• refusal to use indicator lights when on a roundabout so you just sit there waiting for the b******s to cut across your path. Then they turn left
  
• Anyone with a big I.C.E system? Why? Go home and do it there- I dont want to hear BOOM BOOM b*ll*cks outside barlays bank when Im getting my kebab.
  
• Halfords - temple of ***** and thoroughly overpriced.
  
• mk1 Land Rover Discoveries- Just don't like em - sorry no reason! but defender is cool.
  
• Old ladies, like the one who wrote off my first car by going right round the roundabout in the left hand lane thus cutting me off in the middle lane going straight over. Please drive carefully or government please give them big sign on their roof saying "HAS NO INTENTION OF FOLLOWING RULES OF THE ROAD"
  
• BMW drivers who drive the cars purely because they say BMW. Drive a BMW because you like the design or the way it handles not because it says BMW - too common....
  
• Drivers that you pull in for and then come past you without the slightest wave or nod.....w***ers]
  
• Anyone who parks within 1ft of my car doors in a supermarket carpark.... thus rendering it difficult to open my doors..... wven wors coming out and finding that there is a dent due to a trolley - put your fr***en trolleys back.
  
• Those Christian fish stickers on the back of cars ......Whats that all about? Does it a better driver make?
  
• People who park in disabled bays - W**kers- If there are 25 disabled bays and 6 cars in the carpark - fair enough but dont be a git and stop someone genuine getting their place.
  
• England Flags - used after we have exited the world cup/european championship- dont forget to take these off when we lose.....(the eternal optimist)
  
• Cars with little engines and big exhausts - that extra 2 hp - bet that makes a big difference - but all that noise?
  
• Truck drivers who overtake eachother on the A34 thus rendering two lanes blocked whilst one takes 3 miles to overtake the other.
  
• Men in white diesel sprinter vans doing 200mph on the fast lane.
  
• Anyone hogging the crentral lane of the M-way doing 65mph
  Thats all i can think of for now:)

Blimey, sounds like you've had a bad day :eek:

I can sum it up in one sentence, anyone who drives like they are the only person on the road. So, generally a lack of consideration for other people. That goes for in life too. I hate inconsiderate people

• People who approach a roundabout way too fast and without proper observation, only to slam the anchors on at the last minute when finally they do "look right" ending up half way across your lane causing you to take evasive action
  

• The M.L.O.C
  

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Can I add to that. Slam on their brakes and manage to stop without me ploughing into them then pull out behind me and flash me making gestures like it's my fault that they nearly killed me in their minibus of death.

People who put my life at risk with their inability to drive a car/lorry/motorbike in a considerate manner.

These are the only people that make we want to get out and strangle them

Oooo, I agree with the bad manners in this country, I've got a little list now of locals whom will never be let past, ever, ever, ever, wooohaha. Just wave and smile as a thanks and the world will be a nicer place, but from now on, I'm using my right of way and I don't care how far back you have to reverse, do it, or I'll push your pile of rubbish out the way.

And breathe...

Feel better now? I no how you feel though, living in the city it's even worse.

Thats all i can think of for now

Strewth !!! How do you cope with bus lanes and taxi drivers??

Bus drivers.... you know the ones.... when the use of an indicator is for the sole purpose of saying "I'm going to drive right into your path, and god help you coz I'm gonna aim for your car..."

Van drivers... Yep like that one... the 200mph bit is down hill only giving the driver that momentary sense of 'road domination'. This is shortly followed by you catching them (having kept a constant 70mph) and overtaking (after the driver finally conceeds that they have run out of momentum) and you think.... T*at.

People that can't stay in the correct lane going round a roundabout and end up cutting you up.

Driving down the motorway on a busy day with some nut-job driver that is clearly on a 'mission for god' weaving in and out of the traffic just to get that extra car length ahead.

Oh and people that generalise.... Now they are a nightmare;) ;)

Drivers NOT driving in the bus lane when they are allowed to ie. before 7.30 am and after 9.30 am. They 'do my head in' cos they just dont read the signs

People that park facing oncoming traffic at night with their main head lights on, thus blinding oncoming traffic!!!

