Driving pet peeve

[JasonJ]

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Pretty much tailgaters are the worst for me. They just don't get that whatever it is they are going to will still be there, I promise. It takes 5 minutes to get anywhere from anywhere in my area, why bother to be in such a rush.

I also enjoy the stop light drag racers. It always baffles me, but it seems my stock white pickup truck attracts everyone who wants to race. They rev their engines and glare. I always look at them, goose my engine, and give them the "Lets race" nod. Then when the light turns green I wait a few seconds before moving while they go screaming off the line, making pure arses of themselves. Always funny, and has caused them to get nailed by the guys in the cars with the pretty blue and red lights on top a few times. Always entertaining.

Another thing that bugs me is pedestrians. We have signs that say "This is a walking town". Apparantly what people think that means is that they can, without pausing, walk right out into the street causing cars to have to jam on the brakes, tires a squealing. Any more, when I see someone on a sidewalk heading towards a crosswalk I just start slowing down.

 

[stevieray]

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I drive to work on a series of rural roads - 1 lane each direction - no passing - 40mph limit - a popular route in to the northern suburbs of Bawlamer to stay off the parking lot they call a Beltway. About 2 days a week in the morning, some old geezer pulls out in the rush hour traffic & proceeds to do 25 - backing up traffic for maybe a mile behind & with nothing but wide open road in front. I'm thinking...75 years & what has this guy learned? And they wonder why we have no respect for elders. Can't he leave an hour later? Oh, no...wait...he'd be late for his LUNCH date!

 

[BoatBuoy]

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75 years & what has this guy learned?

Obviously he's learned that the 40MPH limit is the upper limit, not the lower. If it happens as often as 2 times per week, leave earlier. No penalty for getting to work early.

 

[CalicoKid]

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On WI freeways it is standard practice to get on the ramp, head immediately for the left lane and set the cruise at 65 or less. Drive me screaming nuts, It's like a moving gauntlet to get anywhere in decent time weaving in and out of all the oblivious driversin every lane.

In CO you get a big ticket if you are observed in the left lane for any reason but to pass, that's what WI needs.

Another is people pulling 20' past the stop sign at intersections even though they can see fine from the stop sign. Makes a left turn around them take longer.. in my case much much much longer :lol:

 

[PW2]

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I hate pedestrians that don't want to get back on the curb, and want to cross the street just when there is an open free right turn on red opportunity!

(Just teasing!)

But I don't understand the lights thing. New cars in Canada are wired to turn on the headlamps automatically when running and are put in gear...Not sure if it cuts down on accidents, but it sure is easier to see other cars, and that can't be a bad thing.

And when you have to travel the cow path they laughingly call the Trans Canada Hiway in Northern Ontario as much as I do, with transport trucks that weigh as much as a rail car passing you in the opposite direction at 75 mph, you get to appreciate any bit of help you can get.

 

[stevieray]

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75 years & what has this guy learned?

Obviously he's learned that the 40MPH limit is the upper limit, not the lower. If it happens as often as 2 times per week, leave earlier. No penalty for getting to work early.

Or he's figured out how to thoroughly tick off about 100 people at 8 in the morning! :| It ain't the same geezer every time, and it ain't just me in that mile-long backup.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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It ain't the same geezer every time, and it ain't just me in that mile-long backup.

Then it's a geezer conspiracy. I'll bet they have a schedule of who pisses off the working man on what day.

 

[stevieray]

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It ain't the same geezer every time, and it ain't just me in that mile-long backup.

Then it's a geezer conspiracy. I'll bet they have a schedule of who pisses off the working man on what day.

Heeeeyyyyyy.....you may be on to something there. Now that I think about it, there are at least 2 retirement villages with easy access to that road. They must set up a competition - kind of like golf matches between neighboring clubs. I've got a good mind to join a club & beat them over the head with it

 

[Bart Sr.]

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ALL of the above AND...

