What stresses you out about driving.

WHITE_P

Interesting article, particularly the attitude to tyres.

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/articles/1/31558

Holsten

Tttttttttrrrrrrrrraffic!

joeperry

When lights turn red and theres nothing coming the other way,happens everytime i drive down vernon avenue,GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Wertz

Everything

People blcoking junctions, whether there be a yellow box or not....was leaving someone into town earlier, in that really heavy rain we're having...the amount of selfish f*ckers (mostly women) who just drive out and block the entrances to car parks or small side streets is staggering...they don't seem to realise that when the cars in the oncoming lane can't make the turn (which their little blinking orange light is indicating they wish to make), then traffic behind can't progress either and in certain urban streets this leads to gridlock. I feel like getting out of the car and jumping up and down on their bonnets.
All the other usual stuff, overtaking lane hoggers, people who don't know what indicators are for, the idiots who stick to one speed no matter what the signs read...etc

Guy:Incognito

Other drivers.

Redpunto

Wertz wrote: »

Everything

People blcoking junctions, whether there be a yellow box or not....was leaving someone into town earlier, in that really heavy rain we're having...the amount of selfish f*ckers (mostly women) who just drive out and block the entrances to car parks or small side streets is staggering...they don't seem to realise that when the cars in the oncoming lane can't make the turn (which their little blinking orange light is indicating they wish to make), then traffic behind can't progress either and in certain urban streets this leads to gridlock. I feel like getting out of the car and jumping up and down on their bonnets.
All the other usual stuff, overtaking lane hoggers, people who don't know what indicators are for, the idiots who stick to one speed no matter what the signs read...etc

How do you know they are women and not just men with wigs on???

I hate in town when people see me coming and decide to walk right in front of me expecting me to brake and if I dont brake and hit them its my fault???

rasper

people who don't acknowledge when ya give way, and when people don't give way when it doesn't make a difference distance wise to them.
keep the traffic moving and be nice

Wertz

Oh oh, people in SUVs that you meet on backroads who are on your side of the road avoiding potholes, uneveneness and such...FFS you're driving an offroad vehicle!!

As for red punto's question? I usually know they're women by what they're driving, how they're driving it and where the vehicle is on the road...I merely have my suspicions confirmed when I see who's at the wheel...

Tomohawk

Tossers driving in the buslane illegally while the rest of us wait in traffic. They are usually twats in '08 mercs and beemers. *****.

120_Minutes

pretty much everything, but people who forget their cars have indicators and people who dont know how to use roundabouts are top of my list.

Cionád

I've become pretty relaxed, but the main things that still piss me off are:

1) Knobs using buslane
2) The "I'm driving in the righthand lane all the time" crowd
3) People who don't have their lights on in weather like todays. (morons)

there are other things but the 3 above are almost daily.

Alanstrainor

Talk about opening a can of worms!:pac:
Okay, so i've just come home from the chipper after getting some din dins. It's pitch black outside, lashing rain. And i saw 3 cars with no lights on at all!:eek:! and at least 5 with just parking lights on! That is my #1 pet hate. And it's lethal too!

Cionád

120_Minutes wrote: »

pretty much everything, but people who forget their cars have indicators and people who dont know how to use roundabouts are top of my list.

I've given up that battle. They will never learn. Actually the best people on roundabouts I find are learner drivers, cause even though they can be slow, they nearly always indicate - presumably in preparation of their test.

Cionád

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Talk about opening a can of worms!:pac:
Okay, so i've just come home from the chipper after getting some din dins. It's pitch black outside, lashing rain. And i saw 3 cars with no lights on at all!:eek:! and at least 5 with just parking lights on! That is my #1 pet hate. And it's lethal too!

And a good argument for introducing DRL here too.
First thing I do after switching on the engine is switch on the lights. :cool:

Alanstrainor

Cionád wrote: »

And a good argument for introducing DRL here too.
First thing I do after switching on the engine is switch on the lights. :cool:

+1. I think people have forgotten what dipped headlights are. In their mind, parking lights are dipped headlights, dipped headlights are fulls...and full headlights are some crazy mad bright yoke!

WHITE_P

Cionád wrote: »

And a good argument for introducing DRL here too.
First thing I do after switching on the engine is switch on the lights. :cool:

+1 on both points.

