What are your driving gripes?

[leiba1]

What sort of people really piss you off when you're out and about?
Like these.......
Pedestrians that walk out in front of you whilst looking for traffic coming the other way.
Drivers that pull over to the right to take a left turn.
Drivers that brake first then indicate, (usually halfway through the turn).
Drivers, (for those of us with smaller machines) who decide they want to park where you are and drag your bike out and leave it some where dangerous/illegal.
Idiots taking short cuts the wrong way down a one way road.
Cyclists going through red lights.
Drivers who do window shopping whilst driving.
Parents who believe it's OK for their child to clamber all over your bike when it's parked.
And more?

[Ben.]

got to be the brake stops in middle of road, then indicates.

fucking useless cunts

that and any old person
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[McGee]

I rear ended a mate changing a cd in one of my cars.

Mashed his rear end and my car was fine.

So it has to be people messing with radios and people who do stop checks on the following car.


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[Weedy]

Dipped headlights and fog lights in normal driving conditions. It's got to the point where it annoys me so much that I'm now shouting at them as they go past!!
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[Drew]

Drivers who slow down and stop at roundabouts, and then look, when i can see it is perfectly clear to go.

[Zen Dog]

People who dont indicate. It costs you nothing people!
People who drive at 40mph in a 60 limit, and then 40mph in a 30 limit. Argh!
Red Light Runners.

Zen Dog
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[JonB]

[Cigaro]

Most things I can put up with - we're all human and we make mistakes.

But what I really can't stand is people who dawdle about, and people who have clearly either forgotten how to drive in their old age, or never learnt in the first place.

We've all seen them.

A few weeks ago I was driving through Preston when some old git (looked at least 80) in an ancient grey Fiesta pulled right out in front of me - totally oblivious to my presence - drove VERY SLOWLY down the road with his left indicator flashing and then turned right. I followed him and he then stopped at a green light.

Sat beside him beeping my horn and shouting at him for at least a minute and he didn't even notice. I don't think he was all there.

Also, HID lights (if your lights blind everyone else on the road, TURN THEM OFF YOU ARSEHOLE!), people who drive whilst on their phones (I don't actually mind if the driver is paying attention, but most aren't) and people who drive around with very loud music on (the car I normally get to drive has a very good system in, so I pull up alongside them and blast heavy metal at 5x the volume that their shitty speakers are capable of.)

[truslack]

People who race up behind you, overtake, then slow right down.

People on mobile phones.

People who walk between cars in queues - had a couple of close escapes whilst filtering.
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[NSR Mick]

People who lane hop when the motorway is busy and then wont go faster than 75 when it clears. I wish they would realise they're not gaining anything.
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[thegubner]

People on mobile phones whilst driving have a habit of doing my swede in.

Oh and people who drive with their main beam on.

[craigie b]

Those Xenon lights, I fucking hate being blinded by them. Other than that anything goes. You drive in Asia for any length of time and you soon realise its not worth getting angry as you would just be in a rage 24/7.

[NSR Mick]

[leiba1]

Another one I just thought of. I can be the last vehicle in a line of traffic driving up a road and I see someone waiting to pull out from a side road. They just can't wait that extra few seconds for me to pass, they have to pull out in front of me, be in front of me. I'm talking London traffic here, where being in front gets you nowhere quicker.

[pwntifex]

People who don't indicate are the worst for me, especially as most of the time I'm a pedestrian on campus.
Mostly asian drivers, who, by and large, are utterly useless.
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[Steve H]

Brake lights at eye level on rear spoilers - all well and good until you're in stationary traffic and the Tosspot in front utilises the footbrake instead of the handbrake. You're burning my retina's Bell End.
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[craigie b]

In Asia, you get your driving license from the back of a cornflakes packet. Its true. I drive with the fuckers everyday, and its fucking lawless.

[AJI]

People who drive around with a head or tail light out, who are obviously too thick to even realise.
People driving with no lights at all when it's dark. You think they'd notice that they couldn't see any of their dials.
The brake... brake... brake... manoeuvresignalbrakemirror bunch.
Crappy lane discipline, both in town one way systems (you fucking live here! How can you not know what lane to go in!) and on motorways (First rule of the road - KEEP LEFT unless you're overtaking, twonk)
People who cut corners, both on blind country roads and cutting junctions in town just as I'm pulling up to the line, nearly taking my front end off
Women in 4x4s
People who own people carriers to carry around a 4 month old baby. Use a normal friggin' car!
People who dawdle, which also covers the elderly. If you're too scared or too stupid to maintain reasonable progress on any sort of road, then don't drive. Incidentally, if I ever become the sort of old driver who goes 20mph in a 30 zone, you have full permission to ram me into a phone box
Scared drivers, full stop. You were born for the bus queue. Being in control of a tonne+ of metal is not the pastime for the timid

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[Cigaro]

[NSR Mick]

[Misc]

-BMW M3 drivers. They all dress exactly the same, around about the same age & their girlfriends are always blonde.