School run parents that park where they like and block other peoples driveways!!!

People that pull away from the kerb, after being parked, without checking their mirrors to see if there's any traffic about!!!

All the above should be directed to this: http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/index.htm

Been here before, so here goes. How long you got?

You're driving down a nice country lane with Mr 40-mph in front of you. Your only hope of continuing a nice drive is the up-and-coming roundabout where you plan to overtake. Mr 40-mph enters the roundabout in the left lane and you pull into the right lane and NOOOOOO.....Mr 40-mph now thinks he's Damon Hill and takes the racing line, cutting you off.

Whilst this is annoying and inconsiderate there is also something more sinister and frightening going on. Is this guy just inconsiderate? Or did he not even see you? To be honest I find it deadly frightening that people out there change lane without checking that it's clear first. On some occasions where they've changed lanes late and almost gone into the side of me I've blared my horn and they sharply move over. The only conclusion I can come to is that they don't look before they change lanes.... *shudder*

Slow motorway overtakers

I don't know about you, but when I move lanes to overtake on the motorway I either gain some speed before I pull out or at least get to a rev point where the car will go when I put my foot down. What I hate is when you're zooming along at 70, overtaking cars to your left doing 60. Then Mr Metro pulls out at 60 and makes his car struggle to gain speed. 1) Why didn't you let me past first when you knew I was already going 70? 2) Why not gain the speed first and then pull out to overtake?

Dithering pedestrians at crossings

The lights are all at red, the pedestrian (who doesn't have the green man) strains to see that all lights are at red...then they hesitantly step out onto the road. What they seem to have a problem realising is that on some junctions all the lights go to red for a moment before one set goes green. Invariably this is your set and you now have an old granny dithering across the road in front of you. Why don't they just wait for the green man?

Lane hogs

How many times have you seen this....cars in the middle and overtaking lanes as far as the eye can see and one car every mile in the left lane? If only the middle lane hogs would pull over as dictated by the highway code then we would all get to where we are going much quicker. These middle-lane-hogs are reducing a motorway into a dual carriage way.

Then you have the overtaking-lane-hogs. These people sit in the overtaking lane when they aren't actually overtaking, they're just going 10 mph faster than the car they can see 2 miles ahead. Whilst this individual is often not doing anyone harm or causing delay, if you get behind them you can be sure they won't pull over. I once followed a Merc (go figure) for 3 miles whilst he was in the overtaking-lane with nothing ahead. I was looking at his rear-view mirror waiting for him to see me. When he did look up he pulled in. So...there are people who sit in the overtaking lane for three miles without checking their mirrors!!! Scary...

I also once saw an undercover cop car pull someone over for this but it doesn't happen often enough. The car refused to pull over until the cop car flashed it's blues behind the grill. he he he...

People who go 40 mph on 60 mph country lanes

Why is it always bang-on 40 that these people do? Again I can only come to the conclusion that they believe that is what the limit is. If you don't know the highway code then you shouldn't be on the road. In addition to this they cause people to take more dangerous risks to overtake them. I wouldn't mind people going 40 if only they would pull in when a car approaches that obviously wants to go faster.

People who don't put on their high beams at night on country lanes

These are also the same people doing 40. Whilst no crime in itself, it stops me overtaking if I don't know the road inside-and-out. If they don't put on their beams then I can't see that the road is safe and clear to overtake. This action has to be the most selfish and annoying that I've come across. After a few miles I usually resort to taking matters into my own hand...when I think there is a chance to overtake I nudge my car out and put my beams on full! Funnily enough, when you do this then overtake the car now seems rather keen at putting his beams on and keeping them on.

People waiting for a space in a multi-storey car park

You're in a multi-storey car park and the person a few cars in front sees someone getting into their car to drive off. Usually the person getting into their car is a mother with her mother and kids in tow. The kids need settled, the pushchair needs folding and putting in the boot, the make-up has to be touched up, the hair has to be sorted...and only then can they drive out of their space. However does the person waiting for the space pull into the side, letting others pass? NO. They sit in the middle of the aisle so we all have to sit and wait.

