Posted on 08/23/2010 8:31:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
1. Drive really slow
2. Go first at an intersection when you were there first
3. Beep when you don’t instantly start after a green light
4. Tailgaters who easily could go around you
5. Don’t pay attention at traffic lights
6. Lane changers
7. Write text messages while driving.
8. Turn in front of you without using a signal.
9. Tailgate when you’re behind someone else.
10. Wave you through a stop sign even though they were there first.
Source: www.wedolists.com/2010/08/top-10-most-annoying-types-of-drivers/
I like Gallagher’s idea:
Everybody should have a dart gun that shoots darts with flags that say “Stupid” on them, that stick to the car.
Then when the cop sees a car with a bunch of “Stupid” flags on them, he pulls the driver over for being an a-hole.
No one is saying you have to do anything unsafe. I presume if you wanted to exit, you would find a way to move over to the right lane.
So have some courtesy and move over for a minute, then move back.
(2) Your 85 mph is way over the speed limit and unnecessary.
Not your job to say what is unnecessary. Your job is to operate your car in a safe manner. Creating your own roving roadblock of aggravated drivers behind you is not safe.
Most of the heavy traffic merge lanes do, however, tend to be close to 100 yards long. The hills, old wagon trails and people who tend to build their houses so close to the road that you can spit watermelon seeds on the traffic from your front porch does make for some pretty unique situations.
Another thing really weird about SW Pennsylvania is the sheer number of household natural gas meters which stick out almost to the edge of the road. I understand it is galvanized high grade pipe going into these things. but the sheer amount of rust build-up and locations of these things are disasters waiting to happen, particularly given the fondness of so many of our locals to drink and drive.
Or Obama’s?
In most states the law is to get out of the left when safe if somebody comes up from behind, no matter how far they must be breaking the speed limit. It used to be a simple courtesy, but too many were on the road with your attitude so the states started making it the law. How “too fast” I’m going is none of your business, the left lane is for the fast, if you aren’t the fastest get out of the way.
A Obama Hope and Change bumper sticker would carry a 10x point value per dart.
The right lane is for slower-moving traffic, not a free lane to be used only for merging and unmerging.
They spend a lot of money building special lanes for merging and getting off; they are called the merge lanes and the decelleration lanes. That is where people should accelerate and decellerate.
I dislike drivers who drive down the acceleration lane at 40mph, and then when you drop back and accelerate to get on the road, they cut into the right lane just as you are trying to merge at speed (although in honesty, if I’m accelerating faster than the car in front of me, it’s because I’m going to move over 2 lanes, because it would be discourteous to cut off someone in the acceleration lane who had to pull onto the highway at some point).
When using the acceleration lane, I tend to simply drop back early, to leave me enough space to accelerate to speed regardless of what the guy in front of me does.
I also dislike people who drive past people stuck in the deceleration lanes, and then stop in the right lane right at the final exit point with their blinker on expecting someone to let them in who has been waiting their turn to get off a road (this applies when there is a backup on the exit ramps).
I am annoyed by people who pull into the left lane and then stay there even when people are right on their tail, when there is nobody in front of them and the lane next to them is clear.
Because forcing people to pass on the right is dangerous
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Now while I too detest people driving slow in the fast lane, I wonder why someone would stay “right on their tail” when the lane next to them is clear? And if the right lane is clear - to use your example - then why is passing on the right “dangerous”?
I often use the “clear” right lane to breeze past a slow left lane driver. Why would you slow down and drive behind them, hoping they move over?
Cling-ons. Ugh.
Here’s mine, during the morning commute there is a light where the right lane can go straight or turn right on red, while the next lane to the left also allows the driver to go straight.
Of course the moron is the one who wants to go straight but is in the right lane, thus making everybody in the right lane wait until the light turns green to finally make their turn.
Housewives in the left-hand lane going below the speed limit while yakking on the cell phone - while the right lane is empty. It’s not a stereotype if it’s true.
Truck drivers who change lanes to pass other truck drivers and then maintain the same speed as each other for 3-4 miles as cars back up behind them.
If I get tailgated closely while stuck following a slower driver (passing cars on the right), I will lay off the gas and let other cars in. If the tailgater tries to maneuver around me, I will speed up, but you have to be tailgating me pretty close to tick me off.
The idiots in the right lane who don’t get over to let you merge onto the highway, even if the left lane is completely empty.
#4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10
are as deadly as a shotgun
to a motorcyclist
I stay away from those people
like avoiding poison
Sooner or later, they will kill you
Of course a "Coexist" bumper sticker should warrant getting pulled over right there.
It’s safer for both of you to either speed up to match the car in front of you in the left lane, or to find a bit of a gap in the lane next to you and move over to let the faster driver past.
Even if you don’t feel like being courteous, do you really want some guy right behind you who is getting frustrated by your slowing him down? They don’t usually get calmer as the miles go by.
I find that driving is a lot safer if I don’t treat it as a competition, and if I think about how I’d feel if I was the other guy. Let the cops enforce the rules if they want to, and drive to keep yourself alive and safe.
love the Carlin quote
all on the list are in my awareness list of annoyances
For me the most prevalent one is the tailgater. I think next time I am tailgated I will brake fast & get free chiropractic for a year as I fall out of car & crawl to the curb!
Alabama drivers that think a light drizzle is a good reason to cut their speed in half.
Alabama drivers that don’t get the concept of the left lane, it is for people who are moving the speed limit and are not intending to slow down or stop for a while.
...or swinging far left first...
Not your job to say what is unnecessary. Your job is to operate your car in a safe manner. Creating your own roving roadblock of aggravated drivers behind you is not safe.
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Really? So when somone is breezing along at 35 MPH in your kids school zone, you have no comment?
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