Why don't people let me in?????!!!!
Discussion
Poledriver said:
3) I'm into my driving and get pissed off by those who are slow, incompetent or just can't drive..But, arrogant cocks like you just make it more difficult for those of us who enjoy our driving to justify keeping speed limits high and the roads enjoyable to 'make progress' on.
Yes, people who drive without regard to courtesy and respect for other road users are bullies and should be dealt with, but not in this way...Now tell us how your attitude is different to theirs as they jump past a queue of cars thinking "I've just shown you"!
As they say - "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference"...Yes, people who drive without regard to courtesy and respect for other road users are bullies and should be dealt with, but not in this way...Now tell us how your attitude is different to theirs as they jump past a queue of cars thinking "I've just shown you"!
Hence I'll rest now not even trying to understand the bulls
t above.All the best
spanna123 said:
So what you're saying is that you are trying to queue jump and people won't let you. Why are you moaning, wait in line like everybody else, you wouldn't let people infront of you in a queue at the bank when its busy and when your in a rush would you?
+1....... says it all.... 
MarJay said:
I know exactly where you mean OP, having thought about it. I often work in Chiswick. People queue in the two left lanes right back to the Chiswick roundabout. However, the right hand lane is for the A4 only, and it is people who use that lane and then cut in at the last minute who are dicks. I can't see how you could possibly scoot up the middle lane in rush hour as its always full, at least back to the traffic lights.
There is some small mitigation in the fact that the junction is extremely poorly designed, but that doesn't excuse queue jumping.
In actual fact, I shall be going that way tomorrow, and shall keep an eye out for you. Virtual rocket launcher on standby.
Oh for god's sake read what I wrote! I did not say rush hour. In fact, as in my previous post, I leave work early but still the left lane is busy so I go down the right lane which is virtually empty at the time I leave. This is the point of my post because when I get to the end, quite legitimately to merge I get blocked! You'll see in my previous post that I don't mention rush hour at all and, in fact, state that I leave early. Not complicated. But I'm going to go down the A4 lane tonight and look out for a knackered old BMW E36 and cut in. As I'm accused I may as well do it!There is some small mitigation in the fact that the junction is extremely poorly designed, but that doesn't excuse queue jumping.
In actual fact, I shall be going that way tomorrow, and shall keep an eye out for you. Virtual rocket launcher on standby.
roverspeed said:
I was wondering, Is CampDavid the OP's boyfriend or something? Certainly seems to be holding a candle for him.
Maybe thats why he is called "camp" David....
A gay quip for an insult. Nice.Maybe thats why he is called "camp" David....
If someone doesn't agree with a point of view on here, half the time it resorts to pretty childish insults. Some people just need to plain grow up.
I'm not gay btw, though I haven't got the same issues with homosexuality as you do.
Sym7 said:
I work in Brentford and on my way home have to get on the M4 from the A4 from under the elevated section. Stupidly, People queue from the Chiswick round-a-bout like idiots when all I do is scoot down the outside and cut in last minute.
However, there's always some idiot who tries to stop me joining the lane by pulling really close to the car in front but looks straight ahead and pretends not to see me. What's it with these people? It's hardly going to make much different to their arrival time if they simply let me in? Arggghhh!
Maybe they haven't seen you and it is just your guilt feeling? Why are you feeling guilty? Perhaps you think you are in the wrong even when you plainly are not.However, there's always some idiot who tries to stop me joining the lane by pulling really close to the car in front but looks straight ahead and pretends not to see me. What's it with these people? It's hardly going to make much different to their arrival time if they simply let me in? Arggghhh!
I'd go and see a psychiatrist.
Andy (the coach driver)
The south east is terrible for arrogant driving.
Not only those who will cut everyone else up to get a few cars ahead but also for those who don't bother to show any gratitude when you do extend some courtesy to them by letting them out/in etc.
A recent visit to cornwall really highlighted the difference between areas to me, drivers were much more polite.
Not only those who will cut everyone else up to get a few cars ahead but also for those who don't bother to show any gratitude when you do extend some courtesy to them by letting them out/in etc.
A recent visit to cornwall really highlighted the difference between areas to me, drivers were much more polite.
Kentish said:
The south east is terrible for arrogant driving.
Not only those who will cut everyone else up to get a few cars ahead but also for those who don't bother to show any gratitude when you do extend some courtesy to them by letting them out/in etc.
A recent visit to cornwall really highlighted the difference between areas to me, drivers were much more polite.
I agree Kentish (I come from the SE too) but it varies from region to region within the SE. If you are in a posh rich area it will be better than a poorer region. I think this is because people stop caring after a while and because some people stop then nobody else bothers so it gets worse and worse. What starts off not saying thankyou deteriorates into just not bothering and so driving getting worse.Not only those who will cut everyone else up to get a few cars ahead but also for those who don't bother to show any gratitude when you do extend some courtesy to them by letting them out/in etc.