IMO putting on lights is almost as important as the seat belt. After all every little bit helps.

therewillbe

:mad: Brake first and then indicate :mad: aaahhhhhhhh

Guy:Incognito

Cionád wrote: »

And a good argument for introducing DRL here too.
First thing I do after switching on the engine is switch on the lights. :cool:

Automatic lights ftw! The missus Scenic has them and they come on when needed.

Down with DRL. I find headlights on during daylight quite dazzling, no problem at night.

DarkJager

Slow drivers are the bane of my life. To make it clear, I am not attacking drivers who stick to the speed limit or drive cautiously in bad weather conditions. I'm talking about the people who do 15kph in a 50 zone, even though they have good visibility and little to no traffic in front of them.

It pisses me off no end. There is no reasonable explanation for it, so are they just doing it to piss off other motorists?

Boskowski

Wertz wrote: »

Everything

People blcoking junctions, whether there be a yellow box or not....was leaving someone into town earlier, in that really heavy rain we're having...the amount of selfish f*ckers (mostly women) who just drive out and block the entrances to car parks or small side streets is staggering...they don't seem to realise that when the cars in the oncoming lane can't make the turn (which their little blinking orange light is indicating they wish to make), then traffic behind can't progress either and in certain urban streets this leads to gridlock. I feel like getting out of the car and jumping up and down on their bonnets.
All the other usual stuff, overtaking lane hoggers, people who don't know what indicators are for, the idiots who stick to one speed no matter what the signs read...etc

People approaching a completely deserted roundabout hittin' the brakes and coming to a complete standstill anyway. Then looking sheepishly to the right for about a minute 'til finally a car approaches after which they can 'safely' enter the roundabout. For christ sake, if all you're able to take in is within a 10m radius right in front you, you shouldn't be driving a car in the first place.

People going on a national road at 45 kph completely oblivious to the havoc they're causing behind them. These people are either overchallenged or too ignorant to be driving around on public roads.

solong

C

Cionád

Stekelly wrote: »

Automatic lights ftw! The missus Scenic has them and they come on when needed.

Down with DRL. I find headlights on during daylight quite dazzling, no problem at night.

Most routes I use are backroads half covered with tree-cover, and especially in summer having lights on even when its sunny outside is a great help ( esp. if the car is dark green (like the shurbs/trees) - like mine, or silver (glistens in the sun)).

Full beams during the day might be dazzling but not dipped headlghts imo, or any dipped lights i've seen anyway.

x in the city

slooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

drivers.

Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Keith186

1. Cnuts who stay in the overtaking lane when overtakng nobody, most annoying...
2. Arseholes who don't indicate, they mostly congregate at roundabouts!
3. And as mentioned plenty of times, people with no lights on when there's poor visibility

Not really for automatic dips, I drive a bike a fair bit and this would make me less noticable and if you think that every car in the world was to have this how much more fuel it would use...

edit: as per realcams comment, people stopping at roundabouts and yield signs, slows down traffic no end.

Cionád

Keith186 wrote: »

Not really for automatic dips, I drive a bike a fair bit and this would make me less noticable and if you think that every car in the world was to have this how much more fuel it would use...

afaik DRL use far less energy than normal headlights (80% less? I'm not sure...)
Also, oil prices are now $76.32, almost half the peak this year

I understand your concern though, bikes would be less noticeable, a solution I would suggest would be more education to the masses to make sure they check their mirrors before changing lanes/swerving etc.

Berty

Hiss is the sound of me venting all the things I can think of right now.

People who dont use indicators.

People who use them incorrectly on roadabouts, stop indicating right when you are taking the first exit(straight on). I will F***NG kill YOU!!

Taxi's leaving taxi's out but not me.

People leaving roundabouts incorrectly.

People cutting roundabouts.

People on dual carraigeways who use the right hand lane, you flash them they move in. Fair enough but then you look back in the rear view mirror and they have pulled back into the right lane(overtaking lane). There is no fuc**ng traffic on the fuc**ng road. Who the F**K are you overtaking????

The School run. Let your fat kids walk to school. I did and wasnt fat. I am now but wasnt fat then because I F*****G walked!!!!

Women going shopping on Friday mornings in rush hour. Why F*****G Rush hour?

