A friend got a $239 speeding ticket yesterday for doing 80km in a 50km zone. I asked why he was going that fast in town, and he was passing someone who was only doing 30km and got nailed.

I hate when people don't signal their exits on roundabouts. They'll signal their turn at stoplights etc but don't feel they need to there. I'll sit and wait to get on and watch them getting off. Time-waster.

Big snow storm. Going uphill. 4" of slush, turning to ice. Two lanes total, one each direction. People sliding off the road in their little two wheel drive cars...and...a truck pulls up blocking a whole lane so he can tow one of the cars up off the side of the road. We ALL slammed on our brakes. Did a U-turn...and drove back down...and around...adding another 30 minutes to get home. Soooooooooo inconsiderate! There was plenty of room for the truck to pull alongside the road.

Yes ded, we have a house at the peak of a hill on a narrow street and the landscapers just dare you to pull around them and get into a head-on!

Having had years of driving in snow I applaud tow truck drivers for doing what they do. It could be my car or the woman who came into the building I was working at with her child. She had slid off into a ditch trying to get home from daycare. Things like this is why I knew alternative routes to get around things.

Some of the on ramps depending on your area can be very short like only space between exit and entrance for two cars so there is no way to speed up. Good drivers where possible do the same thing they are supposed to do when they see emergency or vechiles on the side of the road. Which is pull over or slow down. When I cannot move over I try to match my speed where possible to the cars entering.

There are so many to choose from, but I'm going to pick one. Construction workers. There's a lot of construction going on in downtown Nashville right now. They'll step out in the middle of the road to block traffic so their vehicle can pull out and move to another spot on the construction site.... In the middle of a green light rather than waiting 10 to 30 seconds for the light to change. So dangerous, and so unnecessary. Just wait till there's a break in traffic?! Idiots. And I've had direct traffic enough to know it can be done easily. The other thing they do is drive anywhere they want to, any way they want to when they're not on the job site. They think because they're wearing their day glow orange or yellow shirt/vest they can do whatever they want to (including jaywalk, which is very dangerous where they're doing it). Ugh. Finish and go work somewhere else please?!

Before the cell phone age it was other stuff like that mentioned above but now 1st place belongs to distracted driving. Not going when the light turns green, weaving all over the road at wildly variable speeds, the rear ender accidents I see with the car in front with it's rear all bashed in and the car in back with it's hood bent up in the middle at a 45* angle. I know exactly what happened there!

Distracted driving needs to be treated just like drunk driving because research has shown there's no difference between writing/reading a text when driving and drunk driving.

Offenders need to be arrested, handcuffed, placed in the back of a police cruiser for a ride down to the police station, booked, mug shotted, placed in a holding cell until an arraignment hearing before a judge, released only with substantial bail, name in paper, loss of job if it's someone that has a job with public trust like a teacher, policeman or city councilman, etc. And substantial jail time for 2nd and third offenses.

Public stigma is what's going to stop this, not $100 fines.

Hemlock, once a distracted driver hit the back of the car that was behind me at a light. She shoved that car into mine. She had two kids in the car with her and was looking at her phone. So dumb. I wish I had a dollar for every tiem Ive had to beep at someone who is staring at their phone and didnt see that the light turned green.

Annie, I am sometimes tempted to drive through the pile of leaves the landscaper blow into the street when I cant see around them. But i wouldnt.

Oh and so called traffic flaggers who are supposed to be directing traffic but are looking at their phone and dont even notice that you are waiting for direction.

@dedtired I feel so bad for you that happened. I was in a WalMart parking lot going slowly down the aisle and a lady backed into me while reading a text that couldn't wait. The side passenger door all smashed in but as luck would have it her car didn't have a scratch because it was her bumper hitting my side doors at 4 MPH. No one hurt and thankfully it was me in a car instead of someone pushing a stroller but a big hassle of getting the car fixed.

Everything that Annie Deighnaugh said and then some. People that don't understand that you are supposed to use all the lanes until the coned off lane actually ends and merge using the zipper method. People who leave enough space to park a truck and trailer in front of them when stopped at intersections. Not only to they block access to other lanes but when the light changes only a few vehicles can make it through. People who don't yield to emergency vehicles. Bicyclists who demand to share the road but think rules don't apply to them. Ditto for pedestrians jumping into the roadway without even looking. Anyone crossing the street looking down at their phone should lose any rights to sue if they're hit.

