Get Out Of My Way

Yes I have always wonder why it was so important to nearly run you off the road to get ahead of you to just turn at the next corner. Stupidity I think, road hog have to be ahead of everyone else. Unless there is a dire emergency at home what is it going to take them another couple seconds to get to that corner.

I don't do this sort of thing. I drive in the passing lane almost doubling the speed limit then zip over in the right lane to take my exit about 20 feet before I need to exit. But I find it almost impossible to drive in the right hand lane. People there follow the speed limit signs.

Now that sounds like my step father..lol always in a hurry and likes to go around people when it is not to safe. He scares the hibby gibbies out of us 90% of the time.

It's their primal desire to try and maximise the slingshot effect I think. The problem though is that because we get in the way, they never get to pull it off properly. I still prefer these kinds of people to the ones that start indicating some 10 kilometres before they're actually going to make a turn.

They are in a hurry to go nowhere. I don't understand this, either. It was so nice to find that when I moved, I landed in a town that doesn't seem to have people like that. They even allow 6 feet or more of space between cars when stopped at a light! I think that we are so rushed these days that people think getting anywhere they are going is almost an emergency. Yet, when faced with a real emergency they don't recognize the need to hurry.

Mostly it's to show you that not only are they stupid, but they don't know how to use their turn signal either, to let you know that they're turning. Let it be a surprise, right? Maybe they have a lawyer on retainer for whiplash lawsuits, you never know. And, if you happen to live near a highway, they probably want to show you, however briefly, that they CAN drive faster than they did on the highway when they were front of you. I've often been tempted to follow them to their destination, only to ask, "What the hell did you do that for???" But then I remember Ron White's (comedian) words, "You can't fix stupid", and I decide against it....

Grrrr. that gets on my last nerve when people drive like that and do that to me. I have no idea what their dang hurry is. I think they just hate to ride behind someone else.

I hate it when they do that! and even more when they go zooming past just to slam on their brakes and turn like they are on ICE!

Maybe if the person in front wasn't so slow, they could have overtaken them sooner and made the turn off 200 yards later. Just sayin'...

Oh my goodness yes there are so many ridiculous drivers! They are impatient and careless and senseless. Just last week I was driving home and some man was speeding so fast he must have been driving over 100 mph in a 55 mph zone. Not only was he driving much too fast, he was also weaving in and out of lanes to pass people... Well, needless to say, a few miles up the road when I ran into some traffic, there he was. He hadn't gotten much further. He was literally just one or two cars ahead of me. All that riskiness just to get a car ahead of someone? One wrong move or someone else not paying attention, and that could have had tragic consequences! People are so ridiculous!

Or they do so only to get stuck at the same red light that you get stuck at. Some people are just impatient and there's no logic to it.

Because they are hoons and can't help themselves. My husband's grandpa was a farmer out in the central west - the neighbours were miles away, but whenever Pa got out on the road and spotted dust up ahead, he HAD to overtake them, no matter how far away they were! He also used to accuse his neighbours of sneaking over in the night and draining the water out of his radiator - bwahahaa! (Digression.) There's no accounting for how people's brains work.

Hi ya p1kef1sh Boy is it annoying when people do that? I hate it when they over take and then pull infront of you and then cut their speed making you do the same!! Or when you are like on the road that has an overtaking lane for a while and you are just about to pull out to overtake a slow moving vehicle and then someone comes up behind overtaking you who then takes forever to overtake the slow vehicle in front and then you run out of road yourself to overtake!! Grrrrrr Whinge over!! LOL

Oh yes,there are alot of drivers on our roads that are like that,even in a speed limit they try to over take as they can not wait.If i have someone driving like that right behind me i tend to slow down,just incase they over take and cause a crash.I find that it is not only the younger drivers that do that either some of them should not be on the road.Happy Mylotting.

I don't believe they are actually in a hurry, I think it just makes them feel important to have strangers in another car THINK that they are a busy and important person. Its the same with the people who pass you, only to stay 10 yrds ahead of you for the next hour. They just couldn't handle not being first. Never understood it, never will.

Hmmm I will say I've passed a car and turned off aboutl half a mile later - ususally this is only if the person is going half the speed limit and driving me wacko. OR if i realize that i wanted to stop at my moms before going home and the driveway is right there.