One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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The knob who pulled out of a petrol station In his pick up truck into my path to cross the road causing me to brake hard.
Ugly, orange tanned girlfriend in passenger seat. He gestures at me and winds window down as he pulls past. I wind my window down.
Before he could say anything I said "big car ... Small knob " ... Girlfriend laughs., He then shouts " baldy !" at me.
Girlfiends laughs....
I raise my right arm to the window. Attached to my arm is a bottle, attached to a tube out of my arm.
I shout " that'll be the Cancer then".
Girlfiends looks at him in horror.
Think before you shout at me 'knob' .
Ugly, orange tanned girlfriend in passenger seat. He gestures at me and winds window down as he pulls past. I wind my window down.
Before he could say anything I said "big car ... Small knob " ... Girlfriend laughs., He then shouts " baldy !" at me.
Girlfiends laughs....
I raise my right arm to the window. Attached to my arm is a bottle, attached to a tube out of my arm.
I shout " that'll be the Cancer then".
Girlfiends looks at him in horror.
Think before you shout at me 'knob' .
Edited by Stridey on Friday 31st July 21:31
People of all gender, ages and races that drive with their right hand at 12 o'clock or even 11 o'clock. Some even have a small 'lean' like the Corsa boys.
I expect it from teenagers, but adults? Do they realise they're doing it? Are they subconsciously trying to display their attitude to other drivers?
I expect it from teenagers, but adults? Do they realise they're doing it? Are they subconsciously trying to display their attitude to other drivers?
OpulentBob said:
mp3manager said:
Going through the roadworks on the A1 at Leeming Bar, 50 mph speed limit for 12 miles, presumably for the safety of the roadworker types.
A Hilux pickup, DN14 DVX, with full reflective chevrons and 'Highway Maintenance' on the back was weaving all over the road as the roadworker type texted on his smartphone.
Knob.
"Roadworker types"? A Hilux pickup, DN14 DVX, with full reflective chevrons and 'Highway Maintenance' on the back was weaving all over the road as the roadworker type texted on his smartphone.
Knob.
Did a road worker run off with your wife? You've got a hard-on for them. You and V8 Fiddler. You both have a bit of a chip about them.
Just hang back in your TDi Passat and approach them like you would any of the other hundreds of people texting and driving. You won't be TOO late for your photocopier sales meeting.
While I'd agree that the Hilux driver is a knob for being on his mobile, I'd think that of anyone, regardless of their status.
I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck working by the side of a motorway in all weathers, with idiots lobbing random crap at me and generally not paying attention as they speed past. I'm not sure what their pay rate is - perhaps Opulent Bob knows?- it would have to be considerably more than I'm earning now to tempt me.
I think I'll take my warm, dry safe office thanks!
Quite safely, I overtook a BMW 323 that had been s
tting the bed on the turns down the bank at Wenlock Edge. Got to the bottom, had a clear view and just went past it.
Stuck at 60ish, going up Harley Bank, and what do I see, same BMW flying up to my rear, before swerving out and overtaking me and the car in front at something over 80 I'd guess.
Fragile egos. Never really had an issue with people not liking being overtaken before, but had a couple today. Mostly just speeding up as I pulled alongside, I could have completed one at 50mph if they'd not done that.
tting the bed on the turns down the bank at Wenlock Edge. Got to the bottom, had a clear view and just went past it.Stuck at 60ish, going up Harley Bank, and what do I see, same BMW flying up to my rear, before swerving out and overtaking me and the car in front at something over 80 I'd guess.
Fragile egos. Never really had an issue with people not liking being overtaken before, but had a couple today. Mostly just speeding up as I pulled alongside, I could have completed one at 50mph if they'd not done that.
I was travelling up the (narrow, winding) road from Rowlands Castle to Horndean today at just over 50 when I was surprised by a green Caterham who suddenly appeared next to me!
I'm normally extremely vigilant when it comes to checking rear view mirrors and found out why I missed him when he caught up with the next car. He was driving so far up his arse that there was no hope of being seen in any rear view mirrors
Total knobhead was so close he had to keep pulling out to see if an overtake was safe and twice had to pull back in again quickly to avoid oncoming traffic!
And his indicators didn't seem to be working either, which amused as I was the one driving a BMW!
