driving pet peeves

[Dacalo]

Annoying assholes who cut in front of me when there is no one behind me.

Dumbasses who slow down to watch an accident on the opposite side of the divider.

 

[RedArmy]

Originally posted by: Tobolo

Originally posted by: Miklebud
USE YOUR FUCKING BLINKERS!

I HATE people that don't do that.

It's not like its THAT hard!

I remember reading results from a survey that asked people if they used their turn signals. The number one reason people gave as an excuse for not using them was the fact that it 'took too much time'. A little part of me died inside after reading that.

 

[TwiceOver]

Blinkers, slow asses, speed demons, can't make up mind, won't turn right on a red (with no traffic), can't park, intentionally take up 2-spaces, middle huggers, farm vehicles.

You can gather what I mean.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: OhSnap688
Hate people who hog the left lane as well. Especially when they wanna pass a truck but they are scared to. GET OUTTA THE DAMN WAY THEN.
I could go on with all my driving rants, but I'll save it for later.

this happened to me twice yesterday driving north to cottonwood. there was a house on wheels being delivered, but the guys were way over to the right so they werent in the way. idiot in front of me slowed from 77mph to 40mph instantly, because he seemed afraid to go past the rolling house. i had to slam on the brakes as much as he did to keep from hitting him. the 2nd guy was passing a semi that was doing about 68, i was doing about 70 or a couple over. as soon as i got close to him, he jacked on the brakes and paced the semi instead of passing it. after me riding his ass for a bit he started gesturing and motioning me to back off, and kept holding up 6 and then 5 fingers. like he needed to remind me that the limit was 65 or something. so, after a couple times of him doing that, i pointed to the side of the road as in "you get over, idiot, youre in the passing lane and not passing!" but he did the 6-5 thing again, so i flipped him off, smiled and got right on his ass. he sped up, got over to the right and started flashing his brights at me until i was more than a mile ahead of him lol. he used the same exit as me, tried to stare me down, but turned after i smiled and flipped him off again. he didnt seem to want to pull over and chat when i started pulling over to the side.

Not being terribly bright are you? I know a few folks who would make a point of running you off the road and separating you from your offending digit for that type of behavior. I'm not saying it's right or defending them but, it could happen.

they could try, just like any other. ive been told by people they would run me off the road if they saw me on my bike, and they didnt succeed. i tried to pull over to talk to him, he didnt agree with that idea. i also can handle myself, and carry a gun. i wouldnt even had pulled it if he didnt have one, so you dont have to worry about me spraying unsuspecting motorists with lead or anything. the chances of your friends being able to separate me from my digit are pretty slim, so i think ill take my chances.

as for the not terribly bright comment, i think being in a compact car and slamming on your brakes in front of a full size truck at high rate of speed just to remind someone of the speed limit is downright idiotic. if thats how you roll, youll probably meet someone that doesnt stop eventually.

You don't think others carry guns in their vehicles? Heck, what if a passenger in a car you offended rolled his window down to shoot you while you were doing 70MPH on the freeway? I don't know you and I don't know how well you can handle yourself in a fight, but I wouldn't get too cocky with everyone!

I once flipped a guy off who almost ran into me at a 4-way stop. It was a bad day at school (test related) and I *KNOW* I had my left-turn signal on and was in the right-of-way to go as it was my turn. I honked my horn and flipped him off to show him 'what's up'. He proceded to look at me with an 'awe' look on his face and followed me to my apartment about a block away. I didn't notice him behind me as he kept his distance. As I got out of my car and grabbed my backpack, he pulls up in front of my stall and rolls his window down. I honestly became a little nervous and hesistant as he wrote down my plates. He talked with me about how he would bring me to court with a 'road rage' charge. I didn't know if he could or could not, but I'm not a risk taker. I listened to what he had to say and I thought about what I did. We shook hands and I apologized and told him that I know my blinker was on because I could hear it and see it on the bumper of the car that was in front of me moments before. Till this day, I have never used the finger and only used the horn.

The stress and risk just isn't worth putting up that one finger; you never know what crazy person you might meet on the road!

Lesson learned,
~Travis

 

[cubby1223]

My main pet peeve is over-sized SUVs with privacy windows. I don't need to see in the vehicles to know what their doing... but it sure helps when I can see through to the road & traffic ahead.

