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AlexRS2782 said:
People who refuse to drive in bus lanes when the lane isn't currently in operation 
There's one on the A30 running past Camberley towards the Meadows and it's only during rush hour times you're not meant to use it. For some reason even at 1.30 in the afternoon people don't seem to want to drive in it therefore causing a nice queue back from a set of traffic lights Yet when i decide to drive in the bus lane outside of the rush hour times you get glared & sworn at by muppets who cant read the big blue sign with the bus lane operation times written on it
yes they're nobs, but it means less traffic in the inactive bus lane so you can undertake them allThere's one on the A30 running past Camberley towards the Meadows and it's only during rush hour times you're not meant to use it. For some reason even at 1.30 in the afternoon people don't seem to want to drive in it therefore causing a nice queue back from a set of traffic lights
Yet when i decide to drive in the bus lane outside of the rush hour times you get glared & sworn at by muppets who cant read the big blue sign with the bus lane operation times written on it AlexRS2782 said:
People who refuse to drive in bus lanes when the lane isn't currently in operation
There's one on the A30 running past Camberley towards the Meadows and it's only during rush hour times you're not meant to use it. For some reason even at 1.30 in the afternoon people don't seem to want to drive in it therefore causing a nice queue back from a set of traffic lights Yet when i decide to drive in the bus lane outside of the rush hour times you get glared & sworn at by muppets who cant read the big blue sign with the bus lane operation times written on it
They have got round this problem in Norwich recently, by making more of the bus lanes 24/7. There is hardly ever a bus on them most of the time I guess NCC just like to fThere's one on the A30 running past Camberley towards the Meadows and it's only during rush hour times you're not meant to use it. For some reason even at 1.30 in the afternoon people don't seem to want to drive in it therefore causing a nice queue back from a set of traffic lights
Yet when i decide to drive in the bus lane outside of the rush hour times you get glared & sworn at by muppets who cant read the big blue sign with the bus lane operation times written on it 
k up anyone driving a car into the City. 
Garlick said:
Blown2CV said:
yes they're nobs, but it means less traffic in the inactive bus lane so you can undertake them all
and long may that continuenicanary said:
I think it's more a case of "I'm not sure what that means, so I'll b e careful and not get caught". They've probably seen the sign, and can't decide what it means. I see it all the time.
I see this quite a lot, apparently in connection with that white circle sign with the black diagonal stripe. A127 every morning, people happily bimbling along at just over 55mph because while they know it's not a 50 limit any more they're not quite sure what the limit actually is and there's cameras and everything. Most of them in the outside lane, with enough in the inside lane doing exactly the same speed so you can't undertake either, obviously. Thanks, knobs.Fatchops said:
Any advertiser that describes their car as 'mint' or 'clean and tidy' then reels of a massive list of the cars specification right down to front and rear head restraints and doors and a steering wheel but mentions nothing of any recent parts or service history.
Advertisers who say the car has a full service history up until X miles (when they bought it) and you look at the current mileage as Y and notice there's 50,000 miles difference. So basically they've bought a well looked after car, hammered it and now want top prices for it. 
jimmy the hat said:
I see this quite a lot, apparently in connection with that white circle sign with the black diagonal stripe. A127 every morning, people happily bimbling along at just over 55mph because while they know it's not a 50 limit any more they're not quite sure what the limit actually is and there's cameras and everything. Most of them in the outside lane, with enough in the inside lane doing exactly the same speed so you can't undertake either, obviously. Thanks, knobs.
We have 40=limit areas here and most people do 35mph because they're not QUITE sure. If they think it's a 30-limit they're still speeding FFS. And the number of folks who don't know the difference between a two-lane road and a dual carriageway - if you don't know, why the F don't you find out? Lazy knobs.The woman at the head of a long queue in a shop in Gloucester this morning with a handful of items.
Conversation went like this:
Customer (rudely): how much this?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer: how much this one?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer: how much this one?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer (as she slammed down an item on the counter): how much this one? tell me now!
