Loving all the internet tough guys in this thread.
I was driving north on 14th st SW a few days ago, stopped at the light at Rockyview Hospital in the right lane (about 4 cars back). Light turns green, and we proceed to go. Suddenly the amorphous blob (to avoid gender and/or race) in front of me stops in the lane to let someone in from the yield sign'd turn that comes out of Kelvin Grove. I, as well as the 50 cars behind me, were all annoyed, and it was a ridiculously dangerous thing to do when traffic has just started moving. I honked my horn to tell him to go.
He took grave insult at this and stayed stopped for 5-10 seconds longer than he needed to, presumably because he thought this would delay me longer that it delayed him somehow? Anyways, he finally started going. I switched lanes over to the left (I was going West on Glenmore) and he slowed down beside me and gave me the finger with a big grin on his face.
I'm not sure what victory he thought he got that day, but I wasn't about to tailgate him/get out of my truck and hit him with a baseball bat or anything like that.
I mean I hope he gets rear-ended next time he does that and his air bag jams his finger up his nose, but I'm not nearly stupid enough to get into a physical altercation over something so minor. I hope all of you are the same way, because the roads don't really need to get any more dangerous than they already are.
For me it goes back to the 90's so it's a matter of how long you have been driving in the city. Foothills industrial a semi truck driver is trying to block me off at the end of a merge on Barlow and I squirt in front of him before I get cut off at the end of the merge lane. He gets out of his semi-truck walks towards me and I get out. He says his peace and I say mine. Incident over.
Guy in minivan cuts me off and I flip him the bird. He loses it and tails me swerving so I get fed up and turn into Nose Hill park parking lot to which he follows. I park and see him running at my car so I get out I just came from a work out and had a muscle shirt on that was showing off my 16" PYTHONS and once he realized he was up against a much bigger man he backed off. It was actually comical as he went from full rage to afraid and backing up. I'm not going to beat anyone up so we had some calm words and parted ways.
Sitting at the front of a turning lane on Country Hills Blvd I am playing with my car radio (distracted driver ha ha) and the light turned green and the guy behind me honks so whatever I go through the intersection but he comes to the right of me and is flipping the bird and then cuts me off to which I get a little ticked and we go back and forth flipping the bird etc until I turn into my community and he follows so I pull over because I don't want him following me home and he's going nuts in my face telling me to hit him to which I'm laughing saying "you are the one that wants to fight, why would I hit you". Eventually he realizes I'm not going to oblige and we part ways.
There's a few more and I'm the first to admit that I was just as guilty as others and very immature. Now I have kids and think that there's just nothing good that can come out of these exchanges as the next person could have a knife or gun, or maybe we fight and I hurt him bad and get charged. Just nothing good so I'm generally pretty mellow now and rather than flip the bird when someone's going nuts I ignore them or just kind of brush them off.
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Saw a crazy one a few weeks ago. Driving south on Crowchild near the university. Some young guy got upset because someone didn't let him change lanes. He was very upset he couldn't get in front of this person and made a bunch of crazy moves to get in front of the person. Threw is mcdonalds bag out the window and slammed on his breaks. The car behind him slid and slammed into a barier. Buddy sped off before I could even think of getting his plate
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Hey, why don't I just go eat some hay, make things out of clay, lay by the bay? I just may! What'd ya say?
I threw in the 16" bicep (nothing special BTW for workout guys as Hulk was at 24" in his peak) part in because I knew some here would take that and run with it and I'm a good sport. That said it is true and the situation was kind of funny.
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Loving all the internet tough guys in this thread.
I was driving north on 14th st SW a few days ago, stopped at the light at Rockyview Hospital in the right lane (about 4 cars back). Light turns green, and we proceed to go. Suddenly the amorphous blob (to avoid gender and/or race) in front of me stops in the lane to let someone in from the yield sign'd turn that comes out of Kelvin Grove. I, as well as the 50 cars behind me, were all annoyed, and it was a ridiculously dangerous thing to do when traffic has just started moving. I honked my horn to tell him to go.
He took grave insult at this and stayed stopped for 5-10 seconds longer than he needed to, presumably because he thought this would delay me longer that it delayed him somehow? Anyways, he finally started going. I switched lanes over to the left (I was going West on Glenmore) and he slowed down beside me and gave me the finger with a big grin on his face.
I'm not sure what victory he thought he got that day, but I wasn't about to tailgate him/get out of my truck and hit him with a baseball bat or anything like that.
I mean I hope he gets rear-ended next time he does that and his air bag jams his finger up his nose, but I'm not nearly stupid enough to get into a physical altercation over something so minor. I hope all of you are the same way, because the roads don't really need to get any more dangerous than they already are.
