Jerks like that are the reason turret guns were invented.
"2. If you've got to drive slow, you better know where to go. Those who putz in the fast lane ranked as the second-biggest driving annoyance.
My vote for a-hole of the year.
Heads up ladies ... trying to put on eyeliner and mascara while driving is right up there with lighting a cigratte inside the hindenburg .... pretty stupid.
I cannot believe that women doing their makeup in the car did not get on this list.
I lived in Germany from 87-91 and the law there requires cars in the left lane to move to the right when faster traffic overtakes their vehicles. Also, it was illegal to pass on the right on the Autobahns. The vast majority of German (or drivers on German roads ) comply with this rule. Coming back to the USA, it drove me nuts to constantly have the slowest drivers hogging the left lane. I think some Americans were trying to enforce the speed limit by staying in the left lane. It doesn't bother me as much, but it is still a problem.
Don't they teach the rules in drivers ed?
If you find yourself in situation number 3, you are probably engaged in the problem described in number 2.
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Mine is similar to #2. People who drive less than the speed limit on 2 lane highways. If you are going 65 I'm fine, if you are going 64.5 I'm behind you flipping out.
I'm REALLY surprised that "rubber neckers" wasn't on that list. That is MY biggest pet peave when driving, among the others that were mentioned on the list, I absolutely hate it when traffic comes to a dead stop because of looky lou's who just HAVE to slow down and look at the car on the side of the road with the flat tire. Jeesh. SO annoying.
I'm surprised that spandex clad recreational bikers didn't make the list. They are most commonly seen riding three abreast at 15 to 20mph on what is normally a 40mph roadway. The sidewalk - or better yet, purpose built bikepath - 10 feet away and parallel to the road is invariably empty.
Bikers are the worst, police on revenue enforcement duty are a very close second.
Jerks like that are the reason turret guns were invented.
No. 2 seems to be epidemic in Ohio.
You'll get some old fart who sticks the cruise on at 58 MPH while he's trying to pass an 18 wheeler who's doing 57.9 MPH and it takes 15 minutes to complete the pass.
Then the old fart gets completely blown off of the road as the 2 miles of traffic zoom by him.
"5. If you are a driver with a superiority complex, beware. If you speed up to keep other people from changing lanes or passing you, you were ranked as the fifth-biggest irritation on the road."
I am number 5. And if someone is REALLY trying to pass me, I enjoy pulling up next to a car going EXACTLY the speed limit and putting on cruise control. Just to see how big a line of speeders I can get trapped behind me on the highway. A lot of fun on I-85.
Seems like they left one off. That is the one that says left or right "lane closed ahead" and drivers continue to use the lane until the last minute and then try cutting in.
The latter happened to me yesterday. It was smokin' hot out and there were very few free spots at the theater. A 20ish couple climbed into their shoe box car, then sat there for 5 minutes while I waited behind them. (Before you say that I should have moved on, there were only a few spaces and other cars already waiting).
If anyone wants to know how big an a-hole I am, just Freepmail me and I'll tell you what I did. ;)
Surprised they didn't list reading while driving (or composing a Blackberry or text message).
I have another one that trumps them all.
When you're sitting in traffic...driving down the highway...and traffic is backed up for miles at an odd time of day. You FINALLY get through the jam and what's the cause?
There's an accident ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN HIGHWAY (as in, NOT IN OUR WAY!) and people are STARING at it like they've never seen a wreck before. They might as well ask the cops to bring pieces of the car over for them to look at.
1. TRAFFIC. Specifically, sitting in it.
2. TOLL BOOTHS: New Jersey should change its nickname from the Garden State to the tollbooth state. I spent 30 minutes waiting to get through a toll booth near Giants Stadium on Sunday.
3. POORLY COORDINATED ROAD CONSTRUCTION: Yes, lets shut down ALL BUT ONE LANE on the turnpike extention from Bayonne/Jersey City to Newark, THE ONLY WAY OUT OF TOWN to the rest of the state! Note the the NJ DOT: schedule all such construction LATE AT NIGHT, or at LEAST keep more than ONE FRIGGIN LANE open so that I can go more than four miles within an hour!
2. If you've got to drive slow, you better know where to go. Those who putz in the fast lane ranked as the second-biggest driving annoyance.
1. And the Big Kahuna, the No. 1 act that survey respondents said made them grind their teeth down to a pulp when they saw other drivers doing it? You guessed it -- chatting on the cell phone. Some 28.5 percent of those surveyed would like you to hang it up the next time you hit the road.
I find these two related. At least 95% of the time I have to pass someone in a left lane going well below the speed limit on the freeway, they are on their cell phone.
Around here the "fast lane" is the right lane. The left is clogged with rubber-necking tourists and ladder-covered, mulch-filled, illegal-immigrant-navigated work trucks.
Ah, life in paradise...