Bicyclists who demand to share the road but think rules don't apply to them.

And don't get me started in cyclists that run red lights causing me to pass the same one multiple times! So much for "We're traffic too!!"

Mine are pretty consistent: People who don't know traffic circles ARE NOT four way stops; people who are too busy talking on their phones to go the speed limit; people who do not signal their turns before they begin their turn.

People who do not know how to drive in the snow but do so at a high rate of speed. They brake at the last second at a stop and snap the wheel to make a turn. Just the recipe for a skid. And why oh why do they think that "all season" tires are good in heavy snow? You need snow tires. But they go flying down the road without 4 wheel drive and maybe rear wheel drive and think the rest of us who have been doing this for decades are stupid. There is a particular method for driving in snow and ice.

I stay as far away from these drivers as I can.

Years ago, a comedian suggested that we all have little suction-cup dart guns. When a driver does something stupid, you fire a suction-cup dart at the bumper. When a car has X number of darts stck to the bumper, a cop can give them a ticket.

We were travelling down the major highway 401 one time and the tractor-trailer ahead of us was weaving over the line back and forth. People were cautiously passing him. We passed him and I was able to look up and see that he had his cellphone in his left hand, propped up on his left knee and driving with one hand. A tractor-trailer.

A tractor-trailer was stopped this weekend for weaving all over the road, and the driver was doing his paperwork on the steering wheel.

Companies will hire absolutely anyone these days!

Lol! on the zipper. Around here if you wait until the end to zipper, you will get cut-off, honked at, and maybe an unkind gesture.

Among my man peeves are people who park in the street instead of their driveway. It's hard to drive around the obstacle course and it looks awful.

All right, I'll pick one more.

Just because you can drive in snow, does not mean you can drive on ice. No one can drive on ice. You can skate on ice, but you can't drive on it.

People who, when arriving at a 4-way stop where THEY have the right of way to GO, just sit there and look at you. GO, it's your turn!

People who tailgate when you are doing the speed limit.

socks you remind me, the basic rules of driving...

Go when you're supposed to, and don't go when you're not supposed to go. It's so easy.

My car had the passenger front end smashed, bumper, etc when we came out of the grocery store. Thankfully the lady who backed into us stayed and we got all the paperwork, cop came, etc. She said that her suv didn't beep when she was reversing and got too close to us. Neither of us believed her, we think she was probably texting and wasn't paying attention. But everything got repaired.

Then my neighbour started to reverse out of her spot as I was backing into mine; she dented mine along the door. She said she was so busy looking out her side that she didn't check her mirror to see if anyone was coming in.

rob333,

You are right about ice! I wait for the sander to go by some days before I venture out.

mile after endless mile of interstate with very little traffic, some places along the route there is NO traffic. why does someone get behind me and tailgate to the point where i can't even see their headlights??? for the love of God and all that's holy, PASS ME!!!!!! i'm doing 70, the posted speed limit. i got so irritated, i used my "reduce speed" on my cruise control, one mile per hour every few seconds until i was down to 60 mph before the idiot finally went around me. 🤬

and my other big pet peeve is when i'm following a slow moving vehicle (truck pulling a trailer full of junk or a tractor or combine, etc.). i keep a polite distance, i'm in no big hurry but the driver thinks he'll help me out by waving me around. ummm, that's a hard NO, i'm not passing unless *I* can see it's safe to do so, i'm NOT taking his word for it. i've even had people do this in a no passing zone, double yellow line and all. SMH!!!

Hemlock, There is a stretch of highway I frequent that is notorious for rear enders because of the stop and go traffic. It is all because people aren't paying attention, most of the time they are on their phones. Do sooo many people have such important phone calls or texts that they can't wait until they are off the road to receive them? Or either buy a car with blue tooth capability or make your car blue tooth capable like my hubby did for his car.

People driving slow in the fast lane because their exit is to the left in 5 miles.

I have a 5 way intersection down the road from me. There is always someone who thinks they are special and don't have to wait their turn at the stop sign. The same intersection also has a bike/walking trial that crosses over it and they also have a stop sign. Heaven forbid if the bikers and joggers have to break their stride and stop.

When your driving and you can't see anyone in front of you, but there is a whole line of cars behind you, it is time to either speed it up to at least the speed limit, pull over and let them pass, or reevaluate if you are even still capable of driving anymore.

People who are driving the speed limit, but still have to slam on their brakes because they see a police car.

People who speed up when you try to pass them.

