Motoring pet hates

peterattheboro

peterattheboro

peterattheboro

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I absolutley hate it when people park but don't straighten the wheel.

I understand if you've parked on a steep hill and turn towards to curb but when you are on a flat surface in a parking bay, I just find it idiotic.

What's your pet peeves?
 
people who appoint themselves queue police and dive out of queuing traffic in front of you to stop you merging in turn further up the road.
 
people who drive in the middle lane on a motorway for no reason at all!! grrr....!

or because they are going 1mph faster than the inside lane so think it's fine just to stay in the middle! :mad:
 
Idiots who don't push there wing mirrors out after having pushed them in to park. You mean to say in the 15 minutes you've been driving you've not noticed your mirror that you are suppose to check more than a few times a minute is actually facing in.
 
Leaving wheels turned is a huge pet hate of mine - I believe people do it to "protect" their car against someone clipping it. It seems they do not understand that the damage of someone smashing into your wheel is probably going to be far greater than clipping your wing or mirror.

I hate people that do not overtake slow vehicles/bikes, especially tractors - the amount of times I've had to overtake about 5 cars + tractor because those in front seem too incompetent to perform an overtake.

I hate people who seem to have to pull out of a junction and get as close to you as possible whilst doing so, when you're turning into the juction crossing their path.

I hate drivers who seem to think they are going fast enough in the outside lane, despite me coming up from behind much faster.

I hate people who slam their brakes on at the last minute if a traffic light goes amber. I also hate people who slow right down for a green traffic light, as if they are waiting for it to change.

I hate people who don't let others out - mostly when two lanes filter into one, but it is just annoying when you're trying to pull out of a junction into a queue.

Lastly, and this is probably more a local thing; people who seem to think our only dual carriageway is actually just one long filter lane - I often find myself having to undertake.
 
Arses who can't be bothered to wait behind the give way line and force their way out.

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While I'm in flowing traffic maintaining a safe distance to the car in front when someone under takes me and squeezes into the space I had left, it just makes me want to ram them.
 
people who don't indicate
people who drive at 25mph on a Sunday morning at 6am when i'm trying to get to work
people who knowingly get into the wrong lane to merge in later because they are royalty and don't need to queue
people who can't read the bus lane sign and don't use it when they can meaning when I do i undertake them even at 30mph.
people who can't read the bus lane sign and use it when they can't just to get ahead of the queue because they are royalty and don't need to queue
People who dont understand the lanes on a motorway
people who weave in and out around people to get past, i understand speeding and am fine with that, but dangerously weaving to get around multiple cars is crazy
people who cant see the white line at traffic lights and seem to stop a good cars length over it
people who at traffic lights are constantly rocking back and forth as if they are going to make an effort and go when its green but just sit there waiting to be pushed away
people who wait until the lights been green a week before moving on, causing the light to go red before 4 cars are through
people who when realising they are in the wrong lane at a junction or roundabout will weave wildly across the road to make the turn without looking.
mobile discos
buses who dont use the bus lane when not in service even though its at a time when all traffic can use the bus lane
people who use the handbrake on flat roads because they stopped moving for 2 seconds
last but not least, people who don't realise you can drive past a gatso at more than 30mph when its looking at the other side of the f'ing road!

not much really.
 
When someone tells you something you know to be completely incorrect about your car or marque - but because they're complete strangers you can't help but feeling you should just nod knowingly and let it pass......
 
Todge said:
people who knowingly get into the wrong lane to merge in later because they are royalty and don't need to queue
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I do this all the time on our dual carriage way;

Come dinner time, it is backed up nearly 1/2 mile on the inside lane, and usually completely empty on the outside lane. I'll drive all the way to the bottom, and then find a space as someone moves to hop into the left lane.

Queueing is a mugs game if it can be avoided.
 
That's a bit like when there's a massive queue for one exit on the roundabout - and you simply drive up the empty lane, get onto the roundabout then swing all the way around :D

Just making full use of the road :p

I won't muscle into queues though, not intentionally anyway :)
 
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