Anyone who reads this knows what kind of drivers tick me off. But I just wonder aloud here…what possesses people to act like they do?
Case in point: I’m heading to Peoria Saturday afternoon, leaving Kewanee about 4:55pm. I get behind a large pickup with a topper and about a 1/2 ton of rusted metal at a stoplight. As the light turns green, it takes him forever to get to the 35 MPH speed limit. No big deal, I put up with this all the time. Frustrating, but what can you do? Nothing. As you’re leaving Kewanee to the south, the speed limit goes from 35 to 55 instantly, no 45 zone. Again, the trip from 35 to 50 takes about an hour and a half on this day. Still no biggie. I’m way back (I DO NOT follow too closely, I like to build up to pass from a proper distance). But he stops at 50. In a 55. I’d like to go 55. Or 63. So I prepare to pass.
We hit the first eligible passing zone and I make my move. Suddenly, his truck is going much faster. I shake my head, fall back in line behind him and say to myself “here we go again…why do assholes do this?” We climb a hill, suddenly we’re going 47 or 48.
Next passing zone, this one a much longer stretch. I kick it down, and easily have the power to get past him, even as he is – again – trying to keep me from passing by accelerating. As I go by him, I glance up to see an extended and pudgy little middle finger. Typical. Why the hell do people do this? What possesses people to be such jerks? It’s sickening.
BTW, unlike some other jag bags who then tailgate you as if you’re at Daytona after you pass them, this guy settled back into his 48 MPH drone as I watched more cars stack up behind him, while I was alone – safer – by being ahead of this dude. I wonder how many other people he fingered? I wonder why he does it? I wonder when someone is going to pull him over, pull him out of his rust bucket, and break the pudgy little middle finger in 22 pieces?
9 responses so far ↓
1
Cory
// Jan 29, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Similarly, there’s “Get in the left lane to pass the car in front of him, then slow down and create a rolling road block” guy. That can make me really angry.
2
vonster
// Jan 29, 2008 at 6:10 pm
You liberals are so violent….
3
reno
// Jan 30, 2008 at 10:16 am
vonster can totally be taken seriously, as his non-violent neo-conservative ideology has done much in the way of not attacking other countries, such as Sweden, Jamaica, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Australia, Qatar, Japan and others.
BJ – I agree completely. This area is like a cosmic gravitational nexus of incompetence on the road. I’m a commuter, and it never fails to amaze me how much worse driving gets depending on my proximity to Peoria. I’ll bet I could tell you how many miles I have to go by the degree of shitty driving around me.
4
vonster
// Jan 30, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Reno: WTF? And there’s no neo about it.
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reno
// Jan 31, 2008 at 12:06 am
ohhh yes there is. Believe it or not, Conservatives, at one time, were actually SANE. At least the ones who weren’t in office. Sure, they were mostly sorely mislead sheep and fundies, but they weren’t all-out fascists yet. Then they started making gains in the mid-late 90’s and fucked everything up.
Now the bastards are dangerous. No, Vonster, not just to “liberals.”
6
vonster
// Feb 7, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Aw geez Reno – help is available. [walks away shaking head]
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reno
// Feb 7, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hey Vonster…
Thomson and Romney are out of the presidential race, and turnout for the Democratic race dwarfed that of the Republican race. So there! (nanner-nanner-boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo)
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vonster
// Feb 8, 2008 at 12:13 pm
So we get to choose between 2 Democrats. You must be ecstatic. 8-P
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reno
// Feb 11, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hey, my side doesn’t want him either. He’s your turd.
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