The pet peeve thread

[LaceyLou]

I'll admit to running across the street when the coast is clear. The wait for a walk sign can be up to 2 minutes and if the beg button is broken even longer. Out of curiosity I timed the wait times for crossing Comm Ave and the average was 8 minutes. There's no way I'm waiting that long, especially if it's 10 degrees and snowing. 

My unpopular opinion is that right on red should be illegal in pedestrian heavy areas.

[CMRivdogs]

Meanwhile that same road construction has closed one of the 2 main entrances to the subdivisions around us. It only adds a few more minutes to the trip, just a bit of a pain traveling about 3 miles out of your way to get to the nearest grocery store.

We're still in a bit of a shopping wasteland here. It seems longer, but its about a 15 minute drive to the Food Lion. While they do a good job, the increase in the nearby population takes a toll on availability and staff is constantly restocking. The next closest is another 15 minute drive. A real pain if your just looking for a few items

[oblong]

50 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

I'll admit to running across the street when the coast is clear. The wait for a walk sign can be up to 2 minutes and if the beg button is broken even longer. Out of curiosity I timed the wait times for crossing Comm Ave and the average was 8 minutes. There's no way I'm waiting that long, especially if it's 10 degrees and snowing. 

My unpopular opinion is that right on red should be illegal in pedestrian heavy areas.

I agree on that. Too many people think they have the right of way to turn. Or that they can just sneak thru real quick if you let them go by. No. You wait. I once jumped on a persons hood who tried that. 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

School zones are a great window into people’s tendencies.  Especially those in a neighborhood.  Near us there are clear signs posted on the process.  Enter here. Exit here. No stopping / standing here (this is for buses).  Yet every single day peoole ignore them. They will literally block driveways. 

I cannot begin to tell how nuts it drives me when an emergency vehicle is approaching with sirens blaring, and I see cars in front of me pull to the side—and block driveways or even streets. Hey, nimrod, does it not even dawn on you that the vehicle might need to turn into the driveway or street you’re blocking? Jackass.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I'll admit to running across the street when the coast is clear. The wait for a walk sign can be up to 2 minutes and if the beg button is broken even longer. Out of curiosity I timed the wait times for crossing Comm Ave and the average was 8 minutes. There's no way I'm waiting that long, especially if it's 10 degrees and snowing. 

My unpopular opinion is that right on red should be illegal in pedestrian heavy areas.

I remember when Michigan first allowed right turn on red, early 70s, and my home city of Warren immediately put No Turn On Red signs at literally corner at every traffic light in the city, probably thousands of signs. It was so prevalent and obvious that there were actual news stories about it, and I think I remember them being pressured by the state to stop that nonsense.

[IdahoBert]

When I lived in Indiana merely slowing down at a stop sign and then continuing was referred to as a “California stop.“ I’m not sure why, but I think we just all thought that everything was legal in California for some reason.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

When I lived in Indiana merely slowing down at a stop sign and then continuing was referred to as a “California stop.“ I’m not sure why, but I think we just all thought that everything was legal in California for some reason.

Either that or Californians are notorious in Indiana for being lawless scofflaws.

[CMRivdogs]

I've spent a bit of time in traffic in Indiana. Not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed when it comes to drivers

[IdahoBert]

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Either that or Californians are notorious in Indiana for being lawless scofflaws.

Nobody from California was damn fool enough to come to Indiana that I knew of. No, we were hicks in the sticks, making it all up. Making a reference about “Californians“ was a way of acting like you knew something when you didn’t.