What pisses you off while driving?

sirpsycho

Another that hasn't been mentioned...

Driving down a road with loadsa parked cars on your righthandside and the people driving towards you think they have the right to over take the parked cars and take up your lane. Never give them an inch. Seen plenty of scared faces ducking into gaps between the parked cars while I keep to the speed limit in a straight line.

seamus

Blue850 wrote:

I hate the eejits who won't pass a slow moving vehicle when it pulls in the hard shoulder to let them pass.

I hate the vehicles who only make a half arsed attempt at pulling into the hard shoulder, and look in their mirrors bemused as to why you won't squeeze in between their fourty-footer, the oncoming traffic and the solid white line.

DaDa

Fog lights in clear conditions!!! I only assume that the eejits think they're cool... wtf... you're inside the car... you can't see them. Turn 'em off @ssholes!

Coming onto the M50 motorway at the Red cow (Nth-bound)... for God's sake get your speed up to a point where you almost match the flow of traffic... wouldn't be half the delay!

Cars stopped in the middle of a road, letting others out... while traffic is moving at normal speeds towards you. It's illegal to stop in the middle of a road and do this. You have no control over how other traffic (on-coming or not) is going to react. Cop on!

Rovi

Here's one I get agitated about now and again: people who (at night) 'helpfully' switch to their diplights when you begin your overtaking manoeuvre.
You know the situation: you come up behind a car on an unfamiliar road, but his headlights show that there's a perfectly usable decent straight up ahead.
You indicate and move out, and he switches to the dips! Leaving the road ahead in relative darkness.
Unless I'm certain the road ahead is perfectly clear, I hit the headlights and let him suffer the glare in his door mirror.

Then there are the ones who appear to drive everywhere on the dips.
Sigh.

Sam Vimes

HelterSkelter wrote:

8. Drivers who let queue jumpers back into the queue

queue jumping with bus lanes or hard shoulders pisses me off but i jump queues myself when i get the chance, proper ways.

like the other day when i was stuck on a long road leading up to a dual carriageway for 20 mins because a garda at the roundabout on the dual carriageway was making things 100 times worse. i knew the housing estate just off the road so i nipped in there, skipped all the traffic and got back onto the road at the other end of the estate, right next to the dual carriageway. it felt so good to know the annoying bint who was in front of me was now 200 metres behind me and would be there for at least another half hour


there was one particular incident that pissed me right off. i was driving down a very narrow road with cars parked either side. someone's car had been clamped and about five blokes were standing in the middle of the road looking at it. i got as far as them and had to stop for about ten seconds while they looked at it. looking at it's not going to make it magically pop off. get off the fcuking road!!!!

Gatster

1. People who just 'stop' outside shops (often blocking the road) and don't make any effort to park, even though there may be spaces. They all need burning.
2. People who really can't drive on the motorway, pulling into the fast lane without actually accelerating or indicating. Or keep braking for no reason (ie., they can't hold the car at whatever speed it is they have chosen to travel). Also Napalm.
3. Most Taxi drivers
4. Anything badly modified also usually indicates disregard for other road users/bad driving

EDITED: For Kbannon...

Seth Brundle

Gatster wrote:

pulling into the fast line

the what?

R.O.R

People who pull out of your way on the overtaking lane lane of the motorway (when the inside is empty for miles), but then proceed to pull back out in to the overtaking lane while you are pulling back in to the left. Grrrrrrrr

Flogging is too good for them

Anan1

R.O.R wrote:

People who pull out of your way on the overtaking lane lane of the motorway (when the inside is empty for miles), but then proceed to pull back out in to the overtaking lane while you are pulling back in to the left. Grrrrrrrr

Flogging is too good for them

To be fair, they're not half as bad as the ones who won't move out of the way in the first place.

starn

Archeron wrote:

Road workers who think its their God given right to block all traffic from all directions so they can stand in the middle of the road talking to the JCB driver about what he wants for his lunch. That one is aimed at those dudes who are renovating the Fonthill road by Neilstown. Its feckin bad enough that half the road is shut without you making it worse.

(Ham salad sambo and a bag of salt and vinegar frisps in case you're wondering)

I hate those fcuks. Jumped up little bollocks. Who I suspect in most cases cant even write there own name. If my lane is clear I generally just ignore them and speed up. One Gobsh1te tried to tackle me about it one day. Luckly I was driving a D reg Mondeo. I asked him his name, told him I was a off duty Gardai and that if he didn’t shout up and stop annoying me I was going to arrest him for obstructing a public road. The wanker couldnty apologise quick enough. I would of knock him down if I thought for a minute I d get a way with it.

