What drives you crazy?

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Dana Jean

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I have made myself stop doing gestures. No, I don't flip people off. But, I do look like I'm having seizures as I'm shaking my head and giving the "you totally disgust me" look.

I've decided I don't want to be beaten to a pulp or shot.
 

blunthead

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Aug 2, 2006
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People who don't know how to merge onto or get off the freeway! Drives me batsh*t crazy. It is the job of the people coming onto the freeway to be driving the speed of the freeway when they get on. And it is their job to merge, it is not the freeway people's job to slow down to 40 to let them in. NO! This isn't a McDonald's parking lot you are courteously waving someone out in the line of traffic. This is the freeway. Yes, we can adjust one or two miles per hour to allow for a smooth merge, but dropping down many miles per hour is dangerous. And yes, we don't have to be total a-holes, if you can get over to allow the merge traffic free access to the lane, then get over. But, if you don't know the laws of successful merging, get the hell outta my way and stay off the freeway.

whew! rant over. I think I broke a rib.
I think big city Atlanta is like Robert Gray's Texas in that most drivers know to use the acceleration ramp as named. Still, Atlanta has more than it's share of drivers who missed that class, many classes I think, who don't look in their mirrors or seem to know that they have mirrors, or use their turn signals because at all times one hand must be free for the cell phone to be in, not that the rest of us aren't prepared for these things. As in Robert's Texas most everyone here understands the need to move over, to the left (usually) for slower traffic. The driving principle of, which if it isn't a Federal law should be, "slower traffic keep right" is also conversely true.

Which brings me to my pet pet peeve, the too-slow-in-the-fast-lane driver...