What is the big rush out there?.....Souldrifter   Author:  30747  Category:(Discussion) Created:(7/28/2004 9:12:00 AM) This post has been Viewed (419 times) It never fails, no matter where I'm going, that at least a dozen people pass by me as if I'm standing still. Every morning when I go to work I take a relatively busy route. It's not a major highway but a good link between two citys. It's a regular two lane, 55 mile an hour road. I go the speed limit. Sometimes a little faster. I sware that everyone who comes up behind me feels the need to pass me. They must be going 75 miles an hour too and they don't slow up once they pass. They just keep on a going like their life depended on it. Now, I assume a majority of these passers are on their way to work, just like me. What is the big hurry? Do they have mean bosses who will fire them if they are a minute late? If so, why not leave earlier? Are they empowered by their fast moving vehicles? Perhaps. Maybe they look down on my car as something they feel inferior to be behind. What ever their reasoning is, I think they are idiots. People have passed me in the most precarious of spots that it put at least three peoples lives in danger. Mine, theirs and the car up a head they almost hit. Sometimes they have to wait until it's clear to pass and I see them back there weaving to the left and back, looking for a clear shot, waiting for the okay. I can't help feeling smug when they can't pass. I can't help thinking I hope they never get the chance to pass me. I hope they ARE late for work and get fired because they weren't smart enough to leave early enough not to pass me. HA! And I have to admit I am tempted to floor the gas pedal when they get beside me to make life harder for them. But I don't. I don't want to sink to their level. *smiles* Most (by far) of the people I've noticed passing me are women my own age. This makes me so ashamed. I thought we were the safer sex. No offense to men out there but come on...Men typically take more chances than women. We value our lives a little more I think. We think about how messed up our day would be if we smashed up the car. We tend to consider not trying to kill someone with our driving habits more than men...don't we? *sigh* Apparently not. There is one thing I don't like more than women who pass me...men in pick ups. I'm sorry but this really annoys me. Why...oh why...do men in pick up trucks think they rule the road? I can't begin to tell you the number of times a day that some man in a pick up truck will cut me off, pull out in front of me when there is no one for miles behind me, cut me off at a green light to turn left, ride my bumper like he's drafting at a NASCAR race, goes first at 4 way stops no matter who else was there first and apparently thinks he has the right of way at all times because he has a bigger engine. This is where my road rage comes in. When ever I see a man in a pick up, I want to hang my head out of the window and say "I hate you and your lousy truck" *hangs head in shame* I know I should be more tolerant but I can't help myself. Come to think of it, there isn't much I like about anyone on the road anymore. They all scare me. I'm not a weak and timid women when it comes to driving. I just don't trust anybody anymore. There seems to be a lack of common sense and respect for rules. Here's an example. Down by my house there is an intersection. Lets call the road Main Street and Broadway. Broadway has stop signs on both it's corners. Main Street has no stop signs which means everyone on Main Street gets to keep driving without a care in the world. Why is EVERYBODY stopping at this intersection like it's a 4 way stop? Do the idiots on Main Street assume they have to stop because it's an intersection that Broadway people have to stop at? They are confusing me. No one knows what to do when they get there. All of a sudden some guy on the corner of Broadway thinks he can direct traffic by waving out his window. And if it is just the two of us stopped at Broadway, with no one coming down Main Street, He is turning left and I am going straight, why does he think he can go first just because he got there a millisecond before I did? I have the right away darn it! Oh, of course *slaps forehead* He's driving a pickup. <<<<note the sarcasm One of these days I'm going to get up the nerve to shout out my window "go back to driving school you (expletive) moron." Okay, I'm done venting now. Have you notice how bad people are driving these days or are you one of the many who don't consider your 2 ton vehicle a dangerous and deadly weapon? You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  30747 ( Click here ) Spring is coming