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08-16-2013, 06:53 PM | #1 |
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It just irritates me when other drivers....
So, I know there's no shortage of folks here who are just dying to rant and rave, so here's your thread for it.
It just irritates me when other drivers:
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08-16-2013, 07:25 PM | #2 |
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It really annoys me when people don't use signals, for example if I'm pulling out of a shopping center and waiting for one single car who ends up turning into the shopping center without a signal. Just wastes time and makes all the cars pulling out the shopping center have to wait for nothing.
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2. Yes, everyone should use their turn signals and people who don't use their turn signals tick me off A LOT. However, it doesn't really make THAT much of a difference @ a red light. On a green light, not using turn signals is just stupid and potentially dangerous. 3. I understand why this annoys you but keep in mind that people aren't obliged to make way for you just because you're moving faster in traffic. You shouldn't even be move much faster than other cars in RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. (to be clear: rush hour for me is 7AM LA traffic...bumper to bumper) 4&6. I hate double parkers period. I hate people who take up 2 spots even more! 5. Again, people shouldn't make way for you just because you're driving faster. They shouldn't be obliged to drive faster just because you're driving faster. (I'm assuming that everyone is abiding by the speed limit +/- 5 mph) I'm guilty...but I only do it when I have to make a right turn right away. For example, I turn left and want to get into the McDonalds right at the corner of the intersection. Otherwise, I tend to stick to my lane. |
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Oregon drivers annoy me...they are soooo slow.
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I agree with everything you have OP....especially the one where people merged into my lane and moving at a speed much slower than mine, forcing me to step on the brake. I hate them as much as the people that pull out of a plaza or driveway and drive super slow, while knowing that I'm moving a lot faster and really close to their rear in the same lane, forcing me to stomp on the brake.
here are a few of my own: 1) people that drive slow as hell then get pissed off when i pass them and move into their lane. 2) people that drive exactly the speed limit or +5mph in the left (fastest) lane....if you cant drive fast then move ur ass to the slower lanes! 3) people the park their big car or suv in the COMPACT parking spaces....taking up two spaces... |
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On a free flowing traffic, I'll definitely move out of the way (IF POSSIBLE) just to prevent road rage and the common courtesy applies in this situation. But remember, it's a courtesy...not an obligation. Males paying for dinner @ a date is courtesy not an obligation (but you lose "points" if you let her pay ). I'm not saying that people should never move just because you're fast. What I'm saying is don't expect them to move and don't complain if they don't move just like how they shouldn't complain if you pass them. This is all assuming the slower car isn't hogging the passing/fast lane. I've never been in an emergency service vehicle before but if they're going slow, I make the effort to go around them. I also consider a few things: they probably have sensitive equipment, they have poor visibility to see you, and possibly slowing down for a stop/turn. These things are up to the driver's perceptions and personality. I understand why the OP is annoyed with these things and why he's annoyed. I have little pet peeves too like people who don't use their turn signals or people that turn left just when a light turned green. I believe that just because you're going 50 on a 35, it doesn't make you king. But hey, to each his own. |
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I guess its less of a hall monitor mentality there.
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08-16-2013, 10:11 PM | #13 |
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Add one more..
While merging onto highway person driving in right most lane simply refuses to move over even if they can.. That gets my good pressure going..
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Biggest peeve will always be people driving slowly in the left lane just because it happens ALL the time. I especially hate it when trucks are in the left lane. |
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One scenario where I can see this being incredibly dangerous and obnoxious is if you're trying to overtake someone while you're in the oncoming lane on a 1 lane road. Quote:
Anyways, my biggest "on road" pet peeve is probably tailgating. In the past if I was feeling especially devious I'd engage my windshield wipers if I had someone tailgating me. I'd find that some of the residual windshield washer fluid would spray onto the tailgater's windshield, prompting him or her to engage his windshield wiper. Rinse and repeat if he doesn't get the message (pun intended). |
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Turn Signals at Lights: Around DC there are a lot of places where there are two or three lanes on either side of the road and where you can make a legal left turn; however, if you approached the light and didn't have signal on, folks think you are going straight and stay behind you. If you had put your turn signal on, folks would have moved over to the adjacent lane so as not to get stuck behind you. Ditto downtown in DC where at rush hour, you can often only get one turning car through the signal before the signal turns. The turners have to yield to pedestrians and they have to yield to oncoming traffic on the other side. Rush hour brakers: Bumper to bumper crawls isn't what I meant. (I haven't actually been in that type of rush hour traffic in over 10 years.) I wasn't clear enough in my OP. I really meant the traffic that's at the early or late part of rush hour. The rush hour comprised of either early birds or stragglers and the traffic is moving along at speed. TY for pointing out my oversight. Emergency Vehicles: I really meant the ones with the lights flashing and obviously headed to an emergency. Making Way: (With regard to no single prior comment) I agree that folks don't need to move just because I'm moving faster than they. But I don't think they need to move into the left lane and just hang out there. Most particularly when they are in the left and going on and on and on at a pace where nobody else can pass them or the person to their right. I probably should have said it that way(or something more or less like that) at first. One I forgot to mention:
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Pretty much anything a Prius does will annoy me.
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I just hate it when there's a car weaving in and out in thick traffic and ultimately cutting someone off and force that person to brake hard (and I could be the person behind the person cut off). I also hate it when people tail gate me while I'm not at the fast lane and all other lanes are free and open. |
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+99.9% If they are doing the speed limit somewhere other than the interstate, I'm somewhat more tolerant/patient, but by and large I agree. Regardless of what speed such folks want to drive, they definitely have no business impeding others, even if others want to exceed the speed limit. Why 99.9%? Because perhapse 0.01% of the time, the described situation is merely the result of circumstances at that moment. The rest of the time, those drivers are just being asses, particularly the self-absorbed, "omniscient," elected and appointed government types (foreign and domestic) in the DC area who make a living, for all intents and purposes, supposedly in the "best interest" of us idiots who put them there. When one makes a living telling the rest of us what to do, how to do it, when to do it and rarely, when at all, allowing individuals any say in the matter (95% of all laws are passed because business wants them passed), one becomes convinced that one must as a result always know what's right in any given situation.
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