Women who wait until they get to toll plazas to pick up their hand bag, fish around for a purse and then fish around for the right change. Thank god I invested in the Eazypass tag!!

People on the M7 driving in the middle lane when the left lane is empty. What the hell is going on in your heads? Who are you overtaking. As the law permits me to I undertake them if they are doing less than the alloted speed limit. They always give me funny looks but hey if the speed limits 100 and your doing 90 in the centre lane why should I have to slow down in the legal lane doing 100?? Twats!!

People driving with fog lights on.

People missing a headlight

People missing a headlight and a fog on different sides.

People driving with only sidelights on at night

People with no lights in fog.

People with no lights in rain

People with that Renault type problem of braking and indicators interfering with each other.

People with 206's with the brake lights on full blast permanently(some fiestas also). Happened in my 99 reg 206.

People with BMW with the added bonus of auto dipped headlights whereby if you are on full beam and another car comes towards you they dip by themselves. They are very slow to react and dont work very well in rain.

People with seatbelts sticking out of their doors while driving. I hope they dont crash.

People with their doors not fully closed.

People driving at night with their interior lights on.

Women in car parks who ALWAYS drive straight into the space and wonder why the car is not straight.

Women who reverse into a space and then go shopping to return with a shopping trolley and scrape past the other cars to get the trolley to the boot(crescent shopping centre underground tonight)

Women and Men who cannot stop near enough to the ticket machine in car parks to exit

Women and Men who crash into the barrier and kerb by the ticket machine on exit.

People who take up more than one space

Soccer Moms in SUV's.

Off roaders who wont drive through puddles.

The Fiat Punto in Limerick with a Mugen sticker on the back window.

People who drive with their lamnmower handle sticking out the boot. If you put the seats down and put it on the other way(handles pointing into the car) you can close the F****G boot.

People overly polite at junctions. They leave one car across in front of them(even though they have right of way) and are to polite to tell the other 15 behind it to wait. They let them ALL pass.

The car with false plates that smashed into my car on Tuesday and drove off. Never to be found. €250 damage

Women who push their ugly children in buggies out in front of me hoping I will stop, instead I slightly move closer towards them.

The pelican crossing on the roundabouts on the Dublin road in Limerick. They WILL or probably already have caused accidents. Bloody students protesting about dangerous roads. They sneakily crept out in the middle of the night and spray painted their own pelican crossing last year. That was quickly powerwashed off by the council. Oddly enough the students location was much safer.

Children abandoned in car with the windows up asleep. I hate the idea of it, not the children.

The traffic warden in Castleisland yesterday whom did not give a van a ticket for parking in a disabled space because "Im sure they will be back soon". If that was me or you!!!!!

I hate everything. If you got this far, I am a miserable F**K and I drive for a living. Im driving to Newry from Limerick tomorrow. I wonder how many morons I will meet on the road. I hate weekends drivers!!!!!

chickenhawk

People who don't turn their lights on in poor conditions.
Slow drivers (not over the speed limit but well below for no reason)
People who hog the overtaking lane.
People who don't know how to use roundabouts.

But I can live with all them. What actually stresses me out is

Tailgaters!! :mad:

Wertz

quirke folder wrote:

*lots of stuff*

lol

I think that covers just about everything. Newry to Limerick eh? You'll be passing through Dundalk so...prepare to have your expectations met

I just read the OP's newslink...none of those things stress me out at all [edit] oh yeah 'cept tailgaters....hate them...anyone else get stressed by paralell parking or driving mways in the rain?

Berty

Wertz wrote: »

lol

I think that covers just about everything. Newry to Limerick eh? You'll be passing through Dundalk so...prepare to have your expectations met

I just read the OP's newslink...none of those things stress me out at all...anyone else get stressed by paralell parking or driving mways in the rain?

Dundalk is bypassed so Im ok. Anyways my office is in Dundalk but I live outside Limerick. Long Commute, I know.

