Posted on 05/15/2006 4:17:43 PM PDT by TexasCajun
With gas prices at an all-time high – and more Americans on the road than ever – drivers are bound to be more irritated as they get behind the wheel for a warm-weather road trip or just the daily commute to work.
The Hagerty Collector Network – the country’s leading insurance company for collector vehicles and boats – surveyed thousands of members nationwide to find out their top complaints about other drivers. Here are their "Top 10 Driving Peeves.”
1. Distracted drivers talking on cell phones (Motor Mouths)
2. Slow drivers in the fast lane (Turtle Racers)
3. Pushy drivers who tailgate (Piggybackers)
4. Drivers who weave through traffic to gain one or two car lengths (Wacky Weavers)
5. Obnoxious drivers who speed up to keep you from changing lanes (Gap Snatchers)
6. Hasty drivers who change lanes without signaling (Space Invaders)
7. Road Rage (Road Ragers)
8. Motorcyclists who race down the middle of a lane, between cars (Speed Racers)
9. Women applying makeup and men shaving (Driving Divas)
10. Drivers who leave their turn signal on for miles (Morse Coders).
You left out the clown who drives with his high beams on like that's the in new way to drive...
I also hate people who race up in the right hand lane and just when they approach the slow-poke they then try to squeeze back into the left lane.
I've seen fat women in mini-vans with half dozen kids doing 9 out of 10 of those.
So I guess you could say that fat women in minvans full of kids is my particular pet-peeve.
Then when you give 'em "The Eye", they look at you like you are crazy.
Mine: People who tailgate you voraciously in the left lane until you are forced to move into the right, then pass you and IMMEDIATELY get off at the next exit.
"their top complaints about other drivers."
That car with radar and flashing lights....
Or people taking 10 minutes to make a right turn into the Supermarket parking lot. ...Just turn already.
16. The rearview mirrorless. People who never have a clue that you might be behind them rushing your dying next of kin to the hospital emergency ward.
12. Eighteen-wheelers who don't feel that lane restrictions apply:
a. during bad weather
b. road construction
c. whatever the delay
13. Shoulder (berm) riders
Or stopping in the middle of the road to let someone pull away from the curb so they can turn into the empty spot.
17. What do you call those people that make a wide 90 degree turn from say the right hand land over 2 or 3 lanes into the left hand lane right in front of you and of course never see or hear you?
20> Driving anytime in China Town.
1. the assholes that drive though my neighborhood at 50 to a hundred and the school bus that ignores the stop sign everyday.
I hate the idea of red-light cameras, but if it'll help save lives, maybe mine, it might work.
That's the 20-mule team turn, or the 747 taxiing off the runway turn. Actually, the 747 probably turns faster and tighter.
11. People who swing waaaaay too far to the left or right when making a turn, encroach into the next lane, and make people swerve away so as not to get dinged.
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