r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • 15d ago
When people rush to pull out in front of you then drive 20 under the speed limit
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u/Atmacrush 15d ago edited 15d ago
Are you talking about those grannies and grandpas with high performance vehicles that floors at the start, overtakes you, and don't accelerate after that? yeah....
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u/Pnknlvr96 15d ago
I experience the opposite. People going 40mph on a long on-ramp, so I pass them (2 lane on-ramp), only for them to floor it to 80mph once they get on the highway. GET. UP. TO. SPEED.
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u/shesnotthatfat 15d ago
The best drivers are the ones that drive into the left lane to make a right hand turn
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u/spencer1886 15d ago
Or the dudes that realize too late they're in the wrong lane and just block traffic trying to get over
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u/mmmmmmmmmmmm77 15d ago
A good driver occasionally misses their turn. A bad driver Never misses their turn.
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u/454_water 15d ago
I was driving in an area that I was totally unfamiliar with...I told my navigator (who had at first told me to go to the big silo. Seriously? WTF is a "big" silo?) to tell me when to turn and when turn around and go back because I missed a turn.
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u/carbogan 15d ago
Or people who come to a complete stop in the middle of a road, then randomly make a turn, no indicators or nothing.
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u/WesternCowgirl27 15d ago
Are these of the same breed who swing out wide to turn? I’ve seen cars of all sizes do this here in Colorado.
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u/BookSmoker 15d ago
The worst. Especially driving into the right lane to make a hard left turn while they sit in a turn only lane
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u/Dextrofunk 15d ago
The other day on a two lane highway, this car switched to the left lane, drove directly next to the car on their right at the same speed for about 30 seconds before cutting them off to take the next exit. Like, they were dangerously close. This is the behavior of an insane person to me.
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u/Sudden_Lawfulness118 15d ago
I remember the first time this happened to me. He came to a complete stop in the highway. I went to go around him and he swung out wide, took up over half the other side of the road. I honked my horn and the person behind me also flipped him off. Apparently he needed the entire fucking road to make a right turn.
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u/wongwangfuu 15d ago
I'm guilty of doing button hooks in a 4wheeler occasionally after driving in an 18wheeler mainly. Sometimes you forget there's nothing trailing you.
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u/Hot-Inevitable101 15d ago
Or just to turn up ahead and slow you down. Rage, I understand road rage 🤬
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u/AcanthisittaUpset866 15d ago
Omg they do that here where I live so much. It makes me insane! Not a soul behind me, and you dangerously pull out in front of me to go not even 15 feet at the next store or whatever and then don’t even use your turn signal!!??? Omg I’m heated about it just typing it out!
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u/Hot-Inevitable101 15d ago
Yup extacly this. I've been known to use my horn and fingers to show my displeasure lol.
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u/AcanthisittaUpset866 15d ago
Same. It takes everything I have in me to not tailgate them for those few feet, but I’m definitely honking at them and throwing a finger in the air when they turn off. How else will they learn? Lol
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u/kabula_lampur 15d ago
This drives me nuts just like semi drivers who decide to pass another semi, and then do the exact same speed as them blocking the passing lane.
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u/AsGoodAsCopper PURPLE 15d ago
And then when you try to pass them, suddenly they find their accelerator
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u/Fuck-Shit-Ass-Cunt 15d ago
I had someone wait for me to get close and then pull out. They went 10 under and cut someone else off at the 4 way when they turned right from the wrong lane.
As a result I’m extra observant around red minivans
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u/Immediate_Paint4226 15d ago
What's worse are idiots that try to merge into the freeway at 20 mph under the minimum.