Im used to Dundalk drivers and think they are not the worst. Actually I dont think I have had much problems TBH

T-Maxx

1. People not indicating in roundabouts
2. People indicating incorrectly in roundabouts
3. People drifting across lanes through a roundabout
4. People indicating a split second before turning, often simultaneously whilst turning
5. People driving too fast
6. People driving too slow
7. People hogging the overtaking lane
8. People speeding past in the bus lane
9. People not using the bus lane when they could
10. Taxis and buses having the best of both worlds - stick to the bus lanes!
11. People using interchanges on the motorways to jump the queue
12. Tailgaters
13. People behind you on a motorway on-ramp speeding past you, cutting across the solid white lane, in order to merge quicker and to get ahead of you, often blocking you in
14. People yielding unnecessary and in the process obstructing traffic (do-gooders)
15. Daft road layouts
16. People trying to reverse into a parking space when they clearly can't reverse
17. People putting in petrol at a filling station, then go in the shop, use the ATM, buy a breakfast roll, browse the daily newspapers, buy a Lotto ticket, use the toilet, etc. whilst you're waiting for them to move the car
18. Mothers doing the school run
19. People falling asleep at traffic lights, FFS go!
20. Boy racers
21. The lorry on the motorway doing 101km/h and taking 2km to overtake the slower one doing 100km/h
22. Illegal parking on Disabled Parking spaces, because you'll "only be a minute"
23. Parking like a jerk, so close you can't open the driver's door and have to climb across from the passenger side
24. Denting my car with your door FFS!
25. People so stupid and ignorant they don't even realize why you're blowing the horn at them (or simply avoiding eye contact and pretending they can't hear you)

That's all that springs to mind immediately.

Cionád

quirke_folder wrote: »

People who dont use indicators.
Agreed
People who use them incorrectly on roadabouts, stop indicating right when you are taking the first exit(straight on). I will F***NG kill YOU!!
Agreed
Taxi's leaving taxi's out but not me.
Agreed
People leaving roundabouts incorrectly.
Agreed
People cutting roundabouts.
Agreed
People on dual carraigeways who use the right hand lane, you flash them they move in. Fair enough but then you look back in the rear view mirror and they have pulled back into the right lane(overtaking lane). There is no fuc**ng traffic on the fuc**ng road. Who the F**K are you overtaking????
LMFAO and Agreed
The School run. Let your fat kids walk to school. I did and wasnt fat. I am now but wasnt fat then because I F*****G walked!!!!
LOL, Agreed

Women who wait until they get to toll plazas to pick up their hand bag, fish around for a purse and then fish around for the right change. Thank god I invested in the Eazypass tag!!
LOL, Agreed
People on the M7 driving in the middle lane when the left lane is empty. What the hell is going on in your heads? Who are you overtaking. As the law permits me to I undertake them if they are doing less than the alloted speed limit. They always give me funny looks but hey if the speed limits 100 and your doing 90 in the centre lane why should I have to slow down in the legal lane doing 100?? Twats!!
Agreed, undertake the twats.
People driving with fog lights on.
Agreed
People missing a headlight
AGREED!
People missing a headlight and a fog on different sides.
Agreed
People driving with only sidelights on at night
Agreed
People with no lights in fog.
Agreed
People with no lights in rain
Agreed
People with that Renault type problem of braking and indicators interfering with each other.
Agreed
People with 206's with the brake lights on full blast permanently(some fiestas also). Happened in my 99 reg 206.
Agreed
People with BMW with the added bonus of auto dipped headlights whereby if you are on full beam and another car comes towards you they dip by themselves. They are very slow to react and dont work very well in rain.
first I;ve heard of these
People with seatbelts sticking out of their doors while driving. I hope they dont crash.
Agreed
People with their doors not fully closed.
Meh
People driving at night with their interior lights on.
Agreed
Women in car parks who ALWAYS drive straight into the space and wonder why the car is not straight.
lolz
Women who reverse into a space and then go shopping to return with a shopping trolley and scrape past the other cars to get the trolley to the boot(crescent shopping centre underground tonight)
lolz
Women and Men who cannot stop near enough to the ticket machine in car parks to exit
Agreed
Women and Men who crash into the barrier and kerb by the ticket machine on exit.
Agreed
People who take up more than one space
(Agreed*AGREED*AGREED)^200000
Soccer Moms in SUV's.
Agreed
Off roaders who wont drive through puddles.
LMFAO so true and Agreed, also reminds me of going through Ballymun, all the offroaders go at 10km/h over the speed bumps, hurry the f*uck up!
The Fiat Punto in Limerick with a Mugen sticker on the back window.
lolz?
People who drive with their lamnmower handle sticking out the boot. If you put the seats down and put it on the other way(handles pointing into the car) you can close the F****G boot.
lulz
People overly polite at junctions. They leave one car across in front of them(even though they have right of way) and are to polite to tell the other 15 behind it to wait. They let them ALL pass.
Agreed
The car with false plates that smashed into my car on Tuesday and drove off. Never to be found. €250 damage
It wasn;t me
Women who push their ugly children in buggies out in front of me hoping I will stop, instead I slightly move closer towards them.
Agreed
Children abandoned in car with the windows up asleep. I hate the idea of it, not the children.
Agreed
The traffic warden in Castleisland yesterday whom did not give a van a ticket for parking in a disabled space because "Im sure they will be back soon". If that was me or you!!!!!
Grinds my gears!
I hate everything. If you got this far, I am a miserable F**K and I drive for a living. Im driving to Newry from Limerick tomorrow. I wonder how many morons I will meet on the road. I hate weekends drivers!!!!!
Agreed, they are better north of the border though( all of those 6km you can enjoy (although they will be 50% Irish cars lol))

