Stupid Driving Thing
April 17th, 2004 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Here’s a situation for you: You’re stopped at a red light. You’re the first car there, and as the light continues to stay red, a line of cars pops up behind you. Even better, it’s a two lane road and the lane to your one side is similar filled with stopped cars, impatiently waiting for a green.
The light turns green. You go. Nobody else does. You don’t see the car next to you lurching out. The car behind you hasn’t left yet. You’re halfway through the box and wondering if you imagined the green light and are about to get broadsided.
But then the cars go and you realize you’re all right.
Does that ever happen to you? Drives me nuts.
April 17th, 2004 at 7:18 pm
I hate to say it, but I’m positive that’s never happened to me. Or, at least if it has, I never noticed it. The cars where you live must be slow and stupid, whereas the ones here in Texas are just stupid.
April 18th, 2004 at 1:00 am
I get that alot. But I put it down to the other cars being slow off the mark.
April 18th, 2004 at 6:44 am
Even better is when the other drivers, especially the ones in the other lane, intentionally speed up and pass you, as if to say “we let you get ahead, but now it’s the homestretch and we are coming from behind to take the lead from you!” This happens ALL the time at an intersection which is the last traffic light on a two mile stretch leading to the interstate.
April 19th, 2004 at 12:12 pm
This happens to me all the time, but I live in Minnesota, so I assume at all times that I’m the only one on the road who knows where he’s going and cares about getting there.