Driving

[Siobhan]

-I hate people who don't signal

-people who cut you off then proceed to drive really slowly

-tailgaters (people who tailgate me and my friends who tailgate)

-people who drive slow in the fast lane so you can't pass them, because the people in the slow lane are driving slow

-people who are oblivious to speed limits: whether it be fast or slow

-people who break on curves: Vancouver has lots of windy areas

-people who don't move out of the passing lane on the Sea to Sky highway so you have no opportunity pass them

-people who don't understand what a yield sign is for

-people who drive 30km on a 50km road

-speeders and street racers

-people who don't know how to take cautions on rainy days

-people who stop where they aren't supposed to stop

-this one happened to me the other day when my car stalled: people who don't pay attention and see your hazard lights and sit there honking at you like you just felt like sitting at a green light

[FuzzieAlum]

I hate those drivers that don't seem to understand the speed limit concept. I was behind someone the other day on a 45 mph road, and they're going 30. Then we both turned onto a 35 mph street, and they speed up to 40! If you're going to drive really slow, sure that's annoying, and if you drive ridiculously fast, that's unsafe, but couldn't they at least be consistent?

[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by Siobhan
-people who don't know how to take cautions on rainy days

On the other side of this...people who don't know how to drive like a normal person just because it's raining. I mean, be cautious, but don't drive as though a little sprinkle is going to wash you off the road!

[stillwater15]

this comment hails from my college days in alabama. on most of the major highways, the speed limit is 70. inevitably there would always be people in the left lane doing 55. if you want to drive slow, get in the far right lane. a speed limit of 70 usually means you can go 77 w/out troopers bothering you. take advantage. we jersey drivers aren't the greatest, but we will at least drive the speed limit.

[MooseGirl]

i can't complain much, since I'm a new driver and not always that great.
But the thing I hate the most are ppl who don't signal!!! as a new driver, that is definitely something I'm looking for....i don't have quick driving reflexes yet!

Here's a story to back up the "old people" retesting. Just a week ago my friend was driving me home, while getting off the expressway a car was coming right for us! It was crazy! The car did slow down, but still went past us...I could see the little old lady, all in shock wondering where the heck she was!
(although my other friend insists that it's statistically proven that old ppl are better drivers...I'd like to see that report myself)

[lilsnakeyk]

I live in the land of idiotic drivers.......Los Angeles

Pet Peeves

1. Driving while talking on a cell phone.....it is an absolute disease in LA

2. Not using your blinkers

3. Rubberneckers......It is so bad here in LA that the traffic reporters even report on "Spectator Slowing"......arrrgghhh pay attention to the damn road.

4. Last but not least. People who use the back of my car to stop. For example the idiot who rearended me exactly a week ago today. Thank you very much a$$hole. I really wanted whiplash, a crunched car, and lame ass rental car. Oh by the way, why the hell were you driving 50 mph in a school zone. That would be why you had to go to jail for reckless endangerment.

Sorry about that......I have just a little bit of pent up hostility.

Lil Snakey K

[ladybug1116]

I have to agree with whoever said (I think it was bucutie) about people tailgating you when you're already in the right hand lane! Hello?? Left lane...it's there so you can pass me. Plus I'm usually already speeding so I'm not going to go faster so I can be the one to get the ticket.

Here in B'ham they call rubbernecking "Onlookers Delay" Every radio station in the morning gives the traffic report and almost ALWAYS the main reason for traffic slowing is the onlookers delay.

Other pet peeves include drivers who don't know where they are going but instead of being safe drivers they are a hazard to everyone on the road. I understand what it's like to drive in unfamiliar areas but please, people...pull over at a gas station to read your map. Don't swerve in and out of lanes and slow down/speed up so that you almost cause an accident evey 5 feet.

Unsafe drivers in general. The ones that think they rule the road. Speeding and tail gating, cutting you off (and then acting like it's your fault when you honk)People who aren't paying attention, etc. My dad always said he wasn't worried about me driving, he was worried about the other idiots out there. How true that usually is. Oh wow did I have some near misses on my latest trip to West Palm Beach....

And the last one for now...people who take FOREVER to make a right hand turn. I'm not talking about sharp or narrow turns either..I'm talking about regular RH turns onto a street. It's like some people think they have to STOP completely in order to turn safely. This morning on the way to work this happened and I almost got rear ended b/c the person was taking so damn long to turn. Errrr....

OK I'm done now. Have a good day

[LeslieAGD]

Okay, I had to pull this thread up because today I was driving behind some of the dumbest people. Now, I know when people see cops, they slow down...but if a cop has someone pulled over, there is no need to slow down to 40 MPH in a 70 zone. The cop is not going to tell the person on the side of the road to "wait here" while they chase you down, so trust me, it's okay to drive the spped limit!!!

[TigerGirl52]

Originally posted by 87azdalum
I used to be a "rager" until one night after a football game...

