NOT A good driving day for me

I so hate tail-gaters too. It's actually illegal in this country to drive too close to the guy in front of you. I hope things have improved for you...there will always be at least one at least once a week though. Just stay safe...oh, and I also do what you do, I slow down. If they are going to make my journey dangerous, I will do what I can to counteract it...I will also get the name of the company and the truck number and make a phone call. Take note of the time too. Report to the company and threaten to report to the police if they are not prepared to remonstrate with the driver. It just might be that driver's life you save.

Just the other day, I also had a tailgater behind me. And everytime I looked at the rear view mirror he was raising his arms as if to say 'what the F'. The trouble is, I couldn't go any faster because it was a one lane highway and the car in front of me was also driving slow. So, I had to take the abuse of the tailgater for the slow driving of the cars in front. As soon as the lane turned two, he also passed me and cut me off! I wanted to give chase and give him a piece of my mind (or at least my one-finger salute), but I had to turn. Hope tomorrow's driving would be better for you!

I've been driving for a few years (okay, about 20 actually LOL) so I have a few of my own to share. One of my favorites though has got to be the time I was driving a little pickup that I had. I'd been driving on a two lane country road (during traffic) when the driver in front of me decided to pull off to the right...just out of the blue! No blinkers, no warning, no nothing! That driver didn't even bother to pull completely off the road either. I wound up having to drive in between their car and the oncoming cars! Talk about scary! It was a good thing the truck I drove was so narrow, otherwise I would have gotten in a wreck for sure. As for the driver that had been in front of me, well, I happened to see from my rear view mirror that they decided to turn around and head the other way. Yep, they did this on a two lane country road. Crazy! Anyway, try not let bad drivers get to you..especially tailgaters. Even though it may be tempting to put the brakes on, it's not a good idea. Because doing so could cause you to get into an accident. Drive safe! Happy mylotting!

Oh wow, I am glad you didn't get hurt or have an accident, both scenarios sound scary.. I guess because I don't drive much I don't have anything to tell except one year when the roads were icy and I was taking my daughter to preschool. As I drove, I came upon a slight curve, not a real bad one, but the ice on the roads were so bad, when I went to turn, the car didn't straighten out and the car started sliding, right towards this huge mailbox. (well it looked big at the time..lol) Anyways, I immediately remembered when a car is slipping on ice to not brake or accelerate, just steer out of it and I did, but was shaken up from the experience..

Yeah, the other day, I went around the snow plow/sander and so did 3 other cars. This SUV decided to pass us all, the entire line of three. But it didn't even have the power to do it in time. so another vehicle turns onto the lane from a side road, he has to get back in, there is no room, so he puts on his signal light and I had to let him in. He had passed 2/3 of us. Meanwhile, I had someone behind me who had to also break and you never know, on a rainy day, who has what for breaks and tires. We all ended up fine, but did the SUV guy learn? No, after the opposite car in the other lane goes buy, he passes the car in front of him and there had been someone who had come from a driveway and he passes that one, too. This guy passes lines of cars. My cousin passed a line of cars once, the first car in the line was rurning left and some people's Grandfather. I saw was because my cousin killed him. Passing one car is dangerous enough, but a line of them? Maybe there is a reason for the line and you can't see that far ahead. Just maybe. One time I was behing a trailer for putting tractors on like backhoes. My Dad's ramp folded flat and secured on his, but this guy had his ramps straight up in the air and only make shift regular cheap wire holding it. So with every bump and turn, the ramp metal rubbed against these cheap wires. I thought, "those wires will break and the ramps will fall down." So I backed way up. Sure enough, he hit a series of bumps in the road and one of the ramps came down. Which side? The side I was on, that would have come down on my hood, straight through my windshield and decapitated me. So watch out for stuff that's attached to things. My Dad was dragging a boat behind our car once. I saw the nose of the boat go straight up and the entire boat vear off the roat and hit a fense. That was lucky. It didn't hit a car in the other lane and if the fense hadn't been there, it would have hit a house. Only minor damage to the fense and boat because we weren't going very fast, but that could have been bad. The pin for the boat metal and car tow hitch popped out and that was that. So people with stuff behind, watch out! Coming at you and in front of you. You never know where or when.

I'm glad you're okay. Nothing like this has happened to me recently.. though it has happened in the past. I just can't think of anything specific at the moment.

Thankfully, no. In any case, I do my best to avoid traffic. If the highway is bad, I take back streets

Yeah i've had some bad driving stories, like for example, drivers stopping when there's a green light. People driving too fast and switching lanes, and when they do that. They end up at the same place that you're going 5 minutes later. Now i like motorcycles, but i had driving behind them because they're small.

I hate cars riding up my butt as well but I just switch to the right lane and let them go, what makes me mad is if it was during the traffic hours, everybody in driving that slow on the highway, there is no reason to tailgate people There are lots of rotaries where we live, I don't like people just jump put without looking AT ALL... it's like they think they have the right of way, but itdoesn't matter, you shuold look and be careful first before coming into the rotary. The other one is some people don't yeild at the yeild sign and just go without looking...

I am not the best driver in the world, as such I can tell you from personal experience that when you report a license plate to the RCMP, you get talked to by the RCMP, I don't know if it would work the same in your area. I can tell you, that after the first time I got talked to, about bad driving, I took steps to becoming a better driver. Might not work that way for everyone, but it is really a good idea to report such drivers. As for bad driving stories, one where I am a bad driver, or one where I had to avoid worse drivers, or one where I was purposely being a bad driver to annoy another bad driver? I have all three, so I let you choose. I heard it is a common thing in the US of A, for some people to purposely break in front of drivers like in the first example and then sue them for lots of money, but then I also heard there are people, that plan that based on doing a back ground check on you, through your license plate, I would imagine that kind of stuff happens in more then America, just more so there, because of slight differences in the civil code. -- I know your not that kind of person, but something to think about for next time, just brake slow, so the impact isn't too rough -- Sincerely and With Appreciation.

I use to commute to work daily and each way was about 1 hour and forty minutes. It was always amazing how drivers would not allow themselves plenty of time to get to their destinations so they shove themselves tightly between the cars in full traffic. It was always adventurous to say the least as each day I had to drive and felt like I needed a Valium.

I have bad driving stories almost every day, whether I am on the highway or local roads. Today, for instance, someone was in the left-turn only lane at a red light, with a left-turn signal on. I was next to her in the straight/turn right lane. When the light turned green, she started heading towards the intersection, then decided she needed to go RIGHT and just turned her car around in front of me (I was going straight) and all of the other oncoming traffic, and just kept going!!! Thank goodness I was paying attention, because she surely wasn't.

Hi, I always avoid the road loaded with trucks in busy hours. I know they're so annoying, they're sick tailing me. Yes they've made me sick because they're huge and mine is a small sedan. I get scary a lot of times and try to avoid them the best I can. Good luck and safe drive.

I too have days that I wish I could stay home or fly overhead to where I want to go.The drivers drive so badly that I have a hard time understanding, where they got the licenses from in the first place.But anyhow it is for everyone to take the best care of themselves on the road after all we only have one life.

Re situation 1. I love your bumper sticker. I want one! If have taken down the plate number, just for the fun of reporting him. Re situation 2. Not your falt but definitely his. He should have had a safer trailir.

I often have the urge to do that too, but better to just let the person get around you and go cause havoc someplace else than to put yourself in a situation where you might have an accident.

oh.... I don't have a bad experience in driving, but just be careful in driving, even if you are good driver there are still a bad driver that may crush you. or you can crush someone and there are also someone may crush you. God Bless you always.