Here's what I'm sick of...

[Jand3rson]

People in the neighborhood where I live giving me this "slow down" hand gesture every day when I come home, or when I drive through my subdivision, just because I'm driving a BMW that's lowered with a MODERATELY loud exhaust. The posted speed limit is 25 mph. Guess how fast I go?

TWENTY-FIVE.

I keep it in second gear, and I don't go above 25. Yet every day when I come home, or just about any other time I'm driving through here, at least one motherfucker has to give me the "patting your hand flat toward the ground means to slow down" hand gesture. I got TWO of them coming home today. One from some old guy in a pickup with a camper on it, because I came around a corner at 15 mph. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to slow down to 3 mph to go around a corner like the rest of the senior citizens in their Buicks. The next one I got was from a woman walking her dog...

not on the sidewalk...

but in the street...

ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FUCKING ROAD!

This retarded woman is walking down the wrong side of the street, not even on the sidewalk, and has the audacity to tell me to slow down, when I'm doing the posted limit! I swear to god, I'm going to hire a cop to sit halfway between my house and the entrance to the subdivision, and have him radar me everyday, and mail the results to every home in the development.

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[Vedubin01]

I get that all the time in my mom's neighborhood! I just give them the finger and pray for them to say something. I feel ya. Im not one to start fights but I do not see them with a radar gun and I did not know the police gave my mom's neighbors the rights to police the streets!

[Justin B]

I get that sometimes too. Rarely, but occasionally. The biggest thing I hate about people (and this is a how-they-drive rant) is at stop signs/lights flashing red. Give me a fucking break people. If we get there at the same time, its the people on the right that go first, if I'm on the right, they try to go when I start moving. When I'm on the left, they sit there with their thumb up their ass waiting for me to do something. That annoys me enough, but especially when we're facing eachother and they turn in front of me. It's ahrd to believe that they dont Know why they're supposed to turn BEHIND cars going straight. First, when they start moving, I cant even get into the intersection till theyre thru it and it'll take twice as long to allow for the side traffic, AND just in case they're not signaling, they wont get crushed by my diving boards (lol). TURN BEHIND CARS GOING STRAIGHT OMFGG!

So I was coming home from work today, and I get to a 4 way stop. Someone wants to turn left, so I just started going, they creep out an dturn behind me.Cool. I look in my mirror and see the car behind ME, drive straight AFTER the car turns left behind me. All with a couple cars backed up in either direction to the side street. A rather large number of drivers need to go back to school or get their damn license taken away I think.

[MR 325]

I have gotten this quite a few times. If I am able to stop, I do. I then proceed to inform them of how fast I was going and how noise does not equal speed.

[Vedubin01]

haha, to add to mine, Im also have a CCW and a trunk gun! Im one cracker that one would not like to run into if Im in a bad mood! :)

[Rigmaster]

haha, to add to mine, Im also have a CCW and a trunk gun! Im one cracker that one would not like to run into if Im in a bad mood! :)

Oh gimme a break, WTF are you gonna do, pop a cap in some grandma's ass because she told you to slow down??!!



You guys are stupid if you think it's not gonna come back and haunt you. Pissing off the neighbors is generally not a good idea. Next time something shitty happens in the neighborhood- you know who they're gonna look to first- those baggypants trouble-makers who come flying through the neighborhood in their loud cars all the time.


I'm only partially kidding....... :)

Bret

[blunttech]

i love these threads. im one who believes you never shit in your own backyard. i drive 25 mph or less thru my neighborhood at all times and anytime theres a block party or neighborhood gathering talk always comes up as to how i blaze thru the neighborhood. one old fucker said to me after i said i never exceed the speed limit,,,, "well yeah, you never leave the ground"
i seriously purposely go slow in my area. but my cars very loud and gives the impression im speeding i guess. id like to rip thru here at 7k and see what they think.

[Vedubin01]

I carry because it my right to carry. Would I pull it out and use it when needed? Anytime! Would I for someone bitching at my car? Im sure not! But it is there just in case! People need to mind their own business! Thats all.

And I am far from Baggy pants and thug look! You would never think of me owning what I do own!

IT WAS A JOKE!


And its my moms neighborhood in Atlanta, I live in Miami FL.. Im there only 3 to 4 days a year!

Oh gimme a break, WTF are you gonna do, pop a cap in some grandma's ass because she told you to slow down??!!



You guys are stupid if you think it's not gonna come back and haunt you. Pissing off the neighbors is generally not a good idea. Next time something shitty happens in the neighborhood- you know who they're gonna look to first- those baggypants trouble-makers who come flying through the neighborhood in their loud cars all the time.


I'm only partially kidding....... :)

Bret

[nando]

I always drive slow through my own neighborhoods, although sometimes the corner by my house is fun to get sideways on when it's raining (at 6am). I have gotten the hand gesture though, in my '67 dart that I had just put a new motor in. I was taking it on it's first drive down the street, and I was going 10mph UNDER the limit - some guy yelled at me to slow down. I told him to fuck off...

[4ce30]

I fucking hate that shit also...its worst having a RED car imo..but still its bullshit its always the grumpy old fart fucks that are depressed because they never had kids and there parents hated them and were alcoholics.....

[ldsbeaker]

... and this is why we will never have an autobahn in the U.S.

[Streetspec_iS]

yeah i got that. particularly one old guy that watches me like a hawk, I'm sure he's just waiting for me to do something so he can call the coppers.

[AndrewBird]

I had a construction worker do that to me one time. I was following a DUMP TRUCK and after the truck passed him, he waved me to slow down. WTF?

[Adrian_Visser]

how about slow down a bit then pop the clutch drop into first and lay some rubber in front of the old farts, youd still be going under 25mph, thatll teach the fuckers!

lol jk its even more illegal to do that than speeding

but it would be almost worth it IMO just to see the look on the old assholes' faces.

[ptownTSI]

i would get that all the time in my old jeep with a high revving 360ci v8 and no cats with high flow mufflers. i'd really get on it from 0-30 or so and really piss the neighbors off without speeding. we had a teenage girl in the neighborhood who would leave it so fast you could hear the turbo spooling in her jetta before she left her driveway!!