Timeout for a pet peeve on drivers.

NDavenue 7489 posts Original UHND Member

Posted 8:50 am on Nov 20, 2020

Have you ever seen the people who stop at a red light 20 feet behind the line? WTF?!?! It drives me nuts! Why do they do that? Pull all the way up!!!

I don't believe illusions because too much is for real.

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Timeout for a pet peeve on drivers. NDavenue 8:50am · 11/20/20
- My personal favorite wrdomerson 12:00pm · 11/20/20
  - Amen. Actually saw a trucker do this believe it or not.NT BaronVonZemo 12:28pm · 11/20/20
    - I have seen this, but most of the time the truckers are better about it than most.NT wrdomerson 12:57pm · 11/20/20
    - Many trucks have speed governors on them. Iggle 12:42pm · 11/20/20
      - I'm actually very sympathetic of truckers. They are there for their job. NedoftheHill 6:32pm · 11/20/20
        
        I agree with you. I grit my teeth and sympathetically mumble Iggle 9:00pm · 11/20/20
  - Wow, 55 is a highway limit? what part of the country is this?NT holybull101 12:08pm · 11/20/20
    - Georgia, many of the state highways are 55, some of the less populated stretches up to 65.NT wrdomerson 12:56pm · 11/20/20
  - A sure cause of road rage.NT NDavenue 12:01pm · 11/20/20
- Here's one...I do a lot of Interstate driving and have a car with "Adaptive Cruise Control" that TyroneIrish 11:46am · 11/20/20
  - That bugs me too. Along with the people who speed to get ahead of you.... NDavenue 12:00pm · 11/20/20
    - Amen!...actually, that one is higher up on my list. My first car was a '67 GTO convertible and TyroneIrish 12:16pm · 11/20/20
- I don't understand this either. Or the people who leave four car lengths between them.... Chris94 10:04am · 11/20/20
  - It's maddening.NT NDavenue 10:15am · 11/20/20
    - It's worse when people don't move when the light turns Chris94 11:16am · 11/20/20
      - I'm in a no honk area, but I honk anyway. My wife gets mad at me. NDavenue 11:57am · 11/20/20
- There's actually a good reason for doing this, in some cases. Rooney 10:03am · 11/20/20
  - I think we found our culprit. :). But if that knowledge were being employed........ BaronVonZemo 12:27pm · 11/20/20
    - Good point.NT NDavenue 12:33pm · 11/20/20
  - That is very informative. In my local area that's generally not the case. NDavenue 10:23am · 11/20/20
- That is all the time in my area. Now it’s Q-tip season down here TampaIrish 9:07am · 11/20/20
  - What is Q-tip season?NT NDavenue 9:54am · 11/20/20
    - Another term for snow birds. You drive behind these seniors and they look like Q-tips TampaIrish 9:57am · 11/20/20
      - Lol. Had never heard that term. Funny.NT NDavenue 10:01am · 11/20/20
        
        It's the time of year where the license plates turn blue around here. TampaIrish 10:36am · 11/20/20
- Re: Timeout for a pet peeve on drivers. ELP 9:02am · 11/20/20

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