Strange driving annoyances
Discussion
grudas said:
our local tesco/petrol station has 2 small car parks each end, probably 20-25 cars in total.
people are too lazy to drive and walk that extra 5m and park their car AT THE PUMP and go shopping.
my other half was sitting behind one parked at an angle at the pump with no way out and a car behind her waiting to get to the pumps while the guy slowly did his shopping and came out.
just grinds my gears, the selfishness is just unbelievable sometimes.
Had to laugh at this as I had exactly the same thing happen during last month's fuel crisis. Queued for ages to get into the Tesco petrol station, only to get stuck (no way to go backwards or to the side) waiting behind the driver in front who disappeared inside for ages. About 15/20 minutes later he came out with a trolley full of shopping. people are too lazy to drive and walk that extra 5m and park their car AT THE PUMP and go shopping.
my other half was sitting behind one parked at an angle at the pump with no way out and a car behind her waiting to get to the pumps while the guy slowly did his shopping and came out.
just grinds my gears, the selfishness is just unbelievable sometimes.
woodnut67 said:
Night time traffic queues when the driver in front insists on sitting on their foot brake causing me intense retinal burning thanks to high level brake lights. Use your hand brake ffs! 
No it doesn't you drama queen. Anyway, speaking of 'intense retinal burning' and night time driving, people who don't dip their headlights after you've overtaken them and leave the main beams. Do you think you're teaching me a lesson by trying to blind me, or was my completely foolish and reckless overtake done too quickly for you to operate the horn in time?Oh, and rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
FiF said:
Oh yes there's another Bewdley one, on Stourport Road, near Bewdley school, there are a couple of those narrow sections where traffic travelling towards town has to give way to opposing vehicles. There are give way lines painted on the road for the give way direction, signs in both directions telling drivers who has priority, yet heading into town you slow down, stop at the line, only for someone with priority to also stop and look at you with that dull eyed vacant expression wondering why you haven't moved.
Apologies for a couple of parochial posts.
This. You must live near me.Apologies for a couple of parochial posts.
FiF said:
Agreed if it's only to 45mph, however would you still object if they accelerated to, say, 60ish, in order to give best chance to merge with the heavies, or 70 if lane 1 looks clear?
Presumably they've been previously disadvantaged by some arse piling down the offside and then preventing them from joining lane 1.
It would be less of an irritation.Presumably they've been previously disadvantaged by some arse piling down the offside and then preventing them from joining lane 1.
There is one in particular J11 M3 Southbound, the roundabout leading on is right hand lane to join motorway, so many people come off that roundabout, and poodle down the slip at whatever speed they fancy often 40mph. then there is a merge left sign that they ignore so either its undertake them or try to join a busy motorway behind someone who is doing 45mph.
Another thing ,people braking AFTER corners or on leaving roundabouts, go round a corner then bad the brakes, wtf? Why???
My FIL does a really annoying thing that I just can't understand, he has the interior fan OFF.
We'll be driving along and the car is gradually steaming up from a lack of airflow in the cabin. I can see it starting at the bottom of the windscreen and on the inside of the front windows.
Inevitably it takes him longer to notice. When he does notice, he tuts, and sets the fans to FULL BLAST and clears the screen and side windows. Once cleared, it goes back to OFF and the whole process starts again. We can be on a long journey and he'll do this every 20 minutes.
I've tried explaining that just setting the climate control to auto, or leaving the fan ticking over on setting 1 will give enough airflow to be barely perceptible yet keep the windows clear but he doesn't get it. I even try leaning over and clicking it from OFF to 1 when he's not looking. I might get away with it for the journey but the next time we're in the car, it's back to OFF.
I just don't get it
We'll be driving along and the car is gradually steaming up from a lack of airflow in the cabin. I can see it starting at the bottom of the windscreen and on the inside of the front windows.
Inevitably it takes him longer to notice. When he does notice, he tuts, and sets the fans to FULL BLAST and clears the screen and side windows. Once cleared, it goes back to OFF and the whole process starts again. We can be on a long journey and he'll do this every 20 minutes.
I've tried explaining that just setting the climate control to auto, or leaving the fan ticking over on setting 1 will give enough airflow to be barely perceptible yet keep the windows clear but he doesn't get it. I even try leaning over and clicking it from OFF to 1 when he's not looking. I might get away with it for the journey but the next time we're in the car, it's back to OFF.