..

towel401

Just the ****ty roads
once the roads around here are re-surfaced properly things will be a lot better. not just spray painting the road with tar and then getting the cars to ram the 'loose chippings' into the surface.

but most dubs wouldn't know what i'm on about. this is a two-tier country; dublin and the rest of us. dublin gets good roads but also all the annoying people seem to hang around there

Berty

Yes towel. I know what you mean(not Dublin). Strange looking expensive machine spraying chippings when they guy in the back of the tipper with a shovel did just a good a job.




WAIT WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED THE THING I REALLY HATE ABOUT THE ROADS

Lollipop wardens at traffic lights. They were there before the traffic lights existsted but now the traffic lights exist and/or pelican or zebra crossings, then why are we paying so much money to keep them in hi viz jobs, smoking into childrens faces helping them across the road when the perfectly good green man( which people obey ) does that job for free.

chickenhawk

T-Maxx wrote: »

23. Parking like a jerk, so close you can't open the driver's door and have to climb across from the passenger side

A person did this to me three days in a row once. I left a note the second day asking them not to. So i took the wipers off their car and left them so they look like they were attached. Next time I seen their car they had two big scratches on the window. They didn't do it again.

mcwhirter

TRACTORS WITH TRAILERS

towel401

chickenhawk wrote: »

A person did this to me three days in a row once. I left a note the second day asking them not to. So i took the wipers off their car and left them so they look like they were attached. Next time I seen their car they had two big scratches on the window. They didn't do it again.

revenge is sweet

A-Trak

Watching the price on the pump tick over like crazy yet the litres are stuck in slow motion as I fill it up and feel my wallet shrinking.

Wishbone Ash

I'd be a fairly relaxed driver and accept most mistakes as 'normality' but the thing that really annoys me is the whole misplaced courtesy thing. I am waiting to make a right turn waiting for a line of traffic to pass from the opposite direction. As sure as anything, a moron who is the last vehicle in that line will stop and 'flash' me. WTF? You are the last car. Why not keep going and I will turn after you have passed and there will be no confusion? To add insult to injury, these morons will expect to be 'thanked' for going out of their way and assume that they have done a good deed. :rolleyes:

And there is also those who stop before a yellow box in heavy traffic and gesture impatiently for me to cross their path. Yes, you idiot, that is the purpose of the yellow box! :rolleyes:

Rant over!

tom-d

When you arrive at your destination on a main road it does not turn into a carpark................................... where you half pull in at the side of the road still moving slowly then indicate and turn no wait actually im not going to turn but i still leave my indicator on,................... keep driving at 2km/h................. then pull out back onto the road(without indication)......................... go slow for the next mile looking for a place to turn!:mad:

E92

I hope I don't ever travel in a lot of yer cars with all the ranting and raving going on here:p!

I'd say on average I use my car's horn maybe once every month. I'd only ever use it if somebody did something really bad, like somebody overtaking on a bend and I'm about to go around the bend. I see no point in getting p!$$€d off about it, I'd prefer if people didn't bother with these mistakes but I just accept that people are going to make mistakes and live with it.