 

[Jawo]

People who don't know how to drive...basically people who drive under the speed limit in (especially in the left lane), people who aren't paying attention, people who pull out in front of me, then go slow; people who drive in my blind spot.....

 

[jamesbond007]

I forgot to mention my peeve:

I absolutely *HATE* people who come to a full and complete stop on freeway on-ramps! I can understand going slower, maybe 20-25MPH, but a full stop? There's a reason why there's usually a few hundred feet or more of on-ramp lane ahead...

 

[waffleironhead]

I hate people who drive too fast for conditions and spin out and hit telephone poles. They should give people like that tickets.😉

 

[Gamingphreek]

1. When you have big thuggin' in front of you with a car that sounds like a weed-wacker AND the guy doesn't know how to use 5th gear on the highway.

2. When you are keeping a good 70-75mph in a 65mph zone, you aren't in the left lane, but someone from the left lane feels the need to ride your bumper the entire way

3. Tractor Trailers! You ask what? EVERYTHING - I had one on I-81 headed to Virginia Tech, that was tailing me so close I was worried he was going to hit me. I don't park this close to people - That's how close he was and I was 10mph over the speed limit. I almost called the police and reported it because he was weaving in and out of traffic before that while the trailer was rocking dangerously back and forth.

-Kevin

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
in order of most annoying.

1. people who can't drive, e.g. slow down to 5mph to make a 90* right turn, can't maneuver their SUV's in tight narrow situations, don't check for blind spots and nearly ram into me when trying to change lanes, etc.
simply put, too many idiots are being awarded drivers licenses. the road test should be 1000x more strict.

2. left lane hogs. self-explanatory.

3. kind of related to ^ - drivers who brake for no reason, or more specifically, as soon as they see the car in front of him brake (but that car is well in front of him), and then the guy behind him does the same, and so on. i honestly believe this chain reaction is a big cause traffic today.

4. drivers who like to accelerate like mad even though the light ahead is red. stop wasting gas you idiot.

I agree with you on every point.

I hate it when there are only two lanes and in the right lane is a big semi and in the left a regular car and the car just paces with the semi. Not only is that incredibly rude to hog up the left lane like that, it is dangerous to pacing with the semi. For one thing, you could be the semi's blind spot and it could hit you.

 

[fatpat268]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
1. When you have big thuggin' in front of you with a car that sounds like a weed-wacker AND the guy doesn't know how to use 5th gear on the highway.

2. When you are keeping a good 70-75mph in a 65mph zone, you aren't in the left lane, but someone from the left lane feels the need to ride your bumper the entire way

3. Tractor Trailers! You ask what? EVERYTHING - I had one on I-81 headed to Virginia Tech, that was tailing me so close I was worried he was going to hit me. I don't park this close to people - That's how close he was and I was 10mph over the speed limit. I almost called the police and reported it because he was weaving in and out of traffic before that while the trailer was rocking dangerously back and forth.

-Kevin

Not all truck drivers are idiots like that. In fact a majority of them are very professional and drive safely especially drivers that drive for trucking companies. It's typically the drivers that own their own trucks that drive like jackasses.

 

[LongCoolMother]

1. People who have no patience. And are honk-happy. If I'm stopped on a right on red, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear, and the person behind me gets impatient and honks, I simply stop there until the light turns green. People on the road seem to have no patience. What makes their time so valuable? They speed past all the other cars, just to be stopped an intersection later along with everyone else.

I also sometimes see people flip out honking and cursing at someone else in the parking lot or in the road or whatnot. Ummmmm... right. Real smart! What does honking and waving your arms do? You're only getting the other driver (which frequently happens to be less experienced or elderly) more anxious or distraught, causing you to be delayed even more. Some drivers think they're the sh!t yet they just look like morons.

2. Along the same lines. If there is a red light, you STOP before making a right. I probably would have been struck on more than one occasion had I not been careful every time i cross the pedestrian crosswalk, because retarded drivers seem to fly through these turns going 30 mph. I don't care if there are no oncoming cars. Red means stop-- seems like 50% of all drivers forgot or never took driver's ed? These are the same people who go blasting through STOP signs simply because they don't see any cars around. What part of STOP don't people understand? What part of driving school did they miss out on?

