One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[Europa1]

g7jtk said:

People that drive up behind you and give you the finger because the think you have taken their space when they were too far away to have it. Like in the Ikia car park today. You were nowhere near bud.

People who can't spell "IKEA" despite having been there; it's in 15 foot high, bright yellow letters on the side of the building.

[mybrainhurts]

WD39 said:

JagXJR said:

chriscoates said:

When we had the snow in Sheffield on Wednesday most people were driving about with about 5 inches of the stuff on their roof. I was walking and witnessed one woman braking downhill in a Corsa; inevitably it all slid down her windscreen so she stopped in the middle of the road, brushed it all off into the road and carried on, thereby creating a skid risk for anyone unfortunate enough to be coming down after her you do have to wonder what goes through their heads when they already have to clear the snow off their windscreen and windows but then don't bother with the roof.

I have a soft brush and use this to clear it off, it's not hard is it? I think most people could lift a long handled brush up to roof level lleyes:

There is no better day to have snow in Sheffield.

Boom boom...

Ref the slidey snow off roof scenario. All well and good but this can happen when you set off with a clear roof and have to sit in stationary traffic for an hour in a blizzard. Happened to me on this very day, completely covering the screen.

As I stopped to brush it off with the aforementioned long handled soft brush (ta daaa), I could see the rolling eyes of the occupants of the car behind. A short time after setting off again, I saw that very car experience the same problem.

Oh, how we laughed....

He didn't have a long handled soft brush.

[mybrainhurts]

kowalski655 said:

Admitedly I dont think he had a choice in a Sprite

People who think TRs are Sprites...uberknobs..

[irocfan]

HD Adam said:

Driving along happily yesterday in a 50mph section and approaching a T-Junction.

To set the scene, I'm driving along the top of the T and the side road is on my right.

As I get near, there's a car approaching me indicating to turn left into the junction and a car waiting in the junction waiting to turn right, out of it.

I'm sure you can guess what happens next.

The car approaching me (let's call him Ray Charles) flashes the car waiting to pull out as he's turning into the junction.

The car pulling out (Stevie Wonder) has no need to look left as he's been flashed out and so pulls out of the junction right in front of me and about 2mph.

I was anticipating and sort of covering the brake as you have to expect a bit of tttery now and again but the ABS did kick in.

please tell me that it wasn't in the Harley? A normal car would be bad enough

[HD Adam]

irocfan said:

HD Adam said:

Driving along happily yesterday in a 50mph section and approaching a T-Junction.

To set the scene, I'm driving along the top of the T and the side road is on my right.

As I get near, there's a car approaching me indicating to turn left into the junction and a car waiting in the junction waiting to turn right, out of it.

I'm sure you can guess what happens next.

The car approaching me (let's call him Ray Charles) flashes the car waiting to pull out as he's turning into the junction.

The car pulling out (Stevie Wonder) has no need to look left as he's been flashed out and so pulls out of the junction right in front of me and about 2mph.

I was anticipating and sort of covering the brake as you have to expect a bit of tttery now and again but the ABS did kick in.

please tell me that it wasn't in the Harley? A normal car would be bad enough

No, in the old banger A8.

No point using the truck in this weather

[Issi]

The MLM in the black 320d, who was doing approx 55 on the M5, and holding up a load of traffic.

I overtook and gave him a look and both he and his OH both gave me a beaming smile back, as if to say 'Yes, we know we're holding everyone up, isn't it a hoot!'

Oddballs.

[Jim AK]

loafer123 said:

AdeV said:

Jim AK said:

AdeV said:

Also - people who, when a van is overtaking them, speed up just enough to prevent the manoeuvre from completing in a reasonable time. Especially when the van in question has a slightly leaky turbo and the driver is doing his damndest not to trigger limp mode by overusing boost.... DAMHIKT.

You attempt to overtake in a van with this issue?

Theres a word in the title of this thread to describe someone trying that sort of thing.

Really? So if I'm on a motorway, for example, I'm supposed to travel at the same speed - or less - as the slowest thing that's out there, just because my van is currently slightly asthmatic?

Honestly, what the fk is wrong with you?

Were you on a motorway?

It sounded like you weren't from your first post.

If you were overtaking on a normal two lane road in the knowledge of the problem with your van, you have noone to blame but yourself for putting yourself in danger.

Loafer obviously got the same impression as me. You weren't on the motorway were you?

[AdeV]

Jim AK said:

loafer123 said:

AdeV said:

Jim AK said:

AdeV said:

Also - people who, when a van is overtaking them, speed up just enough to prevent the manoeuvre from completing in a reasonable time. Especially when the van in question has a slightly leaky turbo and the driver is doing his damndest not to trigger limp mode by overusing boost.... DAMHIKT.

You attempt to overtake in a van with this issue?

Theres a word in the title of this thread to describe someone trying that sort of thing.

