Driving pet peeves

[stockstar1138]

I just got to rant about idiots on the road.

1. Nice Cars Holding up Traffic - I will never, ever, ever understand why some clowns spend $50k+ on a car and then drive it like an old lady thats blind. Why spend that type of dough if you aren't going to utilize your cars abilities past that of a Toyota Camry.

2. Blinkers - Nobody can use these things right. People either have the darn things on and never change lanes or they change lanes and never turn the darn things on.

3. Turning Right - This one has really gotten to me lately. Some morons think you need to come to a near stand still in busy traffic to make a right hand turn into a restarant or shopping center.

4. Bases - The douch3bags who think they are cool and have "sweet" audio systems simply because they jack their base up to the point where the person in the car next to them ear's are bleeeding.

5. Rain - People think because its raining a bit that they have to drive on a highway like its a subdivision. Note: Im not talking about people going 5-10 mph slower due to rain, Im talking about idiots goin 45-50 in a 70. Thats a hazard, especially if its raining.

6. The Absolute Imbicile - These ones are actually kind of funny. This is the tard that runs a red light when a cop is right behind him or cuts a cop off while he is speeding at the same time (saw this one yesterday, I lol'd).

7. The Opposite of #1 - These are usually kids who don't have a nice car, but think their Paul Walker from the Fast and the Furious. They usually have Wal-mart rims on their '97 Neon with a little bit of #4 going on and have pissed away money on an NO2 system also. They think that every stoplight means there is a race to the next stoplight.

8. Bad Cellphone Talkers/Texters - If you are going to use your cell when you are driving, learn how to multi-task. Im sick of having to go half the speed limit because some yapper can't do both.

9. Inconsiderate at Stoplights - These are the people who don't pay attention at the stoplight, it takes them 5 seconds to realize the light has turned green. Of course, because they are at the front of the line, they still make it through, while somebody in the rear is the one that has to pay by getting stuck again, when they could have made it, if only the first driver would have been paying attention.

That is all.

[york weir]

#9 needs to learn from #7

[mikejet]

People who go into the fast lane to DRIVE SLOW.

[xtop]

oh man i'm gonna be spending a lot of time in this thread.

ill start off saying i'm an excellent driver. i may be eratic or agressive to the casual driver, but i'm out there to enjoy myself and get to a destination. if my friends want to go somewhere, they pick me to drive. i've had a few people wave and honk at me thanking me for helping them thru traffic. so enough tooting my own horn here..but i'm sure there are a bunch of people here just like me.

but rubber neckers are the worst. wanna know why you have 2 hour long traffic jams for a cop pulling over a speeder? because people cant miss a second of whats going on off the road. if theres a wreck, pull over and watch..get out of my way and stop holding everyone else back. you only cause more needless wrecks.

then youve got the people who drive in the PASSING lane going 10 mph under the limit. or if theyre not doing that, they keep pace with the slow lane so you cant pass from either lane

aaarghhh! back with more i'm sure lol.

[Blu Jacket]

Most of those I can agree with, but some to me just seem like impatience. I don't see people slowing down for a turn as any problem, they don't need to be screeching their tires as they go through their turn.

And sometimes someone gets distracted at the light. It pisses me off when I see someone honk their horn at the lead driver the second the light goes green.

The one that really churns my butter is the person who drives in one lane and crosses all the other lanes at the last second to make a turn in the opposite direction. Happened to me last night. I was in the right lane and this joker in the left lane cut across in front of me with inches to spare and turned into Burger King.

And for cryin' out loud it's a speed LIMIT, not a suggestion. It means this far and no further. You're not entitled to go faster for any reason. It's a law, get over it.

[xtop]

you make good points, but if thats directed at me, its a passing lane, not i can go any speed but the limit lane. get out of it people!

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

I just got to rant about idiots on the road.

1. Nice Cars Holding up Traffic - I will never, ever, ever understand why some clowns spend $50k+ on a car and then drive it like an old lady thats blind. Why spend that type of dough if you aren't going to utilize your cars abilities past that of a Toyota Camry.

Image. No one will see how cool they are if they go too fast. hahah

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

2. Blinkers - Nobody can use these things right. People either have the darn things on and never change lanes or they change lanes and never turn the darn things on.

This is getting really bad here. We get a lot who just run them for miles.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

3. Turning Right - This one has really gotten to me lately. Some morons think you need to come to a near stand still in busy traffic to make a right hand turn into a restarant or shopping center.

