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How about putting your 2 pet peeves that makes you grind your teeth when driving? Not talking just Brandon but anywhere. Just 2 now and No merging ones that’s been talked to death.  
 
I will start.  
 
1. Use or not use of turning lights. Some don’t use them at all and you have to guess what is going on. Then there is the others that turn on their signal light to turn (good) then leave it on for miles (bad) Doesn’t that beeping noise and flashing arrow bug them!  
 
2. At a 4 way stop and when it is someone’s turn they go BUT a cars follow them like as he got to go so we can as we are waiting behind them. Duh!

Pick a lane. Anyone but just choose one.  
 
Then ignoring that we need to use the parking lane when possible as a turning lane. It irks me to no end when people just turn right out the centre lane. Moving to your right people and then turning clears up room for cars to keep on going. Yes I know that parking lane is sometimes full but you get my drift.

Driving on the highway without lights.  
 
Guy behind who has been following you deciding at the last moment to pull out in the passing lane just as you're about to merge back.

People passing semi trucks that are attempting left turns at mile roads, usually not the vehicle directly behind the semi, but the one behind that vehicle who usually doesn't see the trucks lights, the second is the car that just has to pass you so they can then slow down below the speed limit.

Driving with a pet on your lap.  
Not knowing what to do at an intersection with two flashing yellows and two flashing reds.

Tail gate'rs for sure, and people that don't dim their lights on the highway. Driving back from the Bomber game last week, I swear fifty percent of the on coming vehicles didn't dim their high beams. Either they just don't understand what that little blue light is above the speed-o-meter, or they think because it's a four lane highway they don't have to dim. My two pet peeves.

Poor use of turn signals. Too many people don't use them when they should, like when lane changing, but those same people will turn them on when not necessary, like in a right or left turn only lane. Of course you're going to turn... you have no other choice.  
 
The other has to be the merging. It just grinds my gears when people stop at a yield sign that is located at the start of a merge lane. Also, people who won't let others merge, like at 18th and Pacific northbound. It's called "courtesy". Try it sometime.  
 
/rant mode off

JR said "Poor use of turn signals. Too many people don't use them when they should, like when lane changing, but those same people will turn them on when not necessary, like in a right or left turn only lane. Of course you're going to turn... you have no other choice.     The other has to be the merging. It just grinds my gears when people stop at a yield sign that is located at the start of a merge lane. Also, people who won't let others merge, like at 18th and Pacific northbound. It's called "courtesy". Try it sometime.     /rant mode off "

You are still legally required to use your signal even when the only option is to turn left/right. You have to signal every directional change including turning right/left, lane changes, merging or any other form of direction change from the current path you are driving.

1. People who text and drive.  
 
2. People who while making a turn think they have to make their car swerve in the next lane to do so. You would think they were driving a semi!

People turning left from a 4 lane street with a median, who leave their ass end hanging out blocking the lane they're turning from. Pull ahead for the love of God, thats what the median is for!

People who drive under the speed limit until they hit a passing lane then speed up 10 or 15 km/h and then slow down again afterwards.  
 
People who pass in no passing zone/double line areas, especially cresting hills and such, I've seriously lost count of how many times I've had to slow or swerve onto the shoulder when cresting a hill and there's someone in my lane.  
 
Edited by hutchster, 2018-09-16 21:48:53

Well, if this is supposed to be fun, mine are:  
 
-when you give the peace sign to someone driving the exact same vehicle (same model, color, etc) and they don't give the peace sign back!  
 
-when you are stopped at a stop light and singing along to the music....and the person in the car next to you won't get into it and sing with you!

Absolutely love your comment. At times humor makes it all worth while.

When you turn at an intersection, you enter the lane closest to you, and then merge into the other one should you so choose, not take a huge wide turn and ending up in the far lane, cutting off someone who might be trying to turn right into that lane from the opposite direction. Super annoying to me.

Too many people just barely pass you then cut back in on the Trans Canada. Tons of room and no pressure to move back over, but some people get two or 3 car lengths past and come back over. Thats how you get window and paint chips. No need to come back so quickly. Dosent matter if you are getting pushed by someone behind either, no point showering the person you are passing because you are getting tailgated. Let them eat dust till the coast is clear.

People that wait...you're a mile out...wait...your 500 meters....wait...you're 250 meters...then they pull out really quickly just as you're almost on top of them, and number 2 involves the same situation...when you look behind you and there wasn't ANYONE behind you. Like they literally could have just waited another 5 seconds.  
 
I get it when there's 30 cars and you get that "I'm never getting out of here" feeling so you just make the plunge...but when there isn't anyone else why not just wait?

-When someone is driving in the city and going 40kms/hr so I switched lanes to pass them and then they speed up all of a sudden...  
 
-Second is when people turn into my lane from a Stop sign and I have to slow down so I dont hit them. Okay it's fine, I'm a great driver and I make sure to drive safe and I always Stop. I could have been in 10 accidents this year and they wouldn't have been my fault but it annoys me when I'm the one who sometimes get into the lane but I notice the car I joined just speeds up to 60 to try and hit me and gets all pissy about it. Slow down already and have a nice day already hahaha

Another one for me.  
 
People who sit at a 4 way stop and just sit and no one else around then you get there and they still sit even if you wave and you don’t know if it is safe to go or not

That’s the strange part. When there was no one else there.

As I drove through the fog this morning. The fact that people don’t turn their lights on in poor visibility is not onlly a peeve but dangerous  
 
This is in fog, dusk, winter storm, daybreak, rain storm and when lots of snow and slush on the road. And worse yet at night.  
 
