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Allstate (my insurance company, incidentally) recently compiled information for a study regarding young drivers and the results might surprise you. Well, no, probably not, because I’m going under the assumption that you read this headline, so that was a spoiler. Right? Right.
The results state that 25% of young women admit to reading text messages while driving and yet, only 15% of boys admit to participating in this practice. According to the study’s results, more female drivers admit to speeding than men. The Allstate claims department states that they based their conclusions on the variety of automobile insurance claims submitted by claimants.
I can speak honestly on this topic and state that I used to be one crazy-bitch driver. I’d run that speedometer up to 120 miles per hour in 65 miles per hour zones and not even think twice about it. I’ve had a few speeding tickets in my time — one that got me three points on my license — but I’ll also admit: these incidents were years ago. Once I found out I was pregnant over three years ago, my reckless driving days were over. O-ver. Now, I’m probably one of those drivers that totally irritates you by going precisely the speed limit, but I’m okay with that. My insurance premiums are much lower, I’m not as large a risk to myself and others on the road and I don’t have to worry about being pulled over for reckless behavior behind the wheel.
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Im one of those anal stay-one-thelimit-drivers too! But I am a huge road rager. I followed a van full of football players for half an hour for cutting me off, getting angrier and angrier as they taunted me out the window. Eventually they parked out the front of the cop shop so i had to leave it. Another guy cut me off and left me stuck in a turning lane on a crest so i followed him home then returned later with a star stake to sort him out (Dad interviened at his gate). The third big one was a guy who declared that the parking spot outside his house was his, and tried to intimidate me (heh) out of my car so I sat in the spot playing ABBA full volume until the police asked me to move along.
I am concerned I will kill someone some day, but they will probably deserve it.
Hahahahahaha! Thanks for the laugh this morning. I needed that, and I totally believe you.
…and this brings me to another posting.. AT NO TIME DID I EVER THINK TO SHOOT ANYONE. bashing someone to death with a star stake gives them a small fighting chance.
Yes, a small chance, but a chance nonetheless.
I’ll fully admit that I have horrible road rage. Bad drivers make my blood boil and there’s no shortage of them around here. I don’t get out and threaten them or anything but there’s a lot of mumbling and ranting going on when I’m driving. I mostly drive on the back roads, mostly 30 limits and one road that’s 40, so I’m usually pretty close to the limit or about 5 above. Of course that’s where most accidents occur and I think it’s a small miracle that I’ve managed to avoid them so far. I’m a good driver but sometimes it feels like I’m the only one in the whole state who can operate a vehicle properly. The most recent incident was this weekend. I was about to enter a junction because I had a green light when someone came flying through the red and cut right across me. Things like that happen at least once a month even with my policy of always assuming other drivers are going to do the most bone headed thing possible.
When I’m on the highway though the limit is more of a suggested minimum. If you do 55 around here you get people sitting up your butt and honking and swearing because you’re driving too slowly. Even off the highway there’s a lot of that; I once had a woman over take me with horn blaring because I had the nerve to do 25 in a 25 zone because it’s a dangerous intersection. There’s one stretch in particular where you enter on the left and then get off on a left exit about a mile down. No point in trying to get to the slow lane and back again so you need to keep up with Boston fast lane traffic. The limit is 55 and I’ve done 98 on that stretch.
I’m not by any means a reckless driver, but road rage? Oh yeah. Anytime somebody cuts me off without even so much as signaling, I have a few choice words!
I’m a bit of a pansy driver. I don’t even use the horn enough. Even when people deserve it.
I am seriously an excellent driver. My Dad always thought that I should race.
I am TERRIBLE about other drivers, though! I call them incredibly filthy names under my breath, glare at them and give them surreptitious fingers.
Then I smile sweetly and wave. But I want them all stripped of their licenses, oh yes.
Dirty rat bastids.
This is why handguns are such a lovely gift,very small and lightweight now a days.
I want a gun sooo bad. I would shoot all their tires out! I say that at least once a day. Some people shouldn’t have guns.
psst….I sometimes pretend I have a gun. I make that gun sign gangstas do and point at the car in front of me.
Haha! That’s not a bad idea!
I am an absolute certifiable maniac behind the wheel. Honestly, I’m not a very great driver. More “offensive” than “defensive,” but I follow the rules (aside from the speed limit, but usually I just go about 5-10 mph over).
Road rage is my middle name. I will lose my mind if you’re going slowly in the left-lane, not allowing me to pass you. I will also, if cut off, get beside the person who did said cutting off and STARE them down and shake my head like, “what the hell did you just do?” I will use many sorts of unladylike hand gestures to go along with my disgustingly profane choice of words. Yeah. I’m THAT person.
Also, if I do something nice, like let you in to a crowded lane, and you don’t give me the obligatory hand wave to say “thank you,” I’ll scream “YOU’RE WELCOME!” from behind you and hate you for the rest of your life.
