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Welcome to my list of annoying habits while driving and what I think raises the level of road rage on our roads today. I was going to put this in a separate blogs but why don’t I just put them all down.

- I’ll start off with drivers on the motorway who stay in the middle and fast lane even though they are not overtaking and you can not see another car in the slow lane for miles. I am so tempted to undertake these guys but most of the time I find myself moving around them by moving from the 1st lane to the 3rd then back to the first, look back and see if they got the message but they haven’t.
- Continuing from that we have lorry drivers who try to overtake in the fast lane of a dual carriageway but are in fact going 1mph faster then the other lorry they are overtaken. Even worse in wet weather as they chuck up so much water and crap into your windscreen that you can no longer see the road.
- People who do not stick to one speed. You know who you are! One minute you are going 70 the next you are going 55 then back up to 80mph. Who the fuck are these people? Why does anyone need to change speed unless they have to like there is another vehicle in front or a cat’s on the road?
- Tailgaters, A double one now is people who sit 2 inches from your bumper when you have a car in front of you so you can not go any faster and same again but without the car but when you move over to let them pass they only trickle past you then pull over in front of you doing the same speed. Why?
- Mr BMW drivers, you know you hate them! 90% of them don’t care you are in the road and I honestly believe that they can no longer see you are in fact there. They pull out in front of you, never thank you when you let them out, cut you up and all in all think they are better then you. You can also add in Mr Business and Mr Taxi man into this category
- Nervous drivers, you know the ones who take an age to pull out from a junction or wait at a roundabout for ages until they think it’s 100% safe to pull out.
- Drivers who signal you out without actually telling you. These people really do my head in, I have seen loads of them around, most people will flash their lights or make a hand gesture but every now and then some twat will just slow down and stare at you or even worse look at you so you think they are letting you out then drive on.
- Mr and Mrs Caution! The Slow drivers! I am all for driving at the designated speed but every now and then you normally find someone (I don’t want to name names but normally elderly drivers who need a cushion to see over the dashboard) who potter around 10 mph under the speed limit. These people need to be stopped! These people also break when there is no one in front of them!
- Boy Racers, now I don’t have so much beef with these guys as most of them can drive 10 times better then the average little old lady and half the time they are gone before you get time to get angry about the fact they have just overtaken you at twice your speed. But these drivers are annoying on your everyday roads because they tend to drive without a destination and you often see them at schools and pubs and parks again and again and again as they drive around in circles. They also tend to speed up while passing said spot!
- Girl Racer, sounds the same as the boy racers but tend to have a car packed with gobby girls who scream at you as they drive past wheel spinning out of control. These women (sorry girls) will also be on the phone and smoking at the same time.
- Mr and Mrs Rush, both come under the same category as they both are doing things while driving. Multi tasking I hear you cry and yes that is what they are doing, I have seen these people read papers, look at maps, chat on their phones, apply lipstick and makeup in the mirror in their sun visors or just in the rear view mirror, eating food and writing things down in a diary or fax!

I will leave you know with some self explanatory ones

- Drivers who take up more then one parking spot (says it all really)
- Drivers who leave their trolleys next to your car, 10x worse if it’s a sunny day
- Drivers who take an age to reverse park
- Drivers who lane hop
- Drivers who leave their fog lamps on

Dangerous Drivers

- Drivers who have their boot wide open with items loosely shoved in the back
- Motorbike drivers who speed in-between traffic
- Drivers who brake late
- Drivers with parts hanging off their cars
- Lorry drivers who are smoking while carrying petrol

Now If you have any others I can comment on please do tell me, I am sure I have left loads out.