What really gets your goat while driving?

[Plax]

The other one for me is people who bust a gut to pull out of a side road in front of you causing you to brake (when there's nobody behind), then dawdle along leaving you stuck behind them. Tw@ts!

This seriously p*sses me off. I don't understand why they do it. I personally just overtake them straight away if the road is clear, otherwise you have to slam on the brakes and get stuck behind them for X miles as whenever you get to a stretch of road that's safe to overtake on, there is *always* something coming in the opposite direction.

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

I confess that if I have a tissue on me and I'm on foot, I will clean the number plates for them. Usually the rest of the car is spotless, so the dirty number plates are obviously a way of trying to make it harder for speed cameras to read the plates. I'm sure it must really piss them off as it must take ages to get the number plates that dirty as I've never managed it with any of my cars and I had one car I hadn't washed in over a year.

One of my pet peeves are cars that drive at 40mph on a 60mph stretch of road, brake whenever they get to a slight kink in the road and then continue to drive 40mph in a 30mph zone. So you get stuck behind them for miles, they loose you in the 30 zone, but as soon as you get back to the 60 zone, who is there to greet you but tw&tty 40mph driver.

At roadworks on dual carriageways I also hate the idiots that will block the outside lane miles before the road merges into one lane. There was one idiot that used to do this every morning on my way to work. One morning I saw somebody get fed up and force him out of the way by partially overtaking him half on the outside lane and half on the outside lane verge. So idiot lane blocker was effectively stuck in the middle of the inside and outside lanes. Shortly afterwards another car, having seen this decided to do exactly the same. It made me laugh as I kind of didn't blame them (it seriously added about 15-20+ minutes extra to your journey time if you didn't manage to get to the roadworks before idiot lane blocker), but afterwards I felt bad as the 2 other car drivers were idiots too.

In a similar vein I also hate cars that deliberately close the gap between them and the car in front at roadworks. Signs say merge in turn. So if people used both lanes properly and actually did merge in turn then it would be a darned site quicker.

 

[bonj2]

In a similar vein I also hate cars that deliberately close the gap between them and the car in front at roadworks. Signs say merge in turn. So if people used both lanes properly and actually did merge in turn then it would be a darned site quicker.

yes, veryannoying - that annoys me intensely
what's as bad is when two lanes are merging into one, cars that want to get into the 'correct' (i.e. continuing) lane as soon as possible - i.e. long before they need to, then they feel aggreived when people are, correctly, using the full length of the lane that is closed before the cones and then pulling in!
they had this situation on the roadworks on teh A1 at blyth and they had massive signs up saying "when queuing use both lanes" but they still did it!
thankfully those roadworks are gone now...

 

[Billloudon]

What really gets your goat while driving?

Bloody Cyclists Just kidding

 

[Renard]

People who sit in the middle lane on the Mway.

 

[domd1979]

yes, veryannoying - that annoys me intensely
what's as bad is when two lanes are merging into one, cars that want to get into the 'correct' (i.e. continuing) lane as soon as possible - i.e. long before they need to, then they feel aggreived when people are, correctly, using the full length of the lane that is closed before the cones and then pulling in!
they had this situation on the roadworks on teh A1 at blyth and they had massive signs up saying "when queuing use both lanes" but they still did it!
thankfully those roadworks are gone now...

No, the people who drive all the way to where the cones start tapering out the lane then try and force their way over are tossers and deserve not to be let in.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

No, the people who drive all the way to where the cones start tapering out the lane then try and force their way over are tossers and deserve not to be let in.

I had someone do this on the M25 to me one night. I'd moved over with a few hundred yards to spare (in a lorry, you tend to do everything early) and he came up the inside at the last second and cut in front of me. When I flashed my lights, his response was to hit his brakes. So I thought "well, I've got my cruise control on, it's not my truck ... why should I slow down?". I must have got to within a couple of feet of his bumper before he realised what was going to happen and took off. Naughty, I know, but quite satisfying.

 

[PaulB]

No, the people who drive all the way to where the cones start tapering out the lane then try and force their way over are tossers and deserve not to be let in.