Even though I’m a sort of bad driver myself (even though I follow the rules! I’m really not THAT bad!), that does not make me any less ashamed to blow a gasket every time I get behind the wheel and have to deal with the complete MORONS who are allowed to have a driver’s license in the state of Texas, more specifically, in Houston.
The wave is getting less and less common. I find that very unfortunate.
It is!!! I need the wave. I crave the wave! It isn’t a difficult gesture to give. Just a “hey, thanks for letting me in!” It would definitely be a deal-breaker if my boyfriend didn’t do the wave. So inconsiderate.
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Haha, yes, unfortunately! Although, from my experience, the men (or women, for that matter) who drive large trucks typically are better drivers than those in smaller vehicles. Just my observation. Maybe because they don’t want to ding or scratch their pretty new vehicle. *rolls eyes*
My mother hates driving with me because she says that I have road rage, HOWEVER, this is not true. She drives in the country, I drive in the city. She drives whatever speed she likes (which doesn’t matter because there is no traffic to disrupt) and I drive with the flow of traffic. I accelerate as not to disrupt traffic or cut people off, she thinks this is me being crazy. I honk when people are doing stupid things/not signaling/going a totally different speed than everyone else/about to cut me off without looking/etc, but I definitely don’t holler and swear or stay mad for longer than a few seconds. We’re both good drivers, just good for different kinds of driving.
I do sometimes want to go up to people and tell them to go home and cut up their driver’s licences: People who should have given up their licence 20 years ago (I hope when I’m old someone has the good sense to convince me not to drive) and people who are completely unaware that they aren’t the only ones on the road, if you don’t have peripheral awareness, you should not be driving.
My husband is the hazard, he talks on the phone while driving and even tries to read emails on the highway, when I’m right next to him in the passenger seat, and capable of reading them to him….in fact my one act of road rage will be to throw his blackberry out the window of our car and cackle as it smashes into tiny expensive pieces while my husband cries like a little girl. Mwahahaha.
This study relies on self-reporting. Therefore I strongly question it.
I aim not to answer the phone while driving, but once in a while, a two minute conversation isn’t going to be all that big an issue if I’m driving an automatic. I always keep in mind that the road is first, and I have ditched the phone if it suddenly looks more demanding. I will not read anything while driving, and I am disgusted by people who do. Talking is one thing – there’s not all that much difference between talking to the phone, and talking to the back seat. But when you’re taking your eyes off the road to read or write, that’s not okay. I will take the phone from a friend’s hand, and ask if there is something they need me to type for them.
I make comments at other drivers, but it’s a momentary thing – I don’t continue to sit and dwell on it.
I generally go a little above the speed limit, but will slow well under it when conditions warrant. I drive a balance between the speed at which I feel in control and comfortable, and the speed at which it’s okay to run across law enforcement.
I don’t get really road rage, and I’ve never gotten enraged at congested traffic. I generally go the speed limit to 5 above and I’m positive I don’t tailgate.
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I live near the Phoenix area and people DO drive around with guns. If someone is an asshole on the road, I don’t further provoke them- I have a precious child in my backseat. Trust me when I say this area has some of the most inconsiderate, assinine drivers I’ve ever seen. So if I’m riding in the car with my husband, and someone does something like swerve into our lane without checking mirrors or cut us off or slams on brakes to avoid the speed cameras, I will vent to my husband. We have our own road rage dialogue within the car but I’ll be damned to even make eye contact with the maniacs that drive around here.
I swear some of the worst drivers in the world live in phoenix, a few years ago I knew a girl who got t-boned three times in 2 weeks by crazy ass running red light drivers. That was her last straw and she moved.
Yeah, I could totally see that happening. The speed limit is 45 in residential and business areas and the yellow lights are trigger hair. The first week we were here my husband ran like 6 lights because when another car is right behind you going 45, you don’t have alot of time to stop when a yellow light pops up for 3 seconds and then turns red. I hate driving here…
Jess, we are neighbors. I will be joining your facebook page over the weekend I hope. In fact, I just got an emergency family call last night and may be heading to Tuscon over the next week.
You are so right about Phoenix, my sis lives there and she had to control her road rage because she realized that she would get murdered real quick.
That’s cool! I might not be online for a few days, I’m feeling like it’s happening, having lots of early labor stuff going on and I’m dilated to 4 as of this morning. I was in Sam’s Club earlier today pricing diapers and I was literally holding my stomache and walking with my thighs closed, feeling like baby boy was going to drop out! Haha! Wish me luck!!
Oh yeah, Me thinks it might be time! Yipee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get that kid out Jess! Woohoo!
Fingers crossed and legs open ;-)
Here’s wishing you a short labor and a healthy baby!
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