Too bad one of the new safety features could be having the lights on all the time that shut off when you shut off your car. For the drivers who can’t remember to do it.

People making a left turn from a two way street. Because it's just a two way, single lane in each direction there are no painted lines marking the lanes. For some reason, they position their car close to the right curb with their left signal on. Anyone behind them can not make a right turn. If they would have stayed closer to the center, then traffic behind them could turn right.  
 
Another one that bugs me, on two lane highways are the ones who will pass every car in front of them, even though they are turning left at the next intersection. Then they have to stop and wait for oncoming traffic and everyone they just passed has to stop and wait too.

1) driving on 30km/h everywhere. God knows what they will do in a school zone? maybe they'll walk their car across the zone?  
 
2) not signalling, and then to have a person signal half a block down the block (passing intersections and other streets)  
 
3) wide turns. What the heck is peoples problem and not properly making a turn. Your basically waving into oncoming traffic to make a turn.  
 
4) On a green, turning left, people stop at the line and wait and wait and wait and nothing until it turns yellow, they enter the intersection and make a turn on red.  
 
5) Driving 30km/h and thinking it's okay to run a stop sign. Like the dark green Buick Regal car, with the smart ass comment about riding his ass on his rear window. Seen this geriatric doing it all the time in the morning.  
 
6) people that have high beams on all the time  
 
7) stopping at an intersection that has no stop sign.  
 
8) people that drive and Americans on the highway (slow drivers on the right side of the road)

Drivers going 98km on the #10 North  
then thinking entering a passing zone is time to speed it up to 115km. My pet peeve.

Definitely when drivers drive under the limit even by a couple KMs/hour and speed up way beyond the speed limit on the passing lanes so that you can’t pass without driving 120...then back to 96 after the passing lane. An extraordinary amount of people...I don’t understand what goes through their mind.  
 
When vehicles stay a good distance behind you the entire passing lane then right when you’re about to move over (with a signal) and they decide they are going speed up and pass you...then drive slower than you were going.  
 
Vehicles passing in non passing zone...one thing to put your own life at risk, it’s another to risk other people’s! How many times I’ve had to pull off quickly to avoid a head on by someone passing when they shouldn’t have been. (Then there was that time I was driving in the right lane and someone was driving down the passing lane beside me in the wrong direction without a clue)

Yesterday I was going home on park avenue and behind some guy in a silver car. He suddenly stops by Elviss Crescent to let some kids ride their bikes across the street! There was no intersection there, the kids were on the grass patiently waiting on a break in traffic. You don’t just stop anywhere on the street to let bikes, let alone pedestrians cross! It’s like stopping for jaywalkers... If I wasn’t a good driver I’d have hit him. Instead, I shook my head at the dullard and he starts shaking his head and throwing gang signs like he was in the right LOL! He purposely drove 35kms until reaching 34th street, then sped away down the street doing his signals and head bobbing at me. Thanks for the laughs, dullard!

the dummy that passes these people so they can drive  
 
how MPI gets away with it who knows

1) The 3 and even more people turning left when the light been red for over 3 seconds. Its probably the cause of 90% of accidents at 18th and Victoria Ave.  
 
Just as bad:  
2) On a left turn light, the 2 + people turning left when the left turn light was on orange knowing it will  
 
3) People not signally when exiting the traffic circle.  
 
4) People not scanning ahead when its been well established that they will lose a lane that they are driving  
 
5) The city strange practice of either watering the flowers or mowing grass during lunch hour or after 5pm.  
 
6) Slower traffic driving on the left lane and the speeders on the right lane.  
 
7) People making wide turns. You would think they are driving semis  
 
8) People stopping at a yield sign.  
 
9) people not having their lights especially their tail lights on.

Suckie said "    JR said "Poor use of turn signals. Too many people don't use them when they should, like when lane changing, but those same people will turn them on when not necessary, like in a right or left turn only lane. Of course you're going to turn... you have no other choice.     The other has to be the merging. It just grinds my gears when people stop at a yield sign that is located at the start of a merge lane. Also, people who won't let others merge, like at 18th and Pacific northbound. It's called "courtesy". Try it sometime.     /rant mode off " You are still legally required to use your signal even when the only option is to turn left/right. You have to signal every directional change including turning right/left, lane changes, merging or any other form of direction change from the current path you are driving. "

If you are in an exit lane, for example, like turning onto Kirkcaldy from northbound 18th Street, you are not making a change from your current path. You are following the only route available. Doing anything else would involve running into a boulevard, divider or sign post.  
 
I would love to get a ticket for not using my turn signal in a case like that.  
 
My beef, though, was about the people who will change lanes into that exit lane without signalling and THEN turning on the indicator to tell me that yes, they are going to follow the only path available to them and will not be running straight into a light post or cutting back into the straight-through lane.

It bugs me when someone decides they want to switch to the lane I am in but will speed up then cut me off to squeeze in. I have to brake to let them in, meanwhile there is 3 blocks of empty lane behind me. They gained one car length and cannot go any faster than I was while following traffic ahead of me.

For us older ones  
 
This is called a “farmers turn”. And you will get a ticket if caught I assume.  
 
The reason for the name was because of the big farm equipment the farmer when turning basically went into the far lane as there was no way to avoid it.  
 
So when you see someone doing it.  
 
Just say. Idiot why are they doing a Farmers Turn.