pet peeves

[ZoNiE]

The need to teach people to be better drivers and work TOGETHER:

Left lane is for passing:

1. Enter, Overtake, exit.
2. If a vehicle is coming up on you, allow them to pass. Don't HOG the left lane.

Freeway On ramps:

1. Look for a hole in traffic ahead of time, match your speed, signal, merge. DON'T putter down the ramp, then look, then hit your brakes, and hope to hell someone going 70 will slow down for you to merge in at 35 MPH.

2. Two lane ramps that merge into one at the end: don't putter down and then hit the gas at the end only to get next to the guy that was ahead of you in the next lane just where the lanes merge and then both of you hit the brakes and play chicken. (I see this EVERY day). Zipper! every other car alternating from each lane.

3. Don't enter the right land from the left right where a whole line of cars is trying to merge onto the freeway.

4. If you see a car merging onto the freeway, don't speed up and close the gap so he has to hit the brakes to get behind you, but no, wait, he cannot, because the asshole behind him sped up too.

Don't cut off a guy with a travel trailer. Don't jump in front of a guy with a travel trailer at a red light, unless you want to be rear ended.

 

[LeeRevell]

Add to the driver list.... Drivers that have the right of way but won't take it (probably don't know there is such a thing). The worst example I have seen several times while riding a motorcycle is when I am wanting to make a left hand turn on a two lane street with an oncoming car ahead. I slow down with my signal on expecting to pass behind them but then they slow down and I am thinking that they are going to turn too. What they end up doing is coming to a complete stop as if they have a stop sign and motion for me to cross in front of them!!! What we end up with is a Mexican standoff with them motioning and me shaking my head no until they get tired and move on. If they had just kept on driving I wouldn't even have needed to put my foot down. I realize that they have some sort of idea that they are going out of their way to be courteous to a rider but it just throws some "what will they do next" insecurity into the mix.

And don't get me started on the drivers that won't yield right of way to you when they should.

Guy

I do the same!  i refuse to ride out in front of a running car, period!  I sometjmes turn right instead then U-turn.

 

[gcal]

Chattering bores who will not shut up. They come up at gas pumps to yammer about our rig and our lifestyle and to tell us how they'd love to do it but can't. They stroll onto our campsite when I am obviously engrossed in a good or working on my computer to tell me everything I never wanted to know about their lives or how cute their grandkids/dogs/cats are. There must be something about me that looks friendly. I draw unwanted magpies like a magnet.

 

[mockturtle]

I don't really mind answering questions about my rig and my lifestyle, within reason, of course. Although I don't consider myself a social person, I am usually friendly and courteous to others and I understand their curiosity.

Far worse, to me, are:
People who cut through my campsite
Kids who must shriek at the tops of their lungs at all times
Unleashed dogs who threaten my leashed dog
'Music', unless it's live [if I can hear it, it's too loud]
Litterers

 

[Almost There]

I don't really mind answering questions about my rig and my lifestyle, within reason, of course.  Although I don't consider myself a social person, I am usually friendly and courteous to others and I understand their curiosity.

Far worse, to me, are:
People who cut through my campsite
Kids who must shriek at the tops of their lungs at all times
Unleashed dogs who threaten my leashed dog
'Music', unless it's live [if I can hear it, it's too loud]
Litterers

+ 1

Most of the other pet peeves listed here on this thread are certainly annoyances to me at times but these ones make my top 5 all time pet peeves.

 

[c_hasbeen]

I laughed when I saw the title of this post because we used to have a cat named Peeve!

 

[cyndi]

The need to teach people to be better drivers and work TOGETHER:

You're preaching to the choir. It's clear everyone here is a perfect driver.

 

[Canine]

You're preaching to the choir. It's clear everyone here is a perfect driver.

Especially me- I'm a professional truck driver, so I'm extra perfect.  

Another pet peeve of mine is people who think they know it all, but actually don't, but you can't tell them any different no matter what.

 

[gcal]

The man afc the gas station was a bad example, mockturtle, and I left out some info. We were blocking pumps. He was blocking pumps. Still he wanted to talk on and on.

I am talking about people with diarrhea of the mouth. They are in love with their own voices. They will drivel on for hours about everything and nothing. If you are in the laundromat, they'll come over and tell you dull and petty gossip about people you don't know who've been dead for a decade. If you are on a trail or in a car with them, they will engage in a nonstop commentary, pointing out every tree or house, that you can plainly see for yourself. They harangue total strangers with a monolog about how the country is going downhill and today's youth have no morals and about Bloody O J Bloody Simpson. If they realize you are not listening, they get offended and huffy.

 

[LeeRevell]

Yep. Lonesome folks. There is a difference between lonesome and alone. I like alone.
I ain't a perfect driver but do try to obey the basic traffic laws. Try to pass me illegally though and my old musclecar habits kick in.

 

[mockturtle]

I hear you, gcal, and I wasn't accusing you of being unfriendly.  In my case I get a LOT of people inquiring about my rig because it's unusual [and cool

].  What I really love is the geezer who starts a conversation just when you're dumping your holding tanks.  Or those who go around supervising other people's hitching/unhitching routines.   :-/

 

[sephson]

Another pet peeve of mine is people who think they know it all, but actually don't, but you can't tell them any different no matter what.

I'm no longer young enough to know it all. :dodgy:

 

[Brian_and_Jesse]

Call waiting.

It's... just plain rude!

Shabbat Shalom,


Jesse.