Driving a Car

A few observations I have gathered over the years...

When someone pulls out in front of you, don't lay on the horn unless they need to get out of the way to avoid collision. Simply honking just so they know you're pissed is pointless and rude. They made a mistake, they most likely didn't mean to do it, so don't startle them with the horn and make then angry at you. Just go about your business because when you honk that person doesn't get taught a lesson, they just think you are a jerk.

When pulling out of a crowded parking lot after an event, it's one car at a time. Don't try to not let someone ahead of you, one car goes from line A, then one from line B, then line C, then back to line A. It's really easy.

If 6 lanes scares you, then go the speed limit and stay in the far right lane. If you're in the car and scared, close your eyes and pray...don't add more worries to the person who's trying to navigate them.

If you're in the left lane and only going about one mph faster than the person in the right lane and someone going much faster than you is approaching from behind, then speed up for 10 seconds to get ahead and get in the right lane, don't make that person slow down unless they are going way too fast.

If you have cruise control use it; instead of making everyone in the car nauseous by stomping on the gas, letting go, putting on the brakes, foot on gas, foot off, etc.

If the person ahead of you at the red light doesn't go as soon as the light turns green, don't honk at them after .01 seconds. Give a 5 second grace period then honk lightly, if they don't move after 10 seconds you are free to lay on the horn. If you're the person who wasn't looking at the light and needed a friendly honk, don't find it necessary to look back at the person and wave, just go.

The time to wave at someone is when they make space for you to pass through. Getting through wasn't a right, show some gratitude.

If it starts raining, put your lights on. That doesn't mean put your emergency lights on too. The only reason you'd need to do that is if you can't see 10 feet in front of you. And if you pull over because you're scared, then I hope you're a girl.

When you're at a 4-way stop and you arrive last, but the car coming the opposite way is crossing the intersection then why not go ahead and take off? Sure, it's not your turn, but the car to the left and right of you cannot move since the car whose turn it is, is crossing the intersection. So go ahead and get across instead of waiting for two other cars to make their move. The amazing thing to me is how this makes some folks mad enough to pointlessly honk their horn.

JB