Sliproad swoopers
Discussion
Further to my want to anally violate people who tailgate, I'd like to extend my rubberistic rectal rage to that special type of cretinous imbecile who swoops - and that's the only appropriate word - for an exit sliproad in the last 2 feet of available space, usually sans indication and always sans consideration.
I must have had this happen 4 times this week.
Nothing behind me for some distance as I'm coming close to the exit slip road (i'm not turning off)...but you will always get someone ducking off at the last minute from middle/overtaking lane, cutting you up in the process instead of filtering in behind you for their exit. Does my NUT!
And if you so much as flash them for leaving such a small gap, they give you the finger!
Someone please explain the mentality?
Nothing behind me for some distance as I'm coming close to the exit slip road (i'm not turning off)...but you will always get someone ducking off at the last minute from middle/overtaking lane, cutting you up in the process instead of filtering in behind you for their exit. Does my NUT!
And if you so much as flash them for leaving such a small gap, they give you the finger!
Someone please explain the mentality?
MX7 said:
alfa pint said:
That blue Merc in the Channel 4 trailer bit (while they tell you what else is on after the Simpsons) on the M25 is a superb example of this. Really really hope the driver got done for this.
I think the tyres locking up and the noise were put on afterwards. Yes - you think they'll have noticed the junction signs at least a mile from the slip-road, half a mile from the slip, and then the countdown markers. These are probably the same people who, after waiting at the bus stop for 10 minutes, fish out their money and look for the correct change just as they get on.
Is it really worth killing yourself/others just to make a turn-off that, through your own lack of planning, you haven't prepared for? Just get off at the next junction!
Is it really worth killing yourself/others just to make a turn-off that, through your own lack of planning, you haven't prepared for? Just get off at the next junction!
Taffer said:
Yes - you think they'll have noticed the junction signs at least a mile from the slip-road, half a mile from the slip, and then the countdown markers. These are probably the same people who, after waiting at the bus stop for 10 minutes, fish out their money and look for the correct change just as they get on.
Is it really worth killing yourself/others just to make a turn-off that, through your own lack of planning, you haven't prepared for? Just get off at the next junction!
Is it really worth killing yourself/others just to make a turn-off that, through your own lack of planning, you haven't prepared for? Just get off at the next junction!
They're just idiots. Not only when driving, but also in everything they do.
(a) I can't remember a time when I've nearly missed my junction.
(b) If I ever did, I'd just curse and stay on until the next one.
Taffer said:
Is it really worth killing yourself/others just to make a turn-off that, through your own lack of planning, you haven't prepared for? Just get off at the next junction!
Trouble is, it's not through lack of planning, it's deliberate (99% of the time). There is something about not being the last person in a line of traffic to exit the sliproad, being left out in the cold perhaps? They HAVE to be squeezing in, regardless of the flow of traffic. Seen it time and time again. More of a piss boiler are the type that exit a slip road the millimetre it merges to the carriageway - irrespective of how much open tarmac there is, as soon as the two lanes touch - that's where they pull in. Or, more usually - that's where they try and edge into the queue while totally impervious to the queue building up behind them of people who don't want to do that.
Also their counterparts who exit the carriageway as soon as the sliproad comes into view, meaning you get a battle of wills between both packs of numpty fighting to get on and off the road in the same place.
I just progress down the slip road to find a much easier merge point, or progress down the carriageway to find a better exit point personally.
Also their counterparts who exit the carriageway as soon as the sliproad comes into view, meaning you get a battle of wills between both packs of numpty fighting to get on and off the road in the same place.
I just progress down the slip road to find a much easier merge point, or progress down the carriageway to find a better exit point personally.
This happened to my mate on his bike.
Guy in lane 3 overtaking at speed, at the last minute cuts across all 3 lanes to get to the exit. The woman in lane 2 panicked hit her brakes, lost control and hit my mate in lane 1. Luckly he had seen this developing so was already on the brakes and slowing. It still meant him in plaster for ages, pins in arm and pain 2 years later.
So what happened to they guy that caused it all? He initially stopped, waited for a minute and then sped off never to be seen again.
I wish him pain in his life.
Guy in lane 3 overtaking at speed, at the last minute cuts across all 3 lanes to get to the exit. The woman in lane 2 panicked hit her brakes, lost control and hit my mate in lane 1. Luckly he had seen this developing so was already on the brakes and slowing. It still meant him in plaster for ages, pins in arm and pain 2 years later.
So what happened to they guy that caused it all? He initially stopped, waited for a minute and then sped off never to be seen again.
I wish him pain in his life.
DeputyDawg said:
Someone please explain the mentality?
Yes it's competitiveness, we're all taught to be competitive since the day we are born. We are taught to win at school, to succeed & to be first. We then go on to work & are taught that we must be the best, have the highest figures & bring in the most money. Then we leave work & rather than leave that competitiveness behind some people take it with them & into their cars.Subconsciously getting past that extra car or two before the slip is succeeding in some peoples minds.
DeputyDawg said:
I must have had this happen 4 times this week.
Nothing behind me for some distance as I'm coming close to the exit slip road (i'm not turning off)...but you will always get someone ducking off at the last minute from middle/overtaking lane, cutting you up in the process instead of filtering in behind you for their exit. Does my NUT!
And if you so much as flash them for leaving such a small gap, they give you the finger!
Someone please explain the mentality?
(sarcasm mode on)Because they are obviously so much more important than the rest of the world, so they can do anything they like, and fNothing behind me for some distance as I'm coming close to the exit slip road (i'm not turning off)...but you will always get someone ducking off at the last minute from middle/overtaking lane, cutting you up in the process instead of filtering in behind you for their exit. Does my NUT!
And if you so much as flash them for leaving such a small gap, they give you the finger!
Someone please explain the mentality?
k you basically(sarcasm mode off) Thats the mentality im afraidSouthbound J21 of the M5 is terrible for this.
It's a busy junction so you very often get queues of traffic in lane 1 waiting to exit the motorway. If you drive past in lane 2 at 70ish, you invariably get some idiot fly past in lane 3 at warp factor 9, see a 'gap' and swoop infront of you and slam the anchors on, scrubbing of 40/50mph in 15 yards. How on earth there aren't more pile-ups on that bit of road I will never know.
I always move out to lane 3 well in advance of that junction now.
It's a busy junction so you very often get queues of traffic in lane 1 waiting to exit the motorway. If you drive past in lane 2 at 70ish, you invariably get some idiot fly past in lane 3 at warp factor 9, see a 'gap' and swoop infront of you and slam the anchors on, scrubbing of 40/50mph in 15 yards. How on earth there aren't more pile-ups on that bit of road I will never know.
I always move out to lane 3 well in advance of that junction now.
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