Missouri Sportswriter Murdered in Possible Road Rage Incident

[MTM]

I work in a park and we all back in because there is a lot of activity in the parking lot when we are done for the day at 5 p.m., and it would be difficult to back out.

I choose to back in or pull through as much as possible but will head in when it's more convenient. I'm 65 and still look over my shoulder even though I have a camera.

 

[Scout]

I tell my daughter who is 16 to never drive too slow to make people aggressive. Get to the limit and go five over.

My wife had a Biden/Harris sticker and it was crazy how many idiots would almost swap paint with her. She doesn't have it anymore.

I stay in a lane, usually far left on the highway, and will always catch the car in front of my but keep a safe driving distance.

I also have a sedan that goes really fast really quick. When I get some goober riding my ass because the car in front of me isn't going fast enough, once the slow car moves, if I have space I catch the next car very quickly while their POS truck lags behind. Pisses them off so much.

And if you think it's aggressive where you live, drive to Florida.

 

[poindexter]

The thing I notice about a younger generation is parking in a driveway but pulling only about two-thirds of the way up toward the garage.

So, sidewalk is blocked. Not enough room for any car in the garage to back out and be able to close the garage door.

Lose-lose.

In my town, that is a ticket. And the city enforces it.

 

[Scout]

Is this really a Gen-Z thing? I'll be 49 this year and I always back up into a parking spot, even with a camera, because I don't want to take a chance of backing into something or someone. Even at the grocery store. Doesn't bother me that I have to go around the car to put the groceries in back. Just the other day I saw two cars back out of a spot at the same time and then back into each other.

I park farther out and pull through every time.

 

[MileHigh]

I park farther out and pull through every time.

That's what I do. Only time I don't back in is into my garage.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I tell my daughter who is 16 to never drive too slow to make people aggressive. Get to the limit and go five over.

My wife had a Biden/Harris sticker and it was crazy how many idiots would almost swap paint with her. She doesn't have it anymore.

I stay in a lane, usually far left on the highway, and will always catch the car in front of my but keep a safe driving distance.

I also have a sedan that goes really fast really quick. When I get some goober riding my ass because the car in front of me isn't going fast enough, once the slow car moves, if I have space I catch the next car very quickly while their POS truck lags behind. Pisses them off so much.

And if you think it's aggressive where you live, drive to Florida.

This is a super small sample size #Alliteration, but I had to drive home from Florida due to some flight issues a few years ago and I found the roads stunningly stress-free until I got to the metro NY area. I was ready for the worst of the godforesaken American south, but nobody rode my ass until I got to Jersey and, especially, New York. Didn't even have to grip the steering wheel until I got to New York.

 

[Neutral Corner]

As a lifelong southern driver - you got lucky. We have assholes behind the wheel here too.

 

[Cosmo]

No assholes on the stretch of 95 between Fredvegas and the Beltway? You got a unicorn day. It's usually Mad Max level out there.

 

[Driftwood]

As a lifelong southern driver - you got lucky. We have assholes behind the wheel here too.

I find it to be more dumbasses than assholes.

 

[dixiehack]

I'll pull through in a parking lot if circumstances allow, but I seldom if ever back into a space outside of parallel parking.

If people can't handle backing out, how are they supposed to handle backing in, especially when you have a much more narrow space to put the vehicle in? The answer is many can't, and so they take 3-4 tries to lurch into place and hold up the rest of the traffic because they're special like that.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I find it to be more dumbasses than assholes.

Shrug. Some percentage of both. The guy tailgating and trying to bully his way through traffic may be - is - a dumbass, but he's also an asshole.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

The pull-throughs are whatever to me, but the ones that I've been seeing more and more of lately are the huge extended-bed pickups that don't quite pull all the way through, so they are taking up 2 spaces front to back, if that makes sense.