To get a driver's license, every person should be required to haul a large, heavy trailer with something or someone dear to them on it. Say, their child or their sweet old grannie! Then maybe these numbskulls who slam on their brakes and turn with no signal would WAKE UP. (HELLO! That's what the little stick beside your steering wheel is for! And it should be used BEFORE the brakes!) Ditto the ones who pull out in front of you and then top out at 12 mph (does no one understand the concept of 'yielding the right-of-way', anymore?!) I drive as carefully as I can when hauling a trailer, but there is no defense against an idiot with keys and no sense of common driving courtesy. Good grief!

Well, they one who mentioned his grandpa driving in the left lane on Sunday is like my own grandma. She thinks she will "slow down the ones who are going too fast". I explained to her that being someone else's speed bump was not very smart. You can't police everybody. Get in the slow lane and let em by you. Everybody will be happy and much safer. You only encourage road rage when you putt because you have no life and nowhere to be. This mentality is what is wrong with Florence!

When I visit I hate it as EVERYONE seems to do the following.

1. Not follow the slow/fast lane rule.
2. hang back enough in each lane to keep someone from passing without cutting someone off.
3. Take half a mile to get even close to the speed limit and then drive at least 5 miles below it.
4. Turn into a place and then stop or slow to a crawl.
5. Tailgate

Well, those are really nice comments by some really "nice"? people. No wonder we all get such a rep for being bad drivers. Will the ones of you who wrote so eloquently about how you drive please go back and reread your posts. No wonder there are so many wrecks from idiot drivers.

Have to agree with someone on the puttering about issue. Driving significantly under the speed limit is just as dangerous to other drivers as driving over the limit.

As a former LEO, my 'pet peeve' is the almost TOTAL LACK of 'traffic enforcement' by Shoals area law enforcement agencies. Sheffield PD is THE worst 'offender' in this regard.

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Originally posted by dogsoldier0513:
Sheffield PD is THE worst 'offender' in this regard.

they were actually sitting on 2nd street across from the fire department watching traffic this morning. I about passed out when I saw it.

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Originally posted by ryokurin:
When I visit I hate it as EVERYONE seems to do the following.

1. Not follow the slow/fast lane rule.
2. hang back enough in each lane to keep someone from passing without cutting someone off.
3. Take half a mile to get even close to the speed limit and then drive at least 5 miles below it.
4. Turn into a place and then stop or slow to a crawl.
5. Tailgate

I think #1 is the primary cause of #5 around here. Seriously, I'm not sure whether it's just people being inconsiderate and thinking they are the only ones on the road, or whether its as someone else mentioned, the people who are going to "make" everyone slow down to their desired speed. Either way, slow drivers need to get their slow butts over in the right lane and stay out of everyone else's way. The right lane is the "driving" lane, the left lane is the "passing" lane.

Also, what about the people that can't seem to understand the concept of merging? My biggest pet peeve is people traveling north on Cox Creek and turning east onto 72. They have an entire lane to themselves separated from the other eastbound travel lanes by a solid white line (meaning other drivers cannot cross it) which starts at the intersection and continues for quite a distance. There is no, absolutely no, reason to stop and wait on the other travel lanes to clear at this intersection. No merging is required, or even allowed, until the solid line has been passed. Yet every time I am behind someone at this turn, they never fail to completely stop and wait until no cars are traveling through the light. I have waited for over a minute there behind people who can't seem to comprehend that they have their own lane. It starts there just for them. Ugggghhh.