Driving... my thoughts

Mondays. I really don't like Mondays. 
They make me ill many times - physically and emotionally, and mentally.
It starts with the alarm clock telling me that the weekend is over. 
And it never gets better.
Having to drive my daughter to school, and myself to work, I have to deal with drivers.

So I have compiled a small list of my driving Pet Peeves

I encounter, on a regular basis, drivers who:

Do no put on headlights in the early AM, cloudy days, or when the sun is setting (the lights are for ME to see YOU, I dont really care if you don't need lights to see where you are driving);
Think they can text and drive, but lack the attention span to do both, often weaving between lanes, changing lanes from a turn lane to a travel lane without looking to see that a car may already be in said travel lane;
Talk on their cell phones and drive, but lack the attention to do both, again, weaving and changing lanes without looking;
Change lanes without using a blinker, because they are distracted or because they feel they own the road;
Turn on to a side road without using a blinker (see reasons above);
Stop in the middle of the road for no reason (again, no blinker);
Roll through a stop sign (if no car is seen, safe to proceed, right?);
Speed through a yield sign (because no car is seen);
Speed through school zones (no cops, no radar, who cares, right?);
Blantantly run a redlight  (dramatic increase in speed);
Speed through a yellow light when there is plenty of time to stop;
Turn on a red light in to oncoming traffic (my personal favorite: someone from across the way is making a left turn on green arrow);
Turn from a side road in front of oncoming traffic (and do not get up to speed in front of said traffic);
Go slower than the posted speed limit for no apparent reason (Sunday drivers?);
Use a pause-and-turn lane for their own personally travel lane to get around a long line of traffic;
Same people who use the P-n-T lane have to dart back in to traffic because... someone else is actually using that middle lane to... Pause and Turn!!
Same people who use the P-n-T lane make it to a traffic signal only to dart back in to the normal travel lane, having sped past a long line of cars heading in the same direction;
Pass a semi on the highway only to squeeze in between said semi and a car slowing down, causing the semi to slam on brakes, or worse, go off the side of the road (which I have personally witnessed).

Actually, I have witnessed all the above... some several times a day.

I understand that not all people are perfect, and not all people can be a perfect driver.  I'm not asking for perfection, just that people pay attention.

Yes, I have many pet peeves when it comes to driving.  There are many people that get glares, imagined (and not so imagined) hand gestures, and at least once a day, someone will get the "Idiot of the Day" award. This is the person I deem to be the stupidest driver of the day because of a really stupid driving maneuver.

I say, if you can't talk on the phone, text, smoke, eat and drive a stick shift car - get off the road.  Save the rest of us.  And bring our insurance rates back down.

That is my rant for today.

Until next time,