Gets Your Goat! worst driving traits
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Europa1 said:
Someone else mentioned this on another thread but I haven't seen it crop up on this one yet - people who drive with their wing mirrors folded in. Are they really paying that little attention to the act of controlling a 2 tonne lump of metal? Unobservant, incompetent, complacent f&*^wits.
I absolutely f
king despair when I see this!It's as if the mirrors equate to information overload for some f
kwits!Ok, I sound a little too angry, but this really does get my goat!
Baz Tench said:
I absolutely fking despair when I see this!
It's as if the mirrors equate to information overload for some fkwits!
Ok, I sound a little too angry, but this really does get my goat!
It's not so much they are information overload, it's the fact they are so f^&* unobservant to realise when they get behind the wheel they are folded in. I see people like that on the road and it worries me as to what else they are not observant about, given they haven't noticed that one of the basic, simple tools of driving, that they are supposed to check every 3 seconds or so, is as much use as a f^&*ing chocolate f^&*ing teapot (and not the one that Nestle made a few weeks back as a PR exercise).king despair when I see this!It's as if the mirrors equate to information overload for some f
kwits!Ok, I sound a little too angry, but this really does get my goat!
I knew once I engaged with this topic it would be dangerous for my usual air of bonhomie, my sang froid, dammit my sanity..
Another 2 I was subjected to this evening:
- this strange perception that some people seem to have when on a dual carriageway/motorway that them driving on full beam headlights no longer dazzles people travelling in the other direction; and
- (and I had to also post this on "what makes you think "knob"" thread as well!) people who lack the goddamn common courtesy to wave in daylight or briefly flash their lights in the dark to say "thank you" if you have shown them a courtesy like letting them out of a side turning/through a bottleneck like parked cars on a residential street/into an overtaking lane already congested etc. Rude, arrogant, unthinking, unjustified-sense-of-self-entitlement, badly taught (driving instruction)/brought up (parents - do they ever hold doors/give up seats on public transport/say please/thank you. Total, utter, prize winning, f^&*tard onanists.
Aaaaand breathe...
Another 2 I was subjected to this evening:
- this strange perception that some people seem to have when on a dual carriageway/motorway that them driving on full beam headlights no longer dazzles people travelling in the other direction; and
- (and I had to also post this on "what makes you think "knob"" thread as well!) people who lack the goddamn common courtesy to wave in daylight or briefly flash their lights in the dark to say "thank you" if you have shown them a courtesy like letting them out of a side turning/through a bottleneck like parked cars on a residential street/into an overtaking lane already congested etc. Rude, arrogant, unthinking, unjustified-sense-of-self-entitlement, badly taught (driving instruction)/brought up (parents - do they ever hold doors/give up seats on public transport/say please/thank you. Total, utter, prize winning, f^&*tard onanists.
Aaaaand breathe...
Europa1 said:
It's not so much they are information overload, it's the fact they are so f^&* unobservant to realise when they get behind the wheel they are folded in. I see people like that on the road and it worries me as to what else they are not observant about, given they haven't noticed that one of the basic, simple tools of driving, that they are supposed to check every 3 seconds or so, is as much use as a f^&*ing chocolate f^&*ing teapot (and not the one that Nestle made a few weeks back as a PR exercise).
Gets me as well. What also gets me is how hard is it for a manufacturer to spend fk all money to pay a programmer to write something like:if(String.match(mirrors.state, "folded") && speed > 5){
mirrors.unfold();
}
Edited by Swanny87 on Tuesday 18th November 22:24
Swanny87 said:
Europa1 said:
It's not so much they are information overload, it's the fact they are so f^&* unobservant to realise when they get behind the wheel they are folded in. I see people like that on the road and it worries me as to what else they are not observant about, given they haven't noticed that one of the basic, simple tools of driving, that they are supposed to check every 3 seconds or so, is as much use as a f^&*ing chocolate f^&*ing teapot (and not the one that Nestle made a few weeks back as a PR exercise).
