tailgaters Options

[Furios66]

we have guys like that. I am pretty reasonable. I know that on some things the print calls out for un reasonable tolerances. I try to work with all the production guys. I have been on that side to. High jack off

[richiesdodge383]

HAHA yeah, a lot of the companies we used to deal with had some really ridiculous tolerances. That damn Quality Inspector just really used to piss everyone off. I believe he has since been....terminated lol.

[VGRob]

Last Thursday a work mate was being tailgated through a reduced speed zone (60 mph down to 50 for overhead line work)by a new 200 series Toyota towing a even newer 26' twin-hull alloy boat. Mick gives his breaks a stab to encourage the silly pr#@k to back off but the SP over reacts and locks up his breaks, the trailer pops off the hitch and slams into the back of the tojo hard enough to punch a hole in the tailgate and set off the airbags. Then it digs into the road so that the boat snaps off the winch post and lands upside down in the middle of the road. A passing truck clips the boat and sends it spinning upside down up the road into the path of another truck. Luckily it was already breaking and it pushes the boat back up the road into the back of the now stationary Tojo. It completely blocked the road for 3 hours and held up traffic for another 3 while they cleaned up the mess. Some people do get what they deserve.

[jim77070]

Bet the Shelia riding in the tojo was mad at her hubby for spoiling her day of fun in the sun on the boat!

[Baron300]

I trust when you complain about tailgaters you are talking about driving on two lane roads where you have no where to pull out of the way for faster traffic. Now, if you're talking about someone being in the left lane on a freeway and being too lazy, rude, inconsiderate, and just flat out too stupid to pull over into the right lane if they see faster traffic coming up behind them, then that's a whole 'nother story, because that's my pet peeve.

I HATE LEFTLANERS!!!!!!! You know, the people who stick their cars in the left lane and stay there no matter what, making everyone else around them do the driving for them. I swear, California has the worst and stupidest of them. Evidently, reading ability wasn't part of getting their driver's license because they sure can't read all the signs along the freeway that says Slower Traffic Keep Right. And then they give you a dirty look like you're the bad driver when you finally are able to make a move to get around them. Just recently I came up behind one person that was really going extremely slow in the left lane, finally was able- and had- to get around her on the right, got a very nasty dirty look from her, only to see where she had a book propped up on her steering wheel and was reading while going down the road. Guess that was at least a break from all the ones that are driving that dumb because they have a stupid cell phone growing out of their ear.

Anyway, if you see me coming up behind you in the left lane, and you're going slower, you better move over, because I'd just as soon run you over than leave you on the road in everyone's way.


OK, sorry, maybe I should tell you how I REALLY feel about left-laners.

[BuckNeccid]

I agree with Flap, hate the tailgaters... I used to have a '62 Impala when I was in the Army, and the guy who lived across the road from me was an airframe mechanic. Someway, I ended up with a couple of Cobra landing lights, about 100,000 candle power each, but 24 V. Regardless, I wired them into my system, hooked them to a toggle switch. Anytime someone would just close in and stay there, I'd tap the brakes enough to bring the brake lights on and then hit the toggle switch. It was funny to watch people lock em up and go sliding around cause the fool in front of them just dropped his car into reverse lol.

[moparman1972]

I trust when you complain about tailgaters you are talking about driving on two lane roads where you have no where to pull out of the way for faster traffic. Now, if you're talking about someone being in the left lane on a freeway and being too lazy, rude, inconsiderate, and just flat out too stupid to pull over into the right lane if they see faster traffic coming up behind them, then that's a whole 'nother story, because that's my pet peeve.

I HATE LEFTLANERS!!!!!!! You know, the people who stick their cars in the left lane and stay there no matter what, making everyone else around them do the driving for them. I swear, California has the worst and stupidest of them. Evidently, reading ability wasn't part of getting their driver's license because they sure can't read all the signs along the freeway that says Slower Traffic Keep Right. And then they give you a dirty look like you're the bad driver when you finally are able to make a move to get around them. Just recently I came up behind one person that was really going extremely slow in the left lane, finally was able- and had- to get around her on the right, got a very nasty dirty look from her, only to see where she had a book propped up on her steering wheel and was reading while going down the road. Guess that was at least a break from all the ones that are driving that dumb because they have a stupid cell phone growing out of their ear.

