The arch nemesis on your commute...
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Every bloody morning regardless of what time I leave home I meet him... 
Mr. '57 plate Silver BMW 330i who appears to have the cruise control stuck in the 40 mph position everywhere regardless of the speed limit even on the nice open roads with good visibility around North Herts/South Beds.
Regardless of what time I leave I catch up with him and often follow for the whole journey (unless I get lucky and am near the front of the queue for the overtake) stuck in a line of traffic feeling frustrated behind this mobile chicane.
It doesn't actually make me late for work if I follow the whole way, it's just so bloody frustrating watching someone so frequently leaving long queues of traffic in his wake while bimbling along in his own little world.
As if to make matters worse the fog's are often on and indication appears to be optional!
Seems a shame that a nice engine like that is abused in such a depressing fashion.
Anyone else have a similar sort of experience each day?!
Mr. '57 plate Silver BMW 330i who appears to have the cruise control stuck in the 40 mph position everywhere regardless of the speed limit even on the nice open roads with good visibility around North Herts/South Beds.
Regardless of what time I leave I catch up with him and often follow for the whole journey (unless I get lucky and am near the front of the queue for the overtake) stuck in a line of traffic feeling frustrated behind this mobile chicane.
It doesn't actually make me late for work if I follow the whole way, it's just so bloody frustrating watching someone so frequently leaving long queues of traffic in his wake while bimbling along in his own little world.
As if to make matters worse the fog's are often on and indication appears to be optional!
Seems a shame that a nice engine like that is abused in such a depressing fashion.
Anyone else have a similar sort of experience each day?!
I have the same problem, most mornings I will get to the top of the road and see the clown in a freelander drive past, I think oh no I am going to be stuck behind him now he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!
I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
steve_bmw said:
I have the same problem, most mornings I will get to the top of the road and see the clown in a freelander drive past, I think oh no I am going to be stuck behind him now he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!
I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
The 40 Zone you refer to is a max speed not a level to drive at ! Freelanders Dont accelerate quickly at the best of times and driving up behind him with lights on screams knob! I bet your overtake is a quality move aswell he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
I must be getting old typing this but just leave 10 mins earlier it makes life sooo much easier.
I use a country lane which is perfectly adequate for two-way traffic along 95% of it with good sight lines and plenty of pull-ins at the narrower sections. Invariably I manage to get behind either an X reg Charade or some other "OAP car" where the driver attacks the lane with the vim and vigour of a squashed slug and stops every time they see lights coming the other way.
They don't particularly frustrate me as annoy me for failing to make adequate progress and spoiling my only stretch of hoonage along my commute.
They don't particularly frustrate me as annoy me for failing to make adequate progress and spoiling my only stretch of hoonage along my commute.
siwil1 said:
The 40 Zone you refer to is a max speed not a level to drive at ! Freelanders Dont accelerate quickly at the best of times and driving up behind him with lights on screams knob! I bet your overtake is a quality move aswell
I must be getting old typing this but just leave 10 mins earlier it makes life sooo much easier.
I agree.I must be getting old typing this but just leave 10 mins earlier it makes life sooo much easier.
Punto woman !
Dont see her now but every mornign she would use the single track road I use on my bike I did this as being a snivelling, tax dodging, lycra wearing mobile road block to avoid holding up the honest motorists who pay for the main roads, this was a famr track and not really suitable for more than one car, anyway, Punto Woman used it and every day came blasting down like she was in a hurry and would happen upon me and pap herself, I was aware having heard her miles away and identified my escape route but she would always happen upon me and brake hard and look surprised even though we met pretty much every day, she was like the surprised woman on Catherin Tate that is sees something that is obviously going to pop like a toaster but still screams when it does.
Dont see her now, thankfully.
