drivers who don't realize they have their high beams on... or those pick up trucks with 34824972 headlights

 

When turning left at a red light, I was taught to pull into the intersection and wait for a clearing to make your turn. Too often people just sit at the crosswalk and when the light changes again....we just sit there..

 

Most things bug me more when I'm on the bike, but some include people who can't corner in their own lane, douchebags is GIANT jacked up trucks who drive them like a sports car, and a stretch of highway here that is 3 lanes wide, but there will always be 3 cars side by side going 5 under the speed limit

 

When people cut in front of me then goes slower than what i was originally traveling

 

Boneheads who turn onto the road right in front of you, and especially when they don't floor it!

 

The list of peeves for me is long but only one stands out: the people who take a million years to move their lazy foot from the brake to the gas when the traffic light turns green!
I waste several gallons per week waiting for them to move. I'll be behind just three (yes, THREE) cars and the idiot in front takes 10 seconds to realize the light turned green. Does that person hit the gas? No. They verrryyyyyy slllooooowwwwwlllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy creeeeeeeeep the car forwards. By the time I get to the light, it's red again. It makes me so angry that I wish they would make this illegal. I've been rear-ended THREE times because of these kinds of people. What happens is, I come to an intersection with one car in front. The light was red when I was 2,000 feet back. By the time I'm about 100 feet from the light, it's green but the idiot still hasn't even begun moving. I hit the brakes and WHAM! Someone rear-ends me. Sometimes, I wish I had a Land Rover Defender 110. I'd put a nice big bull bar on front and install the loudest horn I can find. If that doesn't get the message across I dunno what will. One time, I got held up by a guy who took so long that I was tempted to get out and knock on his window. Some people simply should not be allowed to drive.

 

Isn't that illegal? You can't hold people up just because you don't want them to pass you, especially if you're 12 miles UNDER the speed limit. Get their license plate number and report them. They deserve it.

 

Other Mini drivers who don't know they're supposed to wave

 

haha, D-110's are good trucks for that.

 

I had this happen twice today - drivers that signal that they're going to change into my lane in front of me, but take forever to actually execute the lane change. C'mon folks - there's an opening, you've signaled, so go for it already. Everyone around you is holding his breath waiting to see if you're really coming over so we can get back to concentrating on the rest of the traffic.

 

Lots of common themes here, especially left-lane discipline and manners in general.

Here's one that doesn't occur nearly as often but really gets me fired up when it does... Somebody in a left turning lane changes their mind. While waiting for the light to change, the second car back decides they want to go straight instead. The moron sits there through the whole left-turn-arrow because there's no room to move into the adjacent straight lane because cars are stacked up there too. So 18 people wanting to make a left have to sit through a whole light cycle because this twit changed his mind!

Guess what pal... you're committed to the left at that point. Make the left, go around the block, turn around, something. Because you forgot to get the milk and bread doesn't mean I have to sit through another long light cycle at the busiest intersection in the area. You got in the lane buddy, you're obligated. Sorry.