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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    I wonder if this counts. I know SUV, young woman, from Texas, horrible sense of direction and reading...that's a dangerous mix. I guess it is inconsiderate to have a grenade in your glove box, as well.

    http://www.komotv.com/stories/29831.htm
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    Like I said, it would be a much more difficult problem to solve with the younger drivers. My point was that old drivers aren't bad intentionally, young drivers are, and because of this, these situations should be delt with differently.
  • eharri3eharri3 Member Posts: 640
    " The problem with old drivers could be delt with by annual testing beginning at a certain age. Once they get to a certain point where they can no longer pass a driving test, they lose their license. Simple as that"

    No, it's not. There is no young people lobby. There IS an old people's lobby. Mandatory testing ideas have been batted about before. The senior citizen's lobby would never stand for it. They won't let anybody take away their mobility, or do anything that could in any way eventually lead to taking away their mobility, regardless of whether they enganger other drivers by keeping it. They hit the polls, they let the politicians know how they feel, and because of it they don't get bothered.

    It's really a very selfish way to think, and yet all I've read on this issue indicates this is exactly how the senior citizen's lobby expresses their point, and they make no bones and seem to feel no shame about it. "So what if we're a road hazzard. We still want our freedom. So leave us alone and go bother those dangerous younger people with their baseball caps on backwards again."

    "Maybe young drivers in a certain age group should face much stiffer penalties if they're cited or involved in an accident"

    I looked at my grandmother's insurance bill last week and I looked at mine, and I can tell you without a doubt we most certainly already are. In fact we're faced with stiffer penalties BEFORE we even get involved in accidents. We drive more, we drive farther, therefore we are involved in more accidents. If the older age groups were involved in commuting 45 miles to work each way every single day instead of using their vehicles twice per week to go to church and the grocery store, they would probably be causing tons more accidents than they do right now.

    I even see examples just in my apartment complex. Some prime parking spots are always off limits because certain vehicles never, ever move except for maybe 3-4 times per month, and when they finally do, it's a retiree behind the driver's seat. Now let's see, Im commuting to work every day, driving 30 miles to my parents' house over the weekends, driving to other places just for recreational purposes. Do you think maybe I stand a higher chance of getting into an accident than someone who drives so infrequently that they've been on the same tank of gas for 3 months on their 1989 CAdillac Sedan with 40 thousand miles on it? And on the rare occasions when they do venture out on the roads, they're driving so far below the average speed of traffic that everyone else is trying to avoid them?

    "Like I said, it would be a much more difficult problem to solve with the younger drivers."

    Nope, not at all. IF we could enforce the laws we already have on the books about wreckless driving, problem would be solved. As it is, localities are more concerned with stationing one lone cop by the side of the road to collect ticket revenues from speeders. So the times when actual wreckless, dangerous drivers, such as tailgaters and street racers, get caught is normally by accident while the cop was in the process of fishing for people doing 68 in a 55.
    Stiffer penalties are not the answer. Enforcing the laws we already have is, but that doesn't provide as big of a return on investment as pure simple speed enforcement.

    " My point was that old drivers aren't bad intentionally, young drivers are, and because of this, these situations should be delt with differently."

    I don't think so. Bad is bad, old or young. A young driver can concievably be convinced to calm down and be more careful. Once he does, he's got the reflexes to keep him safe. An senile older driver will always be senile and confused no matter what you do. But their putting lives in danger just like everybody else. Treat them with kid gloves in other situations, not in this one.
  • ruking1ruking1 Member Posts: 19,826
    "Drunk driving may be down but it's not out. What are gonna do? Fry people on the first offense?"

    In effect, that is what a drunk driver does on the streets! They FRY folks who more often than not are "innocent". Why is that FAIR?! It would be a self leveling or self elimating problem if only the folks that died due to DUI were the ones who were driving drunk!??

