Drivers now a days

[Darkangel]

Saw this one a while back, news paper over the steering wheel, bowl of cereal in hands, phone on shoulder, steering with knees, rush hour traffic... how this person kept from hitting something is beyond me....

[Gilmo]

Add in cell phones and other electronic media.  TROUBLE.  I actually saw a guy in his work truck with his laptop out and him working it at 75 MPH on the route 75 down here.  I definitely made sure to put him in my rearview.

[Agent]

As local truck driver I see all kinds of crazy stuff.  I once was in the right land of a four lane road, there was another big truck stopped in the left lane with is blinker and brake lights both working.  This guy in a sports car floors it to try and cut me off before the truck.  Needless to say that he didn't make it and rear ended the truck at about 50 MPH.  I was caught off guard and happened to look out my side window in time to see the whole front end of his car pushed almost to the windshield.  I think your right it is an attitude of I'm more important and just don't care what anyone else is doing.

[Spyder]

Heh.. put it in 4 wheel drive and push her out of the lane.

[APG-Huntress]

I would call a tow truck and have her towed. I see that around here only in handicap spots.  I hear them say I am only going to be a minute. I hate that.

[Darkangel]

I think there are couple of factors in why people are driving so poorly these days. First, it's the what I am doing is more important that what you are doing, attitude. Then you toss in that driving rules are not as strictly enforced as they used to be. 

We have a lady at the school where my youngest daughter goes that insists on parking in the drop off pick up area. It's a small lane that pulls up next to the back of the school. It gets you out of the road, which makes it safer for picking up/ dropping off your student. So when you pull in behind this lady and she parks, you are now trapped. The school doesn't want to say anything because they don't want to offend her and when I said something to her, I got talked to about not being confrontational in-front of the students.  Anyway, she knows what the rule and design for the lane is, but it doesn't fit what she wants, so everyone else has to be inconvenienced.

[APG-Huntress]

I was at a red light this morning and an old man in front of me put his truck in reverse and came within a inch from hitting my van. I still can't figure out why he did this. It just amazes me on how people in general are driving these days. I have in the last month seen cars come close to hitting other people. Why are people so much in a rush? I tell myself as long as I am doing things right I will be ok but then I have to stop and think about the other person who just doesn't care. I am just waiting to see or be in a big accident. Drive careful everyone.