Maybe its because I spend so much of my life on the road, but people are either intentionally rude or just stupid.
There's a couple of things that bug me.
1. Why do people drive 55 in the left lane of the interstate? Some days I wish I drove a beater pickup truck and could gently guide them to where they need to be.... the off ramp.
2. Truckers can be friendly or rude. The rude ones will pull out in front of me to get around a slower truck even though they see me coming at my customary 77 mph. I have to get on the binders to keep from becoming part of the cargo they're hauling. I have a CB and ask when they do this if they would like me to clean their mirrors for them. One note, I do not have this problem with the Canadian truckers.
3. Traffic gets backed up. I'm in the left lane, its going slow, there's 20 or so cars in front of me in both lanes, so we're not going anywhere fast. The idiot behind me decides they will move things along by riding my ass and pulling out into the breakdown lane. I want to yell "wake up, i'm not the one slowing this process down."
I did find a clever way to get the toll booth gate to go up quicker while on the Skyway in Chicago a few years ago. A colleague of mine and I were on our way home from a meeting during rush hour, and there was a guy next to us honking his horn in an effort to get the gate to go up quicker. After his honking, it went up, thus his obnoxiousness was reinforced.
Rocketboy
There's a couple of things that bug me.
1. Why do people drive 55 in the left lane of the interstate? Some days I wish I drove a beater pickup truck and could gently guide them to where they need to be.... the off ramp.
2. Truckers can be friendly or rude. The rude ones will pull out in front of me to get around a slower truck even though they see me coming at my customary 77 mph. I have to get on the binders to keep from becoming part of the cargo they're hauling. I have a CB and ask when they do this if they would like me to clean their mirrors for them. One note, I do not have this problem with the Canadian truckers.
3. Traffic gets backed up. I'm in the left lane, its going slow, there's 20 or so cars in front of me in both lanes, so we're not going anywhere fast. The idiot behind me decides they will move things along by riding my ass and pulling out into the breakdown lane. I want to yell "wake up, i'm not the one slowing this process down."
I did find a clever way to get the toll booth gate to go up quicker while on the Skyway in Chicago a few years ago. A colleague of mine and I were on our way home from a meeting during rush hour, and there was a guy next to us honking his horn in an effort to get the gate to go up quicker. After his honking, it went up, thus his obnoxiousness was reinforced.
Rocketboy