A recent visit to cornwall really highlighted the difference between areas to me, drivers were much more polite.
Andy
Where I live, everyone is splendid to each other. I am let in frequently, in deference to my position.
People are considerate, mannered, respectful and deferential to those in authority or from a higher social order.
And if some ill-mannered oik in a German people carrier had the audacity to push their vulgar teutonic automobile in front of me, I would have my driver see them off immediately. He keeps his Webley service revolver in the glove box for just such circumstances, with a Lee-Enfield in the boot for longer distance head shots.
Rapscallions like that need to be taught a lesson.
People are considerate, mannered, respectful and deferential to those in authority or from a higher social order.
And if some ill-mannered oik in a German people carrier had the audacity to push their vulgar teutonic automobile in front of me, I would have my driver see them off immediately. He keeps his Webley service revolver in the glove box for just such circumstances, with a Lee-Enfield in the boot for longer distance head shots.
Rapscallions like that need to be taught a lesson.
Snoop Bagg said:
Up North people do tend to let other people in
Most of the time the drivers round here are either half asleep or on autopilot but they don't let you in (if you are acting like the OP) if your trying to push in on a busy road.There are a set of traffic lights at a T junction on the edge of town where there are two lanes (along the top of the T) The right lane is for town and straight on at the roundabout a short distance further on and the left lane is for the turn left at the roundabout only. Usually there are a lot of cars in the right lane and nothing in the left so I go down the left lane and then move over to the right.
You can see when the lights go to red for the traffic coming from the right and a second later they change and more often than not the person along side don't move until I'm a good 20yds in front of them.
On the very rare occasions the person next to me move off quickly as well so I just let them go and move over behind them. If it's really busy rather than push in, I go left at the roundabout and then next right back into town but that happens rarely.
I have read around 4 pages of this post and come to the conclusion that there thems who will let you get on with it and thems who wont!
Sure it's annoying when some tit pushes in, but some roads are just wrong.
Seems to me the majority of roads dahn saff are designed on the old Roman road system. Which was fine when the limit was whatever your pair of horses could do flat out, but now we have millions of cars.
The worst bit is, the majority of people driving said cars are pure and simply shyte at driving. End of!
When on my trips to Londung or Mongchester or wherever else there are pillocks behind the wheel (please note, I also hate Weegee's selfish driving style and those in Aberdeen, Inverness and especially Pish.....I mean Perth) I find myself letting people in at queer junctions where there are queue's for miles. It really gets on the goat of the people queueing behind me on my road (i.e. M4, M6, M62, M8, M74.......etc). Why is this? We are all in the same bloody great queue, so letting in Mr Smith or Mrs Jones in front of me in a vain attempt at zippering makes not a jot of difference to me, yet you see them actually smile
My biggest hate is these feckers who wont let you pass on a dual carrieageway.
A little over a year ago, I was in my wifes "P" reg Mercedes C200 auto. In green, with nice 17"s.
It wsn't pimped, it was standard apart from the wheels, but holy crap, try to pass someone and they turned into Freddy bloody Krueger!!!
It was the tit in the Pug 407 that did it for me one day. I had passed a couple of cars and was almost level with him when he just swung out and gave me the bird
I must say I was glad I had fitted new discs & pads all round a couple of weeks earlier or he and I would have been sharing a grave.......anyway, I tooted the horn as I saw he was about to horse out, but to no avail. I assume thats where the finger came from!
So for FOUR MILES he sat alongside the car to his left and refused to pull in and let me pass
So I waited till the road merged into one lane as it once again became single carriageway and he pulled in front of the car he'd been holding hands with.
I put the foot down, passed him on the chevrons, then coasted to a walking pace.
Oh my did I learn some new sign language from him and morse code from his horn
The traffic heading north was really thick so I decided to stop, put on my hazzards and step out of the car to ask him why he was such a dick?
I was merely rolling up my sleeves when the peeping and gesticulating stopped and he turned to lock his doors
I went back to the car, sat and waited for the northbound traffic to ease off before bugggering off before he could pull out and pass.
I have seen that car once or twice while I have been in a different car every time.
Thing is, each time I went to pass him after that he never once batted an eye
Was it Mercedes jealousy or was he just a prize cock?
I'll never know, but I did have my sport with him and he likely thought he'd picked on the wrong fat b*stard that time
So, to sum up.
I think the original OP may not have realised that pushing in in an arrogant manner is a bit annoying to us lesser plebs, because the way I read it, pushing in is just what it is and in Blighty thats a Johnny Foreigner trait
My advice?
