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Police wont do anything half the time even if you call it in. I stay in the right lane, left only if I am passing.
Drivers/Idiots?
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bohman
Well-Known Member
Yeah, some people are doing that. But most of them just don't want to expend the mental energy to pay attention to their speedometer, and they just follow me. I can see them in my rearview, combing their hair, talking on the phone, yelling at their kids, etc.
I refuse to do somebody else's driving for them. The look of surprise on their face when they finally realize that I've slowed them to a crawl is priceless.*
*disclaimer: I never do this in traffic. I won't interfere with other people to play this little game. Just on those days when the highway is freakin empty, and there is NO reason to be 6 feet away from my bumper.
red (miata?) dunkirk area
to the idiot who wanted to drive in the left lane and pace the right lane........
when i was able to get over and go around you, you decided to ride my bumper and beam me. i called your bluff (and hit/tap the brakes
). oh, how sweet it was!! I hope it was hot coffee w/o a top!!
you don't know the "don't ride someones @$$, they may just hit their brakes" theory? besides, i wouldn't play chicken in a small 2-seater(convertible?), you may just go under the car. 
thanks for making my morning, i 
all the way to work.
to the idiot who wanted to drive in the left lane and pace the right lane........
when i was able to get over and go around you, you decided to ride my bumper and beam me. i called your bluff (and hit/tap the brakes
). oh, how sweet it was!! I hope it was hot coffee w/o a top!! you don't know the "don't ride someones @$$, they may just hit their brakes" theory? besides, i wouldn't play chicken in a small 2-seater(convertible?), you may just go under the car. thanks for making my morning, i all the way to work.
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lulu belle
me
Oh, so speeding is ok then, since truthfully the speed limit is 45 (well, the stretch of 235 to the base)?
pcjohnnyb
New Member
No silly. Thats just the SUGGESTED speed limit.
lulu belle
me
Yeah, it really out to be higher, IMO, not too many people abide by it anyhow, I like to just go with the flow....No silly. Thats just the SUGGESTED speed limit.
AK-74me
"Typical White Person"
Lets be realistic, 10 mph over the speed limit is generally accepted by everyone, including most police on the highways, for those that wanna play by the book, the right lane is a lane for you except when you are turning or passing, just like it should be for everyone else.
My logic in this thinking isn't based on the law, it is based on the fact that if everyone is doing 65 in a 55 everyone will be fine until you have one ass that decides to brake real fast down to 45, now you have the problem.
Anyone who thinks brake checking someone for riding their bumper is a good idea isn't too bright, like I said early what is the risk vs. reward for doing it?
GWguy
*
Yeah, yeah. That's about the 5th time you've said that. We get you.
AK-74me
"Typical White Person"
Evidentaly lulu belle didn't.
pcjohnnyb
New Member
THIS REMINDS ME
it was pretty funny to me last night...
i was out till one, which was real late cuz i gotta be up for work at 8...so leaving where i am at 1 is not a good idea lol.
ANYWHOOO
i was dam tired so i was just going the speed limit, no more, no less. I am coming down 235 going 55 and there is a car that is coming up behind me, not too fast but going about 60-65. I can tell he is getting agitated that i'm only going 55 and was in the left lane, but i was turning in <100 yards anyway. he goes around me on the right which obviously is legal in MD, but i just got a kick that it turned out to be a county cop lol
While I tend to agree with you Maryland's MV regs do not state that slower vehicles should stay to the right except to pass. In a number of states this IS the law and you will be ticketed for impeding traffic. Additionally it seems that this arguement comes up all the time and some highway vigilante likes to point out that "the speed limiit is the same in the left lane as it is in the right" They feel a need to enforce the speed limit (or their idea of what the speed limit should be) by riding in the left lane while pacing the car in the right.
AK-74me
"Typical White Person"
I agree it is not MD law, but it is common sense, and I've seen these "highway vigilantes" that think they should police everyones speed also. These are the same people that get in the acceleration lane and stop, example going south out of Cove Point Rd in Lusby onto Rt. 4.
AndyMarquisLIVE
New Member
Well, a cop can pull you over for driving over even if everyone else does it. I imagine there has to be something that would have to single you out, though.
Someone on our street (who had just moved in) got pulled over and a cop thought he was drunk because we was actually driving the speed limit on Hamilton Rd.
The cop told him, "Future advice, nobody drives the speed limit on this road."
AK-74me
"Typical White Person"
You don't get it, I don't care about the law so to speak, I mean there are alot of things that are done on the roads that aren't againist the law that are alot more dangerous than going with the flow of traffic even if that is 10 mph over the limit.Well, a cop can pull you over for driving over even if everyone else does it. I imagine there has to be something that would have to single you out, though.
