Posted on 08/23/2010 8:31:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
1. Drive really slow
2. Go first at an intersection when you were there first
3. Beep when you don’t instantly start after a green light
4. Tailgaters who easily could go around you
5. Don’t pay attention at traffic lights
6. Lane changers
7. Write text messages while driving.
8. Turn in front of you without using a signal.
9. Tailgate when you’re behind someone else.
10. Wave you through a stop sign even though they were there first.
Source: www.wedolists.com/2010/08/top-10-most-annoying-types-of-drivers/
People that pull right out in front of you just to make a turn, when they could’ve waited that extra 1/2 second for you to pass because no one was behind you.
In Texas it is a manner some ahole drivers use to "push" cars out of a lane. They absolutely refuse to pass a car, instead tailgating until the car in front eventually gets out of the way. And there are open lanes on the left, you can see the drivers doing it to every car in "their" lane. Cops will do this too (no flashing lights, just a jerk mentality).
People who use every red light as an opportunity to dig through their bag, their purse, the console, whatever, and fail to see the light change, again and again. Usually on the cell while doing so.
Park the car to sort through your crap, please.
Don’t accelerate up to highway speed on an entrance ramp and expect everyone on the highway to deal with you merging in at 40 mph.
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I disagree with ya in this one. I call the right lane the “get on-get off lane”. Don’t be in it unless you are getting on or off. Get in the middle lane or the fast lane. And stay out of the way.
People in the left turn lane who stop well past the line. You can't turn until you get a green light anyway, so why do you need your back wheels past the stop line. It's not like the people who can turn right on a red light who scoot past the stop line to get a better view to the left.
i drive 86 miles to work, each way. i see ladies with a cig in one hand and a phone in the other. WHAT the hell are you driving with lady. Or going down the X-Way at 80 while texting. Or the guy who is reading the paper in the next lane. I could go on.
Using the exit ramps as a passing lane (they aren’t “mistakenly” in the lane, they cut off those who are merging onto the highway just so they can pass one car in the lane adjacent to the exits).
11. Go full speed into an intersection without first looking to see if traffic is coming their way.
12. Drive as far forward as they can in a lane that’s about to close and then expect to be let in.
Some of these look like no win situations:
2 and 10 are opposite sides of the same coin, people who dont follow stop-sign etiquette.
3 and 5 seem odd because the witer soent like it when others dont go at green, but thinks you should wait when he doesnt want to go at green.
4 and 6, if you tailgate you are a jerk. If you get around him, you are a lane changer.
I’m just glad they didn’t name names.
How about the ones who speed up when you pass, and pace you in your blind spot? What’s up with that, insurance scam waiting to happen, think they’re hidden from radar, what? I don’t get it, but it happens all the time.
People that drive northbound in the southbound lanes. I really hate that.
My beef is this: Let’s say there are two lanes and the speed limit is 70, and there’s a good bit of traffic, so not much opportunity to pass safely. The right lane is clogged with people driving at 65 mph, so I’m in the left lane. But I have a guy tailgating me in the left lane because my 75 mph is too slow to suit him. He is in a hurry and likes to do 85, and I am a problem.
I want to add, think they’re driving a tractor trailer when making right turns.
I’ve seen several drivers holding their cellphones with their right hand to their left ear and driving with their left hand.
You need to stay out of the passing lane.
When people are passing you on the right, then you are in the wrong lane, MOVE.
Except that the law also says that lower traffic should keep to the right. If the flow of traffic is faster than you, even if you are at the limit, you should not be in the left lane. If you are not passing anyone, you shouldn't be in that lane. Slow drivers cause an unnatural traffic flow and that leads to accidents.
And as an old driver instructor was said, "It doesn't matter who's right if you're dead."
See 34.
13. Drivers who think there’s no speed limit in the left lane.
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