Alright so Once Upon a Time...I was driving into work. Work is about half an hour away from me atm, so I have to leave at 11:30 to arrive by noon to clock in. Generally I can shave off up to ten minutes because its 90% highway and I have a lead foot, but I've been finding some things that just annoy me.


1) Exit Only Lanes

In my honest and humble opinion, exit only lanes are a road-makers way of saying "No I don't really feel like making a partial turn off from the highway, so I am going to just take a lane away and make THAT the exit." No offense to road makers, I think, but I really really despise them. Because they make sense, I suppose, but only really work best in great highway traffic conditions. And anyone with a license knows that is never the case. During rush hour, the last thing I need is to get shoved off onto another highway because a slew of mac trucks was preventing me from moving over safely into another lane. That is so irritating! Also if there happens to be a traffic jam, and you are moving forward bumper to bumper at >30 mph, it sucks to find out that your lane is going to go in another direction. I'm not one of those people who change lanes into the most impossible small places. Anyone who can do that is either insane or is actually God looking down with a bird's eye view of the scene.


2) Slow Pokes/"Grandmas"

Dear everyone out there, if you cannot go above 60 mph on a highway, DO NOT GET IN THE LEFT LANE. The left lane is really called the 'passing lane,' and unless you are going fast enough to actually eventually pass someone going in the right lane, MOVE OVER. Not only do these people piss me off, but those slow pokes that dont get the hint that they are going slower than ketchup. Here's a hint sheeple, if people are passing you in the RIGHT LANE, then you are going TOO SLOW. This isn't Europe, we drive on the right and fast people are on the left, not the other way around. Hold your hands up in the L shaped if you have to.


3) Left Lane Exits

Not ONLY is this an exit only lane (which I hate by the way), but it is on the LEFT SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. WHAT. THE. HELL. Left = Fast. Exit = Slow. Left exit lanes mix the A and the B, shuffling grandmas in with the people who don't have a brake pedal. I don't know about you, but that spells disaster for me.


4) Drifters

There is nothing I love more than going 80 mph on a highway to find someone drifting into my lane. This isn't Nascar, people. We do have turn signals. Use them. Because sooner or later you'll have left-lane-drifter and right-lane-drifter drifting into the same middle lane. I've seen it before, and it is scary as shit because I'm >4 car lengths behind you. And if you get into an accident due to your stupidity, math says that I can't stop my car fast enough to avoid your dumb asses.


5) Slow Mergers

Imagine this: You are driving in the right lane, approx. 60-70 mph and you reach a merge where people are coming into your lane. Oh no! Someone looks like they are even with you so you slow down to let them in and avoid an accident. Look at you, good samaritan! You can sacrifice 5 mph to let them in safely.....but what's this? Douchebag merger is waiting until the end of the lane to move over, and meanwhile you're going 50 mph and dropping fast because you can't slide into the left lane because there's an 18 wheeler in the way and if you speed up, you just closed their merge window. Don't be that douchebag merger, if someone is letting you in, speed your ass up.


That's all I got for now, though I am sure there are others out there than make my blood boil. What sort of driving personalities drive you mad?