Tailgaters, people who HAVE to drive at 70 mph outside my house which has a 40 limit, overtakers who then turn off the road a few yards after overtaking, drivers who straddle the left and right halves at a T junction, stopping me from turning left, drivers who go all round the roundabout to go left (previous thread), drivers who go across or on the wrong side of mini roundabouts instead of round them, drivers who take the racing line on blind corners nearly whipping of the wing mirrors, drivers turning right but in sit in the left of the main road instead of nearer the centre line, drivers who treat estate roads as if the white lines don't apply to them, drivers who race each other, foglights on in sunny weather, no lights in poor visibility.
And that's just for starters.
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Tailgaters, people who HAVE to drive at 70 mph outside my house which has a 40 limit, overtakers who then turn off the road a few yards after overtaking, drivers who straddle the left and right halves at a T junction, stopping me from turning left, drivers who go all round the roundabout to go left (previous thread), drivers who go across or on the wrong side of mini roundabouts instead of round them, drivers who take the racing line on blind corners nearly whipping of the wing mirrors, drivers turning right but in sit in the left of the main road instead of nearer the centre line, drivers who treat estate roads as if the white lines don't apply to them, drivers who race each other, foglights on in sunny weather, no lights in poor visibility.
Chillout, man!
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peterb,
The thing is, the instances of the above all get my goat, but I am a very placid driver and all the wrong doings of others never raises my blood pressure one iota or cause me to do stupid things in return. I also acknowledge that no driver is perfect and readily admit to my own mistakes, even to the extent of feeling embarrassed if I forget to indicate or something, when I know the majority of others don't give a monkeys.
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Turning left out of a T-junction. You manage to stop behind the stop line and are looking to the right for a gap in the traffic. A right turner then sticks his nose out into the junction obscuring your view. They can see both ways perfectly well and then they are off, leaving you stuck at the junction. A similar thing happens at islands too.
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I can ignore most things. When I see an example of bad driving I just look down on the culprit from my lofty perch of sanctimoniousness. :)
But someone who knowingly puts the life of me or other road users in danger drives me spare. When I see expensive Mercs racing down the M4 at 100 mph, dodging across lanes, then I get angry. I also get quite scared when I am near these persons.
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Blimey, what impressive background moderation: the silent hand has tidied up my nasty posting mistakes. If only other drivers could silently correct my driving mistakes. That would be perfect.
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Blimey, what impressive background moderation:
You see, we're not only here to delete or add pink fluffy dice comments to your posts. Occasionally Mark and I do the housework as well. DD.
And no, this isn't an invitation to start another moderators ranting session either!
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People who are more important than me. They've never made a mistake when driving, don't thank me for waiting because it's my duty, and are willing to endanger my unimportant life for a few seconds off their vital journeys.
I suppose if they're that important I really shouldn't complain. After all, I wouldn't want to keep The Queen AND David Beckham waiting.
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When I pull in to let a truck through a narrow village road, and not 1, but 2 following BMWs rush through the gap I leave. At least we (trucker and me) know what bank they use, as indicated by simultaneous raising of arms in gesture of despair.
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Oooh, oooh! (Mr Peasley - obscure Hair Bear Bunch reference). This really bugs me! Today, I was faced with a narrow road on a gradient. I was going up and one of my colleagues was wishing to come down whilst passing parked cars. I pulled into a gap, signalled right and flashed him through, only to have the dim-witted bint in the Vectra behind me to take this as a cue to breeze past me! When I caught up with her at the shops at the traffic lights at the top of the road I shouted across the road to her : "Couldn't wait to get your pies then love?" The best bit was, she then walked into the local bakers!
As a bus driver, one of the things that really annoys me is when someone steadfastly refuses to let me out of a bus stop, but then turns left immediately in front of the stop. Or, even worse, turns right therefore blocking my progress. Grrrrrr!!!
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Today, trying to park in town. I find a space (roadside). Go just beyond, intending to reverse in - no traffic behind, wonderful! In to reverse, off we go.
School run 4x4 blonde (lady, I might add) shoots up behind me when I am mid reversing and prevents me completing the manoeuvre. I have to give up and park further down the road.
And her point was...?
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Situation 1.
Dual carriageway, national speed limit, clear both lanes, little traffic. And there it is, usually a super-mini doing 40 in Lane 2 completely oblivious.
What do you do? I'm usually loathed to do this but I give a flash of my lights at a safe distance behind in the true Highway Code sense to show 'I am here'.
And they normally stay put. Jesus wept.
