cygnusx1 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I get half a day every other friday by making up hours at work. Today was my day. I jump out of the corporate cube and into the WRX. I take the longer way towards my commute to fill up the tank in NJ for "cheap gas". I am all psyched for the weekend and decide to go mellow with the ride home music. I pop in Incubus for some feel good stuff instead of the usual godsmack and tool. Tank is full life is good lets go home. My commute is about 15minutes of small town roads, 10 minutes of parkway, and 15 more minutes of country roads. I pull out of the gas station and turn onto main street through the little town to pick up the way home. Shades on, Incubus on, windows down, all of a sudden some guy in a minivan pulls out of a spot on the other side of the street full on into a u-turn in front of me. Too late for brakes I spool the WRX and squeeze past his nose for a clean getaway. OK, come to a green light wher I have to make a left, here comes the dude in the minivan looking down at his passengers seat heading for my ass. I have my brake lights on, my left blinker on and I cant go anywhere. At the last second he swerves and jams on the brakes and clumsily goes around me. Whew close! OK I get out onto the main county road an see a nice yellow 350Z up ahead, but he is stuck behind an SUV that is doing about 25 and swerving in a 40 with no passing zone. I follow along in disbelief of the poor driving of the SUV untill we get a clear passing zone. I flash the 350Z and we both take off for a perfect pass on the damn SUV. Cool. Chilling to Incubus again! The 350 and I have a nice cruise pace going but I have to break off for another left so I flash and wave him off and make my left when BRAKES! A BMW X5 going about 15mph and swerving has the traffic all bunched up again. This time I am already getting pissed from thinking about the volume of incompetent inconsiderate drivers out here, I wait for a straight and here come 6500rpm's and BAM I pass the two slow trucks in front of me cleanly. Nice, back to Incubus and fresh air driving. I hit the parkway there is nobody on it at this time of day so I merge on nice and pick up a nice pace of about 70 in the right lane. Two cars ahead left lane, and right lane matching speeds at about 50, I have no where to go so I brake, signal and pull into the left lane. I wait and wait and wait, finally the guy decides to pass and even moves over for me to go past him and resume my cruise. OK slight burning up inside but Incubus is keeping me cool. I get to the top of the parkway where it splits into three lanes and then two lanes go left and two go right. I am in the center lane passing a Honda SUV going to go into the right split. I am even with the SUV and I see headlights. Yes, I see two honda DRL's pointing at me coming AT ME in my lane up from the right split, left lane. A lady going Southbound in the Northbound lanes. WTF. I jam on the brakes and try to get to the right shoulder but the SUV is locking me in, I brake harder and just slip in the right lane and the oncoming car, pulls a three lane U-turn across a 55mph parkway into the left split! At this point I am just doubting the future of humanity and still have 15 minutes to go. I get on the country roads and of course com up on a minivan doing 1/2 the speed limit and braking for every curve and oncoming car. I bite my toungue and follow it for 5 miles. Finally two lanes and I pass it. Make a left and BAM another old american sedan doing 1/2 the speed limit riding the brakes going from 20mph to 30 to 15 all over the yellow lines and white line. At one point he nearly stops so I lay into the horn. he honks back and resumes driving like a moron. No where to pass I bite my tongue and follow this ass for 10 long minutes all the way past my house. Rolling Rocks for lunch!!!!! I have and old video camera and I swear I am going to mount it in my car to tape this crap. You would NOT believe how much footage of stupidity I am going to get. This is how we can fight back. mount your camcorders now and start filming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Sounds like the bay area... I just totally ignore drivers these days. I just assume their car must be driven by a robot because no human could possibly be so stupid. Meanwhile my brother is ready to hunt for blood every time he gets in the car, and he's not even an agressive driver, and rarely goes 80 on the freeway (which is pretty much what the fast lane does 24/7 here when there's no raffic) Enjoy the rolling rock, sounds like you've earned it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIM73240Z Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 darwinism. stupid should not be alowed to breed. and some of the super old should be turned into solient green. i feel for you jimbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Oh I forgot to mention FedEx lost my order from MSA for the head gasket job I need to do. So while I wait for those parts AGAIN, I figured I would change the pads/rotors this afternoon on the WRX but...FedEx also lost the pads!!!! ARGH. ...another Rolling Rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naviathan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Sounds like my daily commute here. How do people get a license driving like this? I like the camera idea. I'll have to do that when I get my car back up. You should see the stupidity I run into on my Harley. If it wasn't vibrating constantly I'd hook the camera up to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZDrifter Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I have the camera...I just need to make a mount.. I live in Arizona...awesome footage here. We have a good mix of illegals, woman driving doing make up or reading books, men reading the newspaper...yes I have seen it, teenagers texting( i do this but my eyes are on the road more then the phone), and did I mention illegals with no licenses??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buZy Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 OK slight burning up inside but Incubus is keeping me cool... "Music will even soothe the most savage of beasts." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4xwellmurd3r Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 I have the camera...I just need to make a mount.. I live in Arizona...awesome footage here. We have a good mix of illegals, woman driving doing make up or reading books, men reading the newspaper...yes I have seen it, teenagers texting( i do this but my eyes are on the road more then the phone), and did I mention illegals with no licenses??? I live in phoenix my metrocenter, so I know how you feel. I don't drive (no car YET) but i've driven around in my mom's car, so i know what ya mean. I get nervous just walking to work across the parking lot sometimes! Hopefully when i can save 2k to buy this '70 240z it won't get murdered... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v80z Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Sorry cygnus Better Luck Next Time. Here I really have to plan and schedule when I want to cruise. Mostly it is late night/after midnight when the roads are still. I dont understand those who cruise the right lane at 5mph above the posted speed either and then wont let you by. Yet another reason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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