What are your DRIVING PET PEEVES?

[Charade]

Z) All of the above...

I drive about 2500-4000 miles a month and I see it ALL!!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Everything mentioned so far is very true.

Another, just happened to me the other day.
People who don't know how to merge into traffic! I was on an entrance ramp to get onto the service road. I had to slow down a little and wait for a car to pass. Well the guy behind me didn't like this and tried to merge behind that car and speed up in front of me and would't let me on. I HATE when people do that. I wasn't waiting an enternity. I waited for 20 seconds for the car to pass and it wasn't fast enough for him. Jeeze people, learn some patience. Oh and the kicker, he was driving slower than molassas on the service road and everyone had to pass him.

Another is people in big, huge trucks/SUVs who weave in heavy traffic. Especially when they act like they are a tiny car and miss you by inches.

 

[Nancy]

People that wash their windows while driving down the freeway, spraying all the cars behind them with bug crusted crudy water.

If you are getting the risidual spray from my car onto yours you are driving way too close!

Pet peeves:
1. pulling out in front of me and then driving really, really slow...especially when there is no one behind me at all.
2. Not looking for traffic when backing out of driveways or parking spaces.
3. Driving right on my rear end...NOT going to make me go any faster.
4. Slow pokes in the "fast" lane.

 

[Marseeya]

I have one to add.

I live in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and it's pretty darn hilly here. I HATE trucks who try to pass one another on the hills. You've got one truck in the right lane going 30 and the passing truck in the left lane trying to pass at 35. They can do this for at least a mile. It's flat out infuriating!

 

[golfgal]

Um, all of the above?

Oh, and people that can't take turns at a four-way stop.

 

[MO Disney cruiser]

SEMI TRUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I commute 120 miles (one way) to work on a major trucking highway. 60% of those SOBs need they liscence revoked. I used to drive a little compact car and they would litterally tailgate me. If I stopped quickly, I was nothing more than a speed bump.

 

[Pugsley]

My main one is simply people who think they are so much more important than everyone else that they don’t have to wait in line. If there’s a long line of traffic in the exit lane, they just stay in the fast lane as long as they can and then cut in front of all the people who have been waiting. Also I can’t stand the people who refuse to merge until the very end of the merge lane. I can be on the highway and have ten cars lengths of empty space behind me, but these people will not fall in behind me – they have to speed up and go to the very end of the lane and then cut in front of everyone.

 

[jennobrn01]

Drivers that do not use turning lanes appropriately.

Hello people! They are wide enough for the width of your car, and long enough for you to decelerate in before turning.

Please do not hang over in my lane while you are riding in a turn lane nor decel in my lane before getting into your turn lane.

ARGH!!

 

[highland3]

People who:

Follow too close
Make rolling stops
Drive too fast
Drive to slow
Don't shoulder check when changing lanes
Don't wear seatbelts
Drive and smoke with their kids in the car and windows closed!!!

Oh man.... it's no wonder traveling can be stressful

 

[Honu]

For the longest time, I didn't realize that the droplets actually travelled over the back of the car, so I just did it anywhere too. Then one day this guy was tailing me because I was driving too slow for him (only 10 mph over the speed limit, sorrrry ). I cleaned off my windows and noticed that he backed off and had to turn his wipers on.

Sure beats braking to make them back off!

Obscuring the windshields and endangering all the cars behind you is better than just getting over? I don't like tailgaters either, but spraying the cars behind you on the freeway is not safe.

 

[pearlieq]

Slow people! If you want to do 5 miles under, use the right lane!!!
People who feel the need to come to a complete stop before making a right turn!
Tailgaters!
Cell Phone users!
People who are so dang important that they can use the shoulder to zoom around a traffic jam and then expect me to let them merge!
Cigarette tossers!

 

[Chicago526]

Right along with the "waiting until the last possible fraction of an inch to merge (thus cutting in "line" in front of those that are waiting in traffic), are those that do this in front of me WHEN THERE IS A HALF A MILE OF EMPTY ROAD BEHIND ME!!!!!

Someone tried to do it to me this morning. I didn't let her in. She had, and I'm not kidding, at least 10 car lengths of empty road behind me, AND she was using the shoulder to try and do it, the merge lane had ended about 200 feet back. Hell no, I ain't letting you in! Just because you've got a huge SUV and I'm in a little Saturn does NOT give you the right of way!

Just on a side note, why is it that women are still often considered worse drivers than men? All three times I've been rear-ended, it's been by a man (two of whom had to buy me a new bumper!).

 

[AllyandJack]

I drive in Boston, so I have A LOT.

First, on the Leverett Down Ramp.....it goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane. People, it's not rocket science. The goal is NOT to get down without letting anyone merge, the goal is to keep moving. So, you let someone merge, then you go, then someone merges behind you, and the person behind you goes. It's not a contest to see who can run block.

Second....again with the Leverett Down Ramp....the LEFT LANE goes to Storrow Drive. That's what the big sign means when it says, "Storrow Drive - Left Lane". The sign does NOT mean "Fly Down The Right Lane and Cut Over At The Last Minute Causing Everyone To Slam On Their Brakes." You are not super important. Yeah, the left lane is moving slower because it's difficult to navigate Storrow Drive at the entrance. If you want to go to Storrow Drive, you wait like the rest of us in the left lane.