I find if I do get p!$$€d off then I end up not concentrating properly and I get in bad humour. Ones gets so stressed out about it too, and for what?

The only things that really get on my nerves are when other people start getting road rage, peoples' inability to indicate at roundabouts but most of all when you do someone a favour and you don't get acknowledged for it e.g. if the obstruction if on the opposite side and you pull in because you see a car coming and people just keep going even though they're completely wrong without any acknowledgement.

Oh and I forgot, I hate when people don't go into yellow boxes for right turns as you're allowed to(provided you don't block other road users), or worse still when you can see people looking at you as if you're wrong for going in even though you most certainly can go in.

P.C.

Fog lights when there is no fog.

I have noticed this a lot lately, especialln new cars - beemers, mercs, and ??? 4x4's for town???.

You have to turn your lights on, then turn the fog lights on, so you have to know they are on. Why??

I have also noticed that some people turn their park lights on, just so that they can turn their fog lights on. Why???

Fog lights are to be used when there is fog. Simple as.

S.I.R

i hate most people on the roads... namely people on the roads 2 years plus who make mistakes but make up for them ten-fold with excuses and " stfu you silly c*** im driving years, i know the law "...


makes me piss my pants laughing more then honda drivers. C'mon guys.... Get a bit of cop-on, don't be a f****** sheep.

120_Minutes

Cionád wrote: »

I've given up that battle. They will never learn.

I've found a great way to piss them off, use a roundabout properly!

A-Trak

P.C. wrote: »

Fog lights when there is no fog.

I have noticed this a lot lately, especialln new cars - beemers, mercs, and ??? 4x4's for town???.

You have to turn your lights on, then turn the fog lights on, so you have to know they are on. Why??

+1

Maybe because then everyone else won't appreciate how cool the car looked like in the marketing adverts/forecourt ad or on carzone?

D_murph

quirke_folder wrote: »

People with their doors not fully closed.

i agree with the rest of them BTW but this one stuck out a bit because i have seen it so many times :rolleyes:

how can anyone be driving at 60MPH on a dual carriageway with their drivers door not closed properly FFS?????

even in you have the door light turned off (darker weather/time of year excuse), surely you should be able to hear the sound a half opened door makes at even half this speed :rolleyes:.

says a lot for situational awareness of some "drivers" :eek:

Hogzy

I heard some where that if you have your dips on you are 33% less likely to be involved in a collison. I dont know why people say they are dazzled by dipped lights during the day!Maybe if ur driving an extremely low car and a Range Rover pulls up behind you or something but if your distracted by normal dips in a normal car then i dont think you are fit to drive as you are distracted far too easly!

1.Whats extremely annoying is (people from cork will know) if your passing the entrance to Merchants Quay car park there are 4 lanes and all curl to the left to form 3 (the forth lane ends). This is all clearly marked by broken white lines yet people are oblivious to the direction of the lanes and just continue straight ahead. Sometimes i just theink people dont watch the actual road and just look at the horizon! it infuriates me.

2.People not giving a salute after the kind gesture of giving way. all it takes is a flash or a wave. NOT HARD!!!!!!

3. People Driving with their rear fog lights on when they are in traffic (even if its foggy if your in traffic they should be OFF)

4. Tailgaters

5. People who are oblivious to the fact that their indicator is on. I once drove from Cork to Dublin and from the end of the M8 to the start of the Mitchelstown Bypass they had their indicator on. Low and behold a woman driver...

Im going to stop now. i can feel my blood presure rising

HungryJoey

Hogzy wrote: »

2.People not giving a salute after the kind gesture of giving way. all it takes is a flash or a wave. NOT HARD!!!!!!

Back when I was getting driving lessons, I did this once. Needless to say, to my suprise, I soon learned you are not to gesture other drivers. Believe it or not, it is the inncorect thing to do! But its not like it stopped me gesturing other drivers.

My biggest hate about other drivers are not the ones that fly down an open bus lane in peak traffic - but the idiots that let them back in at the end of the bus lane :mad::mad: At times, I really wish I could be a garda for just one day to sit at some of the buslanes I drive by every day and catch the feckers that do it. Why should I sit in traffic and you be allowed to fly down the buslanes. It should be no buslanes or patrol buslanes strictly, That'll stop them!

