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Let's face it guys and gals: I'm the only good driver on the road. Everyone else is an idiot who doesn't know the basic rules and is constantly doing stupid shit. Do I sometimes get distracted and make a mistake? Of course I do, no one is perfect. But when I do something stupid it's because I made a mistake and when other drivers do something stupid it's because they are idiots who can't drive. Glad we could clear this up.
U R so fucken wrong. I am the best driver.
Idiots always be driving too slow in front of me or maniacs with a deathwish tailgating me. Wish everyone would get off of my road.
All I see is 2 people that are bad at driving, for different reasons.
I had a dude once tailgate me and honk at me for going 25 in a 35. I had just pulled out of a parking lot and was getting my bearings. It was a two-lane road. I was in the right lane. He finally went around me, and I gave him a dorky wave.
30 seconds later, he was in front of me at the next red light, so to be a dick, I honked at him.
Dude spent the next 10 minutes in front of me going like 10 miles per hour. I wasn't in a hurry, so I thought I'd just let that play out. Later, when I switched lanes to avoid a turn-only, he switched immediately after. I realized that he intended to stay in front of me driving slowly presumably until I got home.
So I eventually faked him out and lost him.
Dude wasted 10 minutes of his life proving some kind of insane point. He had a young daughter in the back seat. I feel bad for her.
When I see or meet anyone on the road that does anything stupid .... I avoid them like the plague.
I'm not sticking around to see if the other guy/gal is going to lose it and do something stupid that will either cause a minor accident ... or kill someone.
In my local experience, these are actually just profoundly incompetent. Hanlon's razor.
They tailgate because they are actually incapable of maintaining a following distance (you know the kind, when the road is empty they alternate between mashing the gas and driving well under the speed limit, and somehow if you're a passenger they're totally unaware that they are doing it even if they are not distracted, how it is possible to be this bad at gauging speed and distance I do not understand but these people do exist).
Then as their malfunctioning brain randomly processes that they want to go faster, they overtake, and since the lane is clear they mash the gas.
Then when they are done and they merge back, their brain performs a hard reset and they somehow drive slower than before they passed you. They do not notice. You pass them, and they are not looking distracted; the only explanation is that their brain is doing the simpsons-monkey-cymbals.gif.
Probably irritated that they're in the middle lane instead of keeping right expect to pass. (or left except to pass in countries that drive on the left).
I’m convinced regular driving is not good for our brains. I am lucky to live without a car and I am a really relaxed person but it takes about a day driving before I start getting angry at other drivers again.