Texans Suck

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At driving.

Okay, so I've spent the past few weeks running around all of Texas upgrading some equipment in a chain of stores. And I swear to Christ, I had never before encountered the sort of concentrated ****wittery on display on the Texan highways. Three things I observed. Repeatedly:

1) Passing without accelerating. Now, I always though that, when one moves into the lane in which oncoming traffic travels while attempting to pass a slower vehicle, it was obvious that the thing to do was temporarily increase one's speed significantly so as to minimize the time spent driving straight at oncoming cars and thereby minimize the chances of a really unfortunate collision. Well, Texans have taught me otherwise, as I've seen, over and over again, people pull into the passing lane while going only a few mph faster than the vehicle they're passing. This means that, over and over again, I've seen people spend a good twenty or thirty seconds in the passing lane.

2) The shoulder. Is not a lane. You do not drive on the shoulder. Except in Texas, where everyone does it.

3) The shoulder. Is not a parking spot. You do not park on the shoulder. Unless you're experiencing a breakdown. Or you're in Texas, where everyone does it.

What the hell, Texas?

Fairness compels me to add that the drivers in the urban areas seem perfectly competent; it's only on the rural highways where incompetence reigns supreme.

 

Tell me about; I have to live here. Yes, they are the most inconsiderate, ignorant, jackass drivers on the planet. And proud of it.

I was right behind a guy who, as you commented, passed someone on the shoulder, only to run smack into someone else who was parked there. Your, statements, AM, are quite accurate. Not to mention that if you are doing 80mph on the freeway and someone passes you, it's more than likely a cop.

 

...wait until the Blue Bonnets bloom.

 

Texas sucks

Texas sucks for a multitude of reasons. This guy in a huge pickup ran my mom off the road (who was driving my tiny scion) and stuck his bright red face out the window to yell a bunch of obscenities because he didn't like our bumper sticker. I was seething.

 

What did the bumber sticker say?

I've found jerks in every state I've lived in. Texas was actually better than most for fewer jerks and more people willing to help you.

But the first year I was there and saw people stopping in the middle lane of a three lane interstate to get out of their car and take pictures of the blue bonnets ... visions of Deathrace 2000 danced in my head.

 

Heh...you think Texans suck at driving, come to Utah! Now that the snow has come, Utah drivers are 10 times as bad as they usually are in the warmer months.

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Californians are great drivers because the fastest they can ever go is ~10mph on the freeways...

 

Just your basic political sticker. It didn't say nuke Israel or anything like that. It was very tame

I've noticed people in southern states do seem to be warmer than those in the north, but I'm not counting the numerous clan people and neo nazis.

 

lol, wow, remind me never go to texas...

I think there are bad drivers everywhere. Here, there's a stretch of road where the limit is 60kmh. I go at 70, and I'm still tailgated like there's no tomorrow! I just ignore it but my girlfriend is less polite. She starts slowing down to 30 or 40 until the tailgater is fed up and passes the car via the incoming lane. She then gives the tailgater a big smile and waves, which pisses them off...

There's also the classic ''wtf am I doing? where am I? Do I have a brain?'' when most people enter a roundabout, which we have plenty of here. And I have seen, with my own eyes, a car turning left in a roundabout. (To those here who have never been in a roundabout, it's a one-way to the right...)

 

I had several drivers act aggressively at me in Utah -- I had an "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry For Tomorrow You May Be in Utah" bumper sticker prominently displayed.

As far as Texans suck, I'm not sure about all of them -- but this one woman I knew when I was at UT ... [WARNING! WARNING! CENSORED! Shift to MUG!]

 

Actually in the Queen's Empire (of which we are part) it should be one-way to the left. So that car was the only one doing it right and you and everyone else was wrong

 

New Jersey has alot of "Circles", which are so much fun to navigate at rush hour. There is always one idiot who has no driving etiquette and pulls some stupid manuever that brings traffic to a halt. There is always one.

 

They do drive on the opposite side of the road in England, so of course the roundabout will also go in the opposite direction.

pfff, trying to say I'm wrong...