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.

No indicating.
No thank you.
People who park on the road opposite to the flow of traffic.
And the fucking chancers. You are driving along a main road and the traffic is slow. You let a person in the opposite direction to cross in front of you down a side street. You start to move and the cunt behind that person thinks it's their right to follow them and you miss them by centimetres. Then they have the audacity to give you a thank you wave. I didn't stop to let you go as well. Bastard.

I have too many to list, but possibly my top two are:

• people who always drive at 10mph below the speed limit. I regularly drive a stretch of road that goes 60 > 50 > 60 > 30, and the number of drivers that go 50 > 40 > 50 > 20 is mind boggling.
• people who stick to 35-40mph, regardless of the limit. So they’ll saunter along a lovely clear stretch of road, then speed (relatively speaking) through a residential area.

I suspect both groups think that they are the safest drivers on the road. I don’t.

And dear god, the Constant Breakers. And the ones that slow almost to a halt in other to turn left.

Its possibly difficult to believe, but I’m actually a patient driver, despite all appearances to the contrary.

@PavlovianLunge I would HATE driving on that road!!

People who force their way out of side roads in queuing traffic when you let one out so two or three try to go, i let one of you then I should go, then one should go behind me. Merge in turn same as when lanes disappear, instead of the very british everyone getting into the queue early and then not letting people in at the merge point because they joined the queue a mile ago.

Worse than that though is people who dont know the width of their own vehicle so they come towards you where you could fit 2 cars wide past parked vehicles etc but because they are so far over you end up having to stop or get on the verge even though a bus would fit down.

@PavlovianLunge 🤣🤣🤣

1. All of the above
2. Audis/BMWs/Mercedes (and yes, I do find that based on quite close observation over many car journeys, it's 98% those drivers) who roar up behind you in the overtaking lane of the motorway when you are already doing 70-80 to get past a car/lorry, then sit five yards from your back bumper to try and intimidate you into pulling in ASAP so they can continue driving at 100mph, as is their god-given right. Especially great when you are part of a queue of overtaking cars so that once they bully you back into the inner lanes, they are precisely five yards further down the fucking road. Cunts.
3. Quite specific this one: where the A12 exits from the M11, there is a hideous awful roundabout, and consequently a long long queue up the slip road. Everyone else queues patiently. Drivers of aforementioned wankmobiles (to this, in this circumstance I add Disco drivers), do NOT have to queue. They drive up to the very end of the slip road /still in inner lane of M11 and force their way into the queue there. Not in front of me, they don't. Yes, I will force you to FUCKING WELL WAIT YOU KNOBBISCUIT.

I would like to add I am by no means a perfect driver 🤣 but I hope I’m not as bad as some being mentioned!

@HereBeFuckery 🤣🤣🤣 KNOBBISCUIT
I find it infuriating when people race up behind me, sit on my posterior until I move then take the next 10 miles to over take me, sitting on my back drivers corner. DO NOT RACE UP BEHIND ME IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RACE PAST ME.

Drivers that pay no attention. I've noticed two types when I'm out riding the horse

Type 1. Sees nothing. Drives with tunnel vision, whizzes past horse at 60mph because they haven't seen it. Usually hunched over the steering wheel with eyes fixed firmly forwards

Type 2. Ones that see stuff and then ignore it. For instance me putting my hand up to say stop as they come to go past me on a blind bend. They ignore me, speed around the corner and nearly plough into the tractor that was coming the opposite way (single track road)
I'm 5ft 10 on a 16.2hh horse, I can SEE OVER hedges that you can't

1. Not indicating. So.fucking.ANNOYING.
2. Not saying thank you - RUDE.
3. People who don't pull away when the traffic light goes green.
4. People who sit in the overtaking lane and/or middle lane of the motorway going well under the speed limit.

@Ollivander84 funny you should talk about tractors as I’ve just asked my OH and he said for him, it’s people cutting the lines/corners on blind bends/hills on country roads. He does a lot of country driving and says it’s the most annoying but also probably the most dangerous thing you could do.

