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It annoys me when people drive like selfless idiots.

I was coming under a narrow, single file bridge today, my priority, my right of way, so what does a new, flashy Mondeo decide to do? Come straight through thinking that because he has a newer car he gets priority.

Now, you have to take this bridge slowly, from both directions as you can't see what's on either side of it, but no, this Mondeo just decides to whizz straight through without a care in the world.

Then when I flashed my headlights to alert him of my presence and that it was my priority, instead of putting his hand up to say sorry, he just turns his headlights on... which is not why I was flashing the lights at him at all!

Honestly, it's about time people learnt the highway code.
 
PuntoSS said:
It annoys me when people drive like selfless idiots.

Then when I flashed my headlights to alert him of my presence and that it was my priority, instead of putting his hand up to say sorry, he just turns his headlights on... which is not why I was flashing the lights at him at all!

Honestly, it's about time people learnt the highway code.
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If it's a new Mondeo, it's possible the headlamps come on automatically as the light reduces, such as in a tunnel or long bridge/underpass.

As for the Highway Code; it's quite possible he knew he was wrong, regardless of the H.C. Watch how many people leave it really late to move into lane 1 on the Motorway for an exit. Half of them are incompetent/ignorant of the rules. The other half know full well what they are doing and are just inconsiderate or have an over-inflated sense of their own self-importance.
 
Yes, I know exactly what you mean, it's annoying and darn right ignorant!

Another thing that gets me is when I give way to oncoming drivers, because vehicles are parked on my side of the road, preventing me from moving forward, so I have to give way to let oncoming traffic past. Quite a few occasions this happens, where I give way and then stupid pillarks decide to act all "clever" and swerve out around me, and head straight down even if there is oncoming traffic, forcing the oncoming vehicles to reverse.

Once, I was the oncoming vehicle, and a woman came charging at me, forcing me to slam my brakes on... she then gave me a gesture with her fingers as if I was in the wrong when it was blatantly her impatient attitude that caused me to almost collide with her.

Happens in a few roads here.
 
PuntoSS said:
Yes, I know exactly what you mean, it's annoying and darn right ignorant!

Another thing that gets me is when I give way to oncoming drivers, because vehicles are parked on my side of the road, preventing me from moving forward, so I have to give way to let oncoming traffic past. Quite a few occasions this happens, where I give way and then stupid pillarks decide to act all "clever" and swerve out around me, and head straight down even if there is oncoming traffic, forcing the oncoming vehicles to reverse.

Once, I was the oncoming vehicle, and a woman came charging at me, forcing me to slam my brakes on... she then gave me a gesture with her fingers as if I was in the wrong when it was blatantly her impatient attitude that caused me to almost collide with her.

Happens in a few roads here.
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See quite a bit of that round here as well.
A mate lives in an area where he has to drive along a road with parked cars along one side - giving him right of way.
He used to end up having to get on the high kerb to allow vehicles to pass but now he carries a few small cartons of milk (the single portions you get free in caffs). When he winds his window down to have a word with the offending driver, they like to call him names, he simply digs fingernail into the top to break the seal then tosses the carton into the car & drives off.
Seemingly, milk is THE hardest thing to get out of upholstery. Wash it all you like but the bacteria will still return to stink the car out.
Not sure how true this is.
He also said that the only way is to fill the car with ozone to kill/sterilise.


Had a good one this morning. End of my road is a T junction. It is clearly marked Keep Clear. This idiot is stuck in traffic, cannot go anywhere so he sits on the keep clear section (can't even get off it!). I managed to squeeze around behind him & get into the empty lane beside him, honked my horn a few times to get everyone's attention then asked him if he could read & did he not understand the meaning of 'keep clear'.
he just sat there, windows up, saying sorry & waving.
Sorry? how the F**** can he be sorry, he deliberately pulled onto a marked area - a clearly marked area (just recently been re painted).
what a nobjock
 
sludgeguts said:
Had a good one this morning. End of my road is a T junction. It is clearly marked Keep Clear. This idiot is stuck in traffic, cannot go anywhere so he sits on the keep clear section (can't even get off it!). I managed to squeeze around behind him & get into the empty lane beside him, honked my horn a few times to get everyone's attention then asked him if he could read & did he not understand the meaning of 'keep clear'.
he just sat there, windows up, saying sorry & waving.
Sorry? how the F**** can he be sorry, he deliberately pulled onto a marked area - a clearly marked area (just recently been re painted).
what a nobjock
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Same at the end of my road also, I often have to shove my way through traffic parked across it :bang: It's not like they're going to get there any faster is it?
 
The Beard said:
So that's why there are so many murders in Midomer Worthy and Causton.
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Where?!?!

I live in a T-junction road also, and at 9 in the morning, the only way out of my road is to merge onto a very busy road... so just before work or college in the morning, I'm often sat there for ages waiting for traffic from the right to stop.

