What is it with some drivers?!

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

So, what's to complain about? I love it when this happens. Bring the raaahr from these guys, let them have a heart attack, makes their day miserable. Mission accomplished.

x2

If you get the chance to speak with them make sure to say something along the lines of, "Don't be grumpy with me just because you look so old/fat/tired/etc." That works really well with women.

[KenP]

Hit them next time.

[Linus Gump]

I wouldn't recommend hitting them, that will open up a can of worms you don't wnat to deal with. It becomes road rage, and since all the cop is going to see is your vehicle parked on top of thiers, guess who they are going to think is the aggressor? I drive a semi all day, one loaded with gasoline at that, and morons do this to me all the time. I understand your frustration with it, but you gotta keep your cool. Defensive driving teaches you to yeild your space to prevent an accident, and to expect that the other driver will do something unexpected.
Merging is one of the biggest complaints I currently have about driving. It seems there are very few driving schools that teach how to properly merge, and who has the right of way at a merge point. Mommy and Daddy generally don't teach their kids either, mostly because they don't know themself.
The person on the freeway has the right of way, and the person merging is responsible for matching thier speed to that of traffic on the freeway. The merging traffic needs to be up to speed as quickly as possible and positioned so as to blend into traffic without causing traffic on the freeway to alter their speed or change lanes. They need to merge as early as possible, and not wait until thier lane ends to merge. Trucks and anything pulling a trailer, or vehicles that are obviously going to be slow to get up to speed require traffic on the freeway to allow extra space for them to merge.
Anytime I see someone following these rules, I make every effort on my part to ensure a smooth merge for them. The ones that dont usually wind up driving on the shoulder for a while before getting on the freeway and then speed past while flipping me off.

[mdoyle]

Good point on the merge- I should have been more clear, she stopped me on purpose at the top of the ramp. This is a somewhat rural area and the ramp does a 180? before it meets the highway.

For a moment I thought about re-enacting the Hummer commerical called "The Big Race" where the kid takes the shortcut off-road

I'm surprised at the reaction of these drivers, it's not like the Hummer is a new phenomena, they should already be over their anger issues.

[devilsfan]

Get a lift. With a lift, you can pretty much creep up to their rear bumper far enough that your front is hanging over their trunk. Then flip on your brights. You can see the urine puddling from under the drivers door after that.

Stacy

[Dug]

gump- my biggest peeve is people who dont merge. It so god dang easy to merge into traffic, I dont know how people get so dumb.

[frenzy1]

Has never happened to me !! People are too impressed by the size of my hummer here in Belgium ! Nobody's used to big ass american trucks over here !!! They Bow Down !!

[Boar-Ral]

I have been fortunate that I have not had any bad experiences with other drives -- until two weeks ago. Since then, things have been crazy.

I was leaving a parking lot at a hospital two weeks ago, turning right. I stopped for less than two seconds to make sure there was no traffic from the left, and some pinhead in an Infinity lays on the horn. Stupid thing is that he wasn't even turning right; he was turning left, and there were two lanes, one for each direction. Later that day, I was crossing the parking lot from Wal-Mart to Tim Horton's, and there was a lot of traffic. I was driving straight through, and had a stop sign. A Dodge Ram was facing me, also with a stop sign. I was driving forward, he was turning to cross in front of me. When the traffic cleared, I went forward, and so did he, even though I had the right of way. Then he has the nerve to flip me off. What a moron.

The idiot thing I have noticed drivers doing the past week is trying to pull around me on the right shoulder when I stop because someone in front of me is turning across traffic. If it was bumper-to-bumper, and we would be stopped for five minutes, I could understand that. I would probably go around the person, too. But in all three instances in the past week, I only made a rolling stop. By the time the person has turned, and I start to proceed, I notice someone coming up on the right. In all three instances, I stepped on it. There was no way I was going to let them get anything out of their idiotic behavour. Fortunately, in two of the instances, since they were now pulled over, other traffic pulled in front of them, and they got knocked even further back.

Maybe karma is making up for lost time in my situation. Who knows?