Dont see her now but every mornign she would use the single track road I use on my bike I did this as being a snivelling, tax dodging, lycra wearing mobile road block to avoid holding up the honest motorists who pay for the main roads, this was a famr track and not really suitable for more than one car, anyway, Punto Woman used it and every day came blasting down like she was in a hurry and would happen upon me and pap herself, I was aware having heard her miles away and identified my escape route but she would always happen upon me and brake hard and look surprised even though we met pretty much every day, she was like the surprised woman on Catherin Tate that is sees something that is obviously going to pop like a toaster but still screams when it does.
Dont see her now, thankfully.
steve_bmw said:
I have the same problem, most mornings I will get to the top of the road and see the clown in a freelander drive past, I think oh no I am going to be stuck behind him now he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!
I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
Well one of you is certainly a moron. he insists on traveling at 28 mph in a 40 zone, so slow at pulling out of junctions, just a doddering fool!I do manage to overtake him, not before driving right up behind him with my full beam on.
Now my commute in both directions is in the dark, it's mostly the crackpots with insane lights. Not really a problem for approaching traffic because they're past in a few seconds, but on NSL single carriageway roads it's irritating having the headliner of my car illuminated for so long.
A greybeard in a Renault Modus polices the A46 between Nailsworth and Bath ensuring we drive like him and ONLY LIKE HIM. His method? He gathers a mighty queue by crawling through the bendy bits and then speeds up along the straights in an effort to not be overtaken. I often join the back of one of his long kangaroo queues, forcing me to shake the steering wheel and shout "RENAULT NEMESIS!! Will I never be free of you!?!"
I'm sure he loves me too.
I'm sure he loves me too.
The Wednesday morning bin lorry... get stuck behind this git and you're missing the train. I swear they do 30mph (derestricted single carriageway) just to annoy commuters. Not only that, they squeeze you, should you "dare" to try and overtake.
Every day there is "woman in the blue Corsa" and "man with the black Corsa" (WTF is it woth Corsa drivers?) - both of whom insist on doing 35.4mph.
... and as for the irritating git on the train who refuses to use the luggage rack...
Every day there is "woman in the blue Corsa" and "man with the black Corsa" (WTF is it woth Corsa drivers?) - both of whom insist on doing 35.4mph.
... and as for the irritating git on the train who refuses to use the luggage rack...
Not me, but on a commute the wife used to do, she had to go through the villages of Goring and Streatley. On this road in Streatley, there is ALWAYS an endless line of parked cars on one side, which makes it a single track road effectively, traffic can not pass in both directions:
http://tinyurl.com/c8nosnq
The parked cars stretch up around the bend in the distance, which makes it hard to judge whether to "go" or not as you can't properly see oncoming traffic. So it's crappy in the rush hour anyway, but then add the following. A local "lady" rides her horsey up that street EVERY weekday morning at the exact peak of the rush hour, as slow as she likes, taking absolutely AGES to get past the parked cars and on her way. It causes snarl ups of massive proportions all around both villages, back across the Thames bridges, and winds everyone up an absolute treat.
She is by far the most selfish, inconsiderate bint I can possibly imagine. I've seen her do it with my own eyes. Maybe others on here local to me know who I'm talking about. She's been doing it for years.
Trouble is, with people needing to cross the river and the alternative crossings needing detours of many, many miles, people don't have an alternative route to choose.
http://tinyurl.com/c8nosnq
The parked cars stretch up around the bend in the distance, which makes it hard to judge whether to "go" or not as you can't properly see oncoming traffic. So it's crappy in the rush hour anyway, but then add the following. A local "lady" rides her horsey up that street EVERY weekday morning at the exact peak of the rush hour, as slow as she likes, taking absolutely AGES to get past the parked cars and on her way. It causes snarl ups of massive proportions all around both villages, back across the Thames bridges, and winds everyone up an absolute treat.
She is by far the most selfish, inconsiderate bint I can possibly imagine. I've seen her do it with my own eyes. Maybe others on here local to me know who I'm talking about. She's been doing it for years.
Trouble is, with people needing to cross the river and the alternative crossings needing detours of many, many miles, people don't have an alternative route to choose.
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