Gets me as well. What also gets me is how hard is it for a manufacturer to spend fk all money to pay a programmer to write something like:if(String.match(mirrors.state, "folded") && speed > 5){
mirrors.unfold();
}
Edited by Swanny87 on Tuesday 18th November 22:24
Rant over. Thank you for indulging me.
Apart from the regular mobile phone, middle lane hogger, fog light driver....
People who don't stay in lane whilst going straight ahead on roundabouts. Usually this is when the roundabout is smaller and the approach allows you to go ahead from the nearside lane. Straight lining them seems to be so common often cutting up the person turning right.
Exceptions being HGV, buses etc.
People who don't stay in lane whilst going straight ahead on roundabouts. Usually this is when the roundabout is smaller and the approach allows you to go ahead from the nearside lane. Straight lining them seems to be so common often cutting up the person turning right.
Exceptions being HGV, buses etc.
A colleague of mine was once passing a parked car on his motorbike. Suddenly the drivers door swung open and knocked him off it (ok, maybe he was too close to said car).
Anyway, he was fine, but when he asked the woman driver if she had checked her door mirror before opening her door, her reply was: "Oh, I don't use them".
Unreal.
Anyway, he was fine, but when he asked the woman driver if she had checked her door mirror before opening her door, her reply was: "Oh, I don't use them".
Unreal.
Motorway exit slips.
I'm in lane 1 approaching the slip road, start indicating at the 3-bar marker. Rapidly gaining on a dawdler in lane 1 ahead of me.
But that's ok because the dawdler is going straight on and just before I catch up with him I'll be leaving the motorway.
Then: just as I come up behind dawdler and actually pull across onto the slip road guess what! - dawdler turns left off the motorway onto the slip road, sometimes with a cursory blink of the left indicator. At 10 mph (ok, it seems like 10 mph, it may be more).
Yes, I know they are going to do that, it is all under control. But it annoys me.
I'm in lane 1 approaching the slip road, start indicating at the 3-bar marker. Rapidly gaining on a dawdler in lane 1 ahead of me.
But that's ok because the dawdler is going straight on and just before I catch up with him I'll be leaving the motorway.
Then: just as I come up behind dawdler and actually pull across onto the slip road guess what! - dawdler turns left off the motorway onto the slip road, sometimes with a cursory blink of the left indicator. At 10 mph (ok, it seems like 10 mph, it may be more).
Yes, I know they are going to do that, it is all under control. But it annoys me.
karma mechanic said:
Motorway exit slips.
I'm in lane 1 approaching the slip road, start indicating at the 3-bar marker. Rapidly gaining on a dawdler in lane 1 ahead of me.
But that's ok because the dawdler is going straight on and just before I catch up with him I'll be leaving the motorway.
Then: just as I come up behind dawdler and actually pull across onto the slip road guess what! - dawdler turns left off the motorway onto the slip road, sometimes with a cursory blink of the left indicator. At 10 mph (ok, it seems like 10 mph, it may be more).
Yes, I know they are going to do that, it is all under control. But it annoys me.
This is particularly annoying when you think you're overtaking said person in lane 2 and could have moved back to lane 1 much earlier and improved the traffic flow. ETA: Or vice versa, so coming up behind someone in lane 1, planning to go round them, finding a gap, indicating, moving out and oh, right, they're coming off at this exit. It's arrogant and selfish and why 'not indicating properly' took my number one spot in my first post on this thread.I'm in lane 1 approaching the slip road, start indicating at the 3-bar marker. Rapidly gaining on a dawdler in lane 1 ahead of me.
But that's ok because the dawdler is going straight on and just before I catch up with him I'll be leaving the motorway.
Then: just as I come up behind dawdler and actually pull across onto the slip road guess what! - dawdler turns left off the motorway onto the slip road, sometimes with a cursory blink of the left indicator. At 10 mph (ok, it seems like 10 mph, it may be more).
Yes, I know they are going to do that, it is all under control. But it annoys me.
