Let's share our pet peeves. My biggest pet peeve is when people chew with their mouth open or talk while they're eating.

Yes, Mike I got this idea from your spelling thread.

BAD DRIVING!!!!! To elaborate:

1. Not using turn signals;
2. Driving in the left lane and not passing;
3. Driving under the speed limit (a southern problem, I think );
4. Not going immediately after the light turns green;
5. Blowing yields and stopping at them;
6. Double parking;
7. Disrespect for bikers (and bikers who disrespect the road rules);
8. Cops who break ANY law while driving

I just realized that I could go on and on and on....so I'll stop here.

People don't use their horns enough. Public shame needs to be immediate and obvious when one does wrong. Honk if you see bad driving!

Thanks for starting this thread, scully. Apparantly, I've been needing to get that out for sometime

Jaime...I'm so relieved I am not the only one with many driving pet peeves. I've really worked on keeping my mouth shut with the kids in the car. When my daughter was 3, we were at a stop light. She pointed to the car next to us and asked me if that guy was a jerk too.

Failure to use one's turn signals really drives me crazy. Turn signals are not optional.

I have never walked into a car dealership and had the salesman pitch me on turn signals. They are standard on every car. People should always use them.

The one that gets me down here in the south is not going when the light turns green.

I'll give a person a good 3 seconds after the light turns green, and then I honk. Not a 3 second honk or anything, more like a "friendly tap of the horn" that they mentioned all too often in drivers education classes. Most people anywhere else in the country would then look at the light, see that it is green, and go. Not down here. People actually turn their head all the way around and look at you for a couple of seconds, typically mouthing something or practicing sign language. I usually then honk and point at the light, at which point the realize their idiocy and remember that the gas pedal is the one on the right.

I've always said I wanted one of those scrolling signs, like the ones at a school cafeteria or a bank clock, for my car, both front and back. I could program it with nice comments, like "The left lane is for passing only", "The speed limit is 55", or "Pass me or quit tailgating". I wonder if this is legal.

Mike

Walkers on the bike path. What are sidewalks for?

I hate it when I am with my husband at a store, and I pay for something with my credit card, and the clerk hands the card back to my husband, because he/she automatically assumes that it belongs to him. This happens to me a lot.

I also hate it when people drive while talking on a cell phone.

I know the one that bothers me more than anything is when people drive up on an accident or someone on the side of the road and they have to slow down to 30 mph in a 70 just to look.

It screws up traffic for at least a mile. I always want to know what is going on and when I get there, it a measly 2 car accident and everybody is looking and screwing up the traffic flow.

Just me??

Nope, not just you.

The gapers also drive me nuts as well.

Apparently in LA it had become such a problem that they now have mobile units equipped with tents and dividers. I guess the thrill of seeing a tent would wear off after a while.

There is one place where the gapers are particularly bad-- South Carolina.

Once, on the way back from Charleston, we were slowed down 2 times in about 15 minutes. The first one was someone changing a flat, and the second was a roadside reflector that was aimed incorrectly. Seriously, traffic dropped from a little above the 70 miles per hour speed limit all the way down to 10 miles an hour because a reflector was extra shiny.

Mike

Young aggresive female drivers with a death wish.

They hang on to your rear bumper like glue.
Tapping the brake so the brake lights come on seems to fix them!!!

Regards..Alan

Christmas cards from southerners that start out the same EVERY year.

YOU MUST BE FREEZING, IT'S 80 DEGREES HERE........like we care.

A few years ago I included a little rhyme, concerning said subject, and
I haven't heard from some of those people since. Well, only one really,
but the others now omit that little bit of sarcasm

Send us your cheer, we love it!
Your eighty degrees, shove it.

MT

What I hate the most is when I've waited in a long line of cars (getting on the highway, getting off the highway, etc) and some guy pulls right in front of me to avoid waiting in line. It happens all the time to me.

I've so wanted to mount a paintgun on my front bumper and just blast away at anybody who cuts in front of me.

I hate it when you are driving and there is no one behind you but you have this car that's pulls out in front of you to do 10 to 15 miles an hour under the speed limit but they had to pull out riight then. Thay can't wait till you go by. THERE WAS NO ONE BEHIND. you can drive as slow as you want. But my other pet peeve is the grocery store parking lot. you turn into an aisle and there is someone sitting waiting there for a closer spot to the store. It may be just 1 or 2 spots closer. People please. Park a little farther. Most of these people need the excercise anyways.

I agree with all of the driving pet peeves, that you guys have mentioned, and I would like to add just one more. It isn't against the law, there is no rule saying you have to do this; but it *** NOTICE: THIS WORD IS AGAINST THE RULES. FAILURE TO REMOVE IT WILL RESULT IN A STRIKE. *** me off when it is not done. . . .the friendly wave. Every so often, when the traffic is blocked up and someone needs to turn on to the street, I will let them in. I don't have to, but I will, just to be nice because they could be waiting forever to get on if I didn't. And for this courtesy, I only demand one thing in return. . .the friendly little wave. I know it is no big deal, but it vexes me when people just pull into traffic (that they could have been waiting for the rest of their lives to get into if it were not for my generosity) and don't wave. Wow, I feel better already! We should keep this thread going indefinitely just to vent, just think of the violent crimes people could avoid if they just had had an outlet like this.

-Kisov