What are your pet peeves??? (Driving related)

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Ok, here's what really pisses me off :mad:

1. People who drive below the speed limit in the left lane, OR people who are in the left lane despite an empty right lane. It's for passing!!! RARR!!2. When i see drivers at dusk, without any lights on what-so-ever, this also to applies to inclement weather. Yes, i can see your car, but that doesn't mean some other dumbass will. Put on your lights dammit!!3. People who don't use their turn signals4. Tail-gaters 5. People who honk at you for no goddamn reason6. Blatant disregard for traffic rules, for example, this ***** who was in a turning lane next to me, while i was in the only lane going straight, the light turns green and she goes straight thinking the single lane road ahead is actually a double-one. WTF!?7. Ricers who think they are playing Gran Turismo in rush-hour traffic

i'll think of more later :icesangel

let me hear some of yours!?


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u sound mad......i hate getting redlights!!!!!

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i'm not MAD, i'm GLAD!

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Here a few of mine: 1. Tailgaters2. People who toss cigarette butts out their car windows.3. When merging, most folks alernate, but there's always a moron that considers it an act of war if someone else gets in front of him.4. People with all the extra driving/fog/notice me lights that are misaimed. If they're aimed properly, I'm fine with them5. Street Racers (got T-boned in the passenger door by one, I was 3rd car thru an intersection after light turned green. I didn't know there was a street race coming at me from the right, idiot almost killed my passenger, I got 75 stitches and a totalled car). He got no jail time. 6. Drunk drivers.

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1. people talking on cell phones and not paying attention to the road2. people who don't adjust thier driving to weather conditions (there are tons of accidents here in dallas/ft worth when the weather changes)3. ricers

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1. Cellphones2. People on cellphones in deep converstaion(mostly girls)3. #2 but add a SUV4. Dumbasses in SUVs5. People that don't think driving laws apply to them6. Ricers7. morons8. Idiots9. Old people that cant drive10. Young people(my age) that can't drive.11. People my age whose daddy bought them a car, so they care nothing for it and obviously show a lack in care for other people's car in traffic.

This list could go on and on. Iam getting frustrated thinking about most of the stuff, where do alot of these morons get their license? The Bubble gum machine?

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Man Iam gonna add some more to this, while its on my mind and the subject is here. My girl, well her friend recently recieved her driver's license and her thoughts of the driving test was "It was difficult, taking them turns was hard". This added fuel to my fire, does a driver need to be on the road that thinks the driving test was difficult, do we need a bimbo behind the wheels of a 2000+ Pound rolling death machine? Hell NO, how do some of these morons get their licenses, if you had the thought in your mind road driving test was hard or taking turns was little bit difficult, then you should not even get your license, driving is so ****ing easy. I could go on and on about this but I think Iam gonna stop here, Iam getting pissed just typing about it.

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Little old ladies behind the wheel!

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people putting on makeup while supposedly driving. people talkin on cellphones supposedly whle driving. getting cut off. people not going to speed limit.

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1. Drivers going too slow in the left lane.2. Tailgating when you are already going fast enough to satisfy anyone but an all out moron.3. Stupid rice bois that insist on messing around with other drivers in heavy traffic.

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wierdest thing driving my friends car he smokes like a chimney... (coincidence here?) Guy in front of me flicks his cig out the window no lie my window was down flew right in my ear we nearly crashed.

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LMAO

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ok i got some more!

8. Drunk drivers! (may they burn in hell!yes! THAT IS HARSH I KNOW!)9. People who think a yield sign means merge (not necessarily unless your'e on a major road or highway, usually a dotted line will mean that you are supposed to merge and not stop and merge)10. SUV's with death-wish drivers...(i.e. soccer moms, war veterans with a vendetta, etc.)

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My biggest gripe...... is hypocrites!

We all have a list, but how many of us have been guilty of commiting those very same offenses ourselves?

Just remember, the next time you feel like ripping the head off of the driver that just pissed you off..... you've probably done that to someone before. Forgiveness.

