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

[nonsequitur]

Grahamdub said:

Our village is terrible for that. They also then are incapable of reversing and it is all somehow your fault

Whatever happens, if you are 100% in the right, it's always 'your' fault. I got the finger for using my signed priority as another driver charged through missing me by a fag paper width.

[anonymous-user]

nonsequitur said:

Grahamdub said:

Our village is terrible for that. They also then are incapable of reversing and it is all somehow your fault

Whatever happens, if you are 100% in the right, it's always 'your' fault. I got the finger for using my signed priority as another driver charged through missing me by a fag paper width.

I was walking our dog a few says ago when I saw a lady driving an SUV come up against a bin lorry that had right of way. Bin man shrugged his shoulders, so eventually SUV lady started reversing at 0.5mph in a zig zag pattern for a good 100ft, which seemed to take forever. She was then so irate, she tried to do a 3 point turn for some reason, before eventually racing off. If I had been a nice chap, I would have tapped on her window and pointed out the left turn in front of the bin lorry that would have brought her out slightly further up the road, behind the bin lorry.

[Liquid Knight]

To the left is the village bakery, directly to the right is the post office, ahead to the left is the ladies hair salon and ahead to the right is the chip shop. Round the bend and about twenty yards further up is enough room to park four vehicles. So the 4x4 on the blind bend, Focus on and Transit blocking the junctions are just a bunch of lazy tosspots who can't be ased to walk more than a few feet.

[The Mad Monk]

Liquid Knight said:

To the left is the village bakery, directly to the right is the post office, ahead to the left is the ladies hair salon and ahead to the right is the chip shop. Round the bend and about twenty yards further up is enough room to park four vehicles. So the 4x4 on the blind bend, Focus on and Transit blocking the junctions are just a bunch of lazy tosspots who can't be ased to walk more than a few feet.

We did this location on May 1st!

[Tankrizzo]

Liquid Knight said:

To the left is the village bakery, directly to the right is the post office, ahead to the left is the ladies hair salon and ahead to the right is the chip shop. Round the bend and about twenty yards further up is enough room to park four vehicles. So the 4x4 on the blind bend, Focus on and Transit blocking the junctions are just a bunch of lazy tosspots who can't be ased to walk more than a few feet.

Christ, you'd be buggered if you ever met even a small HGV coming the other way. 1 post truck and you're knackered with that parking.

[nonsequitur]

The Mad Monk said:

Liquid Knight said:

To the left is the village bakery, directly to the right is the post office, ahead to the left is the ladies hair salon and ahead to the right is the chip shop. Round the bend and about twenty yards further up is enough room to park four vehicles. So the 4x4 on the blind bend, Focus on and Transit blocking the junctions are just a bunch of lazy tosspots who can't be ased to walk more than a few feet.

We did this location on May 1st!

And some tool with fog lights / no fog scenario.

[ashleyman]

fatboy18 said:

Thats unreal What is it now with society, its like when 1 side of the road has a a row of parked cars but people will still pull out without waiting and drive straight at you when you have right of way on the carriageway going towards them People are becoming very selfish.

I had this yesterday. Bloke shouted at me why didn’t I stop? Well. Maybe because the obstruction is on your side of the road. Unfortunately for matey boy. If it’s a tipper truck vs a cheap jeep the tipper will win and he got his mirror smashed off through his own fault.
What’s even better is tipper was being moved between closed locations so wasn’t wearing any plates. (We realised later on and made sure to put them back on for further moves) but still Boo Hoo for you mr Jeep man. Lovely example to your kids in the back.

[anonymous-user]

ashleyman said:

I had this yesterday. Bloke shouted at me why didn’t I stop? Well. Maybe because the obstruction is on your side of the road. Unfortunately for matey boy. If it’s a tipper truck vs a cheap jeep the tipper will win and he got his mirror smashed off through his own fault.
What’s even better is tipper was being moved between closed locations so wasn’t wearing any plates. (We realised later on and made sure to put them back on for further moves) but still Boo Hoo for you mr Jeep man. Lovely example to your kids in the back.