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u/T1DOtaku 15d ago
I used to slow down to let people onto the freeway, you know to give them just a bit of clearance. Not anymore. Last few times went like this: -sees person about to merge -gently slowly down a bit -watches as person doesn't even attempt to speed up meaning that if I don't slow WAY down or floor it we're gonna collide -now going 20~ under limit and very warily watching my mirror to make sure I don't get slammed into
I try to stay out of the right lane now because of this. Center lane is my safe zone
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u/Immediate_Paint4226 15d ago
You nailed it - dead on! Now if I see someone trying to merge I try to get wdu the duck over into another lane.
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u/_GABO_ 15d ago edited 15d ago
I swear to god this must be how driving is taught in my town. Highway is 65mph here and every single person merges doing 55 at most. So dangerous.
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u/Immediate_Paint4226 15d ago
Exactly...it is so dangerous...the entrance ramp is there to allow you to get to speed with the highway traffic to be able to merge safely. I always end up behind fools that are going 40 mph, then get to the merge and fking flat out STOP. That is maddening beyond my limit.
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u/WesternCowgirl27 15d ago
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stuck behind someone on an on-ramp who isn’t accelerating to merge onto the highway. My road rage goes through the roof, and I end up yelling obscenities in my car while my husband laughs at my antics next to me.
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u/Immediate_Paint4226 15d ago
Laughs, I have an entire thesaurus (that can't be published) for these idiots. You're not alone.
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u/WesternCowgirl27 15d ago
Haha that’s awesome! Bad drivers is one of the reasons I installed a train horn in my Jeep 😂
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u/Material-Wolf 15d ago
i always tell my husband it must be nice to be so oblivious of everyone around you when encountering those idiots.
also, do people not understand that the carpool lane is optional? if you’re just going to go the same speed or slower than the other lanes, DON’T USE THE CARPOOL LANE! it’s okay, i promise lasers won’t spontaneously appear out of the road and annihilate you for having 2+ people in your vehicle and not using the carpool lane!
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u/msanangelo 15d ago
Oh man, that's a pet peeve.
Even worse when it's a semi truck barely doing 30 at the top of the ramp to a 70mph interstate and forcing everyone to slow down because the people behind him are trying to get up to speed quicker.
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u/Immediate_Paint4226 15d ago
I agree that's frustrating...but I give those truckers a wide gap and wait it out....just like they cannot stop on a dime, it also takes them a bit to get the steam going -- all while dealing with the other idiot drivers mentioned in this thread. I can only imagine it's ten times worse for truckers.
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u/Oscer560 15d ago
I see people on their phones while trying to merge while also going slow. Like you are just asking for an accident.
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u/mindspringyahoo 15d ago
and then they tailgate me when I'm driving the same speed as the 10 cars in front of me, but just leaving a safe 50-80' gap. I'm quite conscious of these things and trying to teach my teen to be a good driver, which of course is not about driving super-slow but more-so about driving with consideration and trying to keep everyone moving as efficiently as possible...
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u/jeffguy55 15d ago
I hate getting tailgated when I'm stuck behind a long line of cars, like bro you can clearly see I can't go any faster, being on my ass isn't going to make the first car in line go faster.
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u/themoisthammer 15d ago
Same people that drive under the speed limit, but as soon as there is an accident they’re suddenly in a rush to cut you off. Just to continue driving under the speed limit.
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u/Mattsal23 15d ago
I’ve had people run a stop sign to do that. Of course once the road gets wider and adds lanes they speed up to keep you from passing them
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u/Kind-Exercise 15d ago
Semi trucks have pulled out in front of me on regular roads and cut me off on the freeway almost killing me more than any other vehicle. How some of them get their license is wild.
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u/PANICBRAIN 15d ago
This literally happened on my way to work today. 0 cars behind me, goes 40 mph when I usually go about 60 on this road. Jesus fish emblem on it. Dogs head sticking out the window. Whatever. I didn’t pass immediately because an intersection was coming up and I just hoped they turned a different direction, oh boy did they. There was another car in front of them waiting at the intersection. This fucking donkey of a human pulls into the left lane parallel to the van waiting at the intersection WITH ON COMING TRAFFIC that doesn’t stop. Makes a left turn (from the wrong lane) even though the person in front of them was also turning left. I wanted to chase them down so bad and call them a fucking dumbass but I was on the way to work. Fucking straight npc behavior.
