Most Annoying Driving Habits (vehicle, motorway, camper, brakes)
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Okay, many of us have seen drivers that done one or two things that annoy us, and I was probably guilty of something at one time or another.
What driving habits annoy you the most?
Mine:
1) Driving while talking on the cell phone and not paying attention - I'm sure many of you can agree with that.
2) People that drive much slower than the speed limit in the fast lane.
3) People who sit at intersections and wait to make right turns for no reason, even when it's safe to make the right turn when there's no oncoming traffic from the left. That happened to me this morning with somebody 2 cars infront of me, and there were about 8 vehicles behind the offending driver, who was probably on a cell phone!
4) People who honk their horns for no reason.
5) People that slow down to look at a situation on the side of the road, with flashing emergency lights (rubber neckers) even if it's nothing more than a police officer giving somebody a ticket. - There's nothing to look at! Keep moving because you might end up causing an accident!
7) People that pull up next to you at an intersection with the volume and bass setting on their audio system is at a level high enough to cause a 7.0 earthquake, and you can't even hear your own radio that's playing at a normal volume, even if your windows are all rolled up! There's nothing more annoying than hearing just the loud and continuous THUMP THUMP THUMP! I'm surprised many cities don't have any rules that prohibit drivers from doing that. It's an obvous danger because the occupants in the vehicle wouldn't be able to hear emergency, and other vehicles around them.
I've gotten used to this but it still dives me nuts. Every morning on the way to work i'm behind someone and their brain goes blue screen at the light, its been green awhile and after counting...one mississippi.....two mississippi...I can feel my neck tighten up...oh well
To be truthful I'm a pretty edgy driver and quite easily get irritated by other people's habits but the ones that irritate me the most are:
1) People who don't say thank you when you let them pull out or wait to allow them to pass through a narrow gap before you.
2) People who hog the middle lane on the motorways, even if they're not overtaking and there is nobody on the inside lane.
3) When a big truck goes to overtake another big truck but after pulling out proceeds to him them at about 1mph faster than the truck on the inside lane, resulting in an enourmous tailback while the driver sits up there in his cab completely oblivious to the commotion he's causing behind him.
4) People who drive so closely behind you that they could pretty much reach out and open your trunk lid. Aside from being rude and aggressive it's also incredibly dangerous.
Truckers that ride my bumper. If you are one of them I think you are the most ignorant, inconsiderate a**hole on the planet, and you're stupid as a rock. Every time you do that I call the Highway Patrol and give them your license number and the mile marker we just passed. Hope you got a ticket, jerk. You should lose your right to drive.
My best example of someone in a car that shouldn't: I was driving the freeway and had just moved to the right lane in anticipation of pulling into an off ramp lane (one of those that goes between an on and off ramp) The car in front of me was going a lot slower than other traffic and was weaving into the left lane, than back.
I pulled into the right lane and passed her, carefully. I looked in my rear view mirror and she had pulled into my lane directly in front of a pickup truck! I could see she was on her cell. She pulled up next to me and I looked over to see if she was still on the phone or looked drunk. She still had the phone to her left ear and as I watched she flicked an ash off a cigarette out the window with her right hand and proceeded to apply crap to her eyebrows with a pencil! I was hoping she'd burn herself with the ciggy while she did this but she didn't.
Mike, I can agree with your whole list. Im gonna add a few of my own:
1. People who wait to pull out into traffic until the last second and then do so slowly, causing everyone behind to jam on the brakes. UGH! Thats my biggest pet peeve.
2. People who weave in and out of traffic w/o using their dang turn signals.
3. Tailgaters. People who are so close that you cant see their headlights and hood. BACK OFF!!!!
4. Women putting on makeup while driving.
5. People stuffing their fat faces while driving.
6. People who pass you, just to do the same speed limit as you once they pass.
7. The gangsta lean. Whats up with that anyways? People leaning so far over in their cars that all you can see is the top of their head. This is usually accompanied by the seat reclined so far that it could pass as a bed. Retarded.
