Had an EXTREMELY close call

[Dinan55]

This happened about 10 minutes ago. I was just coming back from school and got off of the Fairfax Co. Parkway. I'm on this off-ramp and I'm just waiting for the light to turn green. I'm sitting there for about 2 minutes when I see this black Prelude coming off the Parkway in MY direction at about 60mph. I see that the son of a bitch didn't even realize there were stopped cars - I'm in the back of the row. This guy's heading straight towards me, I've got nowhere to go so naturally I just start shitting my pants. Finally he realizes there's cars in his way (well no shit MORON YOU'RE ON A GODDAMN OFF-RAMP WITH A STOP LIGHT!) and starts swerving and slams on the brakes, stopping LITERALLY about 1/2 a foot from my back bumper. Let me put it this way, if this idiot had hit me, his car would have been two feet into mine, if he had not swerved to the right, I most likely would not be here typing right now. I look over and it's some college [insert curse words here], he sees I'm looking at him and instead of saying sorry he says, "HEE HEE, CLOSE" and I'm like "what?" he repeats, "CLOSE..." so I start screaming and say "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT THAT WAS CLOSE!" The best part was the look on his face when he realized that I wasn't laughing. When the light turned green, I made a right turn, he makes one after me so I just floor it in 2nd and get the hell out of his way.

How do these jackasses survive?

 

[Roadhawk]

Hey Dinan glad your Ok. I see morons out here do that sort of thing nearly every day - without a clue. I've had some close calls where - if I didn't scoot out of the way I would have been hit. For instance last week - over near cabin John - this lady - who was trying to make a left hand turn at a 4 way stop - decided she din't want to wait behind the 2 cars in front of her - so she pulls out into the oncomming lane right in front of me (I was pulling into the lane after making a right at the stop sign)...forced me partially off the road - I had to swerve to miss her - and my S4 hit some nasty bump-ditch that it did not at all like - I'm still not sure its tracking correctly...I blew the horn and shouted - meanwhile she continued along as if nothing happend...

Sounds like you live pretty close to me - as I'm in Herndon less then 1/2 mile off the FCP. If you ever see a blue Audi wagon blow by you - wave OK! [fake]

 

[ThinkingBMW]

Ultimately we all pay for these idiots with higher insurance premiums and "reactive" traffic enforcement by the police.

 

[Dinan55]

Hey Dinan glad your Ok. I see morons out here do that sort of thing nearly every day - without a clue. I've had some close calls where - if I didn't scoot out of the way I would have been hit. For instance last week - over near cabin John - this lady - who was trying to make a left hand turn at a 4 way stop - decided she din't want to wait behind the 2 cars in front of her - so she pulls out into the oncomming lane right in front of me (I was pulling into the lane after making a right at the stop sign)...forced me partially off the road - I had to swerve to miss her - and my S4 hit some nasty bump-ditch that it did not at all like - I'm still not sure its tracking correctly...I blew the horn and shouted - meanwhile she continued along as if nothing happend...

Sounds like you live pretty close to me - as I'm in Herndon less then 1/2 mile off the FCP. If you ever see a blue Audi wagon blow by you - wave OK! [fake]

I'll wave, can't be too many blue Audi S4 wagons around (ah the beauty of being exclusive). I remember one time when it snowed here I was in a really long line on a two-lane (double yellow) road waiting to make a right turn into my school's parking lot. Our lane was completely backed up, and the opposite lane stayed completely empty the whole time. There's fresh snow on the ground and I'm terrified to even breathe on the throttle because every time I do it's endless powersliding until ASC kicks in. So I'm driving this relatively hot girl to school, she's in the passenger's seat. At one point, I start yelling "WATCH THIS! WATCH THIS!" and point to this Chevy Cavalier with an impatient driver, driving in the opposite lane in order to make a left turn onto some road that was about twenty feet away. Now keep in mind that since there's no traffic in the opposite lane the snow is completely untouched. As soon as the guy starts making a left, he starts to slide. Of course his instinct kicks in and he slams on the brakes, sending him straight into some bush on somebody’s front yard. Then he got out of his car and stared at it with a "wtf happened " look on his face, and I'm just thinking, "Yea, you're a dumbass."

 

[codex57]

hahaha, you guys have happy-go-lucky idiots. We have mean retards over here. Ones where it be safer for the world to have a squad go out and shoot them execution style than to wait for natural selection to occur.

 

[Dinan55]

hahaha, you guys have happy-go-lucky idiots. We have mean retards over here. Ones where it be safer for the world to have a squad go out and shoot them execution style than to wait for natural selection to occur.

Yea my friend suggested something like social Darwinism, he wants the government have sort of a "refresh" system. Every year there would be a certain period of time where all the traffic lights would be turned off, all stop signs would be removed, all street lights left off, and eventually all the morons would disappear while only the good drivers remain.

 

[M_Six]

I've driven in many of the 50 states and lived in about a half-dozen. I've also driven extensively in So. Korea and I lived in Germany for 6 years. Only Germany had a small percentage of morons. Everywhere else they seem to be the rule, rather than the exception. Here in Illinois it seems especially bad, but it could just be my perception of the present. Out here it seems the morons favor s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s over everything else. They live to find someone in the right lane going slow so they can crawl beside them in the left.

