Bad driving Habbits. Whats yours?

[sutty2006]

So on my way into work this morning I got thinking. (pushing the boat out on a friday is dangerous water!), but most of the time I tend to drive a manual car without using the clutch.. unless its for pulling off from stationary or I get bored of trying to "grind" the gear in when I cant find the right revs.

 

So what are your bad driving habbits? (not including 70mph in 30 zones, running down stray children or cutting infront of milkfloats)

 

 

[Rocket88]

Buying bloody cars...........

[loserone]

Whenever I'm behind the wheel of a car where the indicator stalk is on the left hand side, I end up using my right hand to reach through the steering wheel to indicate.

 

I have no idea where I got this from, or why.

[sutty2006]

Buying bloody cars...........

 

Thats not a habbit, thats an adiction.......ha ha.... as I too suffer from the same!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Better than being adicted to crack I supose.

[catsinthewelder]

If I'm not concentrating and the road turns 90 degrees I find myself putting the indicator on.  It annoys me but rarely others as it's usually late enough at night that there's nothing else on the road.

[warren t claim]

If a turning is so gentle that it doesn't self cancel the indicators I have to exaggerate my steering movements until it clicks the indicator off. 

[chaseracer]

I'm the opposite.

 

30 years of driving older Citroens mean that I self-cancel the indicators in everything through force of habit.

[rml2345]

If I'm not concentrating and the road turns 90 degrees I find myself putting the indicator on.  It annoys me but rarely others as it's usually late enough at night that there's nothing else on the road.

 

I do this too... It must be an automatic reflex or something. I have the habit of hovering my foot above the clutch whenever the traffic slows incase I have to brake hard and accidentally stall the car. It's like a pathological fear of stalling as I used to do it quite a lot when learning and it's a ballache. 

[Jim Bell]

I coast whenever possible.

 

Bad habbit but good for the mpgs.

[Lankytim]

Pulse and coast... pulse and coast..... Maximise those MPGS!

 

My bad habit is buying hopeless old crocks and losing a fortune on them, that and sleep driving.

[fordperv]

Mr Sutton you forgot chasing, abusing and just showing your hatred for the Toyota prius while out and about haha

[sutty2006]

Mr Sutton you forgot chasing, abusing and just showing your hatred for the Toyota prius while out and about haha

 

Thats not a bad habbit though.... thats just pure evil hatred to the smug asshat wearing tree hugging hippy tarts that they are.

 

you know, my Manta has been off the road for weeks.... I tempory fixed the wires to the temp switch and went for a blast round the block, only to get stuck behind a black .......... ggrrrrr.......aaarrrrgggghhh........ prius.

 

His eyes in the rear view mirror didnt like seeing a cloud of tyre smoke behind him, nor my green - hulk like - face through the windscreen!

 

Enough about the Prius, carry on folks, nothing to see here

[fordperv]

That is just sods law haha

 

My worst habit has to be not changing down a gear on a steep hill it's kind of a fun game making it to the top in the highest gear possible, that and pulling off in second or third gear as well

[Partridge]

I have no bad habits. I am perfect.

[fordperv]

I have no bad habits. I am perfect.

You draw cocks on things

[wuvvum]

For some reason, when I had the Mazda 121 (Pride shape) as my daily, I always used to do clutchless gear changes.  No idea why, never done it on any other car before or since (unless the clutch was knackered of course).

[Cavcraft]

I like sticking to the speed limits on nearly all roads, and one in particular. It just annoys me when dickheads come zooming up behind me, as if driving too close is going to make me speed up. I just go even slower then to annoy them a bit more. I should just carry on and ignore them, it's not worth the agro but I just can't help myself. 

Also, I rarely let people out of side roads. The exception to this is if the person behind me is driving too close, then I just let everyone possible out in front of me to annoy them.

If I don't like the look of someone's car or face then they can F.R.O too, and I sometimes speed up when people are overtaking me because I've decided I don't like them or their car.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Write 50 times

I must be more patient at roundabouts

I must be more patient at roundabouts

I must be more...

[garbaldy]

The self pitying traveller believes that they should have a perfect journey every day, while the professionals know that the roads teeter continually on the verge of chaos and it is an achievement for which we should be grateful that anybody gets anywhere ever.

 

I drive to fast when alone in a vehicle that's my bad habit

[barefoot]

steering with just one hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And wanking

[stuboy]

getting pissed off when other drivers stop at empty junctions and roundabouts

[phil_lihp]

Despite always telling myself I wouldn't, getting far too reliant on the rear parking sensors in my C'eed and other moderns I drive regularly.  I don't need them and try to ignore them and continue to park using my own judgement, then find myself reversing the Rover in a tight space and waiting to hear the bip bip bipbipbiBIIIIIIIP which of course never comes.  Still, it does have a towbar which is kind of the same thing.

[SambaS]

If a turning is so gentle that it doesn't self cancel the indicators I have to exaggerate my steering movements until it clicks the indicator off. 

Did this in my brothers fairly new Vectra... I'll say this: flicking the steering wheel to turn the indicators off in a Polonez = Safe.

 

Flicking the steering wheel to the same degree in a new Vectra on the motorway =  a FUCKING SCARY mistake I will never repeat.

[Junkman]

I meticulously maintain lane discipline. Being a bloody immigrant, I just can't bring myself toward not doing that. Now, maintaining lane discipline is a concept completely unheard of in Britain, and by doing so, I often cause severe confusion among native motorists.

 

I also stubbornly drive on the left side. I read the Highway Code and it is emphasised in there, that this is what should be done in Britain. However, it is in stark contrast to what British motorists do, since they never drive on the left side, nor the right side, but in the middle of the road.

 

I really should adjust. I just can't. It's in my genes. All I can do is apologise.

[Rocket88]

 

steering with just one hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And wanking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What, with the same hand?

 

[Jim Bell]

I need both hands to wank.

 

Just sayin.

[Des]

You need to steer with your knee, unencumbered to hold your magnifier at the ideal focal length.

[Jim Bell]

Microscope. And tweasers.

[Tetleysmooth]

Intolerance of car/van drivers when I'm driving my lorry.

 

After the week I've had on the road, it's no wonder.

 

An awful lot of people seem to have dangerous driving habits now, rather than bad ones.

 

I'm looking forward to to my last ever shift driving lorries and handing my keys back for the final time.

[Partridge]

I've thought of one: I yank the handbrake on way too hard. This is because I don't trust the handbrake in any of my cars, which is a self fulfilling prophecy because I probably stretch the cable. Ah well. Not as bad as wank-and-drive.

I need both hands to wank.

Just sayin.

Steer with your cock then and change gear with your balls.