woaface
05-21-2004, 01:57 PM
Well, I've just pulled onto Wade Hampton or "route 29" which is a long and large 4-6 lane road stretching from downtown Greenville to downtown Spartanburg, SC.
I pull right on the 4 lane part and no one is around me, it's about to turn to 6 lanes (THANK GOD FOR THAT EXTRA LANE) and this elderly couple in a black bonneville shoot across the first 3 lanes of traffic (it opens up to 3 earlier on the other side) and across the median into the first lane, then the middle where I am. I was being like Steve (TTA) and trying to be extremely aware of my surroundings. Most of the time I could not see them, as they were covered by trees or my a-pilliar blind spot. I see them late and swerve to let them avoid me. I slam on my horn. There's a red ligh 25 feet from this and they stop and I stop, I look over, extremely nervous and excited now and they didn't even notice me!!! ACK! Well at least it wasn't a Honda, it would have been a sure collision!
I'm going down the road, thinking about this, in over-active watching mode now and there she is. Lady who I think is on a cell phone in a black Nissan Maxipad. The second I see her I notice her turn signal on to get in my lane...well I'm right there, she starts to move and I beep and she swerves back. Now I'll admit, that was partially my fault for me being partially in her blind spot but she noticed me as I beeped the horn and that was the end of that.
Now, still on my way home, I'm coming around steep blind curve and people tend to go quite fast in either direction. There is an older beige suburban in front of me and sure enough, someone in an escort whips around the corner, half in our lane and almost gets himself demolished.
Well, at least I would have been aid and not a victim in that one. Oh well.
LATER on still, coming home from bowling (i'm NOT driving at this point, but a friend of my mother is) we find ourselves at a T in the road where we have to turn left, and you can't see almost at all to your right. Dawn (mom's friend) pulls out and suddenly someone is there so she stops avoiding a collision. It was ok, no biggie, but now their's lots of traffic, and dawn can't back up because this ass behind us is RIGHT up on our bumper and beeping at us to go, we're stopped, can't go forward nor backward and people are now heading towards us in the lane we're stuck. Now you figure "well people from the right are going to stop and let you go right?" Nope, not a single person. We FINALLY get out, holding up traffic, and this guy behind us is still beeping RIGHT on our butt. So I'm in the back seat since my mom is in the front. Dawn pulls off to let him go buy, he ALMOST scrapes our car (mind you my mom has half a missing vertabret in her back from cancer that metasticized there, but she's ok now, just couln't handle an impact if it were to happen) so I'm extremely pizzed off at this point and I lay him the bird, and he looks ALL angry, but that's OK because we're pulled off and gone another way now.
WHAT a jackazz.
At that point I had had it with people and I shouldn't have laid him the bird but I didn't care.
Man, people are just ALL over the road today (of course we were at one point but oh well.) Man...CRAZY...I'm staying off the road to later tonight when people are eating dinner!:bounce:
I pull right on the 4 lane part and no one is around me, it's about to turn to 6 lanes (THANK GOD FOR THAT EXTRA LANE) and this elderly couple in a black bonneville shoot across the first 3 lanes of traffic (it opens up to 3 earlier on the other side) and across the median into the first lane, then the middle where I am. I was being like Steve (TTA) and trying to be extremely aware of my surroundings. Most of the time I could not see them, as they were covered by trees or my a-pilliar blind spot. I see them late and swerve to let them avoid me. I slam on my horn. There's a red ligh 25 feet from this and they stop and I stop, I look over, extremely nervous and excited now and they didn't even notice me!!! ACK! Well at least it wasn't a Honda, it would have been a sure collision!
I'm going down the road, thinking about this, in over-active watching mode now and there she is. Lady who I think is on a cell phone in a black Nissan Maxipad. The second I see her I notice her turn signal on to get in my lane...well I'm right there, she starts to move and I beep and she swerves back. Now I'll admit, that was partially my fault for me being partially in her blind spot but she noticed me as I beeped the horn and that was the end of that.
Now, still on my way home, I'm coming around steep blind curve and people tend to go quite fast in either direction. There is an older beige suburban in front of me and sure enough, someone in an escort whips around the corner, half in our lane and almost gets himself demolished.
Well, at least I would have been aid and not a victim in that one. Oh well.
LATER on still, coming home from bowling (i'm NOT driving at this point, but a friend of my mother is) we find ourselves at a T in the road where we have to turn left, and you can't see almost at all to your right. Dawn (mom's friend) pulls out and suddenly someone is there so she stops avoiding a collision. It was ok, no biggie, but now their's lots of traffic, and dawn can't back up because this ass behind us is RIGHT up on our bumper and beeping at us to go, we're stopped, can't go forward nor backward and people are now heading towards us in the lane we're stuck. Now you figure "well people from the right are going to stop and let you go right?" Nope, not a single person. We FINALLY get out, holding up traffic, and this guy behind us is still beeping RIGHT on our butt. So I'm in the back seat since my mom is in the front. Dawn pulls off to let him go buy, he ALMOST scrapes our car (mind you my mom has half a missing vertabret in her back from cancer that metasticized there, but she's ok now, just couln't handle an impact if it were to happen) so I'm extremely pizzed off at this point and I lay him the bird, and he looks ALL angry, but that's OK because we're pulled off and gone another way now.
WHAT a jackazz.
At that point I had had it with people and I shouldn't have laid him the bird but I didn't care.
Man, people are just ALL over the road today (of course we were at one point but oh well.) Man...CRAZY...I'm staying off the road to later tonight when people are eating dinner!:bounce: