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Completely unreasonable things that really piss you off when you’re driving

211 replies

BakersKitchen · 09/09/2026 19:22

It can’t just be me surely! I get so angry when:

  1. I am in a rush or just want to be home after a long day and people just won’t stop needing to turn right
  2. I realise I need to turn around and all of a sudden the world and his uncle are up my arse or trying to leave every junction it would have been good to do a U-ey in.
OP posts:
FudgeFudy · 10/09/2026 10:48

renovationqueen · 10/09/2026 10:37

People not using cruise control and/or not staying at a constant speed so they end up overtaking you then you have to overtake them then they overtake you etc etc etc

I agree, but I think cruise control zombies are worse tbh - I.e. people that think because they are driving at a constant speed they cannot be driving badly and are absolved of paying attention or reacting to anything going on around them. Cruise set at 70 and the car you are 'overtaking' has sped up to 69.999 (which in fairness is another annoying thing)? Doesn't matter, they'll carry on at 70 in the outside lane forever instead of giving the throttle a brief squirt to get past.

renovationqueen · 10/09/2026 10:37

People not using cruise control and/or not staying at a constant speed so they end up overtaking you then you have to overtake them then they overtake you etc etc etc

BirdLandedonmyHead · 10/09/2026 10:35

There is a junction i need to use every saturday that has traffic lights which manage normal traffic reasonably well. The issue is Football Traffic, which has to come out of a minor road. The queue to get ouut of the junction can take over half an hour. Thats everyone using that road normalky, and the fans.
All it needs is a different priority setting which allows more cars out of that road each rotation (usually 6 a time, then 90s of red).

Katemax82 · 10/09/2026 10:34

Another one. I used to live at the bottom of a hill. At the top was a road which people would have to turn right to go onto the road I lived at the bottom of. Every single fucker would completely cut the corner so badly if you were driving up to the road you could have a head on collision if you weren't careful

Katemax82 · 10/09/2026 10:32

Snoozysnoozy · 10/09/2026 10:19

The thing with this "trick" is that it exacerbates the reason for the queue in the first place. I'd more people did this then the queuing would get worse.

Dickheads everywhere

Good job I can't work it out in my head

Katemax82 · 10/09/2026 10:31

There's a roundabout near me (there's 4 exits, 2 to major towns and 2 to villages) I've lost count of the amount of people who just shoot out in front of me when I'm going straight over from my left (I always give way to the right but this roundabout has me questioning my left and right)
Also when I'm trying to pull out of a juntion and someone coming in the distance is indicating to pull into the road I'm exiting, can see I'm waiting to pull out and rather than let me out just ignore me and pull into the road, I actually witnessed someone trying to pull out do a sarcastic clapping to someone who just pulled in rather than let them out first

mondaytosunday · 10/09/2026 10:29

What annoys me is I pull over to let an oncoming car pass and then THEY pull over … why?! Now instead of just one of us being inconvenienced we both are.
Conversely, I think it’s an unwritten rule that if you are already on a road and a car turns into that road and sees you it’s them that needs to pull over. Really pissed me uff that the just barrel on down expecting me to yield when I was there first.
And people who hesitate for ages when pulling out, be it on to a road or joining traffic or at a roundabout. Or people that seem to have forgotten how roundabouts work…

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 10/09/2026 10:28

Drivers up your arse when you've already indicated you want to reverse into a parking spot. Especially when another car then appears behind them making it now impossible for the car behind you to reverse back to let you in and you have to abandon the idea. Infuriating!

Also people cutting blind corners on country lanes. Dangerous idiots 😡

I apologise as neither of these is unreasonable.

Snoozysnoozy · 10/09/2026 10:19

Katemax82 · 10/09/2026 08:49

I'm too stupid to envisage this

The thing with this "trick" is that it exacerbates the reason for the queue in the first place. I'd more people did this then the queuing would get worse.

Dickheads everywhere

Katemax82 · 10/09/2026 08:49

moggerhanger · 09/09/2026 19:31

People not knowing how to do a zipper merge.

Though I recently learned a trick that will no doubt have other drivers hating my guts if I ever have the nerve to deploy it. Say you're coming up to a roundabout, the left hand lane is queuing but the right hand lane is clear. You want to go left or straight over. You can turn right at the roundabout, and slingshot round. Entirely legal but likely entirely infuriating to everyone else.

I'm too stupid to envisage this

LakieLady · 10/09/2026 08:47

People who are too dopey to get ready to pull away at traffic lights as soon as they change.

We have a set of 4-phase traffic lights in my town centre where there is easily enough time for 6 or more cars to get through on the green phase, but it frequently seems to happen that the one at the front of the queue takes so long to get in gear and release the handbrake that only 3 cars can go through on each change. It's the main road through town, so the queue builds up really quickly.

The next set of lights is 3-phase, so not as bad, but the people who fail to observe the yellow box at the junction can also cause big queues.

Fairyyqueen · 10/09/2026 08:31

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 07:47

People driving too slowly on lanes and not using their rear view mirror to see a car behind them. I always let a faster car overtake. Kind me.

Undertaking on the motorway. When did this start being a thing? It's rife these days and never used to be.

Conversely people (often in jags) sitting in the fast lane doing 60 with a big queue behind.

