One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[yellowjack]

Blown2CV said:

Spumfry said:

Big thanks to the woman who nearly ran me over in her 1 series while I was using a zebra crossing. You're supposed to do one thing to raise your heart rate each day, and that did the trick. I was only half way across so it was probably my fault.
I'm not a big one for effing and jeffing so managed a slightly pathetic 'thanks very much' as she sped by. She then parked up about a hundred yards away, got out, and gave me a look of disgust that couldn't have been any worse if I'd shat in her handbag, wiped my arse on her curtains, and left without washing my hands.

and it's at that point i'd have explained to her the error of her ways.

A woman nearly ran me over in Frimley High Street once, while I was crossing a PeLiCon crossing. Her light had been red for ages, certainly plenty long enough for the pedestrian light to have gone green, and for me to have started crossing meant she was still quite a distance from the crossing.

I reacted by giving her car a slap as she passed, and her reaction to that was to stop in the road (with accompanying tyre squeal) and storm up to me, yelling. Sadly, I never got my opportunity to explain to her the error of her ways, as, happily, it was at this point that a police officer in a marked car parked on the opposite side of the road heard her 'hard stop' and subsequent raised voice. He strode over purposefully and interrupted her rant with an "anything I can help with here, madam?"

She was instructed to move her car to a safe place where it was no longer obstructing the road, and invited to sit in the police car...

[yellowjack]

On the subject of "knobs" though?

Farnborough yesterday. I was waiting at the bus stop, going home after an afternoon shopping trip. I'd like to send a nice loud "Feckin' knobs, the lot of ya!" to (almost all of) the other passengers on said bus.

The bus was at it's turn-around point. It comes in as the Yateley to Farnborough, and stops on one side of the road, where it technically terminates and turfs out the last of it's passengers. Then it nips out around a roundabout, and returns on the near side of the road becoming the Farnborough to Yateley service. So at this point it's empty.

Great! Thinks I. I'll have no trouble getting the elderly/disabled seat at the front that I need, as I'm closest to the bus and have been waiting here since narrowly missing the last service.

But no, waddling past come the lardies and assorted weirdos of Farnborough, past me, and my wife, and they start filing past onto the bus. I'm struggling with getting about on crutches, and trying to heft a bag filled with more shopping than was probably wise to have done. It's hanging off the handle of a crutch as my wife (who was carrying it up to that point) is struggling with a shoulder injury. So sure, it's my own fault that I'm lumbered with too heavy a bag to be ideal, but whatever happened to the idea of "queuing"?

I wasn't ready to make a big deal of it, as a) I was with my wife, and she doesn't like confrontation, and b) being with my wife on one of her rare days off had put me in a rather good mood. It didn't matter though. A gentleman who'd been further back in the queue than me came forward and blocked the rest of the queue from "overtaking me". He said it "wound him up no end" and he even took my shopping and carried it onto the bus for me. He wasn't the sort of person I'd normally expect help from, all curb chains and faded arm tattoos as he was. At one point he described the bunfight to be first aboard the bus as "an ignorant bunch of losers and misfits", and as he got off the bus a couple of stops ahead of me, he even apologised that he wouldn't be able to help carry my bag off.

So whatever the opposite of "a knob" is, I'll nominate him for putting a bunch of knobs in their place.

It's four-and-a-half months now since I last drove my car. Lots of bus journeys in the meantime, meeting a variety of people (including an elderly Jewish lady who'd survived the holocaust). While it's much as it is in wider life, where most people are just fine and very easy to get along with, there is a very noticeable minority of bus travellers who seem to be hell-bent on making life as difficult/awkward as possible for the rest of us. Standing blocking the aisle when there are seats available. Placing pushchairs and tartan shopping trolleys in the gangway despite there being plenty of space at the front for them, and despite notices on the bus telling them it's one of the things they "must not do". And worse still, then making no effort whatsoever to get out of the way when other passengers want to get on or off the bus. They just sit there gripping "their property" with tightly whitened knuckles, expecting others to either squeeze past, or presumably climb over other passengers to get to a seat. I was even "tutted" at by several people when I had a cast on my leg for being in the front (easy access) seats when the only thing 'wrong' with them appeared to be mildly advanced years.

Grrrr! I'll be glad when my surgeon/physio can agree that I'm fit to drive again!

[anonymous-user]

Liquid Knight said:

bristolracer said:

Exactly that
When it was all fields around here, you would know you had no lights on when you noticed you couldn't read anything on the dashboard.
I have no idea why the car makers will not let the rear lights come on with the DRLs.

Because those would be sidelights.

Not always the case. My 2008 E92 BMW has DRLs and the rears turn on with the fronts.