Brake Tappers
4x4 drivers who are scared to death of getting their cars dirty
People who have no idea how wide their cars are and so are frightened to death of driving along a road with parked cars
People who are overly slow or hesitant

People who don't appreciate that one way systems/no right turn/broken double "Give Way" signs in car parks are meant to be adhered to just like on the road.

You shouldn't use cruise control unless you are in light traffic. Doing the tag overtaking is a recipe for disaster if you encounter someone prone to road rage.

Pet peeves -
People screaming along, weaving in and out of lanes, doing about 100 mph. Like this:

This is a highway not far from me. It's worse when it's motorbikes doing it.

Here's more, this time from California:

Meanwhile everyone else is chugging along at 65 or whatever.

Another peeve -
Someone on a motorway insisting on doing the speed limit even though the rest of the traffic is going faster.

little - I've given up now. I'll ask them to stop and then shrug when they charge around the corner and plough into a sheep/tractor/random tree

1. Using mobiles whilst driving (not a peeve makes me really angry esp in big lorries -someone I know ended up in a w.chair) 2. Lorry drivers going too fast or up yr arse. Or both at the same time. 3. Indicating as they are actually turning left or right-what's the point if that? Too ruddy late then! Btw I have nothing against lorry drivers - just some of the ones with those driving habits. Btw I keep braking if they are behind me so they think I'm a bad driver and pull back! I also make sure there is a good distance between myself and the one in front then (well I'm actually doing what the lorry driver should be doing and I don't want to be at risk on goin into the one ahead if the lorry goes into me do I? ) Gets down off soapbox.......

@mathanxiety I’m very careful and only use the cruise control in light traffic. I work 7-7 so my journey in is at 6am and home just after 7pm so roads are much quieter. I have a 20mile stretch of (beautiful, I have to add) dual carriageway so it goes on then

People who block both lanes of the merge junction because if anyone gets in front of them their penis will just drop right off.

When I'm gap hopping along a line of parked cars, I see a gap I can reach before the oncoming car will reach me, pull out then back in but the car behind just follows me out like a needy sheep without checking the traffic or if there's room for their car too and sits in the middle of the wrong side of the road, blocking it for the next hour because now nobody can move. What's even more annoying is that every single house on that road has a driveway, I think they park on the road on purpose because they have some kind of problem with me actually getting to work.

1. Tailgaters! My biggest bugbear
2. Drivers who pull out on the roundabout at the last second and then slow down as they pull out 😡 even though they can see you are coming round!
3. People who don't indicate.
4. People on their phone/texting at the wheel the amount I have seen today is just ridiculous!!

40 mile an hour'ers

60mph - we do 40 - you overtake us - but when it drops to 30mph we'll drive up your arse and overtake badly - then when it get's back up to 60mph you'll be sat behind us doing 40 again!

Loads of the above, but also
There's a little cloud over there, so I'd better bung on my foglights people.
And, conversely, it's foggy as hell, so I'm going to bomb down the motorway at 100mph without so much as a sidelight people.

@Sparklyshoes16 oh yes, I didn’t even put mobile phone drivers on my list!! 😱 I (not long ago) witnessed a chav pull out at traffic lights, cutting the corner, quite clearly on his mobile phone and then I noticed the side of his car was literally mashed in. No second guesses needed as to how that happened eh?

People with massive drives who park on jr road because they cannot cope with ‘other people’ parking outside their house.

It is so weird. My parents road is all massive houses are with drives (sone double or triple drives) and it’s a ducking nightmare to drive up because they’re all parked on the sodding road. They also park so you’re weaving. Gah!

My parents park on their drive but get all curtain twitchy if someone parks in front of their house.

Living on that road clearly makes you bonkers!

I have a confession...my car won't indicate at the moment, it's broken. But because of the strange lease thing, I can't get it fixed by anyone but the approved repair place. They don't have an appointment until next Friday. I'm just as pissed off as everyone else about it, so if I've caused anguish and irritation by not being able to indicate left, I'm sorry