One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[carlove]

Fully marked X5 police car, was behind him for about 10 minutes, in that time he turned left without indicating, went through an amber light despite the car ahead not being able to clear the crossing, police car blocked it, then he jumped a red light, then turned right without indicating, I fully respect the police but that certainly not a good example to set. As you hopefully can guess he didn't have blue lights on.

[Monkeylegend]

carlove said:

Fully marked X5 police car, was behind him for about 10 minutes, in that time he turned left without indicating, went through an amber light despite the car ahead not being able to clear the crossing, police car blocked it, then he jumped a red light, then turned right without indicating, I fully respect the police but that certainly not a good example to set. As you hopefully can guess he didn't have blue lights on.

Probably working under cover.

[Cliftonite]

yellowjack said:

People who try to force their way through a narrow section rather than slowing (sometimes barley perceptibly) and waiting for you to clear it. Such as when you are on "their" side of the road because of a long line of parked cars on your own side.

No, petal. I'm NOT going to reverse along the sides of four parked cars to the nearest available gap, simply so you can have your "right of way" ( ). What is actually going to happen now is that YOU are going to reverse, to a position at which you ought to have waited anyway, so that I can clear the last HALF!!! a parked car, and get out of your way like I originally intended. Either that, or you can sit there and wait for hell to freeze over.

FYI, the cretin in question had just exited a roundabout, and turned left toward me. When I committed to passing the parked cars, the road ahead was entirely clear, and I assert that I had EVERY JUSTIFICATION in expecting him (a feckin' cabbie, BTW) to hold for just a couple of seconds to let me clear that last car. If he has a problem with the parking arrangements for that road, he can take them up with the council. It's not like I marked the feckin' parking bays, FFS.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.293779,-0.759887...

Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?

[Issi]

This might be debatable , but at the bottom of my road there are traffic lights and also a petrol station on the LH side. Quite often I see people nipping through the forecourt instead of waiting for the lights to change.

Knobbish or not?

[masermartin]

Yep, knobbish.

[yellowjack]

Cliftonite said:

yellowjack said:

People who try to force their way through a narrow section rather than slowing (sometimes barley perceptibly) and waiting for you to clear it. Such as when you are on "their" side of the road because of a long line of parked cars on your own side.

No, petal. I'm NOT going to reverse along the sides of four parked cars to the nearest available gap, simply so you can have your "right of way" ( ). What is actually going to happen now is that YOU are going to reverse, to a position at which you ought to have waited anyway, so that I can clear the last HALF!!! a parked car, and get out of your way like I originally intended. Either that, or you can sit there and wait for hell to freeze over.

FYI, the cretin in question had just exited a roundabout, and turned left toward me. When I committed to passing the parked cars, the road ahead was entirely clear, and I assert that I had EVERY JUSTIFICATION in expecting him (a feckin' cabbie, BTW) to hold for just a couple of seconds to let me clear that last car. If he has a problem with the parking arrangements for that road, he can take them up with the council. It's not like I marked the feckin' parking bays, FFS.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.293779,-0.759887...

Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?

Streetview does appear to show that, yes. And the whole street is devoted to parking on the one side, some of it Pay-and-Display, and about half a dozen free '1 Hour' spots, yet for most of it's length it can cope with two cars passing one another. I was driving a Mondeo (2012 incarnation) - the cabbie in question was in something large and ugly. Possibly a Ssangyong Rodius, if that's the 'thing' with the hideous sloping rear roof/window line. Add in the fact that not everyone who parks dumps their car in those spaces (often to 'urgently' nip to the KFC round the corner) does so properly, frequently leaving excessive space between them and the kerb, and the available space on this occasion was rather too narrow for the assembled cast to all get through at the same time. I was just grumpy because I got the typical "priority because taxi" look from the driver, despite it making sense for him to just hold back a little to allow me to regain the 'correct' side of the road, then neither one of us would have had to come to a complete stop and engage reverse gear to remedy the situation (which, IMHO, was entirely of his making).