[cjs racing.]

yellowjack said:

A gentleman who'd been further back in the queue than me came forward and blocked the rest of the queue from "overtaking me". He said it "wound him up no end" and he even took my shopping and carried it onto the bus for me. He wasn't the sort of person I'd normally expect help from, all curb chains and faded arm tattoos as he was. At one point he described the bunfight to be first aboard the bus as "an ignorant bunch of losers and misfits", and as he got off the bus a couple of stops ahead of me, he even apologised that he wouldn't be able to help carry my bag off.

So whatever the opposite of "a knob" is, I'll nominate him for putting a bunch of knobs in their place.

Can we go with, decent, respectful, well mannered gentleman.

Well done that man.

[silverfoxcc]

Not sure if nob and if so which one

Coming back along M4 Eastbound last night about 23.00 ish
Traffic light and sometimes non existent

Making what some would say 'progress', but not being silly ( fast but not fast enough to warrant the attention of plod)

800yd marker says two inside lanes blocked off

ahead an artic in L1 i get into L2 to pass him
behind someone in L3 catching me up

Said lorry at 600yds and at a sedate 56 decides now is the time to get into L3 with the 90 degree swing over and one indicator once he is there
Chap behind anchors up and then drops into L2 and cruises past lorry

Very tempted to follow as even yellowjack with crutches and on his bike could have got past ( no offence!)

I never thought i would meet a road captain at that time, the fact that it was bloody empty really got my urine up to 100 degrees C

Dozy bugger may thought two cars doing that is one to many and decide to get back into L1 just for a bit as i get level with his n/s cab door

Edited by silverfoxcc on Saturday 6th October 00:06

[ManOpener]

I'd like to nominate the procession of absolute thunders currently blocking Cheltenham railway station by driving the wrong way down the exit lane because they're too lazy to leave the car park and re-enter if they haven't found a space.

[Solocle]

The absolute lowlife (M9 CXN), that, taking exception to me cycling through some roadworks (and not riding right against the roadwork cones), intially enters L2 (I enter L1 as soon as the cones end), but then swerves into L1 and jams on his brakes for the red light. I did hit his bumper, at virtually no speed at all. How did he respond? By reversing into my front wheel after I had moved back a foot. No damage to me or my bike, but his rear bumper did make a terrific cracking noise. Not content, the throbber passenger decided to chuck a bottle of water at me. All for not being able to overtake for about 100 yards in roadworks.

[Zetec-S]

A few yesterday on my way home...

Knob # 1 in a new Kia SUV catches up with a slow moving car. Nice long empty straight, and they proceed to overtake at about 0.5mph faster than the car. Approaching the end of the straight and a blind crest, they're only just drawing level with the other car when someone appears from the other direction who has to slam on their brakes and pull into the verge to avoid an accident. Kia wker just continues as if nothing has happened. And then proceeds to go no faster once they've overtaken.

Knob # 2 in an old transit pulls out in front of me as I'm doing 60 on the main road, forcing me to anchor up (despite the road being empty behind me), and proceed to do no more than 40mph.

Knob # 3 driving a Dacia Logan MCV decides to blindly follow the van out as well. Who then does a good job of not overtaking for the next couple of miles (despite ample opportunities), and instead sits 6 inches off the rear bumper of the van. Then as I go to overtake both of them he decides to swerve out with no indication and overtake the van, almost wiping me out. A short while later he did a similar thing with another car we caught up to, only overtaking when I pulled out (I held back this time expecting some sort of knobbery). Oh, and to top it off, the stmobile had a dash cam planted dead centre in the windscreen, and a baby on board sticker in the rear window.

Knob # 4 - me (well, maybe - the PH community can decide ) Still following the Dacia (I took a few deep breaths and decided not to get wound up and just follow sensibly, so no gestures, hand signals, acknowledgment of each other) we both ended up going into the local Tesco. I parked up in my usual area (as far from the lazy fkers near the entrance as possible), and as I was walking in I clocked Dacia man parking up close to the entrance and entering the store as I was. So my childish side decided I'd subtly follow him around for a bit, adopting a vacant "I don't know what I'm looking for on the shelves" stare, and making sure my shopping trolley was always in his way. Admittedly I got bored after a few minutes and didn't want him to twig, but it made me feel better at the time.

[GOATever]

People driving ‘stanced’ cars, with tyres so stretched they look like they’re about to pop of the rims.

[GOATever]

People driving down a poorly lit road, in the dark, with no lights on, in a dark car. I only really noticed him, because his car momentarily moved across the lights of the car behind him.

