For my entire life I have always had the pleasure of living within a few miles of New York City, and while the train is a much easier way of commuting around the city, I often find myself driving through construction, tunnels, and over bridges to get to the city that never sleeps, and every time I do that drive I regret it. Here’s why:

1. People will yell, give you the finger, and brake check you out of nowhere.

New Yorkers are a species of their own, and they also have more attitude than twenty sassy people combined.

2. It’s not a rare occasion to see someone peeing on the side of the highway while in traffic.

I’ve seen a person relieve themselves in the Lincoln Tunnel. When you’re in traffic in NYC, best believe you won’t be moving for a few hours, so when you have to go you have to go.

3. That’s the breakdown lane, not a lane for you to weave through the traffic.

Another one of my favorite things New York drivers do (and I may be guilty of it every once in a while), but it’s still annoying and incredibly dangerous.

4. There’s an ambulance behind me and we’re not moving, I really hope that person isn’t dying.

I always say a prayer whenever I see an ambulance trying to get through thousands of cars on the highway moving a whole 2mph, if we’re lucky.

5. Why are the tolls so expensive?!

It costs $14 to go over the George Washington Bridge to get into New York. Why?!

6. We drive so fast everywhere else because we can’t drive fast in the city.

Not because we don’t want to drive fast, but because we physically are incapable of doing so within city limits.

7. It’s illegal to honk your cars horn, but you don’t care.

This is still an incredibly dumb law to me, but whatever. An unnecessary honk results in a $350 citation in NYC.

8. Why are you going 55mph in the passing lane?

Nine times out of ten, this is also a taxi or limo who is a third lane poacher and makes everyone else go around him.

9. The road construction causes more accidents than it will help when the roads completed.

People are always slamming on their brakes when the road suddenly splits, only to reconvene in a half mile, but people still get confused and run into the cement walls as a result.

10. I don’t know why I decided to drive today.

After each time I drive through or to the city, I always question why.

At the end of the day though, you love NYC and the driving is what makes New Yorkers, New Yorkers.