Pet driving hates. What gets your goat?

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For me it's lorries in the middle lane on motorways, driving parallel to another. Yes I know they have deadlines, but miles and miles side by side? 😡

And any Addison Lee driver - they are really crap and discourteous. At least 50% of the times someone cuts me up when driving, it's bloody Addison Lee.

The allergy to the left hand lane on motorways that a lot of drivers seem to suffer from. The bunching up of cars in the middle and outside lanes when the lefthand lane (the driving lane) remains almost empty, is infuriating.

I use lots of country roads, so for me it's the absolute twats who dawdle along at far less than the speed limit, but as soon as they hit a straight it's suddenly like Dukes of Hazzard (and most usually when they see you're about to overtake). Wankers, the lot of them.

Cyclists riding 2 or more abreast.

Surprisingly, this is legal in UK law (Highway Code). Bit inconvenient on narrower roads when you can't pass, but they're allowed to.

In my town, it’s roundabouts, no one seems to know what way they should be giving way too. It’s not difficult. There’s many a stand off at the mini roundabout where I live.

People who drive too slow in the middle lane and the inside lane is free
People who drive too slowly on motorways, full stop.

People who don't thank you once you let them in
People who don't indicate
People who tootle along well below the speed limit.

Lack of indicators on roundabouts, motorways, dual carriageways, fuck it. Lack of indicators everywhere!

My DH would have a party on this thread (Driving instructor)

Tailgating is my pet peeve , tonight someone was right up my arse but I had no where to go .
I really wish car manufacturers invented some sensor that when a car was so close a neon sign will flash up fuck off your too close .

Well, there's an estimated 1 million uninsured drivers in the UK who alone injure 26,000 people and kill 130 a year. I'd be more worried about them than trying to get all cyclists insured which would be massively complex and expensive, have large public health implications, cause more congestion, and be virtually impossible to enforce. But yeah, why should someone in charge of a tonne or so of dangerous machinery have to have insurance, but someone on a bicycle does not as it's just not fair!

People who do not understand how to navigate chicanes. We have one near where I live designed to slow traffic ( as there is a school close by). Despite very clear road markings explaining who gives way to oncoming traffic , people don’t!
I get a little (a lot) cross with this. Best excuses are they car in front of me went’, ‘I’m late to pick my child up’ and ‘I was here first’. Just read the Highway Code . Please.

@madcatladyforever

In Hampshire they indicate at roundabouts but not necessarily for the direction they are going!

Mine is people nipping through when it's your right of way so you have to stop for them.

Also like others tailgating - really dangerous

People who don't indicate can get in the bin.

This. Unless I missed the memo that I am now psychic.

People who drive ridiculously slowly. We live in the country side so not the easiest roads to over take on.

mineofuselessinformation yes 100% it's like they see that you're about to overtake and get really offended.

DH indicates at the very last second (and sometimes forgets to indicate at all) which drives me nuts. IE coming on to a motorway slip road, he will slow down and then as he comes off/crosses broken line will then indicate (far too late). Does it at roundabouts and generally driving around town. Sometimes I will indicate for him (which drives him nuts) if there is someone close behind or a pedestrian who may step out. He is often mystified when other drivers get annoyed with him

Loads of things, but a couple of times I've been driving behind a car where the driver is constantly looking at their passenger while driving.

I find it really disconcerting, and I'm mentally screaming "Face the front and look where you're going, you pillock", while also trying to anticipate them swerving wildly or crashing into something.

How hard is it to look where you're going, ffs?

People who can't position their cars in junctions!! If you're turning right, don't sit in the fucking middle of the junction so everyone has to wait behind you even if they're turning left.

GRRRRR. Every bloody day.

The 'too slow' posts have made me think of another one. People who get annoyed when you drive at the speed limit by driving up your bum and/or obviously overtaking fast to make a point and breaking the law at the same time. We have lots of windy rural roads around us that are 40 speed limit for good reason and you get lots of berks who do this (it does seem to be a male weakness).

Middle lane hogging on the motorway when the inside lane is free. This especially annoying having spent 2 years in traffic jams on the way home from work while the carriageway was widened from 2 lanes to 3 and now it's still like a 2 lane carriageway with the middle lane joggers blocking a 1/3 of the road capacity while they obliviously cruise home. A 3 points on the licence offence in my opinion - driving without due care and attention.

Agree @LizaBennett70 - very annoying

As is hogging road when there is a jam so people cannot get out of slip road or roundabout. They cannot go anywhere but wont let others who could get out.

Fucking indicate!!!! My most common phrase in the car. Do you know how many cunts just do not indicate?

And trundling along at 50 in the middle lane of a motorway. Get up to speed or get over ffs. You're a bloody danger.

The two supernovas you've put on the front of your car where your headlights should be, that are turning the inside of my car from night into day.

Cyclists with no lights at night. Are you trying to get crashed into? They sell bike lights in fucking Poundland, there's no excuse.

Anti-cyclists.

Dithering/dawdling - it drives me insane. Just get on with it you pillock!

If you are uncertain about directions etc., just pull in to work it out and let traffic past.

Same with dithering over parking spaces etc - if you know you're crap at parking, don't cause a traffic jam, pull into the side to wait for traffic to pass and then try to park (or even better go to an empty car park and practice!).

As for those who never know what the speed limit is, I have no words - it's not rocket science, look at the bloody signs on the side of the road. If there are no signs, then it's default for that kind of road - 30 in a town with regular street lights, then 50/60/70 according to whether it's single lane, double land or dual carriageway. I can't believe the idiots who do 35 in a 50 and then still do 35 when they come into a built up area with a limit of 30 or even 20 - they're clearly oblivious to road signs. "Oh look Mabel, that's a pretty little circular sign with a red border and the number 20 - I wonder what it means" as he passes at 35 with a queue of traffic behind him he picked up when doing 35 in 50 limits for the last 10 miles!

@Mothership4two

Agree *@LizaBennett70* - very annoying

As is hogging road when there is a jam so people cannot get out of slip road or roundabout. They cannot go anywhere but wont let others who could get out.

But by the same token, if you've been stuck in a long queue for half an hour and finally come to a junction or roundabout where the traffic joining isn't queued up at all, it is a bit galling that they get to join the queue without any delay when you've already been stuck in it for ages. In fact, it's often the traffic joining at the junction which is causing the queue to be so long in the first place. In a perfect world, it would be taking it in turns or priority to those in the longest queue approaching the junction.