Driving pet peeves

Blind spot campers are the worst

 

Well... my biggest pet peeve is the a-holes who feel the need to come to a complete stop making a right turn... on a 55 mph Highway.

Walton county I'm looking at you again......

 

Pretty much illegal everywhere. Cops just don't care tho. At least here. I failed to clean my hood once when i first started driving. That was a quick easy lesson.

 

Im sure i said it before but cars that make wide 18wheeler swing out to turn right.

 

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This is something I’ve personally noticed a lot of lately; It typically occurs at 3-way and 4-way intersections, but it can also occur when somebody is pulling out a side street (or exit ramp) on your left or right...

I will be doing at least 45 MPH (often more), and I see someone waiting to pull onto the main road that I’m on; They will start pulling forward before I’ve cleared, and it makes me incredibly nervous! From where I’m sitting, they get uncomfortably close to my truck, and I’m worried they’ll hit me!

I have jerked the steering wheel to the right and gone slightly out of my lane to avoid these people, and I will not hesitate to beep if necessary!

I was driving on Street Road in Warrington one time in May or June 2016, and a cop started inching past a stop sign in his marked Ford Expedition before I’d cleared it; I beeped at the cop. The cop was (A) out of jurisdiction, and (B) did not have his lights and sirens on. As far was I was concerned, he was just another motorist and I had the right of way.

 

Another time just recently (December 2019), at approximately the same spot where I beeped at the cop in the Expedition, a late model Ford Taurus cut the cue...

On Street Road, just past the intersection with Easton Road/Route 611, the road goes from two lanes to one. The right lane is intended for people turning right into the shopping center, and the left lane is intended for people going straight; It is not illegal for people to use the right lane to overtake people in the left lane, and this is something I do from time to time...

However, many people get way too aggressive; I have seen people literally drag race each other to be first in line. I am guilt of having done this one time; Some asshat in a 2002-2011 Nissan Altima attempted to aggressively pass me when I was in the left lane...

I could tell by the way the engine sounded and the fact that the car wheel covers instead of alloys that it was a 4-banger Altima and not a V6 model. The older 2nd Gen Altimas have less than 150 horsepower and this one did not sound like it’s owner took very good care of it. I have about 15 more horsepower on tap, and my truck has always been obsessive-compulsively maintained, so keeping the Altima from cutting me off was no issue at all!

 

Being cut off is oddly less irritating when someone turns on their blinker in advance...

 

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Going back to the incident with Taurus in December 2019 (May have been very early January 2020, but 99.9% sure it was December 27th)...

I had my best friend Mike in the truck with me, and we were headed back to my parents’ house to get something of mine; There were quite a few vehicles in the left lane in front of me...

All of a sudden, this black or dark green Taurus roared past us with its left signal on; Nobody would let them in...

At this point, I was going 45-50 MPH and did not feel comfortable slamming on my brakes to let this impatient bastard in. He (or she) decided that they were too important to wait and proceeded to get into the left lane anyway; I slammed on the brakes and laid on the horn...

The driver of the Taurus got butthurt about getting beeped at and decided to stop in the middle of the road. Now thoroughly angered, I turned on my high-beams...

The driver of the Taurus turned on the little LED flashers in their taillights, attempting to intimidate me into thinking that he or she was a cop; A fun fact about Pennsylvania is that all police vehicles have blue and white “MUNICIPAL” plates that differ greatly from normal plates. The plate number on this Taurus was “59”, which is a low number and obviously a vanity plate, but it was still an ordinary plate. I wasn’t dumb enough to believe this idiot was actually a cop and stood my ground...

The Taurus did look a lot like an unmarked police car, but again, even unmarked police cars in Pennsylvania use the “MUNICIPAL” plates; Never, EVER try to get one over on a detail-oriented, autistic gearhead!

This person gave up within a few seconds and took off.

 

I thought of another one, this one might be very regional: how many know about the Rhode island left? In RI and MA people waiting to turn left will just creep out into oncoming traffic, completely blocking the lane and forcing people to stop until they can finish their turn. I've lived in PA, NY, and VA and never saw this until I came to new england. If you're the oncoming traffic and you beep at the person they will act like YOU are the wrong one. If you try to ignore them be ready to swerve or slam on the brakes, they will pull out in front of you no matter what you're doing, like a game of T-bone chicken

 

In my part of Pennsylvania, I've seen people creep out so that their bumper is sticking out, but if you are paying attention it is generally quite easy to go slightly to the left and go around them without stopping; However, what I find to be quite hard is resisting the urge to play them a tune on my horn purely out of anger!

 

Yeah, this is moving the entire vehicle into the lane, not just the bumper. I don't know why it's so common up here, is it the driving schools? Is it just the weird new england culture? No idea but it blew my mind when I first moved up here and I still do not understand it.

 

Once time a few years ago, it was around Christmas and I almost T-boned some moron in a blue BMW 3-series with New York plates; I was on Main Street in Doylestown Borough. He was making a left turn out of a shopping center and I was going straight; There is a center "turn lane" and this jackass had plenty of time to make it into the center before I got too close...

However, as to be expected from both a BMW driver and a New York driver (this guy was a Double Threat), he didn't do that! This idiot just stopped in the middle of the road, completely blocking my path! This forced me to slam on the brakes and lay on my horn; The moron continued to leisurely pull into the center lane without even making eye contact with me!

 

There's a reason drivers are called Massholes in your state!

 

A few years back I was getting ready to pull out of my driveway after a lady in a Lexus races past. I pull out and proceed the direction she was going, there is a stop sign about a mile down the road and she was sitting there waiting. When I arrived at the stop sign she floors it and races away like a bat out of hell, I proceed in the same direction and when I crest the hill I see her brake lights on and she is sitting there in the road. As I approach and stop she races forward, as soon as I get up to speed she locks the brakes up and continues doing this several more times before we get to the next stop sign where she puts her car in park and starts screaming at me. From that stop sign it crosses a small highway and then drops off into a parking lot, she blasts off from that stops sign and flies across the highway and goes airborne into that parking lot. To this day I cannot figure out what was wrong with her and why her behavior was so erratic.

 

Some people just happen to be at their breaking point when their life intersects yours, as if they are hanging onto reality by a thread but still have the mindfulness to operate a vehicle. They just needed one more thing to send them into the deep end, and it happened to be something you did (or didn't do).

I had something very similar happen to me with a guy in a Jeep Grand Cherokee. I was driving on a two-lane road with a speed limit of 55 MPH. This guy in a Jeep approaches a stop sign that intersects the main road, waits for a little while as I approach, then pulls out directly in front of me in my lane of travel. I had to stand on my brakes (old car, didn't even have ABS) to keep from crashing into the back of him. As soon as I had my car under some semblance of control, I laid on the horn to let him know he could have killed somebody with such a mindless stunt.
As soon as I got on the horn, this dude totally blew a fuse. He began bouncing around inside his car, flailing his arms, flooring it up to 70 MPH and then standing on the brakes, and finally, swerving violently to the point where he was forcing oncoming traffic onto their shoulder to avoid a head-on accident with him.
He eventually sped off and I took the opportunity to create a nice big gap between him and myself. In the words of Dennis Weaver's character from the film Duel, "The road's all yours, buddy."

 

I live in new Jersey. But I feel jersey is filled with a bunch of assholes. I feel like every other day I see road rage of some sort.

 

Been in RI once for about an hour. Almost hit twice. Fuck sakes

 

That was probably my mom. She does that from time to time. It's why I always drive if we go somewhere.

 

Wow, that guy sounds like he was nuts, thank goodness he didn't kill anyone.