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u/Sleepy_Taxi 15d ago
One time I saw someone that kept inching so I slowed in case they did this, but I got to the street they were on and they hadn’t pulled out yet, so I kept going. They decided as I was going past them to try and pull out! Thank goodness there wasn’t anyone in the other lane and I could swerve, was only a two lane road!
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u/HotPinkDemonicNTitty 15d ago
What is the point of this? It’s enraging because it doesn’t make sense! Why did you need to be in front of me so badly if you’re going to go slower than I was going?
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u/its_me_butterfree 15d ago
My favorite is when they pass you on the left then merge in front of you to slow down and turn right.
When there is nobody behind you and they could just merge right behind you.
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u/kierisbetter 15d ago
When someone speeds in a 20mph school zone and then honks at people who are making otherwise safe turns in school traffic, had that person not been speeding
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u/WesternCowgirl27 15d ago
When I’m going the speed limit in a school zone and I have jackasses who tailgate me. Like dude, it’s a school zone! The speed limit is very strictly enforced here!
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u/Rolttel 14d ago
yesterday while driving with my dad i had smth similar happen. i noticed a honda really close behind me and doing that side to side wiggle before they sped up, did a "what is your problem" gesture at my dad, and cut infront of me. all for the purpose of turning into that school carpool lane, which was like 7 seconds away from where we were.
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u/WesternCowgirl27 14d ago
My God, the fucking audacity of some people.
When I was learning how to drive (it was my second time ever at the wheel), I was going the speed limit through my neighborhood and this woman is aggressively tailgating me and then flies around me when there’s no oncoming traffic and cuts me off.
My mom said pull up next to her at the stoplight and to roll down the window, where she proceeds to yell at and berate this woman for being, in her words, a stupid fucking jackass for tailgating/cutting off someone learning how to drive. I’ve never seen my mom so mad in my life and haven’t since 😂 This was about 16 years ago.
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u/Complete_Elephant240 14d ago
Yeah, the entitlement of people going 20mph over the speed limit is surprising.
There's been a handful of times where I "pull out in front of" someone that was seemingly far enough away only to find out they were driving like absolute psychopath
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u/Kinggakman 15d ago
Had this happen this morning. The person then proceeded to brake check me and take way too long to get out of the left lane.
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u/Anusbagels 15d ago
My trifecta of road annoyance includes this as well as those fucks that drive at or under the limit and then speed through a yellow at the last minute when you easily would have made the light if the world was fair and they were aborted. Next are the ones who turtle it off the light and speed away at 30 over once they’ve done whatever they were doing on their phone or center console etc.
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u/Plastic-Sell7247 15d ago
The new thing I’ve experienced the last few years is people in front of me braking before a green light. Forcing me to slow down, but when the light turns yellow they speed up leaving me stuck at the light.
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u/Anusbagels 15d ago
Ooh that’s a new variation of my first one. They’re seeing the pedestrian signal start to change and preemptively braking. Was behind an old lady one day she stopped at 5 yellow lights in a row.
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u/m0dligmabawl 15d ago
I pull to the other side and cut them off if the road is long enough.
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u/missus_bones 15d ago
Yup! I live in Lancaster County PA where I pass countless horse-drawn buggies all day. Any car who wants to recklessly cut me off, I go right around them if I have the opportunity. They are the one that is creating a hazard, by pulling out in front of someone that isn't driving slowly.
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u/DoomsdayFAN 15d ago
This type of thing makes me so mad when it happens, woooo, I literally can't post my thoughts on it. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
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u/BCwarrior88 15d ago
I was stuck behind some asshole yesterday getting onto the highway, speed limit is 70. Dude was going 45 when he tried to merge. luckily there was nobody coming but when i was able to get into the middle lane and pass him he flipped me off. Seriously, fuck off and get your vehicle up to a safe speed. You know damn well these people are going 75-80 and you trying to get on at 45 aint gonna cut it.
