Behaviors that drive me crazy.

[Tidewater]

I suppose everyone has them. Here is one behavior I really do not appreciate:

Parking in the pick-up zone at the airport. I fly into Dulles a lot. Dulles has a cell phone lot. If you are going to pick a passenger up, once you get near the airport, you can park there until your passenger is standing by outside the airport. Instead, tons of people drive to the passenger pick up area and just park and wait for long periods of time. Then, others have to double park, and then sometimes triple park. This gums up the works and it delays everyone. Rude, illegal, and selfish. I wish people would not do this. Park in the cell lot, wait there, and once your passenger has landed, secured luggage, and is standing by outside the airport, then you can drive forward and pick them up. It takes 2-3 minutes to drive from the cell lot to the passenger pick up area.

 

[Tidewater]

Here is another.
When I was teaching at Virginia Tech, I spent a lot of time on Interstate 81. A lot of tractor trailers shifted their routes from the I-95 corridor to I-81 to save on tolls. I-81 has a lot of eighteen-wheelers now. A lot.
Often times, in a 70 mph zone, one tractor trailer will be going 55 mph (hilly country). Another tractor trailer will be in the left hand driving at 55.0000001 mph. Thus, it takes miles and miles for one tractor trailer to pass the other. In fact, they are going at very nearly the same speed, so why not just drive at the same speed in the right lane?

When I get stuck behind one of these, I get in touch with my inner German: get in the left lane, honking the horn, flashing the lights, letting the driver know he should be in the right lane if going 15 mph under the speed limit.

 

[Bazza]

my inner German: get in the left lane, honking the horn, flashing the lights, letting the driver know he should be in the right lane if going 15 mph under the speed limit.

I was told the way to signal the diver ahead to move over was to put on your left turn signal.....

 

[Tidewater]

I was told the way to signal the diver ahead to move over was to put on your left turn signal.....

They do not respond to such niceties on I-81.

In Germany on the autobahn, if you get in the left lane and you are not driving at 130-160 kmph, you will find a BMW on your tail giving you the German treatment. It works for them. It keeps the order, which is important to Germans.

 

[Bazza]

They do not respond to such niceties on I-81.

In Germany on the autobahn, if you get in the left lane and you are not driving at 130-160 kmph, you will find a BMW on your tail giving you the German treatment. It works for them. It keeps the order, which is important to Germans.

I was referring only to Germany......