Left Lane Bandits: "Slower traffic keep right" So DO IT!! Half the people I run into in the left lane aren't even doing the speed limit. My ex-wife and I took a roadtrip one time with her best friend and husband. The best friend's husband was driving. He would NOT get out of the left lane for anything. It took everything I had in me to not go off and tell him to move his azz over.
Slow Drivers: As long as they're not holding up the flow of traffic, I don't care. When you're stuck behind a car on a 2-lane highway that's doing 20 mph under the limit and there's no safe passing zone, that's just uncalled for.
Tailgaters: When I'm in one of my trucks and all I can see is the top of your head or maybe your roof or if I'm in one of my cars and I can't see the bottom of your windshield, you better be watching me for brake lights. I'm not one to brake-check someone, but I'll tap my brake lights and start slowing down if you don't get the hint.
Turn Signals: Seriously, people need to figure out what that stick is on the left side of the steering wheel. Unless there is just nobody around me or unless you've done something to tick me off, I
always use my signal. I like people to know what I'm doing and it would be nice if others would let me know what they're doing too.
People Who Don't Know What Tailgating Is: I've had more than once where I'm just minding my own business behind someone, not even within 5 car lengths of them, and I see them mouthing in their mirror and start standing on the brakes. WTH? I'm nowhere near you!
Hey, Retard! Your Lane is Ending: We have an expressway here in town that goes from 3 lanes down to 2 at one point. The right lane ends. There are all sorts of signs warning of it, but they can't seem to get it in their heads. I was going through there one day in the middle lane. I had cars in front of me, behind me and to my left. A genius in her new Yukon, jabbering on the phone was in the right lane. The lane ended and she kept going. When she realized she was about to eat guardrail, she started coming over on me. I laid on the horn...nothing. She keeps coming over. I was able to speed up and squeeze by, but it was a matter of a few hairs between her hitting my car. Then she starts laying on the horn and giving me hand gestures and mouthing.
People Who Just HAVE to Pull Out In Front Of You: So, you're driving down the middle lane of a 3 lane road. There's nobody around you for any reasonable distance; nobody in front, behind or to the sides of you. You see the car on the right about to turn off of the side street or a parking lot or whatever and you just KNOW what this mouth breather is about to do. Yup, 2 completely empty lanes, but they have to pull out RIGHT IN FRONT of YOU! They couldn't pick one of the other 2 lanes. They couldn't wait another 5 seconds and pull out behind you. Nope. Gotta be in FRONT of you and to top it all off, they can't find the gas pedal either.
Complete and Utter Inattention and Distraction When Driving: Cell phones, texting, reading, putting on makeup, eating, carrying on a conversation with other passengers...All this stuff and more seems to be more important to most drivers than actually driving the vehicle. I was behind a car this weekend that would speed up, slow down, hit the brakes, jerk around in the lane and everything else. This had to have been the worst driver I've ever seen. The woman was talking to her passenger just as much with her hands as she was with her mouth.
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Originally Posted by Crew Chief
While ALL of the poll choices bother me, what REALLY sets me off is that so many Americans don't know how to merge in traffic!!! Whether that rectangular red sign is at the top of the ramp or not, vehicles merging into the highway traffic MUST yield to traffic already on the highway! Waiting until you're at the end of the ramp (and driving 45 mph) to look into your mirror is dangerous. You should've already checked your mirror and found a logical place to blend into the traffic flow. I'll be happy to slow slightly to let you in ahead of me if you've made an honest effort to step on the throttle. But I'm NOT going to risk having the vehicle behind me get into my trunk if you haven't done your part.
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Amen!
When I'm merging, I'm looking at the flow of traffic on the road I'm merging to and looking for holes. I'm going as fast as traffic by the time I'm at the end of the ramp so I can slip in and go. I cannot understand why people feel the need to go 30mph down the entrance ramp and then STOP when they get to the end of it! HIT THE GAS, STUPID!!! If I'm the one on the highway, I'm watching you too. If you're doing a reasonable speed and using your blinker, I'll more than happily let you in and give you plenty of room. If you're just creeping along and not using your blinker, sorry, you're on your own.
The drivers' ed. in this country is a joke. You can't say drivers' education because they don't teach a flippin' thing. They teach you how to read signs and they teach you a few laws, but they don't teach you a single thing about actual
driving.
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I knew the ambulance was headed to a hospital downtown and was not going to get off at the next exit anyway. Talk about a "Pucker Factor 46"...
