Driving pet peeves

People think they are safe in parking lots due to low speeds. Sadly a lot of accidents in them say other wise

 

@ALI3N_123
@El Duderino
@Jamesboy2233

Nobody's perfect and everybody makes mistakes. What I find rather amusing is that when people confront me for minor SNAFUs, people will often take a look at me and realize I'm significant larger than they are, and take off like the cowards they are.

 

I've been in a parking lot accident that was unfortunately my fault. It was right after Thanksgiving in 2016, and I was running an errand for my boss at the local grocery store. I do not remember what happened; I either (A) took my foot off the brake without thinking, or (B) was actually starting to pull out without paying attention.

Either way, I pulled out of the parking space front-end first and clobbered this asshole Army vet's brand new Subaru Crosstrek in the right rear door. The way he was acting towards me, you'd have thunk I purpose sought out his Subaru and hit it on purpose. I was so scared of the guy due to his never-ending stream of profanities that I eventually locked myself in my truck until a cop showed up...

 

People who wait and even circle the parking lot for the closest parking spot at the gym.
People who wait for a parking spot in a parking garage whilst holding up traffic behind them.
People who don't use a turn signal and cut you off, then proceed to use a turn signal when the lane they are merging in is empty.
People who drive yellow cars that aren't taxi's
Trucks with huge lifts and tiny tires

 

@ALI3N_123
@El Duderino
@Jamesboy2233

Last one of the night...

Blatant insurance fraudsters!

I was almost a victim of this. I was in a very minor accident in November 2013 where my truck made contact with a Lexus SC430 driven by a woman I believe was intoxicated at the time. No damage to Tacoma but there ended up being about $1,600 in damage to the Lexus, and the woman tried to bully me into paying her in installments. If I had my way, I would have just ignored her, but she and her boyfriend were harassing me and it didn't help that they worked in a building right next to my favorite watering hole (later to become my place of employment), nor did it help that the boyfriend tended bar at said watering hole. I was forced to involve my parents, and they wouldn't listen to reason with my parents, so my parents were forced to involve the insurance company. My insurance company, USAA, ruled 50/50 because the woman was not driving defensively. She attempted to pass between my truck and a building, and if I remember correctly my foot slipped off the brake. She fled the scene of the accident and disappeared (99% sure she was drunk) and only came back after I told her boyfriend and her boyfriend bitched her out, at which point she started F-bombing me (this is a 50-something woman, mind you; I was the calm one).

My friend rear-ended a Mercedes in his 2009 Nissan Sentra, totaling the Sentra and doing about $5,00-$6,000 in damage to the Mercedes. The dickhead cop wrote him a ticket for "causing an accident" (cough, cough **ticket quota** cough, cough). As if that and the fact that the car he'd just paid off was now totaled, he gets a call from the Mercedes owner's insurance company that damage is like a grand more than originally estimated. My friend has the same insurance as me (USAA) but for some reason doesn't have the same coverage as me, and they wouldn't cover the additional damages. My friend essentially told the other party to go fuck themselves and sue him if they wanted to. The other party left him alone and never called back. Sounds like insurance fraud to me!

 

What about yellow trucks and SUVs?

 

Just cars lol, fucken posers

 

Interstate drivers that constantly waver in speed either passing or getting passed but never joining the convoy. My favorite fellow drivers will either stay in front of me at a constant speed or follow me for several hundred miles.

 

I hate the people that pace you at the same speed side by side drives me crazy.

 

@ALI3N_123
@El Duderino
@Gr8fl
@Jamesboy2233

This happened last Saturday in good 'ol Doylestown Borough...

I had just worked a 9-hour shift detailing cars at Fred Beans, and helped out for maybe an hour at Puck to make some extra cash. My relatives from New Jersey who I rate get to see were visiting and were about to leave, so I was doing everything in my power to get home without breaking any laws.

I was on East State Street (one way), about to make a left onto South Main Street. The light was green, and there was a GMC Terrain in front of me with its right turn signal on, probably at least a whole car-length from the limit line/crosswalk. I did not see any vehicles in front of the Terrain, and assumed they were on their phone or something, so I tooted my horn to no avail...

When they didn't move, I gave a longer honk. When they still didn't move, I promptly laid on the horn but still got absolutely no reaction from the driver. At that point, I was surprised I didn't get a middle finger, and I began to wonder if the driver was passed out behind the wheel...

