"Is that a green light ? *cough *cough.."
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/
Have you ever driven on the Autobahn? If so, then you would understand why.
If “no-one prefers a slower speed”, why would you only drive 76 if you could drive 80? Isn’t that the very definition of “preferring a slower speed”?
I realise you might “prefer” the slower speed simply because you don’t want to get a traffic ticket, but it’s still a preference, and one not shared by the person who is tailgaiting you hoping to get you to move over.
That reminds me of another driver I hate: I am driving in the right lane, no traffic behind me, in front of me, or in the left lane. A driver comes flying up in the right lane, slows down behind me, and follows for a mile or so. Then they pass on the left, get almost a half-car length past me - then wham - right back into the right lane, directly in front of me. Still no other cars around.
I mean, seriously, wtf?
I hate the drivers who wave you through at 4-way stops as if you don’t know when your turn is.
You sound like you don’t believe in speed limits. Are you a libertarian? Anarchist?
"Is that a green light ? *cough *cough.."
true that. left lane cruisers could be people who always wanted to be state troopers ,but didn’t want to go through the academy.
“I thought that habit was unique to SW Pennsylvania.”
It’s common here in Indiana. Another Indiana trait is running red lights. You better watch here when the light turns green on your side. You’ll get T-boned.
Oh boy is that a sore spot with me. I HATE THAT. It’s actually an passive-aggressive power play. I have right of way but I grant you permission to go as a boon.
This and its many permutations is actually EXTREMELY dangerous activity. Whatever the reason, a person is attempting to change the written rules of the road between himself and one other driver, when there are more than likely others who would be impacted, (no pun intended), by the misguided effort. I have seen more close calls than I care to think about when people engage in this stupidity.
Sometimes I’ll pull over in that case anyway, in the hopes that the tailgaiter will be a lot more annoying to the car in front of me than I ever would be, and might encourage them to move out of the way so we can both go faster.
Here’s what upsets me. I’m in the left lane along with half the population of the state, we are all moving at the same speed, there’s really no breaks anywhere. But I’m maintaining maybe a 3-car-length gap, because it’s safer than nothing. And the guy behind me pulls to the right, passes me, and cuts me off into my gap. Then the next car and the next car do the same thing. They aren’t getting anywhere, except in front of me. That’s annoying.
Once in a while, if I get tired of it, and my resolve falters, I will wait for a good gap, pass all of them who passed me on the right, and then force myself back in front of them. What, are they going to complain, since they just did it to me?
I don’t usually do that though, since it is counter-productive. (It’s a trick you can use on line-cutters at theme parks. Let them cut. Wait a while, and when the line moves, simply cut back in front of them and whoever it was they “joined up with”. If you can get the whole line to do it, you can push a good 20-30 people past the line-cutters. And what are they going to do, complain to the park police that people they just cut in front of are cutting back?)
Don’t vote Democrat. I will gladly let you by when I can do so safely. You’re traveling at an unsafe speed, and I don’t want you near me on the road.
GET OUT OF THE LEFT LANE!
In Germany, a country which has far fewer accidents per 100,000 than the USA, the speed is unlimited for large parts of their autobahn. No matter how fast you are going you must get over when a car comes up behind you in the left lane, if you are doing 190 and a car comes up behind you, you had better move over or risk losing your license. I feel it should be the same way here.
If the move over law was enforced we would have fewer accidents and holier than thou people who think everyone should drive at their speed would either get the F*** out of the way or they would lose their license.
Have fun in Germany.
How about those oh so courteous folks who fly past you, pull into your lane, and promptly put on their turn signal. Notice that usually in such a case there will be no one behind you for miles.
I’m a transplant to the rural Georgia. And here, it isn’t passive-aggression. It’s seen as someone being nice and neighborly.
It makes me nervous and frustrated, because I’m afraid that I will become the victim in an accident. I can just hear the kind, neighborly lady trying to explain to the sheriff’s deputy, “I was just trying to be polite. I don’t know why she is so upset that the other driver crossed in front of her and hit her car!”
No, I don’t think so, but I will continue to fight for more lenient speed laws here and tougher enforcement on people who think they should control other driver’s speeds. You sound like one of those people and I hope I never come up behind you in the left lane, there are enough, “I will drive my speed and you had better like it because I’m not getting over”, people on the road as it is.
“In Texas it is a manner some ahole drivers use to “push” cars out of a lane”
This ploy just makes me madder. I won’t be bullied. I actually go SLOWER just to tick them off. I cannot STAND tailgaters. Don’t they know the one-car-length-for-every-ten-miles-an-hour rule?
You are absolutely correct and there are stats to back it up here in the US. If you are going 5 miles an hour slower than the mean speed of traffic you odds of dying are high, but knock it up to 10 miles an hour slower it’s like drunk driving dangerous. This means if you have backed everyone up behind you no matter what the reason, your odds of dying are very high.
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