I hate driving in Texas. No, thats not it. I hate Austin drivers. For the second time in the past few months, I’ve nearly had my passenger side plowed into or been rear ended by some jerk who appears to think that my making a perfectly safe lane change would cut into his or her personal space and decides to drive like a moron with his head stuck up his ass. I call this move “The Texas Roadblock” and I bet they teach it in drivers ed down here. it probably goes something like this:
1. you see a driver (in car that is smaller than yours) ahead of you signalling that they are about to move into your lane
2. get all sensitive and bitchy that the person driving a car that is smaller than yours would have the audacity to cut in front of you
3. force them to swerve out of your way by leaning on the horn and accellerating as they start to pull into your lane
Driving in Boston is full of suck as well (replace no. 3 with “lean on horn and give other driver the finger”) but NEVER has anyone actually accellerated towards me dangerously because they didn’t want me to cut them off. The way I figure it, if you’re driving in Boston, you’re already risking your neck and there’s no sense further endangering yourself or anyone else on the road.
Boy, I hear you. When I was at UT, I was rear-ended no less than 5 times. I drove a Volvo and a pickup at various times, and they saved my life because they were tanks. The worst was trying to get on 35 on that exit right up from the law school. I was hit by two idiots in a Geo Metro that peeled like a sardine can when it ranup under my bumper. I was yielding (like the sign says to do) to an 18-wheeler. It was a rainy night, etc. They yelled and screamed at me for quite awhile. I had no damage to the tank, and I was going to call the police. They informed me they didn’t have insurance. The last thing the drunk girl said to me was, “If we would have called the police, you would have been at fault.”
Yeah.
By the way, great blog. Enjoyable reading, and great to have another shooter in the fold. I am a Sig fan myself.