Road Rage!

[Grumpy]

Don, there is no explaining why some people do the things they do, especially on the hightways.

A few months ago, I turned off of 31W onto the E-town By-Pass on my way to Nolin. There was a little Red sports car a ways in front of me in the right lane and a BIG RV (the ones that look like a Greyhound bus) pulled on to the By-Pass from the left lane entrance.

Speep limit is 55 but the Red Car is doing about 40 so the RV tries to pass him on the left but as he came even, the Red Car speeds up and stays right with the RV. So, the RV puts on his right blinker and slows down to go behind the Red Car. The Red Car slows down also and stays in the lane keeping even with the RV so he can't pass or fall behind either. The RV speeds up, the Red Car speeds up. The RV slows down the Red Car slows down until we are about a half mile from the end of the By-Pass and the exit to the WK Parkway which is what I assumed the RV wanted to take.

The RV drviver sees his exit is coming up, which he will miss if he doesn't get into the right lane, so he slows down gradually and the Red Car slows down also and staying in the right lane. Soon the RV is doing under five MPH and so is the Red Car. Then the RV very slowly starts moving to the right and the idiot in the Red Car finally figures out that the RV driver is GOING TO GET IN THE RIGHT LANE even if he has to push the Red Car off the road doing it.

Good thinking, because the Red Car speeds up and moves into the left lane and off the By-Pass while the RV takes the exit he wanted and the rest of us can go where we want to also.

As I said no telling why some people do what they do, but I really had to applaud the RV driver for quick thinking in slowing down and moving over.

Grumpy

[bassin_bug]

I believe that some of those idiots are trying to challenge people to a race because they think loud mufflers and a thumper stereo, on a little sardine can, makes them the fastest thing on the road.

Last Friday while we were returning home from vacation, we had lots of "young and dumb" drivers pass us on the left and then shoot right across in front of us to turn off at an exit. They were so close to our front bumper it made the hair on my head stand up. We were driving 70 mph, which is the speed limit on that Interstate, and barely missed hitting 3 or 4 of them. Thank God for brakes.

I told Sweetie Pie that we would probably have a heart attack if we knew the type of people who were driving within 6-8 feet of us and what some of them were carrying in their vehicles.

[DJD]

When talking this over with my buddies they all agreed walking away was the best thing especially when you consider what these fools might carry in their vehicles. It's not worth it....