*first write up* Black mamba the F-250

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imported_Intel486

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Ok, Over the past few days I've been cut off a huge number of times. I don't really know why though.



Just today I was in the right turn lane (for those that live in Nawlins, by Canal Blvd. and Veterans?)



Well this POS little honda with a missing bumper, lots dents, and a different colored door makes a turn from the center lane right infront of me. I'm sure glad I saw her because she probably woulda hit me if I did.



Sure, I had to floor it and come roaring up behind her in my truck. She gave me the finger. I thought that was pretty funny.



The other day I was on veterans, middle lane. The light ahead was red and there was a line of traffic infront of me so I start to brake. Well there is probably about 4 car lenghts infront of me when a teenager in a toyota pickup (yes, It was a real POS too. I think the stereo he had blaring was more expensive than the truck) Well, he cuts from the left lane clear across my lane and into the next lane. If I hadn't slammed my brakes even harder I would have hit him. I really wished a car was in the right lane and would have hit him.



I think I may go to a police auction and pic up a real POS car for a few hundred bucks. Whenever one of these jackarses cuts me off I'm just gonna slam them.



I never see expensive cars weaving in and out of traffic. It is alwasy POS cars.



There are a few other things that happened but I could type all day about everyone that has done something stupid in the past few days.



These ppl just irk the hell outta me.
 
Where I live, it's like no one can accelerate fast enough to make everyone happy, nor can you brake late enough to make everyone happy...

Examples: Sitting at stop light, traffic all around you. Light turns green, front cars accelerate away, I'm doing the same but allowing a little distance (maybe 2-3 carlengths at the max) between us, and the person behind me is <em class='bbc'>right[/i] on my tail! Always! And as soon as there's a gap on either side, they'll move over violently and try to floor it (but traffic's on either side so they can't)...and it's not kids! It's "soccer mom's" and "sales guys" (in their company Taurus'). RRRRRR

Slowing down's the same thing - you're braking, not tailgating the person in front of you, and you look behind you and the cars are coming at <em class='bbc'>full steam[/i]...I always cringe, but so far they've always stopped with about 6 inches to spare. Jackasses!

So, pick me up a beater and I'll clear my area of the morons...perhaps if enough of us start doing this, the idiot's will get the idea.
 
I dunno...I would see myself detailing the beater than I would drive sanely like I do with my regular ride.:nixweiss
 
What's the quote

"Everyone who drives slower than you is a moron and everyone who drives faster than you is crazy"



I drive in southern cal. and i am just happy when I don't hit anybody, people cutting me off, I just consider that normal traffic. :)



Get a cop car.



People seamed to cut me off alot less in my crown vicotoria than my in dodge neon.
 
OMG!!!!



I saw that red car make that turn again today!!! It was the same car!!! Missing bumper and mismatched door!!!!!!!! It had to be the same car. Made the same turn again today. Was up ahead of me though. I really wanted to catch up to them.



Ok a POS truck drive got what was coming to him. I'm going down West End Blvd and I had this POS chevy behind me (Regular cab, all but the hood and tailgate where painted, cracked windshield, and big chrome tailpipes and probably a flowmaster) Well he comes flying around me when the traffic cleared some and got two cars infront of me. Well, I make the turn and he is still infront of me but he is weaving in and out of all the lanes. Well I'm just cruising in the center lane. He is all around, finnally at one corner a car stopped to make a turn and he darted behind me. Ok, all that work and he is back where he started!!!!



Well, He darts back in the right lane right as a I see a little car turn into the right lane up ahead. I drive past the little car and hear the sound of hard breaking and then a KABOOM!!!!



I looked in my rear view mirror to see the POS truck had plowed into the little Honda. Well, I probably should have stopped as a witness but I kept going laughing my arse off.



One POS vehicle down!
 
First off if you are driving a detailed car the losers know that you don't want to hit them and they take advantage of that fact. You want to see bad driving try pulling a trailer once in awhile. Good grief nobody wants to be behind a trailer so they'll do anything to get in front of you including pulling in front of you then slamming on the brakes. Hey this rig and trailer don't stop like a sports car ya'know. :scared



Once I was pulling a 20' car hauler trailer with another pickup on it and I was travelling down a 3 lane road in the far right lane. I needed to get to the center lane so I put on my blinker (you know that this is a mistake sometimes) and I had the room so I start to pull to the left. Well this jerk wad sees my blinker and races to fill the gap. However he realizes he is too late unless he wants to chew on some trailer so he whips it to the far left lane and tries to go zooming around me. What he didn't notice was that the far left lane was full of stopped cars just up ahead. So I'm watching in my side mirror as he gets up alongside my truck then realizes he ain't gonna make it around me in time so he locks up his brakes and SLAMS into the row of stopped cars. The domino effect musta included at least four cars.



