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Driving: In Buffalo, generally other drivers will turn on their turn signal to let you know that their changing lanes. The problem is they don't give anyone time to react or give any room to do this maneuver. They'll nearly clip your front or back of your vehicle performing their lane changes.


Another changing lanes maneuver that seems to be popular with morons in Buffalo. If there's 2 lanes of traffic going one way and another 2 lanes of traffic going in the opposite direction, the person behind you will pass you and then make a right hand turn slowing me down because they couldn't wait 10 to 20 seconds. I've learned when someone is behind me and they pass me to get in front of me to get in the passing lane ASAP or to pass them back before they take a right hand turn.


Tailgating. If one can't see the tires of the vehicle in front of you, you're too close. It's unsafe to tailgate and I'm NOT driving faster because the tailgater can't leave their home or wherever location in a timely manner. I can't afford a speeding ticket. I do find that turning on the windshield wiper fluid does sometimes help deter tailgaters but not always.


No one in Buffalo knows who has the right away either. They don't know that person going straight at a stop light always has the right away over the person taking a left.


Idiots who dangle their limbs out of the side of their vehicles. I always told my kids when they were young that fingers, hands , toes and feet and faces belong inside the ride at all times. This is a good way to have a limb amputated if one is ever in an accident.


As a Caregiver:

People who try to force feed me during my fasting times. People who get upset that I don't eat their gluten, high in sugar and high carb contaminated food. And people who talk about food all the time. I wish I had a real life filter to block these topics like on DU. It's super annoying to me.


Going into other people's homes and seeing a dirty silverware tray with clean silverware in it. 0.0


Much older people who walk in the store bent over on their shopping cart. I always want to tell them they're going to regret that one day and to encourage them to stand up straight. I don't say a word about it but I really, really want to.


In general:

People who whine about non-imperative topics like commercials, songs and movies. There's dials/buttons on the television remote and vehicle radio that can be turned off/on, dials/buttons that change channels and dials/buttons that change the volume. There are people here on DU that have serious concerns about their chronic health and chronic finances and worry about if their going to make it and how their going to make it. And to have other members who whine about stupid shit that can be adjusted or controlled just completely blows my mind.


I'm sure that I have more pet peeves that I could mention but I need to get chores done today.