-People who don't say thanks when you give way.

-Cars up your ass.

-Old people always pull off fast from lights.

-Convertibles that have the roof down when it's not even hot.

-Newer 4x4s

-Super cars that park directly in front of a pub/club where everyone can see them & they do so because they can afford a ticket.

-Young drivers in nice cars which were bought using drug money.

[Dragonfly]

* people who drive really fast towards junctions when I am on the main road and then slamming their brakes on when they see me. Gives me a heart attack that! They the twats give me a dirty look for being there.

* poeple waiting at junction looking the wrong direction and edging out only to see me at the last min, good job I see them to blast the horn.

*people who back their cars out of a parking space on to a main road, happen in the main street a lot here. They dont care who is coming they are getting out.

*poeple who park on double yellow lines just after a bend on a main road, shit yourself time again!

*people who think its ok to hold up a que of traffic while they talk to their mates who is also holding up their end of traffic. Everyone can hear what your talking about by the way and we dont care. Just friggen move!

*Mopped and RS50 riders in T shirts and trainers, wouldnt be so bad if they knew what indicators and life savers where. In fact if they knew anything here that would be good. Some didnt know you needed a full licenses for their new VFR's and no helmets!

*People on mobile phones, especially again coming out of a junction blocking their view with their arm up phone to ear.

*poeple who throw junk out their car windows while driving only hit me.

*poeple who drive up my ass and when I give clear warning I am about to turn they are further up it, I wonder sometimes Is that the end of me here if they dont slow down and let me turn.

*wankers who take up the whole back roads! the road i talk about is big enough for two ways but they are speeding in the middle and your near in the ditch when you see them.

*chav cars, they look like fisher price toy cars with them stupid body kits and them stupid neon lights! wtf? and that music, its not a night club and yes we can all see you there in lounge position with your cap and hood up at night


* poeple who drive like 50mph around corners in housing estates then complain that others do it?? emm why dont you all stop doing it then before some kids get killed or me.

*people who drive without a licence,insurance,tax and MOT. So i have to pay and you dont? I hope you get caught and get the book thrown at you.

*being stuck behind a person doing 15mph and then braking at every bloody thing?? why do they brake like that? car on other side of road in another lane and they brake like they shat themselves.Then speed up only to slow down again. Indicate then change their minds. I keep my distance from this sort hats an accident waiting to happen.

*indicators not being used. Sure slam your brakes on and swing her round there on the main road.

* poeple who sit in car parks and empty their KFC/junk food in bags all over the ground! not a driving habbit but that annoys me!

*Then holigan bulbs, the ones that blind you. You can see them a mile off and seem to be brighter than a light house and have a shade of blue in them. People not dipping lights is another I always get that! i dip if they dont dip theres i blind them.Course they dont care with the 1 ft thickness of a sun visor strip.

* Kids not belted in, climbing all over the rear window and staring at you while your traveling behind.

*indecisive people who cant make up their minds where to park! Braking every 3 yards and having a look and then deciding when its free they dont want it. This is on the main street again.

*wheel shufflers, how long does it take to get ot of that parking space. Most are sitting and she is holding up a cue cause she is half way out on the road. Shuffling her wheel with driving gloves on and looking oblivious to anyone.

*impatient wankers I hate. Barging your car out on the street because you been sitting there a long time is not good. I was near in the side of a car from that last week only again I spotted him barging out from a good distance, still i blast the horn. Least he waved apologetically for his stupidness.

*Broken exhausts that are suppose to make your car sound like a suberu, it sounds like you need an exhaust get it fixed!. Thanks for waking me by the way. Twat!

*People who dont know what lane to use in the roundabout then blaming everyone else when they cause an obstruction.

better shut it now I have went on a lot here. I dont hate car drivers just bad drivers in general.
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[thegubner]

Bloody hell Dragonfly, you have some serious issues with road users.