your pet hates on the road

[Dog_ger]

I hate hitting the man holes every 5 seconds.....

Pay attention next time......

I try to drive off their line.....

[Bandit]

People who dont know how to use roundabouts...(indicating)

People who think when a semi is slowing down for a red light the gap in front of him is fair game to pull into. A B-double takes a while to stop and I would love to see someone get rammed up the coight with a KW bullbar one day after shortening the trucks braking distance...

Oh yeah, and dont try to make your car sound like a V8 with a Milo tin on the exhaust - damn cityboys

[mal]

Petrol is about $1-16 today
I would pay twice as much $2-32 if half the drivers didnt drive anymore

[Psyber]

1. People who sit exactly on the speed limit and think they have a moral right to stop anyone passing.

If they are sitting on exactly the speed limit, you shouldn't be trying to pass them anyway

I know that is what they say but they shouldn't interfere with my democratic right to break the law and take my own chances with the cops. [It is called the Ned Kelly principle of Australian culture.] NO vigilantes thank you!

[Wedgie]

1. People who don't understand the concept of keeping left unless overtaking despite several signs advising them to do so, you'd think it was keep right unless overtaking on the Expressway at times.

Daylight

2. People who drive 4WDs and never use them for 4WDing

Daylight

3. People who don't indicate
4. People who do a Uey 5metres before an inlet
5. People who flick cigarette butts out of windows
6. People not sure where they are so have to slow down to 20kms/hr while they work it out instead of pulling over
7. Asian drivers
8. Elderly drivers
9. Mother drivers
10. People that can't park
11. People that drive fast around schools in the morning or arvo near school time
12. Cyclists who ride two abreast (yes I know its legal, stiff, common sense morons)
13. Cyclists who take up a lane especially when there's a bike lane off the road (Anzac Hwy leading into West Tce)
14. People who take off at a snail's pace
15. Slow drivers
16. People who brake for no reason
17. Trucks
18. People who change lanes many times unnecessarily, as mentioned previously they usually go backwards in the flow of traffic, morons.
19. People who hold up 5 thousand cars so they can turn right in peak hour when they could go 50 metres up the road turn at a safe inlet and get around to where they are getting 5 minutes quicker.
20. Bloody expressway going the wrong way
21. People who park next to my car when there's millions of parks closer to the shops and I deliberately park away from others so noone will scratch my beautiful car.
22. People who run red lights
23. People who stop at lights 5 minutes before the lights turn red
24. Van drivers


That'll do for now.
I don't have a huge issue with tailgaters as 99% of people I see tailgated actually instigate it by breaking a law of one sort or another first. Shits me that the police try to crack down on tailgaters on the Expressway when all they need to do is book the dickheads who sit in the right hand land when not overtaking. Eliminate the illegal cause morons, not the illegal result.
And no, I don't tailgate, don't get close to cars in front, don't want chips in my paintworks.

[bayman]

1. People who don't understand the concept of keeping left unless overtaking despite several signs advising them to do so, you'd think it was keep right unless overtaking on the Expressway at times.

Daylight

2. People who drive 4WDs and never use them for 4WDing

Daylight

3. People who don't indicate
4. People who do a Uey 5metres before an inlet
5. People who flick cigarette butts out of windows
6. People not sure where they are so have to slow down to 20kms/hr while they work it out instead of pulling over
7. Asian drivers
8. Elderly drivers
9. Mother drivers
10. People that can't park
11. People that drive fast around schools in the morning or arvo near school time
12. Cyclists who ride two abreast (yes I know its legal, stiff, common sense morons)
13. Cyclists who take up a lane especially when there's a bike lane off the road (Anzac Hwy leading into West Tce)
14. People who take off at a snail's pace
15. Slow drivers
16. People who brake for no reason
17. Trucks
18. People who change lanes many times unnecessarily, as mentioned previously they usually go backwards in the flow of traffic, morons.
19. People who hold up 5 thousand cars so they can turn right in peak hour when they could go 50 metres up the road turn at a safe inlet and get around to where they are getting 5 minutes quicker.
20. Bloody expressway going the wrong way
21. People who park next to my car when there's millions of parks closer to the shops and I deliberately park away from others so noone will scratch my beautiful car.
22. People who run red lights
23. People who stop at lights 5 minutes before the lights turn red
24. Van drivers


That'll do for now.
I don't have a huge issue with tailgaters as 99% of people I see tailgated actually instigate it by breaking a law of one sort or another first. Shits me that the police try to crack down on tailgaters on the Expressway when all they need to do is book the dickheads who sit in the right hand land when not overtaking. Eliminate the illegal cause morons, not the illegal result.
And no, I don't tailgate, don't get close to cars in front, don't want chips in my paintworks.

wedgie = a candidate for road rage

i was thinking 1 or 2 pet hates not the whole road rules & as for no 24 van drivers...not all of us my friend

[Dirko]

7. Asian drivers

On a trip in Vietnam, had a motorbike for a day, hacking along the National Highway doing FK how much, near the lovely town of Hoi An, heading toward "China Beach" (My Khe) when a bike caught up to me and the Mrs (she was pillion)...The rider yelled something (couldn't hear for S##t), opened up HER jacket, and then tried to sell me a watch ! F##K off Lady ! CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY !

[JK]

Pedestrians who cross the road at an unprescribed juncture (generally just down from where they are supposed to), who turn their heads to oncoming traffic as if to suggest it's right for 10+ motorists to wait for one lazyass crosser!

[JAS]

As a pedestrian...

Drivers that don't dip their lights when passing oncoming pedestrians.

Drivers (often deliberately) that don't slow down or pull out when there are large and obvious puddles on the road thereby soaking pedestrians.

Drivers that park on the pavement and force pedestrians to walk out into the road to get past...especially dangerous for people with small kids/pushchairs etc.

The driver that nearly hit me yesterday. He approached a junction indicating to turn right and moving over to the right...I stepped out (legally...no crossing places here ) to cross the road several metres down from the road he should have been turning away from...he then unexpectedly turns LEFT and has to slam on the brakes to avoid me...w**ker.

Regards
JAS

[Ian]

Cars with only 1 person in them contributing to clog up the road system, if there's only one of you, get a motorbike, less congestion, less pollution.

[Pseudo]

if there's only one of you, get a motorbike, less congestion, less pollution.

...and more organs to harvest

[warrior]

When the wife and kids have used the car last in the middle of winter. You hop in the car early morning start cruising and then wonder why its so cold and then realize the kids have left the back windows down.

[JK]

I hate hitting the man holes every 5 seconds.....

Surely the * police are on to that one?!?!

[smac]

I hate hitting the man holes every 5 seconds.....

Surely the * police are on to that one?!?!

I don't reckon "the man" thinks much of it either...

[Ian]

Just from the trip home tonight.

People that dont indicate (must have seen at least 7 or 8 today)

People that cant slow down enough to take a corner without cutting it

If you're towing a trailer, plug the f***ing lights in.

[Booney]

People who drive 10km below the assigned speed limit for that road.

Volvo drivers.

Like Diss said, people who deliberatley try and sneak into your lane knowing full well they were'nt in the right lane anyway. happens every morning to me near the Bakewell underpass construction area, that is the only place I blatantly refuse to let anyone in, as well as the slip lane outside Gerard Industries on Park Tce where it turns into one lane to turn left into Port Road.

People who dont move into an intersection to turn right, they stay behind the line and then wont turn on the orange light....(usually volvo drivers)

people that don't indicate. Contrary to popular belief, you are NOT allocated a certain amount of "clicks" when you re-register your car each year

Red lights. I swear there is someone at the traffic light centre who hates me and everytime they see my car coming to a red light, they make it go red to piss me off!

Traffic in general.. sometimes i think I should be the only person allowed on the road

Drivers who nearly cause accidents and then have the nerve to abuse you for it...

I could go on but i won't

After all that,strangely enough,I agree.

[noone]

Agree with most,

my top 3 would be, (in no real order)

1) people that coming up to roadworks (or any other reason why traffic is merging), 95% of people get in line, 5% dart down the side and try and cut in.

2) People who BRAKE and then INDICATE. An INDICATOR is used to INDICATE the action you are going to take...

3) **** hoons who dart in and out of traffic. I dont really care if I see someone speeding (means the tool gets out of my area faster), but people that dart in and out of traffic really give me the shits. Bonus points for road users are awarded for boxing in some tool who is doing his best to cause an accident.

[Ian]

2) People who BRAKE and then INDICATE. An INDICATOR is used to INDICATE the action you are going to take...

Yep, gotta agree with that one

[Psyber]

Cars with only 1 person in them contributing to clog up the road system, if there's only one of you, get a motorbike, less congestion, less pollution.

Less protection from impact damage! Only for those who want to be "temporary Australians".
[I used to have a Honda XL 200R whenI had a farm and rode to nearby towns, but wouldn't ride a bike in city traffic.]

[Ian]

Cars with only 1 person in them contributing to clog up the road system, if there's only one of you, get a motorbike, less congestion, less pollution.

Less protection from impact damage! Only for those who want to be "temporary Australians".
[I used to have a Honda XL 200R whenI had a farm and rode to nearby towns, but wouldn't ride a bike in city traffic.]

Learnt to ride on a farm, I've been in Adleaide for 25 1/2 years, regullary rode bikes all of that time, the last 17 years, to and from work every day, as well as about a 1/2 dozen trips to Melbourne (where bikes are catered for sensationally), and covering a pretty big slice of the East Coast. My only injury, a broken little finger when I was 16, riding off road.