That reminds me. Sometimes, I come up onto an intersection where there’s a left turn lane and a lane that doubles for straight across and right turn. If I am lucky, there’s no car in front of me and I can turn right on red, traffic permitting. Sometimes, there’s a car in front and it’s stopped at the red waiting to go across. So I have to wait for the light to turn before I get my right turn. But sometimes, there will be a car waiting for the green light to go across and then when the light changes, THEY TURN RIGHT. This is especially annoying if there was no cross traffic preventing them from turning right on red. I mean, that’s up to a whole minute of my life spent waiting (unnecessarily) for you, Mr. Driver. I imagine them up in their car thinking, “Just because you’re allowed to turn right on red, doesn’t mean that you have to.”
Me too, I do it religiously. It’s what I learned in driving school 38 years ago, and if you missed to do the “Schulterblick” (shoulder glance) in the practical test, you failed. Furthermore, if you drive the German autobahn, it can be a life saver, because when you change to the left lane with maybe a speed of 140 kph, be always prepared for a Porsche zipping by out of nowhere with 280 kph.
What about when they use one hand to give you your bag and drink simultaneously? I can’t just grab that with one hand and I have to twist my entire body to use both hands. It’s awkward. Just hand my the drink or bag first and then whatever is left over next.
I’ve been keeping up with the thread, but apologies if I missed this one.
I am unduly annoyed when I see someone making an unnecessarily wide turn—e.g., when turning left, they first swing wide right, as if they were maneuvering a thresher into a barn.
Sometimes this is preceded by someone’s car straddling the opposite lane marker in a turn lane while they wait out a red light. Dude, you’re driving a Corolla, not taxiing a 747. Stay in your lane!
I don’t order drinks but what irritates me is when they hand me my bag and credit card with one opening of the window. It’s even more irritating when they hand it to me literally simultaneously, but when they have both ready to hand over at once, it feels like I am holding up the line because I have to grab one, then grab the other, then check my order, then put my credit card away before I start to drive. If they gave me back my credit card right when they were done with it then I could drive off only a couple of seconds after I get my order.
Not just annoying, downright dangerous.
My husband was on his motorcycle and the car in front of him slowed down and started pulling over to the right - no directional - he started to pass on the left of the car when the car abruptly turned left and he smacked into it. Fortunately he was pretty much fine, slightly bruised, and the bike was only scratched some.
The dumb-ass driver turned out to be one of his patients and is still apologizing after 10 years.
I can’t say i like fruit stickers. But they are why it’s feasible for supermarkets to offer 10 different types of apple. So i think it’s worth it.
I saw a guy wearing a mask on his chin at the airport, in the crowd of people jostling to get on the airplane. I mean, if there’s ONE point in your journey to wear the mask, that’s it. And i just started at him and thought, “huh?”. (I was wearing an n95 respirator over my mouth and nose. And i don’t mind that everyone else has given up on masks. But… Yeah, that drives me nuts, too.)
I was the annoyed and the annoyed in a similar situation last week. I needed to make a u-turn on a divided highway, so I pulled up to the intersection where I could make the u-turn and waited for my chance. A truck pulled up behind me, and when they saw that there was no oncoming traffic to prevent my turn, they gave me a honk to remind me. But I didn’t turn. A few seconds later, they gave me another honk; and when I finally made my turn, they gave me a loud angry blast on the horn to send me on my way.
I don’t know if they ever noticed the red left-turn traffic light that I was waiting on to turn green so I could go.
I wasn’t clear whether he didn’t see the light at all (it was a small and flimsy one), or whether he thought I should ignore it since there was no oncoming traffic. In any case, I honked back at the end, one of my very rare horn-as-expression-of-irritation uses.
Just thought of another one, after witnessing it again this morning. Wawa is a huge, but I believe regional, chain of massive mini-markets with gas available out front. People have this as their regular morning stop—coffee, breakfast sandwich, etc., and gas if you need it.
Anyway, after you’re done pumping your gas, you’re supposed to move to one of the parking spots if you’re stopping in the store, to open up the space for the next guy. These places get super crowded, and it’s not unusual to have cars waiting in line for their turn at the pumps.
But some entitled assholes ignore this, including the guy this morning who pulled up to a pump, exited his car, and walked on into the store. I guess he’ll pump his gas after he gets his coffee and everybody else can just wait.
Pure evil!
The worst ever variation on this? I pulled into a Wawa to get air in a badly leaking tire (they have free air). It was in the wee hours and there was a single car in the lot—empty and blocking the air pump, while they got their munchies. As long as they’re not inconvenienced even slightly, I guess.
I hate when they hand me 3 or 4 cup items - drinks and/or ice cream. Why don’t they put them in a drink carrier? I always have to ask for one. How do they think I’m going to fumble around with numerous cups while I’m driving?!
With the exception of if you’re on a one way street intersecting another one way street whose way goes left. And even then I assume it’s not allowed unless I see a sign saying otherwise.