Chicago is full of retard drivers like, together, turning, truck

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Unbelieveable the drive home today. im on a main road that condenses from 2 lanes to 1 main lane and a turning lane. so the 2 lanes gotta fold together like a deck of cards. So there is a truck to my front left and a van on back left. so when the light goes green (its a short green) the truck moves up so i start to move, the ****ing van to left rear guns it and cuts me off, i lay on the horn. i can clearly see his passengers (a pair of what looks like mexican land scapers) are chuckling. i cut to his left (into the turning lane) and yell quot;Learn to drive *** wholequot; he yells something in broke *** engrish as i turn at the green arrow. Mother ****ers. I felt like whoopin the **** of taht old *** dude and his 2 larrys. but it aint worth going to jail over. 5 minutes later there is a wide load truck in front of me and traffic.  he is sitting at the red light half way in my line and in the next line trying to make a right turn. so im sitting behind the truck in my lane and im gonna wait for him to turn, some prick in a beat up *** van starts honking at me to go, as in cut off the wide load truck. i raised my hands like quot;what do i look like an asswhole?!quot; i aint gonna jump infront of a damn 5 ton truck thats trying to turn. the nerve of people......

.you know, I couldn't agree more. Since my car was down I was driving a toyota camry casually. Never doing stupid. I was driving down the expressway doing 60mph when the speed limit is 55mph. Everyone is on my *** so I go up to 75. Everyone still on my ***, and I precede to get passed by some old fu(k in a new camry (he was about 60years old) and he gives me the finger....  wtf
2 weeks go, I'm driving through the Ipass at 65mph, and some kid is on my *** again in his infinity. Mind you there are no other cars on the road and he could clearly go around me, but nope he decides to stay there and get about 1 foot away from my car. I tapped the brakes lightly and he decides to go around me and once again, I get the finger.
When I drive this car, I drive defensively and I get people fu(king with me. Now when I drive my dsm, I tend to drive faster and more so like a punk and nobody ever gives me a hard time.
I'm glad to say that my car is up and running and I should get the finger no more. Well I did get a dirtly look from some old d*ck in a bmw because I was shifting at 2k rpm down the street, but the car has to break in.

.having driven in a lot of states, the chicago area has the worst drivers in the nation.  I think the highest concentration being in the area i live in, the northern burbs.

.Yup. You have some pretty dumb *ss drivers in your state, but I still think California drivers are the worst. I deal with f*cktards like this every single day! \(gt;olt; )

.going through Hartford the other day, i was in the left lane of 3 total lanes with a Semi in the lane next to me. We were going around a right turn that was pretty gradual. This guy in the Semi, which is 6 times the size and weight of my car, decides to drift into my lane... so, my choices are A) Fight with a Semi B) Slam into a Jersey Barrier or C) do what i did... i ended up slamming on my breaks and horn and getting as close to the barrier as i could. luckily, he jerked his truck back into the center lane before i was smashed... i was so pissed at him!!! and on top of that, my car drove really weird for the rest of the day. but its fine now...

.Conneticut's for F'in

.If you think its bad here in Chicago you should try driving in New Jersey.. talk about mentally deficient...

.Philly is worse than NJ.  We have 2 of the worst 3 intersections in this city.  And they're only a few miles apartI must be the best defensive driver cause i feel like I'm in a constant Cannonball Run

.Man, you guys take driving too seriously. I drive on 495 everyday and it's a damn parking lot, then, coming home there's a little less traffic but ppl still drive like they are in bumper to bumper traffic. There are also a lot of women drivers, taxi drivers, and old ppl in this area, making for daily fun. There's parts where the highway goes from 6 lanes to 4 lanes, or 5 lanes to 4 lanes, etc etc.

Why get all agitated when something happens? I get bored sometimes and drive slow just to piss ppl off, am I going to get upset over someone flipping me the bird? Nobody's a perfect driver, but just turn the music up and live with it.

There are times when people will take the shoulder to go around everybody else and I've gotten the bird a few times cause I don't let those ppl over. 1 time there was a state trooper on the shoulder and actually pulled the guy over cause I wouldn't let him over, making him drive right up to him, lol.

