Driving Habits

[Shorty]

Be honest - are you a good driver? Do you get road rage? Do you hate driving, or avoid it altogether?

Arizona's drivers are pretty oblivious. No one users their signals, they speed 20 miles over the limit. On top of that, we get the snow birds who migrate here for six months of the year who drive 45 miles an hour on the freeway and 30 miles an hour on the city roads. Awful.

That being said, I'm a pretty vocal driver. I don't necessarily yell at other people, I just kindof yell in my car and use hand motions. It makes me feel better.

[Rye]

To be entirely honest, anyone who has driven with me has told me I'm a very good driver. Even my psycho backseat driver father admits it, after I wheedle him enough.

With that said, I'm a very fast driver. Like, no less than 85 mph on the highway/parkway unless there is a cop nearby. A safe driver, for sure, who always checks their blinds and uses their blinkers, and I never speed in small residential areas, but a fast driver everywhere else, regardless. That's why I'm called the cautious lead foot of the family. XD

I drive a lot, because of constant commuting. When I go back to college, I'll be commuting almost 2 hours everyday. So I'm so completely fed up with asshole drivers. I used to just deal with people who cut me off in 4 way intersections. I used to never honk my horn and just be patient. Smile and drive off.

No more.

Now I blare my horn at them like a giant BMW driving asshole. I think it's the fact that I have a new car, a brand new 2010 Toyota, so now I'm super defensive. People on Long Island can't drive and my Dad will murder me if this new car is damaged in any way.

I tell off people who park too close. I blare my horn. I scream at people who nearly side-swipe me. I don't care. The last thing I need is my beautiful red car to be damaged, especially by some inferiority complex who is driving some beat up piece of crap and wants to hate on people with nice cars. I swear, people really are like that. I see it all the time, in parking lots, assholes parking an inch away from a Benz and scratching their door on it when they get out of the car, just to be spiteful. Makes me sick to my stomach.

And just as I typed that, I realized I truly am my father's child.

[Madame Adequate]

ITT everyone maintains they are superb drivers and everyone else is a useless blind/drunk chucklehead

I'm an excellent driver when I have a tank. Everything else gets right the smurf out of your way, I can tell you.

[Shlup]

I drive like a flaming moron. People don't like to be my passenger. *shame*

[Madame Adequate]

I stand corrected. Amanda's candidness sideswiped me.

[Rye]

I think I'll have Jeremy drive me around when I go to California sometime, now! XD

[Miriel]

I am an awesome driver, ridiculously bad at parking, and since I'm from LA, I was raised to fuel the inner road rage. ROAD RAAAAGE!

I try not to honk/flip off old people though. They may be the worst drivers, but c'mon. You can't yell at old people.

I got a ticket for speeding in Arizona by those cameras. Totally ignored it. You ain't getting my money, you god awful state!

[Rye]

Yeah, that's my one thing I can't do, yell or honk at old people. I'll freak out when I let someone ahead of me and then they drive 30 MILES AN HOUR ON A HIGHWAY, but then when I see they're a little grandma/grandpa, I just go around and play nice.

But dammit, I'll honk at minivan moms driving 30 mph on the parkway. I don't care if you have a little league soccer team in your van. DRIVE THE LIMIT OR GET OUT.

EDIT: I'll add that while I'm OK at parking, and really good at reversing into spots super evenly, I am absolutely the worst at parallel parking, since you don't have to do it in the suburbs, so I never really practiced it. I actually tried it outside of a road test once, and drove away in shame when I couldn't. XD

[NorthernChaosGod]

I'm an excellent driver, in that I can handle a car like a beast. I'm not exactly the kind of driver you'd probably like to be on the road, but I'm always very in control of my car.

[Shlup]

I stand corrected. Amanda's candidness sideswiped me.

My driving record is not something that can simply be ignored.

I think I'll have Jeremy drive me around when I go to California sometime, now! XD

That's probably for the best. Jeremy is a good driver and he knows all the best places to go better than I do anyway.

I try not to honk/flip off old people though. They may be the worst drivers, but c'mon. You can't yell at old people.

Agreed. Though, contrary to what my driving skills might suggest, I do not carry the road rage gene.

[Shorty]

I agree with not terrorizing old people on the road. As much as I might want to.

[Laddy]

I actually refuse to get my learner's permit. Ever.

[Kirobaito]

I've not gotten a ticket, and people tell me I'm a fairly good driver. I've been pulled over twice but flirted my way out.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I actually refuse to get my learner's permit. Ever.

Um... why?

[Laddy]

I actually refuse to get my learner's permit. Ever.

Um... why?

I'm scared.