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

[exitwound]

People who allow huge gaps to develop in front of them in queues!

I bet they drive like that too.. We have a few who do this in the queue (one guy allows a three car length gap) coming out of work onto the main road which has traffic lights half a mile away that we all have to stop for..

Close the gaps *ssh*l*s!!

[Tyre Tread]

exitwound said:

People who allow huge gaps to develop in front of them in queues!

I bet they drive like that too.. We have a few who do this in the queue (one guy allows a three car length gap) coming out of work onto the main road which has traffic lights half a mile away that we all have to stop for..

Close the gaps *ssh*l*s!!

And worse, those who are near the front of a queue at traffic lights and don't pull away promptly meaning several less cars get through the lights than would otherwise have been able to of they had moved off when they could have. Seems to be rife in Cardiff. A lot of the time because of being too busy messing with their phone and not realising the traffic is moving.

[Brigand]

Its been a while since I've had anything knobworthy to write about, but today I had one that I've seen many times in this thread - truck drivers pulling out on us at roundabouts instead of stopping.

As I was turning right at said fairly large roundabout outside Rochester, and I got half way around when I reached the 12 o'clock junction. Of the two vehicles at that junction, the car stopped but the artic that was already almost at a standstill by now decided to just pull out anyway. The slovenly driver, one arm leaning on the ledge of his open window, hand rubbing chin looking right at me then continued to pull out, forcing me to stop in the middle of the road. It was all slow speed so hardly a major incident in the making, but I gave the driver a beep of the horn to show my disappointment at his action. This clearly enraged the ape at the wheel who then stopped his truck, completely blocking the roundabout's two lanes then leaned out of his window and glared at me before flipping me the bird and slowly moving off again.

I'm glad I wasn't going his way as I imagine he's the kind of person to start brake-checking me had I followed him. What I don't get with this kind of thing is the fact that despite him being clearly in the wrong, instead of just stopping his truck at the line which he was more than capable of doing, he just thought "fk it" and pulled out anyway, but gets all defensive and irate when his dick behaviour is then pointed out to them.

[All that jazz]

exitwound said:

People who allow huge gaps to develop in front of them in queues!

I bet they drive like that too.. We have a few who do this in the queue (one guy allows a three car length gap) coming out of work onto the main road which has traffic lights half a mile away that we all have to stop for..

Close the gaps *ssh*l*s!!

I need space around my car for air flow to stop the engine from overheating...

[WD39]

br d said:

WD39 said:

br d said:

WD39 said:

One knob for burning the filter lane. Another knob for racing. Although you were on your own.

Who was racing?

You have admitted being a knob, but only for using a filter, not the main, lane.

But, on a public road with plenty of traffic behind, You rise to the challenge from neighbouring drivers and charge away fron the traffic lights at speed with accompanying noise.

You were racing your ego, and came second.

(And all this whilst driving a mark two Astra, with a large exhaust!!)

I really shouldn't be bothering with this but you keep wittering on about the filter lane, try reading the post, it was the filter light. No life was endangered during the course of my knobbery.

Filter light, filter lane, these are of no consequence. The bit that grabs my attention is taking up the challenge from drivers and passengers around you.
And charging away from the lights to ' Wake up the exhaust.'
On a public road.
With other motorists adjacent to you.
Sorry to 'witter', but I think that it needs highlighting.

[playalistic]

WD39 said:

br d said:

WD39 said:

br d said:

WD39 said:

One knob for burning the filter lane. Another knob for racing. Although you were on your own.

Who was racing?

You have admitted being a knob, but only for using a filter, not the main, lane.

But, on a public road with plenty of traffic behind, You rise to the challenge from neighbouring drivers and charge away fron the traffic lights at speed with accompanying noise.

You were racing your ego, and came second.

(And all this whilst driving a mark two Astra, with a large exhaust!!)

I really shouldn't be bothering with this but you keep wittering on about the filter lane, try reading the post, it was the filter light. No life was endangered during the course of my knobbery.

Filter light, filter lane, these are of no consequence. The bit that grabs my attention is taking up the challenge from drivers and passengers around you.
And charging away from the lights to ' Wake up the exhaust.'
On a public road.
With other motorists adjacent to you.
Sorry to 'witter', but I think that it needs highlighting.