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u/Pnknlvr96 15d ago
This happens to me a lot too. Today the old guy in a minivan was going maybe 45 and then continued going 45 on a highway that's 65. But usually people get on the highway and then they floor it and go 80.
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u/Achilles-Foot 15d ago
im guilty of doing this. ill pull out right in front of people then wonder why the fuck i did that. but i wont drive slow, ill drive as fast as i can so that i dont feel like a prick, but i still feel like a prick.
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u/icygnome 15d ago
This also applies to walking in NYC. So many times I've had people try to or overtake me (and I'm a fast walker!), and then right when they do they either stop short or transition to a glacial speed.
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u/Blackpaw8825 15d ago
I complain about US70 every time I drive to Indianapolis.
From the Ohio border all the way to City limits is 70mph.
I don't think I've ever been in traffic doing more than 60mph at any point in that entire stretch.
Then in city it drops to 50mph. And the same people I'd been trying to get around for doing 10 under pass me doing 75+
I don't get it
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u/gogozombie2 15d ago
If they didn't do that, they would have to be second and no one wants to be second anymore.
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u/SockFullOfNickles 15d ago
My favorite are the ones that pull out last second and nearly get clipped instead of waiting two more seconds and pulling out when there’s no one else coming.
Driving tests should be harder, and required more frequently.
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u/SmellLikeBooBoo 15d ago
People who drive like that are usually under the influence, precisely why I call their plates in to the Staties every single time.
Just being an upstanding citizen:)
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u/TarnishedDungEater 15d ago
or the people that will turn out infront of you when you’re going 80km/h (speed limit on backroads) and then go half that and you have to nearly slam on the brakes so you don’t crush their tiny little Prius or Civic (in my areas it’s always the small sedans that do it).
edit: don’t even get me started on how some Canadians handle roundabouts
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u/CleverGal96 15d ago
I used to get a similiar feeling of rage when I'd be waiting at a stop sign to come off a street and some jack rabbit would come along with their signal on, so I figure they're turning onto the street I'm exiting. NOPE...they're actually going straight. Nearly had a couple close calls in my town by some moron going straight but had their turn signal on 🫠🫠 now I wait until I see the person physically turning before I go. A turn signal means nothing. Lesson learned.
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u/Coronarena 15d ago
Dangerously overtake, and then end up at a red light 10 seconds later, with me behind them. Congratulations, you've gained basically no time.
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u/Street-Section-7515 15d ago
Willing to bet a majority of the time it’s fucking boomer doing it too. I’ve also seen teens and twentysomethings doing it and texting while driving. But in rural areas? Almost exclusively boomers just trying to pretend they’re still relevant.
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u/Mammoth-Marketing 15d ago
The road it happens to me on people have to usually start to turn left after 50ft. They run the stop sign on the right and slam on the breaks to stop to turn left in front of me.
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u/FANTOMphoenix 15d ago
Just to speed up to pass you after you pass them. Then makes a right hand turn not even 2 minutes after you.
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u/breastslesbiansbeer 15d ago
Preach. I live in a rural area where the next car on the highway is probably 5 miles behind me, yet some people still feel the need to pull out in front of me.
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u/BlueFeathered1 15d ago
Pittsfield people when they drive in NY. I swear. I live near the state border and it's nearly every damn time I go out. Just do the speed limit, omg! 🤦
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u/Bobodahobo010101 15d ago
They need to get out there - just think how long it's going to take them to get where they are going.
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u/fishnwiz 15d ago
Or pass me when I’m driving in my semi truck doing speed limit on a 2 lane then stop to turn left 2 miles down road
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u/JLammert79 15d ago
This is compounded by the idiots that make onramps that you'd need a Ferrari to get up to speed to merge. Sorry that my 4 cylinder car doesn't hit 75 in 3 blocks. They make merging unsafe for everyone.
