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What things do you see on the road everyday that make you think "This driver has not got a clue" Heres 3 for starters
1 Drivers who think cos theres no one behind them they dont need to signal when changing lane. Dont they realise it might benefit someone in front of them who might be thinking about changing lanes.
2 Drivers who dont move forward into juntions when turning right at traffic lights. Then the lights change back to red and they have to stay where they were. Doh.
3 Drivers who approach a roundabout in the middle lane to turn right and then stay in the middle lane all the way round and use the middle lane to exit. Dont they realise this forces the cars on the inside to keep going round (forever). Then they paint lines to filter them out and they still do it?
Anyone got any other good ones?
1 Drivers who think cos theres no one behind them they dont need to signal when changing lane. Dont they realise it might benefit someone in front of them who might be thinking about changing lanes.
2 Drivers who dont move forward into juntions when turning right at traffic lights. Then the lights change back to red and they have to stay where they were. Doh.
3 Drivers who approach a roundabout in the middle lane to turn right and then stay in the middle lane all the way round and use the middle lane to exit. Dont they realise this forces the cars on the inside to keep going round (forever). Then they paint lines to filter them out and they still do it?
Anyone got any other good ones?
I can see this running and running...
* Drivers who attempt to turn right into a road, and can't get out until a car from each direction stops and flashes them out.
* Drivers who sit in their junction/turn refuge watching you approach from afar, and then pull out when you're right on top of them.
* Cars bouncing backward and forward on the clutch while "stopped" on a hill.
* Drivers who attempt to turn right into a road, and can't get out until a car from each direction stops and flashes them out.
* Drivers who sit in their junction/turn refuge watching you approach from afar, and then pull out when you're right on top of them.
* Cars bouncing backward and forward on the clutch while "stopped" on a hill.
Edited by timberwolf on Friday 13th October 17:47
People who NEVER indicate on or at roundabouts, seems particularly common in seaside towns (I live in one!).
People whos interpretation of the highway code is "Manovere, signal, mirror"
People who drive open top cars, with the hood up when it is sunny, WHY?
I could go on, but I feel the need to lie down in a darkened room
People whos interpretation of the highway code is "Manovere, signal, mirror"
People who drive open top cars, with the hood up when it is sunny, WHY?
I could go on, but I feel the need to lie down in a darkened room
Of all the cars that were out & about in the fog this morning, only half of them had any lights on.
Not a single one of the silver and grey cars had any lights on at all, yet around half of those of any other colour had managed to achieve it.
Of the half of the cars that did have lights on, most had got it wrong, sidelights only and front fogs, but not main lights, when just main lights would have been fine (front fogs are just not needed anyway, even when its genuinely foggy).
All those folks that I see driving around all summer with their front fogs on all the time, but as soon as its foggy, they have no lights on at all (Yes Mr white Sapphire Cosworth man & Mr green chavved up Seat Toledo man in Belper, I mean you, you w*nkers).
Not a single one of the silver and grey cars had any lights on at all, yet around half of those of any other colour had managed to achieve it.
Of the half of the cars that did have lights on, most had got it wrong, sidelights only and front fogs, but not main lights, when just main lights would have been fine (front fogs are just not needed anyway, even when its genuinely foggy).
All those folks that I see driving around all summer with their front fogs on all the time, but as soon as its foggy, they have no lights on at all (Yes Mr white Sapphire Cosworth man & Mr green chavved up Seat Toledo man in Belper, I mean you, you w*nkers).
1. People who believe that they are entitled to straighten up the roundabout despite it being rather inconvenient to me in the right lane and forcing me to brake/swerve.
2. Same goes for travelling in a straight line on a Dual Carriageway.
3. People who can't park. If you buy a 4*4, accept it is bigger than most other cars and you need to be a better driver to park it. That does not include just parking diagonally across two spaces.
4. People who are not disabled (except perhaps they are f**kwits) but who park in the disabled spaces.
5. People who believe it is their right of way no matter what, and drive into my lane when passing a parked car, forcing me to brake. Oh, and then the 20 cars who follow sheep like behind.
6. People who drive at 40-42mph no matter what the speed limit.
7. People who drive at 40mph on a single lane NSL who then attempt to block me from overtaking them.
8. People who believe their phone call is sooo important that it cannot possibly wait for them to find somewhere safe and stop. This is magnified 50times when they actually have a passenger !! WHY, Why, why does the driver make the call FFS, leaving the passenger to listen to the radio.
