Road Ragin' Teenagers in their mommy's van

[Chris_]

This evening on our (me, husband, and daughter) way to Target, there was a mini van that was tailgating me.  They were so far up my ass that I couldn't even see the emblem of the vehicle.  I gave my brakes a little tap as a warning to PLEASE back off.  I cannot stand tailgaters.  They honked at me.   

I love it when people are in the wrong, but they have to get pissed at you.

So the guy switches lanes, probably in hopes to pull up next to me and talk shit or whatever it is people like that do.  Since his lane had more cars, he was unable to get next to me.  He quickly changed lanes, cut a car off, and got right behind me.  We made a right hand turned and he followed.  My husband put his hand on his gun... just in case.  You never know.  I let him pass me.  His dumb ass was mean mugging me.  The guy looked like he was 17.  I cracked up laughing.  He grabbed a water bottle, so I switched lanes just as he was throwing it and he missed my car by many many many feet.  I told him he had a terrible throw.  The van had other passengers.  Classy.

After throwing the water bottle, he sped up and made a u-turn.  I flipped him the and went on with my merry life. 

That kid has no idea how fortunate he is.  We could have been crazy people who shoot at anyone just because we "feel like it".  These damn kids need to be careful and stop acting all big and bad.  We had two guns in our car.  Fool.

[Boudicca]

It's appalling how often this kind of incident occurs.  My husband is always ranting about how he wishes his truck or the Camaro :whatever:was equipped with a steel bumper so he could run these types off the road.
My father did that from time to time. I remember one time with a motorcyclist who was tailgating our sedan and in general actually assholish.  I wonder if the dude walked away from  his intro to the ditch along the road after dad forced him over.
World is full of jerks, idiots and assholes.  Try to feel sorry for them; they have no idea how pathetic they really are.

[NHSparky]

Everybody gets theirs eventually.  I especially love the guys who are late to work in their shitboxes that shouldn't even be on the road, let alone trying to do 80-plus in a 55 run right up on your ass, even though there's nowhere for me or them to go.  I don't hit the brakes--rather, I just very slowly coast down until we're right at the speed limit, and they can't change lanes.  Drives them batshit crazy.

Although one guy was in a big hurry one day as we were all moving over to the left hand lane because a statie had a guy pulled over.  Dipshit didn't move over with the rest of us, naw--he SPED UP as he blew by the trooper doing close to 20 over the limit.  But by an amazing coincidence, the trooper had just finished with his stop and IMMEDIATELY got in his car, passed all of us still in the left lane, and pulled this dickhead over and gave him a (hopefully) very expensive ticket.

That one made my day.

[Chris_]

We have people who pass me in the suicide lane if they can't get over in the other two lanes.  Complete idiots.  I usually do 5-10 mph over the speed limit.  If that's still "too slow" for someone, too bad.  Get off my ass.  We had our daughter in the car, so that's why I gently tapped the breaks.  We were near residential houses, a kid (for whatever reason) could have ran out in front of my car.  If I would have slammed on the brakes, those dumb kids would have hit me.  My brakes were tapped just nicely enough to put me right back at the speed limit of 45 mph. 

It just frustrates me that people get mad at YOU when THEY are the ones in the wrong.  My husband said if he would have shown his gun, the kid probably would have shit his pants and hit the curb.

[Ptarmigan]

I find teenagers to be one of the worst drivers. They do act like they own the road, since that is a common mindset.

[true_blood]

Tailgaters absolutely PISS me off!! I think it's wicked disrespectful and then they get mad at you like the OP has said in her post.

[Boudicca]

I find teenagers to be one of the worst drivers. They do act like they own the road, since that is a common mindset.

Teen drivers are awful, as a general rule, but so are lots of the cold weather state retirees who come down to spend winter in sunny SE AZ.  There's little more frustrating to me than to be stuck behind two old fogies hogging both highway lanes, each doing 20-25 mph in the 55 mph zone.  Not to mention the old shit who came across two lanes of traffic without looking, barely missing the nose of my car, as he made a left turn into a shopping center, against yet MORE oncoming traffic.  AZ licenses require a complete driving test after age 65 to renew said license, but I guess that rule doesn't apply to out of staters.
I will be an old person within a decade or so, depending on one's definition, but I like to think that when I'm an incompetent and dangerous driver, I will voluntarily ground myself.

