Todays WTF moment.

Today in traffic, on my way home from running some errands, I come up to the biggest intersection in town, four lane roads in all directions. After I make my turn, I'm banging gears at around 4500 rpm. Not exactly riding hard, probably about 7/10ths. Anyway, I wind up getting to about 55, the speed limit, and let off. Turns out, I'm loud. I wind up letting off right beside a red cavalier, who then guns it. I suppose I issued a challenge. Anyway, I laugh at this guy, and go about my own business.

Well we meet at the next light. Everyone has been here. The jackass next to you thinks that the race is on. Light turns green, he lets out a screech, takes off, and then lets off. Score one for the Cavalier. Whatever. Then he starts darting in and out of traffic, once changing lanes with barely enough room between him and I. Now he's pissing me off, because he's putting my daughter in danger as well.

A short while later, he's turning off. I'm passing by in the left lane and I glance over, to catch this guy looking away, flipping me the bird!!! WTF!!

I laughed at the guy some more. Don't really know what I did to piss him off. But that was my WTF moment of the day. What was yours?

Not today, but a guy tried the same to race me. After barely missing my bumper he rear ended another car sending the driver to the hospital via ambulance. He didn't look too good either.

Be aware, be very aware. Darwin candidates are everywhere, as I am about to make a delivery to freight forwarders. Oh, the terror.

I'm at the lights this weekend in a Buick Verano. A Buick. Next to me is a Camaro Zl1, who looks at me, revs and proceeds to drop the hammer when the light changes.

I tell ya, I was so impressed, I woulda done him right on the spot if the Verano wasn't so slow.

Lesley wrote: I'm at the lights this weekend in a Buick Verano. A Buick. Next to me is a Camaro Zl1, who looks at me, revs and proceeds to drop the hammer when the light changes. I tell ya, I was so impressed, I woulda done him right on the spot if the Verano wasn't so slow.

I don't think it is possible to pack more sarcasm into a post that short

I got flipped off by a tiburon driver here when I was driving (normally) to wal-mart a while back. Went past the tiburon in my sort of loud car and saw him, about 5 seconds later start trying to fly by me lol. middle finger up.
Not sure why. maybe because I was driving the inferior korean brand?

In reply to Lesley:

but but... girls like guys with fast cars that make questionable life decisions! television tells us so!

right!?

JoeyM wrote: I don't think it is possible to pack more sarcasm into a post that short

You mean the Verano is fast??

madmallard wrote: In reply to Lesley: but but... girls like guys with fast cars that make questionable life decisions! television tells us so! right!?

I thought they were into guys who made handbrake turns everywhere. Did I flat spot my tires for nothing?

lol, lets officially turn this into a stupid things we've done with cars to impress~

Yes, let's... and the irony is that this week I'm in a black Camaro SS – a car that was made for stupid.

My WTF moment was subtly flicking off the car that honked at me and my wife - it was pulling up behind us and we were on foot (pedestrians) - it let out a medium blast of the horn and I jumped and underhanded a single deuce. Turns out it was my uncle driving and he wanted to say hi. Maybe next time he'll lean out the window instead. (And maybe next time I won't flick a honker off ... naaah)

dculberson wrote: My WTF moment was subtly flicking off the car that honked at me and my wife - it was pulling up behind us and we were on foot (pedestrians) - it let out a medium blast of the horn and I jumped and underhanded a single deuce. Turns out it was my uncle driving and he wanted to say hi. Maybe next time he'll lean out the window instead. (And maybe next time I won't flick a honker off ... naaah)

BTDT once - it was a couple who go to my parents' church.

Wally wrote:

madmallard wrote: In reply to Lesley: but but... girls like guys with fast cars that make questionable life decisions! television tells us so! right!?

I thought they were into guys who made handbrake turns everywhere. Did I flat spot my tires for nothing?

Naahhh, never done anything like that.

Worst one EVER was on a dirt bike; got behind some guy on a 4 wheeler in a tight woods section, was about to run him over. I saw the woods open up ahead of us so I jumped off the trail to the right and started to pass him, he now decides we are racing and it's time to speed up.

Now I am committed, can't stop. I hit a hump next to the trail, meaning I jumped in front of him, missing him by around 6 inches. This SOB chased me the rest of the day, no kidding. Screaming and cussing, giving me the finger, all manner of vile threats to my person.

