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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:
Itsdarkateight · 09/09/2026 19:58

When you’re waiting at a red traffic light behind a few other cars and when the light changes to green, the cars in front take about 7 working days to actually get in gear and start to move! Whyyyyyyy!

Fairyyqueen · 09/09/2026 19:58

TheBers · 09/09/2026 19:36

Lane management drives me bonkers. I know there is a lorry visible in the far distance but you won’t be overtaking it for at least 5 minutes. Stay left until you need to overtake it.

Also driving too close. That’s whats causing the phantom stopping. Amplification breaking - the driver behind has to stop more quickly, repeated until the later drivers end up not moving .

Agree, and also people who come speeding up right up your back side and then go to over take you right at the last minute. I haven’t just suddenly appeared here in front of you, I have been here for some time, an over take shouldn’t be at the last minute (though I agree it also shouldn’t be done too far in advance lol)

Badbadbunny · 09/09/2026 19:57

When you've been in a long queue of stationery or slow moving traffic for a while and prats in front keep letting traffic in out of side roads who've been waiting a fraction of the time that everyone behind them in the queue has been waiting, causing everyone else to be delayed further when the amount of cars having been let in causes everyone else to wait longer as they get through the junction/roadworks/traffic lights etc before you. If I've been stuck in a 20 minute queue, I don't want to wait even longer when people who've not waited at all on side streets get let in without any wait/delay.

thisfilmisboring123 · 09/09/2026 19:56

The jogger by my house who comes around a blind corner into oncoming traffic when there’s perfectly suitable pavement 😡

TheBers · 09/09/2026 19:56

Iocanepowder · 09/09/2026 19:52

Cyclists

Especially when theres a cycle lane but they still drive on the road. Impossible to pass on a busy 40 mph road so long queues of traffic doing 15 mph unnecessarily.

Fairyyqueen · 09/09/2026 19:55

Halloumiqueen · 09/09/2026 19:25

People not letting others turn out of Junctions

my dad always told me to ‘keep the traffic flowing’ so if I’m driving down a road and a car is wanting to turn onto the road I’m on (if it’s safe to do so) let them go.

I think people should be predictable rather than kind, yes it’s lovely to let every Tom dick and Harry out, but it’s unpredictable, unpredictability can cause accidents imo

blackscreens · 09/09/2026 19:54

Random brakers - when the car in front on the motorway keeps touching their brakes (even though there’s no obvious obstruction in front of them). That causes me to brake and no doubt the person behind me too - all of that combined slows the flow of traffic right down.

Iocanepowder · 09/09/2026 19:52

Cyclists

Whoops75 · 09/09/2026 19:52

BakersKitchen · 09/09/2026 19:34

Yeah I actually find it really annoying if I am behind someone who keeps doing this. Fair enough if in traffic but the other day there was no one behind me and someone kept letting people out and it was really quite dangerous

Yes!!
look in your mirrors before you stop, could be gap behind you.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 09/09/2026 19:51

When there are parked cars on the other side of the road and someone on that side pulls out around them forcing me to stop when I have priority.

squashyhat · 09/09/2026 19:50

Drivers braking when another vehicle, on its own side of a two-lane road, comes towards them. Not single track, not narrow, not dark, not speeding. Just why?

maudelovesharold · 09/09/2026 19:50

Near my home, so it’s happened multiple times, I’m waiting to turn right in a ‘waiting to turn right’ box, so not holding up any traffic, and I’ve identified a suitable gap in four cars time, but the fourth car driver decides they’ll do me a good turn, and starts flashing me repeatedly to galvanise me into going before they reach me (quite soon). I always end up jumping to it, even though I would have much preferred to wait and go when I had originally decided I would, at a leisurely pace!

LuckyHazelFox · 09/09/2026 19:49

People changing lanes at the last minute because they realise they need to get off motorway exit. So fucking dangerous.

IMTHECRAZYOLDLADY · 09/09/2026 19:45

People who come to a stop just to turn left, forcing me to brake behind them. People outside the school on my drive home, who park on a double yellow, taking up an entire lane, so two way traffic has to somehow fit in one lane. Bus drivers that just park diagonally at a bus-stop effectively blocking all traffic. That person who drove in front of me at 18 mph down a 30mph road, and then kept repeatedly breaking such that I almost drove into the back of them -I had to enter a car park just so that I could drive around into the next exit to get away…

fost · 09/09/2026 19:45

When you're waiting to turn right and there's a full lane of traffic to cross, so you wait, and then yay, there's a nice big gap! And then the last person in the traffic slows down to let you go, making it take longer until you can turn, slows them down, and would have been totally unneccessary if only they'd checked their mirrors.

JohnofWessex · 09/09/2026 19:44

DFL's

Down From London's who cant drive in the dark

The twats who treat the road as their own race track

LuckyHazelFox · 09/09/2026 19:44

gardenbadger · 09/09/2026 19:43

Yellow cars. Idk why

😆 🤣 I agree with that!

gardenbadger · 09/09/2026 19:43

Yellow cars. Idk why

Winederlust · 09/09/2026 19:42

Halloumiqueen · 09/09/2026 19:37

I spot them waiting and flash early rather than coming to a stop. The traffic flow continues on my side as well as theirs

That's fair enough if the road behind you is empty, they see you and are turning left I suppose.
What I do hate is when people do this when you want to turn right and they haven't noticed all the traffic travelling in the other direction!

LuckyHazelFox · 09/09/2026 19:41

YellingAway · 09/09/2026 19:40

Fog lights on when it’s not foggy.

Or no lights on early mornings when everyone else has theirs on.

YellingAway · 09/09/2026 19:40

Fog lights on when it’s not foggy.

BirdLandedonmyHead · 09/09/2026 19:39

Traffic lights that like to turn red as I approach.

Tourists.

People who abandon their car rather than parking in a safe and legal place.

Other cars daring to use the roads when I wish to drive on them unimpeded

TigerDroveAgain · 09/09/2026 19:38

Thecows · 09/09/2026 19:36

Surely everyone knows you could do that in theory but wouldn't be such an arse as to actually do it?

I’d do it! Why hang around when you don’t have to!

Halloumiqueen · 09/09/2026 19:37

Winederlust · 09/09/2026 19:32

But it's not keeping the traffic flowing if you're constantly stopping to let people out?

I spot them waiting and flash early rather than coming to a stop. The traffic flow continues on my side as well as theirs

LuckyHazelFox · 09/09/2026 19:37

Another one - stopping and waiting for something to come round the roundabout rather than changing gear and keeping up with the flow when there's time to go.