Horrendous Drivers - Please post what you hate the most about them!

[rthonpm]

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The worst has to be the numbskull who feels the compulsion to make a complete stop when making a turn onto a side street. It's one thing to slow down, move to the right or left side of the lane (or shoulder) and make your turn, but when you just stop in the middle it drives me crazy!! This has to be a Midwestern thing as I saw it all the time when I lived in Indiana. Maybe all the hayseeds out there learned to drive on their pappy's tractor???

[Tricky]

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Bearing in mind we drive on the left in England,

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The left hand lane is for turning left or going straight on, the right hand lane is for turning right.
But if the left hand lane is busy, full of law abiding motorists, some drivers decide they should not have to wait.
They join the right hand lane and approaching the junction swing left or stop and indicate left, hoping someone will let them in.

women driving 4WDs, who gave them that right

I have seen women having problems trying to reverse park a Smart Car

Hopefully prtnfxr will see the funny side...

[prntrfxr]

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At least in Georgia you can do a U-turn. In the state of Maine it's illegal. I just have to remember that when I go back and visit on vacation.

[pacman]

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My beef isn't so much with people on the freeways / streets, it's with idiots in parking lots.

1: No turn signals whatsoever. It's like they lose their minds once they enter in.
2: Driving down the MIDDLE of a lane. This is one I see more and more. They refuse to get over to a side and look at you like YOU'RE the idiot as they almost hit you.
3: Taking turns so sharp that you almost get hit while sitting there waiting for them to turn.
4: Speeding in a parking lot. It's a PARKING lot, not the Indy 500.

I'm so glad I did online shopping this year for Christmas. I would have needed a Xanax to navigate a mall parking lot, or would have had to carry my .45 ACP around. Glad I didn't have to do either.

[prntrfxr]

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I have seen women having problems trying to reverse park a Smart Car

Hopefully prtnfxr will see the funny side...

Women Drivers Compilation ( - YouTube

That does not surprise me. I didn't say I was necessarily a bad driver, just have bad habits. Although,... I did back over a tree stump once. Had to replace a rear axle. Very expensive. I look more carefully now and go slower in reverse. I drive better than my baby brother. He can't park to save his life, poor thing. Will circle a Wal-Mart parking lot for 10-15 min during this time of year so that he can turn left to park. God help you if you're parked next to him when he backs up. Good thing his wife can. She parallel parked a 29 foot truck in a matter of minutes. I bowed a "not worthy" for that one. Not all women are bad drivers. Most drive safer than men but lack skill. My middle brother can drive/park great too. Much better than me. Parallel parked better and faster than our driving instructor when he was 18.

I don't do this, mind you, but I have a friend who goes out to the end of his street on Sunday, sets up a lawn chair, cracks open a beer with his brother and watches the church across the street for fun. It seems that there is a Korean congregation that meets there and he says that parking lot is funnier than most of the funniest stuff you see on TV. I don't think being Korean has anything to do with it, but he swears it does and says the women are worse.

[Akitu]

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That does not surprise me. I didn't say I was necessarily a bad driver, just have bad habits. Although,... I did back over a tree stump once. Had to replace a rear axle. Very expensive. I look more carefully now and go slower in reverse. I drive better than my baby brother. He can't park to save his life, poor thing. Will circle a Wal-Mart parking lot for 10-15 min during this time of year so that he can turn left to park. God help you if you're parked next to him when he backs up. Good thing his wife can. She parallel parked a 29 foot truck in a matter of minutes. I bowed a "not worthy" for that one. Not all women are bad drivers. Most drive safer than men but lack skill. My middle brother can drive/park great too. Much better than me. Parallel parked better and faster than our driving instructor when he was 18.

I don't do this, mind you, but I have a friend who goes out to the end of his street on Sunday, sets up a lawn chair, cracks open a beer with his brother and watches the church across the street for fun. It seems that there is a Korean congregation that meets there and he says that parking lot is funnier than most of the funniest stuff you see on TV. I don't think being Korean has anything to do with it, but he swears it does and says the women are worse.

I've noticed that tends to be the problem, as have most safety officials. Apparently there is such a thing as TOO cautious, and people need to find the line clearly drawn in the sand...

As for the church escapades - lol.

[Rob Sandberg]

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I had so many to reply to I didn't want to have quotes all over the place. Oh well...



Blade, I would love to have a 4WD and NOT drive it off road (but I could if I wanted to and that's the point). LOL! My favorite vehicle of choice right now is Toyota FJ Cruiser (just can't afford it right now). The silver one and it would be clean and shiny. I'm a girl, and um...color is um...important.

I like a lot of what everyone else has mentioned, but I qualify for some of them, so you guys probably wouldn't like to see me on the road near you.

