Completely unreasonable things that really piss you off when you’re driving

[BakersKitchen]

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.

I could commit murder when I’m in the outside lane of two at red traffic lights wanting to go straight on and the car in front of me waits until the lights go green to indicate that they’re turning right. I fantasise about being in possession of a machine gun.

I'd ban stupid long and extendable dog leads, usually used by people who don't give a toss that their dog is about to trip me up, and even worse those with over excitable dogs on stupid long/extendable leads that manage to wrap themselves around my legs! Just make the sodding things illegal. Or at the very least make owners legally responsible for actually watching what their dog is doing and controlling it rather than being lost staring at their phone or chatting to someone else, totally oblivious to the chaos their out of control dog is causing behind them!

x100 if, by leaving these huge gaps, it's causing knock on effects. Eg, near us, there's a slightly odd traffic light t-junction. If you're turning right, the actual turn is slightly further forward as the t junction is curved. If you're turning left, the left turn is first AND, importantly, because of the way the traffic lights work, cars turn left for longer because they can continue to turn left while cars on the other road are turning right.

It's a single lane road but, becuase of th eabove, near the turn itself, it widens ot two lanes. And there's that widening process.

But cars going right do not like to get closer to cars in front. so the cars trying to turn left can't squeeze through.

There's nothing illegal about any of the above but it drives me mad. Just pull forward and/or stick far enough to the RIGHT if youo're going right, and a LOT more cars could turn left. ARGH.

I always, always leave a decent gap between myself and the car in front when stopped.
It means you can get away in an emergency and not be trapped, also you have room to manouvre if emergency vehicles need to pass. If it annoys people, tough shit.

Women drivers that apply make up at traffic lights.

Wake up 5-10 mins earlier

Depends on what you consider a "decent" gap. Clearly a full car length or more is unreasonable. General advice is 5-6 feet which is enough to use full wheel lock to move past it if needed - which equates on average to stopping where you can still see the back wheels touching the tarmac. Any more is unnecessarily too much, any less, you're going to be stuck.

A 'decent gap' is fine. Just not two or three car lengths. It's just so they can rev up and move super fast as far as I can see. Also, when , on a dual lane bridge - as we have near us, people overtake the car in front like idiots to....have to stop at traffic lights anyway. It probably gets them, ooo, three feet further forward for a couple of minutes

Yes, I like to see a bit of tarmac between me and the vehicle in front.

oh yes, I'm fine with people leaving a decent gap. I leave what I consider a decent gap myself.

I just don't understand why, having left "a decent gap" they then pull forwards by 3-6 feet the moment I've put my handbrake on

It absolutely was 😁. I sing it through clenched teeth when I am driving.