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

[Hackney]

Its been quite a week.

1) people who see this sign https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.620067,-0.309609... and think that they have the right to pip me even when I'm 50% through the chicane before they even arrived because they have priority. Once someone actually came through and blocked the whole thing!

2) The people who are driving left to right along the road at the top and decide to turn right down the second entry rather than the entry where the white Polo is, thus blocking everyone who wants to turn right at the top of the road to https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.625533,-0.317191...
Special mention to the woman who was queued next to me (and her daughter) who both started shouting at me that "it's not allowed!!!!" when I asked why they didn't take the turning they were supposed to take so I could get on with my day without waiting for ages

3) the Luton van who veered from left lane to right lane right in front of me on the slip road from A1 to M25 East bound as he overtook a lorry. Admittedly he indicated, which meant I knew a split second earlier that I'd have to stand on the brakes. I pipped. When I overtook him he gave me the coffee beans. Because obviously I'd done something wrong

4) the Enfield bus driver who took a sharp right bend too quick and cut the corner causing me and the car in front of me to stop suddenly then refused to move either forwards or backwards so we could all go about our day.
"can you move forward a couple of feet"
"No, I can wait here all day"
"So you want me to reverse but I can't because there are several cars behind me now"
"I don't want you to do nothin'"
"So you're just going to stay there"
"I can stay here all day"
"Won't your passengers get annoyed"
"I can let them off"
and so on, and so on

[scarble]

alpha channel said:

I'm assuming this is pointed to me in a "kinda of, roundabout sort of thing" manner seeing as it's suddenly popped up.

I probably should have ended with a or a but do you really think people want to click through to your garage to find out what kind of coupe? It ruins the flow of the story
and is not too far to referring to your car as "The M" or "AMG" or "RAWDI" ()

[alpha channel]

nah I'll bung in 200 Coupe in the future if I ever need to refer to the old girl again (hopefully now the dark rush hour evenings are receding the level of knobbish behaviour should drop a bit more).

[CoolHands]

hackney said:

4) the Enfield bus driver who took a sharp right bend too quick and cut the corner causing me and the car in front of me to stop suddenly then refused to move either forwards or backwards so we could all go about our day.
"can you move forward a couple of feet"
"No, I can wait here all day"
"So you want me to reverse but I can't because there are several cars behind me now"
"I don't want you to do nothin'"
"So you're just going to stay there"
"I can stay here all day
"Won't your passengers get annoyed"
"I can let them off"
and so on, and so on

should have took photos and made a complaint to his bus company. According to a bus progdamme on tv once they take them serisouly and if a driver gets more than (3 or something) they make them do a driver improvement course.

[zedx19]

Blue Focus ST who came flying up behind me while I was doing 70mph overtaking lorries on a dual carriageway. He sat inchs away from my bumper, swerving from side to side, then when I'd overtook the lorries, pulled back into L1 and he slowly overtook while apparently texting. Underneath the Focus badge on the back was a V6 badge he'd stuck on himself. Why oh why would you stick a V6 badge on???

[thismonkeyhere]

zedx19 said:

Blue Focus ST who came flying up behind me while I was doing 70mph overtaking lorries on a dual carriageway. He sat inchs away from my bumper, swerving from side to side, then when I'd overtook the lorries, pulled back into L1 and he slowly overtook while apparently texting. Underneath the Focus badge on the back was a V6 badge he'd stuck on himself. Why oh why would you stick a V6 badge on???

Because tt.

[JagXJR]

alpha channel said:

scarble said:

People who refer to their car simply as a "Coupe", "Roadster", "Touring" or whatever. Your Coupe isn't the only car ever to come in coupe form, why bother telling people what car you have if you aren't going to tell people what car you have?
What would you think if someone came on here talking about that one time they were driving along in the hatchback?

I'm assuming this is pointed to me in a "kinda of, roundabout sort of thing" manner seeing as it's suddenly popped up. Take a shufties at my garage, my Coupe is a Rover 200 Coupe, the Coupe part is in the name (unless I should refer to it by it's development codename, i.e. Tomcat, something which I prefer not to do as it's just a little too nerdy for me) and differentiates it from the other wedged Rover 200 models, of which there was a three door version but didn't have Coupe in the name but could be classed as a Coupe. Rather than constantly rattle out Rover 200 Coupe, a tad long winded, I've shortened it to Coupe (do you think I managed to include enough mentions of Coupe while still maintaining some form of cohesive sentence? ;D).

I got flamed badly for saying what model of car I drive, as I recall. So avoid mentioning it if at all possible.

Seems to be some anti-British car feelings on here at the moment. So don't blame alpha channel at all.

As long as it is listed in their garage where's the harm?

[mikal83]

JagXJR said:

I got flamed badly for saying what model of car I drive, as I recall. So avoid mentioning it if at all possible.

Seems to be some anti-British car feelings on here at the moment. So don't blame alpha channel at all.

As long as it is listed in their garage where's the harm?

Nope, not even close. The utter top knobness is the very few that feel they have to correct a minor grammar mistake.....and not contribute to the thread.

[iva cosworth]

Oblivious to rear wiper scraping away for over 10 minutes I was behind her through Teddington all

the way to the 316 at Feltham.

[Europa1]

iva cosworth said:

Oblivious to rear wiper scraping away for over 10 minutes I was behind her through Teddington all

the way to the 316 at Feltham.

You do have to wonder just how little attention people pay to piloting 2 tons of metal when you see behaviour like that, or my particular bugbear which is tooling around with the wing mirrors folded in.

[iva cosworth]

Yep ,folded mirrors does my head in...

