THe Ultimate Pet Peeves Thread!

[Hohn]

I thought it might be fun for us to list those periodic occurrences that just irritate you in a unique way. This can be anything you want it to be from when potato chips are dust when you open them to crappy restaurant service. I will take the lead, here are my two biggest pet peeves:



1. Parking lot idiocy. By this I mean specifically when someone STOPS in the middle of a lane, and puts on their signal to "reserve" the parking spot that someone will be backing out of once they get the kids in and the groceries settled. USUALLY, there is an empty spot about two stalls down, and they are just so LAZY that they won't get off their butt and WALK the extra 20 feet. The worst part is that if they would just keep moving, they could park, get out, and be in the store sooner if they weren't so lazy! C'MON PEOPLE, KEEP MOVING...



2. Behaving like sheep. The best example of this is when you are entering a large building that has a row of unlocked double doors, but yet everyone will enter and leave through the same door. Why? Why is it that when a movie ends, everyone will wait in line and file out through one door when there are 3 othe open ones right there??? C'mon people, KEEP MOVING!!



Ever notice these peeves?





What about YOUR pet peeves??









HOHN

 

[The patriot]

I've been losing my electric about once a week now.

I live in an area with a high serior citizen content, and I guess theyre cars are drawn to telephone poles. They just cant stop mowing them down.

The other day I had no electric for over 6 hours!!!!

I cant totally blame sr. citizens for this. Seems as though any telephone pole that gets hit anywhere is connected to my dam house.

In the last year, I've had my power out at my house more than in the previous almost 20 years as a home owner.

I have many driving pet peeves, but I'll spare you for now.

Eric

 

[catoiler]

Here's one: going down the freeway pass up a slo-poke, minding your own down the road a piece, here comes the slo-poke blowin past everyone like they are not moving. What gives?

 

[Camara]

You go to pass someone and then they speed up and get right beside your trailer wheels.

 

[illflem]

Getting behind people who cruise 45 mph on a two lane 65 mph road for miles then continue at 45 mph right though small town 25 mph school zones.

 

[LSMITH]

People that cannot maintain speed on the highway.



A month or two ago I drove to Ohio, I passed the same car 19 freakin times in less than 150 miles!!!!!!!!! He would drop to 60, fall back and then come ripping up at 75++ only to slow down again. I started counting after the 5th time I passed him. If I had missiles on the truck... ... ...



How about the 2 or 3 IDIOTS that line up across the freeway and go 5 MPH under the limit, and stay lined up for miles and miles. If I thought I could get away with it I would give them a Nascar bump and spin them into the ditch... .....



HANG UP AND DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are a lot of people that are not qualified to talk on the phone while driving. Add eating a donut and drinking coffee and these people are downright dangerous.



In heavy traffic I seem to be sought out by someone that cannot possibly leave an extra inch between them and me, you know the type where you can only see the top of the car and none of the windshield. I usually jam up the brakes, or what is more fun is to lead them off into the ditch/median. They cannot see anything but the back of the truck so they follow it, start turning off into the ditch or median and turn back at the last second. If there is snow a lot of times they will get sucked in and spin. Seeing them rub the whole side of the car on the guardrail is funny too.



A couple of 4-5K mile months will stress you out. There is a lot of road rage that I can understand.

 

[skobylenski]

I've got three:



1. People who see the massive truck coming down the road and pull out so they don't have to follow me. They then procede to travel at a rather slow rate of speed (5 under or so). Too many people think "Oh, big truck, he'll stop faster, I can pull out and be safe. " They just don't understand the physics behind momentum



2. HANG UP AND DRIVE! I don't mind a quick call, but having a huge conference call while traveling at 75mph on the interstate is just plain stupid.



3. Tailgaters. Anyone who wants to read the serial numbers on my tail lights has issues. :-laf

 

[Joe G.]

AMEN on the rolling freeway road block!



Reluctant passers. These are the people who when a passing lane appears dart out into the left lane. They barely go faster than the vehicle they are passing so no one else has a chance to get past.



Then there is the clown who thinks you are racing him with your cruise control. These diesels freeze the speedo and tach regardless of hills. Gassers don't. So I tend to pass gassers on hills and they pass me on down grades. There are some steep grades on US101 in northern CA so I go by some of the old rice burners like they stopped on those grades. This seems to get them all excited so the next time they catch me they go by like a rocket. Until the next hill that is. On my last trip from Roseville to Eureka I caught up to an old Toyota just north of Willits. This up and down hill passing business continued until Scotia. Almost drove me nuts.

 

[me4osu]

People who use the left turn lane as an acceleration lane.



People who speed up to close the gap when you signal a lane change.