 

[gizzy]

I've driven in many of the 50 states and lived in about a half-dozen. I've also driven extensively in So. Korea and I lived in Germany for 6 years. Only Germany had a small percentage of morons. Everywhere else they seem to be the rule, rather than the exception. Here in Illinois it seems especially bad, but it could just be my perception of the present. Out here it seems the morons favor s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s over everything else. They live to find someone in the right lane going slow so they can crawl beside them in the left.

You couldn't have put it better. They also decide to hit the right peddle when they think you might get around them.

 

[codex57]

You couldn't have put it better. They also decide to hit the right peddle when they think you might get around them.

Yeah, it's like they have ESP or something and do it just to provoke you.

 

[theBMWenthusiast]

Yea my friend suggested something like social Darwinism, he wants the government have sort of a "refresh" system. Every year there would be a certain period of time where all the traffic lights would be turned off, all stop signs would be removed, all street lights left off, and eventually all the morons would disappear while only the good drivers remain.

lol, i always encounter morons out here in so. cal, usually on the freeway when i get off work at IrvineBMW and get on the 5 freeway at around 7 o'clock and there are always morons that dont let you merge then when driving cut you off, just pisses me off

 

[ThinkingBMW]

Yea my friend suggested something like social Darwinism, he wants the government have sort of a "refresh" system. Every year there would be a certain period of time where all the traffic lights would be turned off, all stop signs would be removed, all street lights left off, and eventually all the morons would disappear while only the good drivers remain.

Wait a minute! Then it would be the idiots with the biggest SUVs that would survive. Most BMW drivers would be toast. I'm always dodging red-light runners, "indecisive lane changers," and drivers who in general have an "ambiguous" grasp of traffic laws, civility, and common sense.

 

[theBMWenthusiast]

Wait a minute! Then it would be the idiots with the biggest SUVs that would survive. Most BMW drivers would be toast. I'm always dodging red-light runners, "indecisive lane changers," and drivers who in general have an "ambiguous" grasp of traffic laws and common sense.

usually those SUV "soccer moms" drive badly, they always have mistakes due to the people in teh car so they would take each other out

 

[Dinan55]

Wait a minute! Then it would be the idiots with the biggest SUVs that would survive. Most BMW drivers would be toast. I'm always dodging red-light runners, "indecisive lane changers," and drivers who in general have an "ambiguous" grasp of traffic laws, civility, and common sense.

Well the main idea was to have absolutely no limit on the roads, and as we all know, with no limit the BMW is pretty much on top of it all. No SUV will get close to you when you're taking the curves at 130mph, and if we decide to stop, we can, no matter what. There's a difference between active saftey and passive safety. Passive-safety-wise, maybe the SUV can actually save a life (while getting rid of a few others). But active-safety-wise, the SUV is worthless. Every time I drive an SUV it feels like it's about to flip over, no matter how slow I'm going.

 

[ThinkingBMW]

Well the main idea was to have absolutely no limit on the roads, and as we all know, with no limit the BMW is pretty much on top of it all. No SUV will get close to you when you're taking the curves at 130mph, and if we decide to stop, we can, no matter what. There's a difference between active saftey and passive safety. Passive-safety-wise, maybe the SUV can actually save a life (while getting rid of a few others). But active-safety-wise, the SUV is worthless. Every time I drive an SUV it feels like it's about to flip over, no matter how slow I'm going.

The "hole" in that argument is the "right angle."

 

[MrElussive]

I live in NJ but I have to drive to Long Island several times a week during the college year, and my friend and I like to go to NYC every week-end. I like NJ drivers because they all drive pretty fast (sometimes too fast...they average 40 in 25 zones, that's completely uinacceptable, I only like to go 30-32 in a 25) and mostly have nice new cars. NYC and LI drivers are the absolute worst, though. They all tailgate like nobody's business and 95% of them don't have the stopping power to back that up. They cut you off and it seems like most of them don't know what they're doing.

The key is to just be as defensive as humanly possible...that is the only way I survive the NYC and Long Island highways and stuff. Driving in NYC itself is pretty bad too, everybody's in a rush and all the cab drivers just run around cursing at everybody.

 

[finally330i]

I was making a left hand turn into a restaurant parking lot to pick up a tasty chessy beef sandwich. This high school kid was in his green honda civic just rolling forward while looking at his buddies in the restaurant behind him. Luckily one of us was paying attention and I hit the horn before he hit the side of my week old 330i. I had to hold back on the naughty words because my 6 year old was in the car. AARRGGHH!

 

[Ghost]

Dinan55, glad to see you're okay.

I've driven in many of the 50 states and lived in about a half-dozen. I've also driven extensively in So. Korea and I lived in Germany for 6 years. Only Germany had a small percentage of morons. Everywhere else they seem to be the rule, rather than the exception. Here in Illinois it seems especially bad, but it could just be my perception of the present. Out here it seems the morons favor s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s over everything else. They live to find someone in the right lane going slow so they can crawl beside them in the left.

You couldn't have put it better. They also decide to hit the right peddle when they think you might get around them.

I totally agree.

Or they purposely speed up when you signal a lane change.
That's when they get cut off. [fake]