I'm expecting to see him on a hedge in the near future!
I'm normally extremely vigilant when it comes to checking rear view mirrors and found out why I missed him when he caught up with the next car. He was driving so far up his arse that there was no hope of being seen in any rear view mirrors
Total knobhead was so close he had to keep pulling out to see if an overtake was safe and twice had to pull back in again quickly to avoid oncoming traffic!
And his indicators didn't seem to be working either, which amused as I was the one driving a BMW!
I'm expecting to see him on a hedge in the near future!
The chap who I tried to buy a second hand car off earlier.
'2003, only 90000 miles and absolutely no damage to the car whatsoever'
In fact it was a 2001, had done 101000 miles and had a big dent in the front bumper and a piece of the headlight surround missing.
Also the springs were poking through the passenger seat, and on inspecting the engine bay found that the oil filler cap was missing.
Oh yeah, and that chunk of wood that was holding the drivers window in - 'It's come off it's runners mate, all you need to do is take the door lining off and put it back on'
So spent the rest of the day dragging the other half around town looking for something else.
Why, when you're idly looking at second hand cars there are a million options available, but come the minute you actually need one, they've all vanished?
'2003, only 90000 miles and absolutely no damage to the car whatsoever'
In fact it was a 2001, had done 101000 miles and had a big dent in the front bumper and a piece of the headlight surround missing.
Also the springs were poking through the passenger seat, and on inspecting the engine bay found that the oil filler cap was missing.
Oh yeah, and that chunk of wood that was holding the drivers window in - 'It's come off it's runners mate, all you need to do is take the door lining off and put it back on'
So spent the rest of the day dragging the other half around town looking for something else.
Why, when you're idly looking at second hand cars there are a million options available, but come the minute you actually need one, they've all vanished?
knitware said:
You can have fun with ‘those types’. Some years ago where I used to live.
Travelling home from work there’s a series of 3 roundabouts, the 3rd being a lovely positive camber sharp right onto a straight.
It’s a 40 mph limit road and If there is no traffic you can go through each roundabout at 40 mph with the 3rd being the tightest though it’s still possible, in a car…
So a nice white flatbed transit thing turns off the 1st roundabout and greets my behind. I’m going 40mph he wants to go faster. We maintain our 40 through the 2nd roundabout, he’s bumper close, I maintain speed through the third, I’m wondering if he realises how tight this is and that I’m not breaking so no tail lights to warn.
I glance in my mirror and see him over steering then correcting and his van violently swerving back trying to get control eventually skidding across the road and coming to a stop at the curb.
I had a little chuckle.
Ah tailgaters....Travelling home from work there’s a series of 3 roundabouts, the 3rd being a lovely positive camber sharp right onto a straight.
It’s a 40 mph limit road and If there is no traffic you can go through each roundabout at 40 mph with the 3rd being the tightest though it’s still possible, in a car…
So a nice white flatbed transit thing turns off the 1st roundabout and greets my behind. I’m going 40mph he wants to go faster. We maintain our 40 through the 2nd roundabout, he’s bumper close, I maintain speed through the third, I’m wondering if he realises how tight this is and that I’m not breaking so no tail lights to warn.
I glance in my mirror and see him over steering then correcting and his van violently swerving back trying to get control eventually skidding across the road and coming to a stop at the curb.
I had a little chuckle.
My commute has some lovely tight corners, two in particular right after one another. One of these I can take comfortably at 60 while the majority slow down to 30/40 and the other is quite tight which I can take at around 45 max if I push it while others slow down to 20/30. The second corner is notorious for cars and vans approaching too fast in the opposite direction rolling off into the adjacent field to the extent that a single flapping strand of blue and white police tape is almost a permanent fixture at the side of the road.
Now because I know the road and my car so well i rarely brake for these corners anymore, I set the speed prior and maintain it through the corner. This really scares tailgaters as I find most use the car in fronts brake lights as an indicator to brake themselves and they get a rude awakening when they find themselves entering a 30mph corner at 45mph in their Berlingo van
. If they managed to stay on the road they stay waaaaay back from me after that.I also remember some Mini driver with something to prove chasing me when I was on a bit of mission on the section of road mentioned above. I took the first corner at 60, Mini driver managed to just hang on but fell back. He appeared in my rear view mirror as I was taking the second (nasty) corner at 45. I completed the corner and proceeded to drive for another couple of miles before turning off onto a lane.
