Author Topic: Interesting MORONS seen on the way to work (Read 101003 times)

Mister F · « **Reply #880 on:** January 22, 2012, 01:49:04 am »

Saw a couple more people driving at night with only DRLs on. I think it's just a case of people being oblivious. I'm starting to think DRLs are just a bad idea. If lights are going to come on automatically, they should come fully on, full brightness, front and back. Either that or no automatic lights at all - if you want light you have to actually turn the lights on. That way nobody will be driving at night not realizing how many near accidents they're causing.

Another one of my pet peeves is middle lane hogs. People need to be reminded that the middle lane isn't the default place to drive - you should be on the right until you have to change lanes to pass someone. If people are passing you on the right, you're in the wrong lane!

5 Wheel Drive · « **Reply #881 on:** January 24, 2012, 12:15:15 pm »

I'm not trying to sound like an impatient ass here, but there there seems to be an epidemic around here of slow people on the roads. I don't mean people taking it easy when the weather is bad. And I'm not talking about somebody doing the speed limit and I just want to go faster. I'm talking about being stuck behind someone doing a good 20km/h under the speed limit, in good conditions.

In the morning I regularly get stuck behind the same guy in a Sunfire doing 60 in an 80 zone. Cars backed up behind him. He'll brake when oncoming traffic is approaching and drop down to about 50.

One day last week I was stuck behind a lady doing 60 in an 80. A tanker truck pulled out of a construction site in front of us, and pulled away from her. Nice sunny day, clear road.

Is it just me? There's been lots more lately, it seems to be fairly regular around here. Like I said, I'm not tying to sound like an impatient asshat. But 20km/h under the limit, in ideal road conditions??? C'mon.....

5 Wheel Drive · « **Reply #882 on:** January 24, 2012, 12:19:54 pm »

Yeserday I watched a guy in a Prius try to drive into the parking lot at work, with his head out of the window like a dog, because the entire sheet of snow and ice that had been on his roof slid down over his windshield. The commissionaire wouldn't open the gate for him until got out of his car and cleared his windshield.

Oddly enough, Mrs. 5 Wheel saw the exact same thing yesterday as well, except this guy was actually driving in traffic......

Fobroader · « **Reply #883 on:** January 24, 2012, 12:30:17 pm »

5 wheel drive, I feel your pain man. I see both on a regular basis and it kills my soul a little each time. People driving with a little tank drivers slot on the windshield or having 2 feet of snow on top of their vehicle....WTF is wrong with you?? Is taking 5 extra minutes to warm up your car and clean that difficult. Also, if there is snow in the ditch, theres people around here who do less then 80Km/H on the highway.....cops pass by them, IN THE RIGHT LANE, but Ive never seen one of these ignorant asshats pulled over for obstructing traffic.

Mister F · « **Reply #884 on:** January 26, 2012, 06:28:33 pm »

A cyclist ran a red light right in front of me this morning. It's a good thing I was about to turn and not going very fast or else she would have ended up on my hood. I still had to hit the brakes pretty hard though.

dr_spock · « **Reply #885 on:** January 27, 2012, 08:46:35 pm »

This dummy gave me an 80 to 20 hard brake test when he/she pulled out of an intersection and into my oncoming path. Close but no rear-ramming his/her PT butt in the 80 zone.

Fobroader · « **Reply #886 on:** January 29, 2012, 03:48:11 pm »

They bought a PT Cruiser with thier own money....cant expect much from them....

Schmengie · « **Reply #887 on:** February 03, 2012, 02:21:23 pm »

The other day I was crossing the street in front of a car waiting to make a left turn when I noticed the middle-aged woman driver was leaning forward, head turned to the left, focusing only on her turn. I could see what was coming so I quickly stepped back just as she stepped on the gas, hitting my leg with a glancing blow. I angrily smacked the hood of her car with my fist and she looked up at me like it was my fault. Thankfully no damage was done, but what a stupid biotch.

Angry Chicken · « **Reply #888 on:** February 04, 2012, 08:12:06 am »

Quote from: 5 Wheel Drive on January 24, 2012, 12:15:15 pm

I'm not trying to sound like an impatient ass here, but there there seems to be an epidemic around here of slow people on the roads. I don't mean people taking it easy when the weather is bad. And I'm not talking about somebody doing the speed limit and I just want to go faster. I'm talking about being stuck behind someone doing a good 20km/h under the speed limit, in good conditions.

Is it just me? There's been lots more lately, it seems to be fairly regular around here. Like I said, I'm not tying to sound like an impatient asshat. But 20km/h under the limit, in ideal road conditions??? C'mon.....

Yup. I've seen it too. Don't know what causes it. My "favourite" is people doing 60 km/h on the Airport Parkway with a kilometre-long Conga line of cars strung behind them. Happens a lot. Yes, people are just plain oblivious. I've also noticed that the same people that hurtle through 60 km/h zones at 80 km/h are the same people who poke along in the 80 km/h zones. Sipping their coffee, listening to their tunes, in their own little cocoon...dreaming about their vacation down south or the work day ahead of them....

Selfish, really, but what can you do?

airbalancer · « **Reply #889 on:** February 04, 2012, 08:28:31 am »

what is limited on the Airport Parkway?

Angry Chicken · « **Reply #890 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:21:56 am »

Quote from: airbalancer on February 04, 2012, 08:28:31 am

what is limited on the Airport Parkway?

80 km/h

Railton · « **Reply #891 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:01:35 am »

Ah yes, the glorious airport parkway. Single lane pavement where there should've been two lanes each way for the last 30 years. All because residents of where the road winds through donakt want additional traffic. For years you could only get on the parkway buit not get off. Kind'a like hotel california. There's one thing about Ottawa I don't moss!
Railton

Schmengie · « **Reply #892 on:** February 09, 2012, 03:00:33 pm »

Wow, just wow....If you think the drivers are bad where you live, you should take a look at this. It's so unbelievable, at first I thought it must be staged. These people give morons a bad name, especially the truck driver at about 6 minutes into the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAO0yoHp5r4&feature=related

richink · « **Reply #893 on:** February 10, 2012, 10:53:48 am »

Quote from: Railton on February 04, 2012, 10:01:35 am

Ah yes, the glorious airport parkway. Single lane pavement where there should've been two lanes each way for the last 30 years. All because residents of where the road winds through donakt want additional traffic. For years you could only get on the parkway buit not get off. Kind'a like hotel california. There's one thing about Ottawa I don't moss!
Railton

Yep I'm with you on that one. For the longest time there were obvious spots in the various underpasses where extra lanes could easily be fed through. I read somewhere that the original idea was to have Nicolas Street punch through over the Rideau River, swing around on the Riverside Drive right of way and then hook up at Bronson to the Airport Parkway with a further extension around the airport to either Bank Street or Highway 16 as it was at the time. Brilliant idea for a much needed north-south route through the city ultimately thumped into oblivion by more of those preposterous "Transitways". The money & real estate that was wasted on the bus roads and associated "stations" still astounds me to this day. Far less capital and land would have been used with a proper light rail system.

Meanwhile the 417 has precisely the same traffic capacity as it did 40 years ago and becomes a parking lot at rush times, there still isn't a viable north-south route throught the city and OC Transpo fares are higher than that of the TTC. Not that traffic and transit are better anywhere else in Canada, it's just in Ottawa there was clear opportunity to do something about it and funding was directed at a mode of mass transit that has been on the decline for over 25 years.

dr_spock · « **Reply #894 on:** February 11, 2012, 11:19:40 pm »

People who can't drive between the lines when taking a curve.