That must have cost his insurance carrier dearly that is if he had insurance. All this because he just couldn't let me merge. Too bad....hehehe ;)
 
LOL, you guys really crack me up. I used to be one of those crazy drivers wringing out a POS to the max just about every time I hit the streets.



Thank God I bought a new car, found this forum, & have now become a paranoid law-abiding driver whose driving habits will make my cars (& myself) live a lot longer.
 
Dudes, I was driving my Z06 last Sat on the way to Home Depot. Some young punks in a oles cutlas like a '89 or some ****. Want to get in front of me (we are on a 4 lane 55mph road) they can't get to the space fast enough. I didn't speed up, I'm going like 50. So they are next to me and I look over and all 3 of them are flipping me off. I started laughing. So they get behind me a bit back and made a mad charge like they are going to ram me! I tap the brakes and they swerve to go around me. Next thing I know, the driver has lost it. He getting sideways passing me on the right. I get on the brakes hard. (thank god no one closed to me) he goes by and gets sideways in my lane. He goes off the road and is in the medium in the grass. I looking over as I pass and thinking "how nice are you?!!!" he recovers and makes a B line for me again. I drop it into 2nd and say "see you later aholes!"



I go to home depot and sit in the parking lot for a few mins to make sure that they didn't follow. Never saw them again.
 
I'm actually pretty scared of getting in an accident with some of these people. They all remind me of red necks that carry a gun under the seat. I'm worried they'll get out and shoot me or something.



That is why I carry the club... I figure if they are going to do something I'll have enough time to pull it out from under the seat and whack them.



I kinda wanna get a license to carry a concealed weapon but I'm worried that some day you'll be sitting at home watching the news and here "Today a Man shot three teenagers after they rear ended his truck"



gmblack3, you should get a concealed weapons license. It probably isn't legal but next time some people do that to you then you can just flash your piece... I'm pretty sure they would back off.
 
....that some of these morons have drivers' licenses. That really holds true on some expressways in Chicago. Let me give you one of my "favorite" incidents.



I was travelling north on I-294 leaving the I-pass (electronic toll collection) Express Lane at the 82nd St Toll Plaza. This plaza has 2 Express lanes. I am in lane #1 and the POS blue Astro van is in #2. I slow down to observe the 30 mph speed limit at the plaza but the Astro decides he wants to get a jump on me accelerating from the toll plaza. After the plaza, he decided to shoot right and then try to cut me off while I was in close proximity to the traffic ahead of me. During that process, he almost ran me into the retaining wall. I guess he felt that he had a bigger vehicle and I was supposed to "back off" :rolleyes: I followed him for a few and blew past him when I got an opening. I looked out the corner of my eye and the idiot is trying to stare me down. Then when he passes me after I get boxed in with more traffic, he stares at me again because I refused to let him cut me off. Around I-55, I got a huge opening, and flew past him in the #4 lane whilst flipping him the bird since the moron wanted to stare at me so badly. After that, I did not see him because I was too far ahead and he was thoroughly boxed in with other traffic. In fact, by the time he caught up with me again, I was getting off the expressway and he was doing 50+ in the I-Pass Express lanes.
 
As you can see in my Tag line, <strong class='bbc'><span style='color: red'> "my other truck is a Fire Engine![/b]

Driving to inspection details, out doing district familiarization, or just out on the road driver training with the probies, people are courteous...they beep and wave, say hello and even pull over to let us by!

This goes away the minute we go to code 3 mode (lights, sirens and airhorns) to a call. I swear that the sound of Federal Q siren, coupled with the occassional blast of an air horn and the flash pattern from the strobes on the lightbar somehow interacts with a person's mental synapsis and switches people from "normal" to <strong class='bbc'>moron mode![/b]

They pull to the left, cut out in front of the truck, speed up, tailgate to get through the intersections quicker, sometimes they come to a dead stop in the middle of the street...everything but pull over to the right to let us pass!!!
 
gmblack3,



You should have gotten their plate number and reported their punk asses to the police. A vehicle according to the law is deadly wepon, maybe they could have been charged with something.
 
