goooood thing about that. There is never a car in front of her.... just the looooooooooong tail behind. But hey... she drives how the signs say LOL

 

I hate slow drivers, and I hate fast drivers. I hate mufuckas who signal AS they cut you off. Or when people cut you off and you say "what the fuck!!!!", and they wave at you and say thanks, like we were letting them get in front of you. Damn drivers. I'd park my car up their ass is I didn't worry about having it covered in shit.

 

Cease driving and so will the issues with slow drivers. I never get stuck any more, sailing past the afternoon peak hour traffic and beating the bus home on my trusty push bike! Ahh! Life is good.

 

I try to be understanding...but I have to admit that sometimes, when I am in a big hurry, I am very dominant in traffic and drive extremely fast, but never I would bring others in danger. But it´s true that it also depends on the type of car I am driving. Or if some one brought me or someone else out of recklessness in danger before, I go behind him till I caught him. Aggression is very linear to the horse power..

But mostly I am a very patient driver and understand , if some people drive very careful, not everyone drives 80-100 000km /year and some are just insecure.

 

Interesting observation. I have a coworker who claims that I was an "angrier" driver when I was driving an SUV than I am now that I'm driving a crummy little sedan. LOL.

I don't particularly agree with him on that, but maybe the size/power of the car has something to do with peoples' attitudes whilst driving.

 

Just try to follow me..you are driving normally on the highway, when from behind a porsche comes..the driver is angry that you are in front of him..he overtakes you risky and nearly causes an accident. You know, you just have to give a little bit more speed, you have the power, enough to get him twice.

I overtake him, till I am parallel with another car and force him to drive as I want, as long as I want.. he has no chance..

 

I agree with that, I drive my Audi like I stole it compared it to my truck. Cus driving my truck like that would bring fatal consequences.

 

its the learner drivers that pee me off, got stuck behind one doing about 12 miles an hour one morning on one of the main routes into sheff. and they have those damn " show patience you were a learner once " stickers. yep i was and thats the reason why my instructor taught you in a quiet council estate until you were savvy enough to drive at the flippin speed limit

also not keen on dawdlers who cant pick a fucking lane

 

AHHH, fuckin' student drivers. Slow bastards in those fuckin' Geo Metros n' shit.

 

Do you know the AUdi RS 6, tuned to 700 PS (horse power)? If you start this car, it´s the same feeling as if you sit in a starting plane..even if you already drive 260 km/h ..160miles/hour... you can engage the 6th gear and speedup to 340km/h (210 miles/h).. it looks like a normal Kombi, but absolutly my favourite and the rockstar of the street!!!! :heart:

 

Me too, driving the the Audi hard. 350hp will get you in trouble with slow-ass drivers in the way.

 

Here's some Audi porn for you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IscVh48HFtE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Wf4K7a0kI&feature=related

 

unfortunatly you cannot understand, what he says.. so I translate.. with just one word, it´s insane...in the 90´s Michael Schumacher was winning his race with a car (750hp), today everybody can drive this car.. it´s just not correct..it´s a racing car..forget Ferrari and Lamborghini..

I was driving this car for 8-9 months, but I had to sell it, because it is a stallion and I really feared to lose control some day, but it was also a question of money..special wheels, insurance, service...

But the rs4, also tuned, was very funny, too. This car had gear change.. oh, I could tell a lot of stories about driving..

 

In about 5 years, the market for sports cars will die, unless you live in a country that has no speed limits. Tracking technology will force us all to drive within 5% of the speed limits.

 

AS you know.. I live in a country with NO speed limits on Highway!!!

And I cannot imagine that it will change.. Germans fight for nothing, just for their cars..as the swiss for their watches..

 

If this happens, I'm shipping & moving my Audi's to Germany.:smt080

 

Replacing the timing chain every 30,000 miles can get a little pricey. The front brake pads run 1500$ alone.

Christine Dubois is my 'Audigirl'!:smt054:smt054