*rant over*

Berty

HungryJoey wrote: »

Back when I was getting driving lessons, I did this once. Needless to say, to my suprise, I soon learned you are not to gesture other drivers. Believe it or not, it is the inncorect thing to do! But its not like it stopped me gesturing other drivers.

My biggest hate about other drivers are not the ones that fly down an open bus lane in peak traffic - but the idiots that let them back in at the end of the bus lane :mad::mad: At times, I really wish I could be a garda for just one day to sit at some of the buslanes I drive by every day and catch the feckers that do it. Why should I sit in traffic and you be allowed to fly down the buslanes. It should be no buslanes or patrol buslanes strictly, That'll stop them!

*rant over*

As I drag my GF down the stairs to read this................ She thinks Im the only person who wants to be traffic corps for one day to sit on my favourite roundabouts in Limerick and catch people breaking the rules just so they can jump 20 cars. Im not alone.

The Roundabout at the Parkway shopping centre at rush hour(leaving in that direction in 5 minutes). The 3 rd exit towards the city centre must be approached in the right lane. Some people leave around 1.5ks back and arrive onto it from the side and use the inner orbital lane. Annoying but legal because they fill the roundabout in seconds and we are all left waiting for their good grace to get onto the roundabout.

Its the F**KWITS whom drive up the lane marked shopping only and then cut right into the lane. I dont go out of my way to block them like others which are doing it very dangerously.

Some people keep jumping the clutch to hug the back bumper of the car in front. If I was the car in front I would go back and punch the driver for riding the back of my car. They are trying to prevent the driver getting in.

Its a pet Peev of mine that there roundabout.

I also want to hire a foreign national on a Sunday on the Dublin road in Limerick to point at the sign on the bus lane telling people ITS NOT A BUS LANE TODAY, PLEASE DRIVE IN IT. WHEN THE BUS LANE IS CLOSED YOU MUST DRIVE ON THE LEFT(I.E IN THE BUS LANE) BECAUSE THE NORMAL LANE NOW BECOMES AND OVERTAKING LANE. Excuse the high caps. The amount of time people block me from travelling in the left lane on a Sunday is incredible.

Bearing in mind, some people will make mistakes because they are not from the area. Around the same roundabout there is a lot of singage and can become confusing. I used to think my old MN reg and my new LH reg could get me away with murder but I recently found out that most people do not know what the details of their registrations actually mean.

A Garda told me his drink driver question when he comes up to your window at night has always been "can you call me out your registration number please". I told him mine and he said that he was pleasantly suprised I knew my reg off the top of my head. I was suprised and said "of course, doesnt everbody". He said a lot of men will but Women will never know it(most of the time). One woman asked could she phone her husband but the Garda said she smelt of whiskey and vomit so maybe it was better she just got out of the SUV.

Bearcat

taxi drivers cutting me off and i mean cutting me off. All occassions pulling and barging on top of you in a lane where now there is no room between you and the next guy in front.....have been sliced twice on the M50 badly and at white cross by gob sh@tes in their taxis.....they love using that middle finger. all drivers were fat and middle aged. The younger taxi drivers are streets ahead.

darling.x

I'm a fairly relaxed person while driving, but things that really get to me are:
1. tailgaters.
2. People sitting in traffic who blocking entrances - they are going nowhere but they still block the entrances. crazy.
3. I'm from the country. People out walking who won't keep in. They won't even keep in slightly in a ditch. It unbeleivable. I'm a learner - i might drive into you. Just keep in.

Wertz

darling.x wrote: »

3. I'm from the country. People out walking who won't keep in. They won't even keep in slightly in a ditch. It unbeleivable. I'm a learner - i might drive into you. Just keep in.

Or the morons who walk abreast of eachother AND on the wrong side of thw road (ie, with traffic, instead of against it)...I'd imagine many pedestrian deaths could be avoided if walkers knew their place on the roads, especially in rural parts...

Flyer1

Absolute total and utter IDIOTS who drive at 75 - 80km/h on a main road and then flash you when you overtake them. They are the one's holding up traffic. Or even worse is the one's who put the shoe down when you go to overtake them - I had an idiot do that to me before, I was committed to going, the guy behind me had filled in my space.

I always drive at the speed limit if conditions permit.