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I'm going to take out all my annoyances with driving here in writing before I take it out on the enxt unfortunate person to cut me up and I end up appearing in court charged with road rage...

Start with the obvious, as I just mentioned it, people cutting me up. Usually they'll be at a junction, I'm quite a distance away and they do have time to pull out. I see them edge forwards, then they appear to change their mind and stop. I get closer, and just when I'm close enough for the situation to be potentially dangerous they pull out. This is bad enough, but then they don't even speed away, they bloody dawdle along and 20 miles an hour under the speed limit. If you weren't in a fucking rush why cut me up, you could have bloody waited!

People who go at stupid speeds for the road. By which I mean, they bomb it at 50 through a village, then when we get out and into the country, national speed limit, we're down to 20! Why? Because they can't drive, they can only point the car and use the gas pedal. Too many corners and we have to be down to walking pace to navigate them. Get off the fucking road! Incidentally, I can never overtake these people as while we do 20 at corners its too dangerous to overtake as I can't see what's coming. Reach a straight and they're inevitably accelerating up to 70 before having to peform an emergency stop and coming to a near enough standstill to work their way round the next bend.

People who don't say thanks. It doesn't take that much effort to raise a hand, or flash your lights, or put your hazards on.

Bit controversial this next one, but speed cameras. Now I don't object to them as such, but where they're put up. They're just there to get the government more money. They're always hard to see, always somewhere where it's safe to go quick (no houses around, big open road), and those speed traps are always actually hidden. The twats. What's the point. For safety...then make yourselves fucking obvious, show yourselves and people will slow down. But they're not after that, they want people to get caught out so they can make some cash. Put the speed cameras by schools, hospitals, built up areas, where it's most important for people to keep below the limit. Not on a bloody straight, open road, with no houses in sight, no reason for them except to catch people out.

Motorways, and every other fucker that's on them at the same time as me. Okay, not everyone, but there seems a lot more on the motorway than anywhere else, but that's possibly because there's more people there anyway, and I get riled more by their mistakes because it's bloody dangerous and could get me killed because of the speeds we're going...

1st off, getting on to them (and dual carriageways). You have your slip roads, going down them you know that everyone else on the motorway is going to be doing 50, probably more. It makes sense then, that to get onto the motorway, you too will have to be doing roughly that speed. So why the fuck was the car infron fo me today, not only doing 30, but actually breaking. Hello, neither of us are going to get on like this, speed up!

My other gripe with motorways, is middle lane drivers. They plod along in the middle lane, usually at about 40. This lane is for overtaking. So when cars either side of you are passing, it should be a give away you're in the wrong lane! I want to get past this fleet lorrie in the left hand lane. I was doing a good job before I met a backlog of cars due to some BMW X5 (it's ALWAYS an x5, I have come to fear meeting them on the road) going about 10mph slower than the lorries and everyone else in the left hand lane. Get out my fucking way. If you want to go slow, you aren't overtaking, so move over!

Finally (there are more but this is all that's pissed me off recently), people who don't indicate, and just expect you to guess where they're going. These are always the same people who position themselves poorly at junctions making it impossible to guess anyway. These are always inevitably the same people who don't know what their mirrors are for. They will just swerve over into your lane without warning and not even know you're there.

Okay I think that's about it. I do actually enjoy driving, just get a bit worked up from it haha

Oh, caraholic here, I adore the internal combustion engine, so I take driving very seriously. so that means I have zero patience for stupidity on the road (can you imagine me losing it?! It;s not often, and it;s surely not a pretty sight).

Here's my list of things that really get under my fingernails on the roadways. No translation needed, either.

1) Left lane bandits...those people driving at least 15 MPH under the posted speed limit.

2) Cell phone yappers.

3) People who forget to turn their turn signals off and have the blinker mindlessly signalling a change made many miles ago.

4) People in front of me who wash their windscreen with the washer jets on the highway, assuring my windshield gets wet, if it needs it or not.

5) People who insist on putting their emergency flashers on when it starts to snow.

6) People who smoke and drive. I abhor smokers, it's disgusting, it's selfish..and even at highway speeds, I can still smell it from the car ahead of mine.

7) People who intentionally take up 2 parking spots, esp. when parking is in tight supply.

8) People who don't pull up to the first gas pump, making the line that much longer. Relatedly, those people who fill up, yet leave their car holding down a pump whilst they pay for their gas.

I've only just started learning to drive, but I now have a serious appreciation for anyone that can put up with the dickheadedness of every other driver on the roads.

My list (excuse the swearing):
- People who "forget" (they're fucking lazy, let's face it) to turn down their high-beams at night-time when another car (usually with me inside) is coming along.
- People who play their stupid music loudly while driving and then insist on infecting the world by opening their car windows.
- Lollipop ladies/men. They jump out at the last minute with no warning, and every day I have to drive past a certain lollipop lady with a fucking ugly moustache. Not nice.
- Old people. I don't agree with the idea of old people in general... they're annoying. Being in cars exacerbates the problem.
- People that purposely slow down on long (but busy) country roads just to hold up a line of ten cars. My mummy tells me to flip them off when we overtake them.
- People with loud cars. Great, it makes noise. Me sitting on my horn isn't morse code for "Louder!" it's telling you to shut the fuck up.
- Other teenagers learning to drive. Especially when I stop at a red light, they look at me and my car judgingly, as if they can drive better than me. Interestingly enough, I caught one teenager off guard by revving up and breaking after a metre. They thought the lights changed, so they took off and a camera caught them.

Sweet.

Herp to the Derp.

I usually don't get mad while driving, I am a rather patient person. And in my opinion every driver SHOULD be able to keep calm while driving, otherwise they don't deserve to have a licence.

Anyway, my pet hates are the following....

1. People blinding me by using full beams at night (Although if it is a volvo I understand)
2. People who have priority of the road and do not use it, causing confusion.
3. People who lack lane discipline