Anyway, if you see me coming up behind you in the left lane, and you're going slower, you better move over, because I'd just as soon run you over than leave you on the road in everyone's way.


OK, sorry, maybe I should tell you how I REALLY feel about left-laners.

I generally despise all stupid drivers, you know, the people that are doing everything but driving when they are behind a steering wheel, like the cell phoners and the woman reading (that's amazing by the way.. she's either going to kill herself, someone else, or both someday) and hogging the left lane as you described. I agree with you, people that hog the left lane and do the speed limit are supreme a$$holes, because they are creating a serious hazard as everyone else tries to get around them. It's incredible to me that I have to worry about getting killed everytime I'm out on the road by some braindead dickhead twittering on their cell that they're on their way to starbucks to get a friggin latte. And let's not forget the aggressive soccer moms in their 10,000 pound GVW suv's that are weaving through traffic while smacking their kids and yelling at their husbands on their cellphones.. Then when they ram into and kill a family of four they say something brilliant like, "I don't know what happened, they came out of nowhere."
As for tailgaters, I can't tell you how many times I have been in the RIGHT lane and been tailgated. Just the other day, had my Charger out and was on a local, two-lane blacktop, 25mph road and the woman behind me was so close, I could see her cutrate cosmetic surgery in my rearview mirror.. She must have been late for her botox appointment. I can usually forgive most things on the road, but tailgating is my pet peeve too, it pisses me off like nothing else.

[Baron300]

I generally despise all stupid drivers, you know, the people that are doing everything but driving when they are behind a steering wheel, like the cell phoners and the woman reading (that's amazing by the way.. she's either going to kill herself, someone else, or both someday) and hogging the left lane as you described. I agree with you, people that hog the left lane and do the speed limit are supreme a$$holes, because they are creating a serious hazard as everyone else tries to get around them. It's incredible to me that I have to worry about getting killed everytime I'm out on the road by some braindead dickhead twittering on their cell that they're on their way to starbucks to get a friggin latte. And let's not forget the aggressive soccer moms in their 10,000 pound GVW suv's that are weaving through traffic while smacking their kids and yelling at their husbands on their cellphones.. Then when they ram into and kill a family of four they say something brilliant like, "I don't know what happened, they came out of nowhere."
As for tailgaters, I can't tell you how many times I have been in the RIGHT lane and been tailgated. Just the other day, had my Charger out and was on a local, two-lane blacktop, 25mph road and the woman behind me was so close, I could see her cutrate cosmetic surgery in my rearview mirror.. She must have been late for her botox appointment. I can usually forgive most things on the road, but tailgating is my pet peeve too, it pisses me off like nothing else.

Believe it or not, that is not the first time I've seen people reading in that way. And without exception, they each have thrown out a "if looks could kill" look when others create such an affront as to go around them. I can only assume because their reading gets disturbed?

What really ticks me off after seeing all these stupid situations, is then passing a CHP parked up on an overpass so they can catch the supposed really dangerous drivers- the ones going faster than the speed limit. I wonder when was the last time they actually CRUISED the roads and tried to catch the people who were REALLY Dangerous? Like the woman a while back who was in an old hiked-up Monte Carlo, with bald tires- and probably no brakes to go with them- with ALL THREE OF HER KIDS standing up on the back seat so they could see out the front window- has she not ever heard of seatbelts and what they can do?!!! So who is really the biggest threat to her family's safety as well as the others on the road with her?????

Oops, you got me started. I'll shut up.

