Great thread!
Mine: Drivers who can't maintain a speed. This comes in two forms for me...
1) It is incredibly irritating to be driving a long distance with my cruise control on and constantly be playing "cat and mouse" with someone (I'm on cruise so my speed hasn't changed but I pass them, then they pass me, then I pass them, etc.).
2) Being behind a driver, just on normal daily driving, who can't maintain a speed (driving behind someone going 70 who then slows to 65 and then up to 82 and then down to 77 etc.).
I'm totally down with both of these!
1.) Absolutely! What kills me is when these jack-wagons are driving expensive cars that you
know come with cruise control. If it's that hard to hold a dang speed either stay behind me while I maintain a constant speed or learn to operate the features in your car.
2.) Yep. My favorites are the ones who come over an overpass, see a trooper shooting radar, and jam on the breaks as if that's going to help them. The problem is by the time you see the trooper if he's going to get you he already has the reading. Oftentimes these stupid people aren't even doing the speed limit to begin with. Let's take it a step further. How about the nuggets who see a cop shooting radar on the opposite side of a highway that's divided with a barrier
and shooting in the opposite direction we're traveling but still jam on their breaks. Yeah, like Mr. Policeman is shooting the radar from the back of his head and has a car that will hurdle the concrete barrier to come get them.
like yesterday.. someone who drives in the left lane on a two lane road and drives RIGHT NEXT to someone in the right lane for miles on end. Guy did this for about 15 miles.
Not only does it block traffic, it's stupidly dangerous by reducing the distance between you and other vehicles for no reason what-so-ever besides proving the driver has no conscious of what's around them.
I see you've been spending time in the Beaumont, Texas area.
This is a major issue for people around there. Seriously. They do NOT get the concept that slower traffic should keep right. Then they like to do this side-by-side thing which, I swear to you, the first time I got stuck behind after moving over from the New Orleans area I thought I was going to stroke-out. My kids were laughing as I'm driving behind a pair of these idiots screaming and cursing like a mad woman. I must've been a sight. LOL!
Slow Pokes in the left lane. That's the "go" lane. Get to the right if there is someone behind you.
Also you got those who are going slow, but decide to speed up when you are going around to pass them.
Those drivers who are up your butt, so you move over and then they then decide to stay right next to you.
Yes! Slow traffic keep right! For God's sake, if someone comes up behind you and you're in the left lane then that means you are the slow guy. Move out of the way.
People going through yield signs 100 mph
People that pull out of parking lots without stopping going onto the road
People that weave in and out of lanes
Cars that wait last minute to move four lanes to the exit
Trucks must die
Cars that go way over the speed limit
People that drive up your @$$
Not using blinkers
i'm sure i can come up with more. After all RI got the 3rd worst drivers in the country. Bummer too, I thought we were the first.
Never been to Rhode Island. If we ever go there I think I should be the one driving because my husband would totally freak out at the bad drivers. I agree with people who zip thru yield signs. It's a yield sign. Yield does not mean go and let everyone else adjust. Confession, I can be the person weaving lanes, blowing the speed limit, and driving up some @$$ but usually this is a direct response the other drivers pokin' along in the fast lane, failing to yield the right of way when they came out onto the highway, and acting like complete idiots.
People who are stopped at a red light who are turning right. There's no "No turn on Red" sign, yet they don't turn until the light turns green. Idiots.
Are there some states that right on red is not legal? I'm curious. I know at least a few times I've been in unfamiliar territory with someone from that area who told me when approaching a red light, "You can turn right on red here." Maybe there's some places where right on red isn't allowed. (??)
You're cruising down a highway. Someone whips out right in front of you only to go 35mph (and the speed limit is 60).
You've been in Beaumont, Texas, too! Yes! And they do this in their giganto duly pick-ups like they completely own the road. I've had screamin' flippin' out episodes over this one, too.
Okay. So here's a few of my pet peeves. Not necessarily driving but definitely driving-related. You're at a busy store or mall trying to park and there's a great spot that you can't get in because the poop-for-brains in the spot next to it can't park straight
OR in the center of their spot. It's like they totally could care less that they are eliminating a perfectly good spot next to them for someone else. The ones that drive me up a wall the worst are chicks who drive oversized SUVs or trucks and can't park them. WTH? If it's too much truck for you to handle, honey, you don't need to be driving it. These chicks make the rest of us who CAN handle our big SUVs and park them perfectly look bad. I could smack 'em.
Theeeeeen, OMG! This happened to me once a few years ago. I get to Target and there's 2 great spots side by side right at the front of a row. Even tho there's a chick in front of me parking her shiny new Cadillac with temporary tag still on it I'm thinking --SCORE-- there's a spot for each of us. Oh no. She pulls in dead center of the two so nobody can ding her doors. Are you frickin' kidding me??? I parked elsewhere then left a note under her windshield wiper that said, "It's a Cadillac, not a priviledge." If you're really that concerned about getting dings in your doors from other people next to you in a parking lot feel free to park waaaaay out where there aren't other cars around you. Better yet, bubble-wrap your car. They're cars. They're not going to stay perfect. Deal with it but don't inconvenience the rest of the world because YOU have issues accepting the inevitable.