    To get some kind of perspective on this: fully 40% or upwards of 17k/42k yearly deaths involve DUI. When you combine that with folks who die due to seat belt non use (in a crash) we are talking a total of 59%!!!!
  • pat84pat84 Member Posts: 817
    I'll have you know, my 1969 Buick has only 32 thousand miles on it. You youngsters don't have a..................... What were we talking about ? ;-)
  • mirthmirth Member Posts: 1,212
    Here in Michigan they have some rule about older drivers that I didn't know about until my elderly grandmother (86 at the time) was in an accident. She had gotten confused and lost her way coming home from an errand. She drove around for hours (we were frantic and calling the police in every town around us) and finally ended up rear-ending a truck after it got dark. Luckily she hit it with the passenger side and wasn't hurt, but the truck driver said that she actually tried to keep going after the accident but her car was stuck under the truck. Anyway, our family decided she was done with driving, and I took her to the Sec of State office (DMV for non-Michiganders) to get a state id. We found out there that if she had wanted to keep driving she would have had to take a driving test. Something about causing an accident over a certain age. Thought that was interesting, but I guess it didn't help the truck driver.
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    You've made some good points. Lobbyist or no lobbyist, this thing with older drivers needs to be delt with. States need to go to an annual road test for seniors, no matter how much they kick and scream about it.

    With younger drivers, maybe just enforcing the current laws would work, but how do you get state, county, and city authorities to address this issue? That's the hard part.

    I still disagree that bad is bad, no matter how you look at it. Old people can't help the fact that they lose their ability to drive. That doesn't mean they should be ignored, just that they should be delt with differently. Young drivers who have the ability to drive safely, but choose not to, should be treated as malicious criminals, because that's what they are. Both problems need to be delt with, but differently.
  • gambit293gambit293 Member Posts: 406
    What scares me is considering the millions of BABY BOOMERS who will be slipping into "old age" in the coming decade. And worse, now they are armed with SUVs and Minivans instead of Buicks and Cadillacs. And of course, the increase in that demographic group will only swell their political clout.
  • pat84pat84 Member Posts: 817
    You've made some good points. Lobbyist or no lobbyist, this thing with older drivers needs to be dealt with. States need to go to an annual road test for seniors, no matter how much they kick and scream about it

    Do you think FL is going to do anything to restrict older drivers ? I doubt it.
      I doubt many FL seniors are going very far on any trip, though.
      I have to agree that seniors driving can be a menace. My father -in-law drove into his late 70's.
      He was totally oblivious to other traffic. He would wander over lanes, looking at people as he talked to them. His eyesight was failing and his hearing was almost non existent. He could not hear all the horns being blown at him. Riding with him was absolutely scary.
       He quit driving a few years ago, and now lives in an assisted living retirement home with my MIL.
  • jaserbjaserb Member Posts: 820
    We went to the mall yesterday for an ice cream cone at Cold Stone. As I was parking, I heard a loud squeal of tires. I looked over and saw a little Toyota truck full of teenage kids that had stopped for a family crossing in a crosswalk. "Slow down, you punks!" I thought. I'm rapidly slipping into geezerhood at the ripe old age of 28.
    Anyway, we had our Irish Creme ice cream with brownie and caramel mix-ins (yummm...) and stopped at the playland to let our munchkin run around for a while. As we got out to the car, I heard squealing tires AGAIN! That same truck, stopped at a crosswalk. As I watched, the truck took off, getting up some speed until the driver saw more people crossing the parking lot and did the same thing - slammed on the brakes to lock them up.
    It finally dawned on me that these kids were getting their jollies by scaring the crap out of people walking across the parking lot! My wife had to talk me out of chasing them down with a tire iron. Unbe-freaking-lievable.

    -Jason
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    I get at least one chuckle a day in Town Hall from posts that are written by those who KNOW that they're never going to get old...LOL

    But back to the topic at hand...I had the back to back inconsiderate driver experience today. Coming out of a shopping center parking lot that has sort of its own access road that comes to a T intersection with a "real street". I'm going to make a right turn, so I pull up to the stop sign and stop (what a concept!) Two vehicles coming from my left, the second one has their right turn signal on. So I'm going to wait for the first car to pass and then be ready to go. Well the first car does NOT cross in front of me, but makes the right turn into the shopping center. Just about the time I finish saying "Thanks for the signal meathead!!" the second vehicle, right turn signal on and cell phone glued to the ear, zips straight through WITHOUT making the turn they were signalling for. Normally I consider the horn to be used for emergency purposes only, but I have to admit that I did enjoy blasting her one and waking her up to the world outside her car and phone.