Edited by RobM77 on Wednesday 19th November 09:23
Those drivers who in heavy traffic, let a 100+ metre gap occur between them, and the car in front after that car has moved forward, before `they' deign to move off.
They make traffic jams far longer/ slower, and worse than they need to be especially when one gets a clutch of these idiots in a particular traffic jam who compound the problem.
They are a particular pain if you are behind one of them, not least because some drivers see these idiots performance as a chance to lane hop, and whilst the lanes either side are moving forward, (owing to traffic flow from the other lanes into the gap) the lane with the gap leaver in it, hardly moves forward at all.
They make traffic jams far longer/ slower, and worse than they need to be especially when one gets a clutch of these idiots in a particular traffic jam who compound the problem.
They are a particular pain if you are behind one of them, not least because some drivers see these idiots performance as a chance to lane hop, and whilst the lanes either side are moving forward, (owing to traffic flow from the other lanes into the gap) the lane with the gap leaver in it, hardly moves forward at all.
There's quite a few things that annoy me with other drivers:
- Typical middle lane hoggers
- Driving at night/fog with no lights at all
- People who dont use indicators when they should do
- Tailgaters
- People who speed in residential zones then do 40 in a national speed limit zone
- People who use the wrong lane on a roundabout then force you to brake hard to avoid an accident as they cut you up
- People who cant park, for example parking 3 ft from the kerb or taking up 2 spaces in a car park
- People driving with headlights on during the day
- People driving with fog lights on in clear conditions
- People who think the roads are a race track
- People who accelerate to stop you joining a dual carriageway/motorway or speed up to stop you overtaking them
- When they open their doors without checking if a car is passing
- Last but not least people who dont thank you for letting them out really annoys the hell out of me
Europa1 said:
Someone else mentioned this on another thread but I haven't seen it crop up on this one yet - people who drive with their wing mirrors folded in. Are they really paying that little attention to the act of controlling a 2 tonne lump of metal? Unobservant, incompetent, complacent f&*^wits.
Had to laugh a while back i came up behind smeone with the l/h mirror folder in, was on the bike.I got the guy's attention with a wave in the other mirror, shouted(not gonna work over my exhaust)pointed to his mirror then tapped mine...
he just took off through the red light!
Baz Tench said:
A colleague of mine was once passing a parked car on his motorbike. Suddenly the drivers door swung open and knocked him off it (ok, maybe he was too close to said car).
Anyway, he was fine, but when he asked the woman driver if she had checked her door mirror before opening her door, her reply was: "Oh, I don't use them".
Unreal.
So brazen with her stupidity as well. Hopefully one day she'll do the same in front of an artic and have her door ripped off. Anyway, he was fine, but when he asked the woman driver if she had checked her door mirror before opening her door, her reply was: "Oh, I don't use them".
Unreal.
Pan Pan said:
Those drivers who in heavy traffic, let a 100+ metre gap occur between them, and the car in front after that car has moved forward, before `they' deign to move off.
They make traffic jams far longer/ slower, and worse than they need to be especially when one gets a clutch of these idiots in a particular traffic jam who compound the problem.
They are a particular pain if you are behind one of them, not least because some drivers see these idiots performance as a chance to lane hop, and whilst the lanes either side are moving forward, (owing to traffic flow from the other lanes into the gap) the lane with the gap leaver in it, hardly moves forward at all.
On a similar point, people who wait for ages when traffic lights go green before setting off. Instead of 10+ cars going through, you get 2 or 3. Of course the cock socket who dawdled gets through no problem though They make traffic jams far longer/ slower, and worse than they need to be especially when one gets a clutch of these idiots in a particular traffic jam who compound the problem.
They are a particular pain if you are behind one of them, not least because some drivers see these idiots performance as a chance to lane hop, and whilst the lanes either side are moving forward, (owing to traffic flow from the other lanes into the gap) the lane with the gap leaver in it, hardly moves forward at all.
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