[gavsdavs]

Baryonyx said:

I doubt you'll say the same the next time you get caught doing something wrong, but are offered a verbal warning if you're polite and admitting your mistaken...

What if a copper pulls you over and accuses you of something untrue ?

Story is - I turn right from victoria embankment (heading west) into chelsea across the front of the red BMW X5 used by the Met. I know full well some of these right turns cannot be used, and some can. I turn right up one where the road markings, 'turn right' traffic light and filter lane all said its legal.

I turned right IN FRONT of the Met police red BMW X5. He wasn't even close, but he promptly follows me, pulls me over a full 5 minutes later and says "your right turn was both illegal and unsafe". (Most of those 5 minutes were sitting in traffic light queues)

I say "hang on, I am allowed to turn right there.."
He loudly cuts me off and says "YOU CAN'T TURN RIGHT THERE".

Secondly, the turn was not unsafe - he was 40/50 metres away doing 20mph when I cross.

The copper clearly didn't want a discussion of any sort, he's lecturing.

It was me who passed over the road markings, sat in the filter lane and turned right, he approached from the west and had not. Me and my mate in the car had even discussed whether we could turn right as we both know some are not allowed.

This copper just wanted to yell at me for being in a shiny red car, even though both of his allegations (right turn not allowed, unsafe) were untrue.

The vast majority of Coppers do an awesome job keeping us safe. The driver of the red BMW x5 on that day wanted to yell at me and was willing to tell lies doing so.

[Pothole]

alpha channel said:

scarble said:

People who refer to their car simply as a "Coupe", "Roadster", "Touring" or whatever. Your Coupe isn't the only car ever to come in coupe form, why bother telling people what car you have if you aren't going to tell people what car you have?
What would you think if someone came on here talking about that one time they were driving along in the hatchback?

I'm assuming this is pointed to me in a "kinda of, roundabout sort of thing" manner seeing as it's suddenly popped up. Take a shufties at my garage, my Coupe is a Rover 200 Coupe, the Coupe part is in the name (unless I should refer to it by it's development codename, i.e. Tomcat, something which I prefer not to do as it's just a little too nerdy for me) and differentiates it from the other wedged Rover 200 models, of which there was a three door version but didn't have Coupe in the name but could be classed as a Coupe. Rather than constantly rattle out Rover 200 Coupe, a tad long winded, I've shortened it to Coupe (do you think I managed to include enough mentions of Coupe while still maintaining some form of cohesive sentence? ;D).

Shufty.
Coherent.

Carry on.

[Pothole]

carreauchompeur said:

Partly me, partly the other driver.

fkwit today who was going roughly the same speed as me, but decided to overtake on the motorway in a closing lane and then suddenly rejoin in front of me so suddenly it required anchoring on (massively knobbish). Flashed them my intense displeasure (knobbish) and then the male passenger gave me a cheery wave (not an apology: knobbish).

I kept pace with them until they rejoined lane 2. Luckily, having read the motorway ahead I found a lovely spot to put them in the box for a while. Blocked behind much slower traffic until I released them and carried on. They didn't follow. Juvenile, hugely knobbish and dangerous but oh so satisfying.

FTFY

[Johnnytheboy]

I'd like to add the chap in the Saab today who just pulled straight out across my path on a mini-roundabout as if I wasn't there. In my enormous Transit. That luckily has quite good brakes.

If he'd done the same trick in my old VW van I really don't know if I'd have stopped in time.

[Mopar440]

Johnnytheboy said:

I'd like to add the chap in the Saab today who just pulled straight out across my path on a mini-roundabout as if I wasn't there. In my enormous Transit. That luckily has quite good brakes.

If he'd done the same trick in my old VW van I really don't know if I'd have stopped in time.

Maybe he thought he'd entered the roundabout first and had right of way?

[Johnnytheboy]

Mopar440 said:

Maybe he thought he'd entered the roundabout first and had right of way?

Maybe. But he hadn't!

[mikal83]

The driver of a big red bus on the Launceston to Callington road doing about 40 mph with a big white ambulance right behind it, flashing lights, blues on etc and just carried on bimbling along...nice.

[Triumph Man]

alpha channel said:

scarble said:

People who refer to their car simply as a "Coupe", "Roadster", "Touring" or whatever. Your Coupe isn't the only car ever to come in coupe form, why bother telling people what car you have if you aren't going to tell people what car you have?
What would you think if someone came on here talking about that one time they were driving along in the hatchback?

I'm assuming this is pointed to me in a "kinda of, roundabout sort of thing" manner seeing as it's suddenly popped up. Take a shufties at my garage, my Coupe is a Rover 200 Coupe, the Coupe part is in the name (unless I should refer to it by it's development codename, i.e. Tomcat, something which I prefer not to do as it's just a little too nerdy for me) and differentiates it from the other wedged Rover 200 models, of which there was a three door version but didn't have Coupe in the name but could be classed as a Coupe. Rather than constantly rattle out Rover 200 Coupe, a tad long winded, I've shortened it to Coupe (do you think I managed to include enough mentions of Coupe while still maintaining some form of cohesive sentence? ;D).

Might be an 800, P5 etc

[Triumph Man]

scarble said:

alpha channel said:

I'm assuming this is pointed to me in a "kinda of, roundabout sort of thing" manner seeing as it's suddenly popped up.

I probably should have ended with a or a but do you really think people want to click through to your garage to find out what kind of coupe? It ruins the flow of the story
and is not too far to referring to your car as "The M" or "AMG" or "RAWDI" ()

The worst is one somebody refers to their car by its trim level. Generally "Sport" "I've got a BMW sport". Turns out it's a 318d.