What grinds your gears?

[Pkush]

I was talking more about the heavy traffic/construction situation.
Yeah people changing over at 40 are total idiots.

[Stang70Fastback]

Originally Posted by Pkush

That's the right way to use entrance/merge lanes. FYI.

I usually don't let people in unless they're at the end. Then I let one car in. That is the proper way to use (zipper) and that is the law (DON'T QUOTE ME ON THIS) in some European countries.

That isn't at all what I am referring to. I'm referring to people who were already on the highway who cut over into the merge lane just to pass 20 or so cars and then cut back over at the very end. That is most definitely NOT the right way.

Using both lanes to the merge point IS the right way, and then you alternate merge, but you don't move INTO an entrance/merge lane that you have no right to be in. That's just being a selfish asshole.

People who don't alternate merge properly (zipper merge) can definitely be added to the list of people who grind my gears.

[tahdizzle]

Yup. definetly not legal. :P

[themadscientist]

Originally Posted by rlpaul

I believe the statistic is 1 in 25 are sociopaths. Know 100 people? Four of them are sociopaths. Even in Canada!

The statistics for psycopaths are a little murky though, anywhere from 1 in 75 to 1 in 200. Unlike mainstream TV, most psycopaths aren't necessarily violent.

This is also using the criminal definition of psycopathy, not the clinical definition, which overlaps greatly with sociopathy.

More psycho than socio, but I do my best.

[Toyarzee]

Not a "while driving" issue, but aside from my top pet peeve of people driving purposely slower than all other traffic in the passing lane, which has been mentioned already, I'm beyond amiss by how many people are cool with parking so close to you... literally not on lines or close but actually INSIDE your spot, to the point that you pray that the only way they tried to exit their car was through the trunk or moon roof. Literally watched a woman ding my passenger door, laughed when I confronted her and she got back in her car to drive away.

Is it so hard to correct your first parking attempt?

[themadscientist]

Should have kicked her car.

[Toyarzee]

Admitedly, since she parks in the same parking lot every day at my office building, I've considered attempting worse. However I don't think she would notice. She drives a new challenger, but it's already dented and scratched all over. Still has new plates on it though she's been driving it for over a year. (Read: cVnt)

[Annahra]

I would've filed a police report so her insurance has to fix it and it hopefully increases her cost. Even if it was a very small dent. People like that deserve to be harassed as much as is legally possible.

[Toyarzee]

It is a very small scratch, which is what the cops said when they refused to file the report, hence my entertaining the idea of personal vengeance (though not followed through on so I don't get in trouble over something stupid). But I do wish for the karma machine to rain down upon her...

[Annahra]

Refused to file a report? Damn.

[Atropine]

Originally Posted by Toyarzee

Not a "while driving" issue, but aside from my top pet peeve of people driving purposely slower than all other traffic in the passing lane, which has been mentioned already, I'm beyond amiss by how many people are cool with parking so close to you... literally not on lines or close but actually INSIDE your spot, to the point that you pray that the only way they tried to exit their car was through the trunk or moon roof. Literally watched a woman ding my passenger door, laughed when I confronted her and she got back in her car to drive away.

Is it so hard to correct your first parking attempt?

If there are no cameras on the lot...

Vaseline on her windshield.
*A little dot in middle of windshield
*A lot on actual windshield wipers...
*When she sees the dot...she will hit wipers...

Or you can always just get a rental for a day or 2 and door ding the SHIT out of her car

Or...pour sugar in her gas tank...though that may be a felony in some states...I don't recommend that.

[V_86]

Originally Posted by rlpaul

I believe the statistic is 1 in 25 are sociopaths. Know 100 people? Four of them are sociopaths. Even in Canada!

The statistics for psycopaths are a little murky though, anywhere from 1 in 75 to 1 in 200. Unlike mainstream TV, most psycopaths aren't necessarily violent.

This is also using the criminal definition of psycopathy, not the clinical definition, which overlaps greatly with sociopathy.

Also need to consider traits vs pathology/disordered

[Packofcrows]

long haired dudes who look like girls

[Timmy_Jones]

People who don't understand how to drive in Traffic Circles/Rotaries, although I understand they aren't too common in the rest of the world. If I am in one, and see a NY or NJ plate, I literally back far away from them and try not to get near them.