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My philosophy is that at a stop light you be required to stare at it, waiting for it to turn green. Once it changes if everyone accelerates at the same time it would elimintate missing a green light when you are only 30 yards away from the light to begin with. I'll give an exception if you are in a Chevy Aveo and behind a full sized truck. Shiz drives me crazy.

As far as the horn goes, I don't get mad if it is a polite honk = less than .5seconds. I does jack me off however when people just lay on it, as if my deafness made me miss when the light turned green. This only happens about once a year due to my philosophy listed above.

I also hate it when people are in the fast lane and even grandma is passing them on the right side...take a hint!

Happy Driving :smash:
 
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I was taking a rental car back to the rental place, sitting at a red light. Some dipshit in front of me takes his foot off the brake and starts creeping back towards me. I hit the horn as the light turns green and the retard thinks I'm honking cuz the light just turned and starts flipping out. Either that, or he was having a seizure......cuz his arms just went flying all over the place and he was flipping me off. fuckin moron.
 
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Here is a short list. I could fill pages with my driving complaints as I am the world's most perfect driver.

1. Failure to use signals.

2. Not turning signals off. If you are on the turnpike in the left lane with your left turn signal flashing I am pretty sure you are not going anywhere.

3. Driving in the left lane and not passing. I've never seen a town worse than Columbus with these idiots.
 
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Thump said:
You are to stop if you can't merge immediately.

Funny how people think a yield sign means they have the right of way when entering a freeway.
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I know what a "Yield" sign means, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Unless traffic is stopped on the freeway, you can merge immediately. I should have said "people who don't accelerate enough to merge into traffic, and are forced to stop at the yield sign."
 
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This is my biggest pet peeve on the road today.

Dublin Road between Hayden Run and Fishinger is 45mph.

Fishinger across the bridge to Riverside is 35mph.

I always get stuck behind some asshole who does 35 in the 45 and then 45-50 in the 35. He holds me up for three miles down the road, and then I can't pass him doing 15 over after the light.

This why I refuse to carry a firearm in public.
 
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FindlayBucks said:
I know what a "Yield" sign means, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Unless traffic is stopped on the freeway, you can merge immediately. I should have said "people who don't accelerate enough to merge into traffic, and are forced to stop at the yield sign."
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Yeah, I'm with you. There's a sign on the 270/161E interchange right now telling people to slow down before they merge. Fuck that. Slowing down makes it harder to merge.
 
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scooter1369 said:
This is my biggest pet peeve on the road today.

Dublin Road between Hayden Run and Fishinger is 45mph.

Fishinger across the bridge to Riverside is 35mph.

I always get stuck behind some asshole who does 35 in the 45 and then 45-50 in the 35. He holds me up for three miles down the road, and then I can't pass him doing 15 over after the light.

This why I refuse to carry a firearm in public.
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Around here you get a lot of people who do 45. Everywhere. 45 in a 25, 45 in a 55, they don't care.
 
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vrbryant said:
Yeah, I'm with you. There's a sign on the 270/161E interchange right now telling people to slow down before they merge. Fuck that. Slowing down makes it harder to merge.
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In Chicago they used to have a bunch of traffic lights in the middle of the on-ramps. You're rolling down the ramp, looking to see where you can best merge in, and the light turns red, indicating that you're supposed to stop. Then you only have half of a ramp (and some of them aren't very long) in order to merge with cars that are going a lot faster than you. And the timing of the light turning green never really helps the merging process.

There should be a special place in Hell for the person that decided those traffic lights were a good idea. I always ignored them, but had to be careful not to ram into somebody ahead of me on the ramp that actually stopped at a red light. I'm not sure how many of these lights are still around, I haven't noticed them in a while.
 
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I would like to inject into this gripe fest.

Morons who drive constantly with thier fog lights on, I have fog lights on my truck. They have been on probably twice in the last 6 years I have had the truck. This goes especially to the folks with Jeep and those big ass lights on those. I used to have a jeep and they are entirely too bright to leave on all the time (there is even a warning in the owners manual that tell you not to have them on except in inclimate wheather because they could blind other motorists).
 
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BB73 said:
In Chicago they used to have a bunch of traffic lights in the middle of the on-ramps. You're rolling down the ramp, looking to see where you can best merge in, and the light turns red, indicating that you're supposed to stop. Then you only have half of a ramp (and some of them aren't very long) in order to merge with cars that are going a lot faster than you. And the timing of the light turning green never really helps the merging process.

There should be a special place in Hell for the person that decided those traffic lights were a good idea. I always ignored them, but had to be careful not to ram into somebody ahead of me on the ramp that actually stopped at a red light. I'm not sure how many of these lights are still around, I haven't noticed them in a while.
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Right next to the guy who invented the CD wrapper and the guy who wrote Hail to the Fuckers
 
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All this reminds me of why I hate to drive in columbus. I'm a small-town girl.

Biggest pet peeve - getting stuck behind a shiny garage-kept cadillac out for its weekly sunday walk going 35 mph on 309 (55 mph speed limit) and being in the curvy, hilly section between Marion and Mansfield where you can't pass.

Used to drive back and to college on that road on the weekends, and the above happened almost EVERY time.

And then there's the swerving Semi that caused me to get a speeding ticket... but that's another story :biggrin:

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Morons who drive constantly with thier fog lights on
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I was told by my insurance agent *TO* leave my fog lights on all the time. I drive a Monte Carlo so they're not "in your face" like the truck lights are, but they said it helps to see a dark car in the distance.
 
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We have problems with people parking their cars in the right lane and putting their hazard lights on in front of stores because they are too fucking lazy to find a parking spot -- so they just park IN THE LANE! (usually in front of liquor stores) Unbelievable. Then everyone driving in that lane has to merge over, creating a huge clusterfuck.

This is what Dunkin Donuts does to society -- it creates lazy fatasses. :mad1:
 
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