Staff Member: one pound madam.
Bloke in front of me, who was getting very pissed off with her rudeness, said to her 'Every item costs one pound because, as the sign over the door says, you are in Poundland'.
Her response? She told him to stop being racist as she was Polish so she didnt understand English, she slammed the items down on the counter & she stormed out of the shop buying nothing at all!
Her attitude was quite odd because half an hour earlier the very same woman was having a conversation with a member of staff at the job centre when she was able to speak perfect English.
No doubt to ensure that she got her benefits paid on time....
Knobess.
Conversation went like this:
Customer (rudely): how much this?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer: how much this one?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer: how much this one?
Staff Member: one pound.
Customer (as she slammed down an item on the counter): how much this one? tell me now!
Staff Member: one pound madam.
Bloke in front of me, who was getting very pissed off with her rudeness, said to her 'Every item costs one pound because, as the sign over the door says, you are in Poundland'.
Her response? She told him to stop being racist as she was Polish so she didnt understand English, she slammed the items down on the counter & she stormed out of the shop buying nothing at all!
Her attitude was quite odd because half an hour earlier the very same woman was having a conversation with a member of staff at the job centre when she was able to speak perfect English.
No doubt to ensure that she got her benefits paid on time....
Knobess.
No doubt this has probably been done to death, but this really got on my nerves on the motorway today. People with e mindset: Indicators = right of way. Had several people cut me up at 70mph all because they could wait a couple of seconds for me to pass and then signal, and merge properly
Dalto123 said:
No doubt this has probably been done to death, but this really got on my nerves on the motorway today. People with e mindset: Indicators = right of way. Had several people cut me up at 70mph all because they could wait a couple of seconds for me to pass and then signal, and merge properly
Mine's similar but form the other point of view. I'm cruising in L1 and coming up to a lorry, look in the mirror and see that there's a gap in L2 i can pull out into with a car coming but only with a small speed differential so plenty of time, signal my intentions in plenty of time but the knob decides to speed up. By this point i'm perched on the white line with indicator going assuming they will move into L3 or back off. No. They stay in L2 and make me brake. Knobs
GokTweed said:
Mine's similar but form the other point of view. I'm cruising in L1 and coming up to a lorry, look in the mirror and see that there's a gap in L2 i can pull out into with a car coming but only with a small speed differential so plenty of time, signal my intentions in plenty of time but the knob decides to speed up.
By this point i'm perched on the white line with indicator going assuming they will move into L3 or back off. No. They stay in L2 and make me brake. Knobs
Had that aswell today. If its consolation I'm nothing like that By this point i'm perched on the white line with indicator going assuming they will move into L3 or back off. No. They stay in L2 and make me brake. Knobs
If I'm in L2 and someone wants to merge onto this lane from L1 and L3 is clear, I will move as soon as possible On the emergency services subject...
A few years ago I was driving home one evening when behind me coming down the road was a fire engine on blues. There were a few cars in front of me as well and we all indicated and pulled into the kerb in ample time so as to give the engine a clear route through.
Just in front of where we had stopped was a side road joining our carriageway and waiting to pull out was a youngish girl in a small shed of a car. She looks, see's all the cars to the right of her pulled over and indicating, completely misses seeing the bloody large red fire engine and pulls straight out in front of it. How she didn't see it I'll never know but credit to the engines driver because I have no idea how he missed her. She'd pulled out, realised why we were all stopped and rather than getting out of the way she'd slammed on the brakes in the middle of the road and sat staring at the now stopped fire engine with her hands over her mouth in shock.
It was a good 20 seconds before she shifted. I was truly amazed.
A few years ago I was driving home one evening when behind me coming down the road was a fire engine on blues. There were a few cars in front of me as well and we all indicated and pulled into the kerb in ample time so as to give the engine a clear route through.
