Rude drivers is another one. Here in the Midwest we are TERRIBLE drivers. But for the most part we are polite. Honking of car horns is considered extremely rude here. Car horns are only used for emergencies here. It's rare to hear a car horn in most parts of the Midwest, even in the downtown areas. Chicago and Detroit would be exceptions though.
Hey Amanda, funny topic. I could add about a thousand other scenarios to your list.
DavidInIndy, I agree with part of what you said. Lived here in St. Louis most of my life, only been in two car accidents -- one from driving down a hill in ice very slowly, with the brakes on, but gently bumping into a parked car on the side of the road, and the second from a lady not paying attention who slammed into my '71 VW Bug's hood after running a red light. Some of us are terrible drivers, some of us not. The part I agree with you on is the honking thing. That really made me laugh. I never really thought much about when I was taught how to drive, etc., growing up here. Every person who'd ever been my passenger never said a word or made a comment about the way I drove. But then my fiance from Belfast came over to visit many times when we were together, and whenever we'd get stuck behind someone who wasn't moving past a green light within a second or two, he'd reach over from the passenger side and toot my horn, and every single time, without exception, my jaw would drop to the ground and my eyes would bug out at him, and I would try to blink the mortification out of my eyes before I looked in front to see the expression on the face of the person he just honked at. More often than not, during that blink, I pictured an incredibly angry motorist coming towards us with a gun in hand. He just didn't understand how we don't do that here. As a goof, when I went to visit him in Belfast, I would often lean over when he was driving, and honk his horn for no reason at all. People in front of us would always carry along quickly, not quite knowing what they had done wrong to justify a toot of the horn, but acquiescing, none the less. It was too funny.