Poll: Things that drive you up the wall

[Guitarmasterx7]

People who tailgate. Especially when there are multiple lanes open. I've was driving a car with a piece of shit tail axle that would cause the car to shake around when exceeding 70-75 MPH and let me tell you, that experience taught me that there are a LOT of these people.

It's even more infuriating when after tailgating you for a good minute, they finally take advantage of one of the 3 other largely unoccupied lanes, and then end up driving next to you. I could understand the frustration if you wanted to get past me and speed up off into the distance, but that just pisses me off.

Oh and when they do that thing where they flash their brights at you while they're doing it, that's also fucking annoying.

I remember some lady that did all of the above, honked at me when changing lanes, and then went SLOWER than me. She caught up to me at the red light and when I noticed the carseat I screamed "I hope your baby gets cancer" at her. Now I REALLY hope her kid ended up getting cancer just so she remembers that forever. Sometimes I think about the offended look of complete shock on her face when I need a pick me up.

Oh and motorcyclists. With the number of times I've seen motorcyclists fling themselves into death and then end up graciously saved by people in cars valiantly risking accidents of their own to preserve some dickhead, I question why people still do it.

 

[bearlotz]

However, I do have a massive problem with (and I don't know if this is UK specific or area specific) people who see another driver they know and wind down the window to have a conversation with them. On the road. Most often I see this happen in school run traffic. I mean.... What?!

Oh that's far from UK-specific, happens over here too. I remember one particular incident where I was driving down the road and came to a Stop-sign at a "+" intersection intending to turn right. In front of me was a minivan, and across the street was an older lady. The minivan honked and the lady across the street looked up and waved, so I guess they knew each other. Then the lady starts running (hobbling? she wasn't too quick about it) across the street to talk to the minivan driver. The minivan completes a right turn...and then parks on the side of the damn road (like 20 feet from the turn, immediately after completing it), rolls down the driver-side window, and proceeds to begin a conversation with the old lady...who has now taken up a position in the road to talk through that window. This road was rather narrow to begin with, there are cars coming down the other side, and this is all happening during the lunch rush. I had to time my turn to not get hit by cars on either side while swerving into the wrong side of the road in order to avoid the old lady because they couldn't have waited a few minutes, gone to a parking lot (like 50 feet down the road, btw), or just had the lady stand on the sidewalk to have their conversation. From the bottom of my heart and until the end of time I curse thee, old conversation lady and minivan driver.

"By the beard of the All-Father. That's fantastic. Can I use that?

Since it's a fellow Jersey resident asking, sure

I was actually listening to something on the radio a week or two ago about how people seem to be smoking pot and then driving. People were calling in explaining that they do and why. It's actually pretty scary the number of people who do that. The one part that stuck out to me was that when one of the callers said that "It helps him focus and not crash". One of the talk shows host's couldn't have said it better, "Shouldn't you be able to not crash into things when you get your license?". People just infuriate me.

Honestly, it's probably no worse than people driving without adequate sleep, or while on prescription (you get a lot of that around here, middle-aged suburbanites with a doctor friend who writes them a renewable script), or just old people driving in general. Try to remember: blame the user, not he drug. That radio caller though...what the shit? I don't think that's how it works, guy.