Post #153290 by Kono on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 5:59 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!

I always position my truck so it's halfway in my lane and halfway in the merge lane.

My biggest peeves are cell phones, not using the blinkers, cell phones, someone who has to be passed on the right, and cell phones. I think all new cars should have short distance (say 4 feet) cell phone jammers in the dash that activate when the car is put into gear.

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A new peeve of mine are the people who live in the new Baldwin Park development near my home. They are unrefutable proof that it doesn't take brains to make a lot of money. I'm sure some good people live in there but the majority of them are idiotic assholes. They either drive like an aggressive jerk or a mindless idiot or, most often, a combination of the two styles. They stop in the middle of intersections just to look around, they blow right through stop signs with lines of cars and they park wherever their tiny little brains decide is a good place to stop. They are even worse as pedestrians. They wander in the busy streets like cattle in Calcutta, like they can't tell where the sidewalk ends and the street begins. What I really hate is that they let their kids (little kids like three or four) walk around in the streets busy with vehicles! They are so stupid and self important that they think if their little toddler walks into traffic everyone should stop (and of course they should, but you know what I mean) and that because they're in Baldwin Park they can't be killed or hurt. I go to the grocery store in there as it's the closest and I see the stupidest shit these people do. I saw a lady pulled over on the edge of a busy street, she's in the driver's seat with her door open into the traffic and her little kid is walking around by the back bumper while mom's looking in the rearview doing her make-up. The other day a woman is farting around on the sidewalk adjusting her dog leash and stroller (blank mindless look on her face) while two little boys (three, four years old) are playing in the middle of a four way stop intersection with cars backed up in all four directions! The kids wandered up on the sidewalk and some nice old lady in her 10yo Oldsmobile (obviously doesn't live there) used her car to block the kids up onto the sidewalk where they couldn't get back off. All this time Mom is still over across the street trying to get the leash and stroller situated oblivious to the fact that a stranger is having to protect her kids. Mindless freakin' idiots!
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