Annoying drving habits

[Konan555]

And while im on the subject, barry boys who pull out from behind things right at the last minute, drafting might earn you points on midnight club, but this is real life and a) you cant draft a truck, b) even if you could your crappy corsa 1.2 sxi (in black, always) is not a fast car, it never will be a fast car, no matter how many cone filters and fart cans you add.

And then they get sruprised when they hit the car they've just pulled out from behind because of the body rolling all over the place.

b b b b but - I cut da springs init!

[nameinuse]

Barry boys used to irritate me on principle, but now I just find them funny, except when they're driving like idiots. I like how you can spot them from miles away in the dark. The headlights dimming in time with the boom-boom-boom sounds is a dead giveaway. I also appreciate the boost in handling your FRONT WHEEL DRIVE car must get from a rear-spoiler. I'm glad, for your sake, that that lump of fiberglass couldn't generate enough downforce to push itself down onto the bodywork, let alone push the card down.

Oh yes, lane-pusher-iners. Only life form lower than them is people who wait in the right lane pull out, then try and pull back in again.

[pak000]

Barry boys used to irritate me on principle, but now I just find them funny, except when they're driving like idiots. I like how you can spot them from miles away in the dark. The headlights dimming in time with the boom-boom-boom sounds is a dead giveaway. I also appreciate the boost in handling your FRONT WHEEL DRIVE car must get from a rear-spoiler. I'm glad, for your sake, that that lump of fiberglass couldn't generate enough downforce to push itself down onto the bodywork, let alone push the card down.

there is one upside to those spoilers....they probably slow their crappy car down even more

[smtkr]

Got another one now that I've arrived at work after my morning commute:

6. People who pull out in front of you, only to turn off a quarter mile down the road.

I'm sure something different will annoy me every day the rest of the year. The bottom line is that there should be a remote control with a kill button on it. When I'm driving down the road and someone pulls a stupid, I could just hit the button and disintegrate them. With that said, even though I bitch, I'm positive that every one of us has a momentary lapse in judgment from time to time. The repeat offenders still need the kill button though

[stephent3]

I do have to agree with the lights thing.

WHY!! WHY!! drive with your fog lights on?? its just stupid. What I realli hate is when they put ther rear fog lights on too!!! Just a big red light constantly shining in your face.

I do feel sori for them sumtimes coz u roll past with your fist punching the air and its some elderly person crouched against ther steering wheel...or sum women who doesnt know better.

A close top hate is people who thank you with a wave when they have blatently chopped you up while queue jumping. They dont seem to realise ther driving a BMW and im driving a £300 polo...who do you think cares more about getting ther car scratched???

[Konan555]

A close top hate is people who thank you with a wave when they have blatently chopped you up while queue jumping. They dont seem to realise ther driving a BMW and im driving a £300 polo...who do you think cares more about getting ther car scratched???

I never say thanyou when I wedge my way into a que. I know how much I pished off the considerate driver and how little I care

[stephent3]

telling it as it is....i like it.

[Ruggerbugger]

Definitely people who are not educated about roundabouts and are downright dangerous with it.

People who do 35 miles an hour down MK grid roads, the single carriageway ones that I can't overake on. Grrr

Isn't MK a horrific place to drive around? I hate the way all street signs are at ankle height, so you can't actually see them from the road

[Ruggerbugger]

People who indicate unnecessarily ... for every little direction change, like driving round an obstacle in the road (parked car etc).. Yeah no ****... There was me thinking you were gonna drive straight over it

lol at that one, I have to walk down a short country road to the better local I use. I'm grateful to those who acknowledge that we have no path, but it cracks me up when oncoming traffic indicates and gives us a car's width of space when passing. How ****ing fat do you think I am

Rave: ditto on the box junctions. If anyone in Rugby reads this, I'm talking about the junction on Corporation Street, outside the fire station. It IS NOT an invitation to cut in when I leave the box clear. I'd love to see a massive appliance shove one of those gimps out of the way some day

Coppers around here are useless now, I see plenty of chavs driving around with under-car lights on, LEDs on the bonnet etc. What are you, a ****ing Christmas tree?.