I have noticed how prevalent undertaking on the motorway is now too, it’s dangerous. Middle lane hoggers do my head in and I can understand why people end up almost having to undertake them, but I was on the motorway the other day and I saw so many people basically just choosing to undertake when they easily could have overtaken properly. It’s like people don’t know how to drive anymore

JohnofWessex · 10/09/2026 08:10

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 08:09

Agreed. But its got a lot worse in the last few years (that I've noticed). Quite a few people on the road don't seem to understand the Highway Code.

Never mind understand the Highway Code, more like need to be in a secure hospital

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 08:09

Badbadbunny · 10/09/2026 08:06

Undertaking is illegal but you actually need police on the road to stop and fine them, which is a rarity, and even the very few police on the road see to turn a blind eye unless it’s a really stupidly dangerous move or they’re particularly bored.

Agreed. But its got a lot worse in the last few years (that I've noticed). Quite a few people on the road don't seem to understand the Highway Code.

JohnofWessex · 10/09/2026 08:09

People who are constantly lane changing and very close to the vehicles in front or behind them

Badbadbunny · 10/09/2026 08:06

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 07:58

The Undertakers seem to be youths though in those sorts of fast youth cars. Not very good on makes. They weave their way through the lanes. Quite dangerous if someone is pulling in from the fast lane and didnt catch sight of some nutter screaming up the middle lane undertaking away.

I thought the police have outlawed the CLOGs now and you can get a penalty for hogging the middle lane.

Undertaking is illegal but you actually need police on the road to stop and fine them, which is a rarity, and even the very few police on the road see to turn a blind eye unless it’s a really stupidly dangerous move or they’re particularly bored.

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 07:58

Badbadbunny · 10/09/2026 07:52

Undertaking is on the rise because of ever increasing numbers of people hogging the middle and even the third lane.

The Undertakers seem to be youths though in those sorts of fast youth cars. Not very good on makes. They weave their way through the lanes. Quite dangerous if someone is pulling in from the fast lane and didnt catch sight of some nutter screaming up the middle lane undertaking away.

I thought the police have outlawed the CLOGs now and you can get a penalty for hogging the middle lane.

Badbadbunny · 10/09/2026 07:52

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 07:47

People driving too slowly on lanes and not using their rear view mirror to see a car behind them. I always let a faster car overtake. Kind me.

Undertaking on the motorway. When did this start being a thing? It's rife these days and never used to be.

Conversely people (often in jags) sitting in the fast lane doing 60 with a big queue behind.

Undertaking is on the rise because of ever increasing numbers of people hogging the middle and even the third lane.

Flamingojune · 10/09/2026 07:50

Impatient drivers who hate on any road user more vulnerable than themselves

Gentlework · 10/09/2026 07:48

gardenbadger · 09/09/2026 19:43

Yellow cars. Idk why

IKR? They give me a sore arm.

Pineneedlesincarpet · 10/09/2026 07:47

People driving too slowly on lanes and not using their rear view mirror to see a car behind them. I always let a faster car overtake. Kind me.

Undertaking on the motorway. When did this start being a thing? It's rife these days and never used to be.

Conversely people (often in jags) sitting in the fast lane doing 60 with a big queue behind.

Badbadbunny · 10/09/2026 07:46

LlynTegid · 10/09/2026 07:23

If we had adequate driving standards and enforcement, then part time signals would be worth having.

Because we don’t have adequate standards of enforcement, jumping and ignoring red lights is becoming more commonplace. But having flashing ambers it turning off at night would help the law abiding drivers.

EdithStourton · 10/09/2026 07:45

People who sit in the outside lane doing 65mph when the inside lane is empty and there is nothing in front of them.

Groups of cyclists who think they own country lanes, and are actively dangerous (cornering on blind bends right over the wrong side) or rude to motorists who are being considerate (have slowed right down and pulled right over).

I'm not an arse, I've cycled 100s of miles in my life (including along the lanes where I meet the rude gits), so I do know what it's like to be a small and vulnerable road user.

Oh, and people who drive along country lanes but don't understand passing-places or can't reverse.

ETA, tailgaters. I've been rear-ended by one in the past, and I find them incredibly distracting.

TallSturdyGirls · 10/09/2026 07:43

thing47 · 10/09/2026 02:59

Constantly braking simply for no other reason than you don't like the way the person behind you is driving is called Brake Testing (or Checking). It's really fucking dangerous and can be illegal in the UK under the 1988 Road Traffic Act

Driving too close to someone to not be able to react is also fucking dangerous.
I don't do either because I am not a twat.

Wjdbxb · 10/09/2026 07:43

Roundabout edition:

  1. (my most hated offenders) People who don’t indicate when they’re getting on a busy roundabout to show that they’re getting off at the first exit. The fury as I sit there shouting “I COULD HAVE GONE” as they sail down it giving no fucks while I continue to wait.
  2. When you’re on one of those roundabouts with the multiple lanes that you follow round to bring you out at your exit (like the lines on an insole that you have to cut around) and someone realises they’re in the wrong lane and swaps lanes in front of you without indicating OR beeps at me when I come off to inform me that I’m in the wrong lane (when I absolutely am not and they’re wrong).
  3. When it’s a really big roundabout so people think it’s actually a racetrack and they should go around it as fast as humanly possible, meaning that nobody can actually get on the fucker.