I like the ones who have to swing way out to the left to make the right turn.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

4. Bases - The douch3bags who think they are cool and have "sweet" audio systems simply because they jack their base up to the point where the person in the car next to them ear's are bleeeding.

I especially love when you can hear the car's body panels rattling.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

5. Rain - People think because its raining a bit that they have to drive on a highway like its a subdivision. Note: Im not talking about people going 5-10 mph slower due to rain, Im talking about idiots goin 45-50 in a 70. Thats a hazard, especially if its raining.

Houston gets more rain than almost everywhere else and people still freak out in it.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

6. The Absolute Imbicile - These ones are actually kind of funny. This is the tard that runs a red light when a cop is right behind him or cuts a cop off while he is speeding at the same time (saw this one yesterday, I lol'd).

That is awesome!

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

7. The Opposite of #1 - These are usually kids who don't have a nice car, but think their Paul Walker from the Fast and the Furious. They usually have Wal-mart rims on their '97 Neon with a little bit of #4 going on and have pissed away money on an NO2 system also. They think that every stoplight means there is a race to the next stoplight.

I drive a Cobra. I get a lot of attention from these guys.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

8. Bad Cellphone Talkers/Texters - If you are going to use your cell when you are driving, learn how to multi-task. Im sick of having to go half the speed limit because some yapper can't do both.

Had a woman (not saying it is because women can't drive) nearly sideswipe me because she decided to pick her nose wghile talking on the phone and didn't hold the steering wheel....at 70 MPH.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

9. Inconsiderate at Stoplights - These are the people who don't pay attention at the stoplight, it takes them 5 seconds to realize the light has turned green. Of course, because they are at the front of the line, they still make it through, while somebody in the rear is the one that has to pay by getting stuck again, when they could have made it, if only the first driver would have been paying attention.

YES! Especially when it is a very short light.

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

That is all.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by xtop

but rubber neckers are the worst. wanna know why you have 2 hour long traffic jams for a cop pulling over a speeder? because people cant miss a second of whats going on off the road. if theres a wreck, pull over and watch..get out of my way and stop holding everyone else back. you only cause more needless wrecks.

reminds me of that dane cook joke. one of his better skits.

[hoogoosedmoose41]

From someone who has done traffic control (odot)

1. Cell phone users - please if your going to use a cell phone get a hands free device or shut your Fing phone off while your driving! I have no desire to be killed because your conversation is more important to you than the car or person your about to kill because your not paying attention.

2. Multi-tasking is not something to do while driving! please I know your running late but please dont prove to me its possible to do your makeup, brush your hair, text on your cellphone,eat your egg mccmuffin all while driving down the road at 70mph in a 35 MPH zone.

3. to all local small town cops: please when that person on the village council with special priveleges goes barreling through a school zone at 50 mph all while flipping me off for me being a peon state employee please stop them and give them a ticket, our town is small and needs the funds.

4. people with 4x4's: 4 wheel drive doesnt give you a right to be frigging stupid, just because you can accellerate and drive 85 mph on a snow covered road doesnt mean you can stop as fast. (4 wheel drive lets you get stuck in places you cant get stuck in when you have 2 wheel drive). Ive seen more SUVs in ditches than 2 wheel drive cars.

5. anyone behind a snow plow: if your behind me and your so close you cant see your my mirrors guess what? I cant see you !!!!!!!!!!! you see those pretty orange or yellow flashing lights on my dump truck when im plowing?? that means im an emergency vehicle and stay the F out of the way.


6. to the idiot who couldnt wait for me to finish plowing his street he had to drive around me, pull in front, stop get out of his car go in your house all while flipping me off my question is did you have fun trying to get your car out when i buryed your dumb ass in? couldnt you have waited 6 seconds for me to clear your road.


7. alcoholics- the worst, I know you like to drink but please dont prove to me you can drink 2 cases of beer and still be coherant while driving! get a designated driver call a cab, dont Fing drive plastered, im sure my best friend would like to be still alive today and id like to be alive tomorrow.

ok im done ranting i feel better.

[Deadset]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

8. Bad Cellphone Talkers/Texters - If you are going to use your cell when you are driving, learn how to multi-task. Im sick of having to go half the speed limit because some yapper can't do both.

I saw a girl run into a power pole while she was on the phone. This is probably the most dangerous issue on the roads, stack that to Rain driving and/or Snow driving...

[Deadset]

Gotta add one

- People who speed up to get ahead of you before the lane merges either left or right due to construction and slam on the break to get down to 55 mph in the work zone.

