Bad driving Habbits. Whats yours?

[brickwall]

Adjusting the clock by sticking me arm through the steering wheel whilst whizzing along

[drum]

I hate travelling at the same speed as the car in front or behind me for long periods on the motorway. If they have overtaken me then they should continue at a higher speed than me and if I overtake them they should not increase their speed to match mine. Freaks me out when the same car is close to me mile after mile.

[dollywobbler]

I get SERIOUSLY angry about people misusing their wipers. This is a bit silly really. It angers me almost as much as foglights. "Your car is suffering - turn those sodding wipers off! It hasn't been raining for ten minutes now!"

[Angrydicky]

I drive one handed quite a lot, particularly on motorways.

[Minimad5]

The only 'habit' i have is downshifting and using the brakes only when needed.
Also bad spelling and grammar are my Forum habits.

[phil_lihp]

I get SERIOUSLY angry about people misusing their wipers. This is a bit silly really. It angers me almost as much as foglights. "Your car is suffering - turn those sodding wipers off! It hasn't been raining for ten minutes now!"

 

This!  I walked past a parked car being loaded up at the side of the road the other day, engine running and owner rummaging in the boot, not a drop of rain in the sky and the wipers on intermittent dragging across the windscreen every 5 seconds with the ear-splitting shriek of dry rubber on glass.  I was almost tempted to say something, the noise was horrible!

[Angrydicky]

Have you ever driven a 4-speed?

When I hired that transporter to collect the Maestro, I was pleased to find it had a five speed gearbox! Decadence. I've never owned a car with more than four gears before.

[robinmasters]

Making it my mission to get back in front of some bellend that has either pushed me out of the way or carved me up - and then inconveniencing them. Usually trapping them behind slow moving traffic.

 

I just laugh at this though. It's not really road rage, as I am not mad - unlike them.

 

I don't always do it and I could knock it on the head, but it amuses me.

 

This. I get in the fast lane and sit next to them behind someone pootling along in the middle lane until a few cars are behind me, then accelerate away so the angry sales rep is stuck there in his metallic grey Audi.

 

It's a bad habit, and makes me as bad as them, but I can't help myself. 

[garethj]

My bad habit is leaving a gap between my car and the car in front.  It must be inexcusably bad because NO OTHER FUCKER DOES IT

[oman5]

I hate travelling at the same speed as the car in front or behind me for long periods on the motorway. If they have overtaken me then they should continue at a higher speed than me and if I overtake them they should not increase their speed to match mine. Freaks me out when the same car is close to me mile after mile.

YES!! People should pick one speed and bloody leave it there if possible.

[Asimo]

Not swerving into the ditch / hedge to make way for the arrogant cow in the discow / gitpanzer X5 / Q5 / toerag / freeloader who simply must get her poisoned dwarves to school without them using their fat little legs, and consequently has to stop, think and manouvre.   Maybe even reverse

[Sigmund Fraud]

I tend to use the engine to naturally slow down, only using the brake when necessary.

 

Same here, lifting off and downshifting is my preferred method of deceleration, probably the result of years and years of owning old shitters with absolutely pathetic brakes.

 

Downshifting is always done with rev-matching, as a result of years and years of owning old shitters with fucked gearbox and engine mounts.