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OOOOH I came up with another angle.
Riding with someone who cannot drive. This comes in two flavors/two different reasons. The first (and very common) type of "cannot drive" is people who never drive hard. Basically I know riding with them if there is an impending accident they probably will not be able to avoid it, unless panic braking is sufficient (edit: and even then, many don't react quickly enough). Over the years I have had several occasions of something happening like a car suddenly changing lanes into me where I avoided them and passenger saying something like "I can't believe we didn't have a wreck" and I was like "yeah well."
The other kind of relates to the flow (#2) answer in my other response. It's super annoying to ride with people who just can't grasp the flow themselves. Like come up on a line of cars going faster than them, and just hang out in the line, even with gigantic clear other lane. Or same thing but coming up to a light. Take the obvious clear lane? Oh no, better get in line with all these other tards. It's like how can your head be this far up your ass?! One mouthbreathing (now former - oh the narcissist guy previously discussed actually btw) friend was the ABSOLUTE WORST at this and he would get quite uppity when I'd say things like "if you're just going to hang out here we should probably be in the right lane. See all these people going around us looking irritated and like they are saying stuff?" Duuuuuh.
Sitting in a dedicated turn lane with the signal still click-clacking unnecessarily away is often a specialty of type 2 here btw. That and failing to use the washers on an obviously-ready-for-it windshield. Oh and leaving the wipers on or too high for either ended or lightened rain.
I could go on and on clearly but for now the affronted heron has spoken.
I left off people accelerating when you want to pass from my list of peeves as it has faded to usually just kind of an annoyance if not comic relief with the GTI esp once I got the tune (should have done THAT way earlier). At freeway speed I can often just leave it in 6th and let the torque take care of it, but if they try, dropping a couple gears means they better have something pretty hot AND be ready for it. I'm trying to remember anyone that even tried that hard.
But this IS the national sport of Colorado - the most egregious example was someone (probably reflexively) getting on it in a diesel dually pickup, towing a long (not just the 2 side-by-side) horse trailer. On my motorcycle. I was laughing for miles after that one.
My theory about why people do this shit, btw, is they are basically fundamentally unhappy vs fundamentally happy and ok with you also being happy.
Edit: I didn't know what the Small World ride is. It does not sound enjoyable.
Yes, more crud builds up that driving hard/long (more heat) clears out. So both good long highway drives and some hard acceleration both help with various things (crud buildup on valves, fuel accumulation in oil - this dilution happens particularly on cars used only for short trips - etc).
Direct injection adds a unique problem in that intake valves build up carbon since there is no fuel to clean it off - a car that is driven hard more often will have less of an issue though eventually the valves will still need cleaned, while such a car that is babied will have buildup at much lower miles.
Edit: And yeah I looked the "ride" up - that's why I said it doesn't sound enjoyable, not just from context of your quip, which was pretty funny even just with the context. It sounds not just horribly boring, but actually irritating in its fake woke hippie messaging.