This is a true story..and the fact i'm writing it shows that i'm still working hard even when i've got to work hehe.
Lets set the scene a little. Its a weekday morning (could be any, lets pick today), in the Manchester suburubs. I'm driving towards the motorway - a fun little not-quite-round-but-still-in-a-loop one called the M60. Happily listening to someone (in this case Jack Straw) getting metaphorically beaten up on the today programme. Its 8am on a cold morning (not that it matters), and i've got a whole hour to do the 30 min trip to work..so i'll get there early no rush.
I approach the motorway, and after a little bit of a queue to get on (but hey we're british, we're good at queuing), I make it. Whoohoo..greeted by the usual 3 lanes of traffic. Lane 1 (old term: the slow lane), full of trucks, timid people and also those lucky enough to be heading off the motorway at the next junction. Average speed around 40-50mph. Lane 2 (old term: the middle lane), as usual at this time this lane seems to have a fixed speed limit of 60mph..no one ever goes any faster than that for fear of using too much fuel (or whatever the reason, I don't get it). And there we have the 3rd lane (aka: the "fast" lane). Here there is a mix of people doing 70 (as they should) and a bunch of predominately audi's and BMWs thinking its an auto-bahn before the Germans realised it was a stupid idea.
I'm in no rush, but into the "fast" lane I pop, at least I can maintain a consistent speed there. So i'm happily driving along, keeping the needle at 72mph (and the satnav saying 70..who says car speedo's are inaccurate) and spend the next 30 min chuckling as BMW after Audi after BMW appears right up my backside, each one of them blaring the horn, swearing (with their fingers..no doubt screaming it too) as the try to speed their way to an early grave or a speeding ticket. I'm saving them money, either in a ticket or at least in fuel, but they are not at all grateful. Who knows I could be saving their lives..and all while having a bit of fun myself. I'd pull into the middle lane if I could, but the traffic there is going too slow..so what can I do but stay there, at 70 (72 incidicated), safe in the knowledge that i'm safeguarding the world from a few little idiots who think its safe to drive at stupid speeds.
I only wish I had one of those signs like the police do, where you can write things for the car behind to read..oh how much more i'd love my trip to work then!
(note some of the above is really quite tongue in cheek, I'm not really saving the world etc, just annoying a few bad drivers out there..but my gosh its fun! Oh and I know that approx 50% of readers will hate me for all of the above, but I don't care..speeding kills. End of story.)
EDIT: to stop people getting too angry..i've moved this part of a later post up here:
"1) I do pull over when theres a gap in the middle lane and people there are not driving at 50/60mph..i'm not stupid enough to sit in the right hand lane when there is space to be on one of the middle/left lanes. If there is no space then I am overtaking..which is perfectly justified IMO."


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) and spend the next 30 min chuckling as BMW after Audi after BMW appears right up my backside, each one of them blaring the horn, swearing (with their fingers..no doubt screaming it too) as the try to speed their way to an early grave or a speeding ticket. I'm saving them money, either in a ticket or at least in fuel, but they are not at all grateful. Who knows I could be saving their lives..and all while having a bit of fun myself. I'd pull into the middle lane if I could, but the traffic there is going too slow..so what can I do but stay there, at 70 (72 incidicated), safe in the knowledge that i'm safeguarding the world from a few little idiots who think its safe to drive at stupid speeds.
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