People in this state cannot drive to save their lives. Some of my biggest driving-related pet peeves are as follows:
Inching up at a red light, particularly when the other direction of traffic still has a green light. Moving up little by little is not going to make your light turn green any faster. And doesn’t it always seem like the inchers are the ones who seem to respond the slowest when the light does in fact change? I like to make them eat my dust. It always cracks me up when they eventually pass me like they are victorious in some imagined race. Sorry, buddy, but any car can do 120 mph; it’s the acceleration that matters.
Red light blowers are some of the dumbest people I’ve seen. Running a red light is one of the reckless things you can do in a car because you’re putting yourself and everyone else on the road, most notably pedestrians, at risk. For what? To get to work two minutes earlier? Hardly seems worth it to me.
People who tailgate bring out my passive aggressive side. Want to go faster? Go around me. Want to go slower? Then get closer and I will slow down to a crawl until you get so pissed off that you swing around me and flip me off while I laugh my ass off.
People who weave in and out of traffic scare me the most, though. I think these people are a lot more dangerous than people who merely speed. I admit that I do go over the speed limit often. Not excessively, but on many roads it’s almost safer to go faster than the posted limit than get in the way of everyone else who is going too fast. It’s the people who keep changing lanes, like on the expressway, who scare me. They cut over so fast sometimes I’m just waiting for them to hit the wall or another car.
I also don’t get why people pull out from a side street right in front of other cars. This happens to me all the time and I have to slam on my brakes. Are these people that stupid? Can they not tell I’m coming? Same goes for when you’re in the fast lane on the expressway and you’re about to pass someone on the left and suddenly they move over into your lane. Can they not judge the speed of your car, do they just not care, or do they think they are policing you by getting in the way? I personally like to let anyone going fast to get in front of me so they don’t end up tailgating me.
But I would say that one of my biggest pet peeves are people who drive fast and recklessly through parking lots and garages. I don’t know why they think it’s a speedway, but it irritates me. Same goes for driving too fast in a residential neighborhood. There are kids who could be hit by these asshats! I’m always yelling “Slow down!” when they fly past. And then they have the nerve to flip me off.
If it was up to me, it would be a lot harder to get a driver’s license in this country. And don’t even get me started on the number of drunk driving accidents and how it’s always the innocent victims who die while the drunk driver walks away literally unscathed. There’s a special place in hell for those people.