to have so many driving peeves?

[littleemma1]

This is kind of just for fun but I’m intrigued to know what everyone’s top 3 driving peeves are... I’ll start...

1. No indicators. Got to be. Especially on busy roundabouts, junctions etc or when cutting you up on dual carriageway. Anytime really 🙄
2. Drivers who don’t say thank you when you’ve done something nice. Like it’s just a little wave but it makes all the difference! 👋🏻
3. Drivers who can’t stick to one speed limit on a dual carriageway. Going from 70 to 90 to 80 is just silly. I usually find it goes I overtake them, they overtake me, then I overtake them, then they overtake me. It’s ridiculous. Does make me giggle at how much more fuel they’ll use 🤣 (not to brag but I have the luxury of cruise control so I know it’s not me!)

Please do let me know. I’m very curious.

My top 3 would be very similar:

1. Not saying thank you for letting them in
2. Not indicating. Or leaving the indicator on giving me no idea what you’re doing
3. People who don’t drive the speed limit. There’s a very long road that I use daily, it starts out a 40mph road then moves into a dual carriageway with a barrier in the middle so 70mph. The 70mph bit is much longer than the 40mph bit but people still tootle along at 40mph all the way along it. Or coming the other way they start off at 40mph instead of starting off at 70mph then decreasing to 40mph 3 miles up the road. I have to travel it twice a day and it makes me ragey twice a day!

I’m so with you @Whatififall! Like how do some people pass their test?!

Mine is people who you haven’t let in but they just edge out from their junction until you’re forced to stop because you’re nearly going to hit them.

Also people who just expect you to give way to them or a narrow road or one with lots of parked cars, not even slowing down because they’re so confident they go first.

People breaking then indicating! Indicate first so the person is aware your about to break.

-People not saying thankyou

-People thinking they can bully you to wait when driving on your side of the road. - had this the other day when a driver expected me to reverse back to let her drive down my side of the road when hers was blocked even though she pulled out knowing I was travelling down.

• people driving 35 on a 50 road.

-people going over priority when they don’t have priority.

oooooo Sparklesocks and Dancingmonkey87 I didnt think of the t**ts who just keep going when the obstruction is on their side of the road... thats a good one!!

People in bigger cars tend to do it I find. I question myself as I just passed my test last July but literally I was driving down my side of the road and a car that was parked on her side saw me and pulled out anyway blocking my side of the road and expected me to reverse back. She even give me attitude about but didn’t like it when I told her I had right of way

Similar to others really....

1. Not saying thank you when appropriate
2. Forcing their way past an obstruction/parked cars/etc when it's my right of way and they should stop
3. Trying to push in to a queue of traffic halfway along instead of getting in to line like everyone else

Middle lane drivers! Just use the empty slow lane ARGH

Why would having cruise control be something to brag about? It's ages since I've seen a car without it.

"People breaking then indicating! Indicate first so the person is aware your about to break."

God, this always has me bellowing "MIRROR, SIGNAL, MANOUEVRE" at the windshield, like I've suddenly been possessed by the angry ghost of my driving instructor.

People who drive up your arse cos you're doing the speed limit and they have a need for speed...then they roar past you so they can wait at the red light in front of you.

People who toot making everyone check all over to see what's wrong (When it's just that Dave saw Ed at the bus stop)

And all of the other things mentioned already.

Drivers that don’t merge
Drivers that don’t let people merge
Drivers who take the piss when they “merge” and create all of the above.

I got another sharply stopping at the kerb to talk to Jeff who’s walking by regardless that there’s traffic behind you that have to brake sharp.

thelcon I don't have cruise control and intend to brag about it if I ever get it :-)

1 people who don't indicate (I'm still peeved from failing my test for being too hesitant cos I correctly have way at a roundabout to someone who went left without indicating)

2 People who drive at one speed. Stuck behind them on dual carriageway at 40mph and then watching them drift out of sight as they do 40 in a 30.

3 People who don't seem to realise the front of their car isn't 10ft long. They stop in a line of traffic and you're behind them thinking "move forward, I could park a car in the gap you've left" and they stop sooner than you expect because you're expecting them to stop close to the car in front.

There's also a road I drive down every couple of weeks and there's always some nobhead weaving in and out of traffic at high speed, narrowly missing people's bumpers, who then slams their breaks on at every speed camera and is still next to you at the lights at the end of the road

We had a new peeve the other day. Traffic lights on green so husband goes (as you do on green). Pedestrian still starts to cross the road so husband stops thinking he’s going to hit the person. Person then gestures & shouts well f*in move then & proceeds to kick the back of the car!
Is that a driving peeve or a pedestrain 🤔
pretty much the same as everyone else though for others

like I've suddenly been possessed by the angry ghost of my driving instructor.

Mine are not indicating (irritates me even more when i'm a vulnerable pedestrian!).
Tailgating arseholes.
People cutting me up then 'thanking' me. I DID NOT LET YOU IN

Not indicating, such an easy thing to do so why would you NOT do it
Tailgating
driving well below the speed limit - on my route to the gym there's a road that is 30, then 40, then 50. I always get stuck behind someone who stays at 30 the whole way.

like I've suddenly been possessed by the angry ghost of my driving instructor.

My FIL doesn't always indicate. He says he does when he needs to

I congratulated him on his 360 degree vision.

@TheIcon I dont know anyone else with it and a lot of people I know have newer cars then me.

People who drive up your arse cos you're doing the speed limit and they have a need for speed...then they roar past you so they can wait at the red light in front of you - I once gave a man the birdie for doing this to me as he overtook me on a single carriage way road as we approached stand still traffic (he clearly hadnt looked ahead!) and when we stopped he got out of his car and started yelling at me LOL

@tryingtocatchthewind Im so thankful I dont have any 3 lane motorways (well, any motorways!) that I have to drive on, its all just two lanes. I do however hate people that sit in the outside lane when the inside lane is EMPTY. I get pretty aggressive and will purposely drive behind them and flash them until they get the message and move over. FYI it works and I have had a few apologies. I am such a bitch.

@Dancingmonkey87 (without getting people VERY angry here) I find people in fancy cars the worst. I would say BMW's, then Audi, then Mercedes. Theres quite a few Porsche's floating around here now and I cant say I'm a fan of those either!

@Dancingmonkey87 People breaking then indicating! Indicate first so the person is aware your about to break.

Yes! Also people who brake for anything and everything.
Road sign coming up? Brake.
Car broken down 3, 4, 5, 6 lanes away, on the other side of the motorway barrier, going the opposite direction? Brake.
Might need to change lanes in 10 miles? Brake.
Passenger talks too loudly? Brake.
Sparrow farts 3 miles away? Brake.

There are also a lot of people who manage to drive while simultaneously having their foot on both pedals, as they are moving forward with all their brake lights on as well. It must be fucking their engines right up!

1. Not being able to stay on their side of the road on right hand turns, even when the corner is blind. Number of times I have nearly lost a front wing due to some bellend cutting a blind corner.
2. Not signalling. Just do it FFS.

People cutting me up then 'thanking' me. I DID NOT LET YOU IN angry they usually get a mouthful of abuse from me.

Im beginning to think I have bad road rage.

Op I completely agree,don’t even get me started on their shit parking whereby they have to take two car parking space for their beloved cars.

Sparrow farts 3 miles away? Brake just finished me off