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Originally posted by sycamore
--Philadelphia drivers: Notorious for jumping lights before they turn green. It's like Jesus Christ! Fucking control yourself, dickless! I so hope the red light cameras are approved in Pennsylvania...I will rub my hands with glee when I see stupid oxygen-wasting FUCKS see their car insurance rates shoot into the stratosphere. A yellow light means caution, slow down, not accelerate, DAMNIT!
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Now to the other end of the state:
Pittsburgh drivers - Pittsburgh has the Gauntlet when it comes to bad drivers.
1) Too many elderly drivers. Big cars + big hair + big glasses = a reason for a maximum age limit for PA driver's licenses. Just today, (I was with AlphaGeek, matter of fact) we're driving along and this old lady in a big-ass Caddy screams out ahead of us so fast it's unreal. Then, to top it all off, she chops the acceleration down to 25 m.p.h. We are yelling our heads off at this lady, who probably can't see over the dash, much less the steering wheel. Ugh.
2) People who live in fear of the tunnels. You have not had frustration until you've been in the Fort Pitt, Liberty, or Squirrel Hill tunnels. It says to maintain speed, there is no such thing practiced. You're moving along at 55, get to the tunnels, BAM. Your speed drops like 20 m.p.h. I am convinced that everyone in Pittsburgh saw TESB one too many times, and are afraid of teeth coming together at the end of the tunnel.
3) Fear of the cops. One time, I'm driving with my brother out of the city when we get to, say, two miles before the Squirrel Hill tunnels and hit bumper-to-bumper gridlock. I take a half-hour nap, and we're still on the bad side of the tunnels. When we finally get out, the problem was someone from Allegheny County Five-Oh was parked right on the side of the road, and everybody was rubbernecking towards him, watching like they expect him to look up from his Primanti's sandwich long enough to hit the siren and bust them for something. If he would, it would be because they're going TOO SLOW. This has to be the most brilliant cop I've ever seen because if he did, he knew it'd make things worse.
4) No turn signals. These people drive all over the place, with no notification whatsoever. "Oh, gee, this lane bore me. I'm'a go right 'n 'at. Yunz behin' me won' care, 'cuz I'm'a bona-fide YUNZER! Boy, gimmee a bottla Arn."
The last thing I need in life is to pull a fucking Vulcan Mind Meld with the asshole in front of me while I have to deal with the old lady in the big Cadillac in fear of the cop she passed two miles back behind the road that can't understand that THE TUNNEL IS FUCKING SAFE!
SHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*breathing heavily, anger safely vented
~Mike