Dreamer's Highway

[Ilythia]

I was driving to work today, driving at 40-45 mph on a boulevard where there is constantly traffic as it is right next to a university. Perhaps it was because of the nice weather we have had been having for the last couple of days; point is, there wasn't traffic. Passed a green light blasting away with New Vogue Children when all of a suden, a fucking dumbass runs across of the fucking street which forces me to break abruptedly.

Dumbass safely crosses the street without a care in the world and I'm left with a sickening feeling. You cross the street at the streetlight not in the middle of it. Why do you think those parallel white lines were created for? Walk all the way over there to burn off those calories, get active.. run if you have to.. I don't care but don't cross the middle of the fucking street who happens to have heavy traffic.

My god.

I have more stories regarding dumbass drivers.. but for now, this one left a bitter taste.

[Shun]

I have more stories regarding dumbass drivers..
That's not a dumbass driver, that's just a plain out dumbass.

You should've taught him the lesson of what happens when dumbasses are themselves.

[Roxas]

As in, run them over. They wouldn't do it again.

[JAY]

It's the pure fact of transportation (including the footbottom taxi) that however you travel, everyone else travelling otherwise is annoying, incompetent at moving around, and roadbanned in your mind. Mostly that includes ones travelling the same way as you.
I walk, and curse drivers, and bikers. When I reach my car (not that I have one) I hate pedestrians. Moody thing this is.

[Shun]

I curse everyone just for the fun of it. I don't really have a problem with any people moving around. Though that could just be because I'm that horrible driver everyone hates on the road.

[Kanji]

I dig road rage. One of the grooviest driving experiences I've ever had was when my dad randomly stopped in the middle of a four-way stop sign because he wanted to point out that he knew the Indian that lived in some nearby house, or someshiz (who even does this, srsly). Amidst my mom's eagerness to find the house in question and her inability to locate it, we were parked there for too long.

I looked out the window and there was this shady old man in a hueg van at the stop sign to our right, and he was PISSED OFF. He first made angry gestures by shaking his fist while screaming some nonsensical gibberish that I'd never be able to hear anyway due to distance, closed windows, loud Bollywood quality muzak in our car, etc. After my dad noticed (the old dude had the sense to honk, it seems), he pulled back a little bit, but OH SHIT THIS GEEZER WAS PISSED. Instead of taking the opportunity and moving on, he just kept his car there, making gestures while mouthing "WHAT THE FUCK" with his lips.

After we moved on, it seemed he was following us around for a while, but eventually gave up chase.

[Solitary Seraph]

I shriek at people. People move out of the way, and give me wide eyed looks like OMFG I CANT BELIEVE YOU DID THAT

Some guy on a bike cut across me and I slammed on my brakes, and he flipped me the bird.


...then a truck hit him. Talk about karma.

[Roxas]

My friend Will was dropping me home from Human Biology yesterday (it's an evening class so we finished quite late) and we were going up a one-way street. A huge sign said it was one way, and it had a huge arrow on the road surface pointing in the right direction. Anyways, some twat turned into the road and was driving towards us, clearly he couldn't read. Will mouthed through the windscreen "wrong way you wanker" and did the hand gesture. And omggg. This guy slammed on his brakes, got out the car and started walking towards us. He was mahusive. Anyways, he got to the door and started opening it to grab Will, in which he retaliated by kicking the door, so it flung back and knocked into guy who went sprawling onto the pavement. Will put his pedal to the metal then and we got the fuck out of there.

But wow. Wrong way up a one way street? Learn to r e a d.

[Ilythia]

You should've taught him the lesson of what happens when dumbasses are themselves.
Haha, would have been brilliant scene. =d

I've heard you Brits have a bad temper, it seems what they told me has yet to be proved wrong.

[Shun]

Some guy on a bike cut across me and I slammed on my brakes, and he flipped me the bird.


...then a truck hit him. Talk about karma.Oh fuck.

I do all the yelling, and yes, even shrieking, at people, too, so maybe I'll be lucky enough to experience that one of these days! :D

I sing at a lot of people, too. That's probably the majority of my shrieking.

Actually, good example of a recent happening: A van in front of me and I were stuck behind some going-the-speed-limit guy on a two-lane highway of sorts (it's a residential highway.. whatever the technical name for that is, aside from the probable "highway"). I went to go around the two of them because.. I could. So I hold back a little, thinking maybe the van would cut in too.

He doesn't.

So I go to drive past them, and WOOSH, the van cuts in, but notices that I'm nearly parallel to him as he cuts in, so he stays between the lanes for a few seconds (I was at the end of his van, basically). I give him some room to get in, but for fun shake my fist at him, and lip "rabble rabble rabble" in a mean manner at him, with furious eyes behind the rabbling. I see him stare me down in his left-side mirror, and seemingly shout at me in it. He then sped off, and who knows? Maybe he got hit by a Mack truck?! i (and my fiancée) lol'd hard as soon as he started to drive off though, realizing that he saw me rabbling (again, I must stress that I was literally rabbling at him - "rabble rabble rabble", as I put it before).


mmm.. road rageee...

[JAY]

usually my roadrage scares my passengers. They don't seem to share the emotion of a driver.

[Roxas]

I would say that we Brits do have nasty tempers, probably because we're so arrogant and think we're better than anyone else. I wouldn't argue the fact that we have bad road rage. I see it for too often to prove it wrong.

[Shun]

usually my roadrage scares my passengers. They don't seem to share the emotion of a driver.my people laugh, usually. nobody else gets into it, for the most part, though :(

[Ilythia]

I would say that we Brits do have nasty tempers, probably because we're so arrogant and think we're better than anyone else. I wouldn't argue the fact that we have bad road rage. I see it for too often to prove it wrong.

From what I heard, a alot of guys like messing around with taxi drivers. For example, if they see a taxi guy sleeping inside of his car, they like to scare him. This results in him getting angry/ conducts a well coordinated chase with other taxi drivers to chase the rebel group down. That's what Ben and his friends told me.

Imagining that scene might cause me to laugh, but instead, I find it to be very rude. I don't live in a city where taxis are used a lot so I'll never see something to that extent. Just the fact that it happens and nothing is done to keep it from happening is so.. unethical.

To those that live in New York, does this happen over there?

[Crimson]

I don't live in New York City (I live near Buffalo), so I'm not quite sure if the same thing happens on this side of the state as it does in New York City. I'm not even sure if it happens in the Big Apple in the first place, but that does sound very rude.

[Roxas]

From what I heard, a alot of guys like messing around with taxi drivers. For example, if they see a taxi guy sleeping inside of his car, they like to scare him. This results in him getting angry/ conducts a well coordinated chase with other taxi drivers to chase the rebel group down. That's what Ben and his friends told me.
I've never seen that before, but I expect that happens a lot. Taxi's like to line up outside clubs as this is a certain place to pick up customers. Of course, most people come out of clubs fuelled by alcohol and probably fancy playing a stupid joke on the driver. I've never been out late enough to see that, if I'm in town during the early hours of the morning I tend to avoid the pubs and clubs in fear of getting grabbed and dragged down a dark alley.

The more common thing I've heard of is people legging it when the taxi drops them off, so they don't have to pay the fare. I think that is so harsh. The driver needs to make a living, he or she has ensured that you got from place A to B safely and you can't pay them a couple of pounds for that? It's disgusting.