3. Boneheads that chuck stuff out the window at cyclists for amusement. The stupidity of such an act is beyond explanation.

 

[Safeway]

I hate when people tool into and around a parking lot at 1 mph. Seriously, turn into the fucking parking lot you slow ass bitch!

 

[tasmanian]

People who stop less then a foot behind me when on a steep hill.

 

[larciel]

People who stop at a NON-STOP way. Read the damm sign, and not just your way, but LOOK AROUND!!! They create a havoc, especially at a mall entrance.

My next car will have a break light custom designed so I can pass left-lane-sluggers and breaks

"MOVE UR ASS. UR IN A FAST LANE"

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: ryan256
People who refuse to pass a cop. Even though the speed limit is 55 and the cop is going 50.

I HAVE talked to someone who got pulled over for passing a cop without breaking the speed limit. "It looks bad," was the officer's explanation. No ticket of course, or even a written warning for that matter.

Kind of BS, and almost certainly a fluke. Around here the cops go 10-15 MPH over the limit, like all red-blooded Americans should.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: ryan256
People who refuse to pass a cop. Even though the speed limit is 55 and the cop is going 50.

I HAVE talked to someone who got pulled over for passing a cop without breaking the speed limit. "It looks bad," was the officer's explanation. No ticket of course, or even a written warning for that matter.

Kind of BS, and almost certainly a fluke. Around here the cops go 10-15 MPH over the limit, like all red-blooded Americans should.

from where I'm from, it's near impossible to pass a cop legally anyway. Every cop I have ever seen on the road was going, like you said, 10-15 mph faster than the flow of traffic.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: makken
people who try to merge onto a freeway at 45mph when the flow of traffic is ~70mph

If the flow is 70, it's probably pretty sparse traffic so you should be able to avoid the right lane to begin with. Short merges are a PITA sometimes. I don't have the fastest car, and when you gotta make a 25mph cloverleaf turn first, I can't really get up to 70 by the time I have to get into the right lane.

Apparently you haven't driven in the metro detroit area. The flow is usually 75-80+ in any lane.

 

[summit]

move into the right lane aka next to the curb when making a right turn you dont need to veer left and clog up 1.5 lanes to make a simple right turn. a

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
People who take 42 years to back out of a parking space and have to look down for 3 minutes to shift from reverse to drive even though they've been driving a car for 35 years.

One of my peeves also, if they would just back out completely into their lane, and not block mine they could fiddle about all they wanted, but nooooo. In a large parking lot this could happen 2, or 3 times as you move down the row, and all you wanna do is GTFO!

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
People who take 42 years to back out of a parking space and have to look down for 3 minutes to shift from reverse to drive even though they've been driving a car for 35 years.

One of my peeves also, if they would just back out completely into their lane, and not block mine they could fiddle about all they wanted, but nooooo. In a large parking lot this could happen 2, or 3 times as you move down the row, and all you wanna do is GTFO!

I used to push carts for a No Frills back when I was in high school. I did for almost 4 years. I spent so much time just waiting for people to back out so I could bring the carts in.

I could understand if they are being careful, because it was a busy parking lot, but the worst ones were the people that have no idea how big their car is, and for some reason seem to thing that it is 10 feet longer than it actually is so they have to inch backwards and forwards, slowly turning the car around, so they can get out.

 

[Blueychan]

I drive with my dog in the car. Sorry that you hate me.

 

[spittledip]

People in the south can't drive. It is very annoying. Stopping or slowing in acceleration lanes (you know, after the on ramp to a highway), poking along in the passing lane, stopping at yield signs, driving over lines in the lanes, swinging out to make a left or right turn like they were driving some big rig, etc etc. There is a lot more. It is very strange b/c the majority of people here in NC drive like this. Can bad driving be passed down through the genes?? I miss the aggressive driving of MA.

 

[TwiceOver]

Addendum - People that can't seem to get all the way in the turn lane.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Kids who cut you off in traffic when you're driving a car older than they are. Ever heard of drum brakes? Oh, and that tough truck with the double steel wall bed? Guess what bud, I got dual steel wall construction bumper to bumper and weigh approx. twice what you do. Physics works!