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As part of my job as my company's only Shipping Clerk (technically, that makes me the Shipping Manager 
), I have to go to our local post office every day to pick up our mail. Our company is in a light industrial section of town, so we don't get a regular route carrier. And although the entire trip is about 5 miles, round-trip, I see sucky drivers pretty much every day. The route from our building to the post office passes both a DMV and a Welfare office; both of these are guaranteed to provide some suckage every week. Note that the entire route that I drive is Light Industrial - that means semi trucks coming and going.
Some of the "gems":
* The guy who didn't want to wait for the traffic lights, so he would run up in the right-turn lane, slow down enough to check cross-traffic, and then jam across the red light. I managed to see him do this THREE times before I lost sight of him.
* The guy who is going 25 in a 45 zone. Never did figure out what his problem was.
* The people who pull U-turns at random points on the street (often from the RIGHT lane) because they spotted a parking spot OVER THERE. Both the Welfare office and the DMV get these, but the Welfare office is FAR worse for these.
* The people heading for the DMV who don't know how to get into the DMV parking lot, so they STOP in the middle of the street while they figure it out.
* The people who jam from the right-most lane into the left-turn lane to get onto the freeway. The worst of these are the ones who have just turned right onto the street to get to the on-ramp's turn lane. Sure, there's not a lot of distance from the corner to the turn lane, but you'd think they'd wait for there to be a safe opening in traffic, rather than forcing their way in. (For clarification, there's a main street that runs parallel alongside the freeway; to get on the freeway going Eastbound, they have to go under the freeway. The distance from the main street to the on-ramp turn lane is maybe 100 feet.)
* The idiot who zig-zagged through traffic for no real gain, and ended up cutting off the person he swerved around just so he could dive into the fast food parking lot on the right.
* The people who completely ignore the Post Office's "Right Turn Only" signs, thereby causing a minor traffic jam in the Post Office's too-small parking lot.
* The people who pull off "creative" parking jobs in the Post Office's parking lot. It's a one-lane, one-way parking lot; there's no reason for someone to be parked backwards (facing out, and against traffic), but some people do it anyway.
* The people who park on the opposite side of the major street from the DMV, and then play Frogger across the street, dodging traffic rather than walking 40 feet to the traffic light and crosswalk.
* The people who swerve out into ONCOMING TRAFFIC LANES to get around a semi truck that's backing in to its depot (and therefore temporarily blocking the street). Seriously, is 30 seconds of patience going to kill you?
There are so many more... but that's the bulk of the worst offenders. I swear it's a miracle that I haven't been witness to an actual accident yet.
), I have to go to our local post office every day to pick up our mail. Our company is in a light industrial section of town, so we don't get a regular route carrier. And although the entire trip is about 5 miles, round-trip, I see sucky drivers pretty much every day. The route from our building to the post office passes both a DMV and a Welfare office; both of these are guaranteed to provide some suckage every week. Note that the entire route that I drive is Light Industrial - that means semi trucks coming and going. Some of the "gems":
* The guy who didn't want to wait for the traffic lights, so he would run up in the right-turn lane, slow down enough to check cross-traffic, and then jam across the red light. I managed to see him do this THREE times before I lost sight of him.
* The guy who is going 25 in a 45 zone. Never did figure out what his problem was.
* The people who pull U-turns at random points on the street (often from the RIGHT lane) because they spotted a parking spot OVER THERE. Both the Welfare office and the DMV get these, but the Welfare office is FAR worse for these.
* The people heading for the DMV who don't know how to get into the DMV parking lot, so they STOP in the middle of the street while they figure it out.
* The people who jam from the right-most lane into the left-turn lane to get onto the freeway. The worst of these are the ones who have just turned right onto the street to get to the on-ramp's turn lane. Sure, there's not a lot of distance from the corner to the turn lane, but you'd think they'd wait for there to be a safe opening in traffic, rather than forcing their way in. (For clarification, there's a main street that runs parallel alongside the freeway; to get on the freeway going Eastbound, they have to go under the freeway. The distance from the main street to the on-ramp turn lane is maybe 100 feet.)
* The idiot who zig-zagged through traffic for no real gain, and ended up cutting off the person he swerved around just so he could dive into the fast food parking lot on the right.
* The people who completely ignore the Post Office's "Right Turn Only" signs, thereby causing a minor traffic jam in the Post Office's too-small parking lot.
* The people who pull off "creative" parking jobs in the Post Office's parking lot. It's a one-lane, one-way parking lot; there's no reason for someone to be parked backwards (facing out, and against traffic), but some people do it anyway.
* The people who park on the opposite side of the major street from the DMV, and then play Frogger across the street, dodging traffic rather than walking 40 feet to the traffic light and crosswalk.
* The people who swerve out into ONCOMING TRAFFIC LANES to get around a semi truck that's backing in to its depot (and therefore temporarily blocking the street). Seriously, is 30 seconds of patience going to kill you?
There are so many more... but that's the bulk of the worst offenders. I swear it's a miracle that I haven't been witness to an actual accident yet.