The green stuff between the field and the mountains, there's your trees.

I am teaching a teenager to drive. The amount of absolute jackasses we've had to deal with. Yes, he's going slower than is "normal" to make this turn on to a side street...HE'S BEEN DRIVING FOR ALL OF FIVE MINUTES. Fuck off, yo.

We've got the "student driver" sticker but like...that just seems to make some people WORSE.

I knew it always happened but it seems SO much worse in the last couple years.

VT does have a lot of chucklefuck drivers for sure. What gets me is when they do something he wildly dangerous and inconvenient to many I order to feel good about letting one person out into traffic

I was literally run off the road (rt 15 near the fort) a week after I bought my new truck: low curbed median - I was able to get myself out of my lane, let the douche canoe continue to rampage and merge back in. The next day I went to Costco and bought one for each car…

Upside I’ve gotten some great karma points on r/idiotsincars with the footage of all the chucklefucks around here doing stupid shit in front of me.

It seems like traffic is either too aggressive or too defensive. I nearly got clipped by a truck rushing straight out of a bar to McDonalds. No one seems to know how to take it easy.

I was about ten cars behind you and holy shit I’m so glad you’re ok. It was horrendously scary to watch. I called it in, but alas i have no useful medical skills and several people who appeared way more equipped to assist stopped to help you. I hope you are doing ok now and will have a full recovery.

This may sound crazy, but hear me out: what if we just stopped with the road rage bullshit in general? Where tf do you have to be where arriving 30s later is so important that you need to do 80 in a 55 (side note, that's felony speeding territory)?

I will take the most direct route I can to get to work. At the end of the day though, there's 3 routes I might take. None of them are quick or direct, but they are good stress relievers. Sometimes the best part of my day is driving home.

This post is tempting me to just buy the gane

In education, we reward hard work with more hard work. If you are great with kids and can handle diverse mental health/behavioral needs, you will get more challenging students sent your way. If you are a talented administrator, you will get all the toughest and stressful situations sent your way. In ten years, we won’t have enough educators to staff our public schools unless we make some drastic changes.

I’m thinking fear of getting shot at while at school is the largest underlying stressor for kids.

Yeah Milton is close but the village isn't really.

I 100% agree. I am a teacher and it’s gotten progressively worse since the pandemic.

Hence my last sentence 😊

The only reason I agree with this is because both trucks appeared to be driving like dicks, and therefore BOTH are at fault as far as I’m concerned. The guy following WAS way too close and the guy brake checking shouldn’t have brake checked. Both of their weekends are ruined. Hope they have good insurance.

I’ve been saying I need one for years, going on Amazon now to get one. I avoid these people like the plague but sometimes you get sucked into it or at least have it in view.

I was a bit back from this incident but to me it looked pretty clear that one guy brake checked the other. But no way I’m stopping on the side of a busy highway in the dark with my kid in the car to make a statement. Theyre both at fault as far as I’m concerned

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Vermont:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vermont/comments/10yrh1i/thank_you_vermonters_i_was_the_idiot_stuck_on_91/

Holy fuck, pretty sure I saw those tire tracks. Really glad to hear you’re ok all things considered.

That’s a perfect example though - you’re minding your business and some asshat in the complete other side of the median made a dumb choice and almost killed both of you.

Oh that’s true isn’t it? For some reason I thought it was I guess because of that one section of Milton that connects to the islands via like Bear Trap Rd (always a fun drive!)

You and I would be friends

It's easily a 90 minute trip and you have to go over bethel mountain and middlebury gap. It's the same distance as going to burlington from middlebury but it takes almost twice as long to drive it.

I was in a really bad car accident a few weeks ago in South Burlington. I was driving to work in the morning, going south on 89, when a car driving in the northbound lane swerved from the passing lane, went across the grass median and hit me head on. Both me and the other driver survived, but they totaled my fairly new Hyundai Kona that I only had for less than a year, and I was in the hospital for a week with a fractured sternum and a fractured pelvis. I'm now recovering at home but it will still be at least another month until I can go back to work.

So people, please do better. Don't drive like assholes on the highway. It's not worth it.

Mint. It'll keep the skeeters away

Same here, I refuse to go to ranges that aren’t monitored. I’m not dealing with people we’ve been drinking and don’t give two fucks about my safety. As I said I’ve told a lot of people how to shoot but the number one thing I teach them is gun safety and I also focus heavily on how a firearm is always your last option. I preach de-escalation, conflict avoidance and understanding that a gun is not a I win the argument button. And I got called a Fudd for having wood furniture on my rifle, that rifle is a Yugoslavian AK.

This is why I stopped going to Laberges - too many downright scary dudes in GI Jackass cosplay with zero idea what they are doing. But hey they “built” an AR and I’m a fudd because some of my guns have wood stocks.