Irritating driving behaviour..

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This thread is for anyone who wants to have a bit of a bitch about other peoples irritating driving behaviour (surprise surprise!)I live on a main road two doors up from a set of lights and you'd want to see the hassle I have some days getting out of my driveway. The lights might change a few times before I manage it, especially when the traffic's heavy.The most annoying thing is when the lights are red but someone drives up and blocks me in anyway, when it wouldn’t have cost them anything to let me room to get out since with the lights being red they weren’t going anywhere anyway. I make good use of the horn in those cases, I can tell you. Some people are so bloody obnoxious..It especially annoys me because I always make it my business to be courteous on the road. That's part my nature and part because I don’t want to be an obnoxious bitch and get lumped in with the rest of the morons!

i HATE how I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAAAAYS(!!!!) let people in.. but when im in that SAME spot and location to merge.. NO ONE lets you in

I know what you mean. Sometimes when somebody really pisses me off I get this 'screw you' attitude driving down the road and then I think that maybe that person met someone else acting like an arsehole and has allowed themselves to be infected with the same 'screw you' attitude because of their behaviour. So I think we can either allow ourselves to be infected with the 'screw you's' or we can spread the good vibes, ha ha. If the good vibes arent coming back it just shows how much work has to be done!It's not that I dont be annoyed, sometimes I do be FUMING, I just try to keep the bad vibes in my car, lol.

In Boston people play a little game where they'll cut you off, or not let you in, by not looking at you, making believe that you don't exist. If they accidentally glance at you, the game is over, and they have to yield. But that rarely happens.

Oh yeah, we've got that little game here too. I reckon it exists most places there are cars, lol.

I dont always keep the bad vibes in my car, ha ha, if someone is especially rude in blocking me in my driveway, and continues to ignore my polite little beeps, I've been known to stick my head out the window and roar "get the F**K out of my way". That usually gets them movin, ha!

I dont like when people dont let you out, its even more annoying when they cant look at u afterwards even though they are in the wrong.I dont like tailgaitersI dont like it when people overtake without indicating.I dont like it when people pull more into the middle of the road as if looking to overtake but just sit there.I dont like being overtaken by people in shittier cars than mine and think there cool for doing so.I dont like it when people use the phone whilst driving.I dont like people who drive under the speed limit when it is safe to drive st the speed limit.I dont like it when people speed in areas of increased risk, ie through town, past a school.

I pretty much don't like tailgaiters and that's it. I try to keep the attitude that if someone is speeding, cutting people off, etc, then they probably have to be somewhere, and what if it's an emergency? It's not likely, but still.

here's what gets me and I hope I can describe it effectively.there is a traffic line up, either getting on or off the highway. some shmuck drives along a free lane or the shoulder to get ahead of the line. it's bad enought that this moron thinks he's more important that everyone else waiting in the line but what really pisses me off is the fucking sack-of-shit idiot that lets him in!!! If I'm patiently and politely waiting in a line, I'm not letting some fat-head in who want's to jump the queue!!

I hate it when people don't speed up to get on the highway, or they go slower on the highway than they were going on the feeder. I hate it when people go illegally slow on the highway without indicating that they are having car trouble. I hate people who cut me off and don't even signal. It's obvious they didn't see me there and that they didn't even care to see me there. There's lots more, but it's not coming to me right now. I also hate 18-wheelers. I hate everything about them, really. Mostly I don't have any problems because I literally have to ability to drive over any car, and others with the same capability as me show me the same respect I show them.

Can we cite specific people?

My friend has a nasty little habit where he runs stop signs. Also, he tends to turn juuuuust enough to get around someone when hes changing lanes.

Yes arent they even worse than the queue jumpers?! Dosent it occur to them they're taking the decision to knock every person waiting in line back a place?!

Someone mentioned the use of mobile phones. That has recently been made illegal in Ireland - halleluiah! Is it legal elsewhere? And maybe in America different states have different legislation on that? It has been shown to significantly increase the risk of collisions.

Someone came on a radio phone-in programme here recently advocating the banning of smoking while driving. Maybe people will assume I'm biased as a smoker, but honestly, I dont see the need for that. I know I can and do get a cigarette into my mouth and get it lit without taking my eyes off the road for a second, nor one hand off the wheel longer than it'd have taken me to change the radio station and turn that person off. I can only assume he was a non-smoker. When you're a regular smoker you know that lighting a cigarette and smoking it is as second nature as any other physical movement you make dozens of times every day. If they're going to bring in legislation like that they'd better stop people chewing gum, scratching themselves etc..

There is no form of life lower than tailgaters.Grrrrrr....

Or people who slow down while talking on their cell phones.

I hate it when people slow down once the get on the highway when it's time to merge. I remember one morning my dad was taking me to work and we were about to merge onto the interstate. This guy, who had his rearview window blcoked with crap, had to stop and peek out his window to find some place to merge. My dad had to slam on breaks so he wouldn't ram him in the back.

if they decide to ban cell phone use in cars here, I insist that they ban cops from using their trminals while driving.

I had one jerk on the way home decide that since I had a sports car, he was gonna "race" off the stop sign. Sorry, the only thing he had going was he was in standard, mine is automatic...I just went like normal..

Anyway, hit the top of the hill, and the passing lane ran out, he just hung out all proud ahead of me...then the corners came...

Stupid SOB couldn't flipping go around em! If the caution sign said 45mph, he would do 40mph..That irritates me SOOO bad. If you want the lead, know what your doing. Don't leave me back there slamming on my breaks, because you don't know how to stear.

Stupid show offs..

I love living in the country but I HATE the way people drive here!! Don't get me wrong, tracters are useful to all the farmers in the area but they are NOT meant for the road! There is nothing more annoying to be driving along, doing the speed limit (or in my case a little over lol) and having to go from doing 70 to 25 in two seconds or you'll have to eat the ass of a John Deer with farmer Brown putting along paying no attention to anyone or anything around him. Drives me up the wall!I also hate the people who drive for miles with thier blinker on and never once do they turn.... gah!

Oh I know what you're talking about there. I was nearly killed a good many years ago over some idiot reversing out of the gateway to a field in a tractor, not looking where he was going or what was coming, needless to say.

We were on our way down the country at the time and going pretty fast. I wasnt driving, I was sitting alone in the back. My friend lost control of the wheel and we almost had three seperate head on collisions as she swerved from one side of the road to the other over and over. I just cant describe what it feels like to be sure you're about to die three seperate times in the space of about 1.5 seconds! I had no seatbelt on and was thrown around the back like a ping pong ball. I'll never forget the fear. Have never gone as far as my driveway without my seatbelt on since!

If you're in the country... Don't forget the country wave!

You mean the one that tells the other drivers that they are #1?