Post #153207 by TikiGardener on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 11:02 PM

On 2005-04-15 15:41, johntiki wrote:
Here's another one... how about the assholes who seem to think they're impervious to the orange "Right Lane Closed Merge Left" signs, not to mention the billboard sized flashing signs telling to merge left miles away from the construction scene. You end up sitting in miles of traffic, inching ahead one car length at a time, because some dick thinks they can stay right long enough to avoid the bottleneck. Finally after an hour of waiting you get to the traffic cones and here comes the jackass, usually driving a BMW or sporty import, with their turn signal on thinking you're going to let them over. I am not kidding when I say I'd rather rear end the car in front of me then let one of these bastards in. You should have gotten over miles ago asshole!

Driving trucks around the freeways of L.A., I have encountered this. My particular way of dealing with it is riding the turck horn ( which is genreally about the height of the offending drivers ears ) while not allowing them over. I've had people join in, bringing said idiot to a complete stop. Its quite satisfying to see them reced into the distance hearing car after car causing permanent hearing loss to the offender.

One of the other drivers will roll his window down, and yell; "IT IS ALL ABOUT YOU! NO ONE ELSE MATTERS BUT YOU!!! WHY ARE YOU SO SELFISH?!?"

Its great when alot of peolple have their windows down to watch the reactions as some blue collar truck driver verbally picks apart some self important asswipe.

Having driven trucks in NYC, I've developed the ability to intimidate buses and semis while driving smaller vehicles. And usually I never have to raise my voice.

Once you've driven a truck in NYC, L.A. is a piece of cake.