I just don't get it
HTP99 said:
People not using bus lanes when out of stated operating hours, doesn't bother me as I get a free lane to myself, just odd and even odder there is a bus lane near me which is suspended currently, there are big yellow and black signs stating "BUS LANE SUSPENDED USE BOTH LANES", still hardly anyone uses it:
I hate any signs that say ‘use both lanes’ when they mean ‘use either lane’. Being pedantic and compliant, if I see the former, I straddle the centre line. Edited by HTP99 on Monday 6th December 09:06
FiF said:
Really? You're trained to filter past on the wrong side forcing oncoming traffic right into the kerb to make room, sometimes stop. Because that happens regularly on one local hold up. Silly me to think it was just bikers being 
s.
Do realise it's a different situation to that described by PW though.
Exactly. If you are moving into oncoming traffic, its an overtake plain and simple, and all normal overtaking rules apply. s.Do realise it's a different situation to that described by PW though.
Had a friend who would brake when approaching a green, because, you know, it might not remain green. Hated hated hated being a passenger with him.
Another minor peeve is people giving way to others / letting people out of a side street when they really should not, because there is no real need as traffic is not heavy, also by so doing they caused free flowing traffic (aka ME) to grind to a halt and unexpected stops of any sort are always an invitation for trouble.
In short, I have an even shorter fuse for overly timid, submissive drivers.
Another minor peeve is people giving way to others / letting people out of a side street when they really should not, because there is no real need as traffic is not heavy, also by so doing they caused free flowing traffic (aka ME) to grind to a halt and unexpected stops of any sort are always an invitation for trouble.
In short, I have an even shorter fuse for overly timid, submissive drivers.
Robb F said:
When you're waiting at a wide T junction, and someone wanting to turn the opposite way to you pulls all the way up alongside you, blocking your view of the road. So now you have to wait for them to go before you can.
Now I sit right in the middle so they can't fit round.
You are in the wrong.Now I sit right in the middle so they can't fit round.
You will find it in the highway code about moving over to just left of the centre line to allow other cars past. Every driving school in the land teaches that as well. (Minor to major and mjor to minor).
In recent times i've notice an outbreak of excessively "nice" driving. This is typified in residential streets where I would be driving behind another car, and where we would happen across a parked car on the other side of the road, with another car travelling in the opposite direction waiting for us to pass before they negociate the parked car and continue. Now the christian driver in front of me will decide to randomly stop (despite us having priority), and let the opposite car continue past the parked car, to the inconvenience of both of us travelling in the same direction.
If there was a massive queue of traffic I could understand, but our train of 2 cars could have just continued with priority, and the other driver stuck behind the parked car could wait just another 2 seconds for us to pass before continuing without anyone else being inconvenienced.
If there was a massive queue of traffic I could understand, but our train of 2 cars could have just continued with priority, and the other driver stuck behind the parked car could wait just another 2 seconds for us to pass before continuing without anyone else being inconvenienced.
Mac. said:
My FIL does a really annoying thing that I just can't understand, he has the interior fan OFF.
We'll be driving along and the car is gradually steaming up from a lack of airflow in the cabin. I can see it starting at the bottom of the windscreen and on the inside of the front windows.
Inevitably it takes him longer to notice. When he does notice, he tuts, and sets the fans to FULL BLAST and clears the screen and side windows. Once cleared, it goes back to OFF and the whole process starts again. We can be on a long journey and he'll do this every 20 minutes.
I've tried explaining that just setting the climate control to auto, or leaving the fan ticking over on setting 1 will give enough airflow to be barely perceptible yet keep the windows clear but he doesn't get it. I even try leaning over and clicking it from OFF to 1 when he's not looking. I might get away with it for the journey but the next time we're in the car, it's back to OFF.
I just don't get it
This is possibly one of the worse things to endure as a passenger!!....I really don't get why people do it. Would you otherwise sit in a very well sealed boxed with 2 or 3 other people breathing in each other's stinky humid air? Horrendous.We'll be driving along and the car is gradually steaming up from a lack of airflow in the cabin. I can see it starting at the bottom of the windscreen and on the inside of the front windows.
Inevitably it takes him longer to notice. When he does notice, he tuts, and sets the fans to FULL BLAST and clears the screen and side windows. Once cleared, it goes back to OFF and the whole process starts again. We can be on a long journey and he'll do this every 20 minutes.
I've tried explaining that just setting the climate control to auto, or leaving the fan ticking over on setting 1 will give enough airflow to be barely perceptible yet keep the windows clear but he doesn't get it. I even try leaning over and clicking it from OFF to 1 when he's not looking. I might get away with it for the journey but the next time we're in the car, it's back to OFF.
I just don't get it
slipknotted said:
People not indicating to leave roundabouts!