Angry Chicken · « **Reply #895 on:** February 12, 2012, 09:46:19 am »

Quote from: richink on February 10, 2012, 10:53:48 am

Quote from: Railton on February 04, 2012, 10:01:35 am
Ah yes, the glorious airport parkway. Single lane pavement where there should've been two lanes each way for the last 30 years. All because residents of where the road winds through donakt want additional traffic. For years you could only get on the parkway buit not get off. Kind'a like hotel california. There's one thing about Ottawa I don't moss!
Railton
Yep I'm with you on that one. For the longest time there were obvious spots in the various underpasses where extra lanes could easily be fed through. I read somewhere that the original idea was to have Nicolas Street punch through over the Rideau River, swing around on the Riverside Drive right of way and then hook up at Bronson to the Airport Parkway with a further extension around the airport to either Bank Street or Highway 16 as it was at the time. Brilliant idea for a much needed north-south route through the city ultimately thumped into oblivion by more of those preposterous "Transitways". The money & real estate that was wasted on the bus roads and associated "stations" still astounds me to this day. Far less capital and land would have been used with a proper light rail system.

Meanwhile the 417 has precisely the same traffic capacity as it did 40 years ago and becomes a parking lot at rush times, there still isn't a viable north-south route throught the city and OC Transpo fares are higher than that of the TTC. Not that traffic and transit are better anywhere else in Canada, it's just in Ottawa there was clear opportunity to do something about it and funding was directed at a mode of mass transit that has been on the decline for over 25 years.

Oh yes. Rampant misguided decisions on all fronts with respect to the Airport Parkway. I want to know what funny West Coast weed the National Capital Commission (NCC) were smoking when they signed off the Airport Parkway to the City of Ottawa? Now the only quasi express route to the airport has gone up in smoke. No big deal for me, since I live in the south, but there has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth with all the congestion from the work day drones now using the parkway to go to and fro during rush hours. That nice Hunt Club exchange which dumps rush hour traffic onto the Parkway precisely at the times when people need to get to and from the airport is the obvious culprit. Build it, and they will come. Indeed?!

D'oh!

random006 · « **Reply #896 on:** February 13, 2012, 01:25:31 pm »

Quote from: 5 Wheel Drive on January 24, 2012, 12:15:15 pm

I'm not trying to sound like an impatient ass here, but there there seems to be an epidemic around here of slow people on the roads. I don't mean people taking it easy when the weather is bad. And I'm not talking about somebody doing the speed limit and I just want to go faster. I'm talking about being stuck behind someone doing a good 20km/h under the speed limit, in good conditions.

Sounds like the subspecies "Sundayus Driverus Lazybuggerus" to me. It is a distressing notion if they are now being seen in numbers outside their natural habitat. Certainly, they were afflicting me with their presence yesterday afternoon.

Weexy · « **Reply #897 on:** February 14, 2012, 03:33:11 pm »

At work, I park daily in a garage that holds a bunch of people like myself that pay a monthly fee for the priviledge, and is also open for those that pay by the hour/day/whatever. More and more, if you got out over lunch & come back, you will encounter at least one of the "hour/day/whatever" people - these folks completely lose the capacity how to drive (assuming they had some before they got there) once they enter this garage.

Today was the best yet. I approach a Camry stopped about 1/2 a car length behind a nice big empty angled spot. I stop about 1/2 a length behind them. We sit there for about 10 seconds or so, and they then slowly begin to pull into the spot. It's obvious their angle is way off and come within inches of creasing their passenger door on the back bumper of the car parked on the right. They stop before that happens & then start to reverse back out. I back up some too, cuz i'm nervous of what i'm seeing...

So, attempt # 2. Same thing. Again, they back out.

Attempt # 3. Success!! Lots of room on the passenger side. D'oh!!, wait - sudden application of brakes. Sure looked like they were about to pop the car parked on their left side.....

Then backed out & drove off to god-knows where... i'm going to buy one of those dash cameras mentioned in another thread so I can make myself a blooper video of this kind of stuff I see on almost a daily basis...

Fobroader · « **Reply #898 on:** February 14, 2012, 03:42:04 pm »

The amount of people that do not signal is truly becoming disheartening...is it that bloody hard???

Mike · « **Reply #899 on:** February 14, 2012, 03:56:51 pm »

Guess it is too much to ask for to have a complete parking spot.