Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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Motorists who thank you with a flash or two of their hazard lights. It always gives me a moment of consternation as my natural reflex is to react the same way as if someone braked for no reason in front of you or put their hazards on - in both cases you immediately start looking for a hazard ahead and prepare to brake. It doesn't matter that you know they are thanking you; it still triggers it.
So therefore people doing this annoys me beyond reason. If you have to thank me with lights, try alternating indicators as this doesn't provoke the same reaction.
So therefore people doing this annoys me beyond reason. If you have to thank me with lights, try alternating indicators as this doesn't provoke the same reaction.
Shakermaker said:
But, stuck-in-past Steve Wright who needs to move over to a different show now, still insists on pronouncing their text number as "8-8-2-9-1" all the time. It is as if he doesn't get the link between them at all, or that nobody at the station has dared to tell him that it is a simple piece of numberplay.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Shakermaker said:
But, stuck-in-past Steve Wright who needs to move over to a different show now, still insists on pronouncing their text number as "8-8-2-9-1" all the time. It is as if he doesn't get the link between them at all, or that nobody at the station has dared to tell him that it is a simple piece of numberplay.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Shakermaker said:
But, stuck-in-past Steve Wright who needs to move over to a different show now, still insists on pronouncing their text number as "8-8-2-9-1" all the time. It is as if he doesn't get the link between them at all, or that nobody at the station has dared to tell him that it is a simple piece of numberplay.
t like Wrighty.ClockworkCupcake said:
Motorists who thank you with a flash or two of their hazard lights. It always gives me a moment of consternation as my natural reflex is to react the same way as if someone braked for no reason in front of you or put their hazards on - in both cases you immediately start looking for a hazard ahead and prepare to brake. It doesn't matter that you know they are thanking you; it still triggers it.
So therefore people doing this annoys me beyond reason. If you have to thank me with lights, try alternating indicators as this doesn't provoke the same reaction.
People who concentrate so hard on thanking you out on the road, that they forget to demonstrate the best possible "thank you!" of them all...So therefore people doing this annoys me beyond reason. If you have to thank me with lights, try alternating indicators as this doesn't provoke the same reaction.
...by just get on with getting on. I'm fully aware of how much of a nice chap letting you turn right ahead of me makes me. But I'd planned to allow your right turn by lifting off the accelerator and being prepared to stop if necessary. F
king about trying to find various light switches, or swapping hands to wave your thanks is just delaying things, and making it more likely that I need to slow beyond what I'd planned for, or even stop completely. It's also why I seldom wave people across unless I'm absolutely confident that they'll seize the opportunity and act on it quickly.More things that annoy beyond reason?
The Volvo driver sat in the queue to go right (A281) out of Guildford on Tuesday evening. I'd just come in down the A31 past the station, and was heading in to the York Road car park. Volvo idiot was sat at a red traffic light, mine was green. As I approach, the nose of the car moves out toward me. Then, as I'm alongside, the left indicator comes on, and the horn sounds. Yes dear? I fully accept that I could see you'd begun a manoeuvre. And I could feasibly have stopped dead in the road to allow you to complete it. But I could NOT confidently predict that the car following me would also stop in time, so I didn't. That, I'm afraid, is LIFE. YOU got yourself into the wrong lane, not me. Ultimately, you could go around the block to get across, as the buildings there are effectively in the middle of a traffic light controlled roundabout.