That's another one. Road ragers with their kids in the back. Gender is no boundary too. I have seen young mum's with toddlers in the back go into proper potty mouth mode.

[Krikkit]

Not quite worthy of the usual thread venom, but for me it's people who buy convertibles then never have the roof down.

Our neighbour across the road has a 1-series convertible, the weather is perfect and she's constantly pottering about during the day, not once has the roof come down on the car. It's not like she's dolled up and done her hair, it's just scrunched up.

I mean, come on. I understand not wanting to do it in winter, I'm a mentalist and do anyway... And in the height of summer when it's really hot it can be very unpleasant, but 16° in May? Absolutely perfect weather.

Mind you, I'd probably want more noise insulation from the awful 4-pot diesel it's sporting, so maybe that's it...

Edited by Krikkit on Wednesday 15th May 10:29

[j_4m]

Grahamdub said:

That's another one. Road ragers with their kids in the back. Gender is no boundary too. I have seen young mum's with toddlers in the back go into proper potty mouth mode.

I find this more and more with the female of the species. Between men you can only be so mouthy before one of you gets aggravated enough to escalate it to physical violence, or one of you sees sense and backs down before this point.

[captain_cynic]

Grahamdub said:

That's another one. Road ragers with their kids in the back. Gender is no boundary too. I have seen young mum's with toddlers in the back go into proper potty mouth mode.

Yet will get in an almighty huff if you so much as accidentally utter a naughty word within earshot of her precious crotchspawn.

j_4m said:

I find this more and more with the female of the species. Between men you can only be so mouthy before one of you gets aggravated enough to escalate it to physical violence, or one of you sees sense and backs down before this point.

Ether that or there's a punch up

[Liquid Knight]

nonsequitur said:

And some tool with fog lights / no fog scenario.

DRL's.

Same location different morons.

[kev1974]

Whichever knob developer or insurance scammer torched that old warehouse on the North Circular overnight resulting in the N Circ being closed this morning, at the same time as the M4 and M25 were broken, so a merry 2 hour drive through Wembley and Harrow for me instead of the usual 50 minute jaunt today. Not to mention a no doubt vast bill to the taxpayer for the 70+ firefighters and their associates working hard to deal with it.

[Master Bean]

Krikkit said:

Not quite worthy of the usual thread venom, but for me it's people who buy convertibles then never have the roof down.

Our neighbour across the road has a 1-series convertible, the weather is perfect and she's constantly pottering about during the day, not once has the roof come down on the car. It's not like she's dolled up and done her hair, it's just scrunched up.

I mean, come on. I understand not wanting to do it in winter, I'm a mentalist and do anyway... And in the height of summer when it's really hot it can be very unpleasant, but 16° in May? Absolutely perfect weather.

Mind you, I'd probably want more noise insulation from the awful 4-pot diesel it's sporting, so maybe that's it...

Edited by Krikkit on Wednesday 15th May 10:29

Air conditioning is lovely when it's hot. Getting sun burnt in a sweaty cabin whilst stuck in traffic is not.

[anonymous-user]

Master Bean said:

Krikkit said:

Not quite worthy of the usual thread venom, but for me it's people who buy convertibles then never have the roof down.

Our neighbour across the road has a 1-series convertible, the weather is perfect and she's constantly pottering about during the day, not once has the roof come down on the car. It's not like she's dolled up and done her hair, it's just scrunched up.

I mean, come on. I understand not wanting to do it in winter, I'm a mentalist and do anyway... And in the height of summer when it's really hot it can be very unpleasant, but 16° in May? Absolutely perfect weather.

Mind you, I'd probably want more noise insulation from the awful 4-pot diesel it's sporting, so maybe that's it...

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 15th May 10:29

Air conditioning is lovely when it's hot. Getting sun burnt in a sweaty cabin whilst stuck in traffic is not.