People riding by themselves in the car-pool lane.

 

[formula]

People who don't have any respect for fire trucks on the road A couple of years ago I was pulling out of the fire station in our engine4, a 4wd commercial cab international-Pierce. This thing is freakin huge and I had all of the lights, sirens, horns, etc making noise. Some idiot comes screwing through the lights up the road a piece as I'm turning out of the station. Idiot didn't even see the engine till the last moment, jams on the brakes, goes sideways to a stop, rolls down his window and gives the finger!!! My Captain got on the radio to the police,... ... dumbass got a huge ticket.





Sean

 

[TORQUE THIS]

The AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM... need I say more!





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[WDaniels]

1. People whose head lights that are out of adjustment so that one hits you in the face when their dims are on and when you flash them the other one now blinds you and the other shoots over you.

2. Or just because there is a divided highway they think their brights won't blind you.

3. Or just because they are 100 yards behind you, it's far enough to use their high beams like they won't bother you.

WD

 

[JyRO]

Non-passers...

Those people on 2 lane 55 mph dry roads who follow someone who is doing 45 mph, but they won't pass them. I don't care so much about the lead car doing 45, that's his business. Its the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th car in line that are too chicken$hit to pull out and pass. Hey, I'm in MI. and there's straight-aways that you can see down for 2 miles, no traffic coming, and those people won't pass. Meanwhile I'm 20 cars back, and I'd try it, but I'd likely get up to 90 mph by the time I get to the front few cars and one of those jaggovs would probably then yank it to the left and cause me to run into the back of 'em.



You got the 2nd car in line whose not paying attention, just staring at the rear bumper of the lead car. Maybe this person is on their cell phone so they're not paying attention to anything but their meaningless phone call, just following.



The 3rd person in line is not paying attention, maybe on their cell phone, or a serious serious chicken.



The 4th person at least is usually too scared to pass 3 cars at once, and at least that's a little more reasonable. But seriously up here in the area where I live, I know I've passed 5 cars at once becuase of this reason. The first 5 are just fartin' around.



Heck, I passed 3 this morning on snow plowed and salted roads. There was no danger, no cars approaching within 2 miles. On these roads, I change lanes 1st, then accelerate - pass, stop accelerating and change lanes again. No slipping, no sliding. The lead car was going about 25 mph, when 45 - 50 was very safe.



People who are scared to pass, make me . Then if that don't beat all, after I pass 3 to 5 cars, the number 2 car pulls out and passes, because they *noticed* that someone else did it.



- JyRO

 

[tntway]

people who come up behind you pull out and hang on your rear quarter and don't pass

 

[klenger]

1) You're the last vehicle in a line of vehicles, and someone pulls out in front of you, and then ambles on way below the speed limit.



2) People who wine all the time. (oops)



3) TDR members who post usless threads on the "other" forum. What's even worse are those who contribute to them. (oops)

 

[MCummings]

The only thing I enjoy whining, and actually get happier the more it whines, is my PDR HX-40. Other than that,, tell me about what you are talking about, get it off your mind, then lets talk about something else.



My biggest pet peeve is people who over-react on the road. Drunk drivers, people with not enough experiance pushing the envelope of their driving abilities. (aka 13 yr old ricers doing 80MPH in the center turning lane in a 40 MPH zone)



People turning from the wrong lanes.



Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[fkovalski]

People (read: tourists) who use interstate breakdown lanes for parking to view wildlife

 

[TomGolden]

• Fingerprints on my computer monitor/TV screen/glasses/windshield/.....
  
• people who pass me, then cut back in my lane and proceed to slow down so they are going . 00000001 MPH slower than I am
  
• tax hikes
  
• political extremists - on both sides of the fence
  
• still having to work to pay for all my toys
  
• M!@#$%^days (you know, that first work day after the weekend is over... )
  

 

[esommer2500]

I agree with every driving pet peeve mentioned. Especially when big (read 60,000 lbs. +) trucks are involved. That deal about 'big truck can stop faster' is crap. When our concrete form truck is loaded up, she weighs about 60K. There is this one spot that we drive through all the time and invariably someon pulls out right in front of the truck. My boss is getting so fed up, he has directed me (he and I are the only ones that drive the truck) that if this happens and one can not stop, to not swerve in any direction, and not lock up the brakes. If I have to, hit 'em in the a$$. Really hope it don't come to this, but we have had so many close calls already.



Oh yeah, and people that call an ENGINE a motor. :-{}



Eric

 

[RBrunson]

Cluttered desks!!!!

People that whine about black cars, trucks to hard to keep clean. listen people, black cars or trucks are not for the un-motivated type.