Sorry I'm just not seeing what you are. I see people in this thread admitting their actions were wrong and haven't seen a person in the thread say they got into a fight or bullied anyone. I have certainly never chased someone down and threatened them. I get out of my car because a) I like my cars and I don't want anyone banging on them and b) I'm not going to be intimidated by some road raged idiot.
Sorry I'm just not seeing what you are. I see people in this thread admitting their actions were wrong and haven't seen a person in the thread say they got into a fight or bullied anyone. I have certainly never chased someone down and threatened them. I get out of my car because a) I like my cars and I don't want anyone banging on them and b) I'm not going to be intimidated by some road raged idiot.
I'll never understand why in some parts of the country, a quick beep of the horn seems to be equivalent to telling someone you beat up their mother. People lose their minds
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I'll never understand why in some parts of the country, a quick beep of the horn seems to be equivalent to telling someone you beat up their mother. People lose their minds
And yet in Italy it pretty much is seen as a friendly greeting,
I was driving north on 14th st SW a few days ago, stopped at the light at Rockyview Hospital in the right lane (about 4 cars back). Light turns green, and we proceed to go. Suddenly the amorphous blob (to avoid gender and/or race) in front of me stops in the lane to let someone in from the yield sign'd turn that comes out of Kelvin Grove. I, as well as the 50 cars behind me, were all annoyed, and it was a ridiculously dangerous thing to do when traffic has just started moving. I honked my horn to tell him to go.
He took grave insult at this and stayed stopped for 5-10 seconds longer than he needed to, presumably because he thought this would delay me longer that it delayed him somehow? Anyways, he finally started going. I switched lanes over to the left (I was going West on Glenmore) and he slowed down beside me and gave me the finger with a big grin on his face.
I'm not sure what victory he thought he got that day, but I wasn't about to tailgate him/get out of my truck and hit him with a baseball bat or anything like that.
I mean I hope he gets rear-ended next time he does that and his air bag jams his finger up his nose, but I'm not nearly stupid enough to get into a physical altercation over something so minor. I hope all of you are the same way, because the roads don't really need to get any more dangerous than they already are.
Phew, glad you used the amorphous blob instead of a gender, or else all the boldest text in that quote would be misleading!
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Dude goes crazy, waits until I was beside him, rolls down his window - and flashes a large knife from his glove compartment. I pretty much got out of there as fast as possible.
If you didn't report the brandishing then he got the idea that doing that is an acceptable behaviour.
Looks kinda fake, but if it is real, when the bikers get there they probably have enough people to just carry the car out of the way...
Not fake, I love Naples because its just like that, bizarre levels of weirdness.
The religious parades are constant, complete with Godfather like brass bands playing dirge like hymns normally
I'll never understand why in some parts of the country, a quick beep of the horn seems to be equivalent to telling someone you beat up their mother. People lose their minds
I was driving in the Bay Area the other day and someone made a dumb move, so I honked, and my passenger (also from Calgary) said: "Careful, what if they have a gun?"
Calgary drivers. One of the only types of people who think the response to a honk could reasonably be the brandishing of a deadly weapon.
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Can you make out plate numbers with that one? Most of the videos I see online it is very hard to tell.
I can see them pretty easy if the lighting is good. Night time is a big harder unless you pull up directly behind someone at a stop light. And of course with everyone's plates dirty from the road salt, it's a bit harder.
But in good conditions, I can usually see it fine.
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If it's a 60km/h speed limit, it's just a standard road. I don't think the strict left-lane rules apply here.
This is the most common debate - some people believe some roads are fine to coast in the left lane. Other think that as long as someone is trying to pass you, in any road, you move over to the right lane. You basically let everyone pass, if that is what they want to do, on any road. You will find this argument everywhere, even in Calgarypuck.
Often the best suggestion to a driver is to simply get out of the way of a raging driver. Usually this means to stay out of the left lane.
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Why are you arguing the semantics of merging vs lane changes? It seems irrelevant since bluck wasn't doing either.
A merge is different from a lane change, as there are responsibilities on both cars involved. The car merging has to get up to speed in their merge lane, and the cars on the road being merged into should adjust to create space for the merging car.
Why was I asking these questions? The OP stated he sped up when the other car signalled to merge, when he may have made a different decision to slow a bit to make space. If you read the OP there were questions that I thought were worth asking.
The second statement was that he was being tailgated in the left lane, when I suggested he let people pass if he is in the left lane.
Instead, I mostly got insulted by OP. But thanks for actually discussing this!