You do realise you're on PISTONHEADS, right?

[Ej74]

I had someone pull a knife on me because I dared to look at him for cutting me up at a roundabout

[Blown2CV]

Ej74 said:

I had someone pull a knife on me because I dared to look at him for cutting me up at a roundabout

what was he going to do, stab your car? Or, were you out of your car and giving it large?

[Cliftonite]

playalistic said:

You do realise you're on PISTONHEADS, right?

WD39 = Troll.

[Swanny87]

Ej74 said:

I had someone pull a knife on me because I dared to look at him for cutting me up at a roundabout

Worth reporting if you've got his reg. If the bib think there's someone driving around with a weapon they'll soon put a 'hard stop' in

https://youtu.be/mSV4fNYs0kk?t=37s

Might make him think about actin' 'ard.

[Mandalore]

Brigand said:

Its been a while since I've had anything knobworthy to write about, but today I had one that I've seen many times in this thread - truck drivers pulling out on us at roundabouts instead of stopping.

As I was turning right at said fairly large roundabout outside Rochester, and I got half way around when I reached the 12 o'clock junction. Of the two vehicles at that junction, the car stopped but the artic that was already almost at a standstill by now decided to just pull out anyway. The slovenly driver, one arm leaning on the ledge of his open window, hand rubbing chin looking right at me then continued to pull out, forcing me to stop in the middle of the road. It was all slow speed so hardly a major incident in the making, but I gave the driver a beep of the horn to show my disappointment at his action. This clearly enraged the ape at the wheel who then stopped his truck, completely blocking the roundabout's two lanes then leaned out of his window and glared at me before flipping me the bird and slowly moving off again.

I'm glad I wasn't going his way as I imagine he's the kind of person to start brake-checking me had I followed him. What I don't get with this kind of thing is the fact that despite him being clearly in the wrong, instead of just stopping his truck at the line which he was more than capable of doing, he just thought "fk it" and pulled out anyway, but gets all defensive and irate when his dick behaviour is then pointed out to them.

I cannot say that I have ever had this happen to me, unless it was in really heavy traffic.

But, were you clearly indicating your intention to go around the roundabout, or did it look like you were going straight over until the last second?

Hence, they both started to... and one even continued to pull out onto the roundabout - based on the probability that you were not turning.

[mistakenplane]

Inside and outside of Asda last two days. As its the hub of retardation this isnt surprising.

Yesterday coming in and out of there, theres a mini roundabout (with a proper middle section and some tasty camber to have fun with when the road is clear). Im coming across the main road and both times women in Range Rovers came from my left and shot across me forcing me to brake. One didnt even look at me, the other glanced at the noise coming her way without slowing down. How can a mini roundabout be so difficult to understand for them?!

And today had a woman stroll behind me as I was reversing into a space causing me to brake quickly. Bloke getting out of his car in front just gave me the "what the fk?!" look. Then a dopey manager inside stepped across me, took an internal phone call causing me to have to walk around him to get to the veg I wanted, all the while ignoring me and asking why the person calling him hadnt called someone else. Prick. Great customer service mate!

[jogger1976]

Absolute ringpiece driving the 997 Turbo in Hemel Hempstead this evening who obviously decided that queuing was a bit beneath him.

He booted it past the line of traffic at the roundabout on Redbourn Road on the wrong side of the road for about 100 metres,forcing cars to swerve / anchor up. When he reached the roundabout he forced his way into the right hand lane (marked right/straight on) and turned left across traffic without bothering to indicate, cutting up several more cars. Oh, and he was glued to his phone the whole bloody time.

Whoever was driving the Transit beavertail recovery van that was glued to my bumper on the A5 from Dunstable towards the M1 this afternoon.
They had loads of opportunities to pass safely, but just kept tailgating.(Limit is 50mph on this stretch due to the amount of tight junctions or hidden junctions)

The knobber then decided to attempt a crazy death-or-glory maneuver near the Truckers Cafe by the M1, crossing the hatching and ignoring the "Keep left" sign and the fact that we were near a busy junction (See map) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8236836,-0.42857... He was so preoccupied giving me the coffee beans and mouthing something that he hadn't noticed the HGV exiting the garage, who I can only assume was not expecting a speeding Transit to be hurtling towards him on the wrong side of the road

By some miracle a massive accident was avoided, but Jesus fking Christ, what an absolute ahole!