[Hackney]

alpha channel said:

House builders/architects who build house with garages that are too damned small for the smallest of modern cars let alone for the average sized motor (or some bikes for that matter). Just came to mind as there's been recent building going on around my area and some of the garages that have been constructed look barely big enough for some bikes let alone for anything with four wheels.

There's been a trend in this country to build 3:4 scale houses for some time now. so it makes sense that they do the same to garages.

Unfortunately cars (especially white goods mass market cars - looking at you Peugeot) have been built on a 5:4 scale for just as long

[Hackney]

veevee said:

Chris1255 said:

Hackney said:

I stopped next to her and asked if she'd seen me. Yes she had, but I was going too fast. "So, even though I was going under 20mph you think it's OK to pull out in front of a car you think is speeding"
Apparently so. Eventually I told her that if she wanted to take it further I'd be happy to share the footage I had with her so the police would know my speed and her actions.

How do you ever get anywhere if that minor level of bell endery causes you to jump out and argue?

Also, you forgot to mention what colour you were, in the story?

I didn't get out of the car.
I asked her a question, I was trying to help. It's a low speed residential road with poor visibility due to the bends and high number of cars and vans parked on both sides. She's liable to try this trick on someone who's genuinely speeding and get hit.

I'm white. My observation is that this demographic exhibits a very high level of poor visual awareness or, "I'll do what I'm going to do no matter what impact it has on everyone else but it'll look like I'm not paying attention" attitude.

[Hackney]

Heading north on the A1 this morning, it's 3 lanes past Borehamwood. As you approach the junction with the M25 the left lane becomes a slip road (signs, change in lane marking), this happens about a mile ahead of the actual junction.

I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.

Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.

She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.

And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?

[DougMcC]

There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.

[TheAllSeeingPie]

Hackney said:

What are these people thinking?

Probably that you were pushing in and she wanted her place back. Some people are just weird in that way.

[Timmy40]

DougMcC said:

There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.

+100

I wish the Bib would start giving people who do this tickets.

[SistersofPercy]

Hackney said:

There's been a trend in this country to build 3:4 scale houses for some time now. so it makes sense that they do the same to garages.

Unfortunately cars (especially white goods mass market cars - looking at you Peugeot) have been built on a 5:4 scale for just as long

Our garage just fit my old clio. When it went and I was car shopping I was amazed how few cars would actually fit in it (and enable me to get back out ). In the end I went with a Fiat 500 which does fit perfectly. If I'd needed something bigger for the kids etc though our garage would have been useless and despite recent trends the garage was built with the house in 1971.

[johnS2000]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[gavsdavs]

DougMcC said:

There was a really nasty multi truck crash on the A14 at cambridge this morning, really gruesome devastation of 2 trucks in particular. I passed the scene on the opposite carriageway, probably around 5 minutes after it happened and just as the first of the emergency vehicles were turning up.
Now traffic was slowing down on my side of the carriageway, and from my vantage point in my truck I could see that the reason we were slowing down was that there was some complete and utter moronic, thick, morbid fkwit who had his iPhone fully extended out his window videoing/ taking pictures of the crash. At this point, for all we knew, there could have been multiple fatalities. It turned out there wasn't, but that's not the point. What on fking earth possesses people to photograph someone's potential death scene? What the fk is wrong with people.

Looks like they're listening

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/28/...

[Swanny87]

Hackney said:

Heading north on the A1 this morning, it's 3 lanes past Borehamwood. As you approach the junction with the M25 the left lane becomes a slip road (signs, change in lane marking), this happens about a mile ahead of the actual junction.

I was doing 70 in lane 3 and as there was plenty of time and space I moved into the left lane for the junction passing behind a MLM in a Polo, rather than overtake her and risk having to cut in infront of her. I kept a constant speed in the left lane as I passed said woman until I caught two other cars and slowed.