Someone on our street (who had just moved in) got pulled over and a cop thought he was drunk because we was actually driving the speed limit on Hamilton Rd.
The cop told him, "Future advice, nobody drives the speed limit on this road."
AndyMarquisLIVE
New Member
La Plata drivers
And next time someone cuts me off and then slams their brakes 4 times in 30 seconds to keep their 30 mph pace in a 55 mph zone, I'm going to pull the brake pads off their car and shove them up their azz.
Oh, and they need a light at the Washington Ave/Rosewick intersection. They're putting lights up on Middleton and Western Parkway for no reason, yet that intersection is dependant on human courtsey (which doesn't exsist in La Plata). If a car sees that someone else is waiting to pull out and there's distance for them to, 99% of the time they floor it to close the gap.
Mind you... I don't have these problems in Waldorf (especially not every day). While traffic there is congested, it's not a living effing nightmare to drive in. I can tolerate the stop and go traffic and the amount of traffic.
... Are the worst for that. Honestly, I'd rather sit through the 5 traffic lights (within 5 miles - in Waldorf) that I have to sit through on my way home than drive anywhere in La Plata.
And next time someone cuts me off and then slams their brakes 4 times in 30 seconds to keep their 30 mph pace in a 55 mph zone, I'm going to pull the brake pads off their car and shove them up their azz.
Oh, and they need a light at the Washington Ave/Rosewick intersection. They're putting lights up on Middleton and Western Parkway for no reason, yet that intersection is dependant on human courtsey (which doesn't exsist in La Plata). If a car sees that someone else is waiting to pull out and there's distance for them to, 99% of the time they floor it to close the gap.
Mind you... I don't have these problems in Waldorf (especially not every day). While traffic there is congested, it's not a living effing nightmare to drive in. I can tolerate the stop and go traffic and the amount of traffic.
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godsbutterfly
Free to Fly
I don't have a problem staying in the right lane or going ten miles over but there have been times when "the flow of traffic" is pushing 70 miles an hour or better and I just don't think my truck is up for that on a consistent basis! She did pass inspection when I moved here but she still ain't all that and I'm stuck with her for awhile longer. I don't think people should be trying to "encourage" me to drive faster,faster,faster by practically driving thru the back of me if I am already doing at least ten over.
Anyone who tailgates my lead-footed self has issues!
I especially love it when someone is riding my bumper even though its the car in front of me (or futher up) that is creeping along. Not like I can drive through the other car. Maybe a large bumpersticker made from a copy of the settlement I got from being rear-ended 4 years ago would make a few feet ease up?
I especially love it when someone is riding my bumper even though its the car in front of me (or futher up) that is creeping along. Not like I can drive through the other car. Maybe a large bumpersticker made from a copy of the settlement I got from being rear-ended 4 years ago would make a few feet ease up?
I got hit because the guy in front of me stopped to make a right hand turn (okay, he slowed way down
) but the azzclown behind me wasn't paying attention and did not react to my brake lights going on.
I saw a Ford F150, Dark Steele in color, lose a lot of gas from his main tank or overflow tank (gushed out as if it were water in a truck bed after a storm) spewing into a parking space at Target.
He left. I put a cart in the space and went to inform management. They did nothing. (<--I found this out when I came back out with my 2 items)
How many gallons of gas (that MANY people smelled) does a gas tank hold on a big new truck?
How many flicked cigarettes would it have taken for it to catch? Even if gas evaporates quickly?
I thought I had done my part. I didn't catch the license plate, as I moved my car away before going back to the space - BUT I did prevent another from parking there, blocked it and I did inform management of the situation & that they should at least block it off - or something. Maybe call the FD for guidance? :hello: Nada.
Okay, guess I'm the dumb one.
Someone else was parked in the gas when I came back out. :shrug:
He left. I put a cart in the space and went to inform management. They did nothing. (<--I found this out when I came back out with my 2 items)
How many gallons of gas (that MANY people smelled) does a gas tank hold on a big new truck?
How many flicked cigarettes would it have taken for it to catch? Even if gas evaporates quickly?
I thought I had done my part. I didn't catch the license plate, as I moved my car away before going back to the space - BUT I did prevent another from parking there, blocked it and I did inform management of the situation & that they should at least block it off - or something. Maybe call the FD for guidance? :hello: Nada.
Okay, guess I'm the dumb one.
Someone else was parked in the gas when I came back out. :shrug: