Am I Alone?

[RandyWayne]

One thing that I am getting worse at, at least emotionally, is driving. While I have some mad driving skills worthy of Steve McQueen, I am getting more and more frustrated at other pokey inattentive drivers who always stop 2-10 car lengths behind the car in front of them at a stop light or drive like a snail in bumper to bumper traffic -even if they are in a lane with no one ahead of them for several hundred yards!

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

One thing that I am getting worse at, at least emotionally, is driving. While I have some mad driving skills worthy of Steve McQueen, I am getting more and more frustrated at other pokey inattentive drivers who always stop 2-10 car lengths behind the car in front of them at a stop light or drive like a snail in bumper to bumper traffic -even if they are in a lane with no one ahead of them for several hundred yards!

Okay, now you really got my attention...

I can easily wait until the light turns green to attempt going around someone like you mentioned. But, nothing frustrates me more than to be driving behind someone talking on or even texting from their phone. I don't care what the reason is. Get off the road, especially to text, for the sake of common sense and safety. If my phone sounds off, other than for an actual call, it can wait until I'm at home, the restaurant, etc...

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Dagwood

Okay, now you really got my attention...

I can easily wait until the light turns green to attempt going around someone like you mentioned. But, nothing frustrates me more than to be driving behind someone talking on or even texting from their phone. I don't care what the reason is. Get off the road, especially to text, for the sake of common sense and safety. If my phone sounds off, other than for an actual call, it can wait until I'm at home, the restaurant, etc...

I simply do not answer my phone in the car (unless on a rare occasion when I am actually expecting an important call). I just let it ring and see who called when I get to where I'm going.

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I simply do not answer my phone in the car (unless on a rare occasion when I am actually expecting an important call). I just let it ring and see who called when I get to where I'm going.

My wife is known to call, even as I'm still pulling out of the driveway. So, I better answer it, or else I'll get told, "Well, I tried calling you before you got too far down the road."

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I am getting more and more frustrated at other pokey inattentive drivers who always stop 2-10 car lengths behind the car in front of them at a stop light

I just do not get that one, and it drives me crazy!! If all of us stopped 5 car lengths back from the car in front of us, every red light would be backed up for 10 miles!! We're all sitting still, it's okay to get fairly close to the car in front of you. Really!

But my worst pet peeve about traffic is people who go 5-10 miles UNDER the speed limit on a two-lane road with few passing zones. Causing cars to line up for miles and miles behind them. Don't they OWN a rear view mirror?? Can't they SEE the cars piling up? Do they think they are the only person in the universe????