1. I believe that the lines on the road are suggested guidelines.
2. I drive faster when there's a peppy song and slower on a slow song. Sorry, that's just how I roll.
3. I use my signals 95% of the time, but you may not get much warning. I am not afraid to pass on the right as well as the left.
4. I choose to drive 80mph in a 65. I never go over 80 because they charge you double and you can lose your licence. If I am in the left lane (passing lane), going 80, and you pull up behind me to the point where I can't see your tires touch the ground, at the soonest available moment I will pull into the right lane and let you pass. I hate people who do not extend the same courtesy, but assume they are the road police and sit in the left lane going just above the speed limit to make some statement to the rest of us who drive too fast.
5. I do not tailgate anymore, not even at a traffic light (if you can't see where the tires touch the road of the car in front of you at a traffic light, you are too close), but I used to when I was younger. Had too many collisions, tickets, and etc...
6. I do not text or call people while driving. If they call me, it goes on speaker phone and it is very brief. I tell them I'm driving and will call when I get home.
7. I need to work on eating while driving, playing with GPS while driving (just as bad as texting), and I should turn the radio down.


I am grown-up enough to admit my bad habits. I am also improving. I haven't had a ticket of any kind or an accident in over 8 years. I am more polite and courteous. I think ahead before getting in the car about my route. I try to use only right turns. A. It's safer, B. It saves gas, and C. It's usually faster. (UPS does this. Saves them thousands of dollars. Great for tech routes, but works equally well for quick trips to stores.) We all get to our destination eventually, just some a little faster than others.

I just hope when you pass on the right you don't use the sidewalk!!

[oldschool]

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What about those (expletive deleted) that jam everyone up when construction forces two lanes of traffic into one. Everyone else has moved over to the open lane. These people drive as far up as they can and then put their blinker on and force their way back into traffic. Now the entire line of traffic behind them has to stop. If they would just get in line when they should the traffic would at least keep moving.

[gwaddle]

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What about those (expletive deleted) that jam everyone up when construction forces two lanes of traffic into one. Everyone else has moved over to the open lane. These people drive as far up as they can and then put their blinker on and force their way back into traffic. Now the entire line of traffic behind them has to stop. If they would just get in line when they should the traffic would at least keep moving.

I just don't let them in.

[prntrfxr]

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Ok...This dumb editor erased my message, twice...something about my message being too short. When has that ever happened? Hopefully it will work this time.

Originally Posted by oldschool
What about those (expletive deleted) that jam everyone up when construction forces two lanes of traffic into one. Everyone else has moved over to the open lane. These people drive as far up as they can and then put their blinker on and force their way back into traffic. Now the entire line of traffic behind them has to stop. If they would just get in line when they should the traffic would at least keep moving.




I just don't let them in.

I used to think that, but now I've discovered that not letting them in is your mistake. THAT is what slows traffic up. If each person let's one person in then at least the lanes are moving. You're just getting sore just because someone didn't have to wait 5 or 10 seconds more than you. The problem is that you didn't choose the fast lane. So suck it up and endure it or get in the faster moving lane, but don't stop the flow of traffic. Getting hot about it lets them win anyway. You get all stressed out, you don't get home any faster, and when you do you're mad and have a headache.

As for sidewalk driving, this is something I haven't tried yet and probably never will. It's an issue of safety, I don't want nor am I trying to kill someone. I'm just not the most patient person. Especially, when I've been on the freeway for over 3 hours due to traffic, I've had a 42 oz drink when I left work, the next exit is my exit, and I have to go pee. I call that an emergency. If it isn't one, it will soon be one. I put my emergency lights on (even though I know that's not what they're for, I'm trying to be a safe driver), and drove to my exit utilizing the shoulder and the grass as an emergency lane.

[Ollie1981]

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Oh man, I have a list and a half.....

1/ In the UK on the motorway we have three lanes, the leftmost lane is the lane you are supposed to drive in when you aren't overtaking. I swear to God I have driven down practically deserted motorways late at night at 70+mph and come across some divot sat in the middle lane doing a steady 60mph. Therefore in order to legally overtake this chump, I have to make two lane changes, then another two to get back to the left lane. I usually don't and just pass them on the left and hope no police are watching.

2/ The cretins that refuse to use the motorway sliproad (on ramp) to accelerate to a sufficient speed (at least 60mph) to merge. They dawdle at 20-30mph until they hit the end of the sliproad, then they promptly soil themselves when they can't merge with an unending line of 40 ton articulated lorries doing 60mph. Some will actually move out onto the motorway forcing a 40 ton articulated lorry to make a very sudden lane change, this is how they end up jack-knifing and closing the road for hours.

3/ The douchebags in expensive cars that lose a ball when they get overtaken by a "lesser" vehicle and have to re-overtake to get their ball back. I'll be on a long stretch of motorway and some prick in a Jaguar/BMW/Porsche/Merc will be dithering in the middle lane at 60mph, I'll put out to the right lane and overtake and pull back in further up, barely seconds later Mr Douchebag is tear-arsing it down the right hand lane at 90mph, he'll pull back to the middle lane 100 or so yards ahead and go back to dawdling at 60mph........ and repeat for the next 50-80 miles until one of us turns off. Maybe you lose your golf club membership if they ever find out you were overtaken by a van full of copier parts? I don't know.

