The Glade 4.0

So there are all drivers we don't want to be behind. The old man, the soccer mom on her cell phone, etc. But are there certain types of cars you find that, in general, you just don't want to be behind?

For me it's:
1) PT Cruisers (probably because mostly older people drive 'em)
2) Saturns
3) Small to mid-sized trucks, doubly so if they have toolboxes.
4) Any 20+ year old car that's about to fall apart

The last couple seem to be the staple of illegal aliens where I live, and they make no attempt to blend in on the road. They drive way under the speed limit. I figured I'd leave out the Crown Victoria type cars, because we all know older people gravitate to those.

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The Dude abides.

Any car I can't see around, through or over.

Trucks driven by old men wearing hats inside the vehicle.

Any car with just a primer paint job. (C'mon, hit me, my car isn't worth crap and I can use the insurance money. Here, let me get in front of you and slow down.)

Big rigs.

UPS/FedEx etc delivery vans. Hey, I'm going to park out here in traffic and deliver a couple packages, you don't mind do you, just be a few minutes and traffic will probably let you in sometime before I get back, maybe.

Vehicles with blacked out (heavily shaded) windows.

Police cars.

School buses.

Cars driven by obvious tourists. (ohh Martha, let e stop the car in the middle of traffic so you can look at that fancy building.)

Trucks with trailers with loose debris.

Just a few examples of why I don't enjoy driving as much as I used to.

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Anything billowing smoke/exhaust of any kind.

I'm hypersensitive to that stuff... It's a guaranteed headache for the rest of the day.

Any kind of tall/large vehicle that obscures my vision of traffic ahead, or of overhead traffic signals.

School buses.
Regular buses.
Mail trucks.
Vehicle carriers (I just know one's going to fall off).
Tanker trucks (these go boom).
Snow plows.
Construction dump trucks (dirt/rocks falling).
Motorcycles.

Trucks without mudflaps
Trucks without their loose stuff covered
Trucks without their cargo obviously secured correctly

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In time, this too shall pass.

Asians.

I will no longer use Spring Mountain Road because of this. That's where they put the "Asian District".

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Holy shitsnacks!

White 18-wheelers.

(One drifted into my lane once, clipped me, and spun me across I-95 and into a Jersey barrier. Gut reaction now is to avoid getting close to them whenever possible.)

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

These damn things

Someone's watched too much Final Destination hehe

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Holy shitsnacks!

Priuses, almost without exception, have some of the worst drivers on the road.

That's definitely true in my immediate neighborhood - it's a bunch of crunchy hippies. Seems like once I get into the city though, it gets to be about 50% bad.

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The Dude abides.

The last 2 are also staples of LEGAL aliens down here, as well as illegal and they drive equally slowly. In fact, any car with Mexican plates is going to drive slowly, and obliviously. I can't tell you how many times I've passed a car with Mexican plates doing 35mph in a 55mph zone only to look over and see some middle-aged Mexican (male or female) grimacing at the road over their glasses and completely ignoring their mirrors and their gas pedal. Heaven forbid 2 of them get nexxt to each other; they will never notice the other one or make any attempt to let anyone else actually go the speed limit. I really wish Border Patrol could stop people for driving under the speed limit. Not any other traffic offense - just that one.

Ironically, the Mexican plates are more likely to be here legally. Illegals tend to drive cars with U.S. plates on the theory that it makes them less conspicuous, and because that plate isn't tied to someone's Border Crossing card, that is likely to get revoked if their car is involved in smuggling.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This. **** hypermilers.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Any vehicle with a mattress tied on top!! Had one come off of a car in front of me one time. I barely missed hitting it.

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"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Prius's.
Overladen pickup trucks.
Combines.

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Anything pulling livestock. Crossing Nebraska on I-80 I got stuck behind a truck pulling pigs, more than once. Sure, the smell was bad. The **** drifting out of the trailer was worse. I had to stop just to wash my car.

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Amish.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I see I'm not the only person who hates Prius drivers.

You're saving the planet. Good job. The rest of us have places to be.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Not sure that qualifies as a "car".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I might say the same thing about a Prius :p

They spread across all three lanes of a 60mph highway in formation, so nobody can get by, and do 30mph.

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It's kind of necessary though.

There is no where for the snow to go if they don't move it all the way to the right in one pass.

absolutely. I just don't want to get stuck behind them.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Better than being stuck (literally) in front of them.

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Meh, they try to run them BEFORE the roads get that bad.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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