[flap]

way i see it, its my highway too. nobody has any more right to it than i do. just cause someone else is in a hurry dont impress me one bit. failure to plan on your part does NOT constitute an emergency on my part. the turn off to my place is from the inside lane so in high traffic you get in the left lane as soon as you can cuz traffic wont give you a second chance. theres no turn lane , only a double yellow stripe so you get to wait in the left lane while oncoming traffic clears.i dont care how you feel, i dont care how big a hurry you are in and if you hit me on purpose i WILL reach under the seat and solve your problem permanently. this is not aimed at anyone personally or in the forum. this is not a threat, it IS a lifetime warranty. stop n cuss me cool , drive by flippin me off cool. hit me on purpose and you got one comin. flip me off and have guts enough to stop , then one of us goin to the hospital and i dont care which. welcome to texas

and if you too good to go the speed limit and just got to go faster than everyone else cuz you are more important and therefore less subject to the law, i hope you get your self impressed ass killed by a gravel truck

[zdizzle]

Tailgaters suck. I just drive even slower. Most of the time take foot off gas. Ebrake no brake lights is really fun especially if thier on the phone. B careful in Tx thiers all kinds of wacko's that wont hesitate to shoot at you. Tx highways espcially DFW are nuts!

[Baron300]

Not everyone trying to get around a left-laner is trying to break the speed limit. They'd probably be happy if they could just get the left-laner to GO the speed limit- or be courteous enough to move over for someone who is. Wonder whatever happened to common courtesy, anyway? Bottom line- it seems that lack of common courtesy is what we, all in common, are lamenting.

[jim77070]

Biggest problem in Texas is they expect you to all ready know the proper lane for your exit. I hate going downtown for any reason. Take a relativly well known site like the Astrodome, there is NO sign on the highway that says "Astrodome next 3 exits" just a sign right at the exit the says Astrome with an arrow below it. Damm if your in the wrong lane or miss the sign your're lost!

[zdizzle]

Biggest problem in Texas is they expect you to all ready know the proper lane for your exit. I hate going downtown for any reason. Take a relativly well known site like the Astrodome, there is NO sign on the highway that says "Astrodome next 3 exits" just a sign right at the exit the says Astrome with an arrow below it. Damm if your in the wrong lane or miss the sign your're lost!

Dont go near the new cowboys stadium.

[62Savoy]

I keep a hand full of pennys in my console ,when I get a tailgater I warn him to back off by braking and if he doesnt out come the pennys throught the sunroof! they usually get the hint then!

[tggodfrey]

LOL i love it. Yes it wrong and two wrongs dont make a right blah blah blah. Fuck em. I have an issues with penny's though.....100 makes a dollar and I am not about to throw money out the window .... I have 1/2 round BB's i keep when i really find that one asshole. And for the one that doesnt get it....i keep fragments of porcelain.

right or wrong its good to see you got two drunks off the road!

Flap, your stock just went up in my book.

Terry

[BuckNeccid]

What about the upcoming construction sight, signs for two miles telling you to merge right or left, all the traffic has merged, you're about 10 car lengths from the single lane area, and some fool comes dashing up at about 60, brakes, and then just starts cutting in regardless of whether he's being let in or not. Heck, he's already passed 30 cars, and you've been waiting. If I'm driving the Jeep, they learn pretty fast that either they're gonna stop or get me another one. C'mon, a little common sense and courtesy.

[SI Coronet]

Tailgaters, Im just waiting for the right one so I can slam the brakes on and collect a fat check!
I hate those drivers with the "disabled license" plates that drive 10MPH on the street.
Is it the driver or the car who is disabled!!!
I usually honk my horn, turn on my hazzard lights and wave for them to pull over and then speed past them!!!

[Baron300]

So how come everyone can figure out ways to damage the tailgaters, but no one can figure out how easy it is to just get out of the way? If they're speeding, you're just keeping the cops from getting them- let'em by and let the cops get them- you're not the police- and if they're not speeding why are you in their way?

Actually, in California, its the law that if you have 5 or more vehicles behind you on a two lane road you are to pull over in the next turnout and let them by. Wonder how many people know that/do it?

[jim77070]

Actually, in California, its the law that if you have 5 or more vehicles behind you on a two lane road you are to pull over in the next turnout and let them by. Wonder how many people know that/do it?

Grandma Moses ain't ever going to make it to the Saturday night Bingo game at that rate.

[Baron300]

Aw, she wouldn't even have to change her speed- just pull her car to the right a bit at the turnout (be easy too if we can teach her to just follow the white lines), simply maintain her cruising speed right along the turnout, pull a little to the left when the turnout ends (again just following the white lines), probably never hear all the tires screeching behind her when she cut everyone off, and keep on moaning down the road without ever ruffling a feather in her hat.