ALL of the below.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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We will all be old geezers one of these days.:^

Cell phone in the ear.
Change lanes with no signals.
Stop 20' after your turn off and go to backing up.:^

 

[bassboy1]

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You know what I hate. All the people with the fast cars that wont even go the speed limit. It is a lot of fun to pass them while towing a twenty foot trailer.The looks on there faces are priceless.

 

[Nos4r2]

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My pet peeve is people who dither around when driving.

You know whatever they do it'll be at the last possible second and without indicating.

 

[crunch]

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You mean like signaling to just confirm what you already did?.... slam on the brakes at 60, then signal the turn?

This is one from last Sunday night...

It's blowing about 60 with heavy rain and gusts up to 80 on the worst stretch of Hwy 101 on the West coast... Gold Beach to Port Orford.

A genius from California came up behind me (I'm following wife) with his brights on and tailgated me from Humbug Mt. right into Port Orford (10 mi. ), then crowded in between us and blasted her with his lights.

We came to the first passing lane and Wife had to slow down to 35 to get this guy to pass.... I had to tailgate this bozo, and flip on my brights to get the process started... thought I was going to have to bump him, but he finally got the idea.

So I guess my other pet peeve would be brights... and where did those eye searing, "arc welder" lights come from?... and now that I'm on a roll, the azz hole that installed his own driving lights, don't they know that those should be controlled by the bright switch?

Dad thinks you should be given 2 missiles each time you renew your license. His problem is that he would use them both during the first week and have to wait 4 years for two more.

One forward and one to the back... after that you should have access to a 20mm chain gun... munitions as you can afford.

 

[aspeck]

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Way back when I was a wee lad, I would dream of inventing this huge "fly swatter" type contraption that when a button was pressed on the dash it would come out of the grill of your car, unfold, and in one swift motion swat the car in front of you flat and brush it off the road.

After reading some of these posts, I wish I had really invented it ... I would be a very rich man today!

 

[Scaaty]

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I've solved the problem with stupid drivers by moving away until they can't find me. Where I live now, until I get near town, if I see 2 other cars at the same time, its Gridlock to me. 47 years of motorcycle riding in every state tells me its a city thing. Hey, somebody has to be the first to get to the next light! And tailgaters should be simply shot.

 

[Nos4r2]

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You mean like signaling to just confirm what you already did?.... slam on the brakes at 60, then signal the turn?

Kinda-more like slow up then indicate 5 miles before the turn then turn it all off half a mile before, speed up, stamp on the brakes then turn without signalling.

That or people who get themselves in bad situations (like alongside a semi as they come along an an on-ramp) and just sit there and hope that the guy driving the semi who they are pissing off/causing a problem will get out of their way if they stare hard enough at him...

 

[LadyFish]

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My biggest pet driving peeve is when you are traveling a 4 lane road, two lanes going in each direction. You get two cars that are driving way under the speed limit and they are driving side by side. NIether of them will speed up or get in the slow lane and traffic starts building up behind them.

It's like they never look in their rear view mirror. Slower traffic is supposed to keep right. I know in some states they will ticket you for this since it impedes the flow of traffic and becomes basically a road block. If it is a law here in Texas, nobody enforces it.

GRRRRRRRR I get mad just thinking about it. :/

 

[Docknocker]

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I owned a small trucking company for years. We'd pull tandem pups all over the northeast. In NY, tandem pups are allowed on virtually any road - not just limited access highways. Try being on a 2 lane with a set at 80,000lbs at 2AM in a blizzard waiting for the idiot behind you to try to pass you in his "invincible" 4x4.
OMG - don't miss it a bit. I didn't have pet peeves - I had a zoo full.

 

[gonefishie]

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My is people who don't realize that they have a thing called A FREAKING CRUISE CONTROL in their car. :|:| They get on a 2 lanes highway and just speed up, slow down, and repeats the whole way. I called these pedal jockies.

 

[JasonJ]

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"My biggest pet driving peeve is when you are traveling a 4 lane road, two lanes going in each direction. You get two cars that are driving way under the speed limit and they are driving side by side. NIether of them will speed up or get in the slow lane and traffic starts building up behind them."

I have heard that referred to as a "mexican roadblock". Don't know why, that's just what I have heard...