Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.
You know, I find that Mondays are great days to vent.
You get out all the frustration, and then you're good for the rest of the week.
So I thought we'd vent on traffic pet peeves.
Yes, people driving with their feet on the dash.
People drive, yeah, what, how do you, how do you even do that?
I see a lot of semi-drivers
doing that.
If you have to make a quick stop, you're out of luck.
And especially with a semi, I've never seen a semi-driver do that, but if they're doing that, I've heard that it takes like the, the
a distance of 10 football fields for them to stop if they're putting their brakes on.
It takes a long time for them to stop.
And a lot of drivers also do this and they continue texting at the same time.
Feet
up on the dash, texting, you know, you're not home and you're lazy boy, you're driving a gigantic metal vehicle, which becomes a weapon when you're being an idiot.
All right, let's take another one.
Hey, you got some driving pet peeves?
Yeah, that's what I do for a living.
Are you a truck driver?
Delivery guy, truck
driver.
The one that I hate the most is, you get behind a dummy running 35 mile an hour, and you turn around, and you go to pass them, and they take you up to 80 mile an hour.
Yeah, I don't know if they're thinking, hey, you're not budding in front of me, and that's what I think they're doing.
They don't want you to be ahead of them, even if they're going so much slower than you.
I know that's an exaggeration from 35 to 80, but honestly, that kind of thing, and it's close to that, that kind of thing happens all the time.
I even see it and I'm not a professional driver
Or
if you do get to pass them then they start riding your
tail
You
know the last caller said Putting your feet up on the dash and he's even seen semi-drivers doing it.
Have you ever seen I'm sure you're you're one of the smart ones But do you know other semi-drivers that?
Do things like that?
Yep, I see it all the time.
Getting worse.
Geez.
Off to their feet up on the gas going down the road.
And if you need to make a quick stop, what does it take?
I heard somebody say one time that a truck takes the length of, say, 10 football fields to stop.
You're at 80,000 pounds.
Yeah, that's pretty close to it.
the people that have built the ignorance of the law that says when there's somebody on the
Right, another
obvious thing to anybody who has any form of consideration in their bones whatsoever.
Oh hell, what
happened?
You want to
create as much space as you possibly can,
between your vehicle and somebody stopped on the side of the road.
So obviously, if they're on the right hand shoulder, you move to the left lane.
And how about this?
And this is something I don't hear very often, but I see it all the time.
If you see somebody, they're entering the interstate, or there's somebody on the side of the road, and you would like to move over to the left, but there is somebody in the fast lane coming up to you, going like a bat out of hell.
and they don't let you over, so you end up not being able to move into the fast lane.
That's
another good one.
I get really frustrated when people don't realize that entrance ramps are forgetting to speed up.
So by the time you hit the interstate, you're going the things to get at everyone else.
No, if you're going 40 on the entrance...
and then you hit traffic.
These people are going 60, 70, 80 miles an hour, then they're all trying to move over for you.
If you just went the speed of traffic, then you just bop on in, everything's cool.
You ruin the flow is what you do, and it's dangerous, obviously.
Exactly.
Everyone ends up hitting their brakes and then... Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, it's
green.
You can go into the middle of the intersection.
The cross-strait traffic isn't going to go anywhere because they're on red, so you're just welcome to get in the middle of the intersection.
So when it turns yellow, you can boom, go and soak in the guy behind you.
Right.
Guy didn't make them all smart.
Nope, we gave them all driver's licenses.
God should communicate with us and just give us a heads up on the dumb people coming down and then we'll hold the driver's license from them and a lot of other things as
well.
The thing that gets me the most is the fact that people coming on the on-ramp, on the 218 or 380, they think that they think they have the right away.
Right.
I mean, the scientists yield and you can't always get over in the passing lane for them.
They think that they have the right, so they just come falling right out.
Then when you can't let them out, then they flip you
off.
I think the yield sign has become nothing.
It's a nothing sign.
It's like yield.
What does that mean?
Yield.
I thought that had to do with crops.
Yeah.
And you should be looking at traffic before you even get there.
And you can see what's happening.
So just base everything on that.
Exactly.
I think we solved the world's problems, Rich.
I don't know.
There's a lot of them.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
You have a great day.
You too.
Be safe out there.
Yeah.
Keep up the good work.
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
10.