Motorway flashers

The kind of flashing that annoys me is the "I'm above my station" flash. Picture this; I'm in the middle lane, no cars behind me except for someone in the overtaking lane about a half-mile back travelling 10 mph faster than I am. I can't really be bothered waiting for this guy to pass me before I overtake the car in front...and strictly speaking the guy approaching you is an overtaking-lane-hog so shouldn't even be in that lane. So I speed up and pull out. Now all of a sudden the approching car wants to go for the land speed record and races up behind and starts to flash you as if you've inconvenienced him! There is only one solution for this....pull back in once you've overtaken your car and floor it. The flasher will stay in the overtaking lane thinking he'll pass you and when he decides he doesn't have a hope in Hell he'll pull in behind you. You then slow down and when he passes you pull out and give him a taste of his own medicine.

People who don't indicate

There is nothing as selfish as people who don't indicate that they are leaving a roundabout or taking the exit before you when you are waiting. What's worse than that is when you're the passenger in the car of someone else who moans that so-and-so didn't indicate...then they don't indicate themselves!!!

People who box you in

I believe that one of the reasons people hog the middle lane is fear of being boxed in. You're in the left lane of a motorway and there are a few cars behind you. You begin to approach a slow moving car yet the guy behind you pulls out to overtake first, then the person behind him follows and so on. They all pull out, not giving you a chance to pull out, and you're stuck behind the slow-moving vehicle.

People who tailgate

Why? Do you think I'm going to speed up cos you're two inches from my bumper? The worst offenders are those who tailgate in a 30 or 40 zone. If there is no-one in front of me and I'm going 30 then you should realise that that is my choice and you tailgating isn't going to change that. If you want past then overtake.

4x4s

I believe that the radios on all 4x4s are sending out subliminal messages to their drivers instructing them to be inconsiderate, selfish and rude. The best example of a 4x4 driver's attitude I've heard was on a car show on TV. One such driver uttered "You have more right of way in a 4x4". Even typing these words has me trembling with rage. No matter how packed a car-park is I'll never park next to a 4x4...why? Cos they just don't care!! I don't want to come back to my car and have it all dented and scratched. Why do these people drive them anyway? When do they ever take them off-road? They're just glorified shopping baskets.

People who don't yield right-of-way even when it doesn't even affect them

There is nothing worse than waiting to get out of a junction and the traffic is crawling by and no-one lets you out. Then the whole queue comes to a stop and people just all bunch up and still won't let you out!!! You're not moving anyway so what difference does it make to let me out?!? I was once in a situation where a queue of traffic had stopped on a roundabout and my exit was blocked. Surely no-one should advance across the path of a roundabout exit unless they know their way is clear? So I just had to sit and wait until the traffic moved on and I could take my exit. As I left I gestured to the person who was blocking me. 2 miles down the road there are flashing blue and red lights in my mirror....I couldn't believe it! I was being pulled over for making gestures to the other driver!!! What about the idiot who blocked my exit?!?

The next one is probably my biggest hate - sometimes you just want to test how good the protection is on your "protected" No Claims

People who pull out in front of you then crawl along

If you see me bombing down a country road with no traffic behind me and you know you'll be driving 40 mph on that road....why pull out? :mad:Why not wait until I've passed instead of pulling out causing me to brake sharply, then waiting while you take 5 mins to accelerate to 40 then stick there.

Old people (not at Denis, honest )

Old people must be the most dangerous people on the road. In the days when they got their license you just bought one at the Post Office, many have never sat a test and are totally out of step with the changes in road use since they started driving. In addition to this they have awful judgement, slow reactions and all drive Metros. Let's not even start on how many of the old biddies cause mayhem by driving the wrong way down motorways and dual carriageways.

You forever sit behind them on country lanes going 40 mph and slowing to 20 to take each corner no matter how gentle. You're forever making allowances for them changing lanes without looking, especially on roundabouts. They perpetrate most of the actions that really annoy me like pulling out in front of you, driving too slow, not indicating and having no general road awareness.

