Can we have a traffic/driving vent thread?

I so need this thread, traffic circles, let's talk traffic circles. Which part of yield do people NOT understand. We had one installed last year in our little cow town because one particular intersection is the scene of at least one traffic death a year and usually more than one. So in goes the traffic circle, which I love. However, if I am in the circle, I have the right of way. If you are entering the circle, YOU YIELD. I can't tell you how many times I have slammed on my brakes because these people have no clue what yield means.

Also, since I have started, the second offensive thing other drivers do (never me) is wait forever at 4 ways. If the car across from you is going straight through, then you should go at the same time, not wait until that car is damned near through and then go. The road has a lane for each direction, step on it honey buns. If you choose not to go when the person opposite you goes, then plan to sit there while the other two directions take their turn. It's crazy. It's like they think only one car at a time can go.

Finally, another four way stop incident, if you choose to get in line behind 6 cars turning left, don't get mad at me for using the right hand lane and getting ahead of you. Seriously, there were at least six cars in the left lane, there were no cars in the right lane. So, I got in the right lane and when the car next to me did their left turn, I went straight. There was no oncoming traffic. Suddenly about 2 miles down the road this crazy guy who was in the car that got behind all those cars in the left lane shoots past me, cuts into my lane and slams on his brakes. WTH? I'm not sure exactly how I offended him except that perhaps he was angry that he didn't think of it first? I did nothing illegal, I came to a complete stop. Again, more than one car is allowed to go at the same time. Idiot, I just went around him again and kept going. I don't play games like that on the road.

This thread is timely, I posed the following rant on FB today....and I don't post all that often, so clearly I was peeved! 

Dear Drivers. If you're not comfortable going over 12mph in a 30, maybe you should reconsider whether you still belong behind the wheel of a car....sigh. 

He did have all his paperwork thank goodness, so he had it all in hand.  That would have been a nightmare if he didn't!!  

I bought ours from Amazon as well. I think that it did help warn other drivers.

I think we live in the same county. For some reason I had it in my head you lived somewhere else.

No, either go the speed limit if the road conditions are good or get off the road. Driving slowly in the right lane just messes up everyone that is exiting or entering the freeway/highway. 

Oh, I have another vent, or one I don't really understand. I can be the last car in a pack of cars. Yet, a car will come up on my left side really fast, then zip into the space between me and the car in front of me, and naturally he has to step on his brakes, which means I do too. WHY can't they just drop in behind me?? I never understand that one and it happens quite often.

Rarely an issue.  I lived the city of Columbus for over 20 years.... I feel so free driving here ( and I have been here 16 years).  Hate it when I have to go back into Columbus.

I have so many driving pet peeves, it's ridiculous!

Impatient drivers behind me during school rush hour: Please don't honk your horn and flash your brights at me because I *gasp* let a ten year old cross the street without just plowing them down. I know it cost you all of seven extra seconds for me not to murder a child, but you'll just have to deal with it.

Drivers in the rain: Turn.On.Your.Lights!!! It's for both of our safety.

Validation galore for many of you!

This past weekend karma dealt with people belonging to the race-up-the-narrow-suburban-cul-de-sac crowd and the park-wherever-you-like-crowd by pitting them against each other. Oh, and a moron neighbour got some too, although I didn't see it happen, sadly.

We live on a formerly quiet cul de sac with a circle at the end. The nature reserve has a tiny parking area there so if it is busy plenty of people end up parking further and further up our road. If they park on both sides (despite our side having a solid yellow line) things can get hairy.

Then you mix in the boy racer from the complex nearest the nature reserve who exits the complex and puts his foot down flat. He does this on 100% of his journeys, whether it is a weekday or midnight. Whether the dog club is training in our road or if the road is deserted. Whether there are Mums with prams, joggers, whatever, he makes it his mission to scare them all. I am surprised there hasn't been an incident before this.

On Sunday both sides of the road were full with parked cars. An SUV was going down towards the reserve, slowly, presumably avoiding mirrors, prams, dogs and so on. Boy racer needed to exit his driveway at speed as usual to head up and away from the reserve and he must have been on the 'phone or otherwise not looking what he was doing because he head on hit the SUV and bounced into 2 parked cars, both of them on the yellow line side hahaha. The resulting shouting match moved up the road 50m or so to the large paved area in front of our house and security camera

Incidentally our house was built with 4 garages, we converted two into an office so we really don't mind if 2 or 3 cars park off the road on our paving in front of what are now windows on my husband's hobby area. We hate the ones who park in front of the garage doors though. We appreciate but are irritated by the courteous people who ring the bell to ask if they can park, so we have had signs made. It helps a bit, the regulars know the drill and so do the security patrol people.

The neighbour referred to is from the complex on our right. Their driveway is long and curves left past our pavement garden to join the road. Too many of them tend to be accelerating at this point and they make me cringe. If someone has parked on the yellow line in front of my pavement garden and is hanging out a bit across their driveway, things can again get hairy. This particular guy is also a bit of a speed freak; he thinks I should be a part time traffic warden and prevent people parking in front of my house, to avoid inconvenience to himself in particular and his complex mates in general. He writes a lot of notes and sticks them in the gate. I suspect he was the one motivating for the yellow line, which is quite new! Anyway he hit someone's front end, parked as described that means they were on the yellow line facing the wrong way. Karma bit them both on the same weekend as the boy racer SUV incident. The neighbourhood association guy who came to make a disc from my security camera feed showing part of the first incident and resulting shouting match told me all about it

ETA: should have said light tone is possible only because nobody was injured in either incident. I hope everybody has good insurance- the only person who was totally innocent was the slow moving SUV guy.

Just yesterday another driver wanted to share the same space with me. Coming off the exit ramp, I merge into the right lane. There is a driver in the left lane trying not to miss his exit so he almost plowed right into me. Thank God I saw him in time and was able to back off. I don't know if he ever did see me.