#tailgaiting

[sucka99]

[coraxes]

my superpower is that whenever im stressed my body manifests the symptoms of a serious disorder related to the floor i work on and i convince myself i'm dying. this is the third time its happened. i wish i could just have fucking panic attacks instead of talking myself down from going to the ER again it sucks so much

[comicsiswild]

The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye (2012) #6

[shrimplicitly]

"watch for motorcyclists uwu" maybe if you guys didnt tempt 70 mph fate while weaving through highway traffic and staying in our blind spots until we decide to move and then oops you werent paying attention and now youre a smear on the i75. like come ON you guys need to be held accountable for your fucking egos on your two wheel death trap

[moriphyte]

quackity was in my dream the other night selling whatever the fuck“bootleg water” is off a sheet on the floor like the fake venders on the streets of nyc and we ran for our lives from the cops togetehr.

[spekktors]

I've been thinking more about my previous reblog and honestly I'm still a little baffled by the fact a lot of folks on the road where I live act like encountering a cyclist is the worst thing that can happen to them. because it's not, cyclists overwhelmingly know the rules of the road and follow them, and so long as you're not making them unsafe, you can coexist quite peacefully. maybe you'll have to slow down a bit when you pass them, but that's it.

no, the actual worst kind of person to encounter on the road is someone driving one of those massive pickup trucks. those people know the rules of the road and voluntarily, spitefully elect to ignore them because they think they're above interpersonal responsibility and they enjoy making everyone else as unsafe as possible at all times about it

[dollfat]

the people with the "im da king of da highway" mindsets arent the guys weaving in and out of lanes passing people. its the ones going 75 mph in the fifth-most left lane ignoring the drivers passing, tailgating, and honking at them. with their smug superiority for going the speed limit, because why would anyone want to go faster than what theyre going?

[dixiedingo]

Whoever the fuck is driving those tiktokified LED ass three wheelers on the road and whoever invented them I hate you so much with my little heart I wish you a merry die

[flamagenitus]

I've been trying to let myself sit without entertainment from time to time, out of some vague notion that if I don't flick from work to escapist fiction to conversation with loved ones to fiction to a different piece of fiction back to work etc etc then I may have some original thoughts, and perhaps even develop opinions on my own. Of course, I already have some thought patterns ingrained, and even when I'm thinking of whatever topic is most important to me in that moment, I think in a manner that I have often learned from the outside world. All that to say, I spent 3 hours driving today and I primarily spent that time hazily composing tumblr posts in my head about, like, fellow road users and how the sun was kind of in my eyes.

[dailymanners]

When driving, don't tailgate. Always keep a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.

First of all, in most cases it's not going to be effective at making the car in front of you speed up. Many people will intentionally slow down or even give "break checks" when being tailgated out of spite for the rude act, so there's very rarely going to be any benefit. You are accomplishing nothing except behaving like a bully.

Second of all, it's very dangerous and possibly deadly. Say, a toddler or a puppy runs out in front of the car you're tailgating causing them to slam on their breaks. If you had actually been following at a safe distance, you would have had enough time to safely react and break on time before rear ending them, or at the very least minimized how hard you rear end them. However, if you're tailgaiting you can cause a dangerous, possibly deadly, rear end collision due to you not giving a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.

Is ending up in the hospital or dead, or being responsible for putting someone else in the hospital or killing someone else worth it just because you're feeling impatient? Road safety rules such keeping a safe distance between you and the car in front of you exist for a reason and save lives when actually followed.

[molsno]

can't stop thinking about the tesla that tailgaited me while I was speeding 10 kmph over the speed limit and kept flashing his brights in my mirror because he wanted me to speed up even more. like bro do you not see my fucking california license plate. I'm a foreigner in this country and the last thing I need is to get pulled over by a cop who thinks it would be fun to write up a ticket for a california car. I already don't speed up to accommodate tailgaters because I think they're the scum of the earth so I maintained a steady speed and he eventually overtook me while blaring his horn at me. anyway all this is to say that I think tesla drivers should kill themselves

[ofalchemyy]

who: austin + theo (@theoxeverhart) where: tailgaiters (sports bar)

some people might avoid this type of establishment if they were a professional football player, but austin was a fan just as much as he was a player, so he sat at his usual stool at the bar, eyes up on the late game, nursing a half full beer. out of the corner of his eye, he spotted theo approaching and indicated the seat beside him, a full beer waiting and a plate of appetizers between them. "sorry," he said with an apologetic smile. "i was starving. mozarella sticks are awesome." he took a sip of his drink and tipped his glass towards the tv. "who you got in this one?"

[ms-hells-bells]

shout out to the toyota aqua with the 'tailgaiting is small dick behaviour' trunk sticker, i respect you

[takami-takami]

Like literally someone sped up and passed me on my left on a TWO WAY (as in, they went went the side of the road that could head on collision them). Like if I hadnt happened to flick my glance in my left rearview to check on them (they were tailgaiting me so bad they were in my rear blindspot for the past couple mins and were making me nervous) I wouldn't have seen them speeding past me and would have gotten into an accident.

Someone nearly t-boned me despite having a stop sign. Stuck their nose out into the road and backed up when they saw me coming and I had to swerve left. People ignoring that they had to yield and speeding up to Just miss me during their turn. Pedestrians making a run for it. I drove by like two or three cars with their doors wide open parked in the middle of the street forcing me to go into the wrong lane. Another person passed me on the right to eat a red light. And multiple trucks were parked close to the intersection so i couldn't fucking SEE IF THERE WAS ANY ONCOMING TRAFFIC!!!!!!!

[girlblocker]

bumper sticker that says TAILGAITERS DNI