It's so common that virtually everyone will emerge with vehicles still indicating to keep coming around, I feel like I'm the odd one out. I refuse to risk my NCB for a few seconds gain because some idiot doesn't know the orange light lever goes the other way. The people blindly queueing behind me don't appreciate it either as to the average half-wit it looks as if I'm asleep at the wheel and missing gaps.
I do feel validated when someone does come all the way around and although I'm just driving normally I feel like a driving god for predicting it.
If people don't indicate on a roundabout to a standard acceptable to me, I pull out in front of them.It's so common that virtually everyone will emerge with vehicles still indicating to keep coming around, I feel like I'm the odd one out. I refuse to risk my NCB for a few seconds gain because some idiot doesn't know the orange light lever goes the other way. The people blindly queueing behind me don't appreciate it either as to the average half-wit it looks as if I'm asleep at the wheel and missing gaps.
I do feel validated when someone does come all the way around and although I'm just driving normally I feel like a driving god for predicting it.
People who join motorways at 40MPH. Even worse people who try and join free flowing motorways at 40MPH, then stop dead at the end of the slip road because they can't then merge because they are going so slowly. After having this happen I started going around them onto the shoulder and back onto lane 1 to save the danger of a start from standstill onto a motorway. It happens a lot on the M60 and M66.
Another one, could be anywhere for any reason where someone wishes to say "thanks", let's say you've stopped because there are parked vehicles on your side and insufficient room for the opposing traffic to pass, so one of you has to wait, and as the obstruction is your side, that driver is you.
Now it's nice for someone to acknowledge with a thanks, but it's nighttime, dark as a coal hole, and NOT appropriate to say "thanks" by giving me a face full of main beam. tt.
Now it's nice for someone to acknowledge with a thanks, but it's nighttime, dark as a coal hole, and NOT appropriate to say "thanks" by giving me a face full of main beam. t
t.Definitely the speeders that take pointless or even dangerous overtakes for the sake of getting a car ahead at the next traffic lights. I've often had it where they overtake, get stuck at lights with 2 lanes and I pass them again in a shorter queue at the lights. Seriously, how much time does this actually save? All you're doing is costing yourself fuel as well as risking points and injuries.
Another recent bugbear of mine is people driving with blown bulbs. I expect to see the odd car here and there but it seems to be rife near me. I bet about 1/4 of cars I've seen recently have had blown bulbs. Mostly headlights which, when it's dark from about 4pm onwards, is a major thing. How can you not notice you can't see anything in the dark? It would drive me barmy. Surely with todays 6 trillion lumen stadium lights fitted to every car, you'd notice when a bulb has blown!
Another recent bugbear of mine is people driving with blown bulbs. I expect to see the odd car here and there but it seems to be rife near me. I bet about 1/4 of cars I've seen recently have had blown bulbs. Mostly headlights which, when it's dark from about 4pm onwards, is a major thing. How can you not notice you can't see anything in the dark? It would drive me barmy. Surely with todays 6 trillion lumen stadium lights fitted to every car, you'd notice when a bulb has blown!
Roundabouts! Does nobody know how to navigate them anymore?!?
I'm seeing this more and more recently, especially as I have to do a bit of driving for work through the day.
Approaching a round about, the car in front stops (even though nothing's coming), they wait to check it's clear (which it is), wait some more (plenty time for us both to go), then pulls out in front of a car coming round the bloody round about and nearly casuses a crash!
Argh
I'm seeing this more and more recently, especially as I have to do a bit of driving for work through the day.
Approaching a round about, the car in front stops (even though nothing's coming), they wait to check it's clear (which it is), wait some more (plenty time for us both to go), then pulls out in front of a car coming round the bloody round about and nearly casuses a crash!
Argh
Antony Moxey said:
woodnut67 said:
Night time traffic queues when the driver in front insists on sitting on their foot brake causing me intense retinal burning thanks to high level brake lights. Use your hand brake ffs!
No it doesn't you drama queen. Anyway, speaking of 'intense retinal burning' and night time driving, people who don't dip their headlights after you've overtaken them and leave the main beams. Do you think you're teaching me a lesson by trying to blind me, or was my completely foolish and reckless overtake done too quickly for you to operate the horn in time?Oh, and rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
8IKERDAVE said:
Antony Moxey said:
woodnut67 said:
Night time traffic queues when the driver in front insists on sitting on their foot brake causing me intense retinal burning thanks to high level brake lights. Use your hand brake ffs!
No it doesn't you drama queen. Anyway, speaking of 'intense retinal burning' and night time driving, people who don't dip their headlights after you've overtaken them and leave the main beams. Do you think you're teaching me a lesson by trying to blind me, or was my completely foolish and reckless overtake done too quickly for you to operate the horn in time?Oh, and rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
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