PS double post oops!

[Rave]

a) you cant draft a truck

Oh yes you can. Back in the days when I cared much more about fuel economy than safety I'd often tuck my mum's 2CV in behind a truck and enjoy cruising along in eerie silence as the engine stopped having much work to do. I estimate that I used about 50% less throttle when drafting a truck. It's dangerous of course, and I wouldn't do it now, but it does work.

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Oh yes there is. Ever since the day when my mum saw off a queue jumping tw*t in a Rover 400 in her 2CV (he was incandescent, and us three kids in the back jeering at him didn't help matters), I've taken on all comers. The only bloke who ever beat me was a guy in a rusty Transit- and if I had my time again I'd drive into him regardless this time round. My car died a year later anyway, it might as well have died with honourable scars earned in battle with a queue jumping scummer.

I never say thanyou when I wedge my way into a que. I know how much I pished off the considerate driver and how little I care

I really hope you're joking. If you're not, all I can say is- don't try it on me, because I will drive into the side of your car, and then I will laugh when you lose your NCB for writing off my car with £25 worth of damage to the front wing.

[Konan555]

I really hope you're joking. If you're not, all I can say is- don't try it on me, because I will drive into the side of your car, and then I will laugh when you lose your NCB for writing off my car with £25 worth of damage to the front wing.

That's assuming it would go anywhere near my insurance. The last person that didn't give way when I needed to tuck in got 3 points on his licence.

[Rave]

For what?

Edit: maybe we're talking at crossed purposes. I only refuse to let people in if the queue is practically stationary. Swapping lanes in moving slow traffic is fine. If there's an obvious queue and someone tries to push in though- they will fail. And the Highway Code will be on my side as far as I can see.

[Konan555]

For what?

In that specific case, something along the lines of agressive driving or due care and attention and undertaking. He stacked a battered old transit into me brand new one for the sake of it, and was caught on police camera doing so.

Tis all down to specifics and traffic, it does annoy me when people hop out and hop in to a que, but it also irritates me when they sit in the wrong lane trying to get in the back of a que when they could nip up and squeeze in further.

The one place I'm entirely wrong is a roundabout in the fens i HATE sitting at. I just jump 2 miles of que in the turn right lane then go all the way around the roundabout. Yes, it's wrong and I'm an impatient arsehole, but I would actually suffer a mental breakdown sitting there

[Rave]

In that specific case, something along the lines of agressive driving or due care and attention and undertaking. He stacked a battered old transit into me brand new one for the sake of it, and was caught on police camera doing so.

Tis all down to specifics and traffic, it does annoy me when people hop out and hop in to a que, but it also irritates me when they sit in the wrong lane trying to get in the back of a que when they could nip up and squeeze in further.

Fair enough then. I, in my original rant, specifically referred to situations where people know there's a queue to turn off or whatever (9 times out of 10 there'll be a sign telling them to get in lane) and think that they deserve to jump said queue. Roadworks where two lanes have to merge into one are a classic example. If everone just bloody got in lane there would be hardly any holdup at all- it's the tw*ts who ignore roadsigns who cause the queue in the first place.

The one place I'm entirely wrong is a roundabout in the fens i HATE sitting at. I just jump 2 miles of que in the turn right lane then go all the way around the roundabout. Yes, it's wrong and I'm an impatient arsehole, but I would actually suffer a mental breakdown sitting there

There's nothing at all in the Highway code prohibiting that as far as I can see- so fair enough. AFAIK I've never come across such a situation but I'll bear it in mind in the future.

[Konan555]

There's nothing at all in the Highway code prohibiting that as far as I can see- so fair enough. AFAIK I've nevercome across such a situation but I'll bear it in mind in the future.

It might not be illegal, but it's 100% imoral

And oh my how I laugh.....

[schmunk]

Reminds me of a queue at roadworks on a dual cabbageway somewhere approaching MK.

There were big signs at regular intervals saying 'use both lanes to queue', but the evil looks I got as I sailed past the idiots queueing solely in the LH lane...

(even my wife told me off... people, eh?)