Situation 2.
Moving into the middle lane of the motorway approaching a slip road. BMW or Mercedes comes onto the motorway (I always become very wary of this type of car). Join the motorway by accelerating through Lane 1, usually not indicating join Lane 2 in front of me and I'm looking at the gaps in Lane 3 and start hanging back well away from them.
They are starting to run out of space in Lane 2 as they still accelerating and then join Lane 3 usually in the gap some motorist is using as a safety gap (2 second rule).
Cue brake lights in Lane 3, I'm sat back in Lane 2 and Lane 1 is all over the place.
Alternatively, they get far too close to the car in Lane 2 and then slam on the anchors. It's up to me then to kill my speed to make allowances for them.
Has the BMW/Merc driver indicated once? Don't be silly, everyone knows that indicators are part of the very expensive driver's courtesy pack that no one buys.
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Following what has just been said am I the only large Mercedes driver who uses his indicators everytime and drives courteously?
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There's always an exception to the rule I'm happy to say! I know it's a generalisation. The best Mercs I see driven are usually chauffered though.
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people wot turn left by indicating left and then pulling right into the middel of the rode and then turn left.
peeple wot kant spell
peeple wot use apostrofies
peeple wot write about the use of apostrofyies
flash gits in anything bigger than a fiesta
pepel wot dont use Kapital lettrs
:-)
madf
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Hey, at least going all the way round the roundabout to turn left is legal, and reasonable if you previously didn't have to do it before the planners decided to change (screw up) the number of approach lanes and their markings, resulting in a 350yd queue to turn left (well, a 10 o' clock left) to continue on the through-route!
And surely it gets others' goats a lot less than going in the RH lane on the approach and then barging into the stream using the first exit.
Similarly, on the same roundabout, taking the same (main route) exit but approaching from a feeder BEFORE the one mentioned above, you're supposed to be in the RH lane, which of course also has a queue. But a recent 'move' gaining popularity is to come steaming down the LH lane, clearly marked left-turn ONLY, straight out onto the roundabout without slowing, undertake the legitimate users and barge in to the exit stream from the left. VERY dangerous.
I notice these 'moves' seem particularly prevalent amongst those driving blacked-out and lowered Hondas, or gangsta-style second hand Lexuses.
These same types also love to drive up to the stop line in clearly marked right-turn-only lanes at cross roads, and then proceed straight ahead when the lights change.
My other goat-getter is, as at the top, the road planners themselves. Seems like whenever there's a stretch of road or a junction where traffic flows freely (and yes, without even any drastic speeding nor frequent accidents), they have to reduce the number of lanes, or put chicanes in, or reduce the speed limit (years and years it was 60, now it's suddenly 30! Gosh, how long and big an oversight must that have been??!!)... ...Hey, let's introduce congestion, then introduce a congestion charge...
Arrgh, I'm off for a cuppa now...
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Emergency vehicles and the attitude of other drivers.
There I am pulling in to let said vehicle past but when I try and pull back out the cars behind have already blocked me out. This is compounded by idiots following these emergency vehicles thru the middle of the traffic (strange that they only follow ambulances and fire engines).
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Or how about people who don't even realise that there is an emergency vehicle behind them? A couple of weeks ago, in Bolton, I spotted an ambulance about 7 cars back, so moved into the yellow box that was there to allow right turners coming towards me to cross my path. As well as entering the box I moved right into the second of two lanes as I could see the ambulance was indicating left.
So what do I get? The woman who I moved infront of started to give me hand signals, of the two finger variety, and a car wanting to cross my path did the same. The two of them looked very sheepish when the ambulance finally passed.
Then there are those people who, when an emergency vehicle approaches them, will stop in the most inappropriate place, such as opposite a crossing reservation, on a blind bend, or at the brow of a hill.
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If they're following ambulances they must be lawyers.
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"...I notice these 'moves' seem particularly prevalent amongst those driving blacked-out and lowered Hondas, or gangsta-style second hand Lexuses..."
Tunacat, how do you know that a car is "second hand"?
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Because the car is older than the driver's licence possibly could be?
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how do you know that a car is "second hand"?
Well of course I don't for sure, but I think it's unlikely that the person who paid around £40 grand 10 years ago for a new Lexus LS400 would, at some stage in their period of ownership, have decided that, hey!, it would look so-o-o much better with some appallingly ghastly crass and tasteless modifications...
In fact, if they HAD bought the car new, the poor fools couldn't have picked a better way to MAKE it look second-hand.
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