Road Respect

I've heard horror stories about driving in several of the countries in Asia

 

I literally thought that this sounds like my city, then I saw you're in Ohio and knew it to be true!

 

Reminds me of my time in Columbus too!

 

When you live in a town with more funeral parlors than fast-food restaurants, you can bet that most traffic drives under the speed limit. Its frustrating, coming from Atlanta. 4 lane roads in Atlanta that had speed limits of 45, are usually 25 around here. When I pass someone going 15 under in a 35mph zone, I look over and usually see just a pair of knuckles gripping a steering wheel and an old brown hat!

Try passing someone and you are labeled aggressive. Honk your horn and you're the antichrist! I do both liberally...

And while I'm venting, on a 4 lane road, turning left into the suicide lane, then putting your blinker on to merge into traffic was a way of life in Atlanta. Try that shit in Ohio and people flip their wigs! I get honked at and glared at all the time.

 

doesn't get any better when you move 3500 miles north, also here for some reason people like to drive 15-20 mph under the speed limit everywhere in the city, regardless of the weather conditions, till they get on the highway, then when on the highway they all go 80 in a 65.


Also, Alaska has this weird gravitational force that seems to flip cars over on bone dry roads

oh and people also like to tailgate you more when it freshly snowed on already iced over roads.

 

Great answers , must learn to keep cool, take a deep breath and drive very defensively.