The people who drive faster than you.
The people who drive slower than you.
I wish I could say both. I tend to get more pissed at the people who speed past me and cut me off, but I encounter more and more people going half the speed limit while I’m delivering pizzas…
Define “cut me off”. I’ve listened to too many idiots scream that they’ve been “cut off” just because someone changes lane in front of them.
It’s the ones who speed past, move in front of me, then slow down to below my speed who really piss me off. Alternately, the people who park in the left lane at well below the speed limit and act all self-righteous about it. (I usually find that they don’t, in fact, even KNOW the speed limit!)
It wasn’t offered as a choice, but the ones who tailgate me when I’m driving 5 miles over the speed limit. If you are in that big of a hurry, leave earlier dammit. AND since we’re on the topic, why are you dorks comfortable tailgating me at 70 miles an hour, but when the light turns green you need 5 car lengths between you and the guy in front of you to feel safe?
Well, the short version is that I hate anyone who isn’t me driving 
YES! And what’s even worse about these particular drivers is that, even though I’m already speeding by about 10mph and passing everyone in the lane to my right, they will take the first opportunity to move over into that right lane and manuever in front of me. I think that’s not only annoying but also dangerous.
People who cut you off are people who overtake you (or move into your lane in from a merging lane) leaving about an inch between their car and yours, thereby very very nearly causing an accident - happened to me the other day and, of course, after acclerating just to nearly kill me, then he brakes, causing me to have to brake suddenly and slows down to about 10 miles an hour below the speed limit… if they had guns in this country, I would have blown his head off … no joke. The guy was wearing a hat - beware of all drivers wearing hats - in my expereince they are maniacs.
I can’t stand those who overtake me when I’m already doing the speed limit… or those who are doing under the speed limit - the limit is set for a reason folks !!!
I agree with tailgaters… normally I just lightly touch of my brake pedal causing me not to slow down but my brake light to come on … often they get a bit of a shock and back off.
I have found drivers of a certain age (approx 40’s) driving BMW’s, Merc’s or 4x4 (with no mud on them lol) the worst - be they male or female. I don’t know if that just people in this city/country or not… but the amount of poor driving I’ve seen by this age group is unreal. Of couse, there was a time that driving licences were given out here without the need for a test and it could well coincide with this age group. Scary thought.
I also can’t stand when people are pulling out of a side road and are half way across your lane then wave at you as if you allowed them out… mostly I have to stop cos to swerve to avoid them means me pulling out into oncoming traffic - once or twice I went so close to them they couldn’t move and made them back up lol… god they were fuming but I bet ya they didn’t to again (for about a day lol)…
Ok i shouldn’t have started a bad driver rant 
bad idea for me lol…
Yes, speed limit. That means that driving under the limit is perfectly acceptable, and thus you shouldn’t be annoyed. On the flip side of that, the people who overtake you are as equally annoyed with you as you are with people going under the limit. Just let them pass (if possible). Then everyone will be happy.
What annoys the hell outta me are people who, just because they’re going the speed limit, believe that they own the road and no one is allowed to pass them. They’ll get in the passing lane and back up traffic, and they’ll feel perfectly justified because, hey, they’re going the speed limit. The passing lane is called the passing lane for a reason.
Generally, it’s the people who can’t seem to grasp that traffic should flow, and they are part of that flow. Actually, while speeding drivers (I mean, of course, relative to me) can occasionally be annoying, particularly when their actions do disrupt the flow, many of them seem to be aware of flow and keep it going.
Inconsiderate drivers bother me, like the a**hole who decides she’ll just block both eastbound lanes with her monster SUV until she can get in the westbound traffic.
Competitive drivers. Who’s got any use for the idiot that wants to keep you out of his lane? Hey pal, I don’t care if you get where you’re going before I get where I’m going or after. There are already untold thousands of people ahead of you on this freeway, anyway. Screw’em where their brain would’ve been had they not suffered such inequities at birth.
Clueless drivers. You don’t need to block the inside lane of traffic with the ass-end of your car when there’s still six feet of idyllic median shielded pavement between your grill and the onrushing horde across the way.
