ARRRGH!

[JKSNIPER]

Ok...so there I am on the Long Island Depressway making my way home when from outta no where this guy cuts across the entrance ramp and 3 lanes of traffic to cut me off in the left lane so that he can then "cruise" along at 50mph.

I'm smoking mad... all kinds of words coming out....My puppy in the backseat is looking at me like "Now what did I do?"

When I finally get alongside him I see its not an old man...calling him old would be turning back the clock for him...he looks like he could be Keith Richards grandfather....hes so ancient hes got one foot in the grave and the other on a greased roller skate sitting on a waxed incline...

I think if I'd of sounded the horn on my truck I'd of propelled him into eternity...."To infinity...and beyond!"

I just take a deep breath and do the goosefahbah thing until its all good.

I wish people who have these old people in their families would realize what a danger they are to have on the road when they can't freaking drive.

Life was so much easier when I had the badge.....at least there was vengence.

[whitedog]

Wow....the l.I.e. Been in Ohio so long I forgot how bad it could be. From west islip and took it east 30 miles every day and then back. I'm sorry man, so sorry. Every day I'm glad I moved.

[Paul Santiago]

That's almost the way of life for drivers here in ohio. They don't quite cut you off because they're going too slow..... I always thought the far left lane was for passing. Doing 68 next to the guy doing 67 isn't what I call passing. If they want to sleep they should stay home!!!

[colt22man]

My wife & I had the uncomfortable duty to remove my father in law from his car keys. He was not happy, claimed to have never had an accident. One day I was in the passenger seat while the odometer hit 80 mph in a 35 mph zone. I told him to slow down or stop and let me out. He was a wonderful man, he has since passed away and we miss him. We made the correct decision even though he was very upset about our decision. He did not argue after a couple days so I think in his heart he was ready to admit the time had come.

[Flexmoney]

I am glad I wasn't on the bike this week.

You would think that a V8 powered 4x4 Quad Cab truck would be easy enough to see. On two different days...while I was moving along in the fast lane (well, it was in traffic and not on the interstate, so it isn't all that fast)...drivers decided they wanted to be in the space that I occupied. The first one had me pushed all the way into the left turn lane (glad it was there, as there was no other option). The second jumped to the spot I was already breaking for at a red light...requiring me to push the brake pedal into next week. She never did get any more than the nose of her car into my lane. Maybe I should have parked that V8 in her door.

My old roommate just put a train horn in his SUV. Not just an air horn...a train horn. Hmmmm.

[racine]

Flex I had an old army bud who did that to his car. He put 4 different car horns on his crysler (truck, VW, fiat, etc.) you never knew it was him honking. I do like the train horn idea but where do you get one?

BTW, I moved to Miss. 7 years ago and pickups don't use turn signals here, don't stop at stopsigns, dump trash in the bed and wait for the freeway so it flies off, and almost always drive 80+. But what ticks me off is when locals pull over to the right, stop and without looking make a U turn while on the cell!? Or worse when they stop at freeway on-ramps to wait for cars to pass.

[Flexmoney]

He got his train horn somewhere off the interweb.

That horn has a big compressor.

Search youtube for train horn and watch a few videos. It should make you smile.

Side story...

A few years ago, Steve Anderson was going to Texas for a week or so. I dropped him off at the airport, then took his truck in to the shop for him so he could get some work done on it while he was out of town. I brought in an aOOooggaa horn for them to put on his truck...without telling him about it.

That was kind of a funny surprise for him. Then...he later told me that when he would hit his remote locks on his key fob...that horn made it sound like his truck was farting.

[SiG Lady]

"My old roommate just put a train horn in his SUV. Not just an air horn...a train horn. Hmmmm"

A friend of mine many years ago installed an air-horn of some significant volume on his modest car. He repeatedly came by with tales of how he'd intimidated the crap out of this or that offensive motorist. Boy, did these jerks back off, according to the tales.

I later installed a mike-activated public address system under the hood of MY modest car. That was a useful tool as well.