Planning a holiday for next year with some friends that's going to involve 6,000km of driving. I'm already looking forward to it 
Road Rage - When Stupidity Provides Its Own Reward
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Planning a holiday for next year with some friends that's going to involve 6,000km of driving. I'm already looking forward to it
Sounds rough, but going places is nice.
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Are they at all mutually exclusive? Are not rough things often glorious.
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Actually took a road trip about 1000km shy of that at the beginning of the summer. Definitely an exciting thing to do. My only advice is properly budgeting time so you can stop whenever/wherever you like for an extra bit without being overly-beholden to a schedule. Seems to always be little interesting crap you want to swing by or stop at to look at.Planning a holiday for next year with some friends that's going to involve 6,000km of driving. I'm already looking forward to it
On to complaining: Can I just say how much I despise people who try to be 'courteous to people behind them by breaking traffic rules? Driving into town earlier today on a higheay I was going around an S-curve and some prickola had pulled into the opposite lane to make a left turn so the people behind him could go by.
On an S-curve.
IE: Where oncoming traffic can't SEE him.
I damn-near peed my pants slamming on the brakes. I don't know how little the distance ended up being between my front-end and his passenger-doors, but it couldn't have been much. At which point I have to slam my accelerator down both to prevent my stopping and committing a murder as well as to keep the people behind me who can't SEE what's going on from smashing into my rear-end because I had to brake for Jackass McOncoming-Turninglane.
I'm sure it's probably a common mantra in shitty drivers, but I honestly worry more about other people and their crap driving than I do my own.
And deer, of course. Deer are evil, car-totaling spawn of Satan.
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It's why I'm so cautious, I don't want to fully turn into the street until I know I can make my way into traffic.
Now, you want annoying? Where I live, the city government re-paved the road and added a new sidewalk and a line of trees. Lovely, right? Except now the trees make it difficult to see oncoming traffic when you pull up to the exit for the apartment property I live in. You actually do have to nearly pull out into the road, stick a but of the front of your vehicle out, just to see if you've got oncoming traffic.
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I nearly had a bad accident last week. Driving off the shore road and took a left hand turn off the roundabout. Coming straight towards me on the wrong side of the road was a silver Mercedes. I hadn't been feeling great that day, haven't for some time, but reacted and discovered that my brakes work good. I sounded the horn and the dozy bitch driving just mouthed 'sorry'. I had my window down as it was a muggy day.
Of course, in full diplomatic mode I shouted "You fucking idiot".
Of course, in full diplomatic mode I shouted "You fucking idiot".
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It always seems to me like some kind of territorial impulse, like they'll get to merge if they're partially in the lane, instead of making the situation dangerous. I generally just manoeuvre around them at speed unless the situation is absolutely unsafe.
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Reminds me of one time someone was tailgating me on a state road between nowhere and somewhere. He was the only other car in sight, and I wasn't in the mood for him being on my tail. So I just took my foot off the gas.
A good three minutes later we have slowed from highway speeds nearly to a stop, my speedometer is at 15 mph. He finally get the clue and gets in the other lane.
A good three minutes later we have slowed from highway speeds nearly to a stop, my speedometer is at 15 mph. He finally get the clue and gets in the other lane.
ReeeFallin
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I recently crashed into another car in a sports car and absolutely destroyed it.
More recently, some assheaded individual in an escalade was camping next to me blocking me from getting over to my exit despite my signal so i slowed down to get behind him and high beamed him for the trouble, and he acted as though he was going to chase me, before he pussied out like a pussy.
More recently, some assheaded individual in an escalade was camping next to me blocking me from getting over to my exit despite my signal so i slowed down to get behind him and high beamed him for the trouble, and he acted as though he was going to chase me, before he pussied out like a pussy.
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I have occasionally come to a complete stop doing that with the person still behind me.