Ha! So your pet peeve is bikers with pet peeves! Love it!

From Wikipedia:
A pet peeve is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to themselves, to a greater degree than others may find it.

Yes, these things annoy me, but not so much that I am miserable on my ride. More of a, "There's another one," eyes-rolling kind of attitude. I started this thread out of curiousity if other commuters had similar experiences and to see what annoyances others deal with.

Misery loves company.

-Drivers who don't use signals. I've had many scenarios that a light would just be turning green as I'm pulling up, so I'll go for a pass as the cars are still stopped, and sometimes, I'll get a guy with no signal, making a right turn, and then honks while they slam on their breaks. I'll simply say "use your signal next time" and keep pedaling.

-People who will cut you off to make a turn 5 seconds earlier, then slam their breaks in front of you because they're going too fast to make the turn

-People who honk simply when you're on the road. I've had a bus behind me honking and the guy pointing for me to get on the sidewalk when I was in a legal spot and had the right of way. He probably kept honking for about half a minute before he switched lanes and passed me. You can't honk me onto the sidewalk.

I have more, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

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- Pedestrians walking in the bike lane
- Other cyclists biking against traffic

I handle both of these the same. Once I know they've seen me and we've established eye contact, I accelerate as hard as I can and they generally get the message and jump out of the way before I get to them.

Perfectly healthy peds who take the curb cuts. Used a bikeshare to go to the Metro today and had to wait in the crosswalk for a perfectly fine 20-something to walk down the curb so I could go up it to the dock(parked cars blocked it from the street,and I'm not trying to bunny hop one of these tanks). On my old commute route,I used to use crosswalks to go around a sketchy traffic circle(we do not do them right in DC) by AU,and would constantly have kids step in front of me on the lip of the ramp. Not only was it rude,but it was stupid,because every once in a blue moon a car would take the turn at speed and roll over the edge of the ramp's lip. I've no issue with folks who need them using them,but able-bodied people should have no problem with stepped off a curb.

Quite the contrary, mgw4jc. The pet peeves expressed on this forum are altogether inconsequential as far as I’m concerned. I merely offered a valid observation––“food for thought” if you will––via the numerous “pet peeves” conveyed by forum members, which in turn raised a rhetorical question in my mind as to “why they waste precious time complaining about that which they lack the ability to control or alter, but in reality should expect to occur when encountering endlessly imperfect humans.” No answer is necessary, as the topic bears no matter of importance and my dwindling time is too precious to waste on such matters.

But you are correct, misery loves company and that's why so many have shared their pet peeves.

And of course the longboards are on their ipads texting away whilst going the wrong way after all both their hands are free so why not. I saw one come within inches of getting run over by a delivery truck as he blew through a red light without looking. I'm still shocked that truck stopped in time.

[MENTION=297407]Gnosis[/MENTION] Really our list of pet peeves many of which are dangerous acts by others which put our lives and limbs in danger are "like a bunch of 3-year-old 'whiner-pants-McPoopy-butts' who don't constantly get their own way? Cycle midtown Manhattan during rush hour and I guarantee you will no longer "enjoy encountering...the jaywalkers, the side-walkers, the Salmoners, the right-hookers."

It's funny because he's doing the same thing by posting here whining about us whining

My pet peeves:
- Drivers who don't use their headlights when it's dark or nearly dark outside.
- Drivers who apparently see you but pass very close as if they're trying to make a statement.
- Walkers, joggers and sometimes other cyclists who take up the entire path on MUTs.
- Walkers, joggers and sometimes other cyclists who wear earbuds on MUTs, oblivious to their surroundings and others using the trails.