"But I want to go fasterrrr! Why doesn't he goooooooo?!?!?" One time, a man and a lady in a Harley Davidson edition F150 got so mad at my for doing this that they were both screaming at me through my open sunroof, threatening to get out and physically assault me etc. They kept yelling at me to "learn how to drive". It as grid-lock traffic and we'd have minutes at a time of complete stoppage. That was a pretty awkward hour of my life.
Inside a car, pretty much anything becomes "fair game for hostility" - and I say that as somebody who doesn't own one. Something about going at high speed, just gets the worst out of people. It's the same with bikes going fast vs bikes going slow, or any bike vs pedestrians - the "I'm going faster so gtfo my way" mindset is incredibly natural, in all the worst ways.
Pet peeve: no matter what you do in a truck someone gets mad.
You’re either driving too fast or too slow. You try to stay in the slow lane but catch up to the person going 45 on the interstate who speeds up as soon as you get next to them trapping you in the fast lane until you give them ‘incentive’ to let you back over.
I could go on and on but my government mandated 30 break was over six minutes ago and there’s people to annoy on the two lane highway I get to drive on until Texas.
I think it's funny that people would be stressed out about your riding being dangerous to them, but as a reaction would cut you off, or drive too close to you.
"I hate how dangerous you're being; therefore, I'm going to be even more dangerous! I definitely showed you!"
I tried it once or twice. It was great for the first minute or so, until the lady in the car behind me started honking, screaming, revving her engine, and pretending like she was going to ram my bumper. People HATE when I try to reach average traffic speeds instead of just cramming my car as close to the one in front of me as I dare.
It's more like I bought a nice new truck and I'm taking it to the store when I pass a bunch of people who I don't know but ask me for a ride. I politely decline as I'm busy but instead they attach their bungee cords to my truck as I drive by. Then they complain incessantly that I'm driving too fast and that I'm going to break their cords.
Yeah, I'm advocating that people find their own ride and don't slow mine down.
I’m sorry you’ve experienced road rage as a response. I should say, I feel relatively safe trying this here. But I’m in the PNW where people are notoriously passive aggressive. But they seem perfectly happy to just “skip ahead” of me.
But yeah I definitely could imagine a more aggressive response where I first learned to drive (DC metro).
"There's something straight ahead of me, unclear what. Let's just ram into it, full throttle!" If that's your thought process, please cease driving immediately and permanently.
Sorry earlier commented.. I'm scared shitless of drivers.... Especially along freeway/highways/motorways.... I'm the asshole that files reports you to the police for endangering my life, my children and my existence. My friend went down a highway in Canada at 222mph. I literally took him outside and punched him in the face. I apologised and told him his mum would be the next up in line.
When I was younger, I used to get impatient but probably never or rarely angry.
At some point I decided that I really have no idea why any given person is driving slowly or seemingly over-cautiously or in whatever strange way. Maybe something is going wrong? Maybe out of their control?
I have since strived to be charitable and patient. I sometimes fail, but on the whole I find that I am much less stressed when driving now than when I was younger.
I just say, usually out loud to my little kids' extreme delight, "WTF ever, people be crazy."
I do still yell at people who are driving excessively fast to slow down. Also to my kids' delight. My preschooler says, "we should call the police," which makes me laugh everytime.
Except in Pittsburgh. I am always super super stressed when driving in and around Pittsburgh.
I also yell at cyclists who don't obey traffic laws (silently, in my head, at least).
Ha, I remember knocking on the rear windscreen of a car as it passed me by, I was doing about 20mph, the car not much faster, I didn't even need to stretch my arm to do so.
The driver pull over further down the street and I had a conversion with him very calmly, he wasn't happy about me knocking on the window and told me that if he was younger he'd punch my lights out.
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