[anonymous-user]

Working nights this is the worst time to drive, loads more traffic loads more knobs.

Most ways are pretty busy and I cam to a mini round about. I was on the roundabout when this Corsa driver literally drives at me cutting the corner, when they could have just gone round, you know, the round about bit, but had to make a point.

No drama but this is the start of things to come, only gets worse.

[smithyithy]

On the M54 (two lane motorway from Shrewsbury to Walsall), we've had to put a Lane 1 closure on a section of a few hundred metres between junctions 2 and 3, because a number of the concrete slabs have broken up.

As you can imagine, with a taper and rush hour traffic this causes some confusion / idiocy with some drivers.

Coming home today, sat at a standstill in lane 2, I saw a 'Highway Maintenance' marked van flick his yellows on, swerve over from lane 1 onto the hard shoulder and carry on down, passing the traffic and effectively undertaking the traffic management.

Luckily there was nobody working within or near the closure at the time that he could've struck. He was absolutely not associated with our workforce at all, most likely a 'would ye like yer driveway tarmacced?' type, using yellows as an excuse to cut past the traffic

Oh and of course, in addition to that, we had the 'I don't know how to merge' brigade out in force, holding Lane 1 at a standstill about 400 yards from the actual merging point thus stopping anyone from actually merging where they're supposed to. Today it was in the form of a rather big articulated low-loader. The Transit van behind him flashed a few times, presumably to say 'kind sir could you please continue your journey in lane 1 thus we can merge at the ideal point', to which the trucker blasted his rear-facing spot lights, presumably to say 'I am so sorry sir but one cannot allow such tomfoolery as in doing so one would be acting in accordance to common sense!'.

Edited by smithyithy on Thursday 26th November 22:08

[Hooli]

The FOUR, yes FOUR fking cocktards this morning who in a distance of about five miles all indicated right & took the next left.

[Ej74]

He came back round and followed me
Overtook cars on the wrong side and overtook me and parked blocking the rd and came at me (I was still in the car on the fone to the BIB)

I took the decision to try and run him over as I felt my life was in danger ;-)

It was reported never heard what if anything happened

[alpha channel]

Last night, not the best drive home I've ever had, got to the first roundabout out of work, something not quite right, stopped passenger headlight bulb blown (not so much a knob moment, possibly me for not carrying the right bulb but it set the tone for the drive home).

Got to the A19 Wolvinston interchange and traffic on our right wanting to head north on the A19, lights go green and a blue Vauxhall Vectra Estate decides that he wants to be in the, very, short left lane so he nips out into our lane without looking forcing the Qashqai to anchor on. The only thing going through my mind at that point was Stop! Stop! Stop! as I anchored on myself (must've been inches from the rear of the Nissan when I stopped).

As an aside I really need to give the trained monkey who gave the 159 its service a damned good slap because the brakes feel like ste in comparison to the way they had been before it went in for its service, doesn't seem to start slowing until the pedal is half way down (and I'm not taking it back considering it took three goes for them to spot the fact that they had fitted an oil filter with a knackered seal).

To top it all off the place I normally buy car parts from was closed so I had to nip in to Halfrauds for a bulb, first time I've ever paid a tenner for one bulb (I have to say it was driving my inner OCD nuts knowing that I had a blown bulb so it had to be replaced then and there, I can't stand knowing my car isn't up to snuff, especially the simple things).

[Hol]

[Big Rod]

I was cut up by someone driving some sort of incipid little hatchback today.

Not a big deal but had me shaking my head.

Reason being that I was driving a 20 odd foot long 3.5 tonne F350 'dually' pickup which was lit up like a Christmas tree and would have flattened whatever it was without even noticing.

Really wonder what was going through their head when they decided it would be a good idea to swerve in front of that. I mean it's not as though they hadn't seen me as they'd just passed me.