which driving habits do you hate the most?

Sport-utes, minivans, and soccer moms with phones

I'd have to go with these:

Sport-utes: Around here, usually driven by women with 2.5 kids who like to feel "in control" in their 2.5 ton SUV. Or they're people who have no life, and buy the sport-ute so as to appear that they live an outdoorsy active lifestyle, but who have never taken it off road. I also love those people who think they can cross 4' deep water or drive 90 mph in the snow because they have a sport-ute. I love when they wipe.

Minivans: Have you ever noticed that all the people who drive minivans drive like they're friggin mental? Especially when passing, or on the interstate.

Cell phoners: Often, they fit into one of the above categories as well, but they're usually people who can't drive all that well with 2 hands on the wheel, let alone one. I've actually seen soccer moms in their sport-utes driving (sort of), talking on the phone, and half turned around trying to deal with their 2.5 kids in the back seat. Then there are those who get so engrossed in their conversation that they begin talking with their hands (and swerving off the road).

Bonus: High school kids in FWD Cavaliers, Berettas, Escort GT's, and daddy's '95 Monte Carlo who think they're da bomb: Usually, you just kill 'em with the SC. I actually heard some kid bragging about his twin-turbo Chevy Corsica once. I also killed an Escort in my '90 SC once. At the next light they offered me a drag off of their joint. How thoughtful...
 
To Mike Manzo re: road idiots

Nuff said, and it is a fact that after you finally get your chance to pass that idiot in the left, 999 times out of 1000 they will then give up the lane.
 
Re: which driving habits do you hate the most?

One night I turned out of my driveway about a year back in my '91 escort gt, about 1/4 mi. from the intersection of 2 main 2 lane hwys, and sped up to about 65 at the time that there were about 10 car lengths btwn. me and a camaro that turned onto my highway at the same time that I pulled out. He rode my ass for about a mile, with his brights on while I was waiting for the next intersection to come up so that I didn't start passing the semi in front of me and then meet a car head on that might be turning. Well, after the semi and I got past the intersection, I pulled out to pass, with turn signal, and the camaro, w/out a turn signal on, pulled out to pass at the exact same time. Still had his brights on. So I hit the gas and he decided to just stay on my ass with his brights on. So there we were, doing 90 mph with about 1 foot between both our bumpers on a hilly Iowa highway at night, where you see about 5 deer every 10 miles Then after about 2 miles of this b/s, and I let off, while my friend raised both of his middle fingers at this guy, one out the sunroof, other out the side, and he finally decided to pass. Once he passed, I hit the gas with my brights on. I took it up to 105 mph, and he was loosing me fast, so I let off. Then a hill came up, and he went flying over it as I was doing a happy 58. When I nearly got to the top of the hill, I had to slam on my brakes due to the state trooper who was spinning his car around, throwing shoulder gravel all over my car. The camaro kept going, and we just watched the tail lights disappear. Then we got to the town of our destination, and after about 30 mins. of cruising around, we saw the exact same camaro with the back-end up on a tow truck. Haven't seen the camaro since.

I hate people that pull out, and can't speed up in time for me to leave my cruise control set, I hate when you're waiting to turn, and someone doesn't use their blinker to turn down the same road I'm turning off of. I HATE MOST when some crackhead decided to pass me on a hill that can't be seen over. I have major road rage for these people and it's almost a hobby to show it. ~Chris
 
Re: which driving habits do you hate the most?

I would say women who file their nails, smoke cigarettes, read last months issue of cosmo and talk on their phone while doing about 30 on the interstate. Ohh that drives me nuts... cant they do all that before they leave the house?
Melissa
sccoa#1534
90 red/black 5spd SC
 
Re: which driving habits do you hate the most?

The old geezer who leaves the turn signal for 10 miles has to be the number one thing that drives me craziest.

LissaSC,
Just to make you happy:
The term for a woman doing her make-up while driving is known as: FARDING
 
Re: which driving habits do you hate the most?

You left out the obvious! Women doing 80mph in the fast lane, then slowing to 50mph,weaving in & out of 2 lanes when they answer their cell phone. Oh yeah, it's always in a mini-van. THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW!!!!!!!!!!
 
Re: which driving habits do you hate the most?

Motorists failing to stop on the stopline itself.
You know the kind...the kind that can resist leaning into oncoming traffic...just trying to save that extra second or two..
 
Bad driving habits

People shifting lanes nearly into my vehicle, people riding on my ***, people going excessively under speed limit, people backing out without looking, people cutting me off. I'm sure there's more I can't even think of right now. Oh yes people that road rage to point of getting out of there cars to start **** with other drivers or simply shoot them.
 
jonimag56 said:
Oh yes people that road rage to point of getting out of there cars to start **** with other drivers or simply shoot them.