4/ Lane is closing....... there are signs at regular intervals for at least a mile telling you so...... so instead of pulling into the open lane, you floor it and try and get in right at the head of the line..... then wonder why everyone closes the gap and doesn't let you in.

5/ The idiots who let the cretins from "4" in at the head of the line...... make the prick sit there all day at the line of cones with his indicator on and perhaps he might learn a lesson.

[oldschool]

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I used to think that, but now I've discovered that not letting them in is your mistake. THAT is what slows traffic up. If each person let's one person in then at least the lanes are moving. You're just getting sore just because someone didn't have to wait 5 or 10 seconds more than you. The problem is that you didn't choose the fast lane. So suck it up and endure it or get in the faster moving lane, but don't stop the flow of traffic. .

Well the issue is as folks empty out the closing lane to get into the open lane than the closing lane will move faster cause people have moved over. It's the guy who drives to the front of the line from the back of the line that slows things down. Human nature being what it is; once one person does it than five more will follow. You still have to stop to let them in so actually he's the one stopping traffic. I'm usually too far back because I've moved over when the signs told me to.

[Ollie1981]

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.....oh I got more

6/ When you are in a line of traffic and see there's cars waiting to turn onto the road, you slow down and let the car at the give way line go..... but then right up his backside comes the prick behind him....and the one behind him......I carry on moving forward otherwise I'll be sat here all day and the next guy at the junction has the balls to honk at me for blocking him off...... well done chump have a middle finger on me.

7/ In the UK at a roundabout we give way to traffic coming from the right, I don't even think about this consciously anymore therefore if you are approaching from my right and you stop at the give way line, it completely screws me up. Don't flash your lights to let me go just go!!!!!!Because as soon as I decide to go, you'll change your mind and go and then the resulting accident will be deemed to be my fault, plus the guy behind you nearly rear ended you because he wasn't expecting you to stop.

8/ Tailgate all you want prick, the back of my van is completely unglazed so half the time I can't even see you..... after all I hear front end repairs to Audi Q7s are very expensive and my brakes need testing right about NOW!

9/ What is so complicated about parking your car between two straight painted white lines? I've never had a problem managing this.... but damn I've seen some funky parking.

10/ If you want my space in this busy carpark, don't stop right behind the van and wait for me to levitate my van somehow out of the space. Some dipshit sees me get back to the van, roars around the carpark to stake his claim on the space and stops his car right behind me right in my exit path. I'm facing a brick wall so HAVE to reverse out so I wait with the van still in reverse gear (so he can see the lights and hopefully take the hint) and he stays stock still ..... I take the van out of gear and he starts honking, shouting and waving his arms out of his window.... I get out and we have the following exchange....

HIM:- What are you dicking around for? I want that fucking space.

ME:- You are going to have to let me out of it first.

HIM:- I'm not fucking moving, I've spent the last half an hour driving round for a space and as soon as I fucking move one of these other pricks will take the space.

ME:- Right..... so how do I get out of the space then?

HIM:- I DON'T FUCKING CARE JUST MOVE YOUR FUCKING VAN!!!!!!!

ME:- Go fuck yourself prick.

HIM:- CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT!!! *Roars off with much tyre squealing*

[blackcat4866]

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I've done a few sidewalk adventures. Right in downtown Flint. Two lanes of traffic turning left, and I'm on the right. The person on the left took the turn really wide leaving me 5 feet of sidewalk and a bunch of surprised pedestrians sharing the sidewalk with my Escort.

This one might be off topic, but it was cathartic for me.
I pulled into a gas station to pump some gas. A beat up pickup pulls up behind me and starts blowing the horn. I'm still filling out my mileage log and ignore him. He walks around to my passenger window and proceeds to turn purple while telling me this is his pump, and that I'm in his way. I tell him I really couldn't give a shit. He tells me that I'm an asshole. "So, what's your point?"

He just stands there with a blank look on his face. No answer for that one? After a minute he goes back to the truck and waits quietly.

His wife comes up to me when I'm preparing to leave. "What did you say to him?" =^..^=

[mjunkaged]

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Well the issue is as folks empty out the closing lane to get into the open lane than the closing lane will move faster cause people have moved over. It's the guy who drives to the front of the line from the back of the line that slows things down. Human nature being what it is; once one person does it than five more will follow. You still have to stop to let them in so actually he's the one stopping traffic. I'm usually too far back because I've moved over when the signs told me to.

And that's the one time I heartily endorse straddling the lane 3/4 before it ends (if you can safely) to end the "I'm going to zoom to the end of this closed lane way ahead of my rightful turn" trick. It really puts a damper on those thinking about it way back at the FIRST 'lane ending, dumbass!' sign (maybe they'd BE more effective, if they actually DID end in 'dumbass!')
Sadly, I'd guess no. Stupidity is like insanity, no one ever thinks you're calling THEM stupid or crazy!!!!