When did this become a sport? On the way home I got passed by three people, all in a bigger hurry than I was. Trouble being, the road crosses a busy divided highway, and at rush hour it's sometimes a good two-three minute wait. Which, most of the time, means Speedy will zip around me like a racer wannabe only to end up one car length ahead of me when I get there.
People, seriously.
Hey man, I'm a race car driver no matter where I am. I must not lose. I will come in first.
How do you know there won't be an opening that goes by while you are dawdling up there? Get on the pedal, man!
And I'm not really kidding.
I live my life from one stop light to the next
Second place is just the first place loser
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I don't get it either. I have the displeasure of driving on a four lane divided highway with traffic lights 80 miles a day. I do ten over the limit, which is faster than most, with the cruise set. If I'm approaching a red light, I'll coast to conserve fuel, and the jackhole behind me (who was, moments ago, jamming up the berkeleying hammer lane,) will whip around me full throttle and damned near lock up the brakes...so he can gingerly accelerate to the speed limit when the light turns.
Didn't you get the memo/email/text/tweet/facepost? It's the modern age, inpatients is a virtue.
If you're not first, you're last.
Toyman01 wrote: It's the modern age, inpatients is a virtue.
How about outpatients?
EvanB wrote:Toyman01 wrote: It's the modern age, inpatients is a virtue.How about outpatients?
Whoops. Impatient
If it takes 2-3 minutes for each car to cross, I can see why they'd try and pass as many cars as possible.
Yep. Mind the gap.
Oh, they get so angry when I outbrake them..
Don't try it on a 2-lane, folks. 
DoctorBlade wrote: When did this become a sport?
Nothing new...people have been doing it since about five minutes after the traffic signal was invented.
I enjoy driving on a road with timed signals, and staying right at the correct speed to hit every light green while the people around me are racing and braking every single block.
I explain to my DE students that some people have the NASCAR mentality. They are Kurt Busch. They need to be in front regardless of the circumstances. Apparently there's a checkered flag up ahead and by gummy they're gonna get it.
friedgreencorrado wrote: Oh, they get so angry when I outbrake them.. Don't try it on a 2-lane, folks.
I forget all the time that my car came with phenomenal brakes.
probably not fun for the jackass riding my bumper.
The main time I take issue with it is at intersections, whether I'm driving, walking, cycling... Flying up to the stop sign slows everything down 'cause I'm damn sure not going to pull out in front of somebody who's either practicing their late braking or just didn't see the sign/light...
corytate wrote:friedgreencorrado wrote: Oh, they get so angry when I outbrake them.. Don't try it on a 2-lane, folks.I forget all the time that my car came with phenomenal brakes. probably not fun for the jackass riding my bumper.
I never forget. I know they can't see it, but I like to mouth "I'll win" in the mirror right before I make some jackhole spill his coffee.
if you drive on Absecon Island (which has the cities of Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate, and Long Port on it) Atlantic Ave's lights are all timed from Long port through Margate and Ventnor and stops at AC. If you do 25ish.. you can sail from one end of the island to the other with almost no stops..
People still race from light to light at 35mph
ransom wrote: The main time I take issue with it is at intersections, whether I'm driving, walking, cycling... Flying up to the stop sign slows everything down 'cause I'm damn sure not going to pull out in front of somebody who's either practicing their late braking **or** just didn't see the sign/light...
That stuff scare's the E36 M3 out of us motorcyclists.
I usually just go with the flow of traffic, but will push to get ahead of people before I get to the windy 2 lane road part of my commute.
Kind of annoying to be behind a slow moving motherberkeleyer going 40 the whole time, when I can comfortably drive the entire road at 60mph. There's only 1 passing zone, so if its unsafe to pass there, game over, FML, first world problems.
I love the people who have to jam it full speed to get to the red light first. I let them blast past me while I roll up slowly... then take off faster than them, because I still have forward momentum when it turns green. Then get up to the speed limit (because the lights are timed for that) and let them blow past me again.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Chuckle at how much less fuel I'm using than them.
I used to race to the stop sign all the time. Sometimes it was the big tree in the middle of the block... but damned if my Huffy didn't kick some ass.
Salanis wrote: I love the people who have to jam it full speed to get to the red light first. I let them blast past me while I roll up slowly... then take off faster than them, because I still have forward momentum when it turns green. Then get up to the speed limit (because the lights are timed for that) and let them blow past me again. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Chuckle at how much less fuel I'm using than them.
Every day man. Every_berkeleying_day. The best is when it's some honkey in a ginormous V8 p'up that gets furious and has to get 2mpg to catch up.
In reply to poopshovel:
Yup. It doesn't bother me anymore. I just put it in the "people are stupid" file in my head.
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