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  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    jaserb

    Where was your cell phone? I would've been calling the cops over that incident.

    pfflyer

    Imagine that, a women yacking on a cell phone instead of paying attention to her driving. That's a site seldom seen! :)
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Back to back drivers doing the opposite of what they were signalling or not signalling...
  • black_tulipblack_tulip Member Posts: 435
    As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.
    Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I
    just
    heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on
    Interstate
    77.
    Please be careful!" "Hell," said Herman, "It's not just one car. It's
    hundreds of them!"
  • pat84pat84 Member Posts: 817
    From the CNN article you quoted.
    "Drivers in their late 50s and early 60s are among the safest on the roads, but motorists who reach retirement age are much more apt to get into an accident, a AAA study finds.
     Drivers over 85 were nearly four times as likely to die in a crash as middle-aged drivers. "
      I am among the safest drivers on the road. Glad they got that right. ;-)

    Aside from retirement age being 85, instead of early 60's(my plans ), I wonder if degraded driving ability is gradual or occurs rather suddenly, with the onset of a medical condition, like a minor stroke.
      Later in the article I found it very interesting that for drivers 80 or over, FL requires a vision test for license renewal. My state (MD) requires that with every license renewal. no matter what age.
  • eharri3eharri3 Member Posts: 640
    He had a few fender benders. And the worst part was he never really understood it was his fault or what he had done wrong. Somehow it was always the other guy's fault. He once got hit at a stop sign sticking his nose out into an intersection without stopping behind the line by a car that was driving on the main road with traffic and didn't have a stop sign. He actually proceeded to lecture the guy who hit him about driving too fast. In all honesty I don't know if I would have been able to keep my cool if I was the other guy in that situation.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    I think it's all going to depend on the individual. Some people may never degrade, while others may degrade more slowly, and others, it may happen instantly.

    For instance, my 89 year old grandfather is still driving. I haven't ridden with him in years, because whenever we go anywhere, either my Dad or I do the driving. Dad says that Granddad scares the crap out of him when he drives though, although he's ALWAYS been that way! So there's really no degradation going on there! Back over the summer, I followed him to the garage so he could drop his car off to have some work done on it, and he seemed to be driving just fine.

    But OTOH, my grandmother, on my Mom's side, is going to turn 80 on Feb 28. She pretty much gave up driving 5 years ago. She has macular degeneration, and it slowly reduced her vision and driving ability. At first, the changes were subtle. She and her cousin would do their grocery shopping together, and take turns driving, but it got to the point that her cousin drove more often. Then, one time I needed to drop my car off at the repair shop, and she didn't want to follow me down there. She did, but then had me drive back.

    The end came about 5 years ago when it was time to renew her license, and she couldn't pass the vision test. By that time though, she wasn't driving at all, and was prepared for it.

    Then, there was my great-uncle's mother. She had a 1953 DeSoto Firedome that she was still driving in the early 70's. Had a stroke while driving it, and smacked into a parked car. The DeSoto went into storage, and she never drove again. She passed away around 1977-78.

    So it's just going to depend on the person, in general, as to how their driving ability is going to degrade.
  • hampsterdamhampsterdam Member Posts: 18
    so what is it with these clowns who turn on their left turn signal only when the traffic signal we're waiting at turns green and they're good to go?

    I have seen this so regularly for 35 years that I almost think some folks think this is the "proper" way to signal.

