changing lanes with out looking, checking their blind-spot and failing to signal - were the causes of my high speed rollover (& the demise of my favourite car).

Only the Southern ones? How do we know they are Southern? What if a Yankee old person borrows the car of a Southern old person and drives slow? What then....? lol.
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What bugs me MOST is when vehicles fail to stop or at least slow down for a a funeral procession!

non driving FU#&$
 

I should get the Nobel Stinking Peace prize for the crap I endure everyday, and haven't yanked some idiot out of their car and given them an old fashion Marine Corps ass whooping they would never forget !!!!!!:seeingstars:
I would bump this thread like no other if I wrote half the stuff I see and have to tolerate. I will be writing for hours on this thread. In case you didn't know I drive for a living. I'll come back another time and post many many things. Kinda busy right now.

For JAGG :)

Confessions of a type A personality ...
 

(i'm getting irritated just thinking about it. grr)

there are a lot of stop signs around here. and it's a pretty affluent area with folks who think they are better than everyone else. they don't follow the laws of 4 ways stops (and almost plow into me daily). and park in handicap spots even though they don't have that privilege making me walk rather far when it's pretty damn difficult for me lots of days. evil rich people.

Folks who see an animal in the road and don't slow down or stop. I've seen traffic backed up just to let Geese cross with their chicks:).

Pull across two lanes of traffic and come to a stop in front of me. :| I nearly T-boned a guy today when he did this.

That was funny....
 

But it is so true!...You and the missus have a goog evening ya here...Lisa&Yo

Not putting seatbelts on their children. If you don't wanna wear one, fine. No biggie. You are an adult and can make decisions for your own life...however, every time you hold your child on your lap, or let them dance around the back seat, or hang out the window, you are putting them in direct danger. That's my rant of the day! :)

folks that use the rear view mirror to pick zits. *puke*

re: pretend they can drive....
 

when they act like they can't drive until you try to pass them.

when I am in the right hand turn lane starting my turn ,and someone comes from the far left and pulls right in front of me and almost cause a collision !! That happens alot close to the border ! Girrr !

A-holes who speed up the moment you put your blinker on. They could be a mile behind you, but the moment you put on that blinker - it's like a race to make sure you aren't in front of them.

What really ticks me off...
 

Some days, I hate that they dared to leave their house in the first place! Next time, Ask FIRST! :fastdraq:

dangerous
 

People who don't put there lights on in the rain or snow, are endangering their lives if they plan on passing a tractor trailer. Reason is this, all we have is our mirrors to see you, we can't turn around and look out the back window or side window. When it's raining those big tires spray alot of water upward , plus are mirrors are wet and dirty with rain, if you are trying to pass us with no lights on, all we see is the curtain of waterspray from our tires, you blend in with it like a perfect camouflage. Until you drive through the curtain of waterspray (somewhere around the front of the trailer) we can't see you and could very likely try to change lanes right over the top of you. However, if you had your lights on, we would have seen you a half a mile before you reached the rear of the trailer.
Any time a car and a tractor trailer tangle , the car usually loses. Badly! That's why it's a law. To protect you !!!! And I don't know any professional drivers who want to be involved in a wreck of any kind, let alone a fatality wreck. That's one memory I can live with out.

hahaha lola. Hey I invented my very own imaginary laser vaporizer. It's alot like a remote control for your TV. I just shoot all the NON-DRIVING F#*&! with it and they disappear into a small puff of smoke never to be seen again. It works great. hahahahahah

When someone pulls out in front of you IN THE RAIN! I mean, come on, are you REALLY gonna' get there any faster?

Someone applying mascara while driving. THIS scares me! There is NO way you are paying attention to the road! :blink:

Going slow in the fast/passing lane. Grrrrrr! :readfineprint:

A couple of days ago, I had some big ole honking truck go from a gas station on the right of the road and go straight across to the farthest turning lane on the left. He's lucky as Hell that the light was red and we were all slowing down. If my brakes weren't as good, I would have T-boned HIM.

I knew a trucker that hit a car. It wasn't her fault. They had gone around a blind turn and were sitting IN THE LANE with all the lights off and no blinkers. She hit them at 55mph, killing the mother and the 2 month old baby the woman was holding on her lap. Did I mention the mother was the DRIVER?

*shakes head*

People do stupid stuff. If the rest of us are lucky, we survive their mistakes.

driving
 

All the ignorant drivers that tic us off, aren't going away any time soon, so we might as well suck it up and try to keep a level head. Sometimes I think I have seen it all in the 22 years I've been a professional driver. But then something new occurs and I wonder WHAT THE .... I have watched highway patrol cars pass me with the trooper typing away on his laptop. BTW we can see everything you are doing in your car . I mean everything! We can see every empty candy wrapper on your floor board, every stain on your seat, even what radio station you are listening to. If you pass a tractor trailer trust me, they are checking you out.

Not looking at where they are going!!!
 

Ok, so just got home. Was on way to my second job and driving through my neighborhood. Snow on ground.

I am driving slowly along and some guy, not looking, coming up to the intersection I am crossing over just keeps going...looking straight ahead....not looking over at me at all...I am blowing my horn and slamming on my brakes and start sliding...and it was like slo mo....

So, he hits me. Lovely.

What is interesting is that when someone hits me I never actually get angry. And what is even more interesting is that this guy, just like the last person who crossed in front of me didn't even apologize. They're just like hey, yeah, guess we should call the cops, huh?

Ugh.

Unfortunately, there is no stop sign for this intersection, but the whole neighborhood operates as if the road I am on is the "right of way" road (and looking at the roads anyone would guess that). But, since there are no stop signs, no one is at fault per cop.

The guy also had a passenger in his car that the cop ended up handcuffing and putting in the back of his car. I have no idea what the deal was with that, but I do know that I had to wait there start to finish for two hours while the cop was doing whatever he was doing in his car. Insane.

ETA: Yes, I am fine, as was the other driver and passenger.

There are drivers that shouldn't be on the road.

This evening, I was picking up some Chinese food. I was making a left-hand turn into a parking lot. There was a woman, waiting to turn left out of the parking lot. As I started the turn, the woman, completely oblivious to me, made her turn, almost hitting me. I had to veer over into the other lane to avoid being hit, all the while sitting on my horn. The woman was completely non-plussed. She just looked ahead and continued out into traffic. I sat there for five minutes, wishing I'd taken her license plate number. This was right across from a senior center, and she was obviously not appropriate to be driving.

On a daily basis, I'm baffled by the inability of most people to correctly navigate a four way stop.

Apparently the four way stop was not intended to be an orderly form of traffic management but a big giant clusterfuck where everyone's main goal is to go before the person who truly has the right of way at any given time. The most common way of insuring this happens is to just follow the car in front of you and go when they go. Even if you are the third car back. Extra points if the person who actually has the right of way is attempting to turn left in front of you because we all know that every vehicle at any intersection within a three mile radius has the right of way before anyone turning left. Ever.

When someone drifts over to the right lane from a double left-hand turn lane- just don't even look to see that the car that was stopped next to them is in that lane!!

People that park their car in a residential area and hang either front or rear over into a drive way.

Makes me the most nuts- cell phone using or texting drivers!

ARGH- tail gating!!!

People who text while they drive..ugh !

When your in the right lane to make a right,,and someone comes all the way over from the left lane and cuts you off!