Surely it's about time people over a certain age should have to be re-tested every 5 years or so?

Boy racers

17-19 year old kids, with either one of the following:

Renault GT5

Escort 1.4/XR3i (Dagenham Dustbin)

Fiesta XR2

Peugeot 206

Nova

All sprayed some ridiculous illuminous colour - usually with dodgy blacked out windows (complete with creases and air bubbles) blacked out lights and oversized ridiculous Kenwood stickers. Usually each car is packed with at least 5 passengers, hanging out at Texaco garage car parks. Now, I have nothing against anyone who loves cars - we all have a right to chose what we drive...But, and I assume it is the same across the country, in Horsham, they have this little game where they sit in the garage waiting for cars to come and fill up, pick their prey (usually some poor sod in a clapped out fiesta or the likes) and follow them out onto the dual carriage way, floor it and leave the rust bucket for dust.....isn’t it obvious they are going to win? Occasionally they pick on the wrong car (possibly a 1.4 Octavia... ), and they are left eating tyre smoke while trying to explain to their friends that it wasn’t worth it and they could have beaten him if he wanted to.........this has happened a few times to me and it gives me great pleasure seeing that illuminous green Nova bonnet disappear in my mirrors and smoke......

Tailgaters who are all mouth and no trousers

When I'm driving along on a quiet road on the speed limit idiots are always screaming up behind and driving inches from my bumper. Then when we approach a roundabout that is either the same speed limit (but harder to maintain the limit!) or a greater limit and I go whoring around it Enterprise style and exit about 100 yards in front of the tailgater. They seem to hate the fact that they didn't manage to stick to you as it brings home to them that they're not in the fastest car, I'm not "too slow" for them and, most of all, they know I'm giving them a proverbial FU!

The result of this behaviour is that their aggression usually goes up a gear and they race back up your backside and poke their car out to the right as if to demonstrate some form of frustration that this "slowcoach" driver is "in their way". If they convince themselves that this is the case they seem to think that that makes it true.

People who drive around town centres on Saturday with their windows down and music blaring out

****s.

That'll do for now

when your in the outside lane and you have left bracking space and someone pulls out into your safety zone thus reducing your braking space

Boy Racers...

Now these are a special bunch especially those who think diesel == slow, i use to get loads of them. Only t'other day i had one who kept going past me then slowing to 50 on the dual carriage way. I was sticking at a constant 70- so I would pull past and everytime she would shoot past again then back off. Eventually afther this happened about 10 times) I just got ****ed off and put my foot down as he was going past and low and behold she eventually dropped back.

What really annoys me is the huge monster cherry bomb styleeee mwhasiiive exhausts that they stick on the 1.1 litre engines and then go around sounding like they have no exhaust. The police pull over motorbikes for having slightly illegal exhausts (eg a little loud), isnt' it time they started doing this to cars and start doing the garages that fit them too.

Saying that a saxo with 4 of these 'whole kitten' exhaust pipes had to be the funniest thing i ever saw as it was misfiring so badly with them on, gussing nothing had been done to account for the probably reduced backpressure.

People who don't put on their high beams at night on country lanes

These are also the same people doing 40. Whilst no crime in itself' date=' it stops me overtaking if I don't know the road inside-and-out. If they don't put on their beams then I can't see that the road is safe and clear to overtake. This action has to be the most selfish and annoying that I've come across. After a few miles I usually resort to taking matters into my own hand...when I think there is a chance to overtake I nudge my car out and put my beams on full! Funnily enough, when you do this then overtake the car now seems rather keen at putting his beams on and keeping them on.

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Interesting that one Jon. I spend a lot of time driving down country lanes and tend to use dipped lights the majority of the time unless the road ahead is straight. My rationale tends to be that I know the roads well and can make faster progress with dipped lights as, when approaching corners, you can see lights coming the other way easier and can slow down in anticipation. Having said that the sort of country lanes I am talking about are the sort where overtaking is nigh on impossible since they are normally only wide enough for one car (with pull in points at various intervals).

