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Every week, I chauffeur my mother to our family businesses to pick up deposits, reports, and attend to some regular maintenance. The round trip from home to all our stores and back is roughly 100 miles. This gives me plenty of time to observe the driving tendencies of Houstonians, many of which have inspired me to write this post.

My list of grievances against drivers:

• If you’re on a two lane road, please stop taking it upon yourself to cruise right next to a car in the adjacent lane. This makes it impossible for people to overtake you in your 35 mph “comfort zone.”
• If you’re the first person to approach an intersection with the intention of going straight, don’t be sitting in the right lane. This makes the driver(s) behind you wait until the next green light before making the right turn on red (RTOR). 
• This is a BIG one if you’re a female (or some males, heh) – do NOT spend time putting on makeup in the morning traffic. The world knows you need it, but we don’t want you leaving mile long gaps in front of you as you make a pathetic attempt to beautify yourself. 
• Rubber necking. Enough said. 
• Stop assuming you have the right-of-way over an eighteen-wheeler or Metro bus. They could easily put your turbo minivan out of its misery.
• If you’re driving on the freeway and you’ve just finished that can of Pepsi or a bottle of Ozarka, wait till you get to a quiet road before you throw it out. No, I’m not encouraging that you loiter, but if you’re going to do it, your fellow freeway-goers would appreciate NOT having an aluminum missile come flying at their windshields.

I’ll append more items to this list as I think of them.

Now I ask my readership… what driving habits do you find annoying?

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As a third year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, my posts are intended to educate others and share my experiences from this incredible journey without violating patient privacy at all costs. These blurbs are not to serve as a replacement for recommendations provided by licensed physicians under any circumstance.