Anan1

starn wrote:

I hate those fcuks. Jumped up little bollocks. Who I suspect in most cases cant even write there own name. If my lane is clear I generally just ignore them and speed up. One Gobsh1te tried to tackle me about it one day. Luckly I was driving a D reg Mondeo. I asked him his name, told him I was a off duty Gardai and that if he didn’t shout up and stop annoying me I was going to arrest him for obstructing a public road. The wanker couldnty apologise quick enough. I would of knock him down if I thought for a minute I d get a way with it.

Have you ever considered going back to school?

starn

Why

AM

starn wrote:

I actually teach in a secondary school. Maths and Phys. Why

Do you know that impersonating a garda is a crime?

Perhaps Anan1 mentioned returning to school because of your grammar and spelling in your original post, especially since you mention the supposed illiteracy of road workers.

digweed

i hate when someone pulls out infront of you even though there is nothing behind me, only to turn off a couple hundred yards down the road. i used to work with a contrcting company and it used to p!$$ off the driver no end when someone would overtake the truck only to slow down a little up the road to turn off.

D.

Volvoboy

Lots of things piss me off driving. but the one that really annoys me is when you let someone out and they dont say thanks .i.e wave of the hand or putting on the hazard lights for a second. pisses me off to now end

GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!


-VB-

Max_Damage

I also hate assholes that don't indicate at roundabouts. Problem is you don't know which exit they are going to take.

That and the tailgating really piss me off.

I've another other thing that stops the tailgating pricks apart from going on the brakes. Since my car burns quite a bit of oil, there is often a trail of blue smoke behind me, escpailly on the motorway, but whenever there is someone tailgating me, if I just floor the accelerator pedal, a thick fog of black/blue smokes comes out the exhaust pipe! It's like a smoke screen and they nearly always back away then!

Healio

Drax wrote:

2. Drivers at front of queue who are asleep when traffic lights turn green

- people who perform a rolling start at traffic lights - before the lights change, they car inches forward.

How can you hate both of these??????

Panda Moanium

R.O.R wrote:

People who pull out of your way on the overtaking lane lane of the motorway (when the inside is empty for miles), but then proceed to pull back out in to the overtaking lane while you are pulling back in to the left. Grrrrrrrr

Flogging is too good for them

This one does baffle me and I see it all the time. If they didn't pull over you'd assume they were just not concentrating, but to pull straight back into the overtaking lane again when there is nothing on the inside lane..why???

What about the slow drivers who insist on driving as close as possible to the white line so as to make overtaking as difficult and dangerous as possible. Or the folks behind them who have no intention of overtaking yet tailgate so close to the car in front that anybody behind them wanting to overtake has to do a kamikaze all or nothing move...

MargeS

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

Max_Damage

All I can say is that I don't tailgate & I indicate at roundabouts.

Queue jumping though is another matter.............;)

Capt'n Midnight

Enygma wrote:

People that drive a constant 40mph on country roads and through towns.

So the limit is 50mph on the country roads but it's 30mph through towns. You're stuck behind them on the main road but they don't slow down through towns at all.

10mph under the limit one minute, 10mph over the limit the next. Oblivious to both. These are the people that speed up when the road straightens too, making it more difficult for you to overtake.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
In a just world they would get points for speeding and obstruction at each town/village and when the unmarked garda car has followed them through six towns they would be pulled over and be told "you've hit 12 points, get out and walk"

I also hate those idiots who instst at travelling at 140Kph, just inches away from your front bumper.

imeddyhobbs

I hate everybody that is in front of me in traffic

the_batman

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

I also hate those idiots who instst at travelling at 140Kph, just inches away from your front bumper.

If they are travelling at 140Kph, then you must also be driving at 140kph. I assume this is on a motorway. Why don't you move out of their way and let them pass?

Cmar-Ireland

MargeS wrote:

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

That's what I was thinking...........!!!!!

Seth Brundle

read it again batman!

the_batman

Edit: Sorry I can't read. I am a moron!

That is another one of my pet hates, people who won't move out of the way and try to enforce their own speed limit!

