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Driving Annoyances
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I hate when people drive up my arse- do they think it's going to make me go faster?
I hate when people drive up my arse- do they think it's going to make me go faster?
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However the next old codger I come across doing 30mph on a trunk road because they're too old, doddery and stupid to go faster is going to have me leaning on the horn behind them until they get the fuck out of my way. As is anyone driving a caravan. As for people who put "Little Princess on Board" or "Man Utd fan on board" in their car, they're positively asking to be rammed off the road into a tree and then to die in a fiery fireball of fire.
Needless to say I commute to work on the train.
Horse riders are generally really good, it annoys me when I slow down and some cockmuncher in an Audi comes screaming up behind me, not understanding why I'm driving slowly. This happens a lot when all the stockbrokers come up to Cumbria to their Lake District holiday cottages. Whilst I can't abide people who drive everywhere at 20mph, there's something to be said that wherever you're going will still be there when you get there.
People who drive too close to the car in front and don't pay enough attention to the road around them so end up braking suddenly for something they really didn't need to.
Then the people behind them end up braking suddenly and you get a jam for no reason.
I do this Dont mind in a 30 zone obviously but when its 60 and the person in front is still doing 30 thats when the road rage kicks in
Agreed. I live near a main road. To get almost anywhere, I have to cross that fucking road. I am fed up of standing there, waiting for this car to go past and then they turn the other way.
To be fair, it stops cyclists from riding in front of your car at a set of red traffic lights. I've spent all that effort overtaking you in the first place, I'll be fucked if I'm letting you back in front only to pull away at 3mph.
The other one is people who deliberately drive 20mph under the speed limit, for whatever reason. Wether it's because they're too nervous, or they're pulling a caravan, bugger off out the way!>!>!!!
There are there for a reason. One of the biggest dangers for cyclists is junctions. If you don't give them rooms to clear the traffic in a queue then they risk cars and especially larger vehicles turning into them at the junction because they're in somebodys blind spot. Happens in London a lot. Women tend to suffer most because male cyclists are more likely to jump any lights.
By far the most annoying drivers are those that sit in the middle lane of motorways. Even if you are doing the limit, if you are not overtaking somebody get the fuck back into the inside lane. Wankers. If you're wondering why that person is up your arse, ask yourself, am I being a rolling road block?
Also living in the New Forest drivers who slow to an absolute crawl just because they're passing within 50ft of a pony, sheep, pig etc
That and those drivers of souped up chav cars that are nothing mothing than shitheaps on wheels, trying to get up your arse when you are doing the speed limit, and you realise that their cars have nothing left in them.
Yes there's been an accident or a break down, but if you don't start looking at the road instead of it there'll be another one with you in it.
As a copper you should know that the cycle area in front of the lights is there to stop cyclists being squashed by morons in HGVs turning into a cyclist going straight on. Anyone who stops in the cycle area should get 152 points and a £250,000 fine, in my most humble of humble opinions.
I'd also add to my list: people who stop in yellow boxes. They're generally so stupid that they don't even know why I'm yelling at them and blaring on the horn because I've missed my turn at the lights.
Yes you're not supposed to stop in them, but doesn't mean they're an monster exclusion zone.
If you wait for an HGV sized space it will never exist because by the time it does the lights will have changed and the next cycle will get a go and they will fill up the space instead.
There are muppets in this world who take 4 full light cycles of sitting at the front of the lights to work this out. Thats 4, on top of the one they were in when they go to the front, and the one at the very end where they actually moved the car (on the orange light, but I'll forgive them that).
Hrrrmph.
Is there a limit to the amount of times you can fail a driving test? I'm fairly sure a friend of mine must have got into double figures before she eventually passed, and there was no way she should have been on the road even then.