Now that Mini even driving slowly should have reappeared by the time I had driven down the lane (I could still see the main road in the rear view mirror) But he never reappeared! I suspect he took a liking to the flapping police tape on the side of the road.
Edited by eztiger328 on Monday 3rd August 14:05
I was tailgated again today as I went into town. Nothing unusual at all but every time I checked my mirrors the tailgater gestured, flashed headlights and pulled faces.
I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
Two yesterday.
Knobulation 1: Pulling out into L1 of the M25 from the hard shoulder straight away. You're lucky my spidey sense was at 100% yesterday and I moved to L2 as soon as I saw your hazards switch off!
Knobulation 2: The Merc M class driver on the A21 who could see I was overtaking something and still came piling up behind me and sat less than half a car off my bumper!
That is all.
Knobulation 1: Pulling out into L1 of the M25 from the hard shoulder straight away. You're lucky my spidey sense was at 100% yesterday and I moved to L2 as soon as I saw your hazards switch off!
Knobulation 2: The Merc M class driver on the A21 who could see I was overtaking something and still came piling up behind me and sat less than half a car off my bumper!
That is all.
Liquid Knight said:
I was tailgated again today as I went into town. Nothing unusual at all but every time I checked my mirrors the tailgater gestured, flashed headlights and pulled faces.
I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
These conversational type posts never seem real somehow.I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
He was probably at the back of his car checking the spelling of Qashqai
Hooli said:
Cliftonite said:
WD39 said:
Today on the M11 near Duxford.
Moving out from lane one, indicating, to pass an HGV.
Nothing in lane two.
Just about half way over when, out of nowhere, comes a car and overtakes me with half of his car on the soft ground between the outside white line and the central crash barriers.
Utter****. Complete****. Total****. Absolute****.
Can anyone guess the make of car?
Seems like you had a lucky escape following your serious error in observation.Moving out from lane one, indicating, to pass an HGV.
Nothing in lane two.
Just about half way over when, out of nowhere, comes a car and overtakes me with half of his car on the soft ground between the outside white line and the central crash barriers.
Utter****. Complete****. Total****. Absolute****.
Can anyone guess the make of car?
miPeople not checking their blindspots before cutting others up makes me think 'knob'.
1)...When I indicated right to pass the HGV, lane two was clear for a safe overtake.
2) The driver of the Audi, yes it was one of those, must have been:
The next car in lane two after the safe distance.
Travelling so fast as to catch me up as I was entering lane two.
Misjudged time speed and distance and was forced to overtake next to the crash barrier.
Or:
Behind me in lane one by some distance but again was travelling so fast as to follow me into lane two to
pass the HGV. I was obviously not going fast enough for him, so he over took the overtaker and was forced
to go to my right.
The Audi disappeared into the distance very quickly so either option is possible.
knitware said:
You can have fun with ‘those types’. Some years ago where I used to live.
Travelling home from work there’s a series of 3 roundabouts, the 3rd being a lovely positive camber sharp right onto a straight.
It’s a 40 mph limit road and If there is no traffic you can go through each roundabout at 40 mph with the 3rd being the tightest though it’s still possible, in a car…
So a nice white flatbed transit thing turns off the 1st roundabout and greets my behind. I’m going 40mph he wants to go faster. We maintain our 40 through the 2nd roundabout, he’s bumper close, I maintain speed through the third, I’m wondering if he realises how tight this is and that I’m not breaking so no tail lights to warn.
I glance in my mirror and see him over steering then correcting and his van violently swerving back trying to get control eventually skidding across the road and coming to a stop at the curb.
I had a little chuckle.
KERB!!!Travelling home from work there’s a series of 3 roundabouts, the 3rd being a lovely positive camber sharp right onto a straight.
It’s a 40 mph limit road and If there is no traffic you can go through each roundabout at 40 mph with the 3rd being the tightest though it’s still possible, in a car…
So a nice white flatbed transit thing turns off the 1st roundabout and greets my behind. I’m going 40mph he wants to go faster. We maintain our 40 through the 2nd roundabout, he’s bumper close, I maintain speed through the third, I’m wondering if he realises how tight this is and that I’m not breaking so no tail lights to warn.
