"Mr B the lights green"
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
"Mr B the lights green"
I third that!Amen brother!
I agree PimTac!Why should I jam my throttle down just to please you?
Patience is a virtue, especially when driving.
Sorry 'bout that LOLWhy is it that at so many lights I can't even get through them because it takes people over ten seconds to get it up to 40?
Cars have more power than ever yet every day I see a bunch of drivers take their sweet time getting up to speed. Most of the time the light turns back to red before I even get through.
You're not being safe, you're just being an idiot. People act like their engine will explode if it goes over 3K rpm. I blame CVTs. They see higher rpms (better) and think they're giving it too much gas.
It's not that I don't trust you... but I don't trust you.There are lots of things other drivers do that annoy me, but I can't control others so I just do what I can to not get hit by others and am not in a hurry to get there.
I think one of my biggest pet peeves is when you are coming to a 4 way stop with another car already stopped, and they wait for you to completely stop before they go.
I drive off smartly on a green light but what I won't do for anybody is race up to the end of the queue at a red light. It seems to annoy some people even though they are not being held up in any real sense. The tell tale mark of an inefficient driver is the brake lights flashing on all the time.
No, they think they are riving sensibly and efficient. Which they aren't. They have never heard of throttle loss...
Open the throttle pretty far (but not full, to avoid excess enrichment), get her up to speed quickly, then coast and maintain speed. That is how you efficiently drive a petrol engine.
But people do not know that.
WARNING: I will exercise my right to drive at a speed that is safe for the following distance you are leaving between the back of my vehicle and the front of your vehicle. So if you ride my back bumper do no be surprised or annoyed if I drive even slower than I was going before you caught up to me and started riding my back bumper. I am just going at a speed that is safe so if I had to slam on the brake for some reason, you would not hit my vehicle. If you want me to go fast, then do not tailgate me. And by the way, ride my back bumper even closer and I will drive even slower.
BTW, over the years I have exercised this philosophy to the extreme a handful of times. One of them was a man and is daughter in a small convertible sports car with the roof down, who rode my back bumper soooo close that I really went very slow, and the road was such that there was no way he could pass me. After several minutes of it, I stopped completely and got out and told him off in front of his daughter, in a loud voice explaining that I would like to travel faster, but that I was driving at an appropriate speed for the very short following distance he was leaving between the back of my car and the front of his.
One time I was on a long one lane in each direction road with no way to pass other cars that wound around many bends as it went down a mountain and the speed limit was 25 and everyone does at least 40. I was going around 42 and when a jerk driving a delivery truck got right on my back bumper. I slowed down to 25 all the way down the mountain. When we got to the bottom there was a red light. And the driver of vehicle behind the delivery truck hollered loud enough for me to hear him that he was not happy about my speed. I hollered back, that I have kids in the car, and the delivery truck got on my back bumper way too close, and I was going faster but it was not safe with the very close distance the truck was leaving behind me so I slowed down to the speed limit. He hollered back that he was sorry, and that I was right, and that I should report the delivery truck driver to his company. Meanwhile the delivery truck driver heard all of this, and never said a word, and I paid him no attention.
One jerk who rode my back bumper way way too close in a yellow sports car on a very busy 3 land road and got mad when I slowed down, and rode even closer, so I slowed down even more, and he rode even closer and got on the horns, so I stopped and shut off the engine. Vehicles were wizzying by both sides of him and he could not go right or left to get into either lane.
I will stop and help out a stranded motorist and have several times, and will go out of my way to help people who are in need of help, but ride my back bumper and the game is on.