Junior year in high school, I was on a date with the captain of the cheerleading squad. It had snowed recently, so I was doing doughnuts in an empty parking lot. As luck would have it, I stuffed Dad's '73 Olds Delta 88 into a snow bank. With little driving experience - always the best time for doing stupid stuff - I thought for sure I was screwed. Fortunately, I was able to rock it out of the bank. Embarrassing moment, for sure.

Lesley wrote: I'm at the lights this weekend in a Buick Verano. A Buick. Next to me is a Camaro Zl1, who looks at me, revs and proceeds to drop the hammer when the light changes. I tell ya, I was so impressed, I woulda done him right on the spot if the Verano wasn't so slow.

What is it about ZL1 owners? I saw a white one at the gas station I stopped at a few weeks ago, driven by what looked like a 12 year old.

When I started the Borla-equipped Probe and started backing out of my space, he started his car and held it at redline for about 5 seconds.

Hmm, 164 hp vs. like 580? Yeah, you "may" be able to get around me.

Personally, I think they're afflicted with inverted peckers.

The other day I was on my Kawaski KZ440 of fury, when a Chevy Colorado 2WD blew past me. Then slowed down, and did it again. I looked at the recently pubescent, and simply shook my head at him. I turned off that street, he followed, rinse and repeat. WTF, indeed.

Sometimes there are advantages to driving a diesel station wagon... this sort of asshattery doesn't really happen to me...

...of course, if someone decides to tail gate me, I just romp on it and give them a windshield full of soot.

But today's WTF moment... I've drivng back to the office after lunch. It's a 4- lane divided road. I'm in the right lane about about a 1/4 mile ahead I see flashing police lights in the right lane. I see an opening in the left lane and move over... the car behind me also moves over... behind a car that was already in the left lane. After a few seconds, the car that is now behind me starts to move to the right lane - before FINALLY seeing the police car lights and changing his mind.

It amazes me how many drivers don't look any further than the car ahead of them...

Racer1ab wrote: When I started the Borla-equipped Probe and started backing out of my space, he started his car and held it at redline for about 5 seconds.

As I got done talking to some friends at the auto parts store, we hop in the not-so-stock escort as some douch in a fart-can-equipped Eclipse starts revving up like he didn't know how the clutch was supposed to work. Every couple of seconds it sounded like the eclipse was trying to put it self out of it's own misery.

We laughed as I did the same thing driving away.

It amazes me how many drivers don't look any further than the car ahead of them...

Hell, I'd be impressed if more even did that. Too many don't seem to look more than 6' past their bumper, never mind looking all the way forward to the car in front of them.

I get that ALL THE TIME. Seems that because I drive moderately modified Japanese or European cars, I MUST be a street hoonigan. I have taken to carrying cards for my local autocross club, and I hand them out to any peachfuzz with a fartcan.

Delivering pizza one night with a sign on my car when I get a carload of young uns' on my tail for driving too slow in a residential area. With the bright lights flashing in my mirrors and such I drove past the address that I wanted and pulled into a parking area for a 4-plex. Little SUV (Bronco II or something) whips past and I turn around to go back to my delivery.

Younglings turn around and come barreling back and caught up just as I slid into another parking area. BUT in his haste to harass, he failed to notice that this parking area had curbs out front and a large post beside the entrance.

Jumped the curb, sideswiped the pole and whipped back and forth down the road before driving through a privacy fence across the street and getting stuck. People I was delivering to saw the whole thing from their porch.

Driver tried to say I ran him off the road and had 7 witnesses in the car with him. I only had 5 witnesses but they got several tickets.

Bruce

Just today I was driving on a four lane highway when I had an idiot pull right out of a parking lot in front of me and make a beeline for the fast lane where I was moving at just above the speed limit and leaving him plenty of room to pull out into the slow lane. I braked fairly hard and went around him in the right lane while giving him a short honk to let him know that he pulled out in front of me. That obviously pissed him off so he changes lanes to the right lane and pulls up on my bumper and starts flipping me off. I watch in my mirrors as this continues for a few miles with me ignoring him the whole time. Then finally we get to a red light and genius pulls along side me in a turning lane and his window goes down so he can yell a few choice words at me. Apparently this high school aged poopyhead got a good look at a guy that could potentially pull him out of his car and beat his ass right there on the side of the road so he wisely put his window up and made the turn without further incident.

For the record, I had a handful of pennies and was ready to drop my window and fire them into his car if he said anything.