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<em class='bbc'>Originally posted by Gonzo0903 [/i]
<strong class='bbc'>As you can see in my Tag line, <strong class='bbc'><span style='color: red'> "my other truck is a Fire Engine![/b]

Driving to inspection details, out doing district familiarization, or just out on the road driver training with the probies, people are courteous...they beep and wave, say hello and even pull over to let us by!

This goes away the minute we go to code 3 mode (lights, sirens and airhorns) to a call. I swear that the sound of Federal Q siren, coupled with the occassional blast of an air horn and the flash pattern from the strobes on the lightbar somehow interacts with a person's mental synapsis and switches people from "normal" to <strong class='bbc'>moron mode![/b]

They pull to the left, cut out in front of the truck, speed up, tailgate to get through the intersections quicker, sometimes they come to a dead stop in the middle of the street...everything but pull over to the right to let us pass!!! [/b]</blockquote>
Gonzo, fire fighters aren't the only ones who have to deal with this. I know many cops (City, County, and State) who have had close calls with morons when they are running to a code 3 call with lights and sirens blaring (In the case of CPD, it's Whelen Edges and/or Federal Vectras (traffic units only)).

But one thing I like about the South is that they are required by law to yield the right of way to a funeral. I recall an incident where I was in a funeral procession and one of my relatives got into an accident because some moronic motorist decided to cut into the procession so he could go faster :rolleyes:.
 
I drive some pretty conspicuous vehicles and my neighborhood is full of idiot drivers. It used to just drive me crazy. Eventually, I realized the best thing to do is just keep your cool, don't be in a hurry, don't flip them off, don't play their game. I try to set an example. If somebody wants to get in front of me I let them. If they are trying to get out of a driveway I slow down and wave them through. Remember, what goes around comes around. Show them how it should be done and some of them will actually learn.
 
I had just left work late Friday evening after an evacuation presentation at my job. I was travelling westbound on North Avenue heading toward I-290. Shortly before I got onto I-290, I was behind this POS Cutlass that was loaded down. When I got some space, I passed him. However, I was passing another car (possibly Grand Prix) and the #$#@$# flicks a lit cigarette butt out of his window. The Cigarette butt hits my windshield and then rolls into the recess where wipers sit. Needless to say, my Maxima was smelling like cigarette smoke until I-290 and St. Charles Road. That was when I got the butt out but the smell did not leave until 127th and I-294. :mad:
 
I can be just as much of an a-hole as the rest of the crowd, I guess. My car is pretty zippy and since its a sedan, most people don't expect it. If someone drives like a retard then I make sure that I keep them pinned either behind me or in a bottle neck on the freeway. I know its a mean thing to do but its so stinkin fun sometimes. :D I only do it to those types of people that cut you off or merge in front of you without signaling and don't wave for letting them in. You know, the people that deserve it. If traffic in the right lane breaks up and he tries to pass me on the left then I speed up. I don't get passed unless I let them. Then when they come up on a slow moving car again I start to slow down. :D Like I said, I'm capable of being an a-hole too.



This isn't to knock anybody on this board but it has been my experience that out of all the cars on the road it tends to be Nissan drivers that are the biggest pains. Oddly enough, the Maximas seem to be fairly tame. Its the Sentras and Altimas that are complete lunatics. Maybe it is just sedan envy and that is why I always see them being stupid. I don't know. All I know is that 90% of the retards on the road in Utah are driving Nissans. Why is that? Is that the way it is everywhere else or is a Nissan the poor mans Corvette here in Mini Van heaven?
 
Products used
Wash:
NXT tech wash with 2BM
bone wash sponges
Tarmanator

Wheels:
Diablo 1:3
APC heavy duty
Never Dull
Optibond for weels and wheels

Paint:
M105
106FA
IPA wipe down
2 coats of 845 (client did not want a sealant)
surbuf pads
orange BnS pads
black and white BnS pads

Interior:
APC+
Ultimate Protectent
various brushes

Trim:
Optibond
UP

Diablo Dwelling
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50/50 of the hood
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50/50 of A piller, deep scratches
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After front panel
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Interior before (gotta love kids)
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Door dressed with UP
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Dressing with UP
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Bare with me, this is my first write up, when I was done it was dark, so when the weather clears up I will some afters.
 
Hey Mo' !

Excellent correction !

I hear you regarding kids messes in vehicle; they are never pretty, but good Detailers like you make them turn out great !

Nice work, Dude !!!

Dan F
 
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