I glance in my mirror and see him over steering then correcting and his van violently swerving back trying to get control eventually skidding across the road and coming to a stop at the curb.
I had a little chuckle.
Knobhead today who pulled from L2 to L3 on the M1 without indicating and without checking his mirrors.
I was about halfway past him (level with his back seats) when he started to move into L3. It was not in traffic. I was going probably 10mph faster than he was - 60 something vs 70 something. No excuse whatsoever. I can't believe he hasn't been killed by now driving like that.
Anchors on and down to about 30mph in as long as it took me to shout 'fk!', steer right as far as I could and prepare mentally for the impact. He missed my front bumper by a whisker and carried on as though nothing had happened (despite me leaning on the horn).
If some other knob had been tailgating me, there would have been 3 cars in a big cuddle in L3.
I was about halfway past him (level with his back seats) when he started to move into L3. It was not in traffic. I was going probably 10mph faster than he was - 60 something vs 70 something. No excuse whatsoever. I can't believe he hasn't been killed by now driving like that.
Anchors on and down to about 30mph in as long as it took me to shout 'f
k!', steer right as far as I could and prepare mentally for the impact. He missed my front bumper by a whisker and carried on as though nothing had happened (despite me leaning on the horn). If some other knob had been tailgating me, there would have been 3 cars in a big cuddle in L3.
iva cosworth said:
Yesterday.I'm on the DC A217 in L1.
911 is coming from a sliproad,there's plenty of room for me to move into L2 ,which I do.
But 911 goes straight into L2 ,so there I am veering all over the road like a loony.
Thanks knobby.
Happens a fair bit. Nothing you can do to avoid it. It is one of those situations that can lead to even good, careful drivers having serious crashes.911 is coming from a sliproad,there's plenty of room for me to move into L2 ,which I do.
But 911 goes straight into L2 ,so there I am veering all over the road like a loony.
Thanks knobby.
It is often combined with the 'manoeuvre, signal, mirrors' approach.
Liquid Knight said:
I was tailgated again today as I went into town. Nothing unusual at all but every time I checked my mirrors the tailgater gestured, flashed headlights and pulled faces.
I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
You glaringly missed the reason why he felt the need to tailgate you avec gestures in the first place. Why did he do that then, because it never happens spontaneously. I stopped at the petrol station to put a tenner in and the tailgater pulled up behind me, got out and said...
"I bet that pissed you off".
"What; being tailgated?"
"Yeah, I thought it'd wind you up".
"Not really. The two second rule only counts of you're intelligent enough to be able to count to two. Anyone who's thick enough to drive a Nissan Qasqai is therefore exempt".
I left him to it as I paid for the fuel and he was gone by the time I was back.
jogger1976 said:
OpulentBob said:
mp3manager said:
Going through the roadworks on the A1 at Leeming Bar, 50 mph speed limit for 12 miles, presumably for the safety of the roadworker types.
A Hilux pickup, DN14 DVX, with full reflective chevrons and 'Highway Maintenance' on the back was weaving all over the road as the roadworker type texted on his smartphone.
Knob.
"Roadworker types"? A Hilux pickup, DN14 DVX, with full reflective chevrons and 'Highway Maintenance' on the back was weaving all over the road as the roadworker type texted on his smartphone.
Knob.
Did a road worker run off with your wife? You've got a hard-on for them. You and V8 Fiddler. You both have a bit of a chip about them.
Just hang back in your TDi Passat and approach them like you would any of the other hundreds of people texting and driving. You won't be TOO late for your photocopier sales meeting.
While I'd agree that the Hilux driver is a knob for being on his mobile, I'd think that of anyone, regardless of their status.
I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck working by the side of a motorway in all weathers, with idiots lobbing random crap at me and generally not paying attention as they speed past. I'm not sure what their pay rate is - perhaps Opulent Bob knows?- it would have to be considerably more than I'm earning now to tempt me.
I think I'll take my warm, dry safe office thanks!
A) where this took place and
B) the supposed job of he hilux driver
We're supposed to drive at 50 to protect the workforce through roadworks.
What's the point if people from the same industry (remember the "Highway Maintenance" on the hilux) apparently don't give a f
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