Really? So if I'm on a motorway, for example, I'm supposed to travel at the same speed - or less - as the slowest thing that's out there, just because my van is currently slightly asthmatic?

Honestly, what the fk is wrong with you?

Were you on a motorway?

It sounded like you weren't from your first post.

If you were overtaking on a normal two lane road in the knowledge of the problem with your van, you have noone to blame but yourself for putting yourself in danger.

Loafer obviously got the same impression as me. You weren't on the motorway were you?

I think it says more about you & Loafer, that you would immediately assume that this was single carriageway road, and thus conclude that I am the knob. I mean, if I were to do something as knobbish as attempt an overtake in a sickly vehicle on NSL, do you really think I'd come here and moan about people who speed up when being passed?

Who was it who said that assumptions were the mother of all fkups?

Anyway - apologies for not making it totally and utterly clear that I was talking about a multi-lane scenario, but don't just assume in future, if you need clarification, ask?

Edited by AdeV on Saturday 31st January 23:23

[Jim AK]

Well to be honest using a vehicle with the fault yours has in any circumstances isn't entirely sensible.

Drivers on motorways often use cruise control & would accelerate on an uphill section automatically & would expect that you would be doing the same either by CC or manual input.

The car you are attempting to overtake in your asthmatic van would not be aware of its issues so why should he be expected to shed speed just for you?

[g7jtk]

Is that better?

[AdeV]

Jim AK said:

Well to be honest using a vehicle with the fault yours has in any circumstances isn't entirely sensible.

If the van was a daily driver, then I'd tend to agree that getting it fixed would be a priority. It's not, I use it once in a blue moon, so whilst I do plan to get it fixed, there's no rush. And the fault is only very minor, and only affects acceleration above about 50mph, and prevents the van from doing more than about 80mph on the flat (er, allegedly). I can live with it.

Jim AK said:

Drivers on motorways often use cruise control & would accelerate on an uphill section automatically & would expect that you would be doing the same either by CC or manual input.

Hills? Who mentioned hills? Other than you?

Jim AK said:

The car you are attempting to overtake in your asthmatic van would not be aware of its issues so why should he be expected to shed speed just for you?

Did you even read my original post?

I'm complaining about drivers who speed up as you pass them. Especially in my van where I can't easily and quickly add speed to finish the manoeuvre and pull back out of the passing lane - but it happens if I'm passing people in my car as well.

Seriously, just admit that you made a bad knob call based on insufficient knowledge and we'll move on, instead of trying to twist the scenario around until you've "won".

PS: Here's another one, perhaps you'd like to make a "knob" call here too? I also own a 1969 Bedford bus, converted to a race car transporter. Being an ancient 7 litre non-turbo Diesel dragging nearly 10 tons around, it's not the quickest machine around. Being so old, however, it doesn't have a speed limiter (nor does it need one by law, I might add). So, on the flat, it'll cheerfully tonk along at around 65-70mph (although 56 is obviously the maximum limit for the weight & vehicle class). So, one comes across some dawdler doing 50mph, assuming the middle lane is clear one pulls out, gets along side; and the dawdler speeds up to 55. Or more. There's nothing (legal) I can do, so I have to give up, drop back, and pull back in. Dawdler ususally gets 100 yds or so ahead, and then slows down again.

Question: Am I still the knob in your eyes?

[TheAllSeeingPie]

AdeV said:

Question: Am I still the knob in your eyes?

For that example you wouldn't be a knob at all, unless you then did what the professional HGV drivers do which is tailgate the fk out of that knobber slowing down, which given your attitude so far seems unlikely

[Countdown]

AdeV said:

Did you even read my original post?

I'm complaining about drivers who speed up as you pass them. Especially in my van where I can't easily and quickly add speed to finish the manoeuvre and pull back out of the passing lane - but it happens if I'm passing people in my car as well.

Admittedly easier said than done but you often need to factor in "knobbish or unexpected reactions from other drivers" when carrying out overtakes and the decide if risk =< reward.

[Muddle238]

I agree here actually, people who speed up as you're overtaking them on a motorway/DC is seriously irritating, especially when I'm using cruise control. I jam the accelerator to pass, pull back in, let the cc recapture the cruising speed and they slow down! I watch them disappear in the mirrors, oh why they can't just maintain a steady speed I do not know.

One of the most frustrating are approaching motorway on-slips, there's a large barrage of vehicles entering and so you move over to accommodate them. There's always a VAG product however amongst them which pulls out into L2, at which point you move to L3 to accommodate them. As you come alongside, already giving it a few more beans to pass the pack, they insist on accelerating past on the inside, absolute cock wkers.

[WD39]

JagXJR said:

CB2152 said:

9mm said:

WD39 said:

9mm said:

CB2152 said:

The old bloke in the Peugeot 308 who, on a two lane roundabout, came from the outside lane to the inside lane, while I was in the inside lane.

