What other drivers do to make you insane...

[ravfem]

When someone starts following too closely, i'll just take my foot off the gas and start coasting.

If they back off i'll continue on my way. If they don't, we'll both be going about 2 mph quickly.

[LipstickLola]

Originally Posted by ravfem

When someone starts following too closely, i'll just take my foot off the gas and start coasting.

If they back off i'll continue on my way. If they don't, we'll both be going about 2 mph quickly.

A little tap on the brake works too

[justkim]

Signals are not a part of the *additional options package*... When driving in Denver using your signal only gives the other drivers cause to speed up... and let them know that you wish to be a willing participant in a game of bumper cars... Better yet, those people that think that they can just squeeze in when they have known for the last five fricken miles that the lane they are in is going to end...

[betenoire]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I have some friends that live in SF that don't drive (I love our rapid transportation where I live and use it often) and that have almost been hit by this very thing many times! One of them carries a frozen water bottle to whack cars when this happens!

Oh my god, that is so awesome! I might have to start doing that.

I've always settled for yelling "if you injure me - you go to jail."

[Sparkle]

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).

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by Sam

makes me crazy when the old southern folks pull out in front of you then drive under the speed limit.

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!

[JAGG]

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 !!!!!!
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.

[LipstickLola]

For JAGG

[Blade]

Swerve to keep from hitting something. Gosh that makes me insane. Hit the deer, dog, squirrel whatever it is but don't hit me head on or sideswipe me, please

[Enchantress]

Drive slowly.
Merge onto a freeway without increasing speed.
Get in front of me and drive 20 mph when I'm going 80.
Not stay within their own lane.
Not paying attention when a light turns green. Causing me to miss it (and honk loudly).

Drive when I'm on the road?

This is simply skimming the surface.

Just sayin'

[Miss Scarlett]

Highway drivers who miss their exit and rather than taking the next and turning back, they just back up on the highway!

Drivers who empty their ashtrays in the street at traffic lights or in parking lots.

[fiercegrrl]

(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.

[NJFemmie]

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.

[Billy]

For some reason they like to tailgate behind the tahoe , if I can see your breakfast still in your teeth , your just to up My ass , and there is a trailer hitch on the back and I'm just sayin , if I stop real fast that steele bumper is going to be your new grill and I am not talking about on the hood of your car

[Starbuck]

I have several things that tick me off but I believe the worst are:
1: When stupid people REFUSE to use their turn signal to change lanes or make a turn...they just come over in front of me or slow way down to turn...grrr!

2: When people just HAVE to change lanes to get in front of me and then they slow down. What was that for???

3: Contrary to popular belief, NO vehicle is going to fit up the dual exhause on my Harley Davidson Ford F-150 pickup truck, so get off my butt!!

[bigbutchmistie]

Oh Lordy

Ok, I hate it when people are driving less than the speed limit and they arent driving in the right hand side of the road...

I hate it when Im going the speed liimit and someone flies around me moves back in front of me and slams on their brakes to be an ass

When people change lanes to get in front of my car to go SLOWER than a turtle

People who dont use turn signals

Stupids who dont use seatbelts for their children

[Blade]

get out and drive in the snow for no apparent reason, except "I have front wheel drive" I just wanted to see how pretty it was

[morningstar55]

reading all the postings here........
being the truck driver i am ......
i get 4 wheelers doing this around me 24/7 ...... how do u get use to it?? well you kinda do .. but kinda dont... its still aggravating as hell.... and keeps one on there toes.
hate the ones who speed up , pass me , then jump in front of me and hit there breaks................ I SWEAR.. ONE OF THESE DAYS!!

[TickledPink]

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!

Going slow in the fast/passing lane. Grrrrrr!

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Jesse

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.

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.

Originally Posted by JAGG

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.

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.