Exactly this. I won't normally put the roof down if I'm in and out of a built up area. Air con is much nicer and you don't get to hear the comments



Although, back when I did a few concours events, there was one chap who had never lowered his roof since he bought the car new, as he didn't want to crease it and lose points.

[Rich Boy Spanner]

Grahamdub said:

fatboy18 said:

Thats unreal What is it now with society, its like when 1 side of the road has a a row of parked cars but people will still pull out without waiting and drive straight at you when you have right of way on the carriageway going towards them People are becoming very selfish.

Our village is terrible for that. They also then are incapable of reversing and it is all somehow your fault

On a similar note I once came off a very cold night shift in February, and was scraping ice off the windows of my car in the staff car park (at a nice, near the entrance space), and a woman pulled up and said 'have you just parked there or are you leaving'? The only response I could muster, scraper and de-icer in hand, was 'I didn't drive here, and park, and then decide to scrape the ice off the car'.

[HTP99]

Rich Boy Spanner said:

Grahamdub said:

fatboy18 said:

Thats unreal What is it now with society, its like when 1 side of the road has a a row of parked cars but people will still pull out without waiting and drive straight at you when you have right of way on the carriageway going towards them People are becoming very selfish.

Our village is terrible for that. They also then are incapable of reversing and it is all somehow your fault

On a similar note I once came off a very cold night shift in February, and was scraping ice off the windows of my car in the staff car park (at a nice, near the entrance space), and a woman pulled up and said 'have you just parked there or are you leaving'? The only response I could muster, scraper and de-icer in hand, was 'I didn't drive here, and park, and then decide to scrape the ice off the car'.

Happened to me yesterday, I was approaching one of those points where the opposite side of the road juts out so I had right of way with clear signs stating that I had priority, it didn't stop the guy in a white Mazda SUV trying to bully his way through, TBF there were parked cars on his side, however he had plenty of time to notice that I was approaching.

Didn't stop him gesticulating at me like it was my fault, I just sat there and in the end he reversed (badly) back so that I could go through.

[matchmaker]

My younger son has had type 1 diabetes since he was 5 - he's now 26. Over the past two years he's had to undergo 4 operations to repair a detached retina in his left eye. They managed to save the eye, but he's been left with virtually no vision in it. This means that he can get a bit "spooked" when it is busy about him, as his left side vision is so poor.

To assist him, we bought a "Symbol Cane". This is not the "White Stick" used by blind people to navigate their way. Rather, it is to indicate that the user has limited vision. He was using it on Monday to go into town to meet up with his mum, when he was harangued in the street by a middle aged woman who called him a fraud and a disgrace for using a stick when he wasn't blind. It left him very shaken and has really dented his confidence about going out on his own.

I just wish I could meet with the ignorant fking bh and put her right about a few things!

[kelevraz]

I cant stand 'good samaritans' that slow down a row of traffic to let someone out, even more-so when i look in the mirrors and see that if they hadn't stopped, the car thats waiting to pull out would've been able to pull out without any problems.

That being said.. i'm the first to admit that without 'courteous' driving where people are 'nice' to each other, the roads would be even less enjoyable than they are now..

[anonymous-user]

matchmaker said:

My younger son has had type 1 diabetes since he was 5 - he's now 26. Over the past two years he's had to undergo 4 operations to repair a detached retina in his left eye. They managed to save the eye, but he's been left with virtually no vision in it. This means that he can get a bit "spooked" when it is busy about him, as his left side vision is so poor.

To assist him, we bought a "Symbol Cane". This is not the "White Stick" used by blind people to navigate their way. Rather, it is to indicate that the user has limited vision. He was using it on Monday to go into town to meet up with his mum, when he was harangued in the street by a middle aged woman who called him a fraud and a disgrace for using a stick when he wasn't blind. It left him very shaken and has really dented his confidence about going out on his own.

I just wish I could meet with the ignorant fking bh and put her right about a few things!

Should have hit her with the stick ! There are some very ignorant people about ! Hope your son gets over it soon.