I hit the brakes and sounded the horn in the hope he would not hit my front wing, but all that did was prompt him to indicate (which he wasn't before) while continuing to cut me off, as he was clearly intent on taking the 3rd exit. Fortunately he didn't hit me, must have missed by about a foot.

Didn't even acknowledge what he'd done afterwards.

Two types of driver who I always expect to straight line roundabouts - Range Rover drivers and old people.

There are many others who carry out this practice. Personal Platers, Oversize exhausters, Four up Boy Racers, Small White Vanners, Selfish Speeders,(saving time), Other Worlders, On the Phoners, Me, (in the nineties). Now, as a certified old person, I no longer indulge.

There are, but I expect the two types I mentioned to do it, whereas it's just a guess whether the others will. Everyone's experience is different.

Interestingly this wasn't just straight lining, this was the full blown "start in the left lane, enter roundabout, try and enter right hand lane regardless of what currently occupies it, and then take the third exit turning right."

As this superb rendering shows:

Old people have no excuse, for as long as I have been driving (over 30 years) it has been the case that if you are in the inside lane and the outside lane is not clear to move into, then you should carry on around the roundabout to try again. This has been clearly documented in the Highway Code book (for those that can read).

I can only assume that the other categories of drivers mentioned either are ignorant (meaning they don't know rather than being an insult as more commonly used these days) or don't care.

Have to take issue with the personal platers you mention, we have 3 vehicles with these on and don't drive like dheads! That's like saying all Audi drivers are bad drivers ............. hmmm perhaps not the best example I could have used

So glad that you don't straightline at roundabouts. However, as all PH posters will know, because of the dozens of posts that criticise certain P platers and their driving skills, it is the perception of a P Plate driver that is the problem.

[Jim AK]

AdeV said:

Did you even read my original post?

I'm complaining about drivers who speed up as you pass them. Especially in my van where I can't easily and quickly add speed to finish the manoeuvre and pull back out of the passing lane - but it happens if I'm passing people in my car as well.

Seriously, just admit that you made a bad knob call based on insufficient knowledge and we'll move on, instead of trying to twist the scenario around until you've "won".

PS: Here's another one, perhaps you'd like to make a "knob" call here too? I also own a 1969 Bedford bus, converted to a race car transporter. Being an ancient 7 litre non-turbo Diesel dragging nearly 10 tons around, it's not the quickest machine around. Being so old, however, it doesn't have a speed limiter (nor does it need one by law, I might add). So, on the flat, it'll cheerfully tonk along at around 65-70mph (although 56 is obviously the maximum limit for the weight & vehicle class). So, one comes across some dawdler doing 50mph, assuming the middle lane is clear one pulls out, gets along side; and the dawdler speeds up to 55. Or more. There's nothing (legal) I can do, so I have to give up, drop back, and pull back in. Dawdler ususally gets 100 yds or so ahead, and then slows down again.

Question: Am I still the knob in your eyes?

Maybe it was a bad call. I agree others speeding up is knobbish & have posted the same thing previously.

Still don't think driving that van on a motorway is very bright though.

As regards your Bus/transporter. Just accept there a knobs out there & suck it up.

[TheAllSeeingPie]

Muddle238 said:

One of the most frustrating are approaching motorway on-slips, there's a large barrage of vehicles entering and so you move over to accommodate them. There's always a VAG product however amongst them which pulls out into L2, at which point you move to L3 to accommodate them. As you come alongside, already giving it a few more beans to pass the pack, they insist on accelerating past on the inside, absolute cock wkers.

+1

[kowalski655]

mybrainhurts said:

kowalski655 said:

Admitedly I dont think he had a choice in a Sprite

People who think TRs are Sprites...uberknobs..

I dunno,all these old bangers look the same

[MarkRSi]

People who don't hesitate to pull out in front of you, but then engage maximum dithering mode by driving extremely slowly like an extremely fat person waddling down a path taking up the entire width, blissfully unaware of the world around them

[percymk4]

People who can't just accept they were in the wrong and apologise.

Me, on my way to a night-shift, driving through my village with parking spaces either side of the road, taxi parked up on the right and a car coming the opposite way waiting for me to pass so as he could get through.

Suddenly said knob decides to shoot out of his space on the right (behind the taxi) in reverse. He fails to see me and forces me to stop and use horn to show him I'm there.

He stops, glares for a few seconds, and mouths something like "fk off". So I put the window down and ask him if he could move forward so I (and the car behind me) could get past. He then puts his window down and asks: "what the fk is your problem?"
"You nearly hit my car"
"what?"
"you nearly hit my car"
"..."
"Can I get past then?"
"Better hope I don't see you around here again mate"
"aye ok"

He then follows me out the village, right up my arse with the full beams on his diesel A3 blazing away.

If he'd have held his hands up in a "sorry for the mistake" way then it would've been a non event, rather than going straight for the aggressive "I'm right and fk everyone else" attitude that seems to be what you find a lot of on the roads now.

Knob.