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1. tailgaters2. neighborhood speeders 3. young kids and thier jeeps trying to race you in the elements4. old drivers (25 in a 55)5. unnecessary revs with result in me whooping their a$$6. the "end of the mounth" quota season

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A few more:

1. People in front of you that are stopped waiting to make left hand turns off 2 lane roads but do not give you enough room to get around them on the right, so you're stuck2. People that leave the scene of an accident disgust me: Halle Berry, Ted Kennedy, Karen Howard (infamous in PA - she's the wife of the Philly Eagles PR director), Richard Druce (PA lawmaker nailed a pedestrian) still fighting his conviction despite blood all over his car, Lizzy Grubman. The list goes on.3. Drivers on drying roads that drive on the wet edges that kick up all the puddles, gravel and other debris onto your clean 2404. Bird dive bomb crap attacks on your car right after you washed it.5. Speed traps.6. Distacted drivers (cell phones, lipstick,eating, map reading - pull it over)7 Construction on major roads during rush hour.8. drivers smoking in a closed car with children inside. Total arrogance. Go ahead and smoke all you want by yourself, give yourself lung cancer, die earlier, I don't care. But don't make the kids suffer by having to breathe that crap. 9 Children not wearing seatbelts in cars. 10. Uninsured motorists. You won't be pissed until you get hit by one.

Hey this is therapeutic....

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Everyone's hit on most of mine, but I'd like to throw in: People who come to a complete stop before executing a turn People who stop in crosswalks or stop a car's length or more before the stop line SUVs, Vans, Minivans, VOLVOSI'm trying to avoid getting into po'ed tirade mode, so just add everyone else's to the list too, and that's my list

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old people in fast cars going really slow....

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Okay I hate it when:1. Sitting at redlight and the dumb*** behind you flies up on it and dead stops like you are not there and he/she might hit you.2. People that try to pass you when(example: I was passing a car and the car behind me done samething, well i sped up to make sure car i passed was clear of my bumper. The person on my butt suarved around me in front of the car i passed keeping me from getting back over)....stupid idiots.3. Another example here...(i was at walmart and the car infront of me was turning. She was waiting for traffic to clear so she could turn. The a$$hole behind me started honking my horn at me.)4. People who dont use turn signals or first dead stop then put blinker on. I need a warning that your turning. 5. Although yes I'm a girl, I DO NOT wear makeup. So there fore I see that the restrooms in the stores and your home is the place for it, not sit in car at redlight and apply. If so get in a parking lot and do it there. 6. I do use my cell phone at times while driving, not all the time but some. However, if I need to talk I pull off somewhere in town like a store to chat for a minute. Much more safer than speeding on everyone's butt and try to cause accidents.7. Tailgaters. Not unless tailgaters want to slam into me, they can go for it, but hey when they do, they just bought my car. (i love my car)8. Redlight runners and people who dont stop at a Stop Sign. I think sometimes some people dont know how to read :pface

I think thats it, but probably more.

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MasterMan wrote:old people in fast cars going really slow....


lol Where I live, I have seen old people in nice fast cars joy riding driving really really fast and they are dangerous. Yeah even the slow ones are worse.But here we have both. My mom came home and said a grandpa with grandma in the seat and another grandpa and grandma in the back passed my mom and my mom was doing over the speedlimit 45. She was running like 55mph and they passed her :shocked

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lets add the people who leave their signals on all the time! LOL:mad: I drive and talk on my phone about 5 days a week.(job related)I do pay attention tto what im doing and try to be carefull. I hate people not wearing their seatbelt.They save lives!!!

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i really hate...

1. elderly drivers - this is a freakin epidemic where i'm from. they drive too slow and are completely oblivious to their surroundings. i see elderly drivers cause accidents/near accidents everyday.