My husband and I were driving home in bumper to bumper traffic and an idiot came flying onto the interstate from an on-ramp and cut dangerously in the traffic behind our car, flashing their lights and squealing their brakes as they entered the lane. I turned around (in my anger) and signalled with my hand (you know what I mean...).

This car started following us off the interstate and on the way to the house. At a stoplight, one of the boys jumped out of the car and got something out of the trunk; my husband said it was a shotgun. We got into a high speed chase with them on another interstate, trying to lose them. Pretty soon, another car joined in; we can only surmise that the first car called some buddies to help them. My husband and I had to switch positions in the car; I was driving and was too scared to drive, so he took over. At one point these cars had us pulled over and stopped. All of them got out of their cars. We had to back into one of the cars to get away. Eventually, my husband lost them in his old neighborhood with lots of backroads. We should have gone to the police, but we had both had some alcohol (dumb, I know, but this was almost 10 years ago), so we were afraid.

Anyway, we filed a police report the next day, as did the two other vehicles (for hit and run on us!). Therefore, we knew who the drivers were. About six months to a year later, we found out that the driver of the first car had robbed a Papa John's delivery person making a night deposit and shot her in the head. I still get chills today thinking about how close to death we probably were.

Final thought - swallow the road rage, people. I do now, no matter how mad I get. You don't know what kind of people are out there.

That was such a scary story. Makes you think twice about getting angry at drivers.

I think Louisiana has to have the worst possible drivers on the face of the Earth. I absolutely hate driving in Baton Rouge...I avoid it at all costs. My biggest pet peeve has to be reckless driving...much like the way my big sis drives. She is all over the damn road. You take your life into your own hands when you get in a car with her. When she's talking to someone...either on her cell phone or in the car...she's back and forth. Definitely some scary stuff.

Allison

[bucutie02]

speaking of extremem road rage......
last week there was a man driving on this street and decided to switch lanes. He didnt cut anyone off, but the man in the lane man #1 decided to switch to thought he really did cut him off. Anyway, he was so upset he decided to start speeding up and cutting man #1 off. He ended up following him for about 2 and 1/2 miles. They came to this red light and man #2 stop his car in a manner where he was in his lane and also in front of man #1's car. He got out of his car, walked over to the guy's window and started trying to break with his FIST. Well, little did he know, but man #1 was an ex police officer or a prison guard and he had a gun in his car. Out of self defense, he shot the man that was trying to break his window. The worst part was that the crazy guy had his daughter in his car that saw everything, including his dad being shot at!!

There were so many witnesses that guy #1 was obviously let go.

[thesweetestone]

What I hate is people who refuse to yield. They just keep going like they have the right of way. Without even slowing down. That makes me sick!

Also, The people that run out in front of you then go so slow. I want just run into the back of 'em. It make me so mad!!

[BearyCuteAPhi]

Originally posted by dzrose93
People, the car manufacturers gave you blinkers for a reason. USE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!!! It makes me so mad when the car in front of you all of the sudden brakes and turns, out of no where. I have come so close to an accident bc of that. Or when you are on the highway and people don't use signal lights to change lanes. But that is just me venting.

Ronnie

[dzsaigirl]

Okay, so yesterday I had my first driving fear...I had to cross the biggest bridge in Texas (read TALL bridge) called the Fred Hartman bridge, AKA the Baytown Bridge. I thought I was gonna puke. I have never been afraid of tall bridges before! It's one of those ones that is like a rollercoaster hill. It goes waaaaaaaaay up and then you come waaaaaaaaay down. I have to take that route lots more times in the next couple of weeks too! I came home a different route yesterday, but still had to cross another sort of tall bridge (610 ship channel bridge) instead. Whew! Anyone who has driven that giant one though, you know what I mean. It is made for great big TALL ships to be able to completely sail underneath it. Anyway, I will just get over that fear since there is no way around it!

[SuperSister]

Originally posted by thesweetestone
What I hate is people who refuse to yield. They just keep going like they have the right of way. Without even slowing down. That makes me sick!

I would have to completely agree! We seem to have an overabundance of this in Erie. Scenerio: I pull up to a stop sign and wait for traffic on Parade St. to clear so I can make my right hand turn. A car pulls up to the stop sign on the opposite side of the street wanting to make a left hand turn. Traffic clears for both of us at the same time and he proceeds to attempt to make his turn first! I was there first, what the heck does he think I'm sitting there for my health?! Idiot nearly rear ended me and it so would have been his fault.

Another story, my mom got into an accident once trying to make a left hand turn. It was completely clear and the jerk off behind us tried to pass her on the left. 1) her turn signal was on and 2) the street was too narrow for him to try and pass her. THEN when the police come he tries to say that he was coming from the other direction and she didn't see him. Thank goodness they looked at the damage to both cars and decided he was lying.

Emmi