VERYinterested

MargeS wrote:

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

We might as well shut down Boards.ie if that's your logic. You don't have to be a perfect driver for other road users habits to get on your nerves, do you? I am not a perfect driver but I sure as hell get annoyed at the stupidity displayed on our roads that leads to our appalling safety record.

Sam Vimes

MargeS wrote:

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

you know me so well

Drax

MargeS wrote:

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

MargeS, ever driven in Europe? Well if you haven't I'd recommend it. Sure there are some idiots there too but you will realise how bad Irish drivers are. Its the sheer volume of stupidity that you see here. I used to love driving, I still enjoy it to an extent, but I cannot get into my car these days without seeing at least one muppet do something stupid.

Blue850

What about the muppets who overtake the car in front and expect oncoming traffic to pull over cos the haven't judged the distance correctly, or the ones that pull out of a junction/gateway etc in front of you and then dawdle along at 50

AndrewMc

Particularly frequent down the country, and very unnerving at 100km/hr, are those who swing out onto N roads without stopping and use the hard shoulder as a merging lane.

Blue850

and one from last night, the horsebox/builders trailer etc with no feckin lights, mind you the Trooper pulling the Ifor Williams last night had no rear lights working either:mad:

HelterSkelter

Drax wrote:

MargeS, ever driven in Europe? Well if you haven't I'd recommend it. Sure there are some idiots there too but you will realise how bad Irish drivers are. Its the sheer volume of stupidity that you see here.

Gotta agree with you there. I've driven in Italy, the country that has a reputation for crazy driving, but let me tell you they know how to drive and they have good road manners. Their motorways have just two lanes like ours but you NEVER get anyone hogging the overtaking lane. They always pull into the driving lane as soon as they have completed overtaking another vehicle. And God help you if you do happen to stay in the overtaking lane a second longer than necessary, you'll have an irate italian inches from your rear bumper flashing lights and honking loudly at you!!

Fey!

People who can't perform proper road position at junctions, thereby blocking traffic unnecessarily.

Also people who park on the yellow junction boxes.

It BeeMee

Enygma wrote:

People that drive a constant 40mph on country roads and through towns.

So the limit is 50mph on the country roads but it's 30mph through towns. You're stuck behind them on the main road but they don't slow down through towns at all.

10mph under the limit one minute, 10mph over the limit the next. Oblivious to both. These are the people that speed up when the road straightens too, making it more difficult for you to overtake.

These are the same type of guys that overtake you within the 30mph/50kph zone (usually within the last hundred yards, when you're just about ready to floor the throttle) and then sit in front of you on the "open road". Annoys the hell out of me!

starn

Corsa, Punto and Micra drivers. I have nightmares about getting stuck between two corsa's in traffic. Given its inevitabe that one of them is gonna brake down. Punto and Micra's cause there either the blue rinse brigade grannies who well in to there 80's and shoulodnt be allowed on the roadcause thery have glassses the thickness of there milk bottle glasses or learner drivers who crawl along at 15 kph. In the middle of the road ruling out any vchance of overtaking.

I would also like to take this opertunity to once again point out how much I hate SUV's and there owners.

furtzy

Start of rant....

1. Overtaking lane hoggers.....do they realise we drive on the left in this country?

2.Taxi drivers....for a long list of reasons but especially their new indicating technique which involves using their hazards as a method of indicating...twats!

3. Boy racer idiots.....do they not realise I don't want to hear their poxy exhausts or listen to listen to their ****e dance music. F**kin idiots

4. Front and rear fog lights usage.....the clue for their use is in the name


Need to take a break......blood pressure rising

Duckjob

SUV drivers, especially those who cite their reason for driving an SUV as "It makes me feel safe". If you're so insecure in your driving ability that you need to sit 3 feet higher than anyone else to feel safe, you should be taken off the f***ing road!

Oh, and this one:

Sitting at the lights at a 2 lane junction, like where the Stillorgan road comes into Donnybrook.

Waiting in the right lane, lights are green but traffic is heavy, so I'm staying put, not going through the box junction until there is a clear space at the other side, so as not to end up in the yellow box obstructing anyone.

The traffic on the other side moves on a few feet, so I start across the junction, at which point the ****stick on my left rips across and darts into my lane and into the space that's been left, leaving me stuck on the yellow box!

This has happened to me a couple of times, once on a box over the Luas line. One of the few things that makes me sit on the horn for 5 minutes.

