Zen Butler
Senior HTF Member
Ron, now that's home theater seating! I didn't notice a cupholder.
I was passed on the right by some bozo in a low slung honda the other day. Said bozo had mandatory reversed baseball cap, had seat slung so far back that you could barely see him. The car had tires whose aspect ratio must have been 10, with a bazooka tail pipe that made the car sound like my sears lawnmower. The bozo then zipped into the left lane, then right lane. You know the drill. Well, out of nowhere comes a police car, lights on and moving like he meant business. The bozo got pulled over. Man did I let out a cheer.I had a similar experience, some punk in a Jetta passed me like I was standing still and I was doing 70 (in a 65, I know im not perfect) a mile down the road a state boy nailed him.
I’m sure the wannabe bozo got everything he deserved.
But if you where not passing someone what where you doing in the left anyway? Or did he not give you enough time to merge back? My biggest pet peeve is where I live we have a bunch of left hand highway exits. But people get into the left lane miles and miles ahead of the exit going below the speed limit. Mind you there is not much traffic around here. Then they come up to someone who has the decency to stay in the right hand lane while doing 5mph under so the whole road is blocked off. Lazy SOB's.
Second pet peeve, the same "wannabe bozo" who does twice the speed limit in a residual zone, where my future house will be and my future kids will play. Yes my kids should not be in the road, but kids will be kids, or this person could loose control. I would surely be permanently banned from the HTF if I put into words how I feel about that.
Exactly. They are rude because they can be, without consequences.
Similar to some people on the internet. These people wouldn't have nearly the bravado if you were speaking with them face to face. It's almost amusing..almost.
Similar to some people on the internet. These people wouldn't have nearly the bravado if you were speaking with them face to face. It's almost amusing..almost.I would love the opportunity to get face to face with the people I described in my post. Yelling at there car going down the street does not seem to work.
I was passed on the right by some bozo in a low slung honda the other day. Said bozo had mandatory reversed baseball cap, had seat slung so far back that you could barely see him. The car had tires whose aspect ratio must have been 10, with a bazooka tail pipe that made the car sound like my sears lawnmower. The bozo then zipped into the left lane, then right lane. You know the drill. Well, out of nowhere comes a police car, lights on and moving like he meant business. The bozo got pulled over. Man did I let out a cheer.I had a similar experience, but the driver did pay for it. I was driving down the highway when a porsche 911 blew past me and conitnued on, weaving from lane to lane trying to get ahead of all the cars, as if you can do that with the "endless" stream of cars on a highway. he had disappeared out of sight and my girlfriend and I continued to chat for a while. I noticed traffic was slowing quite a bit, and when I had nearly come to a stop, what did I see? The 911 upside down in a ditch 10 feet below street level.
The guy turned out alright as he was standing there shaking his head, but it gave me a smile to know his reckless driving was going to cost him several thousand dollars in repairs to his car.
(f) Having a car way too powerful for the driver's capabilities. Is the term 'boy racer' in use in the USA?As far as I can tell the average american car isn't in any danger of being called "too powerful". You'd need about $60,000 for the corvette to get into that club.
And I've never heard anyone called a "boy racer". But we do have SQUID for insanely powerful (Read: 9 second 1/4 miles out the showroom door) motorcycles riden by clueless newbie riders.
(h) The rich tosser who thinks that because they've spent treble the average amount on their car that this gives them commensurately greater privileges.Oooo... good one. Hence my utter disdain/dislike for any Mercedes driver. They seem to think they own the roads around here. Although another friend describes the rich ladies of leisure driving their S-Classes as people who "think the car will drive itself"...
And I've never heard anyone called a "boy racer".Garrett, the term is well-known in the UK (sorry, I thought it was an American term). It describes a male in his late teens/early twenties who at all cost must have a fast car. He can't afford one (thank goodness) so instead buys a clapped-out 'hot hatch'. [Okay, more translation work - a few years ago various car makers (okay, automobile manufacturers) brought out turbo-charged versions of conventional small town cars (hatchbacks - hence, hot hatch). The best known of these was the Golf Turbo, but there were plenty of others].
Distinguishing marks of boy racer:
(a) baseball cap (usually on backwards)
(b) car accessories worth more than the car
(c) utter disregard for common sense - e.g. huge spoilers will be attached to the car in preference to mending the conspicuous rust patches
(d) boy racer will be accompanied by at least three of his mates, and if after 7.00 p.m., mates will all have cans of lager in their hands, have the windows down and be singing loudly.
If by some scientific miracle, a Neanderthal man could be revived and let loose in the community, he would avoid boy racers for being too uncouth.