Driving pet peeves

Drivers who make a left hand turn and cut way into the other lane. And by cutting into the other lane, I don't mean clipping the yellow line. I mean the entire car. One intersection close to home I have to stop 10 feet back from the stop sign and as far to the right as possible, to prevent getting front end clipped. Best part, the other drivers get pi$$ed if you honk. Had one women actually stop her minivan get out walk up an start cussing me out. She came real close to finding out what equal rights is all about.

 

Poeple that are unfamiliar with the cruise control option

 

@Jamesboy2233

The fact that there never seems to be a cop around when you actually want or NEED one...

Oh sure, when you accidentally do 43 MPH down a steep hill in a 25 MPH zone, at 11pm, with NOBODY around, there's a bored cop hiding at a gas station who pulls you over and gives you a $180 ticket. Or, it's close to midnight, you've just driven 40 minutes from your Grandma's on Labor Day Weekend, you're almost home, and you inadvertently make a left turn on a red light at very confusing 3-way intersection because you (A) are tired, and (B) there is once again absolutely no car in sight, the intersection is clear, and in your sleep-deprived state all you care about is getting home and hitting the sack. Oh yes, there were cops hanging around both of those times...

Both of those traffic stops happened in 2017, and if you count the DUI checkpoint I encountered while driving I had three encounters with police while driving that were largely the result of bad luck, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time!

But there never seems to be cop around I see people doing 80-90 MPH on the 611 bypass (55 MPH speed limit), blatantly cutting people off, tailgating people (including me), driving drunk, texting and driving, and failing to yield...

 

@ALI3N_123
@Jamesboy2233

People who open their doors without looking!

Some TW members probably remember the story of how a woman flung open the front passenger door of her Honda Pilot and guillotined the left side-view mirror off of my Taco just over a year ago...

I ended up almost losing my job of almost three years over that altercation, because I cussed out the woman in front of my boss, several coworkers, and about two dozen paying customers (I work at a bar). Turns out the woman who guillotined my mirror off was the wife of a musician whose band performed regularly at the bar where I work and brought it in a lot of money. NOT-SO-FUN FACT: I still to this day don't really give a shit if the Queen of England damaged my truck; The bottom line is that if you damage my truck, you'd better take responsibility and pay for it.

The husband (the high-grossing musician) was quite mad at me for cussing at his wife, but once I explained to him that my truck was my baby, he eased up. I also explained that I'd been involved in an accident with a drunk driver about a year and half prior to this incident that resulted in $2,600 worth of damage to my truck, and showed him pictures of the truck after the drunk driver incident, we were pretty much cool. I called my dad, and since the only damage to my truck was the mirror, my dad and Mr. Musician mutually agreed that they would let bygones be bygones and pay to fix their respective vehicles. The Pilot ended up having no damage aside from a little paint chip, and a new mirror for my Taco cost $126 or so. My boss was initially quite pissed and sent me home early, but in the end I kept my job. I am now on really good terms with the musician and his wife, and needless to say she is always extra careful when opening her door.

 

Thank God you didn't get fired!

 

When you are backing out of a parking space, typically in a shopping center parking lot, and someone decides to drive behind you anyway even though they can clearly see that you are backing up. I have almost clobbered a couple of vehicles as a result of this very scenario. I'll be in reverse, riding the brake pedal as I'm slowly backing out, and dividing my time between looking out the rear window and at my backup camera screen. There will be nobody there, and then all of a sudden, a vehicle appears and I'll have to hit the brakes all the way. If I ever do actually hit a vehicle as a result of such a scenario, I'm going to show the dashcam footage to both my insurance company and the other person's insurance company so I can get 50/50 liability at the very least.

I thought I was crazy until my mom recently complained about the very same scenario!

And if you think it is bad enough dealing with other motorists in parking lots, it gets worse...

Pedestrians do it too!

It's one thing if my reverse lights are on and I'm idling. However, people walk behind my truck when the reverse lights are not only on, but I'm actually in the process of backing up. Sometimes it's just people, sometimes it's people pushing full shopping carts, sometimes it's someone holding a baby or pushing a stroller, and sometimes it's a kid. On a couple of occasions, I get a dirty look from people when it was them or their kids who were stupid enough to walk behind a 3,000-pound truck while it was clearly reversing. I just keep my mouth shut...

