Sorry, but when you proclaim "I'm an aggressive winter driver..."

[Orrex]

we all hear "I'm a proud and unapologetic asshole."


A coworker is giving his daily speech about how everyone else on the road is a moron. And not in a clever George Carlin way, either, wherein slower drivers are idiots and faster drivers are maniacs. Rather, every other driver is incompetent, and the only motorist who knows what he's doing is my esteemed coworker, who commutes approximately seven blocks to get to work.

Also, he scoffed at global warming again this morning.

//rant off

[Paulie]

1. dunning kruger effect

On the bright side, The day already started so it's closer now to the end of the shift.

[Orrex]

3. That study must have been inspired by my coworker

I guarantee that if he wrapped his car around a tree, it would be the idiot tree's fault.

[Major Nikon]

19. One of my former managers was ate up with the Dunning Kruger

We were in a meeting the day after she totaled her $80K Mercedes SL by running into another car from behind. She was telling everyone how it was the other drivers fault for stopping (she was almost certainly on her cell phone when it happened). All the other managers (who were subordinate to her) were nodding their heads in agreement. I thought I had just been transported to Bizzaro World.

[Orrex]

20. That's a weird and creepy dynamic to witness

Everyone hoping to ingratiate themselves to her, so they certainly won't suggest that she was at fault!

Crazy creatures, these human beings.

[MADem]

2. I am a successful winter driver, myself~ !

I never go too fast for conditions, and if the road is a skating rink, I stay home!

I used to have a front wheel drive, crappy station wagon as my 'commuter car' in DC. When DC was "snowed in" I still had to work. I laughed my ass off as I passed all the "aggressive drivers" in their SUVs in the roadside ditches and snuggled up against telephone poles and light posts after spinning out!

[Orrex]

4. Sounds like you're the same kind of idiot as me!

That is, we're not successful winter drivers; we're idiots who inconvenience the aggressive winter drivers. And they're only stuck in ditches because they had to accommodate us idiots!

See how beautifully the delusion works?

[MADem]

5. HA HA~!

Those bozos think that "Four Wheel Drive" means that the ice on the road doesn't 'count,' anymore!!!

It's rather amusing to see them find out otherwise!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. FWD doesn't give you much advantage on ice. They may be able to go, but steering and stopping

is another matter, altogether.

[MADem]

8. Now, you know that....and I know that....

....but that idiot in the ditch up against the light pole, swearing to beat the band, he doesn't know that--or he just found out!!

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Yep. Sometimes you have to make a reservation to find a spot in the ditch.

[sir pball]

27. Studs, baby, studs!

My mom had studded tires on her old tank of a Mercedes when I was a kid and I've never looked back...on a Subaru, they really do make you invincible!

I kid about the invincible, winter roads are too unpredictable and inconsistent to behave like a jackass...but studded snow tires can't be beat for safety and control.

[jakeXT]

21. braking in a turn is always fun

[hlthe2b]

6. Idiots on Ice.... would make a great spectator "event", if they were not so deadly

[MADem]

10. Actually, if they could flood a crappy old stadium and put up a bunch of jersey barriers....

They could probably make a fortune selling tickets to an "Ice Capades-Demolition Derby" ....!!!!!!

The weather is cold enough in New England that the ice would be frozen in an hour~~and it's gonna get below zero tomorrow!!!!

[sarge43]

14. Freeway black ice competition

How far can you whirly gig down the road before fetching up in the medium or against that semi.

[Orrex]

15. As a side note...

I love the phrase "fetching up" in that context, like a boat fetched up against a damn, etc.

[sarge43]

16. Thank you

Decided to understate the experience. In fact speaking from personal experience it's more like screaming in to.

And no I wasn't being an asshole. Black ice is sneaky.

[hedgehog]

11. Here you go -

[hlthe2b]

13. geebus...

I'm a experienced winter driver having lived most of my life in CO and in snow-heavy areas of MW and east coast... but I did live a while in Atlanta and made sure I did not drive down there during their sporadic ice/snow storms. The odds are not with you, for sure.

[pipi_k]

17. First...

car in the first video...

OK I am officially going to hell for laughing.

[sharp_stick]

12. A few years ago I had the misfortune

to be driving from Albany NY to Wilmington DE in a nasty icy storm. The ditch was littered with SUV's on their sides because the morons were like your co-worker who figured that the all season tires on their 4WD vehicle would make it less slippery on ice.

The traffic was crawling, the passing lane was impassible but almost every one of the assholes in the ditch made it there trying to pass on the left and spinning out in the process.

I imagine the insurance companies didn't give much quarter for the "The slow guys made me try to pass them" argument.

[pipi_k]

18. And the scary part is...

no matter how careful someone is, there are tons of assholes out there ready to create victims of their assholery.


Like that creepy Mayhem guy in the Allstate insurance commercials

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. omit the word "winter" and your sentiment still holds for me. n/t

[Orrex]

23. Very true!

Nicely put!

[Populist_Prole]

24. I was just going to say the same thing!

I also noticed, upon further reflection, that these self-indentified aggressive drivers I know tend to be jerk-offs in most aspects of daily life...and republicans.

[sarge43]

25. They try and often succeed in breaking civic rules, so

they think they get away with breaking physical rules. Once in awhile Ma Nature or Karma gets fed up with their bull shit and brings down the hammer. However, as is often the case they hurt innocent people in the process.

[irisblue]

26. means they are gonna meet EMTS and the ER staff

Aggressive winter drivers pay Orthopedic Surgeons' & Radiologists student loans. dumbasses

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I'm a very non-aggressive winter driver, myself

All I care about is getting home in one piece.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

30. Me, too. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

32. I don't even want to venture out in a car if the roads are slippery

The roads around here are very hilly and narrow.

[Throd]

29. Translation: "Science is hard."

[In_The_Wind]

31. What's your big hurry? I want to get where I'm going in one piece. TYVM!

Oh, and just a friendly reminder (from a professional driver) The Entrance Ramp Onto Any Highway Is Supposed To YIELD To The Moving Traffic

[Orrex]

33. Important update: he was an aggressive winter driver today, too.

Thank god he's on the roads, keeping us safe.

[One_Life_To_Give]

34. But cops get pissy when I drive that way on dry pavement.

Why is it they never complain when I slide around on Snow or Ice. But do it on dry pavement and they start having a hissy fit.