Stupid Driver Stories

Today I had a bad day and decided to reward myself with tacos. I went to taco bell and was waiting angrily at women in front of me in mini van ordering 7000000 pounds of tacos and taking so long I considered turning off the car. I get up to the window finally and hear beside me CRUNCH.
Dumbass ran the van over the cement stopper thing at the end of a parking spot :rolleyes:
I ended up leaving before them as only ordering 2 tacos and she was inspecting car for how bad she fucked it up.
 
She was probably gorging herself on tacos and didn't see the curb through that re-fried bean haze she was in.
 
Today I had a bad day and decided to reward myself with tacos. I went to taco bell and was waiting angrily at women in front of me in mini van ordering 7000000 pounds of tacos and taking so long I considered turning off the car. I get up to the window finally and hear beside me CRUNCH.
Dumbass ran the van over the cement stopper thing at the end of a parking spot :rolleyes:
I ended up leaving before them as only ordering 2 tacos and she was inspecting car for how bad she fucked it up.

Your first mistake, going for tacos to taco bell... Look up Chipotle if you want a chain :p
 
I have another place I normally go to but it would require getting out of the car in a thunderstorm and paying more money than I had on me.
 
In the border region you encouter a lot of dutch drivers (no, they are not ALL like that - I dont want to make it sound like "the dutch" were bad drivers, but trust me - I do quite some driving close to the border and if someone behaves like I will describe it now, they have got an Dutch plate on their Mondeo* in 100% of cases) over here and some of they have this totally anoying habit of ignoring every speed-limit sign and just go 80km/h no-matter-what. The limit on normal country roads (I guess the brits call those "A roads") outside of towns in Holland is 80km/h, in Germany it?s 100km/h, so you are allowed to go FASTER here. But that?s merely an annoyance being stuck behind a Dutch-driver doing 80 because he/she doesn?t fucking know what the pedal on the right is for. The Point where it get?s downright stupid and dangerous is when they don?t slow down when driving trough a small town (limit: 50 km/h) and just continue going 80km/h. I was stuck for about half an hour behind one of those today and he went through 5 villages at 80km/h at that time (where I fell behind - but caught up with him quickly after leaving the villages). This is "I don?t care" -driving and that?s not getting these people anywhere quicker or safer.

* other possible cars include various Volvos, Kias and Toyotas
 
I've come to the conclusion that, in Michigan at least, the biggest jackasses can be found in Pontiac G6 GTs, and Lincoln MKZs. About half of all my traffic irritations come from people in these two cars.

Just yesterday, I was on a road that is typically two-lane, but occasionally widens to four lanes to allow for some passing. There are a number of signs on the road that say "keep right except to pass". Okay, fine... I'm chilling in the right-hand lane, letting some speed merchants go by me so that one of them will get nabbed by the hidden police officer up ahead at 20 over, instead of me going at 10 over. But, my lane is about to run out, so I signal left to get back into the lane. There's a G6 GT sitting right in my blind spot, for getting on four seconds, and I'm thinking, oh shit, he's not going to move. I have turn signals on my wing mirrors; he can see that I want and NEED to get in within four seconds, or I'm in a world of trouble.

There's also a guy following right behind me, and I can see him pull back as he sees what's going on here.

So I do what we all do -- speed up to get past the G6 who was doing exactly the speed limit in the passing lane, and then begin the merge. I have to, I'm going to be out of road in three seconds. What does he do? He SPEEDS UP to match my speed! So that forces me to slow down very suddenly, and then pull in behind him. I look at the fucking moron as he goes by, and he has FOUR SMALL CHILDREN IN THE BACK SEAT. I honk and wave my arms, and he slows back down to precisely the speed limit.

Ugh.

A mile down the road, I overtake him over a dotted line.

He then spends the next ten minutes trying to overtake me, but he can't, because the road is a bit too hilly and a bit too busy, and I'm keeping close enough to the big F-250 in front of me that he's not going to be able to slot in cleanly.
 
Another one -- heh... just watched some poor young girl fail her driving test. How do I know she failed? She was executing a left-hand turn at a four-way intersection with traffic lights..... when the light was red.

Oooops!
 
Had a nice one just this morning. So I was on my way to work, which includes going through this roundabout:

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I marked my way in light green, going from the bottom of the picture to the right. As you can see, I have my own lane there which can in no way be occupied by anyone coming from that roundabout whereever he comes from. Said "he" has his own lane to leave the roundabout, which I marked in dark green. You know what's coming, right? Me just clipping the roundabout, and some dumbass in a red Escort estate coming from the roundabout and just crossing into my lane without looking and with no reason whatsoever, since there was noone else at the time. I had to brake hard to avoid a collision, and I honked. No reaction on my counterpart however.

You know, everone makes a mistake once in a while, so when shit happens, you can at least apologize. A brief flash of the hazards or a simple raised arm will do, I don't expect much. I want more than nothing however. So I was driving behind this guy and, of course, observing him closely now. As it turned out, he didn't really feel comfortable with those random white lines which some loonatic painted on the tarmac. More than once, he was swerving over the road, more crossing than clipping single and double white lines.

Alcohol, probably? :?
 
Another one -- heh... just watched some poor young girl fail her driving test. How do I know she failed? She was executing a left-hand turn at a four-way intersection with traffic lights..... when the light was red.

Oooops!

:lol:

Yep oops is the word. Breaking the law is generally frowned upon by driving examiners.
 
