What's your pet hate on the roads & why?

"Wimmin Drivers!!!" :hgf:

They should be at home, baking & cleaning...That is all. :whistle:

I'm quite a critical 'back seat driver' and I must say that some of the best drivers I've seen are of the fairer sex. My wife and 2 daughters are amongst them. :yesnod:

Ladies tend to have a different driving style to men is all. They seem to me to have better all round observation skills compared to men and, of course, they're much more considerate of other road users too. :broon:

It's a bit late for me to pay tribute to female drivers with a video. So, I'll just share this one with them and salute their superior driving prowess.. and I'm sorry if the guys don't like you being 'overall much better drivers' than them girls. Fact!

Cobber wrote: I have a long list of pet hates as regards the roads.

* Cyclists.
Not the kids tootling about or the sensibly dressed normal person going about their daily business on their bikes. The one's I despise are the cycle couriers and the weekend warrior tosspots in lycra with all their arrogance, these halfwits don't use the dedicated cycle lanes where provided, chose to ignore traffic signals and flaunt the rules and laws of the road.

* Joggers.
Not the idiots that huff a puff their way along the foot path. their stupidity is their own problem. The ones I object to are the morons who insist on jogging upon the road itself, even where perfectly good footpaths are adjacent to the road! These oxygen thieves aren't just content gulping down more than their quota of oxygen they frequently chose to do so in the dark whilst wearing dull coloured clothing (greys browns, black etc.) so as to be a navigation hazard to all other road users! They say they do it to be healthy but I fail to see whats so healthy about breathing in exhaust fumes and an accelerated rate and getting run over! :nonod:

* Hybrid & Electric Cars.
Not only are these things so unspeakably ugly, but their drivers are such pious smug pains in the ar$e, that I have a hard time resisting the urge to drag them from their hideous noddy car and kicking their bloody teeth in!

* Trams.
These remnants of the Victorian age still clutter the streets of Melbourne, damned things are little more than mobile chicanes!
Mind you I despise all public transport for the very simple reason that it's public!
They'll let anyone use it! :nonod:

* Caravans.
Do I really need to explain this one?

* Speed Bumps and other Stupid Traffic Calming Measures.
If they designed the streets and did the town planning properly in the first place they wouldn't need to resort to these usually poorly planned and executed afterthoughts.

I have more and shall probably add them later but writing what I have so far has got me sufficiently grumpy for now!

Wow! I think a little relaxation therapy is in order here :hugs: (annnd Breeaathe) :dry:
However I am mindful of the Chopper vid , and understand that yoga and meditation may not be your thing :lol: :lol:
link is not work safe

carlvk wrote: Wow! I think a little relaxation therapy is in order here :hugs: (annnd Breeaathe) :dry:
However I am mindful of the Chopper vid , and understand that yoga and meditation may not be your thing :lol: :lol:
link is not work safe

Funny you should mention ol' Chopper (the real one) he was a chum of my ex-brother in-law himself a prominent racing identity!
Chopper was a bit of a character, a dangerous lunatic psycho, but he could be an amusing one. RIP Chopper

T'waz joking Leigh. :whistle:

Paula is and always has been a much better driver than I am. :yesnod:

Old biddies on those stupid carts.
Horses.
Cyclists.
People smoking at the wheel.
Chavs revving at you.
Foreign Drivers.

richandpaula wrote: T'waz joking Leigh. :whistle:

Paula is and always has been a much better driver than I am. :yesnod:

Ohh that's not what you said to me

Lies! - it's all lies i tells thee!

My pet hate is people who drive with a sense of 'entitlement'.

R

MaddAussie wrote: 1. Middle lane Morons, it just shows complete lack of understanding of what they should be doing and complete lack of awareness of whats going on around them!

I watched a program once where they pulled over drivers and asked why they did things.

This woman was a middle lane hogger and there was chaos going on around her so they pulled her over and asked why she sat in the middle lane.

Her answer was that she felt safer in the middle lane as it wasn't as close to the edges.

I would have smiled sweetly at her while tearing her licence up.

People who indicate right to go straight on at a roundabout.

My dad does it. I asked him why and he smugly said "to show people I'm not turning left" as if he was being really considerate to others.

I then asked him how he shows people that he is turning right. That confused him.

Like a lot of people here, my pet hate is people who don't indicate/indicate incorrectly on roundabouts...oh, and people who pull out in front of you at the last minute at roundabouts...and 'yoofs' wearing headphones who randomly drift across the road without so much as a glance in either direction...and cyclists who ride two/three/more abreast or who just drift towards the middle of the road so that you can't safely pass them, or who suddenly set off riding, pulling away from the curb right in front of you without just having a quick look over their shoulder to make sure there isn't a car behind them that's just had to mount the opposite curb on a narrow road to avoid hitting them!!! :hgf:

and...breathe....

so yes...it gets a little sweary at times in the cabin of my little car...