Third.....making a left turn from the center lane (this is for YOU....yeah YOU -Arlington Street onto Stuart Street). Loser, I'm in the left lane making a left. If you also wanted to make a left, you should have gotten into the left lane. You can give me the finger all you want, but I wasn't backing off and letting you in front of me. S-O-R-R-Y. Oh, and no, your Navigator didn't intimidate me.

Pedestrians. I think they all have a death wish in Boston. I'm amazed at the sheer number of people who would rather be dead than be cold/wet/late.

I get laughs every day though. How far down the carpool lane does someone have to be before they realize they're in the carpool lane? It's hysterical to watch them try to hop the curb or even back out. I don't see how the carpool lane is a benefit. I can't count the number of times I've been driving and seen the carpool lane at a dead stop because someone broke down or there was an accident. That's it....y'all are trapped in there.

I've seen it all.....I've had a verbal altercation with a congressman from MA up by Beacon Hill. I've had someone hit me in traffic - no damage to my car, but his Audi was banged up - and had to call the cops because he freaked out and blamed me (I wasn't even moving....). I've nearly been killed by someone driving a Ryder truck - he swerved and went perpendicular to me. I barely stopped in time. I've seen people having fits in traffic - nothing like watching the dude behind you screaming and slamming his head off the steering wheel. I could read his lips....he was yelling, "MOVE! MOVE!"

Just another day driving in the city.....

 

[Maleficent13]

One of my peeves is when I have my signal on, trying to change lanes, but impatient people behind me keep passing me on the right instead of allowing me to get over.

Also people who drive in the far right lane, and act stunned and annoyed when cars try to merge from the onramp.

People who insist on coming to a complete stop (when there is no intersection or stop sign) before making a right turn.

People who ignore all the "left lane ends 200ft" signs, and try to horn in, at the last possible second.

Everything she said, especially the onramp one...and especially when the two left lanes are traffic free...HELLO...can't you move over one lane for 20 seconds???

 

[phantom728]

Right along with the "waiting until the last possible fraction of an inch to merge (thus cutting in "line" in front of those that are waiting in traffic), are those that do this in front of me WHEN THERE IS A HALF A MILE OF EMPTY ROAD BEHIND ME!!!!!

I'm in agreement with this one, especially because there is always road construction in PA and this is almost always what causes the back-ups.

Other peeves:
1 - people putting make-up on while driving...wake-up 5 minutes earlier, so you wouldn't have to swerve all over the road.
2 - people that pull out infront of me (after waiting till the last minute) when there is no one for a gazillion miles behind me.
3 - not using turn signals appropriately (guess these are now optional on many cars )

My last big peeve is those drivers not courteous to motorcyclists on the roads. My DH rides daily and I don't worry about his driving...it's the other drivers who aren't paying attention. It's one of the reasons I don't ride my motorcycle anymore. Sometimes the clutch sticks and you have people behind you blowing their horns because they are obviously some bigshot that's more important...argh!

 

[laurietg]

#1 At a busy 4 way stop intersection-those people who think that just because they stopped, it should be their turn to go.

#2 People who are changing lanes and put the opposite signal on!

 

[Papa Deuce]

Ooops! Forgot one. When I am driving down the road at 70+ MPH, thisclose to the person in front of me and they put on their windshield washer..... that just gets my undies in a bunch!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

#1 At a busy 4 way stop intersection-those people who think that just because they stopped, it should be their turn to go.

How about the people who don't even wait for the person in front of them to finish their turn!?!
-I was at a four way stop. Two cars at the stop sign to the left of me, 1 person to the right of me and no one in front of me. The person to the left had the right of way and was making a right turn. The person opposite them went straight. So the car making the right was making a slower right than most people but nothing to get your panties in a bunch. So the person behind them just doesn't even stop at the sign and GOES AROUND THEM ALMOST HITTING THEM AND ME! I have never seen anything like that before or since.

My favorite people are these. When you are stopped in traffic on a main road. Everyone is playing along inching up when needed. Then someone comes along with the bright idea to pass everyone in the shoulder. Nice try buddy but no. Everytime I'm stuck in a traffic jam I put my car halfway in my lane and the shoulder. If an emergency vehicle needs to use it then fine, but not the jerk who thinks they are more important than the rest of us.

 

[Cindyluwho]

Obscuring the windshields and endangering all the cars behind you is better than just getting over? I don't like tailgaters either, but spraying the cars behind you on the freeway is not safe.

Hitting the brakes or spraying the car behind you is definately unsafe FOR THE TAILGATER!!! WEll, heck tailgating is unsafe! So don't tailgate! I'm not going to refrain from washing my windsheild because some yawhoo is trying to drive up my rear end. That being said, I'm a fast lane driver who keeps up with the flow of traffic - whatever the speed. That doesn't mean that if there's one driver going 95 I'm going to drive 95 but if the majority of traffic is driving 75 in a 60, I'll go with the flow. Also, my biggest pet peeve is people who throw lit cigarettes out the window. OK, let's just shoot these people now!!!!! They do NOT deserve to live!

 

[va32h]

Speaking of turn signals...how can people not realize that their turn signal is still on for miles and miles? Every vehicle I have ever been in has an audible signal, tick-tock, ding-ding, wacka-wacka-wacka, SOMETHING. Even if your radio is up loud, you can still hear that rhythmic little sound, especially if you are the driver and the sound is coming from the steering wheel, just inches in front of you.