Max_Damage

After just driving in heavy traffic earlier on today, another thing that gets on my nerves is people resting their foot on the brake pedal when stopped in traffic. Although it is not as bad during the day, night time is the worst. Those poxy centre brake lights as well as LED brake lights would blind the fúck out of you.

USE THE MOTHERFÚCKING HANDBRAKE!!!

Also, again with night driving, since SUV's have their headlights higher than a standard car, every time one of these goddam things is behind me, their headlights are blareing into the car, and I have to constantly adjuct the rear view mirror.

Capt'n Midnight

furtzy wrote:

2.Taxi drivers....for a long list of reasons but especially their new indicating technique which involves using their hazards as a method of indicating...twats!

Boy would I love one of those 8x8 Russian APC's. Drive straight on. "sorry mate, I wasn't expecting you to pull out in front of me, because you didn't indicate or use hand signals you've only yourself to blame, you distracted me into looking for the hazard instead of looking at you"

lostinsuperfunk

People driving behind me at night with their fog lights on (when it's not foggy)
People driving behind me at night in SUVs, with those stupid high headlights
People driving behind me at night with those stupid dazzling halogen headlights
People driving behind me at night with only parking lights so they can't be seen properly

MargeS

Drax wrote:

MargeS, ever driven in Europe? Well if you haven't I'd recommend it. Sure there are some idiots there too but you will realise how bad Irish drivers are. Its the sheer volume of stupidity that you see here.

I've driven in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland & Sweden. I've seen some whacky driving in these countries too.

I just feel some points like delaying at a green light are petty to winge about. I've done it and had someone honk their horn at me - it's not like I did it on purpose. I'm just wondering if those who have posted gripes are guilty of doing those things themselves?

samo

AndrewMc wrote:

Particularly frequent down the country, and very unnerving at 100km/hr, are those who swing out onto N roads without stopping and use the hard shoulder as a merging lane.

Having moved a bit further down the country, have only just come across this phenomenen. Scared the crap out of me driving towards Kinnegard one day when a 40ft truck did exactly this as I'm approaching it at approx 100kmh!!

want2play

MargeS wrote:

So every contributer to this thread is a perfect driver and as such are fully entitled to winge about other road users? :rolleyes:

Yes.

Fey!

lostinsuperfunk wrote:

People driving behind me at night with their fog lights on (when it's not foggy)
People driving behind me at night in SUVs, with those stupid high headlights
People driving behind me at night with those stupid dazzling halogen headlights
People driving behind me at night with only parking lights so they can't be seen properly

let them overtake you? :rolleyes:

want2play

furtzy wrote:

Start of rant....

1. Overtaking lane hoggers.....do they realise we drive on the left in this country?

2.Taxi drivers....for a long list of reasons but especially their new indicating technique which involves using their hazards as a method of indicating...twats!

3. Boy racer idiots.....do they not realise I don't want to hear their poxy exhausts or listen to listen to their ****e dance music. F**kin idiots

4. Front and rear fog lights usage.....the clue for their use is in the name


Need to take a break......blood pressure rising

Yeah good call on the Taxi using hazards to indicate, but...I put front fogs on now after having many idiots coming straight for me overtaking, if it makes me more visable in the evening....

sk8board

lostinsuperfunk wrote:

People driving behind me at night with their fog lights on (when it's not foggy)
People driving behind me at night in SUVs, with those stupid high headlights
People driving behind me at night with those stupid dazzling halogen headlights
People driving behind me at night with only parking lights so they can't be seen properly

These are the questions your Optition asks just before she tells you that getting laser surgery has messed up your night vision


while I'm here: and it hasn't been mention:
People with Nissan Micra's who drive with their front fogs on. WHAT in the name of god were Nissan think? They definitely take the award for the most powerful fogs I've ever seen. You'd know it was a Micra from 1/2 a mile

mike65

The guy in the Transit pisses me off! Right hand lane for turning right only, but then indicates left and tries to cut back in so he go go straight ahead.



Mike.

fletch

sk8board wrote:

while I'm here: and it hasn't been mention:
People with Nissan Micra's who drive with their front fogs on. WHAT in the name of god were Nissan think? They definitely take the award for the most powerful fogs I've ever seen. You'd know it was a Micra from 1/2 a mile

Yeh they are the only fogs that I find annoying....and they're placed so close to each other too!

cyclopath2001

mike65 wrote:

Mike.

People who use handphones while driving.