    Or to be more clear: guy/gal ahead of you at a red light doesn't turn on their signal until the light turns green. It's like they purposely wait until light turns so as not to confuse anyone.
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    We have an intersection in our town that certain people just refuse to use properly. It's a 3 way intersection with a traffic signal. One street intersects at a "T" with 2 left turn lanes, and one right turn lane. If you turn left, you then approach a major street after about 1/10th of a mile which only goes right. The proper way to go through this intersection if you plan to turn right on the next street is to turn left using the right left turn lane. Every single time I go through this intersection, without fail, there are idiots who use the far left turn lane, then as soon as they turn the corner they have to force their way into the right lane because they always want to turn right at the next street. When I first started using this intersection, I was considerate and would let these people pull over in front of me. Not anymore. These idiots can use the proper lane like most of us do, or they'll just have to wait until us drivers who are in the proper lane go by them. I'm sick and tired of these people constantly using the wrong lane, then expecting everyone who used the correct lane to slow down to let them into the lane in front of them. This is one time I wish I was a cop and could just park there and hand out tickets to drivers just for being idiots!
  • eharri3eharri3 Member Posts: 640
    Where you're driving down a two lane highway, Rt 1, and there's a right exit to go to Rt 76. Its the worst in especially heavy traffic. There's two lanes and then a special exit lane JUST for that exit. But people will stay in the far left lane until the last minute to avoid being in the slow moving line to the exit. Then they'll jump to the right right before the exit comes up. Then they usually have to come to a complete stop right next to the exit in the middle of traffic and wait for somebody to slow down and let them in. In the process they bring traffic in the right lane to a complete hault.
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    Makes you wonder what's going through these people's mind's that turns them into such idiots while they're driving. These people can't actually be this stupid or they would've never passed their driver's test in the first place.
  • wilcoxwilcox Member Posts: 582
    I love it when my small hometown cops pull over speeding, weaving and tailgating Atlanta drivers. They look so shocked that traffic laws are actually being enforced. Aahahaha!
  • gee35coupegee35coupe Member Posts: 3,387
    It's funny to hear the locals talk about the "race car drivers" on the main artery into town. I always wonder if they are talking about me or my wife. We're both known to be near the fastest cars on the road. LOL.

    I have a sheepish look when I get into my lowered lightly modded....race car. Hee.
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    You'll look even more sheepish wrapped around a tree. Slow down!
  • 6thbeatle6thbeatle Member Posts: 180
    you hear about the odd visitor driving up from the states who sees the sign by the side of the highway that reads "100 kMPH" and flies down the road at 100 MPH with a big grin on their face!
  • vchengvcheng Member Posts: 1,284
    Don't ask me how I know ;)

    PS: I do know the difference between KMPH and MPH though.
  • gee35coupegee35coupe Member Posts: 3,387
    It's a 4 lane rural interstate. Straight as an arrow. If I hit a tree, it won't be speed that caused it.
  • carlisimocarlisimo Member Posts: 1,280
    one hundred thousand miles an hour? =]
  • black_tulipblack_tulip Member Posts: 435
    ...I get into my lowered lightly modded....race car.

    So what are you doing on public roadways with a race car? Go to a race track.
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    On a 4 lane dived road, a stretch with no places to turn off, no place that anyone could be going except forward, 40 MPH limit. I'm in the right lane, a LLC about 2 car lengths ahead of me, steady in the left lane both going just over the limit. I'm in no hurry, no other cars in sight, my turn is about a mile ahead so I'm happy as a clam... when suddenly...

    I notice a vehicle coming up from behind us at MORE than the posted speed. Not flying, but definitely going to give me a chance to observe the LLC battle up close...
    As he approaches, he moves into the RIGHT lane on MY bumper and starts flicking his lights and gesturing, then pulls up beside ME and shows me how his fingers work. I give him the international sign for WHAT??? and ease off the gas as he darts between me and the LLC who I THOUGHT was going to be getting this treatment.

    Can ANYONE explain this one to me???

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  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    Must have been just another one of those drivers who makes you say "what the?" The road seems to be full of these type of people these days. Where are all these idiots coming from?
  • ed_scott0013ed_scott0013 Member Posts: 64
    Maybe he was from a foreign country where they drive on the left (therefore passing on the right)?

    I'm just as stumped as you are...
  • 6thbeatle6thbeatle Member Posts: 180
    he probably just got married, and wanted to show you his ring. fuggeddaboutit. did you check to see if he had any pink plastic carnations on his car? maybe you forgot to honk as he went by or sumfin. some of them newlyweds are pretty sensitive about things like that, you know.
  • ranaldranald Member Posts: 147
    It's a matter of expectations. When you see an obvious LLC, you don't expect much from them. Signalling them to move over won't work, expecting them to yield the left to faster traffic... never happen.