 

Doylestown Center, located in the town of the same name, is the absolute worst. This shopping center contains the Acme I regularly shop at for work, and occasionally for myself. One time, I'd just parked my truck and was walking to the Acme when this idiot comes whizzing through the parking lot on his bicycle, without a helmet. A 20-something guy in a late model Ford Taurus had just started backing up, and this Darwin Award nominee comes within inches of the Taurus's bumper. This Taurus was about a 2013 or so and lacked an actual backup camera, but had backup sensors which would cause an alarm to sound if a collision was imminent. The poor guy in the Taurus didn't see the bicyclist until the alarm started going off. He slammed on his brakes, sparing the cyclist, but screamed out his window and called the idiot a "fucking moron" or something to that effect. Sympathizing with the guy on the Taurus, I said "What do you call a guy like that?" He said "a fucking idiot" or something like that, and I said "a more family-friendly insult would be bicyclus moronicus." His anger turned to amusement and he started laughing. He told me that he didn't even see the guy until his backup alarm starting going off, we chatted for a bit about how easy it was to put a backup camera in a vehicle like his that didn't have one, and parted ways on very good terms...

 

A lot of crap can be laid at the feet of impatience. It leads to casual discourtesy as well as flagrant violations and everything in between.

 

I think I’ll contribute to this thread.
1. Mustangs. All mustang drivers are idiots. End of story.
2. Eurotrash cars. Whenever you see one of these, just cover the brakes. They can’t drive and the fact that their heads are shoved up their own asses impares vision quite badly.
3. Hybrids. Always doing 10 miles slower than the speed limit in the left lane. And unaware of me flashing my high beams and pods at you to signal you to get the hell over.
4. Modified diesel shitheads. No I don’t care you can dump black smoke out of your truck every time you touch the throttle. Grow up.
5. Lanesplitting bikes. I don’t mind lane splitting if you are at walking pace through cars, it’s the dumbasses that do it 20 or 30mph faster than the speed of traffic. I’ve been riding bikes since I was 8 and I still don’t understand it.
6. The people that stop at a light 20 feet behind the line and don’t trip it to turn green.
7. The brake tapper. Just let off the gas if you have to slow down a little bit. You don’t have to get on the brakes.
8. The idiot towing a stupid camper driving 20mph slower than traffic on a 2 lane road. If you can’t manage to tow your dumbass camper at posted speed, get a hotel room at your destination rather than towing your hillbilly hideaway.
9. Loud exhaust guy. Generally on mustangs or wannabe unibody muscle cars. I don’t give a fuck how loud your car is and I really don’t want to hear that shit every goddamn morning at 5am.
10. Blindspot campers. Pass me or drop back. Don’t camp in my blindspot.
11. People that pull out in front of you at the last moment forcing a panic stop. Then they drive slower than the limit.
12. Phone users. All of y’all need to just die. There I said it.
13. Dogs in truck beds. If you want to keep the dog in the bed, get a kennel that is secured to the bed of the truck or put it in the cab. I hate seeing dogs in the beds of trucks. One panic stop or emergency maneuver and out goes your dog. An animal should have to die for a morons stupidity
14. Chicks that can’t see over the dash or sit 1 inch from the steering wheel. Get a car that fits you. I hate working on cars and having to adjust the seat because my knees are going through the firewall. And if you crash while sitting 1 inch away the airbag is going to go into you, rather than you going into the airbag.
15. Neglected tires. Check your damn tires. I’m tired of seeing exploded tire bits on the road.
16. People that clog up the drive thru lane trying to make complicated orders or order for 22 people. If you got something that complicated, Park, get your fat ass out and go inside.
17. People that park next to me and leave 2 inches for me to open my door, especially when I park at the back of the lot with no cars for 10 spaces in every direction.
18. People that accelerate at a snails pace from a red light.
19. People parking wherever they want then justify it with hazard lights.
20. Unsecured loads. Buy a ratchet strap.
21. Cops that create more of a traffic hazard by pulling somebody over during rush hour causing a traffic line 20 miles long on both sides because everybody has to stop and look.
22. People that plug up toll booth lines because they can’t find their money. There are signs like 5 miles before every toll. Have your shit ready to go people.
23. People that take 20 min to park their car.
24. People that pull out of a parking spot half assed and proceed to try to drive on the wrong side right into you then get mad because you are in their way because they forgot we drive on the right side.
25. Fat bastards taking up handicapped spots. Being fat is not a handicap. They should be forced to park at the back of the lot.
26. Line cutters. Eat shit
27. The vapers or douche fluters. I don’t want to smell your douche flute vapors coming out of the windows of your wrx when I’m on my bike.
28. The modified civics that think they can smoke a literbike
29. Midlife crisis corvette drivers.
30. People that smoke with kids in the car.
I can keep going

