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...if you have one of those "How's my driving?" stickers on your vehicle. I was coming home from work yesterday morning, and had some moron in a DirecTV van come flying up behind me and ride my tailgate for about a mile. He was so close I couldn't see his headlights in my rearview. Then he blows by me at about 70 (in a 55) and I watch him repeat the process with a car up ahead of me. When we get into the city, I pull up behind him at a light and notice the sticker. When I got home, I made a phone call and had a nice chat with one of the reps. I understand DirecTV is very strict about driving complaints. Moron. :rolleyes:
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Good on you Jeff!! I do the same thing with a$$holes who want to play NASCAR on the roads.

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Sorry! I had to get an install done. :sh;) My pet peeve are the right lane passers on the freeway, flying along until they get to merging traffic, then they force their way over to the middle lane. Or the ones who insist on staying in the left lane right alongside me, with no traffic in front of either of us. Just recently I had someone doing just that. I speed up, so do they, I slow down, so do they until finally they get away from me and take off like a maniac down the road, only to get pulled over by the police about 2 miles down the road. Ahhh haaaaaa!!!!

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Good for you Jeff. I leave near a NASCAR track. It seems half the population has a #8 sticker on their cars and trucks. Apparently they think speed limits and stop signs are only suggestions.:fl

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Gotta love karma!

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And mine are the people who putt along 10-20 MPH under the speed limit in the left lane. If you're going to drive slow, stay in the right lane.

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Slow traffic move over. It'll take a few seconds to move over and you can both be on your merry way.

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my pet peeve is people who drive like @ssholes. i give alot of warnings if your going a little quick at 4 A.M. but when your hauling @ss with traffic out or driving like a moron out of fast and the furious i will slam you.

good job calling the number and letting them know. god knows it was only a matter of time before he crashed into someone.

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I've been noticing that with higher gas prices now, there have been a a lot of times where people seem to be running some sort of rolling road block on the freeways. 70 MPH limit, and all three lanes are occupied by people doing only 50 to 55, with a huge gap of about a quarter mile in front of them. And they like to try to keep people from passing, too. If a gap forms, they speed up to close it off. Then you have a traffic jam forming behind this, with people jockeying around trying to get around it, or trying to get to the right to exit.

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i only pass on the right if i have to...if you cant figure out what my flashing lights and honking horn means then you shouldn't be driving

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Lane split?

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So you are not drafting me??

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depends on what you're driving

Fixed that for you. :r
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I got one of thoser stickers on all of my work trucks.
I am the delivery manager and in the 9years I have been at the job, have never gotten a complaint on any of my trucks....

We drive billboards, not trucks, so itd be pretty stupid to drive like a fool.

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And if you are going to drive fast, stay in the right lane. Unless you are passing.

That is what the left lane is for.

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:tpd:

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I thought it was normal to drive like one in NY:confused:

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Exactly. Some people are just in love with that left lane for some reason. I drive in it as little as possible, you know, to let people with lead feet pass, and to let officers of the law easily catch up to said people with lead feet.

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I have a carbon fiber foot

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This is one of the ones I hate.

When people are flashing their lights and honking as they are riding in the passing lane thinking everyone has to get out of their way because they are honking and flashing their lights. It's a passing lane, not a go-fast lane.

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when you've planted your ass there for the better part of a mile with plenty of room to get over you get what you get. if it was legal i'd run them off the road. the speed limit on most of the interstate that I drive in VA is 70, the cops give you 80 I set my cruise on 75...if I have to scrub off 10 miles an hour because you've decided to have a camp fire in the left hand lane you're going to get honked at/flashed. you want to put along, stay in the right lane or middle lane if there is one.

i don't get riled up about people being in the left lane and not getting over right away. people get distracted, you forget where you are, it happens. but when you clearly have someone behind you who is trying to get past....MOVE THE **** OVER! if you're not passing someone get out of the lane

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Exactly, especially if the left lane lurker is pacing slower moving traffic, causing a traffic jam, like I mentioned. I see it all the time, especially on I-94 through Detroit.

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I agree with pretty much most of the opinions here. My personal pet peeve is when I am driving on the highway and a state owned vehicle blows by me doing 90mph, or driving erratically. While these vehicles do not have a "How's my driving?" sign, they do have license plates and individual vehicle numbers on the door. I write down both numbers and report them. As far as i am concerned that is my car they are driving, and they better be driving it like I would.

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My personal pet peeve is when the Direct TV guy is late!!!:D

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Good job Jeff!!

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It's really hard to imagine one of those guys being in a hurry, when your appointments are "between 8 and 12 and
between 12 and 4" and you get there are 5:30pm and waste someone else's entire day.

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I disagree. I hate a D()ck as much as the next person, but if you are blocking the fast lane,
you should get the hell out of it, whether the person is going too fast for your taste or not.
When people adopt the position you have advocated, THIS is when you get these punk dumases
weaving in and out of 3-5 lanes of traffic at 90 talking on the cell phone, barely clearing car's bumpers.
The fact that they are jack-asses does not mean you should be one, too, and block them.
EVERYBODY can't be an a55hole. Leave that to the pros.

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I can't stand when people ride on your a$$...it just makes me want to slam on my brakes. :D

I-93 in the Boston area is a nightmare because during rush hour you're allowed to use the breakdown lane as a regular lane of traffic. The majority of the people stay out of the lane, but you have these idiots that pull into the breakdown lane and try to fly ahead of the traffc, but then they go barreling into the people that are trying to merge onto the highway. :td

I hope the guy that came up with that idea lost his job...:r

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Oh no, I move out of their way. Hell I let those guys pass just because I'd rather have them way in front of me than anywhere near me.

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yup! slower traffic keep right!!!!!!

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These people I call "Traffic Anchors". I can't stand them. I only call them that to give them the benefit of the doubt. What doubt? Well I have to assume they are oblivious to the fact they are dragging down the flow of traffic. I'm pretty sure this is a citable offense known as impeding traffic. If I did not assume they were oblivious, I would have to think worse; that they were the interstate "nanny" protecting me from going as fast as I want. Newsflash for that guy, going 5 mph over, or impeding is just as illegal as going 10 mph over. One might carry a higher fine, but both are still technically illegal. So, get over yourself. :2

QFT. This is a fact. Too bad LEO do not enforce this more rigidly. Then people wouldn't have to pass on the right. My pet peeve is that everyone wants to drive 5 mph under the limit in the passing lane, the 10-15 mph under are in the middle, and NOBODY is in the right lane. As far as I know it is not illegal to pass on the right in Michigan, so this situation prompts me to do just that.

8-12? DTV told me to be home between January and March. :tu

Especially considering the incident in my OP occurred just a few minutes after 7 am.
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Don't get me started on people driving in the snow!:r

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I'm pretty forgiving until someone cuts me off to the point I've got to take evasive action to avoid hitting them. I just hope karma catches up with them.

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I've always wanted the car from the old Spyhunter arcade game. :)
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