Driving Pet Peeves
 

On my way to Memphis today, we traveled along an interstate that has ongoing roadwork. This creates a bottleneck in many areas so I have learned to be patient when driving.

However, today as we drove out of a bottleneck when the lane was freed up, I saw a driver behind me come pass me at a faster rate of speed. I got into the left lane to pass someone else and the left lane was full and a long line. This guy decided that none of us was going fast enough for him and he could not pass all of us in the left lane. So he gets into the right lane and passes people going 70 mph on the shoulder of the interstate!

He could have gotten a lot of people killed had he blown a tire or lost control on the shoulder as he passed. Sheesh. What's wrong with people?

I have a lot of driving pet peeves, but I believe that this one takes the cake.

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Oh I have my driving pet peeves as well. I really really do.

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Another one is when people stop dead in the fast lane to turn around in the median. :rolleyes2

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Here is a short list.

A) People who drive the speed limit or under in the left most lanes.

B) People, who when stopped at stop lights, insist of keeping 1-3 whole car lengths between them and the car in front of them.

C) People, usually the same as B, who once the light turns green, allow the car ahead of them to get 50 feet down the road before they even start moving themselves.

D) People, similar to C, who start out really really slow but slowwwwlllyyy accelerate to actual speeding (more then 10 over the limit) which happens by the time your able to get in the other lane (since everyone was passing them initially) and then your not able to pass without risk of a ticket.

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Ha ha ha!

What about those who are in an all fire hurry to get in front of you, then slow down to a crawl?

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That IS annoying but honestly is so uncommon that I don't really even group them into a category.

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People who won't use turn signals properly!

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People who won't dim their lights or use those
horrible bluish/glarish colored headlights (those
ought to be against the law!)

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Drivers that drive faster or slower than I do.
Drivers talking or texting on their cell phones while driving.

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Drivers, period. Not really a pet peeve,
so much as a cry for a little sanity.
Driving is like forcing other people to smoke.

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Grandma or Grandpa taking a sunday stroll on a two-lane highway with no passing lanes.... or a tractor, or other big farm rig taking their good ole time in the main roadway without pulling over to let cars go by...

(can you tell I live in the sticks... LOL)

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This morning on the Interstate, I looked over to my left and there was a woman in a brand new Cadillac doing 65-70 mph with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away for a couple seconds to continue shaving and when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still working on that makeup.

As a man, I don't scare easily but she scared me so much that I dropped my electric shaver which knocked the donut out of my other hand.

In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my cell phone away from my ear and the phone fell into the coffee between my legs!

The coffee splashed, burned me, soaked my pants, ruined the phone and disconnected an important call.

Women should not be allowed to drive if they are that dangerous on the road.

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Randy - the above is called "leaving yourself an out". Granted some people leave too much; but involved in a rear-end accident that then knocks you into the person in front of you causes you to be a bit more cautious about how close you are to the vehicle in front. Also, have you ever been stopped behind a vehicle and they stalled. Then you are too close to be able to get around them safely? Professional drivers are taught to leave themselves an out. :nod

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No flying cars. It's 2012. Where is my flying car?!

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in the sci fi stories

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You're not helping! :ranting

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I understand that, which is why the recommendation is 1/2 a car length. I was taught in drivers ed many many years ago that a good rule of thumb is to pull up close enough to were you can still see the back tires on the car in front of you. That is plenty of space to pull out to the side if you need too.

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Ohhhhh, I thought is was the tires of the car in front of the car in front of you! Oops, my bad. :lol

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Here's one: letting Jesus take over the driving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU

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The Jetson's lied to us.

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:ursofunny