HEY!! I resent that... some of these people need shootin'....!! :)
 
txsc said:
HEY!! I resent that... some of these people need shootin'....!! :)
gotta love it when cops ride your @$$ one night i had a cop about 3mm from my bumper, so i just took random turns n stuff trying to get the pesky bastard to go away....wellll it didn't work so i got on a back road where the speed limit wuz 50, got up to 50, stillll on my @$$....saw a squrril wayyyyy up the road.... i wuz like..hmmmmmm, SLAMMMEEDDDD on the brakes, the cop swirved hard almost hitting an oncomming 18 wheeler then swirved over into the break down lane and kicked up dirt and dust. i absolutly lost it laughing till i almost couldn't drive anymore, then he pulled me over about 30 seconds later, after he gained control of his car. He said "get out of the car...right now" so i got out all calm...."what the hell was that stunt back there huh?" i replied...Officer a little inocent squrril ran out in the middle of the road! what did u want me to do...HIT IT?!?! and uh.....correct me if i'm wrong but....isn't tailgating illegal? (long pause) officer said in a VERY pissed voice while walking off.....have a good night... HAHAHAHA, silly po po.... oh yeah and the kicker was....after i let off my brakes and began accelerating again after the cop lost control.....i caught a glimps of a little grey furry thing infront of my right tire....then shortly after....THUMP THUMP..... OOPS!!!! lol
 
johnny o said:
I HATE tailgaters when there is someone infront of me, if there isn't anyone in front they aren't on my *** for long :) I also hate ppl that don't go fast in the FAST lane :) The driving habbit I hate most is those people in the Ford Crown Victorias with the Red lights on top that like to pull up behind you with them on :)

ha yea i hate those stupid red lighted cars too.
 
old people in there white crown vics, especally when im testing that little boust guage.

old people driving around there brand new sports cars and when i pull up next to them and rev up my engine they dont even give a responce, they just drive slowley on their marry way.

people who only race for money, people who only race cars they know they can beat.

people who cut me off to pass someone without a turn signal and then get pissed off when i pass them back.

people who are scared to turn into traffic, you know those people who which between the gas and the break before turning on to the road your driving on and then end up cutting you off at the last second.

people who drive around with that spare doughnut tire like they dont have to change it.

narcs, tattletales, rats, or whatever you want to call people who will call the cops on you just because your doing somthing like a burnout or a doughnut especally in safe conditions with nobody within close proximidy of you.

people who have a crap load of junk in the back of a truck, I have a crack winsheild because of this, it was new too.

backing out of driveways without looking, two recs in one week on my street one of which was my freinds 82 cheavy truck that was totaled (as said by the insourence jackass) and i had three near misses myself.

but to me the worst has got to be those guys who drive at night with there a head light out especally the left one, nothing scares me more then when im driving at night and i see what i think is a motercycle driving down the road and at the last second i see the running lights on the side.
 
What I do when others piss me off!

I hate the guy that pulls up at a red light and pretends he wants to race, then lets off after the light turns green. Oh well, becuase usually what happens when I come across this situation is what happens at the next traffic light. If he wants to let off, I push it on, harder, and harder until I am doing 45 mph ON THE SPOT right beside him. Leaving him to deal with the most god aweful odor to remove from your car, Good old BURNED TIRES!
 
geigerb said:
I hate the guy that pulls up at a red light and pretends he wants to race, then lets off after the light turns green. Oh well, becuase usually what happens when I come across this situation is what happens at the next traffic light. If he wants to let off, I push it on, harder, and harder until I am doing 45 mph ON THE SPOT right beside him. Leaving him to deal with the most god aweful odor to remove from your car, Good old BURNED TIRES!

A heroe in the the making. Got to love a guy with burnout revenge.
 
people who wait till the turn to use the turn lane.... there are times i could strangle people..... those times are when im trying to pass the slow **** next to me. and one more hated time just everyone on the road whos going slower then me wich is 99 out of 100 people :mad: :strangling smiley face not found:
 
I hate young punks who like to mess with me when I'm driving the SC. Some high school idiots in a geo Storm with ground effects think they've got the hottest car since Henry Ford invented the car and they insist on tailgating, swerving all over behind me trying to get around me in traffic conditions that are only conducive to road rage incidents. On top of that, their little 4 cylinder rustbucket has a thumping bass that you can hear 15 city blocks away. It's a contest to see which is louder, the stereo or the coffee can muffler they've bolted to their wonderbucket of bolts. Amazingly, when they got on the interstate and thought they'd just blow by me, they got the wake-up call of a lifetime. ;) Should have seen the looks on their faces when they got as far as my front door before I looked over, flipped them the bird and proceeded to make an example of them. :eek: This happened to me yesterday.

Cost of my 90 SC - $1100
Cost of 93 octane - $2.45/gallon
Cost of total repaint in the fall - $3500
Cost of transmission being rebuilt in the fall - $1500

look on the teenyboppers faces when I educate them on the power and speed of a SC - PRICELESS
 
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