 

31. The person who makes a right turn on red and then creeps along.
32. People who never learned what a turn signal is for.
33. People who have no concept of "YIELD" and "MERGE".
34. People who floor it at the first sighting of a yellow light.

 

11, 25 &30 check.

 

I know of this nice little round about that took the place of a fourway. It relieved a shit ton of traffic, but about every tenth person stops as if it was a fourway still.

also driving my screaming 2 month old home last night. This idiot stops in the middle of a two lane road waiting for an opening for his illegal U turn. 200 feet from a roundabout (different roundabout) and then flipped me off for honking at him.

 

@ALI3N_123
@Jamesboy2233
@Plain Jane Taco

People who speed up in the right lane when you try to pass them in the left lane!

Also, and this happened in this same incident, road ragers whose balls shrink and they immediately back off when you point out your dashcam!

Specifically, I was on Route 611 driving to work, and I had to get into the right lane to make my exit.

There was an older Chevy Avalanche in the right lane, and without even putting my signal on the driver of the Avalanche could tell was I was trying to get over (I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman). They immediately sped up, so I turned on my right signal accelerated. I was well over a car-length in front of them when I got over, so I did not cut them off.

The Avalanche driver turned on their high-beams, which is rather amusing since it was like 1:20pm. Generic high-beams only succeed in annoying other motorists after the sun goes down!

That is when I did something that I am not proud of...

I stuck my arm out the window and flipped them off. The Avalanche driver then speeds up and gets right on my ass. I then point out my rear-facing camera and they seem to back off. They were still following a bit too closely.

On Main Street, a woman (Darwin Award hopeful) decides to jaywalk without even looking, so I had to hit the brakes, and the Avalanche almost plowed into the back of my Taco.

I started to think that this twat was following me, and I wasn't about to lead them to my boss's house. I decided to head towards the police station, and that is when I went left and they went straight. Last I saw the douche in the Avalanche they pressed up against their closed window screaming and gesturing at me.

I was not trying to start something; I was merely trying to get into the right lane so I didn't miss my exit. This asshole in the Avalanche purposely sped up so I couldn't get in, but there was an opening so I got in anyway, without cutting the Avalanche off.

The asshole then attempted to antagonize me by shinging their brights in my rear view mirror, which is all but useless during the day.

I flipped them off not because I was trying to road rage, but just because I thought they were a jerk, and that was the end of it for me.

The Avalanche then speeds up and begins tailgating me and I point out my dashcam, then they almost rear-ended me when I stopped for a pedestrian because they were speeding in a 25 MPH zone.

That's three douche points for the Avalanche driver!

 

@PennSilverTaco @Jamesboy2233, I think people with Toyota vehicles are far more superior drivers than people with any other car brand.

 

Except Prius drivers...

 

LOL

 

The area where @Jamesboy2233, and me live in is known for the most diabetic population, and the most idiotic driver population.

 

I've driven a Prius once in my life, and I didn't like it too much; It was my aunt's, we were visiting relatives in California last October, and I was only backing it out of the driveway so my uncle could get his VW Bus out. Specifically, it was a 2013 Prius V (the "big" one). I shifted into reverse and was immediately met with this awful beeping noise, and the car wouldn't even move when I hit the gas. The parking brake was set, and I looked in all the usual spaces but couldn't find it. Turns out that a Prius V has a floor-mounted pedal like my Tacoma, but it was really well-hidden. After my aunt helped me find the parking brake, there was still the issue of the backup alarm. A Prius has this stupid alarm like a forklift, and it apparently can't be shut off! Just another reason I'll NEVER buy a Prius!

 

What does being diabetic have to do with it?

 

We're known for the most diabetic population. And most idiot drivers.