Most selfish/arrogant driving you've seen?
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In this increasingly MEMEME society, selfish 'f
k the rest of the world I do what I want to do' actions are sadly more and more common. But I did see one the other day that I thought particularly spectacular.
Local chippy, always very popular on a Saturday night. It is in a narrow one way side street off a main road, double yellows on both sides but enough room to park outside and allow people to get by. Inevitably people do because, hey, they're only stopping for 10 minutes so what's the problem? (Ignoring the fact that a hundred people doing this through the course of the evening equates to a car or two almost permanently outside whilst the shop is open).
There is a Pay & Display car park thirty seconds further on. Or you can park in the next street very easily (wider and loads of free parking) but that does mean walking for anything up to 2 minutes if you're at the far end.
Anyway, in there a week or two back, having parked in the next street (as too tight to pay in the car park). It was busy, I'd paid and was waiting for my order, plenty of others doing the same and a couple of people queuing to pay when in walks a middle aged woman with her teenage daughter and joins the queue to order and pay. After a minute or two it was their turn, so they order, and woman starts flapping about needing to move the car so leaves teenage daughter to collect order and heads out the door, presumably to move to the Pay & Display that is almost next door and sit in the car rather than paying.
I assumed she'd parked on the double yellows - oh well, at least she was shifting it while she waited.
No. When she opened the door her car was actually abandoned in the middle of the road! She'd literally reached the chip shop, stopped, and got out, leaving the car blocking the entire street while she waited to order and pay!
As she drove off, about ten cars that were backed up behind her followed her down the road!
FFS.
Anyway, no doubt someone's seen worse.
Oh, and much as I hate stereotyping cars, guess what she was driving?
Cool starry bra and all that, I know, but FFS!
k the rest of the world I do what I want to do' actions are sadly more and more common. But I did see one the other day that I thought particularly spectacular. Local chippy, always very popular on a Saturday night. It is in a narrow one way side street off a main road, double yellows on both sides but enough room to park outside and allow people to get by. Inevitably people do because, hey, they're only stopping for 10 minutes so what's the problem? (Ignoring the fact that a hundred people doing this through the course of the evening equates to a car or two almost permanently outside whilst the shop is open).
There is a Pay & Display car park thirty seconds further on. Or you can park in the next street very easily (wider and loads of free parking) but that does mean walking for anything up to 2 minutes if you're at the far end.
Anyway, in there a week or two back, having parked in the next street (as too tight to pay in the car park). It was busy, I'd paid and was waiting for my order, plenty of others doing the same and a couple of people queuing to pay when in walks a middle aged woman with her teenage daughter and joins the queue to order and pay. After a minute or two it was their turn, so they order, and woman starts flapping about needing to move the car so leaves teenage daughter to collect order and heads out the door, presumably to move to the Pay & Display that is almost next door and sit in the car rather than paying.
I assumed she'd parked on the double yellows - oh well, at least she was shifting it while she waited.
No. When she opened the door her car was actually abandoned in the middle of the road! She'd literally reached the chip shop, stopped, and got out, leaving the car blocking the entire street while she waited to order and pay!
As she drove off, about ten cars that were backed up behind her followed her down the road!
FFS.
Anyway, no doubt someone's seen worse.
Oh, and much as I hate stereotyping cars, guess what she was driving?
Cool starry bra and all that, I know, but FFS!
Most arrogant? Fairly busy motorway on a Sunday morning about 11.30am. Two Ferraris and a Porsche 911 doing 100mph-ish weaving in and out of traffic, driving far too close to one another and other drivers, using the hard shoulder as an extra lane and generally acting the tt. They don't notice/care that one of the vehicles they've passed is a police dog van. The dog van is obviously not up to the task of pulling them over but the driver must have called it in because about twenty miles later the three of them are all on the hard shoulder surrounded by plod.
t. They don't notice/care that one of the vehicles they've passed is a police dog van. The dog van is obviously not up to the task of pulling them over but the driver must have called it in because about twenty miles later the three of them are all on the hard shoulder surrounded by plod.
Had one yesterday.
