When people are in the left hand lane but are going right on roundabouts. Or! When people turn off a roundabout from the inside lane. Stop it you dicks!
You should see them here. We don't do roundabouts much in the US, so they end up being more dangerous than unmarked intersections. My driving peeve: what's so difficult about negotiating a four-way stop? If you get there first, don't sit there and wave me through, idiot. If it's your turn, go!
Oh, you're definitely from Michigan! I haven't heard that one in ages. Gosh, you've made my day. I've been homesick lately!
I tell you what.... lol I'm originally from Illinois. In my home town, there are just as many stop signs as trees, so everyone there is pretty good at when to go, when to wait. It works nearly flawlessly every day. I've recently moved to Virginia. And dear sweet lord, these people don't know how to stop sign. It's their turn, so they sit.. And wait... And wait.... And wait... Until I finally decide to go, then they start pulling out too! Man, this isn't a competition to see who can pull out faster. Or! Ugh. The town near where I live now is insanely busy. There's a huge shopping mall, so the traffic is always ridiculous, and the stoplights are forever long. So when the light finally turns green, you'd think it'd be common courtesy to speed up a little and get through the light quickly so more people have a chance to make it through. Nope. People just slow-poke right through it like they don't give two shits who's behind them. So then I end up stuck at the same light for fifteen minutes because people don't know how to drive. I'm not typically one to be in a hurry, but damn I hate sitting in traffic.
That's exactly why I'm always surprised when people complain about 'road rage'. In most traffic situations, rage is the only appropriate state of mind.
Driving in NZ is odd. Firstly undertaking is standard practice so you just have people weaving around four lanes of traffic. If you indicate to change lane the person in your outside lane will speed up to close you off. People don't check their mirrors before changing lanes, they just do it and assume the person behind will avoid them. The thing is I've driven in countries where you have three lane roads with people going both ways in the central lane dodging in and out of traffic to avoid each other and small vehicles going the wrong way along either kerb, and I can handle that because everyone just keeps an eye out for these dangers and everyone makes an effort to avoid each other. But this pretence of having an organised, regulated and modern road system and then everyone just driving in a constantly aggressive and selfish manner is tiring.
Michigan tried that decades ago. Three lane rural roads - one lane in each direction with a shared passing lane in the middle. Carnage ensued.