[Chris_]

It also doesn't help that the AZ DL is good for so long before having to renew it.  What is it?  40 years?  I remember when I got my DL in Arizona, it said it expired in 2043 or 2053.  I thought it was a typo.  My Wisconsin DL was every four years.

[Boudicca]

It also doesn't help that the AZ DL is good for so long before having to renew it.  What is it?  40 years?  I remember when I got my DL in Arizona, it said it expired in 2043 or 2053.  I thought it was a typo.  My Wisconsin DL was every four years.

Yep, it's even longer than 40 years though!  My daughter was 18 when hubby was reassigned to Ft. Huachuca, and he retired 4 years later so we are permanent residents of somewhere after decades of roaming.  Anyway, our daughter's license was good, WITH THE SAME PHOTO, from age 18 to age 65.  Mindblowing.  I've had a driver's license issued in GA, VA, WA, TX and the American military's European license.  All had to be renewed every three or four years.
AZ is a contrary state in some matters.  We also never change our clocks back and forth.  I actually like that though!

[Chris_]

That's one thing I loved about Arizona.  No dealing with DST.  I wish Nevada was the same way.  In the winter, it's dark by 4:45pm-5pm.  It always makes you think it's later then it really is.  I'd be ready for bed at 7pm.

[vesta111]

That's one thing I loved about Arizona.  No dealing with DST.  I wish Nevada was the same way.  In the winter, it's dark by 4:45pm-5pm.  It always makes you think it's later then it really is.  I'd be ready for bed at 7pm.

I have had some close calls in my time, I just pull over, put on the flashers and let the crazies go past me.

Except for once and then I just ran on survival mentality.

I lived on a dirt road in Tenn. one night coming home at 2 am after work I saw ahead about 5 trucks ahead of me ---this was in the fall, and as I slowed, saw people dragging dead deer out of a field.

I have seen this before in the North where it is called Jacking Deer from the hunters that used Jacker lanterns to freeze the deer.

As I slowed to a crawl 3-4 men came out to wave me to stop, I gunned the engine went off into a dead corn field and drove as fast as the van would to  go around them and darn near killed myself getting home.

Mind you I was not use to people from the south that were in the area.

Had I stopped, I was alone and wittiness to a crime, it was a really frightening place to be in.

[debk]

I have had some close calls in my time, I just pull over, put on the flashers and let the crazies go past me.

Except for once and then I just ran on survival mentality.

I lived on a dirt road in Tenn. one night coming home at 2 am after work I saw ahead about 5 trucks ahead of me ---this was in the fall, and as I slowed, saw people dragging dead deer out of a field.

I have seen this before in the North where it is called Jacking Deer from the hunters that used Jacker lanterns to freeze the deer.

As I slowed to a crawl 3-4 men came out to wave me to stop, I gunned the engine went off into a dead corn field and drove as fast as the van would to  go around them and darn near killed myself getting home.

Mind you I was not use to people from the south that were in the area.

Had I stopped, I was alone and wittiness to a crime, it was a really frightening place to be in.

It also doesn't help that the AZ DL is good for so long before having to renew it.  What is it?  40 years?  I remember when I got my DL in Arizona, it said it expired in 2043 or 2053.  I thought it was a typo.  My Wisconsin DL was every four years.

Ours used to be every 3 or 4 years, until I think it was 2000. They made it every five. I don't know when they ever do re-tests though. I've been here since '83, and never had to take test since. Even then, it was only a written test, not a driving test.

The way some people drive around here, I swear they got their DL's out of a Cracker Jack box...

[Tucker]

Yep, it's even longer than 40 years though!  My daughter was 18 when hubby was reassigned to Ft. Huachuca, and he retired 4 years later so we are permanent residents of somewhere after decades of roaming.  Anyway, our daughter's license was good, WITH THE SAME PHOTO, from age 18 to age 65.  Mindblowing.  I've had a driver's license issued in GA, VA, WA, TX and the American military's European license.  All had to be renewed every three or four years.
AZ is a contrary state in some matters.  We also never change our clocks back and forth.  I actually like that though!

Tell your husband hey! I was in Ft. Huachuca for a spell. I took my AIT there.

[Boudicca]

Tell your husband hey! I was in Ft. Huachuca for a spell. I took my AIT there.

I will tell hubby! :cheersmate:He was at AIT, after he re-enlisted for intel after a 4-year stint as a tank mech, in 1981.  Funny thing was, I missed him by about a year, since I was at MI OBC in 1980.
He always has, and always will, call me Ma'am.