Tailgaters are my pet peeve. Last week I was doing 30 in a 25, the town is a speed trap, and somebody in a Pontiac decides to get about 3 feet off my bumper. So I downshifted to second and went about 20. I know that wasn't the right thing to do, but I was pretty mad. I had my wife and 2 year old in the car, and no matter what you think of the speed someone is going, tailgating is not safe for anyone!

 

Re: Mini-Hound's post: I agree. And it pisses me off when you get your car back from service and find whoever should have been working on your car was eating up the clock playing with every setting and gadget you have. If I wanted to listen to rap in Spanish, I would have programmed in that station. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

Nose picking - We can see you. They are not one way windows .

 

Yeah! We can also tell when you nochalantly munch away on said booger! OK, how about the people that sit so close to the steering wheel that you couldnt get a slip of paper between them and the steering wheel. Aparantly it has never crossed their minds about what will happen in a wreck when they do more than eat the wheel. They usually drive with both hands planted at 10:00 and 2:00, white knuckles and all, and never, ever glance in any direction, so they are totally tunnel visioned. The opposite of that is the super cool dude, that is so far reclined in his/her seat that all you see of them is their the top of their wrist draped over the top of the steering wheel. :impatientCome on, how does one control ones ride like that??? One that is common around here, and especially with teenage girls, is The mirrors (all of them) facing into the driver. That way she can make sure that no matter where she looks she will always see nothing but her glamorous self.

 

Or the ones who drive leaning over so that their heads are in the middle of the car. Of course, in the MINI, that puts them right in front of the speedo. Now how do they see over that???

 

Ditto this. i cant stand it.

 

People here in Bowling Green don't even know what a turn signal is or where it's located in the car. The car manufacturers could save some cash if they shipped cars out to BG without turn signals .

But seriously, the drivers here are TERRIBLE about not using their signals. I get excited when someone DOES use them.

Maybe they're all just illiterate. It is Kan-tucky.

 

I hate when a road is going from two lanes to one, and the people in the lane that's about to disappear wait until the last possible second to merge.

I'm used to seeing this when traffic is heavy and the people want to get as far as possible before having to merge into slower traffic, but where I live in California, people will avoid merging until the last second even when there's virtually no traffic at all and they could merge without having to slow down one bit.

If someone's next to me and I know they're going to need to merge soon, I'll even slow down a little bit to open up a slot for them in front of me, but they ignore it completely and stay in the same lane. Now I'm waiting for them to come over, wondering "do they even know I'm here? - are they going to come over on top of me, or what?"

 

King of the roaders. What lane would you like?? Your car as a weapon. How impressive.

 

Departments of transportation that haven't tumbled to the idea of fuel and time saving roundabouts. Think of all the sluggish all-way stops that would be eliminated.

Woops, not a driver attribute. Oh well...still irritating

 

Left lane hogs, rolling roadblocks, tailgators, no turn signals, or they turn them on one second before they turn, and those people who need to swing left before they turn right or vice versa.

 

People that think that the turn signal being on, automatically gives them the right to cut right in front of you.
People on the cell phone in the fast lane doing UNDER the speed limit.
Sightseers who spend more time looking at the surroundings than the roads while driving under the speed limit.
Multi-tasking drivers.
Children bouncing around the car freely. for the love of monkeys, BELT THOSE DAMN KIDS ALREADY!
Drivers with animals sitting in their lap or all up in the drivers face.
Drivers merging on the freeway and go from the merge on lane to the middle lane doing 50.
Drivers that pull into parking lots and are too lazy to walk and circle the lot for 15 minutes for the closest spots to free up.
People sitting in the "No Parking" lane right in front of the store parking and waiting.
And my biggest pet peeve of all, is ignorant people that leave pets in hot cars with the windows cracked thinking that the pet will be alright. Those people should all have their toenails pulled off with pliers and set on fire!

 

- Big SUVs who keep scooting up at a red light until they are a mere inch from the back window. And at night they make sure they're shining their radioactivly bright headlights right into your brain!
- People who honk if you don't immediately take off like a rocket at every green light.
- Those who love (to try) going 80+ in the far right lane on the highway.
- The "zigzagger" who feels the need to be in a different lane every 5 seconds because everyone else is sooo slow... we always catch up with you!

 

Ron White said it best: "You can't fix stupid".

 

drivers merging too slow while hopping on to the freeway/highway

drives me nutts

 

The idiot manever that is often replayed around here goes something like this:

I try to leave up to a car length of space in front of me, regardless of the road type: city, suburb or freeway. Too many times to count some one always speeds up and rides my bumper for awhile, then they pass and very dangerously cut into that space in front of me, (never using a turn signal), and then, they slow down to a speed much slower than what I was doing in the 1st place. Aargh! Center of the universe mentals, everything must revolve around them.

 

Sorry if this has been posted before. People driving in stop & go traffic that can't or won't keep up with the car in front of them, leaving a huge gap to the next car in line. I'm not talking about being glued to their back bumper, but maintaining a 1 - 2 car length distance. Most of the time, traffic is only moving at 10 - 20 MPH between stops, so this shouldn't be too dificult. If it is, you need to find alternate mode of transportaion. If you get stuck behind one of these cars, you can't pull out to pass because the adjacent lane is moving much faster than you are and there are no gaps available that are large enough for you to switch lanes. If I were King....

 

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the doofuss driving around in broad daylight with their foglights on...........oh, that's because some of you do it, don't you?

I've seen MINI drivers with their fog lights on in the daylight, friends, it does not make you look cool, it does not help you see better or be seen better - it's just annoying.

It's even more annoying in the dead of night when it's crystal clear out.

Use your fogs for what they're intended, low visibility nighttime driving..................please!

Oh, I forgot to mention "Klingons", those drivers who seem to need to glom themselves onto your bumper, usually in the adjacent lane, so they no longer have to pay attention to their own driving, they'll just let you do it for them.......

 

Those getting ticked off cause they wind up behind me when I CLEARLY have my turn signal on to turn left. Are they blind? A turn signal MEANS I'm going to TURN idiot! Pay attention!

 

My biggest problem with driving in the city is when I am waiting at an intersection to either turn left or go straight (one lane) and people try to squeeze up beside my car on right to make a right hand turn on the red. I have had some VERY close calls where the passenger side mirror of my car and their driver side mirrors have almost touched.

Making a one lane street into two lanes just because you can't wait for a d_mn red light is pathetic. Unless someone is dying in the passenger seat of your car or giving birth, wait your turn! (Can't think of another reason for doing that).

 

No one seems to know the sequence of who goes first when 2 (or more) cars arrive at a 3 or 4 way stop simultaneously anymore. Did they stop teaching this for a drivers license?!? And, the lack of signals. Not using headlights in a downpour, even though it's state law! Daytime running lights don't count.

 

+1 Soooo gross. Always men too. I have yet to see a female nose picker. Maybe they are just more discreet.

 

Oh, here's another good one... ppl that are clearly jealous of your car and feel the need to make rude comments about it when they pull up beside you, or the ppl that pull up beside your and try to get you to "race" them. LAME. Street racing is one of the WORST driving offences as far as I am concerned. It is right up there with DUI.

 

Good point. I've often wondered which activity really has the higher probability of going horribly wrong and hurting someone - driving slightly over the legal BAC limit, or engaging in street racing. My gut feeling is that they're pretty comparable.

 

left turn green and the people that wait til the other car gets across the way before they follow the next car to make the left

ughhh

1 car space max