I'd like to elaborate a little bit on item #5 - A couple of years ago, I was on a freeway here, and I saw a minor fender bender accident that had just happened about 1000 feet ahead of me, and as usual, traffic started to slow down, thanks to many curious motorists. It was on the weekend, so there was no rush hour traffic, anyhow, right after traffic slowed down to almost a crawl ahead of me I saw a cloud of tire smoke and I heard the dreaded tire screech and crash noise. Apparently somebody, who was going at a normal freeway speed and didn't know traffic ahead of him/her had come to almost to a complete stop, even after both vehicles in the first accident had moved over into the emergency lane, rear-ended somebody else ahead of them, thanks to another motorist up ahead that slowed down everybody else behind them. Now I realize some motorists just want to slow down and check and make sure everything is okay, and there's nothing wrong with that, but for cryin' out loud, if there's nothing for you to do to help, KEEP MOVING! Don't slow down just to look, and if you want to satisfy your curiosity, pull over to the side of the road because you're going to end up causing another accident!
Most, if not all states, have laws that allow law enforcement agencies to site you for slowing down and hindering the flow of traffic for no reason, especially if you cause an accident.
1.) People that don't know how to merge from an entrance ramp onto the highway. I just love people that SLOW DOWN (or, worse, get scared and stop) on the entrance ramp to a highway.
2.) Being stuck behind those obnoxious crawling gargauntuan campers on an otherwise pretty twisting mountain road. Have the courtesty to pull over and let other cars pass!
3.) Slow left lane hogs (I think someone covered that).
4.) Those loud fart can exausts that the "tuner" guys (I use that term loosly) add on 4 cylinder cars. Do kids think they sound fast? They sound like leaf blowers.
5.) People that dart in and out of lanes in heavy traffic. It's almost funny - they switch lanes like crazy and it seems that for all their efforts you are still side by side with them at the next light.
See, the thing about driving while talking on a cell is that its not a bad thing if you are a multi tasker and can actually do 2 things at once. Its the people that for some reason, have to REDUCE their speed while talking on the cell phone that drives me nuts.
I'm starting to notice a new trend of people driving while having their small dogs in the front DRIVER'S seat with them. What kind of backwards ish is that?
People holding up traffic because their car can't go more than 20mph. You need to be at the mechanic's shop, not on the road.
People who try to turn a one lane street into 2, and then have to cut off everybody if there is a car parked in the "second" lane. Nope, stay your a$$ over there!
People who get mad and honk at you because you didn't risk your life trying to beat the train. Sorry, you're free to go around me and kill yourself. I'll be sure to give a full report from the comfort of my safe vehicle.
4.) Those loud fart can exausts that the "tuner" guys (I use that term loosly) add on 4 cylinder cars. Do kids think they sound fast? They sound like leaf blowers.
Some of those fart cans are attached to amazingly fast cars. While theyre loud, at least some of the tuner cars are actually, you know, fast, unlike 99% of the Harleys out there with obnoxious pipes.
Another annoying driving "habit" are packs of Harleys so long that you cant pass them and youre subjected to mile after mile of obnoxious sounding flatulence coming from their exhaust pipes, at ear-splitting levels. Ugh.
all of the above, plus:
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4.) Those loud fart can exausts that the "tuner" guys (I use that term loosly) add on 4 cylinder cars. Do kids think they sound fast? They sound like leaf blowers.
LOL.. You know, for some reason the sound of those things drives me up the wall too, especially if they are much louder than they need to be!
I know whenever I see a classic 1960's Mustang, Camaro, Firebird, Charger or a Challenger, with a robust high performance engine, and an exhaust that sounds like a rumbling freight train, they don't even bother me at all. I guess it's a generation gap!
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Originally Posted by Dd7I4
5.) People that dart in and out of lanes in heavy traffic. It's almost funny - they switch lanes like crazy and it seems that for all their efforts you are still side by side with them at the next light.
I know all about those, and yes I used to do that when I was younger. Nowadays I see older people doing that, and when I pull up next to them at a traffic light, I think to myself and say "Nice going there buddy, a lot of good that did driving like that, and trying to get ahead of traffic!".
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