So, I just almost killed a woman.

[Ed_McCarron]

I almost killed MRS GUZ.  At least, thats what her license plate said.

I'm heading back to the office with my lunch (hot dogs, no bacon) on a 35 mph road.  I'm doing 36-38, keeping up with traffic, and minding my own business.

As I'm coming up to a cross street with stop signs for crossing traffic, I notice a woman sitting on the right cross street, waiting to turn into traffic.  Yakking on her cell phone.

Suddenly, as I'm about 40' from the intersection, she turns out in front of me.

I lean on my horn and stand on  the brakes - swerving was not an option, the car to my left would've been upset.

Its a damn good thing I was in my personal vehicle ('96 Explorer) and not in my work truck ('93 Chevy 1500 pickup with utility cap) because MY antilock brakes saved her life.  If I had glanced down at my speedometer, or changed the radio station, she'd be dead.  I'da hit her little car right in the driver side door.

What does she do?

Hearing my horn, she STOPS in the middle of the road.  I screech to a halt about 2' from her door.

Still on the phone, she proceeds to shoot me an 'eat ---- and die' look, and go merrily on her way.

So now, I'm the one sitting here twitching and trying to clean the root beer out of my pants where the cup in the cup holder hit my leg.

Makes me wanna scream.  Wheres a cop when you need one. 

[Stingray]

Isn't that always the way. Many times I've been cut off in traffic and had the person who did it give me a dirty look (or the finger).

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Wheres a cop when you need one.

<----Here's one, you came to the right place.

Comedian Dane Cook has a great bit about this. How the people at fault in an accident always come at you like *you're* the a-hole, even after they hit you while you sit at a red light.  Good stuff.

mrC

[Shape D.]

Yes, because it's clearly your fault they drive like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

[ChadTower]

who fixed the autocensor?  It can spell now.

[Stingray]

Wheres a cop when you need one.

<----Here's one, you came to the right place.

Comedian Dane Cook has a great bit about this. How the people at fault in an accident always come at you like *you're* the a-hole, even after they hit you while you sit at a red light.  Good stuff.

mrC

I was hit from behind - hard enough to require months of physical therapy, and destroy the car- while I was sitting completely still. The moron who did it, unloaded on me like I was somehow at fault. My car was stopped. That's the only time in my life that I've ever hired a lawyer, and I told the guy to show no mercy. He didn't.

-S

[Crazy Cooter]

I would have hit her.  Stupid drivers deserve what they get.

[Harry Potter]

You should have followed her for a few minutes just to nerve her out.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I was hit from behind - hard enough to require months of physical therapy, and destroy the car- while I was sitting completely still.

Well Damn Stingray...Why did you stop and let them hit you doing 80?? Next time, maybe you'll be more careful!


mrC

[hyiu]

similar thing happened to me...

I was driving home after work, middle lane in a hwy, doing a 60.

That woman driving a small suv, on the fast lane, on the phone yakking away, suddenly realize that she missed her exit, and I'm right next to her (at her right side).  So, what did she do ??

Just turn and cut 3 lanes, bring me with her.
I swear I was thinking I will hit her... luckily, there's no car on the right side, and I am forced to cut right... hands on the horn, and stepping on my ABS as hard as I can.... (ABS did kicked in... that's one of the few times in my life that ABS kicked in...)

she still missed her exit (we finally came dead stop on the dirt road)...
and she's still holding the phone... giving me a look like "why are you in my way ??".... then she drove her damm thing on the dirt road and climb back to the exit and drove away... (all the time still holding the stupid phone at her ear....)

I was so mad that time I really want to want to wack her in the head...

 

[clanggedin]

I give everyone who I see talking on their cell phone and driving slowly or irregularly the finger.

[ChadTower]

Stingray, here is your next project.

I want a device that can, when aimed at a cell phone in use, cause that phone to explode.

[Stingray]

I already have one of those. It's called a grenade launcher.

-S

[abrannan]

I was hit from behind - hard enough to require months of physical therapy, and destroy the car- while I was sitting completely still. The moron who did it, unloaded on me like I was somehow at fault. My car was stopped. That's the only time in my life that I've ever hired a lawyer, and I told the guy to show no mercy. He didn't.

-S

I too, was hit from behind while standing still.  They guy got out of the car and claimed that *I HIT HIM*.  Stoned out of his mind?  You betcha.

[ChadTower]

My first car got demolished while parked.  Dude just ran right into it.  I had gotten out about 3 seconds earlier, it was a Pontiac T2000 and his was a Bronco. 

The Bronco was barely scratched, my poor little car looked like a bunch of smashed up 8 bit pixels.

[whammoed]

I have been rear ended 4 times since moving to florida which was 6 years ago.  Luckily they have all been relatively minor.  I take my suv in next tuesday for repair.

[Zakk]

So now, I'm the one sitting here twitching and trying to clean the root beer out of my pants where the cup in the cup holder hit my leg.

You sure that was root beer you had to clean out of there? 

[DrewKaree]

I give everyone who I see talking on their cell phone and driving slowly or irregularly the finger.

I take my truck and trailer and get the slightest bit ahead of them and somehow, the force of the wind, either from their car or their mouth while on the phone causes my trailer to sway from side to side ever so slightly.  Enough to make people talking on their cel phones hang up!  Seems they're better able to drive when off the thing.

I have been rear ended 4 times since moving to florida which was 6 years ago. Luckily they have all been relatively minor.

Mr Jackson, we don't care to hear about your deviant sexual behavior, and it CERTAINLY has no place in a thread about bad driving!  Good day, sir!  I said Good Day!

[Ed_McCarron]

You sure that was root beer you had to clean out of there? 

Hope so.  I squeezed it back into the cup and drank it.

Zing.

[Havok]

You sure that was root beer you had to clean out of there?

[whammoed]

I have been rear ended 4 times since moving to florida which was 6 years ago. Luckily they have all been relatively minor.

Mr Jackson, we don't care to hear about your deviant sexual behavior, and it CERTAINLY has no place in a thread about bad driving!

[Ed_McCarron]

Either way, that's still gross!

My job here is done. 

[missioncontrol]

My first car got demolished while parked.

[Stingray]

My first car got demolished while parked.  Dude just ran right into it.  I had gotten out about 3 seconds earlier, it was a Pontiac T2000 and his was a Bronco. 

The Bronco was barely scratched, my poor little car looked like a bunch of smashed up 8 bit pixels.

It wasn't me

You wouldn't have noticed a piece of road debris that small even if it had been you.

-S

[duffjr]

i've been in total disregard for cars while parallel parking lately.  i just don't have the time.  i think i've tapped/grinded on 5/10 of the last cars.

[USSEnterprise]

in regard to the first post, you should have killed her. She deserved it. And would she necessarily have died? What kind of car was she in?

[duffjr]

people think that you have to avoid accidents.  you should just make sure you come out alive so that you don't cause a bigger accident.  i was driving back on the I-32 from san jose in heavy traffic going about 75.  this car decided to merge into my lane from the middle turn lane while stopped without looking, so i had to floor it and cut off the car to my right.  i thought i died.

[Ed_McCarron]

in regard to the first post, you should have killed her. She deserved it. And would she necessarily have died? What kind of car was she in?

I was doing 35, in an Explorer, and she was driving some kind of little foreign car.  Civic maybe?  My right front bumper would have caught her square in the middle of the driver side door.

She may not have died, but she wouldn't have run any marathons the next day.

I don't care what the eco-freaks say, they can have my trucks when they pry cold, dead, me out of them.  I'd rather have a ton and a half of steel around me than a half ton of plastic if I'm gonna make a new friend.