2. Same goes for travelling in a straight line on a Dual Carriageway.
3. People who can't park. If you buy a 4*4, accept it is bigger than most other cars and you need to be a better driver to park it. That does not include just parking diagonally across two spaces.
4. People who are not disabled (except perhaps they are f**kwits) but who park in the disabled spaces.
5. People who believe it is their right of way no matter what, and drive into my lane when passing a parked car, forcing me to brake. Oh, and then the 20 cars who follow sheep like behind.
6. People who drive at 40-42mph no matter what the speed limit.
7. People who drive at 40mph on a single lane NSL who then attempt to block me from overtaking them.
8. People who believe their phone call is sooo important that it cannot possibly wait for them to find somewhere safe and stop. This is magnified 50times when they actually have a passenger !! WHY, Why, why does the driver make the call FFS, leaving the passenger to listen to the radio.
frazer guest said:
utter, utter, utter bastered bus drivers who dont pull into the side of the road when picking up passengers TW#TS!
ignorant tosspots who dont thankyou when you let them out of junctions. TW#TS!
people who have poor lane dissapline. TW#TS!
people who dont indicate at roundabouts / junctions. TW#TS!
people who dont clear a path for emergancy vehicles. TW#TS!
taxi drivers who cant drive, because they got thier licence driving a donkey. TW#TS!
people who are too old to take a crap on thier own, let alone still drive. TW#TS!
people who cant perform the simplist of parking manovers without driving into the car infront / behind. TW#TS!
people who dont have insurance. TW#TS!
people with thier fog lights on when it isnt foggy. TW#TS!
people who take up 2 car parking spaces. TW#TS!
thats it for now. i need to have a lie down.
ignorant tosspots who dont thankyou when you let them out of junctions. TW#TS!
people who have poor lane dissapline. TW#TS!
people who dont indicate at roundabouts / junctions. TW#TS!
people who dont clear a path for emergancy vehicles. TW#TS!
taxi drivers who cant drive, because they got thier licence driving a donkey. TW#TS!
people who are too old to take a crap on thier own, let alone still drive. TW#TS!
people who cant perform the simplist of parking manovers without driving into the car infront / behind. TW#TS!
people who dont have insurance. TW#TS!
people with thier fog lights on when it isnt foggy. TW#TS!
people who take up 2 car parking spaces. TW#TS!
thats it for now. i need to have a lie down.
Oh yes, the parking one, particularly annoying when it's in the supermarket car park, and they've driven in, so they have to reverse out causing mayhem. HOW HARD IS TO REVERSE IN YOU PLONKERS, just not all the way in so you can still get to the boot.
1. People who sit at the front of the queue at a red traffic light, creeping forwards, creeping forwards, creeping forwards well over the white line..... Until the light goes green AND THEN THEY JUST SIT THERE FOR 10 SECONDS before finally setting off.
2. People who, when turning right, instead of using the turn refuge, sit in the main carriageway at a 45 degree angle, blocking everyone coming up behind them
3. Idiots who, when coming up behind a bus at a bus stop and the road ahead is clear decide to pass it. No they don't. Yes they do. No they don't. Oh b*llox, the bus has pulled out now.....
4. When I am approaching a give way junction, those who approach on the main road from the left to turn right into my road, cutting the corner hugely and nearly wiping out the front of my car in the process
2. People who, when turning right, instead of using the turn refuge, sit in the main carriageway at a 45 degree angle, blocking everyone coming up behind them
3. Idiots who, when coming up behind a bus at a bus stop and the road ahead is clear decide to pass it. No they don't. Yes they do. No they don't. Oh b*llox, the bus has pulled out now.....
4. When I am approaching a give way junction, those who approach on the main road from the left to turn right into my road, cutting the corner hugely and nearly wiping out the front of my car in the process
1) Not indicating to leave roundabouts leaving you to guess or miss an opportunity to pull out.
2) People who wait until lights turn green before engaging gear, removing handbrake and moving -- Oh lights back to red again, only one car through that time then.
3) People who sit at roundabouts/junctions and despite there being a sufficient gap for 2/3/4 cars to pull out leave it until the last second beofre moving leaving the 1/2/3 behind waiting for the next gap.
4) T***s who do not know what the white lights at the back signify and drive straight up your exhaust pipe.
5) Those who go straight to the outside lane of a DC and drive well below speed limit because they will be taking the right turn in a miles time.
6) Anyone tailgating when you are in the outside lane in busy traffic with nowhere to go but straight ahead.
7) people (who I see regularly) who pull out of parking spaces while on the phone. FFS you are already stationary, finish the call first.