    But from a distance when the guy was coming up behind you probably looked like you had a little life in you, unlike that LLC stiff. He was probably expecting you to pass the LLC on the
    right, and instead you turned the situation into a rolling roadblock.

    Sure he *should* have been mad at the LLC, but from you he seemed to expect competence. Who expects that from an LLC?
  • ranaldranald Member Posts: 147
    I had some fun on the way to drop a friend off at Newark Airport this morning, while trying to get onto the NJ Turnpike.

    At the toll plaza there are something like 6 lanes in my direction. I used the rightmost toll lane, and stayed to the right. After the plaza the road narrows to 3 lanes, 2 lanes on the right going in my direction. I'm perfectly lined up to cruise along into the rightmost one.

    Except that someone else who passed through the tolls at about the same time as me but way to the left, started to drift over toward me. At first I thought, it's fine even if he's going my way the ramp is 2 lanes wide there's room for everybody. Problem is, he kept coming over. And coming over. When he finally entered my lane (we were side by side), I leaned on my horn. He kept coming. But what made it *really* special, is that he popped on his brights and honked back, while still coming further into my lane.

    Time for evasive maneuvers. Just flooring it or braking wouldn't have been enough (someone would have lost some paint, a side mirror and possibly a bumper) so I had to drive on the shoulder for a bit. I was very slightly ahead, so I floored it instead of braking.

    He followed me around the curve onto the Turnpike with his brights still on, honking. I did my best to quickly lose him in traffic on the Turnpike. (Yes there's traffic at 5am).

    My friend and I could only shake our heads at someone who pushed me off the road, honking and shining his brights at *me* while he did it.
  • kdshapirokdshapiro Member Posts: 5,751
    "My friend and I could only shake our heads at someone who pushed me off the road, honking and shining his brights at *me* while he did it."

    I've learned not to give people an opening. I won't cut anyone off or gesture to anybody, but I'll be darned if someone is going to cut in front of me and then slam on the brakes. I don't give 'em the opening. That's the Jersey way.

    People such as you describe should be reported to the police.
  • bottgersbottgers Member Posts: 2,030
    He may have been just amother one of today's "me first" drivers. I see that here all the time. I'll be driving along on a 4 lane street in the right lane with 3 or 4 cars ahead of me when someone approaches from the rear in the left lane. Instead of being content with pulling into the right lane in the opening behind me when needing to make a right turn, this driver decideds he or she has to pass everyone in the right lane before getting over in the right lane themselves to make their turn, only to slam on their brakes after passing everyone so they can make their turn. Idiots!
  • ranaldranald Member Posts: 147
    People driving along abreast of me and deciding to move or merge over into me happens all the time. Part of it is that I drive a small, black car - low visibility and all that, particularly at night. The rest of it, of course, is that people can't drive worth a damn. Not checking when making lane changes is among their lesser failings. Maybe my next car will be a white SUV. :)

    But most folks, when they hear a car horn honking from the space they wanted to move to and suddenly realize that "hey! there's a car there!" will abort the lane change and move back. This guy was abreast of me, drifted over into the space I was occupying and when he heard the horn it just seemed to annoy him. It sure didn't stop him.
  • eharri3eharri3 Member Posts: 640
    "But most folks, when they hear a car horn honking from the space they wanted to move to and suddenly realize that "hey! there's a car there!" will abort the lane change and move back"

    Aroudn here what happens when you honk is they flip you the bird like you're the one who did something wrong, then they continue cutting you off.
  • ranaldranald Member Posts: 147
    I grew up in NYC and got my license in Boston while in college. And I said most, not all. :)

    Once I was driving on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, and some kid looked to be about 12 or so was driving next to me in a brand, shiny new Maxima. He smoothly and skillfully began a lane change into my passenger side door. The *look* on his face when I leaned on my horn... I only got to see his initial shock, I was driving after all. But my friend in the passenger seat said she thought he might have soiled himself.

    In my observation most drivers out there who do stupid things aren't malicious (even in NY/NJ/CT, where roadway malice is a way of life) but just not very good.

