10 most annoying motorists

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 08/22/2010

[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/

[Ditter]

I'll bet you love the SmartCars too. I saw one on the freeway last week being driven by a huge fat man, he took up the entire inside of the car. He sped past me like a bat! If he had a wreck they would just have to bury him SmartCar and all.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Oops! lol I still missed that on the 3 or 4 double checks for clarity. :~D

[Ditter]

I don’t see that many slow drivers in the left lane, but I see lots of people going way over the speed limit in that lane but it’s not the fast drivers fault if a wreck occurs. Interesting.

[caww]

In N. Western Pa. I had to get accustomed to everyone driving bumper to bumper in one lane though there are two or more to drive in....and that includes when people are coming on from ramps....they don’t pull into the other lane so they can get out. It’s basically follow the leader all the way isngle file. Amazing.

[caww]

Well in Jacksonville Fl. you darn well better wait when the light turns green.... until all the redlight runners have passed the the redlight. It is common there...If you go when the light turns green you’ll get mowed.

[Fresh Wind]

3. Beep when you don’t instantly start after a green light

Get a bumper sticker that says "Honk If You Love Jesus". You will never have the problem again.

[Ditter]

Yeah, we don’t have round abouts, we have traffic circles. Set him straight!

[behzinlea]

10. Wave you through a stop sign even though they were there first.

This doesn't bother me. When it has happened, it is because we both got to the intersection about the same time. I see it as an act of courtesy.

[Genoa]

We have that miles and miles of miles and miles out here, perfect place for going fast

That sounds nice. By the way, if my speed limit were 75, I wouldn't be doing 76, but would ramp up appropriately to 81, a nice six miles over.

Publana, dear, you are the one who concerns me most. What part of the country do you inhabit? Please don't say Tennessee.
Love, Genoa

[Political Junkie Too]

People who make a right turn from a side street to get in front of you, and then they go slowly, when nobody was behind you and they could have waited a few more seconds for you to pass.

-PJ

[behzinlea]

He sped past me like a bat!

One time, I got passed on CA Highway 101 by a speed demon zig-zagging recklessly through traffic. I swear his license plate read, "Azzhol" or something close to that.

Truth in advertising, I guess.

[Ditter]

Was he driving a SmartCar like this idiot?

[windsorknot]

People who make a right turn from a side street to get in front of you, and then they go slowly, when nobody was behind you and they could have waited a few more seconds for you to pass.

and then they sometimes slow down to make a turn at the next side street.

[bmwcyle]

I said nothing about red light running.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Talk about using any argument, no matter how fallacious, to be able to do whatever you like! The speed limit for the passing lane is the maximum speed limit posted for the road!!! The traveling lane may have a minimum speed limit, say 45 mph, when the maximum speed limit is 70 mph. This means that someone driving in the traveling lane may travel at any speed between 45 and 70. Drivers using the passing lane are supposed to be traveling at a maximum of 70 mph, the maximum speed limit for the road. If you are driving over 70 mph on a road posted 70 mph, you are speeding and breaking the law, not to mention possibly driving to endanger. Not that hard to comprehend.

It truly sounds like some FR posters are trying to rationalize breaking the law and then castigating other posters for getting in the way of them doing it! Speed limits are set for everyone's safety. Police don't give tickets for observing the speed limit. They give tickets for drivers exceeding the speed limit as they are the drivers who are behaving dangerously. The logic on this thread by some posters is bizarre!

[Genoa]

Oh, boy, and I thought I was getting flamed! Hope you have your asbestos on.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I live in JAX at the moment. You are exactly right! I called 911 a while ago to report a semi that ran a red light on Arlington Expressway after my light was green. Had I or someone else been quicker to enter the intersection, we would have been creamed.

[caww]

Yep...when I moved there my brother warned me right away NOT to go when the light turns green but wait til those who run the red pass thru...I was amazed how frequently that happened...had he not told me I would have been mowed or dead!

BTW How do you like Jacksonville? Beautiful city thought. I stayed in Mandarin across from St. Johns Bay....then got an apartment close to the Bay.

[caww]

Oh well then by all means keep to your horn honking if it makes you feel better about other peoples business while at a stop...be it green, red, orange...or poka dot. Honk away!

[My hearts in London - Everett]

If FReepers want to flame me for inserting truth here, Genoa, they can go right ahead. I can handle it. I think defending breaking the law on a conservative forum like Free Republic is the height of craziness! lol We are not Europe and our roads are not the Autobahn as it seems some posting here would like ~ the Autobahn which does have speed limits, by the way.