Just in front of where we had stopped was a side road joining our carriageway and waiting to pull out was a youngish girl in a small shed of a car. She looks, see's all the cars to the right of her pulled over and indicating, completely misses seeing the bloody large red fire engine and pulls straight out in front of it. How she didn't see it I'll never know but credit to the engines driver because I have no idea how he missed her. She'd pulled out, realised why we were all stopped and rather than getting out of the way she'd slammed on the brakes in the middle of the road and sat staring at the now stopped fire engine with her hands over her mouth in shock.
It was a good 20 seconds before she shifted. I was truly amazed.
A few that may have been mentioned earlier:
Pulled over for an ambulance on blues ahead of where the single carriageway road got a concrete central reservation (so it wouldn't be able to pass); Mrs Xara overtakes...
When you pull in behind a parked car as someone is coming the other way, but someone behind passes you and forces the oncoming car to stop.
On a plane, those that stand up as soon as it lands in a rush to wait at the luggage reclaim.
Pulled over for an ambulance on blues ahead of where the single carriageway road got a concrete central reservation (so it wouldn't be able to pass); Mrs Xara overtakes...
When you pull in behind a parked car as someone is coming the other way, but someone behind passes you and forces the oncoming car to stop.
On a plane, those that stand up as soon as it lands in a rush to wait at the luggage reclaim.
pulliptears said:
On the emergency services subject...
A few years ago I was driving home one evening when behind me coming down the road was a fire engine on blues. There were a few cars in front of me as well and we all indicated and pulled into the kerb in ample time so as to give the engine a clear route through.
Just in front of where we had stopped was a side road joining our carriageway and waiting to pull out was a youngish girl in a small shed of a car. She looks, see's all the cars to the right of her pulled over and indicating, completely misses seeing the bloody large red fire engine and pulls straight out in front of it. How she didn't see it I'll never know but credit to the engines driver because I have no idea how he missed her. She'd pulled out, realised why we were all stopped and rather than getting out of the way she'd slammed on the brakes in the middle of the road and sat staring at the now stopped fire engine with her hands over her mouth in shock.
It was a good 20 seconds before she shifted. I was truly amazed.
Had a similar experience to that, I was driving along and noticed an Ambulance coming towards me in the distance, the lane heading the opposite direction was nose to tail so the Ambulance was on my side of the road, so as the Ambulance got towards me I stopped just before a traffic island and before a side road, so the Ambulance could continue going down my side of the road but the idiot waiting in the side road decided to pull out and nearly got t-boned by the Ambulance, the look of horror on the Ambulance drivers face was incredible as he stopped half a foot before this car that by then had stopped dead in the middle of the road. Once the car reversed out the way the Ambulance continued on but lost a minute of response timeA few years ago I was driving home one evening when behind me coming down the road was a fire engine on blues. There were a few cars in front of me as well and we all indicated and pulled into the kerb in ample time so as to give the engine a clear route through.
Just in front of where we had stopped was a side road joining our carriageway and waiting to pull out was a youngish girl in a small shed of a car. She looks, see's all the cars to the right of her pulled over and indicating, completely misses seeing the bloody large red fire engine and pulls straight out in front of it. How she didn't see it I'll never know but credit to the engines driver because I have no idea how he missed her. She'd pulled out, realised why we were all stopped and rather than getting out of the way she'd slammed on the brakes in the middle of the road and sat staring at the now stopped fire engine with her hands over her mouth in shock.
It was a good 20 seconds before she shifted. I was truly amazed.
The absolute tt at the weekend who almost forced me off the A10 near Downham Market, as he pulled out to overtake a caravan as I was already alongside him! There's a nice stretch about a mile long, dead straight. I gave the guy plenty of time to go for the overtake, nothing happens. So I pull out to pass him and the caravan, get almost completely alongside and THEN he decides to go for it. wker!
t at the weekend who almost forced me off the A10 near Downham Market, as he pulled out to overtake a caravan as I was already alongside him! There's a nice stretch about a mile long, dead straight. I gave the guy plenty of time to go for the overtake, nothing happens. So I pull out to pass him and the caravan, get almost completely alongside and THEN he decides to go for it. wker!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff