What is your biggest driving pet-peeve?

[VermontDem2004]

[TEXASYANKEE]

1. Easy.

That other people have to be on the road at the same time as me.

[judge_smales]

2. Probably when

I'm out there, cutting across a few lanes w/ no blinker, on the phone, after 6 or eight beers, throwing a McDonalds bag out the window, and some idiot just has to give the finger.

Boy! Some people just have no couth.

[Parche]

3. biggest one

When other drivers want to wave other cars in
that are on the other side of the street or highway
and they are turning into a parking lot or something
and you dont see them and crash into them.
I have seen many accidents and I have almost been in a few
because of those idiots

[demnan]

4. When they are behind me honking for me to go

while a car is coming and I know I can't. Honestly, don't they even look (and I'm not the type who waits for cars a hundred yards away either as that is my pet peeve #2).

[Caution]

5. Tailgaiting

Apparently no one on the road understands the concept of stopping distance. If i can't see highway between my back window and your headlights you are to fucking close. This absolutely drives me nuts.

[bif]

6. I hate it when I'm tailgating somebody at 70 mph

And they tap their toes on the brake. Scares the living shit outta me every time. I just never get used to those brake lights flashing at me.

[VermontDem2004]

9. My drivers ed teacher told me to tap your brakes when someone is.....

tailgating you as a message "back off!"

[bif]

16. I know

I was just kidding. that's what I do when someone's on my ass. I hate tailgaters. What's even worse is when I'm going the speed limit or 5 over in the left lane and some guy's on my ass and he keeps swerving over to the left to indicate he'd like to pass. I ususlly slow down and go the exact same speed as the person to my right. Drives 'em nutso!

[bluefire2000]

24. oh, your're a left-lane enforcer?

You're one of my pet peeves. :-)

[bif]

27. Hey...

I usually drive in the middle lane. But when I'm passing in the left hand lane, it really pissed me off when someone is on my ass. I'm supposed to immediatoly pull over because it's more important for a tailgater to pass than me? In that case, you bet I'm a left hand lane enforcer. Back the fuck off!

[yankeedem]

33. My solution to tailgaters

Though I NEVER block the left lane (unless they're in an SUV, especially a Suburban or a Tahoe or an Escalade, now you know MY pet peeve), I just take the foot off the gas and roll. They don't know exactly what is happening, and it makes it difficult for them to get out from behind me. I slowed some mouthbreather to 30mph on the NJ Turnpike one day.

[markses]

7. People who brake BEFORE they put their blinker on

Hey, asshole. I'm not particulaarly concerned with where you're going. The blinker let's me know that you'll be slowing down.

[CO Liberal]

8. Getting Cut Off By SUVs With "Jesus Fish" On The Back

Happens almost daily in Colorado Springs.

[denverbill]

19. How about this?

Maniacal SUV-drivers with 'Respect Life' plates?

[CO Liberal]

20. Those Damn "Respect Life" Plates

I gassed up one night at a 7-11 in Pueblo, and was walking inside to pay when a car nearly ran me over. It had "Respect Life" plates on it. After it parked, I walked over to the driver and asked her if she only respected life while it was in the womb, because she sure as hell didn't seem to respect MY life.

Without saying a work, she got back in her car and drove away.

[yolatengo]

10. left lane

People who drive exactly the speed limit, or less,
in the left hand (passing) lane. Do they ever look
in their rearview mirror and see the bottleneck
they've created? Do they care? Are they invariably
on a cell phone? In an SUV? Are they stooopid and
selfish?

You betcha!

Bigby

[underpants]

11. It's a speed bump not a minefield!!!!

And you are probably too old to be driving that thing anyway.

[MnFats]

12. Tailgating, absolutely!

not a violent person, but the closest i come to flipping on that account is when i'm at posted speed in fairly heavy traffic and some azzhole in an SUV (well, any vehicle, to tell the truth) comes up to a point about 18 inches from the rear of my car. Of course I am looking for a way to get out of the tailgater's path but there are no openings. the other driver guns it a little to remind me he wants to get by me.
it's as if he's saying, "my vehicle weighs at least three times what yours does. It rides so high that if we should collide my vehicle will simply crush you as well as your vehicle but I will barely notice it. By the way, this vehicle is worth about 10 times what yours is, and it gets about 10 mpg, but i am affluent so i don't give a shit. what's important is that since i started driving this thing i am able to get an erection again. so get the hell out of my way. My wife is waiting in our idlyic suburban home."

[shanti]

43. yep

that's the one!

[ronzo]

13. Assholes who don't know how to use a turn signal.

That really pisses me off.

[commander bunnypants]

14. When you put your blinker

on to switch lanes and the boob speeds up to cut you off.


DDQM

[bleedingheart]

15. when selfish people won't let me merge on to the parkway

normally I force my car in and they tailgate me very closely...so at the next on ramp I let about three cars in front of me while the guy in back has an stroke...

[JohnKleeb]

17. easy the fact that I am not driving

[youngred]

18. PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE THEIR TURN SIGNALS

as a pedestrian/bicyclist these assholes have hit me on more than one occasion because they decide to turn (without the light) and not notify anyone. Is flicking the godamn turn signal that fucking hard? :grr:

[Kolesar]

21. Riding with a driver who constantly freaks out is no fun

Drivers who have to curse every bone-headed move by other drivers is a bit much to take. Get mellow, dude!

[Caution]

22. people who HAVE to drive in the left lane

you know the ones...they merge onto a 5 lane highway and immediately make like a bat out of hell to get over four lanes into the left lane so they can do 80 MPH in a 50 MPH zone...

Quick math lesson for all of those people:

commute of 30 miles (above average but hey, let's be generous).

modest speed of 60 MPH = 30 minute commute
speed of 80 MPH = 22.5 minutes for a savings of a grand total of friggin 7 and a half minutes....

7

minutes.

Speeding doesn't help you people! It doesn't help at all! When you factor in the time that is tacked on by having to switch lanes from coming up against slower drivers, the extra gas burned, traffic in general, those of you who are constantly accelerating to get up to 80MPH you don't save any time at all. SERIOUSLY. Test it out. Do you commute in the morning and time it, you'll find that the commute time is within a 5 minute margin of error no matter how damn fast you go. This scales well too. I've found it works over a 50 mile commute. All you get from speeding is the thrill of driving fast. Well if you want to do that you can go to a track! Instead you choose to endanger my damn life with stupid reckless driving that accomplishes NOTHING.

And for those of you who say "oh but im a good driver" BITE me! You are only as good a driver as the dumbest person on the road. If you are doing 80 MPH and some moron who isnt paying any attention decided to change into your lane, you doing 80 gives you a lot less time to react and as a result you are nearly killed.

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[NoPasaran]

23. Those lunatics

Who return fire.

[Jim Sagle]

25. Drivers who QUICKLY break into your lane,

forcing you to slow down, and then THEY drive REAL SLOW,

[DBoon]

26. I will explain this with my 2 favorite bumper stickers

"Hang up and drive"

"Visualize using your turn signal"

[NoPasaran]

44. One more . . .

"What Part of Slower Traffic Keep Right Don't You Get?"

[bluefire2000]

28. pulling past you on the right on an on-ramp

to get 2 or 3 car-lengths ahead, hitting their breaks to push into the line of cars, and slowing *everyone* down as they merge. They f*ck up the whole process. If people merged calmly and politely, we'd all go faster.

[carolinayellowdog]

29. People who slow WAAAAY down for a green light, so that...

they get through before it turns red, but the person behind them (me) has to stop. Why do they do that?

[bluefire2000]

30. stopping at intersection to turn left, *then* signaling

Oh, thanks for letting me know after I'm stuck here behind you. That's useful.

[catmandu57]

31. People in such a big damn hurry that

they won't wait the thirty seconds it'll take for me to get by them, so they pull out in front of me. That and the gas station that opened by the interstate, it's about 100 yards to the interstate entrance people won't wait until traffic is cleared since the entrance is sucj a short way they'll pull out anyway. If there is someone in the left lane, better pray your brakes work.

Oh, and people who scream up to a fucking stop sign throwing on their brakes at the last minute. I had an idiot come through a stop and broadside my car just that way, her brakes were gone.

[Upfront]

32. Dumb, Ignorant, no clue,

Americans.

[Elidor]

34. Oh, don't get me started!

People who cannot be bothered to remember that they are operating a motor vehicle in addition to answering the phone, putting on their makeup, eating their lunch, reading their books, talking to their passengers, and trying to find a radio station! AAAAAAUGH!!!! They make me violently mad when they come at me, oblivious and uncaring. I've seen so many people go barreling through red lights at high speed lately that it seems like a collective tendency to suicide! I resent the idiots who are allowed to drive in this country. The lack of funds for driver's ed is creating successive generations of clueless fucking morons to act out a gruesome study of sociological darwinism on our roads, and I take their foolishness personally.

[methinks2]

35. Do I need to limit myself to one complaint?

Mostly it's the sloe moe's. :nuke: They go slow for no apparent reason, often in the left lane. (I suspect they just smoked a fat one and couldn't go faster to save their lives, in which case they should stay home until they're straight again) I often fantasize about driving a huge tank and just driving right over their slovenly butts.

[Bake]

36. People so busy gabbing on their cell phones

That they don't notice the light turned green five minutes ago! Or they're so busy gabbing on the cell phone that they don't realize they're only going 10 mph in a 40 mph zone!

AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!

Bake

[Aristus]

37. People who pull in front of me, like they're in a hurry to

get somewhere, and then SLOW DOWN! It's like: Why'd you pull in front of me, then?

[GingerSnaps]

38. People that make noises while eating

It's like someone dragging their nails across a blackboard.

[freesqueeze]

39. 2: White Line Violators and What does right-of-way mean?

The white line is when some creeps jumps into the exit ramp before you eventhough you're ahead of them by crossing the double white line that marks the ramp.

Right-of-way is when this same creep tries to claim the right of way as you exit (legally) from the highway.

They have broken two traffic laws in succession and all they know is that I'm an A-Hole.

[Padraig18]

40. People who talk on cell phones

Hello? We are in multi-ton, motorized objects hurtling along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h.! I dunno about you, but I personally consider the life, health and safety of both myself and the people around me more important than telling the little woman you'll be home in 15 minutes! :wtf:

[Dookus]

41. people

who refuse to notice that a lane is ending, despite either having driven that same road every fucking day for years, or the multitude of signs TELLING them the lane is ending. They just drive as if their front wheel is glued to the white line and will only merge when there's literally nowhere else to go.

MERGE when you have a chance, then you won't have to stop traffic to get in the other lane. GRRRRR!

[arwalden]

42. The SHEER VOLUME Of People On The DC Beltway...

... I wish half of them would just stay home. Or stop driving. Or take the metro. (The crazy and incompetent and inconsiderate half... the rest of the intelligent drivers can stay.)

-- Allen