Of course they know waaaay in advance the lane will be merging, but they just have to get 1 or 2 cars ahead.

This is happening all the time, think of how faster they'll get there if they squeeze in ahead of you and immediately slow down. It just doesn't make sense! There was a big accident on I-90 involving 3 cars Sunday b/c of this!

Pass them when you are out of the construction zone, yes you can wait and be that patient.

[stockstar1138]

i really hate that guy that will get right up on your tail or try to pass you on the shoulder when you are actually following the speed limit in a work zone. workers lives are at stake, don't be a d1ck.

there needs to be more cops ticketing people in work zones, rarely see them in them.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

i really hate that guy that will get right up on your tail or try to pass you on the shoulder when you are actually following the speed limit in a work zone. workers lives are at stake, don't be a d1ck.

there needs to be more cops ticketing people in work zones, rarely see them in them.

yup, i get the finger all the time because i actually slow down for work zones. unreal

[cravnsn]

I find it interesting that bad drivers are such a universal irritant. There’s nothing I can add peeve wise, but I’ll just add that I think each driver should have a once-per-month allowance for “road rage” without consequences, thereby getting it out of their system, and sending a clear message to all the idiots that they might be next.

[cravnsn]

Had to add one I didn’t see – tailgaters. They have no clue that the number one cause of accidents is not giving yourself enough reaction time if something in front or you goes awry.

[Go Blue]

I can't stand when I am waiting to turn left or right and obviously waiting on a car coming and instead of turning on their blinker to let me know that they are turning into the street I am leaving, they just turn with no blinker. So now, instead of me going when I see their blinker, I have to wait for them to make their turn before I can go.

[stockstar1138]

i saw the greatest thing about two years ago when i was on a road trip.

we were on an interstate and something had happened up ahead (never did find out), but traffic was backed up for miles. This arse was trying to pass all the traffic by driving up on the shoulder.

i guess another car saw him coming and swerved out to the shoulder to block him from going any farther, just as the guy saw the car blocking him from going any farther up, another car came up from behind him and sandwiched him in.

when things got cleared and traffic started to move again, both drivers declined anybody letting them back onto the road. i guess they just sat there blocking him so he had to wait til the very end.

the blocked driver tried to get out of his car and i guess yell at one of the guys blocking him, but the guy blocking him was probly six-five 250lbs and he even more embarassedly went back into his car.

[jono_0101]

i can agree with most of the points in this thread, especially the one about EVERYONE having to slow down to look at the guy trying to fix a flat on the side of the road or two cars that were in a bumper tap accident with no real damage, everybody acts like there must be a pile of bodies in flaming wreckage on the side of the road, and all it does is make me 30 min late to work, and i also hate:

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

I just got to rant about idiots on the road.


4. Bases - The douch3bags who think they are cool and have "sweet" audio systems simply because they jack their base up to the point where the person in the car next to them ear's are bleeeding.


That is all.

if your gonna blast the stereo, at least buy some quality sound equipment for you car, and that includes sound dampening material so i dont have to hear whatever terrible music you happen to listen to over my radio in my car with the windows up

finally, i cant stand the people that weave in and out of traffic just to get another 2 car lengths ahead, maybe saving them 4 or 5 seconds on their trip, and give you the finger if youre not driving 30 mph over the speed limit, but at least i have a way to get back at these people: ill get in front of them and ride up next to the car in the lane next to me to stop them from passing, man that pisses those guys off!

[crxvtec]

If you are on a freeway and in the fast lane and the other lanes are all going faster, get out of the fast lane. I drive fast( do not tailgate) and hate hearing the excuse of"im going the speed limit" The law says slower traffic to the right. So if speed limit is 65 and you are doing 70 in the fast lane but EVERYBODY else is doing 80, you are also in violation of law. I know it sounds dumb and people will disagree but 2 different cops told me that ( though they both said they would go after the speeders)

People on motorcycles. hear me out. I hate hearing motorcyclist complain about cars not looking out for them, yet they will go in between cars in traffic or change lanes without blinkers because they can do it fast. I actually called 911 the other day because some jacka** tried to get in between me and the car in front of me and nearly hit me. He then was hauling ass and caused nearly 3 accidents in less than a mile because he was in and out of lanes like he was playing GTA. It was really as bad as I am making it out to be.

[STARSCREAM]

Yep, just about all those are so annoying. I'm tired of the people who won't go when the light is green! Why does it take 5 minutes to get the line moving and then you don't make the light!!! Driving makes me sooo mad. That's why I have my wife drive most of the time.