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No kidding...I have this weird thing where I just can't stand to have a vehicle driving in front of me. Even if it is going fast enough for me I get annoyed and speed up faster than I really want to go just to get some clear road in front of me. Maybe I've got some new disease...Highway Claustrophobia?

I do the same thing

I hate it when people are on the highway and have no sense of MAINTAINING SPEED!! let alone knowing how to use CRUISE CONTROL!! I'm sick of playing leap frog on the highway with these idiots while I have my cruise control on.

Poeple that use cruise and have it set .0001kph more than the guy beside him so you are stuck behind them for an hour. Then when you flip them off they can't understand why.

I'll come up behing this going 150kph, they're doing 110kph. Obviously I am in somewhat of a hurry It's not a big deal to speed up 2 kph to get past another car.

Yeah, I am another one who can't stand to be stuck in with a bunch of vehicles around me like that. I have to speed up and get away from them, then reset my cruise. Then they slowly, but surely start passing me since I don't cruise more than 5 miles over the speed limit.

Oohh I have to get in on this:

#1: I HATE pricks who pass everyone in a construction zone that is narrowing down to 1 or two lanes as if they have a right to cut in front of everyone else!! I cut in front of the stupid jackasses where possible and make them wait like they should!
My dad did that once to a guy in a nice shiny black Eldorado ... we had a beat up minivan, so my Dad was like "cmon, I'd love to get some of that nice black paint on my bumper buddy!" The guy was forced to slam on the brakes and sit while all the cars behind us passed him.

#2: People who tailgate and swerve around me and other drivers in heavy traffic that's moving slowly. CHILL OUT! I hate being stuck behind slow drivers too, but if you can't do anything about it, then just RELAX!

#3: People who pull out in front of me going 25 when I am doing 50! DO YOU WANT TO GET KILLED?? I usually can stop in time, but there have been several times where I had to swerve, and was very glad that there was no one next to me!

#4: Geriatric drivers who drive 10-15 mph under the speed limit. Maybe they don't realize that the cops will pull you over if you are going too slow!

#5: People who drift back and forth across several lanes on the freeway. If they are coming into my lane I like to pass them REAL CLOSE and then toot my horn and watch them panic and swerve back into their lane. Keep your vehicle under control!

Whew I think thats it for now ...

[censored] that make turns without signalling.

Idiotic SUV drivers that slow down to 1.5mph to make a turn off a road onto another road or into a driveway/parking lot. YOU HAVE 30" TIRES YOU DILDO! THE WHEELS WON'T FALL OFF IF YOU TAKE A TURN AND RIDE OVER AN ASPHALT SEAM AT NORMAL SPEED!

I don't mind it so much when i am driving - at least i can do something about a particular situation. BUT, when i am in the passenger seat...some things that come to mind:

1. My ex mother in law use to leave her car on 3rd (even 2nd) gear on the highway - just not thinking at all - the car won't shift by itself!!%^**$*&#

2. On 2 turn lanes waiting for green- unless the driver absolutely needs to be in a particular lane just after the turn, please freakin pick the lane that is not backed up so much that it will guarrantee we will not make the light and have to wait for the next one!!

3. My boss of 12 years have had a succession of decent cars (Jaguar xj8, xjs; MB 430, CL500 - current; 2 BMW 740's). These are the most underdriven cars in the planet!!!

4. Same as number 2 but just coming up on a multilane stop light. When one or 2 lanes are not backed up, or worst, empty - please don't blindly just stop on the lane that already has 8 cars in front of ya.

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