Those who are not really driving at the moment. This category includes most of the slow. Drive your car and stop to change the baby, or finish the argument you’re having with your spousal unit. Particularly if said argument is being conducted via cell phone.
I was in Santa Fe recently, where they have a hands-free law. And everybody’s adapted and gotten themselves hands-free phone equipment. Nice try, Santa Fe, but that’s not the point. It was still pretty easy to tell who was on the phone. 23 m.p.h. No reaction to the light turning green. Totally fuck up the pattern at a 4-way stop. You don’t really have to stop to turn a corner. I hope no cell phone outfit ever decides to put on a marketing blitz where they give out chewing gum.
It is your duty and responsibility to actively maneuver in such a way as to help get the faster person who is behind you in front of you, in much the same way as it is up to you get around the slower driver in front of you. The former takes more skill, actually. Take pride in it, and in how smoothly you can do it regardless of the competency of the faster driver behind you.
Well put AHunter3.
I am a fast driver myself (usually 5-10 mph over posted limit) so I am far more irritated by people who go too slow than by those who drive even faster than I do. If someone passes me I figure, hey, they’re in an even bigger hurry than I am and I just let them go on their way. If they’re going below the speed limit, however, I get pissed and start swearing.
Anyone going faster than you is a maniac; anyone going slower than you is an idiot.
Frankly, it’s not the speed that bothers me, one way or the other - it’s the other aspects of a person’s driving. I think Ringo put it very well when he discussed flow on the road. It’s not necessary for everybody to go the same speed for things to work out OK.
Here in Los Angeles, where nearly every freeway has at least four lanes in each direction, there’s plenty of room for cars travelling over a wide range of speeds to maneuver around one another - if their drivers can be bothered to do it wisely.
I’ve driven plenty of the rural interstates, as well (two lanes each way), and I think speed differentials are a bit more aggravating there.
They must all be subjected to the torture of 10000 tiny melon ballers!
They’re trying to control the world by making you drive more slowly. I would hazard a guess that most of them are (or were) uptight parents of only children. Or that mom from Malcom in the Middle.
George Carlin did a skit about this…
The people who drive faster than you are all maniacs… and the people who drive slower are all assholes…
This is very true…
Hey Khadahji! You want to have some fun? Tap on your breaks a weeeeeee little bit, and watch those assholes slam on the breaks in your wake! It is a great pasttime until you almost cause an accident (I didn’t, but it was close). Assuming he sees the bright reds shining, you should be fine. (It is a big assumption, I know.) But it IS dangerous for poor unsuspecting slobs behind you (or behind the bad guy, to be precise), most likely not bothering a soul.
But when you get the near miss? Now THAT wakes EVERYONE up!! The best part is the guy can see you laughing in your mirror! (not recommended in NRA country)
What am I supposed to do, help him put his turn signal on? Help him turn the wheel so he can veer into the passing lane?
Sorry, but I dont get it.
People that ignore right-of-way rules by trying to be “polite” and let you out of a side street, or waving you across an intersection, or, God forbid, stopping in the frickin’ rotary(!) to let you in! Hello! Those right-of-way rules exist for a couple of very good reasons: one, to keep the flow of traffic, and two, most importantly, to ensure greater safety on the road, because everyone knows that I, coming out of a sidestreet, must give way to you on the road I’m trying to turn onto. Ignoring these rules to be ‘nice’ can potentially confuse other drivers, especially me, and put you, me, and countless others in danger. So don’t do it! If you must do a good deed to feel good about yourself, there are countless better, more personal and significant ways to accomplish that than in your car.
I really hate it when I’m the passenger and the person driving keeps turning to me while talking. It seriously raises my blood pressure. I know a girl that does this and she also swerves a lot.
Why do the worst drivers get the most defensive when you try to criticize them?
Yet another example of those who don’t grasp the flow concept. These people drive me batshit, also.
I hate people who try to “race” me at every stop sign or light only to cut me off (inches from my bumper) and slow down as soon as they overtake me. It’s like, “Go you, you really showed off how tough and fast you are by beating my 10 year old 4 cylinder little Honda!”