What really gets your goat while driving?

[fossyant]

(Obviously only applicable to those who drive!).

I had it yesterday with one numpty who committed a cardinal sin:

I was behind him as he joined the sliproad to get onto the motorway ... and he proceeded to sit in the outside lane (with an empty inside lane), chugging down the sliproad onto a very busy and fast-moving motorway at all of 35mph!

+1 I always join at or above the speed of the traffic.....

 

[jig-sore]

two simple but annoying ones.....

1. people who flick fags/litter out of their windows

B. people who's car is so filthy you can't read the number plates.

 

[domd1979]

B. people who's car is so filthy you can't read the number plates.

Illegal number plates as well - either because they're in a stupid font, or personalised plates with the letters/digits bodged to try and spell something. Though they are helpful for identifying when a complete moron is at the wheel.

 

[PapaZita]

Muppets who block the overtaking lane on a dual carriageway.
Muppets who change lane and 'push in' queues of traffic.
Muppets who drive up your arse on motorways.
Muppets who sit in the middle lane on motorways.
Muppets who ignore 'keep clear' signs.

Is it obvious I hate driving

Seems more like you have a problem with Muppets.

 

[Kestevan]

Almost everything.

I turn into a seething, vitriol spitting, baby eating bar-steward, cursing at all the selfish, self absorbed, blind psychos driving all the other cars as soon as I get behind the wheel.

I much prefer the bike.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Almost everything.

I turn into a seething, vitriol spitting, baby eating bar-steward, cursing at all the selfish, self absorbed, blind psychos driving all the other cars as soon as I get behind the wheel.

I much prefer the bike.

+1 sadly.

 

[Campfire]

Those people who after indicating a right turn at a roundabout, continue indicating right when taking their exit!

 

[Campfire]

I mean when exiting left!

 

[Amanda P]

Clearly, Campfire, these people don't know their left from their right.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

People who don't indicate at roundabouts. Especially those people who approach a roundabout and proceed to turn left without indicating. Especially when I've had to stop because I thought they were going straight on. And when a whole stream of cars do the same thing, leaving me sitting there when I could easily have gone ... grrrr.
But when you drive professionally, you learn not to let this stuff get to you too much. Occasionally I get wound up, but if I got annoyed at everything dodgy that happens, I'd be a nervous wreck by now.

 

[just jim]

Got to be tailgating for me. Bring back fuel rationing. To think some stange and exotic fern that lived 60,000,000 years ago helped some tosser drive right up my arse.

 

[belairman]

people who WILL NOT OVERTAKE a slower vehicle in front of them ... but who will not leave a gap either ... so you have to overtake them both at once. (Sometimes, especially on a Sunday, you can get four or five of these in a row - meaning you need about a half mile straight to pass them all).

Or they do leave a gap, but take it as some sort of personal insult to their manhood when you overtake them and pull in.

Oh and people who tailgate you at 70 on dual carriageways until you have finished overtaking and move over. Sometimes they are so close you cannot see the front of their car. If I were a weaker man, I might be tempted to move over more slowly than I otherwise would.

 

[belairman]

... oh and people who slow down to 4 mph to make a left turn. Get ON with it! They drive like someone told them, if they turn the wheel too hard it will come off in their hands....

(and yes, I used to have a car like that)

 

[Norm]

people who WILL NOT OVERTAKE a slower vehicle in front of them ... but who will not leave a gap either ... so you have to overtake them both at once.

I'll tick that one too. And, leading on from this, people who try to impose their own regulations on those around them.

 

[Keith Oates]

Moving out to the left before making a right turn, in the UK it would be the other way around but it's very annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!