Today I was driving my rental Dodge Ram crew cab truck (f'ing massive thing) off the freeway on a 2-lane transition ramp to a 2-lane street. There is a car ahead of me and we are approaching a ramp that enters from the right which must yield to us.

Some dipshit in a Lexus SUV comes flying up the ramp, passes me as the lane ends, drives up the shoulder until he is even with the car ahead of me, then he hits the brakes and swerves off the shoulder into the lane, causing me to swerve into the lane to my left. I lay on the horn and try to avoid the collision. As he is now going slower than me, I end up passing him and this douchenozzle has the stones to flip me off. I pass him, and move back into my lane before slowing down to the speed limit (it drops to 40 mph and is heavily patrolled). The dipshit is tailgating me to teach me a lesson, or something and ends up in a panic-brake because he's too close and not paying attention.

At the next light he pulls up and starts flipping me off again past is young female (and scared) passenger. He rolls down his window and starts shouting at me about my bad driving (the driving that just kept him from being the hood ornament of a one-ton truck). I finally loose it and bellow at the top of my lungs "YOU HAVE A FUCKING YIELD YOU FUCKWIT! OR ARE YOU SO SENILE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" The light goes green and I drove away.

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A few hours later I had a guy run a 2-way stop and nearly get t-boned by me. I honked and he pulled over looking for a fight. Instead, I passed him and "escorted" him at 25 mph through the residential neighborhood.

I hate commuters who treat the neighborhood as an expressway. But there are some new traffic survey sensors that went out today, so we should see some new enforcement soon.
 
I decided to go out for lunch today, so I walked out to my truck, got in and started it up. I was about to put it in reverse when I felt the gentle thump of a lime green new beetle hitting my back bumper. I didn't even get out, I just laughed as the driver sped off. I'm thinking about leaving a note on the windsheild to the effect of: Next time you run into me, have the decency to apologize.

Seriously people, if I can get my 19 FOOT F150 in and out of parking spots without hitting people, you should be able to in a fucking beetle.
 
I decided to go out for lunch today, so I walked out to my truck, got in and started it up. I was about to put it in reverse when I felt the gentle thump of a lime green new beetle hitting my back bumper. I didn't even get out, I just laughed as the driver sped off. I'm thinking about leaving a note on the windsheild to the effect of: Next time you run into me, have the decency to apologize.

Seriously people, if I can get my 19 FOOT F150 in and out of parking spots without hitting people, you should be able to in a fucking beetle.

Where was katwalk during all of this? :D
 
Seriously people, if I can get my 19 FOOT F150 in and out of parking spots without hitting people, you should be able to in a fucking beetle.
Indeed. I can park my 19 foot Silverado in a space first shot, and this truck has the turning circle of Texas, ffs. Yet, it never fails, I see a small little car that's had problems pulling into their parking spot properly.

Hell, in school, my friends and I all drove clunkers. I had an 84 Chevy Silverado and another friend had a 1976 Ford Land Yacht. When the rich kids in their parent's BMW or Mercedes would park across two separate parking spaces, we'd surround their car with our pieces of shit then fail to go to lunch, or stay after school for a good hour or so. Sure, people would get pissed, but if we managed to park our tanks in a single parking space, why the hell can't they? :mad:
 
The smaller the car is, the harder it gets to park it in or out. Believe me, I've driven small cars and huge cars, it's way more easier to park a FIAT Ducato than a smallish SEAT Ibiza. Don't know why, but it is so.
 
You'd be amazed at the horrific turning circle of a VW Polo. Add to that the lack of power steering and parking becomes a real bitch!

About the girl that turned left on RED...WTF!!! People like this should be banned from driving...for life! I don't feel safe, knowing that there are people like this driving on the road. RED means STOP. I learned that when I was 3-years-old, crossing the street with my mother!
 
The smaller the car is, the harder it gets to park it in or out. Believe me, I've driven small cars and huge cars, it's way more easier to park a FIAT Ducato than a smallish SEAT Ibiza. Don't know why, but it is so.

Box on wheels + HUGE mirrors.
 
Seriously people, if I can get my 19 FOOT F150 in and out of parking spots without hitting people, you should be able to in a fucking beetle.

The blind spots on beetles are bad enough that my mother after years of parking in boston can't aim one right. Because they are round you also cannot see where it ends it is a pain in the ass to park because you have to either guess or practice by purposely hitting things to learn the distance. You cannot tell from inside the car where the bumpers are at all.
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the only thing you see is dashboard in front and the back is even worse
My convertible is even worse because it has a foot of canvas on either side of the tiny rear window.
 
Indeed. I can park my 19 foot Silverado in a space first shot, and this truck has the turning circle of Texas, ffs. Yet, it never fails, I see a small little car that's had problems pulling into their parking spot properly.

Hell, in school, my friends and I all drove clunkers. I had an 84 Chevy Silverado and another friend had a 1976 Ford Land Yacht. When the rich kids in their parent's BMW or Mercedes would park across two separate parking spaces, we'd surround their car with our pieces of shit then fail to go to lunch, or stay after school for a good hour or so. Sure, people would get pissed, but if we managed to park our tanks in a single parking space, why the hell can't they? :mad:

Most likely they didnt want to get their nice cars dinged up. To add to the rest of the people who chimed in, I had less trouble parking my 98 Century than I do my current car. Why? I have no fucking clue, I also had an easier time with a Suburban. I can't park my parent's Camry to save my life.
 
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