What annoyed me more, though, was what happened next. The car behind me also didn't let her out. As it was I think we'd both established that there was a gap behind us where the traffic lights had gone from green to red. She got out OK. I was watching in my mirrors, and there was definitely some arm waving going on by the Volvo driver. Possibly light flashing too. Then the car behind me moved left, and the mad woman in the Volvo was directly behind me. As we crawled toward the next traffic light, there was more arm waving, insulting gestures, and high-beam flashing. Then the light ahead turned red and we all stopped. Mad Volvo woman now got distracted from her abuse of me, by something on her passenger seat. So much so that when the light turned green and I moved through, she sat there unaware. And sat, and sat, and sat. Sadly for those stuck behind her, when the car behind her gave a long blast on the horn, only she and that car got through the light. So what annoyed me was the fact that she'd gone from "in a massive hurry to the point where I'll abuse other drivers" to "f
k the rest of the human race, they can all wait behind me" in one cycle of a traffic light.Seriously? If you need to use your laptop/phone/kindle/etc that much, catch a f
king bus you crazy stupid woman!james_tigerwoods said:
My kids watch the Pop kids TV channel - I'll skirt by Power Rangers as they deserve a special place in Hell, but the Park advert really winds me up as it plays a little Christmas jingle at the end which angers me (I know why, I just hate it)....
Me too. Christmas music when it's not Christmas is incredibily irritating. It's all forgiven though because for some reason I find the woman in the advert mind bogglingly attractive.When queuing at a T-junction behind a row of cars indicating their intention to turn left onto the main road, but they are unable to do so because they are blocked by some idiot wanting to turn right into a stationary queue of traffic.
Unfortunately said idiot has positioned their car in the middle of the fg road, four feet from the centreline instead of adjacent to it, so nobody can get past on the left.
YOU INCONSIDERATE FG TWUNT!!! 
....and breathe in...... and breathe out....
Unfortunately said idiot has positioned their car in the middle of the f
g road, four feet from the centreline instead of adjacent to it, so nobody can get past on the left.YOU INCONSIDERATE F
G TWUNT!!! ....and breathe in...... and breathe out....
Ah T-junctions. Reminded me of one of my annoyances, pulling up at a T-junction and having to slow up early because the tt coming from the left and turning right into the junction is cutting across both lanes and the front of me.
This sort of thing - https://youtu.be/UJ4tHRU0zCw?t=9
t coming from the left and turning right into the junction is cutting across both lanes and the front of me.This sort of thing - https://youtu.be/UJ4tHRU0zCw?t=9
MartG said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Motorists who thank you with a flash or two of their hazard lights.
People who flash their headlights as a 'thank you' at night - yes, on a dark road I really want to be dazzled by your fking main beam you tt 
McAndy said:
MartG said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Motorists who thank you with a flash or two of their hazard lights.
People who flash their headlights as a 'thank you' at night - yes, on a dark road I really want to be dazzled by your fking main beam you tt glenrobbo said:
Balmoral said:
ood one, but not beyond reason.
Sorry, but I disagree. It gets me far far more annoyed than I reasonably should.
It's the sort of thing that leads to road rage.
If it's supposed to be the latter, I'd suggest the thread title was badly constructed and should read "Things about which it is beyond reason to be annoyed".
glenrobbo said:
When queuing at a T-junction behind a row of cars indicating their intention to turn left onto the main road, but they are unable to do so because they are blocked by some idiot wanting to turn right into a stationary queue of traffic.
Unfortunately said idiot has positioned their car in the middle of the fg road, four feet from the centreline instead of adjacent to it, so nobody can get past on the left.
YOU INCONSIDERATE FG TWUNT!!!
....and breathe in...... and breathe out....
Also. People like this BMW (but usually worse).Unfortunately said idiot has positioned their car in the middle of the f
g road, four feet from the centreline instead of adjacent to it, so nobody can get past on the left.YOU INCONSIDERATE F
G TWUNT!!! ....and breathe in...... and breathe out....
https://goo.gl/maps/eGheWjMfQsB2
People seem to have no idea how to use those, and I've no idea why.
SilverSixer said:
Ah, the age old misunderstanding. Some people think this thread is about things which annoy us so much we lose all reason. Others think it's about things which it is unreasonable to be annoyed by and yet one is still annoyed.
If it's supposed to be the latter, I'd suggest the thread title was badly constructed and should read "Things about which it is beyond reason to be annoyed".
So, tell us - which category is the thread title in for you?If it's supposed to be the latter, I'd suggest the thread title was badly constructed and should read "Things about which it is beyond reason to be annoyed".
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