Ten Good Natured Driving Irritations

Siliconslave said:
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People who get right up your **** and flash you to speed up when you're already doing the speed limit in a 30mph residential area.

Yes I get that you want to go faster, but quite frankly my licence is more important to me than you getting to your location 0.000001 seconds quicker. :rolleyes:

I actually had some ****head perform an overtake on a blind bend on the wrong side of a traffic island then slam on the brakes in front of me because I had the sheer audacity to do dead on 30 (30 on gps/33 on speedo)... 10 points to the first person to guess what car they were driving ;)
 
Haggisman said:
Double fixed!

People who get right up your **** and flash you to speed up when you're already doing the speed limit in a 30mph residential area.

Yes I get that you want to go faster, but quite frankly my licence is more important to me than you getting to your location 0.000001 seconds quicker. :rolleyes:

I actually had some ****head perform an overtake on a blind bend on the wrong side of a traffic island then slam on the brakes in front of me because I had the sheer audacity to do dead on 30 (30 on gps/33 on speedo)... 10 points to the first person to guess what car they were driving ;)
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BMW 3 series?
 
Mostly the people who are in such a hurry they pull out of a side road in front of me, forcing me to brake. Then dawdle along between 40 and 50 on an NSL with very little safe overtaking opportunity.
 
Haggisman said:
10 points to the first person to guess what car they were driving ;)
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I think we can all assume it was German!


People who dangerously overtake cyclists on blind corners. I understand people are eager to get past them but some people will literally put urgency to overtake well above common sense and safety!
 
What you don't check you're phone whilst driving? You wait till you've stopped? Who actually does this?? What if it's your wife ringing to say you forgot one of the children?
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
7. Thirty seconds off the slip road onto the dual carriageway and the phone in my pocket starts buzzing. I can't answer it, nor even really look at the screen. So it's another 40 slightly frustrating minutes of driving until I get home before I can find out who it was. And of course they don't leave a message or answer my call back. Or it's a withheld number.
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Not joined this century yet by having Bluetooth hands free kit if your car doesn't have it already?
 
Turning on to a motorway slip road to find the solid wall of stationary traffic on the main carriageway.
Another vote for being tailgated for driving at 30 in a 30 zone. Golf GTi last night.
 
people that don't understand average speed cameras - blasting through the 50 av speed limit at 70 to just anchor on and slow down to 50 for the cameras and then accelerate afterwards. Either ignore the limit completely and stick to 70 or stay at the posted speed...

People that sit in the outside lane in average speed zones. yes the limit is 50, but you're in the outside lane doing 45 when the middle lane is clear - let me go past... Just 'cos it's an average speed zone doesn't mean the lanes aren't still for passing.

people that hate being overtaken, to the degree they will accelerate noticeably when you indicate to move out.

It's not just other cars tho... When you're a passenger with your other half driving - do you ever spot a pot hole in the distance and think "it's ok, she's move over to avoid it..." only to later feel like she's purposely aiming for them...

The impatient person on a side road that roars out in front of you, forcing you to anchor on, and then you realize there's nobody behind, so they could have just joined after you and not p'd you off...
 
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People in general for me too.

My pet hate happens every single day. I sit on the motorway with the cruise control on, minding my own business I overtake someone doing silly mph, pull back over and within 2 minutes the twerp has caught up, gone past, pulled over and slowed down again forcing me to overtake again. WHY!?!
 
1. People in front of me who slow down significantly in order to give way to someone who does not have priority. It's fine when you're crawling along but otherwise, grr, stop it. Your misplaced courtesy is causing annoyance and impeding the flow of traffic. Stop being so damned friendly.

2. In a similar vein to the above, people who flash their high beams as an acknowledgement of thanks or in order to give way, particularly at night. Pack it in. I enjoy being able to see the world in all its glorious technicolour and I don't want to lose that privilege.

3. People who stop short of a car in a queue, or traffic lights, and then proceed to start sllloowwwlllyyy crawling forward. Just stop and stay stopped, for goodness' sake.

4. People who have their car's hands-free system turned up so loud that I can hear the dialling tone and subsequent other end's half of the conversation. From my house. Across the road. With all my doors and windows closed. How is that not causing your ears to bleed?

5. People who leave it until the exact moment that I'm beside them before pulling out into my lane to pass a cyclist. It's fine, I'll swerve. Don't worry about me.

6. People who refuse to allow a car to merge in front of them for no good reason deserve to have a mosquito buzzing around their bedroom when they turn the light off at night. Every night. For the rest of their lives.
 
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Howard said:
1. People in front of me who slow down significantly in order to give way to someone who does not have priority. It's fine when you're crawling along but otherwise, grr, stop it. Your misplaced courtesy is causing annoyance and impeding the flow of traffic. Stop being so damned friendly.
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Someone did this in front of me a few weeks ago on a dual carriageway, slowing to an almost stop from 75 to let someone on who was stopped on a slip road :confused: I'd just joined as well and not a single person had moved out into lane 2 to let me join despite the lane being clear so was a bit too close behind him but still the last thing you expect is someone to pull such a retarded move with a borderline emergency stop on a busy carriageway.
 
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Rossi~ said:
BMW 3 series?
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Not quite

Jamesyboyjim said:
I think we can all assume it was German!
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That pretty much goes without saying :p

Howard said:
1. People in front of me who slow down significantly in order to give way to someone who does not have priority. It's fine when you're crawling along but otherwise, grr, stop it. Your misplaced courtesy is causing annoyance and impeding the flow of traffic. Stop being so damned friendly.
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When there is a reasonable gap in front of you, and instead of accelerating to fill it, you let that person go who is waiting to get out of the side road/wanting to turn right across you.

Only for them to take 4 hours to get in gear and then pull out slower than a glacier, meaning instead of carrying on at a constant speed and then gradually accelerating, you have to come to a complete stop.

I don't let people out any more because I'm sick of it. Pay ****ing attention if you're waiting for a gap, otherwise you ruin it for everyone else.
 
People who drive at 40mph down the slip road and only start accelerating once they hit lane 1.
 
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