The games ppl play!

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Originally Posted by Bake3103going through Hartford the other day, i was in the left lane of 3 total lanes with a Semi in the lane next to me. We were going around a right turn that was pretty gradual. This guy in the Semi, which is 6 times the size and weight of my car, decides to drift into my lane... so, my choices are A) Fight with a Semi B) Slam into a Jersey Barrier or C) do what i did... i ended up slamming on my breaks and horn and getting as close to the barrier as i could. luckily, he jerked his truck back into the center lane before i was smashed... i was so pissed at him!!! and on top of that, my car drove really weird for the rest of the day. but its fine now...

There was no way of you hitting the brakes earlier in anticipation of him? Or speeding up so you could get ahead of him?

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Originally Posted by SR20DE_MANYup. You have some pretty dumb *ss drivers in your state, but I still think California drivers are the worst. I deal with f*cktards like this every single day! \(gt;olt; )

I've been to Cali once. You ppl drive too slow! I drove from San Diego to LA and there's a large number of drivers who drive 50-55 in the left 2 lanes. I was amazed.

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Originally Posted by VMPhilUnbelieveable the drive home today. im on a main road that condenses from 2 lanes to 1 main lane and a turning lane. so the 2 lanes gotta fold together like a deck of cards. So there is a truck to my front left and a van on back left. so when the light goes green (its a short green) the truck moves up so i start to move, the ****ing van to left rear guns it and cuts me off, i lay on the horn. i can clearly see his passengers (a pair of what looks like mexican land scapers) are chuckling. i cut to his left (into the turning lane) and yell quot;Learn to drive *** wholequot; he yells something in broke *** engrish as i turn at the green arrow. Mother ****ers. I felt like whoopin the **** of taht old *** dude and his 2 larrys. but it aint worth going to jail over. 5 minutes later there is a wide load truck in front of me and traffic.  he is sitting at the red light half way in my line and in the next line trying to make a right turn. so im sitting behind the truck in my lane and im gonna wait for him to turn, some prick in a beat up *** van starts honking at me to go, as in cut off the wide load truck. i raised my hands like quot;what do i look like an asswhole?!quot; i aint gonna jump infront of a damn 5 ton truck thats trying to turn. the nerve of people......

Sorry, I laughed because my wife does this same thing and I ask her why and she just gets mad at me.

Also, usually when 2 lanes merge into 1, the left lane does (by law) have the right-of-way. There's signs for that ya know.  So, you would've technically cut him off. But, being that we live in a society that ppl never believe they are wrong, I'm sure you were right.

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Originally Posted by mirrortintsSorry, I laughed because my wife does this same thing and I ask her why and she just gets mad at me.

Also, usually when 2 lanes merge into 1, the left lane does (by law) have the right-of-way. There's signs for that ya know.  So, you would've technically cut him off. But, being that we live in a society that ppl never believe they are wrong, I'm sure you were right.
if the left lane has the right of way, thats usually when marked by a sign yes but there is no sign at the intersection. If i cut someone off ill admit i drove like an ***, but this guy diliberately cut into my space. its called driving DEFENSIVELY. Ill admit when i **** up.  being that we live in a society that ppl never believe they are wrong, I'm sure you BELIEVE your right as well

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Originally Posted by mirrortintsThere was no way of you hitting the brakes earlier in anticipation of him? Or speeding up so you could get ahead of him?

its kinda hard to anticipate an 18-wheeler drifting into your lane... and considering that i was about 1/4 of the way along side him, breaking seemed to make more sense than speeding up and risking his cab hitting me.

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Originally Posted by Bake3103its kinda hard to anticipate an 18-wheeler drifting into your lane... and considering that i was about 1/4 of the way along side him, breaking seemed to make more sense than speeding up and risking his cab hitting me.

But, in your own words, you had to SLAM on the brakes (not breaks). If you were truly 1/4 of the way alongside of him, you could easily let off of the gas and use the engine braking. You made it sound like you nearly had to use your ABS cause the guy was coming for you.