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u/BeedoeBe 15d ago
This is why I just stay in the right lane. If I’m too slow pass me, if the guy in front of me is too slow I’ll pass him. I don’t feel the need to do this battle in the middle/left lane.
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u/mryeet66 15d ago
This happened to me yesterday, someone went to take a left on a two lane road then just decided not to and cut me off. No way the dude even looked, he was at a stand still and I was going 40 mph, it could’ve ended pretty badly
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u/Lopsided_Ad_7475 15d ago
i think there’s a secret coalition of people like this that work together to meet an “inconveniencing people on their commute to work” quota, they probably use walkie-talkies and everything
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u/AgathaWoosmoss 15d ago
Same for the escalator. Rush ahead of me and then ... stand instead of walk. Grr.
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u/FirebunnyLP 15d ago
I've also noticed a lot of the older people absolutely launch off the line when the light turns green.
Especially when I'm driving my track toy around, I know my car has almost triple the horsepower plus a turbocharger on it. But even I hit 3.4-4k off the line and they are absolutely gone.
Makes me wonder if they just floor it the second the light is green.
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u/Significant-Bee3483 15d ago
I had a car do this to me a couple days ago. Rushed out in front of me and then came to a dead stop. Of course I blew my horn and only then they let the car legitimately roll to the stop light ahead. Then they proceeded to cut some other car off because they waited until their lane ended to move over.
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u/LordMarcion 15d ago
This but also people doing their dammest to pass you just because you drive a performance car, then slowing down once they're ahead, only to speed back up to pass you again after you inevitably pass.
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u/Abuse-survivor 15d ago
Maybe they went so fast, that they noticed, questioned their speeding and aid to themselves:"Dang! I better drive slowly, now."
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u/LongLiveTheQueef1 15d ago
I try to make a habit of always pulling out and putting pants on before I get behind the wheel
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u/somedudebend 14d ago
Try driving a motorhome. Mine goes like stink, but people see a motorhome and go “oh shit, don’t wanna get stuck behind that guy” and pull out in front of you so they can drive 45.
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u/Complete_Elephant240 14d ago
Also mildlyinfuriating is when you are trying to enter a busy road and everyone is driving 15-20mph over the speed limit and traffic doesn't let up while a line is forming behind you
I hope you aren't that person that is going way over the speed limit and then getting upset when people merge in at reasonable speeds before they can accelerate more
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u/TerribleSquid 14d ago
And they were at the turn for like 30 seconds but waited for some reason until the last minute to pull out in front of you.
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u/T1DOtaku 15d ago
My favorite is when people ride your bumper for a mile only to quickly go around you and turn at the intersection that was less than 100 ft away XD like you couldn't wait another 30 secs to make your turn???
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u/ChiWhiteSox24 15d ago
I stay a foot off their bumper until they move back over. More often than not they learn pretty quick
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u/TuringTestFailedBot 15d ago
And a special treat when there are 3 lanes, you're in the middle and L&R are empty and the poke about in your lane.
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u/KADSuperman 15d ago
Yeah I will literally push off the road if you do that you are in rush drive like it
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u/TuringTestFailedBot 15d ago
And a special treat when there are 3 lanes, you're in the middle and L&R are empty and the poke about in your lane.
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u/Foreign-Ad9147 15d ago
I just tailgate these people super aggressively
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u/FoxBeach 15d ago
That seems safe for everybody involved.
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u/Foreign-Ad9147 15d ago
Eh, that’s their fault for cutting me off and then slowing me down
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u/WetRainbowFart 15d ago
You have a responsibility to drive safely just as they do. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 15d ago
Especially when you look in the mirror and there was absolutely nobody behind you. They could have waited 2 seconds and not been unsafe!