Middle lane woman caught me back up and I noticed she'd started to indicate left as she passed me. She was still indicating as she pushed her way in / had to be let in by the second of the two cars in front of me.

She'd had A fkING MILE to prepare for that manoeuvre. And She'd decided to pass me when there was AN EMPTY LANE behind me into the distance.

And then she got in the wrong lane on the roundabout.
What are these people thinking?

The highways agency folk even have the bare faced CHEEK to put big blue signs up on gantries, which even tell you which lane you need to be in!

[iva cosworth]

Swanny87 said:

The highways agency folk even have the bare faced CHEEK to put big blue signs up on gantries, which even tell you which lane you need to be in!

How can she read them AND Facebook simultaneously ?

[Hol]

yellowjack said:

Cliftonite said:

yellowjack said:

People who try to force their way through a narrow section rather than slowing (sometimes barley perceptibly) and waiting for you to clear it. Such as when you are on "their" side of the road because of a long line of parked cars on your own side.

No, petal. I'm NOT going to reverse along the sides of four parked cars to the nearest available gap, simply so you can have your "right of way" ( ). What is actually going to happen now is that YOU are going to reverse, to a position at which you ought to have waited anyway, so that I can clear the last HALF!!! a parked car, and get out of your way like I originally intended. Either that, or you can sit there and wait for hell to freeze over.

FYI, the cretin in question had just exited a roundabout, and turned left toward me. When I committed to passing the parked cars, the road ahead was entirely clear, and I assert that I had EVERY JUSTIFICATION in expecting him (a feckin' cabbie, BTW) to hold for just a couple of seconds to let me clear that last car. If he has a problem with the parking arrangements for that road, he can take them up with the council. It's not like I marked the feckin' parking bays, FFS.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.293779,-0.759887...

Streetview appears to show a gap wide enough for two cars to pass, even with cars parked. What were you driving?

Streetview does appear to show that, yes. And the whole street is devoted to parking on the one side, some of it Pay-and-Display, and about half a dozen free '1 Hour' spots, yet for most of it's length it can cope with two cars passing one another. I was driving a Mondeo (2012 incarnation) - the cabbie in question was in something large and ugly. Possibly a Ssangyong Rodius, if that's the 'thing' with the hideous sloping rear roof/window line. Add in the fact that not everyone who parks dumps their car in those spaces (often to 'urgently' nip to the KFC round the corner) does so properly, frequently leaving excessive space between them and the kerb, and the available space on this occasion was rather too narrow for the assembled cast to all get through at the same time. I was just grumpy because I got the typical "priority because taxi" look from the driver, despite it making sense for him to just hold back a little to allow me to regain the 'correct' side of the road, then neither one of us would have had to come to a complete stop and engage reverse gear to remedy the situation (which, IMHO, was entirely of his making).

At the moment, this sounds like a rant, where both of you felt in the moral right, so... in the interests of accuracy.

How many cars in total on your side of the road.
How many cars before the gap on your side.
How long/wide was the gap on your side.
How many cars on your side of the road after the gap.
How far from the other end of the cars was the Taxi, when came upon the gap.




Draw a picture if you want.

[car][car][car][car].........[car][car][car][car] taXi

[Hackney]

TheAllSeeingPie said:

Hackney said:

What are these people thinking?

Probably that you were pushing in and she wanted her place back. Some people are just weird in that way.

Just in case my original post read that way, I wasn't pushing in.
There was nowhere to push in to, just empty lanes. I didn't accelerate past her to close a gap, I kept a constant speed until I slowed behind other cars.
She also didn't have a place because there was nothing infront of her, nothing behind her, nothing to her left until her poor driving put her in a lane she didn't want to be in with three cars to her left.

She had ample opportunity to
a) be in the left hand lane rather than be a MLM
b) just pull in behind me rather than slowly pass me and one other car before trying to push in herself

[Negative Creep]

Cyclist going the wrong way up a one way street with their young child balancing on the handlebars