On my bike about to very very slowly pass a parked car as there were four horses approaching on the opposite side, with a fair queue of traffic behind them.
Matey boy in his E or S class coupe then decides he shouldn't have to wait, overtakes 3-4 cars and tried to squeeze me hard up to the parked vehicle whilst overtaking one of the horses.
I sat right out in the centre and stopped my bike so he couldn't pass, but he was an absolute scrotum.
On my bike about to very very slowly pass a parked car as there were four horses approaching on the opposite side, with a fair queue of traffic behind them.
Matey boy in his E or S class coupe then decides he shouldn't have to wait, overtakes 3-4 cars and tried to squeeze me hard up to the parked vehicle whilst overtaking one of the horses.
I sat right out in the centre and stopped my bike so he couldn't pass, but he was an absolute scrotum.
Fancy people jumping to the Audi conclusion! 
It was an Audi Q something (Q3 I think).
It's a shame really. I'm dead against all this stereotyping nonsense and I used to love Audis when they were the subtle 'thinking mans' choice. Still think they are great cars but they really do have an image problem these days, perpetuated by people like this.
It was an Audi Q something (Q3 I think).
It's a shame really. I'm dead against all this stereotyping nonsense and I used to love Audis when they were the subtle 'thinking mans' choice. Still think they are great cars but they really do have an image problem these days, perpetuated by people like this.
(don't judge me, they have way better sandwiches than Sainsburies).Couple of years ago, at an Asda petrol station.
Petrol pumps are arranged in 4 columns of two pumps.
The left hand column was a "fast" lane - pay at pump only, single lane traffic, ie, if there's a car using pump #1 at the front, you can't get past. Not a great design, but works as long as everyone using it waits patiently and fuels/pays promptly.
Two cars using the pump. The one in front finishes (#1) and moves off. Car behind (pump #2) is nearly finished. I'm sat patiently waiting - as soon as the second car moves off, I'll be able to drive straight through to pump #1, and someone would be able to use pump #2 behind me.
Woman in white Mercedes C-something or other rocks up behind me (middle aged, sunglasses perched on dirty blonde hair, you get the stereotype). Looks at the queue, either too stupid or arrogant to understand the system. Just as the guy in the second bay is closing his petrol cap, she diverts out of the queue, through the main part of the forecourt, around the pumps and reverses herself back up the single lane so she's using the vacant pump at the front.
The guy who has just finished fuelling now cant move so we have to both sit and wait, as there's other cars forming a queue behind me. He toots his horn at her and gives her an exasperated "wtf?!" expression and she gives him a look like shes done nothing wrong.
So she held up everyone just to save herself 10 seconds of waiting behind me. Couldn't believe it.
Petrol pumps are arranged in 4 columns of two pumps.
The left hand column was a "fast" lane - pay at pump only, single lane traffic, ie, if there's a car using pump #1 at the front, you can't get past. Not a great design, but works as long as everyone using it waits patiently and fuels/pays promptly.
Two cars using the pump. The one in front finishes (#1) and moves off. Car behind (pump #2) is nearly finished. I'm sat patiently waiting - as soon as the second car moves off, I'll be able to drive straight through to pump #1, and someone would be able to use pump #2 behind me.
Woman in white Mercedes C-something or other rocks up behind me (middle aged, sunglasses perched on dirty blonde hair, you get the stereotype). Looks at the queue, either too stupid or arrogant to understand the system. Just as the guy in the second bay is closing his petrol cap, she diverts out of the queue, through the main part of the forecourt, around the pumps and reverses herself back up the single lane so she's using the vacant pump at the front.
The guy who has just finished fuelling now cant move so we have to both sit and wait, as there's other cars forming a queue behind me. He toots his horn at her and gives her an exasperated "wtf?!" expression and she gives him a look like shes done nothing wrong.
So she held up everyone just to save herself 10 seconds of waiting behind me. Couldn't believe it.
Edited by Conscript on Saturday 28th February 14:22
We have an ongoing problem with parking in our cul-de-sac with half of the brain dead troglodytes who live there seemingly unable to park straight which in turn means fewer spaces for everyone else.
