Your Daily Dose of Horseshit
According to this, Portland has the most “courteous” drivers. Whatever that means. If you ask me, it means “the highest occurance of people who drive 50 mph in the fast lane.”
My favorite line from the article: “Portland drivers were the least likely to see other motorists tailgating on the roadways.”
Apparently, those Portland drivers haven’t been in a car with or directly in front of GTB.
Portland drivers are most courteous in the nation, survey finds
May 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Bite me.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I am, of course, guilty of ALWAYS driving too slow and generally pissing everyone off. What can I say? I’m a prematurely elderly driver… I miss Oregon drivers…
May 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
So, by “courteous” surely they must mean that Portland has the highest concentration of the peeps most likely to sit at a four way stop, look at the car to their right, and then along with corresponding waving hand motion, proceed to mouth “Go. No, you go. No *you* go…” for a good 15 seconds until someone like me (from New Jersey) comes along, gets thoroughly pissed off, and lays on the horn until someone finally busts a move through the intersection all the while casting me a passively-aggressive dirty look because all of our so-called *courteous* drivers are too lame-ass to ever use their horns and I’m a total beyotch for feeling compelled to use my own. Right?
May 16th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Yes, I think that is precisely what they mean, smrty!
May 16th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
My new favorite Portland driver practice is getting into single-file 3-4 blocks before the actual “lane closed ahead” sign. That is not enraging at all. Another thing that is not at all annoying or incredibly inefficient is when people stop where there is no stop sign, or stop mid-block so you can make a left. I mean, that just makes good sense. If you’re a fucking idiot.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:38 am
I did hear this on the radio as well and I thought wtf?!