Oh I could go on and on.

wildchild2x2 "supposed to use all the lanes until the coned off lane actually ends and merge using the zipper method. " Why do you think that? Why would they give you sooooo much room to merge if they expect everyone to move at the same place? That's stupidity. They give you that space so traffic as time to make room, not so you can IGNORE the merge until you bottle it all up at the end! At least this explains why SOME and I would say they are the arrogant and the FEW that race to the end then force a merge on people who have been politely zippering for several minutes. The proper zipper has people moving together ASAP so as to keep traffic flowing.

Not only do people not know how to get on a highway and merge in, but they don't know how to get off a highway either. You are supposed to maintain highway speed then pull right to the exit ramp asap and then decelerate. But people will slow down in the right lane and go slower and slower and finally pull right into the exit lane causing the right lane to bog up.

And please, maintain speed as you go up a hill. I call them drivers with "frozen ankles" who don't seem to be able to give the car more juice up the hill and let off on a downhill to maintain speed. Instead they drive up the hill at 40 and down the hill at 70. Crazy. There's this highway in NJ...Rt 80? ... that has this long uphill portion and signs all over the place warning drivers to maintain speed uphill ... useless though they are.

I agree with arcy that the smoothest merge through a construction site is where there's lots of warning and people merge while there's lots of room to get in and are in line before the actual site and not wait until the last cone. If you wait til the last cone, then you have to stop for someone to let you in...if you merge early while the lane is still moving and there's space between the cars, then no one need stop or pile up.

So annoying--drivers who hurry to pull out in front of me and then poke along like a snail.

If someone in front of me stops for whatever reason...to turn or someone ahead is turning...I always edge to the right so the driver behind me can see that it's not my choice to stop, that there's a car in front of me stopped...and hopefully they will too. But the other day all that happened, and the guy behind me still blew the horn. Really?!?!

Other drivers who try to direct traffic. For example, when I am backing out of a parking space and they give me the little two finger wave to continue. Did not ask for your help. One man signaled me to continue and there was a car coming. Also happens at two way stops. The other driver has the right of way because I am turning. See the signal? But they wave me on. Why?

I live at the end of a long, curvy, steep, hilly road. I’m shocked by the number of people who, while going well below the speed limit, actually hit their brakes driving uphill. The hill is quite steep; all they have to do is lift off the gas a bit to slow down, brakes are unnecessary. But everyone behind them is on alert because they are braking…deer? dog? No. they just don’t know how to drive.

I’ll add one. The Yield sign means stop, look and then proceed, not blow through the intersection. It is a red sign for a reason. Most drivers who run right through it are the drivers Annie mentioned who then drive at slower speed than you.

My other pet peeve is drivers who enter or leave an on/off ramp more than one lane at a time. I’ve seen drivers move over 2-3 lanes to suddenly realize they need to exit. Or move over to the passing lane as soon as they jump on. Scary.

Pedestrians leaving Walmart. There is a zebra zone where you have a stop sign on each end to allow pedestrians to cross to the parking area. I certainly do stop and take a good look because customers are walking right out onto the crosswalk without looking left and right or, worse yet, are staring at their phones. What ever happened to look before crossing?

Elizabeth, we are famous for "the wave " in my area. It is used as a courtesy. It means the other driver is letting you go first or proceed when it is safe for you to do so. We wave back as a thank you.

FWIW, that's how the wave is used around me too. It's a friendly sign - an acknowledgement that we are waiting for you to go before we do. That way you don't have to wonder if we're going to try to barrel through ahead of you - it's basically a nice way of saying, "your move."

I appreciate those waves and always wave back.

A peeve is an annoyance, and a pet peeve is an annoyance that's nurtured like a pet — it's something someone can never resist complaining about. There are all kinds of pet peeves, like littering, misusing punctuation, driving slowly in the fast lane, or talking during movies.

Dead foot drivers who keep the same pressure on the accelerator no matter whether they’re going uphill at 50 mph or downhill at 75 mph.

Nervous Nellies who drive 50 mph when going around curves and uphill so you can’t pass, but when the highway flattens out in a straightaway they suddenly become Nellie Andretti and drive 70 mph so you can’t pass. 😡

Another vote here for the zipper merge, especially when traffic is heavy. It fully utilizes all available pavement and provides a certainty as to when to merge. And it avoids the frustration of watching the deekheads who pull out of traffic and into the lane that is ending so they can get a few car lengths ahead.