what irks you,car related.

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2006 - 07:48:08 AM »
You guys have listed some good ones.

I have one to add.  For some reason, there are certain people here in KC, and I say certain because I don't want to stereotype or profile  :screwy: , that like to merge into the multi-lane highways (that are 55 mph or more speed limit) doing 45mph or slower, then proceed to change lanes all the way into the "fast lane" (far left).  AND THEY MAINTAIN GOING THEIR 45 MPH OR SLOWER!   :pullinghair:    I just don't understand this behavior!  :pullinghair: :stomp: :swear:

Ok, maybe two.  I hate it when people go slow or stop on a on ramp!  You must get up to highway speed or faster to merge!  :swear:




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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #31 on: August 31, 2006 - 07:51:43 AM »
Here's one I haven't seen mentioned, pulling up to a light and having to listen to someone's stereo with subwoofers that make their car sound like a dinosaur vibrator.

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #32 on: August 31, 2006 - 05:31:26 PM »
New York City:

Cop cars double parking to write parking tickets for expired inspection/registration or the meter being up. Creates killer congestion on top of the, uh, killer congestion.

Delivery trucks double parking on cross town streets and not leaving enough room for traffic to get by. You get halfway down the block, can’t go forward, and can’t back up now that there’s ten cars following behind you honking their horns.

Taxis that make U-turns without warning over the double yellow line. Usually in Queens, under elevated subway lines.

Police roadblocks for revenue generation—oops, I mean safety inspection/seatbelt wearing.

BMW drivers. Definitely the cockiest, at least in NYC. I thought the epitome of arrogance was when a BMW behind me at a cross town light decided to pull up alongside my motorcycle and nose out a little. Like he was going to beat me through the intersection and take the lead in an essentially one lane street. He didn’t. He couldn’t. Duh.

People that make left or right turns from the middle lanes of the one way avenues—often across the front of me when I’m driving straight through.

Unsynchronized traffic lights.

Relying on a highway system built in the 30s in the most populated city in the country. Doesn’t seem as though any city/state leaders expected any growth since then or something. What are they doing with all the tax money and toll collections anyway?

Okay, guess that’s enough.

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2006 - 05:35:12 PM »

BMW drivers. Definitely the thingyiest, at least in NYC.


The thingyiest? Now that made me laugh. Didn't know that c-o-c-k-y or c-o-c-k-i-e-s-t were bad words.

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #34 on: August 31, 2006 - 08:09:26 PM »
Lets go on Revenue generating :roflsmiley: :roflsmiley: :roflsmiley:

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #35 on: August 31, 2006 - 08:57:07 PM »
I don't mind  some good tunes, and I tend to turn up the volume when a good one comes on, but what pisses me off, is when I am in my car, with the windows rolled up, the air conditioner on high, with the radio on, and I can still hear the stereo of the guy that is three cars behind me. I think there should  be a law where if you can hear the other guys stereo in your car with the windows up, you should be allowed to  get out, walk back to his car, pull out a 44, and blow his stereo out of the dash!

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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #36 on: August 31, 2006 - 10:47:02 PM »
I should've chimed into this thread earlier...I hate it when people don't move over when you're trying to merge (or simply making a turn in town), those idiots who only do 55-60 mph in the left lane on a 65 mph highway, oil burners who smell up your vehicle behind them and actually give you an oil film over your paint job (c'mon, my Corolla has 237,800 miles and still doesn't smoke/burn oil), and those idiots who park so close to you in a parking lot you worry they're going to hit the car unless you're there to supervise them opening their POS car's door. (fortunately I have a beater for school cause I think I have like four different paint colors "added" to my white.) :horse:  I always like how you try to park far away from other cars in a lot when you have something special out and yet someone always seems to park their everyday car right next to yours. :villagers:  I also hate all those idiots who drive around a POS car that has a stereo system in it that could actually rattle the car apart. (up here it's all these idiot "gangsta wannabe's" who are just a bunch of losers/rejects from a small town. :icon16: :misbehaving:)
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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #37 on: September 22, 2006 - 09:08:47 AM »
My :2cents:

Tailgaters. Not just when i'm in motion, but waiting at a red light or Stop sign, often a vehicle will advance - sometimes rapidly - to within 6 millimeters of my rear bumper. I took Driver's Ed in 75-76. My teacher, Mr Cannon, told the students "if you pull up behind another vehicle and cannot see the bottom of the rear bumper, you are too close."

Inchers. Alabama is a state that allows "right turn on red". In the last several years, i've noticed more and more instances of folks inching out as far as possible in order to make their turn, or worse, to gauge however many directions - and lanes - of oncoming traffic must be crossed to get to the other side. Thankfully my truck has a loud enough horn to wake these zombies up although occasionally i still have to come to a stop as they unwillingly must inch backwards so's i'm not forced into the lane beside me to go around them. Occasionally i receive the one-finger salute. Right, go stick it where the sun don't shine and start spinning Beany. But first back the :swear: up. Thannnkkkk yyyooouuuuuu. Crud, my Brooklyn side is starting to show :rofl:

Driving slow in the Passing, or fast, lane. Especially on Interstate Highways. Conversely folks on the Interstate who fly up behind a vehicle that is in the process of passing someone correctly and stay on their backside until the pass is completed. Go Speed Racer, Go-oh...there's trouble waiting just aheaddddddd (insert trooper writing ticket smiley here).   

My own lack of a working (brakes, timing, heck even basic bodywork) knowledge about our cars. Although soon i'll know the steps for replacing a fuel tank/sending unit and setting timing on a 67 Coronet :bigsmile:
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Re: what irks you,car related.
« Reply #38 on: September 22, 2006 - 09:35:08 AM »
 :lol: :lol:  :thumbsup:
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