Agre with loads of the gripes mentioned above but I guess the lack of awareness and lane discipline with UK drivers is a never ending mystery to me Just got back from holiday in France (Vendee area) and the French are light years away from us in terms of this - particularly on motorways.

Drivers (often 3series, X5, range rovers and mkIV golfs) who wait until the 300yd board before crossing 3 lanes of motorway at 90mph to come off at a junction...

There's a couple of places on the M-ways round manchester where I'll happily admit to being being a outside lane hogging, inconsiderate **** badger because its about 100 times safer than trying to drive in one of the inside lanes whilst being cut up 5-6 times in the space of 1/4 of a mile.

Where the M62 meets the M60 at eccles is a prime example.

Been here before' date=' so here goes. How long you got?

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Premenstrual, Jon? :D:D

PS

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NAh mate, fullymental

OMG you grumpy people.

The other day I was behind a male in a BMW how failed to notice that the lights had changed from red to green (and it they had been changed a good little while) so I beeped at him. He looked behind and gave me a wave of 'thanks' for telling him the lights had changed.

I thought this was a cheak, because if I had been infront and failed to notice the lights had changed he would have no doubt beeped a lot sooner, and been *sighing* about women drivers.

It does concern me that I might be guilty of some of those things that annoy you other drivers. All I can see if I am capable of multitasking, and sometimes driving is not the first on my prority list.

He thanked you, don't complain. It was probably a oops sorry.

Most drivers will just speed off or give you the finger.

It does concern me that I might be guilty of some of those things that annoy you other drivers. All I can see if I am capable of multitasking, and sometimes driving is not the first on my prority list.

Erm can you do me a favour when you think that is the case, please stop the car and get out of it until you are finished doing what you are thinking about. I've seen too many nasty accidents from people doing other things, esp makeup.

I thought this was a cheak, because if I had been infront and failed to notice the lights had changed he would have no doubt beeped a lot sooner, and been *sighing* about women drivers.

Good to see stereotypes are alive and well!

Chris

It does concern me that I might be guilty of some of those things that annoy you other drivers.

ditto but I know I'm sometimes guilty of some of the latent inconsiderate behaviour - lane hogging etc. but only in response the the inconsiderate-ness of others around me esp. on motorways. Sometimes I know that if I move left like I should I'll never get back out because everyone is lane hogging so I lane hog and the whole bad lane discipline thing continues.

BTW, when driving, it should be your number 1 priority.

Good to see stereotypes are alive and well!

Chris

Yes, because all us men are infact fachist b*stards and sexists. Bleeding femenists :P

I'm impressed, 3 digs at BMW drivers - I'm so so glad I don't drive one

Sometimes I know that if I move left like I should I'll never get back out because everyone is lane hogging so I lane hog and the whole bad lane discipline thing continues.

Seeing as you don't drive a BMW, have you tried using your indicators?

Tbh, I thought all you Skoda drivers just used the outside lane, or is that just my imagination? :confused:

I'm impressed' date=' [b']3[/b] digs at BMW drivers - I'm so so glad I don't drive one

Seeing as you don't drive a BMW, have you tried using your indicators?

Tbh, I thought all you Skoda drivers just used the outside lane, or is that just my imagination? :confused:

Unfortunately my skoda driving dreams remain just that, dreams. 3 digs? I only thought I made 2 conscious ones, it must be that even my sub-conscious is jealous they've got a a better car than me. Damn you non-existent company car benefits! Its BMWs fault anyway, for selling more 3s than ford sell mondeos.

Finally when driving in the left hand lane of the motorway, I'd love to be able to mirror, signal and manouvere into a nice gap in the overtaking lane, over take a lorry and pull back in. But because of the lane hogging (all types of cars:D ) and the tailgating I get stuck. My choices are follow a lorry at 55mph all the way to work or lane hog at 75mph. Considering I drive the entire length of a particular motorway every single day, lane-hogging gets me there before tea break. sorry.

Absolutely anybody who isn't going the same way and same speed as me!!!!!!