to be fed up with bad drivers grr!

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Every single day when I'm driving there is always:

-Someone who drives 20mph under the speed limit
-Someone who drives 20mph over the speed limit and hugs my bumper
-People who don't indicate at roundabouts/junctions
-People who do not know how to use a roundabout - you give way to the right therefore there is no need to just sit there when the right hand is being blocked by oncoming traffic therefore you can go!
-People who do not use their lights - hello? I cannot see you (especially in the fog we had the other week)
-People who don't bother to move in traffic and cause an even bigger hold up, when there is a huge gap in front of them. Please. Move. Up.
-Those big bloody 4x4 cars that always seem to hug my bumper
-People who drive all over the road/on the white lines/on the verge of the road - why can't you drive in the middle like everyone else
-People that cut you up - I'm sorry but you are aware that I am coming towards you, why are you pulling out which then requires me to brake from my 40mph to your measly 10mph whilst you try and build your speed up.

Tbh, I don't care if I'm being unreasonable - these things hassle me on a day to day basis and I am fed up!

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YANBU this morning for example really foggy but you still get the drivers who insist on tailgating you and then overtaking when they cant even see whats coming the other way. Then the people who sit at roundabouts and stare at each other cos none of them know whos got the right of way! GRRRRRR .

Jareth oh the irony! It's funny that's why you failed your test.

YY to all of these, especially people that want your parking space but don't leave you any room to actually reverse out without doing a 10 point turn!
Also people who overtake really slowly. If your going to overtake, drop down a gear, overtake and get back on your own side ASAP. So dangerous.
And not forgetting people that drive on single track roads and can't reverse to save their lives - get back on the main road!

indeed.

Fog lights on at all times must get a mention - usually 4 x 4's which dazzle you with their over high glaring fog lights in mid July. Yes I can see you - you are driving a small bus after all!

I dont close small gaps in traffic as my car has an auto engine cut off and I would have to keep stopping and starting the engine for the sake of a few centimetres.

^"I particularly enjoy it when someone comes round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road because they are driving too fast to corner, and then hurls abuse at me/hoots at me / gestures at me because I am there. On MY side of the road. Where I should be and they should not.

It's not MY fault you're on the wrong side of the road, you TWAT".^

My fuckwit of a neighbour did this to me this week. I had just pulled out of our driveway and was heading down our road towards the dog-leg bit, doing no more than 15 mph (if that) when he comes roaring round the corner on the wrong side of the road and nearly slammed into us. I was and put my foot on the brake. He blasted his horn at me because, somehow, it was all my fault. Fuckwit. He appears to drive everywhere as if he's in the fast lane of the motorway.

Haha a topic close to my heart! Hooters REALLY piss me off.

I walk to work everyday with DD in her pushchair and see a LOT of dangerous driving. Several times I've had my heart in my mouth when crossing roads ("Surely that white van man isn't SPEEDING UP towards us? Yes he is."). This morning was a classic - a roundabout near us is at a merging point for 3 busy (30mph but most drive at least at 40-50mph) roads. I'm walking past - a guy speeding towards the roundabout slams his hand on the horn as he gets to the junction, another car on the roundabout was about to cross it at the same time as him.

So ok, 1) the 'get out of my way I'm coming through' hooting makes you a wanker, and 2) thanks for scaring the shit out of my and my 1 yr old by screaming your horn as you pass us. But hey, you saved yourself 10 seconds of you busy life on your way to work, well done you!!!

Oh, quote didn't work, but you know what meant :).

or fog-coloured cars that don't seem to have any working lights at all

Oh, tell me about the bumper hoggers. One morning at the beginning of February, when there was all that ice on the roads, I drifted horribly at a roundabout so was driving a bit cautiously, to be fair. However I was doing a decent 50 in a nice straight 50 mile zone when a coach, empty except for driver, started doing an impression of the lorry from Duel. Went on for about five miles. I thought right, I'm 'aving your number, matey, but for most of it he was too close for me even to read his registration. On black ice, let me remind you.

Eventually he couldn't keep up with me up a steep hill and I was able to see and memorise the number. Reported it to the coach company, got an apology and an assurance that the driver in question would be Dealt With Accordingly. Unfortunately as this is the UK they probably didn't mean they would string him up by his thumbs. Indeed they may have given him a bonus.

And then there's my current favourite bugbear: people who think it's all right to park your vehicle anywhere - double yellows, blind corners, half-way across driveways - as long as they have their hazard warning lights on. Now I know I'm terribly old, but when I was young - they had just about invented cars - the hazard warning light meant something like "I'm terribly sorry to have stopped in this inconvenient place but my engine has fallen out, please try not to hit me until the AA get here". (Or the RAC if you were posh like my folks.) Nowadays it seems to mean "I know I'm not supposed to park here but what you gonna do?"

The fuckers in my town who ignore the no right turn sign into my road. What makes them think it doesn't apply to them?!

People reversing onto main roads.

People who insist on driving forwards into a parking space and then have to reverse back out again and shuffle around because they can't/won't put it in backwards!

On the same theme those who drive straight through into the space in front. well done you,you can now make it look lile you can reverse park. Never mind me just about to reverse into it.

Got this rant is just what I need this afternoon!

I have to park in forward Spotted - can't get my boot open if I go in backward
( I am capable of parking and reversing - just explaining why some people may do it)

Me too although I do reverse if I'm not using the boot.

whats wrong with driving front ways in. Im to impatient to watch someone try and reverse park there car. Just drive straight in bish bash bosh!

My Dad always told me to park the car in backwards when I drove to the pub - made it easier to get out after a drink.

I think you can bloody well go in and out of a parking space any way you chuffing well want to as long as you're not being a twit about it. Some people need to be more bleedin tollerant and patient in life.

My Dad always told me to park the car in backwards when I drove to the pub - made it easier to get out after a drink.

People who slow right down whilst searching for a parking space/address,as if they are the only people using the rd that day,you can see their stupid heads moving from side to side looking at the door numbers,oblivious to other drivers.

Stupid mostly elderly people who stop in the middle of the rd to post a letter at the post box whilst the rest of us mugs sit in a queue behind them.

Sorry Yon - it wasn't serious :)

Reverse parking inin a space is not very sensible when you have a full trolley to unload!

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Very very occasionally though the bumper huggers do get their cumuppance. I was in traffic jam on slip road off motorway and was subjected to a lorry trying to get in my boot. He was doing that thing where they keep jumping on the brakes making that loud hissing and the cab was bouncing - it was really quite scary. Unfortunately for him he didn't see the police car coming up the hard shoulder, presumably to deal with the hold up. Policeman got out of his car and tore a right strip off lorry driver as he had seen everything.

How far is your commute? These are a lot of idiots to come across in one car journey

My bugbear is people who drive at 40mph on 60mph straight country roads and then stick at this steady 40 when they go through a village and the speed limit changes to 30mph. They are also invariably the ones who look baffled/cross when I overtake them (safely, of course) or flash me to imply that I am in the wrong.

I agree about those who stick at 40mph on 60mph roads. I drive down a long country road to work and this is the bane of my commuting life!

Don't they notice the increasing queue of cars behind them?

It is dangerous as it forces the people behind them to attempt to overtake which can be a dangerous thing on some roads.

They would fail their driving test for it. I failed one of mine for driving below the limit. You really are expected to drive right up to the limit unless there's a reason not to (weather, road conditions, windy road etc.)

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Make sure you overtake them int he 40 limit just before it changes to 30mph