Pet peeves for other drivers

So many...
One that always drives me nuts is people who use their brakes going up a hill. Not preparing to turn, not because somebody is in front of them, just riding the brakes uphill! You take your foot off the gas and gravity will slow your vehicle as momentum is lost on the uphill grade. I get behind somebody using their brakes uphill I have to find a way to pass them.

I think braking up hill is just a nervous driver, they probably don't even realize they are doing it.
My big pet peeve is drivers who don't use their turn signal. Here in south Florida you'd think they were all disabled. Take your pick: the car in front of me slowing down for no apparent reason; merging into my lane without warning; or waiting on a car to go by so I can cross on foot only for it to turn. Not sure why it's such an inconvenience to flip that little lever.

Numbers 1-9 out of 10...
Tailgaters...
#10- Drivers who can not park

No turn signal is the biggest one. People that feel they just have to pass you even though you are going the speed limit or just above...... that and the people that seem to have no clue that you are not supposed to change lanes in an intersection......

I think braking up hill is just a nervous driver, they probably don't even realize they are doing it.
My big pet peeve is drivers who don't use their turn signal. Here in south Florida you'd think they were all disabled. Take your pick: the car in front of me slowing down for no apparent reason; merging into my lane without warning; or waiting on a car to go by so I can cross on foot only for it to turn. Not sure why it's such an inconvenience to flip that little lever.
Was it a car of q-tips driving in Florida? You know, the cars in front of you where all you see are little white things above the seat?
The old folks may boogie down on the farm but in the cars it's like a box of q-tips driving down the road.

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Tailgaters...
#10- Drivers who can not park
I can't park because of rack and pinion steering, before that no problem at all.

No turn signal bugs me.
A car approaching mine and takes a left cutting me off and they think they had the right of way.
Tailgating.
On the phone at a green light.
On the phone. Period.

Driving with two feet - one on the gas, one on the brake. They're not slowing, but their brake lights keep coming on again and again and again.
Lazy phuks who park in the fire lane in front of a store because they're just getting a few quick items. These are typically the same folks who can't put the shopping carts back and just leave them in blocking spaces in the lot.
Highway tailgaters during rush hour, endlessly 15 feet off the bumper of the car ahead, accelerating then braking, accelerating then braking, over and over, like ferrets on speed. Chill!
People stopping as they enter shopping center parking lots when all the stop signs are positioned for those leaving. Every mall or shopping center in America is the same! You enter without stopping. All the stops signs are positioned for the cars leaving. Why is that idiot stopping as he comes in!
As a corollary to the last point; people who have the right-of-way, but wave on someone who gets to the intersection after them. Thanks for screwing up the traffic flow moron!
[Edited on 5/9/2020 by Fujirich]

1. The ones who throw their cigarettes out the window (you KNOW who you are!)
2. Driving under the speed limit in the LEFT lane!

Not using turn signals, believing a stop sign is only a suggestion. text while driving, talking on cellphone while trying to drive.
Just holding onto your phone while driving in Ga can get you a $500 fine.
One of my wife's' co-workers got fined because she had the phone sitting in her "vault" and talking into it while driving.
Texting will get you two tickets. Driving while distracted and holding the phone. Up to $1000, and that's first offence.
Not using turn signals is a $280 fine.
My pet peeve is when someone gets right on your butt and won't go around you even when there is a looong straight piece of road in front of you.

Having to wait for someone waiting for a parking spot when there is another open parking spot 50 feet away.

Minding your own business in the right lane. No one behind you for over a mile. Approach an exit, d-bag decides the right move is to first pass/veer into you, leaning on the brakes on across your lane and off the highway on their merry way.

My pet peeve is when someone gets right on your butt and won't go around you even when there is a looong straight piece of road in front of you.
And when/if they do pass, they slow down and you have to back off.
How did cop know she was on phone? How did she get a ticket for talking into her phone if she wasnt holding it?
You aren't familiar with the southern term about the "vault" are you?
Apparently she was having an animated conversation and when the cop pulled up beside her he saw the phone sitting just inside her blouse on top of her boobs. She had to keep adjusting the phone so it didn't slide off, thus she had to hold it every once in a while.

Here is a good one.
I just got back from a short hike in the park. On my way there driving through a residential area with a 45 MPH speed limit, I get passed going about 45, give or take a couple mphs. So I catch up to the guy at a red light...that probably burned his ass that he passed me and was likely going 10 MPH over the speed limit and has to sit at a red light while I come up on him. So this guy, he has stickers on his rear liftgate..."stay alive don't text and drive", "drive sober or get pulled over". Light turns green guy hammers it, he's off. So apparently speeding is ok with him and the dangers that can present, but he cares a lot about safety for texting and drunk driving. Thought that was rather ironic.

Cutting me off from the left lane and immediately taking an exit when there is no one behind me and and I am driving the same speed as the traffic around me.

Those who tailgate so closely that all you see in your rear view mirror is their windshield.

I saw a video somewhere on line with dash cam of a semi truck on a 3 or 4 lane interstate. This small SUV in front of them was going slow and wouldn't get into the slow lane. Truck goes to pass, small SUV changes lanes too in front of the truck. This happened a few times until finally the truck was in the far left lane about to finally pass the small SUV, just when small SUV driver signals and starts changing lanes in front of the truck. Truck didn't lift, SUV comes across the face of the trucks bumper and the truck driver dumped him just kept going as the SUV got spun onto the shoulder. Enough was enough.

I'm a magnet for assholes, the only good thing about the CV-19 virus was the early part of the lock down it was a pleasure to drive every one was home and not working.

^ You are way more tolerant than I - I go into defensive alert when I can't see their tires. I will either speed up for space, or just pull over if they are bumper to bumper at high speed.
The guy yesterday stayed on my butt even though it was a 4 lane road, speed limit posted at 45 mph, and a school zone.
I stayed at 45 thinking that "Dude, ya got about a mile and a half to pass if you want." I try my best to do a mile or two under the speed limit since it's US 41 through Centerville, one of the hotspots to get tickets ($280 for going 2 mph over the speed limit).
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