Pet Peeve thread...

If a lane is merging, and everyone has been warned about it well in advance, there are two rules I live by:

* If I am in the lane that is ending, I'm going to be one of those jerks who rides the lane divider, preventing everyone from zipping ahead of me to merge. Sorry, but that's the policy. All you assholes who zip up to the end of the lane to merge are the ones who are holding up all the goddamn traffic.

* If I am in the lane that other people are trying to merge into, you're not getting into shit unless you use a turn signal. I'll happily sit there and wait for you to merge ahead of me if you're using your turn signal, but if you don't bother to use it, you can sit and wonder "hmmm, what am I doing wrong?" And you know what? It takes them forever to figure it out!

Glenn:

Should have known better, he was driving a pickup. Worst drivers in the history of the world. Even worse than a broad in a pick up. Even worse than a broad in an SUV putting on make up.

I always try to let ONE person in when I can, but when I don't even get the fucking wave, it makes me want to re-evaluate that policy.

No no no - I swear to you, this is a universal law and I am never wrong:

BEWARE OF DRIVERS WEARING HATS.

You should be concerned whenever someone is wearing a hat in their car. The bigger and stranger the hat, the more worried you should be. There is not a reason in the world someone needs to wear a hat inside their car, and this should be a tip to you that you are dealing with someone with poor decision-making skills. My dad told me this ages ago and he has never been wrong about this. He has proven his wisdom on this issue over the years.

I never let people through that don't have turn signals on. I hate it when people sit at the end of a driveway or business without a signal. If you can't tell me where you are going, then I'm not going to attempt to accomidate you at all.

I also hate the people who zip up ahead on those merges. Like you have more important places to be than me? My policy is that if I was there first, you're waiting. If we've both been waiting pretty close to the same amount, I'll let people in. My favorite is when a person zips by when I am almost to the merge, then I catch them at the point they are forced to merge...they sit there with their signal on and I don't let them in and motion "to the end of the line" for them.

How many fucking "Land Before Time" movies have there been?

And who filmed them?

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Originally Posted by Big Swami

No no no - I swear to you, this is a universal law and I am never wrong:

BEWARE OF DRIVERS WEARING HATS.

You should be concerned whenever someone is wearing a hat in their car. The bigger and stranger the hat, the more worried you should be. There is not a reason in the world someone needs to wear a hat inside their car, and this should be a tip to you that you are dealing with someone with poor decision-making skills. My dad told me this ages ago and he has never been wrong about this. He has proven his wisdom on this issue over the years.

Depending on how the windshield and sun is oriented relative to your face, sometimes a baseball cap can do a world of good, and the Russian ushanka caps are great to keep your ears warm. But on the whole, I agree with you. Hats are a big warning sign of "possible dumbass driver".

Women don't wear hats very often and certainly not in cars.

:dismissed:

No one said "All bad drivers wear hats". They're just making the argument that "All hat wearers are bad drivers".
Kind of like the argument that "All conservatives are not stupid people, but all stupid people are conservatives"