Originally Posted by FrankEV

I'm also a grumpy old man, who has been driving for many years, that is fustrated with the stupid drivers of today for so many reasons. This one being one of my biggest peeve.

Originally Posted by TejasJeff

Wait until you're on a twisty back road and you see a cow standing in your lane. Cow has an excuse though! The punk you encountered will never learn until it's too late.

Originally Posted by Bubba Zanetti

Actually about 20 some years ago I came over a hill to find a HUGE horse standing broadside in the road. I had just enough time to stop so it wasn't as nerve racking as my texting story. By the way, the guy wasn't a teenaged kid, he was 30-40 years old.

Originally Posted by Bubba Zanetti

Texting, Twitter, Facebook or any myriad of other distractions. All I know was he had his head down staring at his phone in his hand and was typing away. The look on his face when I racked the pipes was priceless though. He might have had to change his shorts after that. LOL

Originally Posted by army_eod

you might hit your horn or use your pipes. I carry a Glock.
I take things like that (texting) as a PERSONAL THREAT TO MY LIFE. I see it the same as if they were pointing a firearm at me. It IS THE SAME. I treat people who do that stupid stuff as I treat somebody in a combat zone who points a weapon at me. It pisses me off. I wish the cops would actually ENFORCE the laws and nail those people to the wall. Why are they not doing it?

Originally Posted by FrankEV

I'm an ex NYer who moved to NC for 20 years and then now down to Central Florida.

In NY, where drivers are always in a hurry and who drive like idiots most of the time, do, at least, make rolling right hand turns into driveways or on to sideroads that do not require a stop. When you see their signal, you slow down but can anticipate them continuing to turn and get out of the way allowing you to proceed with out stopping.

In NC, I found most drivers (locals or the halfbacks from Florida) nearly always come to a stop before making a right hand turn. I contributed that to the severe deep drainage ditches along the mostly narrow mountian roads that resulted in a depression in the driveway or side road that they wanted to go through slow and avoid any possibility of driving a wheel into the ditch. It fustrated me, but I dealt with it.

Now down here in FLAT florida, with most often nice wide roads and no drainage ditches, can anyone explain WHY, WHY, do drivers (of all ages) come to almost, if not, to a complete stop before making a Right Hand turn into a parking lot driveway or on to a side road. Too often with busy traffic, in both my car and on the bike, I have had to come down to a nearly full stop and wait for then to make the turn. I've learned to anticipate this, but curse at them under my breath every time because there is no good reason for them to hold up traffic.

I know I took Drivers Ed a long long time ago, but I was never tought to stop before making a turn unless there was a stop sign. Who teaches these drivers today that they need to stop before making a rhigh hand turn.

I'm also a grumpy old man, who has been driving for many years, that is fustrated with the stupid drivers of today for so many reasons. This one being one of my biggest peeve.