One particular oxygen thief who has just bought himself a massive Mitsubishi off-roader has overcome the problem with lack of spaces by utilising his 4wd and now parks on the grass bank behind the parking bays. This has now churned the grass into mud and made an already skanky looking area even less appealing.
Last week though a monumental fkwit in a Renault Scenic decided to park her grief-mobile directly opposite another parked car leaving a gap only just big enough to fit a Mini through. Some kind soul decided to teach her a lesson by leaving a polite note on her windscreen. another less kind soul squeezed through leaving scratches along the rear quarter of the Scenic!
I cant wait to move!!
One particular oxygen thief who has just bought himself a massive Mitsubishi off-roader has overcome the problem with lack of spaces by utilising his 4wd and now parks on the grass bank behind the parking bays. This has now churned the grass into mud and made an already skanky looking area even less appealing.
Last week though a monumental f
kwit in a Renault Scenic decided to park her grief-mobile directly opposite another parked car leaving a gap only just big enough to fit a Mini through. Some kind soul decided to teach her a lesson by leaving a polite note on her windscreen. another less kind soul squeezed through leaving scratches along the rear quarter of the Scenic! I cant wait to move!!
colonel c said:
One that gets to me is when selfish s pull up at the entrance to a car wash. Then toddle off to the kiosk to but a token or code number. Tough st for anyone else that has already bought a token.
This happens all the effing time at the car wash opposite work. Scum, sub human scum. s pull up at the entrance to a car wash. Then toddle off to the kiosk to but a token or code number. Tough st for anyone else that has already bought a token. 3rd hand tale, but my sister tells a story about when she was working in a bank in a small town, and heard a whole lot of beeping from outside, when she went to investigate, she found quite a famous Welsh singer, sitting double parked in her Merc, waiting for somebody/anybody to return to their vehicle so she could get a spot right in front of the shops.
Apparently she sat there for a good ten minutes, pretending to be oblivious to the absolute chaos surrounding her.
Apparently she sat there for a good ten minutes, pretending to be oblivious to the absolute chaos surrounding her.
Guy who lives next door is a complete tool. Often blocking people's (my) drives etc. But recently he's taken to parking his car on the grass verge opposite his house which is outside someone else's house. The grass is wrecked and gouged now. No one in the street parks in the verges. You can leave your car in the road is need be, there's no restrictions and he had a two car drive, which always has an unused tiger parked diagonally on.
Where I work we have 4 clearly marked customer parking bays, these bays are part of our used car display; the land of which is shared with a Shell garage, however it is plainly obvious that we are nothing to do with the Shell garage, due to the layout and signposting.
Frequently we get people that pop into the Shell garage; either parking across the entrance to the four bays or totally across the four bays thus blocking completely our customer parking, of which is clearly marked as ours and ours only. We also get people who drive out of the car wash and straight across our bays so that they can dry off the water runs after their car has been washed.
90% of the time if you ask them to move, all you get is abuse; I had one guy who parked his Aston across all the bays so that he could take or make a phone call, tell me that I was "fking rude" for interrupting him when it was clear that he was on the phone, of course he wasn't rude by parking how he had parked and then refusing to move.
Sometimes they will say; after being told that our customers are unable to park there due to their own parking "I'll move when one of your customers arrives".
It astounds me that people just seem incapable of saying "oh sorry I didn't realise, I'll move".
Frequently we get people that pop into the Shell garage; either parking across the entrance to the four bays or totally across the four bays thus blocking completely our customer parking, of which is clearly marked as ours and ours only. We also get people who drive out of the car wash and straight across our bays so that they can dry off the water runs after their car has been washed.
90% of the time if you ask them to move, all you get is abuse; I had one guy who parked his Aston across all the bays so that he could take or make a phone call, tell me that I was "f
king rude" for interrupting him when it was clear that he was on the phone, of course he wasn't rude by parking how he had parked and then refusing to move. Sometimes they will say; after being told that our customers are unable to park there due to their own parking "I'll move when one of your customers arrives".
It astounds me that people just seem incapable of saying "oh sorry I didn't realise, I'll move".
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