Then what I often have to do is pull out into the middle of the road, and quite often a few selfish women put their foot down deliberately to stop me from merging. One happened the other day actually, the filthy look she gave me and the fact she deliberately put her foot down caused me to flash my headlights. I mean, the traffic lights further down were on red, anyway, so it's hardly like she could get anywhere faster by preventing me from pulling out.
 
Had a good one today, pulling out of the side entrance of my local tesco.
Traffic at a standstill to my right (waiting to get onto the roundabout further up the road).
Woman leaves a gap to let me cross (I'm turnig right).
As I pull into the ghost island (marked up specifically to allow drivers from my left to get out of their lane & wait to turn into tesco).
another woman not wanting to wait in the queue decides she can make use of the empty ghost island to overtake.
She hits the brakes just in time then starts ranting about me.
I had my window down so pointed to the arrow & told her SHE was in the wrong for driving in the ghost island AGAINST the arrows.

Had I been coming down the road wanting to turn right I would have made her life a real misery.
 
ThisBitterPill said:
Was it Wykham Lane bridge by any chance? :D

It's evil....And that's without the ghost! :eek:
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That's the one, Wykham Lane, yes...!! Hate people who think it's their right of way.

Beargarden Road again, today, thanks to the silver MK2 Multipla that bulleted through when it was MY RIGHT OF WAY... whoever you are, GO RE-READ the HIGHWAY CODE!!!
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Can't say I watch Midsomer Murders hehe! Even if it is filmed around these parts!
 
PuntoSS said:
Beargarden Road again, today, thanks to the silver MK2 Multipla that bulleted through when it was MY RIGHT OF WAY... whoever you are, GO RE-READ the HIGHWAY CODE!!!
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Haha!....I sat in Crouch Street the other week while every other tw*t decided to keep coming even though I had the right of way.... :bang:
 
Helz said:
Even I got that one :D Great show (y)
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Mrs. Beard likes it as well. I just can't get past the suspension of disbelief needed to accept so many murders in an area that doesn't seem to have any of the problems that normally go with a high murder rate.

You know, high levels of unemployment, sub-standard housing, urban decay, drug and other substance abuse, domestic violence and disaffected youth.
 
I'm going to defend impatient drivers. It is my heartfelt opinion that there aren't enough impatient drivers out there. In fact the world is full of mindless, dawdling, brain dead morons. The sort of people who live life at that irritating speed between second and third gear. Who sit in the right lane of a motorway at 60mph. Who find talking on the phone more important that moving along with the flow of traffic. Who, I kid you not, eat a bowl of cereal (including the milk), in the wet, in the morning on the M1. People who would, in Noiles' Britain be rounded up, forced on to a barge at gunpoint, sailed to the middle of the ocean and torpedoed.
 
jnoiles said:
I'm going to defend impatient drivers. It is my heartfelt opinion that there aren't enough impatient drivers out there. In fact the world is full of mindless, dawdling, brain dead morons. The sort of people who live life at that irritating speed between second and third gear. Who sit in the right lane of a motorway at 60mph. Who find talking on the phone more important that moving along with the flow of traffic. Who, I kid you not, eat a bowl of cereal (including the milk), in the wet, in the morning on the M1. People who would, in Noiles' Britain be rounded up, forced on to a barge at gunpoint, sailed to the middle of the ocean and torpedoed.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to refute your proposal to torpedo idiot drivers as being a ludicrous idea. Torpedoes are far too expensive. Simply opening the seacocks would be a lot cheaper. Plus you get the added bonus of them acting true to form. In other words, running round in circles; leaving it too late to get to the one liferaft, then expecting everybody else to make way for them; texting their mates for a drink later that night before blaming the Coastguard for not getting to them on time and so on.

As usual, the answer to the problem of impatient drivers lies in 2 directions. The braindead simply need to drive how they were taught, and the impatient ones to.....yup, drive like they were taught. If there is a problem, it lies in the lack of will from successive Governments to make Motorway and National Speed Limit roads part of a mandatory post-test course followed by regular (5-year?) testing with the sanction of losing a licence if a driver doesn't come up to scratch.

If post-test courses were madatory, it wouldn't be the panacea to all ills, but it would give a base line for out of town driving standards, which could be used to support prosecutions.

There is also a lack of prosecutions for offences other than speeding or Dangerous Driving and Undue Care after a crash. There is another offence of Driving in an Unconsiderate Manner (or words to that effect) which isn't really used often enough in my opinion. This would take into account driving too close, hogging a middle or outer lane, driving too slowly or even leaving it too late to move over before leaving a Motorway.

Unfortunately, not only are there insufficient Traffic Patrols, there is also an unwillingness to prosecute charges that are not really cut and dried, such as Speeding, or Undue Care after a rear-ender.

The downside of being too impatient, is stress, higher blood pressure and a predeliction to make mistakes. Then, as Mr. Impatient is on the hard shoulder being breathalysed as the wreck of his car is loaded onto a recovery truck, Mr. Dawdling-Lanehogger comes slowly past in 10 miles of slow moving traffic.
 
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