Great moments in stupidity (driving edition)

[nieh]

Today I took my friend from his home back to his dorm at Drexel. We live in NJ, Drexel is in Philly, which means we have to take a bridge to get there. A few moments after we got onto said bridge, I saw a car swerving all over the place. I decided to stay as far away from it as possible and to get in front of it. As I was passing it, I saw (I'm assuming) a husband and wife having a fist fight in the front. As I stated before, this is a bridge that goes from NJ to Philly. Translation: It's fucking crowded and goes over a bigass river. They were swerving all over the place and in the brief amount of time I was watching them, they managed to almost nail 4 different cars. I pulled away from them as soon as I could, so I'm not sure if they ever got into an accident or not, but holy hell that's not something you're supposed to be doing while driving.

[coke_a_holic]

That sounds like a magical time.

[Linda]

Perfect couple, eh?!

[Rag Doll]

wow....have to love jersey.

[nieh]

actually we weren't in NJ anymore at the time, so that's all PA's fault this time.

[Rag Doll]

.....wow. that's a bit surprising. we're home of the crappy drivers with anger issues, dammit.

[Sunny]

haha, perfect couple indeed. jesus. things like that are the reason i'm scared of driving... other than my own incompetence, of course.

[nieh]

only in certain places...North Jersey is awful because you've got to contend with New York, Newark and...Jersey City? We just get Philly (which is a wussy city and I kinda like it that way) and Camden (which sucks, but there's no traffic there most the time).

[the_GoDdEsS]

Sounds like somebody had a 'good' time. Drivers are sometimes crazy.

[Mota Boy]

I'm not fucking surprised that you think NJ drivers are the worst in the nation... I drove through NJ twice and I95 is so fucking conjested that I wantd to scream... and this was before I paid the fourteen motherfucking dollars it cost me to drive through the state. I never even knew that that you *could* be forced to pay for driving on roads before that... I was three dollars away from not being able to make it to New York.

[Rag Doll]

Josh....north Jersey is awful even when you're not near those places. You've driven to my house. You saw that mess by the mall we went to. It sucks to drive here =\.

[Sunny]

NJ drivers might be bad.. but drivers around White Plains, NY, are fucking vicious predators.

[nieh]

How far are you from those places? I thought it was like 20-30 minutes to some of them....but yeah, north Jersey is definitely worse than south Jersey with that kind of stuff. I never thought south Jersey was bad at all until I drove through places like North Carolina and was in awe at how courteous everyone was.

[Betty]

I thought you had to pay to drive on the highways everywhere in the US... hmm... maybe that's cause I've always to pay where I've been.

[Mota Boy]

People in some parts of the South actually wave to you, from their car, as you drive past them in your car. It takes you a few times before you realize what they're doing... it's one of the things that's pretty cool about the South.

[Rag Doll]

It's like 45 minutes to Newark...and with NYC/Jersey City it depends on traffic...it took an hour to get into nyc last weekend, which is insane. But none of those areas really have much of an impact on the traffic in my general area, unless there's some kind of sporting event going on in or around nyc.

People here are just terribly rude....and SUVs SUCK...they suck a LOT.

And I've never driven through there...I don't know how I could ever drive here again if I did. It would be too depressing.

[nieh]

A lot of places I've been to charge you tolls, but not everywhere does. I know the PA turnpike does, and there's one place on the way down to North Carolina that does too. I don't know much else about other states as I've never been out of this time zone in my whole life.

What you have to do to get used to the shitty drivers is to put yourself in a place with even shittier drivers. Drive around NYC for like 3 days straight and then you'll be fine with everything else.

[Mota Boy]

Drive around NYC for like 3 days straight and then you'll be fine with everything else.
...or the Beltway. I remember driving on that while repeatedly glancing in my rearview because I thought a car behind me was following too closely. As I'm looking back, keeping tabs on this guy tailgaiting me, another person somehow manages to pull in between us. I just burst out laughing because it was so absurd and such in my element of driving.

[Linda]

I think the crazy drivers are everywhere. We sure have our share of them here in CA!

[nieh]

The Beltway is fucking awful, but the few times I've driven on it it was mostly horrible, horrible congestion as opposed to assholish stupidity (though there was still plenty of that)