The "Things I really hate" Thread

[motomaniac]

I hate insurance adjusters and the industry as a whole.  I hate car sales people.  I hate people who drive slow when I am in a hurry, I hate the government making too many rules, I hate people who sue for no reason (you just can't fix stupid), I hate the people who let the people who sue for no reason get away with it, I hate that life is too short, so lets all go racing!

[garraper]

first on the list...corrupt government.. vote everyone in office out... regardless of party...

[skiandclimb]

I hate when I'm cruising in the fast lane and a dumb sh$t comes up behind me and just parks it there. Nevermind that the other lanes are open and they can just go around me.



Actaully I've been in a car with a guy who would do just that. He would come up on a car that is going slow in the fast lane and then just park it behind them. He would then rant about it. I would then point out that the other lanes are wide open and why doesn't he JUST GO AROUND THEM!

...because, technically speaking, the slower driver is obligated to yield to the faster moving vehicle...meaning the slower driver is supposed to move over.  The fast lane (far left) is a passing lane.  Hence, passing on the left, and why passing on the right is illegal. 

Many states have laws now where it is illegal to camp out in the fast lane at all, unless you are making a pass.  Illinois, for one, has been cracking down on this over the past few years.  The whole reason? People get pissed when folks do not move over, and they end up making janky passes to the right, which has lead to some nasty accidents.

The fast lane is not the place to set cruise control and "cruise".  It's there to overtake slower moving traffic.

[gpz11]

Oh, I know all that. I personally don't camp out in the left lane. However, If I'm in the left lane coming up on someone who is camped out there, and there is room in the right lane, I'll just go around them in the right lane.

Not just sit behind them and ranting & raving.

[skiandclimb]

Thats's cool, but makes me wishe we had more of an Autobahn style on our highways....you know- flash the high beams and the dude in front moves over.  Would be nice, and would eliminate many road rage incidents if we were all on the same page.

[NOBODY]

I am convinced that the reason is that in drivers ed, they dont tell you the little things that are so important.  I have also come to the realization that, if you dont move over for people, its not just the way you drive, but more so, the way you think about other people.

I hate the people that stay in the right lane, when you are trying to make a right when there is no right turn lane.  Even though you put on your signal really early, in hopes that they would see it, and move to the next lane.  I hate the GIANT churches that somehow get cops to stop a major street for 20 min. for them to get out of the parking spaces and onto the street, in one swift movement.  I hate when people sit and wait for a parking spot for 10 min., when they could've fuckin walked from the end of the parking lot and back in the time they wasted sitting there.  I hate when people wait for parking spots at the gym, when they are gonna go inside and run 5-10 miles anyways.  I hate when I go to the north side and the gay guys check me out..........oh wait.....I dont mind that.

[Burt Munro]

I miss driving on the Autobahn.  

Except with my first car there - '63 VW Beetle with a top speed of about 65 mph.

Nothing like having the thing floored trying to pass a semi on a hill and seeing the flashing headlights a MILE BEHIND ME of a Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi, etc.  When they're doing 120 mph + the gap closes REALLY quick.  Do you bail on the pass or hope that you calculated correctly and can make it around the semi safely before you get skewered in the butt!

'Come on baby, just a little more!  C'mon, c'mon you can DO IT!'  Classic image of squeezing the crap out of the steering wheel, face 2" from the windshield, right foot smashed 3" THRU the floorboard.  Bouncing up and down in my seat!  'C'mon baby!'

Good times!

[DEVINC]

Adding to the left lane Autobahn thing, I hate it when you are coming up behind people in the left lane on the interstate and you flash your lights and they don't move over. Get the f*** out of my way! Especially when there is room for them to move up a few feet and get in the right lane but I am just far back enough where I can't. This happens too much for me. MOVE MOTHER-FU***R MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I LOVE when 40 people are sitting at the drive through so I can park and be the only one at the counter.  I HATE when the employees decide to devote all their time to the drive through and ignore the counter until five more people walk in.

Again at fast food joints, convenience stores and gas stations, my PET PEEVE is that famous bastardisation of the English language, "Can I help who's next?"  Yeah, you can learn grammar!  Aaaaaaaugh!

[NOBODY]

I miss driving on the Autobahn.  Except with my first car there - '63 VW Beetle with a top speed of about 65 mph.

WOW!! you got a brand new beetle to go 65?

[DEVINC]

I HATE the damn light that I have to take a right at to get on my main road home after work. There are always so many other people that make a line at that light. The other lights take so f-ing long and there is so much traffic oncoming that you can't really make a right. So we have to wait for it to turn green. When it finally does, dumbasses still pull up all slow and some of them stop to look. THE LIGHT IS GREEN!!! GO!!! I don't wanna have to sit through another light cycle at the intersection for eight fucking minutes! I understand to look for safety but damn! All these assholes going to lehigh use that road. Plus the interstate is on that road so all these f-ing idiots going to Naples. I just hate traffic. I am a moderate driver. Not too fast. Not too slow. But shit man.

[Team-ORacing]

We can have pretty bad rainfall down in Florida. Mostly in summer months. Not as bad as snow I'd imagine, but alot of people are idiots in the rain. There are alot of older people though, depnding on where you move in Florida.

Old people that come down in the winter and congest the hell out of all the roads and put us all at risk because they cant see and dont look where they're driving.


Oh yeah, and one more... I hate pieces of shit that knock your bike over while its parked and cause a couple hundred dollars of damage... then pick it back up for you to find later on that day...

.... But the weather is REALLY NICE right now...