Try pushing in 5 cars from the end as they will then think you made a booby and are trying to right a wrong
Sure it's annoying when some tit pushes in, but some roads are just wrong.
Seems to me the majority of roads dahn saff are designed on the old Roman road system. Which was fine when the limit was whatever your pair of horses could do flat out, but now we have millions of cars.
The worst bit is, the majority of people driving said cars are pure and simply shyte at driving. End of!
When on my trips to Londung or Mongchester or wherever else there are pillocks behind the wheel (please note, I also hate Weegee's selfish driving style and those in Aberdeen, Inverness and especially Pish.....I mean Perth) I find myself letting people in at queer junctions where there are queue's for miles. It really gets on the goat of the people queueing behind me on my road (i.e. M4, M6, M62, M8, M74.......etc). Why is this? We are all in the same bloody great queue, so letting in Mr Smith or Mrs Jones in front of me in a vain attempt at zippering makes not a jot of difference to me, yet you see them actually smile
My biggest hate is these feckers who wont let you pass on a dual carrieageway.
A little over a year ago, I was in my wifes "P" reg Mercedes C200 auto. In green, with nice 17"s.
It wsn't pimped, it was standard apart from the wheels, but holy crap, try to pass someone and they turned into Freddy bloody Krueger!!!
It was the tit in the Pug 407 that did it for me one day. I had passed a couple of cars and was almost level with him when he just swung out and gave me the bird
I must say I was glad I had fitted new discs & pads all round a couple of weeks earlier or he and I would have been sharing a grave.......anyway, I tooted the horn as I saw he was about to horse out, but to no avail. I assume thats where the finger came from!
So for FOUR MILES he sat alongside the car to his left and refused to pull in and let me pass
So I waited till the road merged into one lane as it once again became single carriageway and he pulled in front of the car he'd been holding hands with.
I put the foot down, passed him on the chevrons, then coasted to a walking pace.
Oh my did I learn some new sign language from him and morse code from his horn
The traffic heading north was really thick so I decided to stop, put on my hazzards and step out of the car to ask him why he was such a dick?
I was merely rolling up my sleeves when the peeping and gesticulating stopped and he turned to lock his doors
I went back to the car, sat and waited for the northbound traffic to ease off before bugggering off before he could pull out and pass.
I have seen that car once or twice while I have been in a different car every time.
Thing is, each time I went to pass him after that he never once batted an eye
Was it Mercedes jealousy or was he just a prize cock?
I'll never know, but I did have my sport with him and he likely thought he'd picked on the wrong fat b*stard that time
So, to sum up.
I think the original OP may not have realised that pushing in in an arrogant manner is a bit annoying to us lesser plebs, because the way I read it, pushing in is just what it is and in Blighty thats a Johnny Foreigner trait
My advice?
Try pushing in 5 cars from the end as they will then think you made a booby and are trying to right a wrong
I tend to view it this way... why should one individual jump a queue when everyone else has conformed to the idea of waiting patiently (each for an equal amount of time).
HOWEVER... if the road system is such that a long, single-lane queue fouls up the roads for miles around (e.g. by blocking junctions, roundabouts etc), then it makes sense for everyone to queue in two lanes and merge, fairly, in turn. Clearly this will vary from one bottleneck to another.
Sadly most drivers cannot make this kind of assessment (either because they are stupid, or because they cannot see the impact of their queue further back as it grows), so it is left to herd instinct to determine whether there is a one or two lane queue.
But once the accepted queueing pattern is set, such as in the OP's case, anyone deciding to single-handedly buck the trend probably gets all they deserve.
HOWEVER... if the road system is such that a long, single-lane queue fouls up the roads for miles around (e.g. by blocking junctions, roundabouts etc), then it makes sense for everyone to queue in two lanes and merge, fairly, in turn. Clearly this will vary from one bottleneck to another.
Sadly most drivers cannot make this kind of assessment (either because they are stupid, or because they cannot see the impact of their queue further back as it grows), so it is left to herd instinct to determine whether there is a one or two lane queue.
But once the accepted queueing pattern is set, such as in the OP's case, anyone deciding to single-handedly buck the trend probably gets all they deserve.
Blue Meanie said:
MarJay said:
Arese said:
Because they're thinking "I've been sat here queueing for ages, this tt thinks he can just skip the queue and push in, I'm going to stop him."
And why the heck not? If you want to queue jump, buy a car with dents and scratches all over it, so people won't risk getting hit. Its a good psychological weapon.t thinks he can just skip the queue and push in, I'm going to stop him."Or Don't queue jump.
If there is a massive queue of almost stationery traffic then 'forcing' yourself in at the last minute is just that, forcing your way in.
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