[jamei303]

The tt in the van yesterday on a dual carriageway who sped up to close a gap and stop me overtaking a 30mph tractor. When I overtook him later he felt the need to signal to me that he had pins and needles in his wrist.

[Willy Nilly]

GOATever said:

People driving ‘stanced’ cars, with tyres so stretched they look like they’re about to pop of the rims.

I thought this had died out a bit of late.

One thing that makes me think knob is vehicles with DLRs that don't light the rear lights up. Someone, somewhere must have thought about this, the dash must be lit up as well to give the illusion that the vehicle has its lights on to the driver.

[Liquid Knight]

Willy Nilly said:

GOATever said:

People driving ‘stanced’ cars, with tyres so stretched they look like they’re about to pop of the rims.

I thought this had died out a bit of late.

One thing that makes me think knob is vehicles with DLRs that don't light the rear lights up. Someone, somewhere must have thought about this, the dash must be lit up as well to give the illusion that the vehicle has its lights on to the driver.

Kama catches up with the "Stance" people when they have a puncture and have to be recovered because the car is so low they can't get a jack under it and a specialist rig because it's so low it won't go on a conventional beaver tail.

I stopped to help one once. It was somehow everyone else's fault he was driving such a dangerous and irreparable vehicle. The tyre had split along the side wall of the tyre. I pointed out the clue was in the name and it is supposed to be the side of the tyre and not designed to be in contact with the floor at all but the reply was enough for me to leave him to his self-fulfilling prophecy.

The New Zealand 10cm rule makes a lot of sense and we should have something similar over here.

The whole reason DRL's were invented was because some people are so thick the do not know when they need to have their lights on. These people are now so thick they do not realise they only have DRL's on.

I call them "Durls!" with as many u's and r's as you feel necessary. Compounded by Nandos grey paint they are proof of Darwinian theorems.

I have been out. It's low light conditions, cloudy, raining heavily in places, surface spray and what remains of this mornings fog. Yep there are idiots on the road right now with no lights on!

[ManOpener]

Willy Nilly said:

GOATever said:

People driving ‘stanced’ cars, with tyres so stretched they look like they’re about to pop of the rims.

I thought this had died out a bit of late.

I think it has, for the most part. Silly camber to the point of having only about 1/3 of the intended contact patch touching the road still seems to be a thing, though.

[silverfoxcc]

It really beats me why makers dont (like Volvo have done for years ) Have both front and rear on all the time


My old 760 running lights were bright enough to use as headlights,THEN i turn the headlights on!!!

However on the present V70 there is no diffference

But not to put rears on ?????????

AND have a retina burning dash light when the rear fogs are on..as the twot in the Far East Tin had on a very clear night last Thurs on the M4


AND FFS plod, stop every idiott who has a dashcam/satnav stuck in the middle if the window.

And relax

[GOATever]

People overtaking, on a nsl road, whilst I’m doing the speed limit, only to hit the anchors and take the next right turn, about a hundred yards further up the road, without indicating. Really? what was the purpose? I have no idea.

[nonsequitur]

GOATever said:

People overtaking, on a nsl road, whilst I’m doing the speed limit, only to hit the anchors and take the next right turn, about a hundred yards further up the road, without indicating. Really? what was the purpose? I have no idea.

No purpose. Just a poor, uncaring, yeah let's do it driver.

[Kuji]

jamei303 said:

The tt in the van yesterday on a dual carriageway who sped up to close a gap and stop me overtaking a 30mph tractor. When I overtook him later he felt the need to signal to me that he had pins and needles in his wrist.

I noted a high percentage of vans acting as rolling MLM road blocks on the M1 the other day.

I wonder if it’s just the fact they do lots of miles, or something else psychological?

[Blown2CV]

as with many other places you may live, my village has a 'locals' facebook group. Recommendations requests, planning moans, lost items etc form most of the content. After seeing the millionth 'i found someone's bank card' post i took it upon myself to highlight that people shouldn't really be posting images of the card front on an effectively public internet page, and then casually handing it to a total stranger behind a bar or in a shop to 'look after', in case the cardholder happens to see the post over the next few weeks. Whilst I am sure they thought they were doing a good thing, by far the safest thing to do would be to destroy the card on their behalf, rather than leave a potentially still active card with someone who may or may not share the same good intentions. So whilst it may be reunited with the careless owner, if it is still active then it's a massive risk until then, but if it is cancelled then the whole thing was for nothing. I was subsequently lambasted by a number of people who felt I was trying to piss on someone's good deed.

[Alex_225]

The muppet sitting in lane two on a stretch of dual carriageway leading up to the M25. Refused to move to lane one despite it being completely empty.

What hope is there when the vehicle was a Red Driving School instructors car!! Staggering.