Driving... (Rant)

Sigh... Drivers. Come on. So being the good son i am i did some errands for my mom, got some vitamins for her, picked up some grocerys, and of course went to grab some strings at the local music store... I left at 2:00... Came back at 4:00. These errands were maybe 5-10 miles...

What is with drivers??? heres what i encountered.... i park my car to go into a vitamin store, a guy double parks behind my car, and is talking on the phone, i tap on the window of his 70,000$ mercedes and he gives me the "Hold on one second" so i wait about 5 minutes for the douche to get off his phone... for him to finally move.

I encountered cars parked in the middle of major roads, idiots not moving at green lights, people cutting ahead of me in the smallest of areas to sit in traffic... But my favorite is this... I took it on my phone so the quality is crap but this is my alltime favorite... No one in the car, the car is big so maybe he doesnt wanna get it scratched? But the parking lot was HUGE not too many empty spots, but the driving area was at least 2 cars and he'd only be sticking out a little. Here... you decide...






Rant over

Gas guzzlin, self-absorbed, piece-O-shiznit!

Yeah, I'm in agreement.

WOW...dude...just wow.

Thats what im saying. I mean i could maybe understand if hes driving a ferrari in a really small parking lot where the back is sticking out and he doesnt want people to hit it and hes only gonna be a second... But this guy was there from the time i got there to the time i left, at least 15 mins... Amazing.

Elliott,
What you fail to understand is that "he" is SPECIAL. Why, he's the most specialist boy in the whole wide world (that's what his mommy always told him, and he believes it)! You really don't deserve to park so close to him since you are a peasant. LOL (the world is full of them my friend)
Phip
And if it was a ferrari I'd have put my van in low and shoved that ** into the next space!

I would liked to have secretly follow him. Find out where he parks and set the inside of his car on fire. Burn it to the ground. Nothing major

i kinda wanted to double park in the spot he blocked... and just wait... But it was only for a short while.... He probably parked there for half an hour or more... Oblivious.

ROFLMAO
Good lord Nullnaught! Put the matches down and step back and nobody will get hurt! (note to self, don't park in Nullnaught's space)
Phip

Haha, not your best day m8 XD... yeah, I drive a lot because of my work and those "drivers" are not so rare in this side of the sea too..

Well, you guys surely see this before, but I put it anyway haha... cant watch them XD...







oh gosh... I stop here but yeah, you know what EMB, I know the reason. People are NOT THINKING!

Emp

Its just amazing to see it in real life.. Like a few days ago im sitting at a red light and the dude pulls up next to me and sits for 10 seconds... then goes, lady behind him pulls ahead and we both look at each other and are like wtf?

@Phip-- Thats what id like to do. Not what i'd actually do.

i just realized this is in technique as opposed to general chat... I swear i put it in general chat... Then again it fits in technique... hah

@Emp...great videos especially the 2nd one, haha

Yeah, agreed. The person in the white car in video 2 totally deserved that.

I believe the guy in the white car deserved sonething worse.

Ever heard "If you don't like my driving get off the sidewalk"??

@ Elliot
It's obvious the pickup in your photo belongs to a bus driver. They're taught to pull up at stops like that so nothing can get past and spoil their clear run when they pull away!

@ Moshzilla--- Those were all very amuzing.

It is amusing but..THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT YOU MEET EVERY DAY AT 70 MPH!!

its amazing theyre allowed to step into a car...

road rage.

I bet those people sit in another online forum and post exactly the same things about us :D:D

And guys, 70 MPH is incredibly slow here in Germany ^^

so ive heard isnt norm mph in germany like120?

I just posted the max highway speed limit here. Most drivers ignore it.

i said in germany

Sorry dude my comment was @Admiral

70 Mph is the max highway speed? crazy. But yes, in germany its the same, most drivers ignore it.
In germany on highways the usual speed is something about 90 MPH in most parts of germany. But we do have quite a lot of highways without speedlimits, so you can drive as fast as you want to. 70 MPH is the speedlimit on normal, 1-tracked streets on the countryside. But then again, they are pretty broad streets.

My guess is that the amount of traffic is considerably different between Germany and the US. I would be afraid to go on the roads if everyone was doing 90-100 mph.

ono prob moshzilla.and i wonder what the statistics of car accidents in germany are?opposed to the ones in the U.s

"We" Americans have less common Sense than the Germans,
So I'm pretty sure we have more accidents.

We most likely have more accidents but I bet they have more fatalities.

way to bash your homeland,jp but seriously,the americans i encounter on a day to day basis ,atleast 70%seem to be half retãrded.im just saying,and what pisses me off is how they all have uber expensive cars.

I disagree about the common sense portion of this post. I talk to people from all over the world pretty routinely and the vast majority of people in general, and not specific to any location, don't have functioning brains.

Well you don't see many Germans drooling over Justin Beaver and Lady gaga.

Some people have their expensive cars and cant afford to pay their other bills?

How do we know this to be true? And even if they don't, how do we know they Germans don't have some other atrocious music that the people like? It's everywhere dude.

It's Tokio Hotel here..a real pain for everyone, but they are really succesful like Lady Gaga and Justin Beaver.

About 3500 people died in 2010 in German car accidents, and we had about 2.2 million car accidents. Thats 1 accident on 40 inhabitants. However, we do have a huge traffic from other countries (trade, tourism, etc.)

And I agree with you btimm, we also have loads of people who are only limitedly using their brains. And I'm not too sure, but just guessing, I dont know too many people who got hurt because they drove too fast on the unlimited highway. Most people die in everyday situations or people fall asleep while driving. But it would be interesting to hear some facts about it.

What are the statistics in america?

This chart is from 2008
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s1102.pdf

Don't get me wrong. I have a Toyota Sienna minivan. It's big and annoying. But when I find that I can't park in a small space, I don't park there. I don't take up two!