Bad habits

[TooTechie]

What bad habits have you found yourself developing as a driver?

I had wicked pain in my hands this weekend then monday morning I realized it was because I had started turning the steering wheel by hooking my thumbs in the steering wheel. I've since stopped but what bad habits have you caught?

 

[HomeDelivery]

pee bottles, but i'll use detergent bottles ~ wide mouth & there's no confusion of trying to drink "apple juice"

 

[menotyou]

pee bottles, but i'll use detergent bottles ~ wide mouth & there's no confusion of trying to drink "apple juice"

To anyone who feels the need to do this, here's a tip. Don't use a Mountain Dew bottle.

 

[soberups]

Im a chronic offender when it comes to pulling the DIAD out at stop lights or even when going slowly.

 

[Just Lurking]

To anyone who feels the need to do this, here's a tip. Don't use a Mountain Dew bottle.

Or lime gatorade.

 

[averageguy]

Delivering grounds with my air, sometimes coming extremely close to having some late because of it (like seconds).. Very bad habit but the way my route is set up I'd spend 30 mins fighting traffic to get back to some of those stops..

 

[kingOFchester]

Picking hard clumps of dried snot and dirt out of my nose at a stop light.

 

[Shifting Contents]

Delivering grounds with my air, sometimes coming extremely close to having some late because of it (like seconds).. Very bad habit but the way my route is set up I'd spend 30 mins fighting traffic to get back to some of those stops..

Same here. Majority of my air falls in a block of 10 stops that I can get done in half the time it would take me if I waited till the afternoon thanks to lunch rush traffic. The last air stop usually the same place everyday and the lady recently asked me. . and I quote "Why do you friend**ing run in here like you are motherf******* bat man or something? Slow down dude."

 

[bbsam]

Picking hard clumps of dried snot and dirt out of my nose at a stop light.

why all the words when "boogers" will do. Boogers. Lol. That's such a cool word. Boogers.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Delivering out of the driver's side door rather than using the passenger side door and walking around the back of the package car.

 

[Johney]

pee bottles, but i'll use detergent bottles ~ wide mouth & there's no confusion of trying to drink "apple juice"

Anyone that does this should have their head examined. There is no job in this world or salary paid that requires me to piss in a bottle.....EVER! I don't give a $#!+ how far I am from a toilet.

 

[kingOFchester]

why all the words when "boogers" will do. Boogers. Lol. That's such a cool word. Boogers.

Painting with words.

 

[barnyard]

I hold the steering wheel at 4 and 8. Occasionally, I catch myself slouching, but by holding the wheel at 4 and 8, it happens far less frequently.

 

[Richard Harrow]

I use the shifter as an arm-rest. I refused a new automatic because of this.

 

[barnyard]

I am way too tall to do that. I would have a ridiculous spinal curve if I tried.

 

[Re-Raise]

I don't give a $#!+ how far I am from a toilet.

I have to be within a couple of feet , or I get some on the floor.

 

[barnyard]

I have to be within a couple of feet , or I get some on the floor.

My range is not what it was when I was 14.

 

[serenity now]

Im a chronic offender when it comes to pulling the DIAD out at stop lights or even when going slowly.

who doesn't ? oh i forgot, wait for it.................

 

[serenity now]

I use the shifter as an arm-rest. I refused a new automatic because of this.

got dinged on my last ride-along for that very thing * still doing it

 

[Ms.PacMan]

With the newer package cars and the wide cab I couldn't resist loading the cart in the truck and taking the loaded 2 wheeler down the stairs or even out of the back of the truck. It's begun to wear on my shoulders though and I resolved to quit doing that last year. But I really HATE moving multiple heavy pkgs. to the stairwell or back of the truck first.