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Top things that other drivers do that annoy you

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My wife got a new car Friday, and yesterday I jumped all over her for fiddling with the radio instead of driving- 3rd person in line at a light, it went green, two cars in front were across the intersection and she was still going about 4 mph. I told her this is exactly the kind of driving behavior I yell at other people about, and if we had been in the car behind us she would have been grumping right along with me.

She waited until we got where we were going to play with the radio.iPod thing some more.
 

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My wife got a new car Friday, and yesterday I jumped all over her for fiddling with the radio instead of driving- 3rd person in line at a light, it went green, two cars in front were across the intersection and she was still going about 4 mph. I told her this is exactly the kind of driving behavior I yell at other people about, and if we had been in the car behind us she would have been grumping right along with me.

She waited until we got where we were going to play with the radio.iPod thing some more.

So that was you!?!?!?! :smash:
 

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Bikers that split lanes at high rates of speed.

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Death wish.
 

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That does not bug me...while sitting in traffic

Nor me.
But when I'm going 65 and they're whizzing by at 90, a dozen or so in single file formation, well that just gives me the willies. For them, that is.
 

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That does not bug me...Nothing else to look at while sitting in traffic except for the hot women sitting in the car next to me :lol:

Cutting through in slow or stoped traffic doesn't bother me. I've seen idiots at night doing wheelies and such on the highway, blocking up traqffic to clear road for their friends. That annoys me.
 

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Cutting through in slow or stoped traffic doesn't bother me. I've seen idiots at night doing wheelies and such on the highway, blocking up traqffic to clear road for their friends. That annoys me.

Which can (and all too often) turn into later blocking the road to clear their friends (or atleast parts of their friends) off the road :eek:
 

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another one

Driving and living in Mass. always gives me astonishment.

Please 'splain me this:

Onn a multi-lane highway a motorists encounters someone going slower (but at or above posted speed) in the lane of travel, s/he tailgates the individual for miles and miles"? This occurs even though lanes to both sides are clear. I always called it the "lane owner syndrome" Or maybe they are too afraid to change lanes? It is not a corner case. It happens quite a bit.

I don't get it.
 

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Driving and living in Mass. always gives me astonishment.

Please 'splain me this:

Onn a multi-lane highway a motorists encounters someone going slower (but at or above posted speed) in the lane of travel, s/he tailgates the individual for miles and miles"? This occurs even though lanes to both sides are clear. I always called it the "lane owner syndrome" Or maybe they are too afraid to change lanes? It is not a corner case. It happens quite a bit.

I don't get it.

My personal rule of thumb is that as i'm driving, if the car behind me is closer to me than I am to the car infront of me, I get out of their way. If after they pass me, they then decide that they really just wanted to draft off me and not pass me, then i'll tailgate the f%$^ out of them ;)
 

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My personal rule of thumb is that as i'm driving, if the car behind me is closer to me than I am to the car infront of me, I get out of their way. If after they pass me, they then decide that they really just wanted to draft off me and not pass me, then i'll tailgate the f%$^ out of them ;)

I'm talking a 3-4 lane highway. What if you are in the right lane as I see it happen?
 

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I'm talking a 3-4 lane highway. What if you are in the right lane as I see it happen?

What is this "right lane" thing you speak of?? You mean people actually DRIVE in it?? I thought that the right lane was used solely for passing people who REFUSE to get out of the way and as just something that you crossed over quickly when you enter or exit a highway ;) :lol:

I guess, in theory that if I had someone riding my rear bumper and I was actually driving in the right lane with a clear lane to my left, then if I was actually letting that clueless a$$hole get to me (most of the time I just ignore them by just looking ahead of me at the road), that I'd probably just keep backing my cruise control set speed (chances are if the road is open around me that i've got my cruise control on) by 1mph every 30 seconds or so just to mess with them a bit, until they either got off the highway or finally pulled out to pass me (at which point I'd probably tailgate the f%^& out of them ;) )
 

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I'm not asking what you would do. I'm asking why people don't pass when there is plenty of room around them. Not just right lane one, but lane two or lane three. Regardless of the slowpoke's speed.
 

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I'm not asking what you would do. I'm asking why people don't pass when there is plenty of room around them. Not just right lane one, but lane two or lane three. Regardless of the slowpoke's speed.

Sheer ignorance and/or stupidity would be the only answer I could think of! ;)
 

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I'm not asking what you would do. I'm asking why people don't pass when there is plenty of room around them. Not just right lane one, but lane two or lane three. Regardless of the slowpoke's speed.

Sheer bloody mindedness, I suppose- same reason people refuse to move to the right when they should, anyway.
 

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I'm not asking what you would do. I'm asking why people don't pass when there is plenty of room around them. Not just right lane one, but lane two or lane three. Regardless of the slowpoke's speed.

Because they are not actually in a hurry. They are likely on subconscious cruise control. They are traveling along and slow down when there is a car in front of them. If no one is in front of them, they naturally drive faster until they catch up to someone who slows them back down. I don't think they are trying to be annoying. If one of these types gets behind me, I just move over and they will speed back up and pass me, then I can move back over where I started.
 

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You get a foot of snow, and some people drive like they're an Andretti.

Yep. In particular, the 4WD/AWD car owners without snow tires. You see them later upside-down in the median strip. As a kid, I lived in Vermont and drove a crap RWD car with summer tires. You quickly learn the traction limits of the vehicle and adjust your driving strategy appropriately. I'm always amazed at the poor snow driving skills of the typical huge SUV owner from the flatlands. They drive on slippery roads just like they're on dry pavement.
 
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