    I do agree with you about not ever driving near anyone if I can help it. If given a choice, I *never* drive abreast (even with an open lane in between) of anyone.

    BTW, road tripping with a passenger who is also a good driver, who is willing to be a spotter/copilot is one of life's unsung pleasures.
  • supratunersupratuner Member Posts: 9
    I am 15 so I can't drive yet. What I hate is people with big vehicles though and those who don't use signals, cut through parking lots and more.

    When I do drive I might get a few speeding tickets. Sorry but that is how it is. That's as agressive as I might get and I won't go over 90mph. I am not a daredevil.
  • carlisimocarlisimo Member Posts: 1,280
    I was at a busy pedestrian crossing here in Berkeley (as a pedestrian) today, waiting for the crossing signal. The "walk" signal went on as oncoming traffic slowed down for their red light, including a senior driver in a Cadillac. He didn't slow down all the way though (I'd estimate he got down to 5mph) and all us pedestrians hussled to clear a space for him as he drove through. He didn't seem to have any expression on his face. Just kept going.
  • ed_scott0013ed_scott0013 Member Posts: 64
    I don't know if this has been covered already (probably has) but as I was biking home from campus yesterday, an older model Honda Prelude was next to me at a traffic light.

    The light wasn't even CLOSE to turning green (the cross traffic pedestrian signs haven't started the flash the hand yet) and this guy just keeps rolling and rolling into the intersection. His front tire is probably 5-10 feet past the stop line (around 3 feet past the furthest pedestrian crossing line) before he realizes the light isn't going to turn green any time soon.

    When the light turns green, he takes a full three seconds to realize what just happened. By this time, I'm already across the intersection on my bicycle.

    He blows past me, only to reach another intersection one block down. I pull up beside him, and there we go again: The creeping continues.

    I wasn't blocking his line of sight at all (I usually hang back a little to let them turn right if they want to...) so why he keeps rollin' is beyond me...
  • eharri3eharri3 Member Posts: 640
    What the heck the point is of even waiting for the light to turn green anymore when you're already half want pulled out into the itnersection and blocking traffic. You might as well just run finish the job and run it.
  • ed_scott0013ed_scott0013 Member Posts: 64
    It usually happens late at night, but one time when I was biking home after a late night on campus, a guy in a beat up old minivan tossed his plastic drink cup at me then sped off through three sets of red lights.
  • pat84pat84 Member Posts: 817
    Any chance that cup might have had an alcoholic beverage in it ? ;-)
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    "Any chance that cup might have had an alcoholic beverage in it ? ;-)"

    Nah. They drink it before they throw it out... grin.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • cnorthrupcnorthrup Member Posts: 74
    For everyone who drives the highways and by-ways of Connecticut:

    1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real Connecticut driver never uses them.

    2. Under no circumstance should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else, putting you in an even more dangerous situation.

    3. The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.

    4. Never, ever come to a complete stop at a stop sign. No one expects it and it will result in you being rear-ended.

    5. Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork. Connecticut is a no-fault insurance state and the other guy doesn't have anything to lose.

    6. Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. For those of you without ABS, it's a chance to stretch your legs

    7. Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It's a good way to scare people entering the highway.

    8. Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as a suggestion and are apparently not enforceable in Connecticut during rush hour.

    9. Just because you're in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn't mean that a Connecticut driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn't think he can go faster in your spot.

    10. Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.

    11. Learn to swerve abruptly. Connecticut is the home of the high-speed slalom driving thanks to the State Highway Department, which puts pot-holes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.

    12. It is traditional in Connecticut to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant the light turns green.

    13. Remember that the goal of every Connecticut driver is to get there first by whatever means necessary.

    14. In the Connecticut area, 'flipping someone the bird' is considered a polite Connecticut salute. This gesture should always be returned.
  • mitzijmitzij Member Posts: 613
    But I have actually been yelled at by my sister when using my turn signal to turn! There is an intersection in my little city where the highway turns left and the street you're on changes name if you go straight. Oncoming cars have to stop so people on the state route can turn (have the right of way). According to her, using a turn signal here could cause drivers around me to be confused and wreck up. This has been a serious argument several times. Finally, I gave up and make her drive when we go anywhere.
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