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I'd guess he may well have dropped his tea/coffee/beer/mobile/cigarrettes/ipod/playstation/videoplayer, or his girlfriend was under the dashboard on his side.
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Van driver obviously has a problem - thnakfully he's not doing a job for me!. Despite this I wouldn't advocate planning to join the outside lane of a dual carriageway straight from the sliproad.
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Van driver obviously has a problem - thnakfully he's not doing a job for me!. Despite this I wouldn't advocate planning to join the outside lane of a dual carriageway straight from the sliproad.
I appreciate what you're saying and I am well aware of what 'center lane missiles' can be like. Think of my maneuver more as a very brief pause in lane 1, then into lane 2. Perfectly safe and reasonable provided your relative speeds, distances from other vehicles and lanes are clear. I had the visibility over my shoulder, confirmed with multiple mirror checks to make this a safe and smooth action. Or not, as the van driver made like he was going to cut me off...hard to plan for that though.
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"or his girlfriend was under the dashboard on his side."
Thus explaining the hand signal!
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This reminds me of the moron I posted about a few months ago on the A217; worth repeating!
I was heading south on the A217 to access the M25 towards Kent when I came up to a metallic purple new shape VW Beetle that was doing 30 [ the road is a 40 ]. Being close to the junction, only a couple of miles, and with the outside lane being busy, I decided not to overtake and stayed behind him doing 30.
Upon reaching the junction, the Beetle went down the slip road also aiming for the M25, but still doing 30.
No problem - it;'s a long slip and it's two lanes, I'm about 30 feet behind the Beetle, so I signal right to overtake it. After about 10 seconds, I pull out and accelerate.
What happens next?
Yes - the Beetle pulls into the right hand lane without indicating, still doing 30, and I have to slam on the anchors - narrowly avoided ramming the twit, and the car behind me narrowly avoided ramming me as well.
Meanwhile, the Beetle continues at 30mph along the right hand lane of the slip, now with a queue of about a dozen cars behind it. Well, darned if I'm going to risk joining the M25 at 30mph when the traffic is light and very fast moving, so I signal left, move into the left hand lane and pass the Beetle that way. As does the rest of the queue. A bit naughty, yes, but the only safe option open to everyone in the circumstances.
When I reach the point of joining the M25 I look in the mirrors and the Beetle is now some way behind, still in the right hand lane and still only doing 30...
Unbelievable isn't it?!
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>>Unbelievable isn't it?!
No, it isn't. It's entirely within the extremes of normal driving.
Be careful out there.
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Remember! not all Dipsticks are in the engine, and some of the biggest nuts hold on the wheel!.
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Had a similar one myself with a driver who thought I was racing him from some traffic lights. After I'd 'won' he overtook me doing 60 in a 40 limit
I had an amusing similar one once. I was running late going home from work, got onto the start of a dual carriageway and floored it in 2nd, 3rd, 4th gear to get up to speed as quick as I could. In the first few hundred yards I overtook a young baseball-capped lad in a Corsa without thinking about it (gave him plenty of room and flew past him) and was on my way.
But then Corsa boy eventually caught up and overtook me while I was maintaining a steady cruise, then slowed to my speed 100 yards ahead of me. I sensed he might have been staring at me when he passed but I paid no attention.
After a few miles we reached a slip road, he indicated to pull off the carriageway, but then he needlessly slowed down, forcing me to overtake him to maintain my speed. As he went off up the slip road I noticed that he had adopted the ridiculous posture of slumping his shoulder and head against the drivers side window, not looking at me, but with his right hand in a permanent V-sign at me! It made me laugh out loud!
I think the fact that he had been comprehensively out-accelerated by a 30-odd year old bloke in £150-worth of Saab 9000 (my temporary car at the time), must have been some sort of serious affront to him. He may have thought I had beat him to show him up, but I was just driving home..
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You have to remember that the only action these types see is the stuff that goes on in their heads when they look at the Max Power "babes" as they thumb through their bible. In their world, you don't overtake.... you challenge someone's ego. Apparently it's all about respeck innit? And "face".
God I'd hate to be them. : )
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I have to admit I enjoy passing the boy racers who have reclined the seat so far back that their head is behind the door frame... twits.
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Last weekend I saw a group of young men in an oldish Feista try 2 or 3 times at diffrent lights 'race' a Bmw 3 Series away from them.
How sad can you get? Will the driver really brag about beating a BMW off the lights in the pub?
On the other hand if the BMW a 3 Series 'M' then prehapps they wanted to get a listen of the BMW's engine going at full tilt?
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I must admit to egging a new suburu on at the lights the other day as i was saying to the Mrs, "just listen to him, when he floors it" as you can imaging not too impressed and i was told to put the window up, suburu went for it though and sounded great!! I still reckon my diesel would have beet him, just didn't want to aggravate him!!! (obviusly not!!)
Jon
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."....try 2 or 3 times at different lights 'race' a BMW 3 Series away from them"
Something that has been done since time in memorial.........I did it in me Moggie 1000.
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Nods:
yup I have sometimes goaded someone in exotic machinery to "work it" a little so me and junior can appreciate the noise.
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yup I have sometimes goaded someone in exotic machinery to "work it" a little so me and junior can appreciate the noise. >>
Yes, I was in my mud-splattered old Mondy estate last month in Dereham, queueing alongside a fabulous signal orange Ferrari as wide as a bus.
I didn't bother ..... I contented myself with the knowledge that we had been down tracks that he would never dare to enter!
BTW, I haven't a clue why anyone should feel the need for a Ferrari in Norfolk.
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don't start !!!!
My point exactly in the thread about Supercars. I'd much prefer an M3 or M5 and satisfy myself with a car you can shop in and squeeze it proverbials to get it to Yowl in tunnels and the such like.
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'I have to admit I enjoy passing the boy racers who have reclined the seat so far back that their head is behind the door frame... twits. '
I'm over six foot, and used to have a four-door A35. Modifying the drivers seat mountings meant I could get comfortable, but put the door frame by my right shoulder. I don't think the seat reclined.
Does that put me in the boy racer (twit) class?
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If you drove with the "widow's grip" on the steering wheel whilst wearing a baseball cap - probably.
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You know those dead-straight fenland backroads with sudden right-angled turns in them, the result of some long-forgotten feudal land arrangement?
Well, people want Ferraris so that they can try and negotiate those corners at 170mph.
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'If you drove with the "widow's grip" on the steering wheel whilst wearing a baseball cap - probably.'
I don't think baseball caps had crossed the pond (if they'd been invented) in those days, more likely Mum's knitted balaclava. Heaters were an optional extra - if they worked.
What's a "widows grip"?
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I reference to it on a (n unmoderated) website, the way that a certain type of driver holds on to the top of the steering wheel (come hell or highwater) in a single handed grip so tight as it makes the knuckles white. Have a look when you're out and I'm sure, as I did, you'll see quite a few.
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two hands, close together, gripping the wheel so hard at the top that the knuckles go white.
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I'd guess he may well have dropped his tea/coffee/beer/mobile/cigarrettes/ipod/playstation/videoplayer or his girlfriend was under the dashboard on his side.
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Looking for the fuse box perchance?
MD
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Vainly, for the lunchbox.
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