It drives me MAD that! There's a section of road coming in to Halifax down the hill from that big roundabout on the M62, where two lanes filter in to one and despite signs informing people to "Merge in turn", 50% of drivers don't. What annoys me most is the sheep-like way they follow the one in front. There's times when no-one tries to take advantage but if you get one driver staying in the outer lane, you can guarantee many more will follow. You never get just one or two. it's either loads or none. What really annoys me is that there's a set of traffic lights at the end so you know that for every 10-12 vehicles that push in front, you'll have to wait another cycle of the lights so they are in reality pushing in front of you in the queue. I will do anything to avoid that road other than at the quietest times as staying in the outside lane would never occur to me and I feel I am being taken advantage of by the selfishness of aerosols who do.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

In a truck, you have the physical presence to just block the outside lane to prevent people pushing to the front. That way, everyone gets there a bit quicker.

 

[PaulB]

In a truck, you have the physical presence to just block the outside lane to prevent people pushing to the front. That way, everyone gets there a bit quicker.

I do like to see that and if the truck is near to me in the queue, I always let him in front as a gesture of solidarity with his actions.

 

[Archie_tect]

In a truck, you have the physical presence to just block the outside lane to prevent people pushing to the front. That way, everyone gets there a bit quicker.

When I had my old beetle I used to try that on motorways on the outer lane to prevent the arrogant ones pushing in at the last second up against the lane closure cones...but trying it in a car is much harder as the drivers of the BMW/Mercedes/Audi that you hold up always get right up behind and give you loads of abuse and squeeze past up the grass with a glare and a screech of rubber...pathetic. Mind you in a beetle they would never try the "I'm pushing in here whatever you do" trick as they'd be terrified that you'd scratch their big, shiny cars.

If they'd just learn to merge in turn when they get to the roadworks instead of forcing their way to the front just because they can.

[Edit: It's Plax.... naughty person]

I'm more easy going now and just think they're the ones who'll have a heart attack through stress when they're in their 40s... best chilling out!

 

[XmisterIS]

No, the people who drive all the way to where the cones start tapering out the lane then try and force their way over are tossers and deserve not to be let in.

I think the people who do that have a certain type of mentality - I was almost rammed off my bicycle a few years ago by some tw@t in an "executive" BMW (suit, tie, shades, mobile phone glued to ear, etc), who decided that he was entitled to come flying up the outside of stationary traffic, and then pull at speed into the space that my bicycle was occupying - despite the fact that he was entering a traffic jam!?!?!

 

[Crankarm]

I think the people who do that have a certain type of mentality - I was almost rammed off my bicycle a few years ago by some tw@t in an "executive" BMW (suit, tie, shades, mobile phone glued to ear, etc), who decided that he was entitled to come flying up the outside of stationary traffic, and then pull at speed into the space that my bicycle was occupying - despite the fact that he was entering a traffic jam!?!?!

A variation on the old theme "Why I hate car/van/truck/bus drivers or the dangerous things they do" except from the perspective of another petrol head, although your post above, is from the perspective of a cyclist.

What gets my goat is threads with such titles "Why you hate everyone else on the road when you get in your car or on your bike".

 

[byegad]

Number one annoyance on the road when driving:
Going along a main road in a fairly long stream of traffic but with not much coming the other way. Someone is signalling right, waiting to turn into a side road, and has to turn across the stream of traffic I'm in so has to wait for a gap in the stream of traffic, so being a nice chap I slow down a bit and flash them in. They don't go. Flash again. Couple of flashes. Still don't go. So I assume they're not going to go, and carry on. THEN they decide to go, cue me having to slam my brakes on. WHAT DO YOU WANT, A F*&^NG WRITTEN INVITATION SIGNED IN BLOOD??!! !!

What really annoys me is a nice clear road and the guy infront of me slows/stops to let someone across the lane. If it's quiet they can ruddy well wait until we are past!

 

[Crankarm]

What really annoys me is a nice clear road and the guy infront of me slows/stops to let someone across the lane. If it's quiet they can ruddy well wait until we are past!

So much aggression................... chill.

 

[Archie_tect]

So much aggression................... chill.

Exactly Crank, exactly!