2. interstateentrancerampophobiacs - these are the paranoid maniacs that slow down to a crawl or stop before they merge onto an interstate. i've almost been killed twice by idiots like these. think about it. if everyone on the interstate is doing 75+ mph and you're at a standstill...HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GET IN! it's a hundred times easier to get into traffic if your already doing or close to the speed limit.

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Gotta love my seatbelts. one on the door and the lap belt :D Anyone I have ride with me will have that lap belt buckle. My mom hates it, but I learned a hard lesson. Car accident, my memory 93' when I didnt have mine on. *shivers* :(

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these are great! a lot of you have the same sentiments as me!

Maine! are you insinuating i'm a hypocrite! bwah! i'm insulted!

(runs off and cries in a corner)

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skydragoness5 wrote:these are great! a lot of you have the same sentiments as me!

Maine! are you insinuating i'm a hypocrite! bwah! i'm insulted!

(runs off and cries in a corner)


Absolutely not!!! I'm pretty sure you are the genuine article!

I was just touching on the theme of 'glass house... throwing stones' and 'judge not lest thee be judged'. I agree with most everything that has been said. But I also know that I have done some of those things before..... accidentally.

When I see someone pull one of these asinine maneuvers, I quietly remind myself that the offending driver IS only human, and I'm far from perfect myself!

Sorry Sky.... don't cry..... the thought of it breaks my heart!:(

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I have yelled out in my car something like crazy idiot...which I know I shouldnt do that. My mom says partially her fault for all the years I was a young child and hear her yell out and all, sort of bad habit picked up at early age. So I'm trying to change that not yelling out in my car to the crazy driver. I have forgot my turn signal before and just lil things....I know I aint perfect.

I'm at this other site and posting my thoughts there on a topic, sort of like therapy lol :pface

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onther one of mines are those when sombody says "oh i've (or my 'boy') beat this hooked ______ by like three car lengths. it had a body kit, exhaust,wing, tinted windows, rims, and a sound system..." yeah you know cause all those things actually make you car faster :rolleyes

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OUCH im one of those gran turismo drivers in and out of traffic with in inches of bumpers, a 4 lane, lane change onto an exit ramp at 90mph, nothing better then a well executed highspeed exit. tail gating when people in the fast lane are doing the speed limit or under ,i also like to weave in the lanes as to draw attention to tha fact that they are to slow. brake checks man i have to check those all the time to mak sure they still work.... swerving at people who are taking up a lane an a half, swerving at on coming traffic when they are swerving or in my lane a little .. (And yes i have very little regard for my own life). i also like to drive in the middle of a two lane road it gives me a superior feeling. or when some one is riding your *** an your pushing 95mph on a two lane highway slow down next to that car thats barley doing 55 an just cruise with them not allowing anyone to pass... its so great to piss someone off to that point were theyll try an pass in the grass median an then you speed up an watch them skid to a stop an they are fuming. in driving school they told us all about defensive driving, but i like offensive driving much better.... my goal in life is to piss you off, just remember that when you see an idiot drive that knows what they are doing

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umm slw240...are you being sarcastic? I certainly hope you are. I'd go into a preaching tirade, but I don't feel like it.

My peeves:1.People that almost rear-end me at stop signs, because they assume I'm going to roll through it.2.Other 240 owners that are really arrogant and deserve to be slapped.3.People who disregard my courtesy lane change signal and speed up to block me.4.Jerks turning left at out of a straight lane and cutting me off.5.Maniacs speeding through parking lots.6.Half of the drivers at my campus.7.I absolutely positively hate tail-gaters! I don't care that the law is on my side if they hit me, I don't want my car getting hurt.8.People who pass me for not accelerating fast enough, then cutting me off and going slower than I planned on going. I'm going to reach that speed eventually, I might as well save gas while doing it.9.cigarette butts10.litterers11.Drivers who give me a paranoid look when I'm just trying to compliment their car.12.Cops who regularly break traffic laws and are clearly not on call.

I could fish for pet peeves all day, but I'll leave it at that.

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no im serious


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