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My Pet Hate

66 replies

lincstash · 21/04/2010 13:37

Silly people who stop at traffic light two or three car lengths behind the bloody line. In effect, they are using three car lengths of the road, and possibly preventing someone at the other end of the queue from getting over the previous set of lights.

Even so, they reduce the number of cars that get through the green light this time because they have created 'phantom' vehicle in front of them, thus increasing congestion and slowing everyone down further..

Selfish selfish selfish selfish selfish selfish selfish selfish morons.

OP posts:
Linziwam · 22/04/2010 15:24

deffo people who stop at roundabouts when they can clearly see there's nothing coming!

OhFuck · 22/04/2010 15:26

Old people in huge luxury cars, often gold coloured for some reason, who are unaware there is a gear beyond fourth and spend their days trundling around the countryside at 40mph.

People who drive on a perfectly safe wide A road at 50mph then speed up when there's a straight section clear for overtaking.

People who brake when there's a slight corner/car coming from the opposite direction/other random non-reason known only to them.

People who don't thank others for giving way.

Some complete dickhead cut me up on my way home from work the other night, by sitting up my arse for miles at 65-70mph in a national speed limit then losing patience and pulling out to pass on a blind bend. I was fizzing. I felt a lovely sense of calm and justice when a few miles up the road I realised the blue flashing lights in the distance were those of the traffic cops who'd pulled him over

IMoveTheStars · 22/04/2010 15:32

nomorecake - isn't that so they can go at a constant speed, rather than constant stop-start-stop as the traffic limps along?

People in the right lane at an approach to a roundabout that poke their nose way out across the line, meaning you can't see a BLOODY THING (always lorries/4x4's/vans - anything higher than me basically)

Cyclists going through red lights at junctions, and then shake their fist at you as you swerve to avoid them. wankers.

GrimmaTheNome · 22/04/2010 15:32

Large 4WD vehicles in narrow lanes with drivers incapable of reversing them or realising that if they've got the supposed offroader then why are they expecting me to drive in the ditch?

(proper 4wds like LandRovers being driven properly are obviously not a problem)

homicidalmummy · 22/04/2010 15:38

People who use a spoon to taste something (e.g. Soup, sauce, meal cooking away) and then put same spoon back in the pot and stir it around some more.
That has been in your mouth and and other people will be eating the meal!!!!!
Especially horrible when cooking for guests at a dinner party and also when I see 'celebrity' chefs doing it on tv!
Also hate it if someone takes a bite of a chip, breadstick, crisp etc and dips into a dip and eats and dips and eats and dips.....
Germs germs germs! All now in the dip! Yuck!

Dip before you crunch people!!!

IMoveTheStars · 22/04/2010 15:38

Oh, and how could I forget the silly BITCH on the A34 last week who decided to randomly change lanes without looking/signalling while I was passing he, then stuck her fingers up at me as I beeeeeeped at her.

QueenofDreams · 22/04/2010 15:47

I hate drivers who think that the flashing amber light at a crossing means they can go regardless. It's especially bad where I live. You're halfway across the road when the green man starts flashing and nearly get hit by some idiot in a car who then shouts at you. Flashing amber means you can go if noone is crossing the road you idiot.

QueenofDreams · 22/04/2010 15:50

Oh and text speak on fb. You see whole paragraphs that are practically unintelligible due to the numbers, and my personal favourites the 'd's instead of 'th': dat, dem, dey etc. Makes me twitch and grind my teeth.

EggyAllenPoe · 22/04/2010 15:52

the OP has named my husbands' pet hate: the Invisible Car.

Mine is people who do 20 in a thirty zone with no hazard a head of them. I mean really, there is being careful, and then there is being slow.

EggyAllenPoe · 22/04/2010 15:54

oh, and any 4wd owners, they always drive slowly, but pushily, so will cut infront and then hold you up...all whilst blocking your view.

doughnutty · 22/04/2010 16:33

People who drive at 40 no matter what the limit therefore holding you up on a 60 road, then speeding through a 30. Seems to be mostly old men in flat caps.

More of a rare sight these days but, what is it about the Nissan Micra which attracts white haired old ladies who do the random braking thing?

People who deliberatly approach a junction/roundabout in the wrong lane because the line is shorter, then cut you up to get into your lane once lights change/they get onto roundabout.

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

(And Breathe)

tablefor3 · 22/04/2010 16:45

Cars who are trying to sneak through traffic lights on amber, but are caught on the red and end up parked right across the pedestrian crossing causing all the pedestrians to have to manoeuvre through all the stationary cars across our crossing!

Also with cars that suddenly speed up when you are trying to overtake.

ChocolatePants · 22/04/2010 16:50

Am loving this thread

pushmepullyou · 22/04/2010 16:54

People who drive very steadily up to the green traffic light so they just get through and you don't.

People who get in to the right hand lane two miles before they intend to go right and drive 10 mph below the speedlimit, but of course you can't overtake because they are in the right hand lane

Prinpo · 22/04/2010 16:57

Yes, doughnutty, that was my one! 40mph, no matter where they may be. Perhaps their cruise control is jammed.

pagwatch · 22/04/2010 17:10

People who queue at the traffic lights outside my house and refuse to let me out.

Actually I hate them slightly less than the ones who pretend they haven't seen me. They are cowardly fuckers rather than just fuckers

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/04/2010 17:14

Lol.

Pag you are on form today.

I hate all drivers and cyclists apart from me.

Especially the fuckwits in vans.

Joolyjoolyjoo · 22/04/2010 19:34

Oh, I've thought of another one- the drivers who seem to think that road cones are stealthy, tyre-eating predators. You know, if you are on a single track road with a 40 limit which normally merges onto a dual carriageway with a 60 limit and there are road cones marking off one of the lanes, you MUST immediately brake to 15mph and c-r-a-w-l past in case they wake up and bite your car

Doodleydoo · 22/04/2010 21:00

I can see some of the things that I do on here but none of the really really bad ones - usually fucking up at traffic lights at amber (but it is usually someone elses fault!) - ooooh am a typical bad driver aren't I as it is always someone elses fault!

Doodleydoo · 22/04/2010 21:02

Jooly - oh yes, that one is a complete bastard - shred your tyres those cones they will!

people who just don't see you when they are driving and push you into the central reservation. Twats.

I love this thread I really do!

blinder · 22/04/2010 21:09

1 The idiots who sit in the rh lane of a dual carriageway doing exactly 69mph, even when there is no-one to overtake.

2 The jerks who then 'undertake' them on the inside.

Or (as I know them)...

1 My DP
2 My DB

IMoveTheStars · 22/04/2010 22:15

Weeelll... if some moron is sitting in the right lane doing 60mph on a dual carriageway, I will undertake them. (Is there some rule that if you;re in traffic doing less than 60mph you're allowed to undertake?)

blinder · 23/04/2010 07:15

No there's no rule like that Jareth!
It's such a dangerous thing to do though. How do you know that the person in the rh lane won't pull in as you are passing them?

IMoveTheStars · 23/04/2010 09:13

no, I know it is (and I do it very very rarely). I knew there wasn't a rule - forgot the

I guess I don't know that they won't pull over, so I just pass extra quickly

yes yes, I know.. i won't do it again (I'll flash and beep at them to move over instead, )

blinder · 23/04/2010 10:19

At times like that I yearn for one of those sirens that movie detectives keep in the glovebox