Finally, I saw another vehicle pull out from the right, get in front of the Terrain, and proceed through the intersection. I immediately knew what had happened...

It was yet another non-local who'd been insistent on getting that spot when unbeknownst to her there was plenty of cheap/free parking right around the corner. In the process, she'd held up traffic and caused me to miss the light, costing me a critical two minutes!

As I drove past the Terrain, the woman was either too scared to make eye contact with me too oblivious to care/notice.

Doylestown should seriously have a law against holding up traffic to wait for a damn parking spot!

 

1. People using their brights period. In 12 years of driving I have never used mine. When you are on country roads slow da fuk down! High beams don’t prevent you from hitting a deer when you are driving excessively fast.

2. Tailgaters

3. Whipping in and out of lanes

4. Road rage

5. Excessively slow people. If you are driving slower than me... you are being ridiculous

6. When people put LED bulbs in Halogens and DGAF they are blinding everyone.

7. When people put bright AF bulbs in their hazed AF headlight lenses so they blind people

8. Smoked out lights. They are dangerous and should be illegal.

 

One time, also on State Street but back in the summer of 2015, I had a similar problem. I was delivering pizzas to make some extra money, and first let me tell you about what typically happens at a pizzeria, especially a privately owned one...

If you put three or more drivers on, thinking it'll be busy, it'll be slow and the drivers will be forced to work in rotation. If you only put on one or two drivers thinking it'll be slow, then it'll be super busy and the result will be stressed drivers and pissed off customers.

I was stuck in traffic outside of either Pag's Pub or Penn Taproom, and what happened next was even worse than the people who are already blocking the road to parallel park. There was a BMW SUV in front of me, and they didn't have their signal on or anything. As far as I was concerned, they were waiting in traffic just like me. I pulled up behind them, and right as I got past the point where they would be able to back up without hitting my truck, the right turn signal and reverse lights come on.

I lay on the horn, and at this point traffic had started to move. They were standing their ground, so I screamed out the window something like "I've got a whole stack of pizzas in the truck that I need to deliver! You can drive your ass around the block and find another spot if this one is gone!"

I've had so many of these encounters with oblivious out-of-towners holding up traffic to park that they all blur together, but if I remember correctly, the BMW drove around the block and let me by.

 

lol this one always comes to mind when driving...

 

I hear you on #6

One time I was driving a friend home from another friend's birthday party, and there was this asshole in a white Dodge Ram 1500 with a roughly 18"-long LED bar on the front bumper. He insisted on having the damn thing on even though he was in Saturday night traffic and I had to fold in my side view mirror for some relief!

 

DUI checkpoints!

I encountered one while driving home from work on Saint Patrick's Day in 2017, and it's not something I ever want to encounter again! As a barback at a nightclub, I was probably one of the only people driving home from a bar on St. Pat's who had any business behind the wheel. I had absolutely nothing to drink, but I felt put on the spot and almost like a criminal.

One of my coworkers at the detail shop (and a fellow Tacoma owner) is in favor of cops cracking down on drunk drivers but believe that DUI checkpoints should be illegal. His biggest gripe is that they're a waste of money, and I would definitely agree with that, among other things...

I just don't think that I should have to answer questions from police unless I have actually done something wrong (like getting pulled over for speeding).

Overzealous cops are one of the many reasons I hate driving at night!

 

Totally agree.

Check points don’t reduce incidence of drunk driving. (Its actually shown developed innercity transportation systems do... but fuck lets spend money on the unnecessary bullshit instead)

I hate any practice that puts unconvicted individuals under scrutiny of any law enforcement to the point where we are treated as guilty until proven innocent.
Thats why I don’t fly anymore.

Fuck now I need a beer.

 

As a Pennylvania resident who's lived here for more than 13 consecutive years and been a licensed driver for almost 8 of those years, I can say that I really dislike the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). They force me to pay a mechanic $60 every year to essentially tell me that my truck is in perfect working order, they tell me what I can and can't do to my truck in terms of modifications, and while I was exempt from underage drinking laws because I didn't get my driver's license until I was 22, I've lost count of how many of my friends lost their licenses for underage drinking when they were nowhere near a motor vehicle.

 

PennDOT...

Complicating and even completely ruining the lives of working middle-class men and women since 1970!

 

If I can't drive there, I don't go there. I quit flying years ago, I hate everything about flying but the TSA agents were the final straw.