Gets Your Goat! worst driving traits
Discussion
200Plus Club said:
Don't get me started on people who move their car over to block safe slow filtering on motorbikes in heavy traffic. Often tempted to accidentally clip their wing mirror off...
You'll be pleased to hear I do the opposite and pull over to allow the motorcyclist to filter. I don't want a t
ttish motorcyclist taking my door mirror off 
Two for me;
This is becoming more common, on a motorway as you overtake a car, in lane 2 or 3, the car that is being overtaken indicates to pull into your lane leaving you a quick decision to carry on or break. It’s so easy, mirror, is something there, yes well hold back until clear, signal to show intention and manouver -
NOT signal, mirror oh I’ll go anyway.
Tailgating, Why oh why oh why! And if you slow down they stick with you, speed up, nope, they want your bumper. So dangerous.
This is becoming more common, on a motorway as you overtake a car, in lane 2 or 3, the car that is being overtaken indicates to pull into your lane leaving you a quick decision to carry on or break. It’s so easy, mirror, is something there, yes well hold back until clear, signal to show intention and manouver -
NOT signal, mirror oh I’ll go anyway.
Tailgating, Why oh why oh why! And if you slow down they stick with you, speed up, nope, they want your bumper. So dangerous.
I can handle Mr A4 tdi man charging past me on a dual carriageway and cutting me up without indicating. I used to get proper rage but now I back off and leave him to karma.
The thing that gets me most these days is the ditherer who brakes for a slight bend in the road despite not going fast enough to justify braking at all. I had one last night which furstrated me no end. 23mph on a 40mph road and he/she applies the brakes for a kink in the road. They were totally oblivious to the bunched up traffic sitting on my back bumper. They are the people that cause so much frustration and other drivers often take risky manouvers to get past/gesticulate or to make a point.
The thing that gets me most these days is the ditherer who brakes for a slight bend in the road despite not going fast enough to justify braking at all. I had one last night which furstrated me no end. 23mph on a 40mph road and he/she applies the brakes for a kink in the road. They were totally oblivious to the bunched up traffic sitting on my back bumper. They are the people that cause so much frustration and other drivers often take risky manouvers to get past/gesticulate or to make a point.
heners54 said:
People that shoot out of junctions in front people, cutting it pretty fine, just to be that one car ahead and then sit daudling well below the speed limit. Especially if it's just you and there's no cars behind you; they could have pulled out safely then and meandered at their own steady pace. Why!
This. Living in a large city it is continuous - i hate to stereotype, but there are typical stereotyped offenders who do this all the time. What ever happened to waiting to be acknowledged and then pull out.My pet peeve is people that pull out of a junction into the gap i have created to prevent blocking of said junction preventing my progress as i do not want to block the junction. Last night a stream of five cars did this one after another until finally i got annoyed and blocked the junction. One person had the audacity of sticking their finger up when i flashed them.
God, where to start?!
Not indicating - I swear that for some top of the range German saloons, indicators are on the options list.
People who bimble along the open road at 40-50mph, then bimble through the following 30-limit at 40-50mph.
People who text and drive - it's downright f%^$ing dangerous. Don't believe me - follow a pedestrian who is texting and see how much attention they're paying. And they're just in charge of 10s of kilos of their own squishy bodymass, not a couple of tonnes of less yielding metal.
People travelling at the posted speed limit who spot a speed camera and then brake to take 10mph off their speed. Total f*&^tards.
There are undoubtedly others, but I have to go and lie down now.
Not indicating - I swear that for some top of the range German saloons, indicators are on the options list.
People who bimble along the open road at 40-50mph, then bimble through the following 30-limit at 40-50mph.
People who text and drive - it's downright f%^$ing dangerous. Don't believe me - follow a pedestrian who is texting and see how much attention they're paying. And they're just in charge of 10s of kilos of their own squishy bodymass, not a couple of tonnes of less yielding metal.
People travelling at the posted speed limit who spot a speed camera and then brake to take 10mph off their speed. Total f*&^tards.
There are undoubtedly others, but I have to go and lie down now.
Europa1 said:
People who bimble along the open road at 40-50mph, then bimble through the following 30-limit at 40-50mph.
another biker peeve...country road you overtake them within the speed limit then slow down to 30 for villages to find yourself being overtaken in the village!Even worse is when you wait for national speed limit sign to accelerate away only find a car alongside you. Always turns to Mr Angry when you either wind on and shoot off or overtake him as soon as he's pulled back in infrom and settled at 50!
kambites said:
People who sit with their foot on the foot brake in queues of traffic, especially in cars with LED brake lights. Obviously not the worst driving habit, but so completely unnecessary and utterly thoughtless and/or selfish.
This is one that really gets me! Using an MX5 I often get blinded by the new-gen LED rear lights, especially on the big 4x4's like the Disco4/X5 etc, it's absolutely painful to sit behind them...budgie smuggler said:
People who ignore the road markings e.g. left turn only lane at a roundabout, then push in at the front forcing those who used the correct lanes to stop.
Almost daily I find that people think the right hand lane is for going straight on and right and im wrong for using the left hand lane for going straight. 
200Plus Club said:
Don't get me started on people who move their car over to block safe slow filtering on motorbikes in heavy traffic. Often tempted to accidentally clip their wing mirror off...
then run risk of police being involved if you don't stop and insurance claims if you. Saying this makes you just as bad people who are blocking filtering motorcyclists Drivers that....
- stop at roundabouts when there is nothing coming
- madly accelerate over roundabouts to try and cut people off
- flick fag ends out the window
- tailgate
- sit in the middle lane at 71mph
- accelerate when you overtake them then slow back down and disappear
- dont let you out of a junction whilst stuck in traffic, looking resolutely ahead and refusing to acknowledge you
- make poor overtakes and put you in danger
- dont give cyclists/horses/road users room
People who use the left-hand lane to go all the way around roundabouts, thus blocking the exit for those who use them properly. Every day I use a roundabout with two lanes on the approach, and two exits - nine o clock and three o clock, and the number of people who use the left hand approach to go right is increasing all the time...
People who don't position their cars at the centreline when turning right so that vehicles going straight on, or in the case of at a T junction, turning left, can continue on their way unimpeded instead of having to sit needlessly behind Mr/Mrs I'll sit in the middle of the lane and needlessly block traffic that could be going on its merry way.
Really gets up my nose!
Really gets up my nose!
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