Date: 19 Nov 2006 19:45:09 -0800 From: "yaofeng" <yaofengchennospaml.com> Subject: Re: Another BMW driver who fits the stereotype!
You will find SAAB drivers who fit that description too. There are far more of them driving BMW's only because it has a far larger market share. On Nov 19, 3:58 pm, - Bob - <uctra...nospamanet.com> wrote: > Apologies in advance to Fred W, who is a non-stereotypical BMW > driver... now onto my rant: > > What is it with these dickheads ? I came around a cloverleaf ramp > yesterday. Highly tree-ed area, no visibility, full 90 degree corner > to the roadway crossing perpendicularly below. At the bottom, there is > a short line of cars waiting to enter into the highway because someone > has stopped about 4 cars ahead. The person in the front should have > merged, not stopped, but they had stopped. Perhaps they were a new > driver (or maybe a very old one :-) > > So, I slowed down and stopped. 10 seconds later, the person in front > finally moved out. Each of us in line has to wait a bit now too since > we were entering a 65mph highway with from 0mph, the ramp area is > short, and there are cars cutting in front of us to exit the other > side. So, one by one, we start to pull out. I was going about 10 mph, > coordinating my entrance to the highway so that a large semi-trailer > could pass my by and exit in front of me as I entered. > > So, I'm watching the truck approach, when I see someone coming way to > fast down the ramp behind me in a BMW 3 something. He's going about > 50mph down the ramp (with a speed limit of at most 35mph, and remember > that it's a blind ramp so real drivers go slow). He's coming up behind > me very fast. I see that he's going to rear end me since there's no > way he can stop. I hit the gas hard to try to get him some space. At > the last moment, perhaps 15 feet from the rear of my car, he jerks the > wheel to left to avoid me and enters the highway 100 feet before > you're supposed to, cutting off the semi-trailer who is trying to > exit. > > Following his virtuoso performance, the dickhead hit the gas hard and > sailed down the highway at 80 mph (on a road posted as 55), continuing > to weave in and out of traffic for several miles before he was lost > from sight. > > Bob