8) Anyone who insists on pulling into the car-and-a-half space in front of you just to gain 12 feet when there is a 10 car gap behind you.
2) People who wait until lights turn green before engaging gear, removing handbrake and moving -- Oh lights back to red again, only one car through that time then.
3) People who sit at roundabouts/junctions and despite there being a sufficient gap for 2/3/4 cars to pull out leave it until the last second beofre moving leaving the 1/2/3 behind waiting for the next gap.
4) T***s who do not know what the white lights at the back signify and drive straight up your exhaust pipe.
5) Those who go straight to the outside lane of a DC and drive well below speed limit because they will be taking the right turn in a miles time.
6) Anyone tailgating when you are in the outside lane in busy traffic with nowhere to go but straight ahead.
7) people (who I see regularly) who pull out of parking spaces while on the phone. FFS you are already stationary, finish the call first.
8) Anyone who insists on pulling into the car-and-a-half space in front of you just to gain 12 feet when there is a 10 car gap behind you.
frazer guest said:
utter, utter, utter bastered bus drivers who dont pull into the side of the road when picking up passengers TW#TS!
Not to mention utter, utter, utter bastered (sic) council wankers who get rid of the laybys for bus stops and replace them with a chunk of pavement that sticks as far out into the road as the layby used to extend off the road. I find it hard to imagine any bit of road planning more completely, utterly, shitheadedly,
ing stupid. jasandjules said:
3. People who can't park. If you buy a 4*4, accept it is bigger than most other cars and you need to be a better driver to park it. That does not include just parking diagonally across two spaces.
Saw a classic one of this at Knutsford services...
Two adjacent parking spaces clear, next to another clear one in the next row, so you could drive through the two and park in the one with your nose facing out ready to go. Daft bint (mid 40s) in HUGE 4x4 attempts to do this, realises she's come in at totally the wrong angle, reverses six inches and then abandons the 4x4 diagonally across the two spaces. Pigeon, having watched the performance carefully, turns away and bangs head against roofrack of his car in despair. The hatchet face she put on by way of reaction was priceless
timberwolf said:
I can see this running and running...
* Drivers who attempt to turn right into a road, and can't get out until a car from each direction stops and flashes them out.
* Drivers who attempt to turn right into a road, and can't get out until a car from each direction stops and flashes them out.
Yes, when its very busy why don't they just turn left into the road, take the next available right, turn round and then turn left, requiring only one lane to be clear at a time.
Very often this is much quicker, easier and often safer...
Just realise you probably mean those who don't have the confidence or gumption to judge and pull out, and get their foot down to get out of the way without someone directing them, but in that case the other option would be best for them too.
Drivers that stop at empty roundabouts 
Drivers that refuse to overtake on inside lane when traffic is queuing in other lanes.
Slow drivers that only speed up when overtaking them is safe.
Drivers that slow down for every bend in the road, no matter how slight.
Drivers that slow down at least 5 mph below the speed limit for cameras.
Drivers that do 40 in 50mph limits, then still do nearly 40mph in 30mph limits.
Drivers that refuse to overtake on inside lane when traffic is queuing in other lanes.
Slow drivers that only speed up when overtaking them is safe.
Drivers that slow down for every bend in the road, no matter how slight.
Drivers that slow down at least 5 mph below the speed limit for cameras.
Drivers that do 40 in 50mph limits, then still do nearly 40mph in 30mph limits.
frazer guest said:
what a fantastic thread!
i too hate people who dont put the hood of thier convertable down when it isnt raining. WHAT THE IS THE POINT OF BUYING A CONVERTABLE IF YOU HARDLY EVER PUT THE ROOF DOWN!
i too hate people who dont put the hood of thier convertable down when it isnt raining. WHAT THE
IS THE POINT OF BUYING A CONVERTABLE IF YOU HARDLY EVER PUT THE ROOF DOWN!I think we should have (at least summer time) Convertable Police. If you are driving a vert on a nice day with the roof up, they could pull you over and force you to swap cars with the first person who stops to take it. Then roof-up has to drive that night to wherever the happy recipient is, and swop back.
Also:
People who don't know what a yellow box is.
The 42mph everywhere brigade.
People who are bored of giving way to oncoming traffic at traffic "calming" chicaines and just decide to start driving through despite the total lack of gaps in the on coming traffic.
Bus drivers (reminds me, must chase that complaint
). Some others I'll remember later.....
Getting less stressed about front "fog" lights now since I realised they're not fog lights at all; they are in fact warning lights, as in,"Warning: there's a selfish, blind, braindead idiot driving this car".
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