One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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I recall a knob who moved in next door to a friend of mine. his neighbour was disabled, but had moved into care and the house was sold. There had been a disabled parking space painted on the road outside the house, and a corresponding official restriction board affixed to the garden wall. I was there visiting when a council team arrived to "burn off" the disabled parking bay and removed the restriction sign, but the new owner of the house came out and first tried to persuade them to stop, then got abusive, then tried to park his car (which had been on the drive) to prevent removal of the lines. He'd very much enjoyed the luxury of being almost guaranteed that no-one would park outside his house (because of the disabled bay) and was completely convinced that, because it "came with the house", it was his space to own. I heard later that he had gone on to phone the council to get the work stopped, and only backed down when he was threatened with the attendance of police on account of his abusive and threatening behaviour. His next "trick" was to replace the official 'disabled parking only' restriction board with a home made sign to a similar effect. It all pretty much set the tone for how he'd treat his new neighbours, with notes on cars parked on "his" road, and knocking on doors late at night to complain about non-existent noise. I was helping my mate decorate one time, and to be fair we'd made a LOT of noise with hammers and power tools during the day-time, but there we were, working to finish the paint on the doors and skirtings late one night when he banged on the door threatening to "have the council on you" for making late-night noise with a hammer drill. Only the noisiest tool we had in the room with us was the screwdriver to lever the lids off paint tins. Some folk just want to fall out with others, and will actively look for an excuse to do so...
The woman in a white golf in the right hand lane of the exit slip of the M62 at Brighouse.
Firstly she clearly wasn't paying any sort of attention as she was too busy on her phone and had to give a small beep to get her to realise traffic was mixing.
Secondly, once she started moving again and got to the end of the slip road and onto the roundabout, left hand indicator goes on and she holds up the right lane so she can barge her way left.
Absolute
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Firstly she clearly wasn't paying any sort of attention as she was too busy on her phone and had to give a small beep to get her to realise traffic was mixing.
Secondly, once she started moving again and got to the end of the slip road and onto the roundabout, left hand indicator goes on and she holds up the right lane so she can barge her way left.
Absolute
. The battered old Focus that raced up a bus lane and then cut in front of me, causing me to brake rather heavily. I gave them a beep to express my displeasure and got a raised finger out of their window. At the next set of lights they opened their door and started walking towards me - all 6 stone of junkie looking skank of them. I have to say, I burst out laughing, so she scuttled back to her car. What horrors she was going to inflict on me, I will never know 
Grahamdub said:
The battered old Focus that raced up a bus lane and then cut in front of me, causing me to brake rather heavily. I gave them a beep to express my displeasure and got a raised finger out of their window. At the next set of lights they opened their door and started walking towards me - all 6 stone of junkie looking skank of them. I have to say, I burst out laughing, so she scuttled back to her car. What horrors she was going to inflict on me, I will never know
not excusing that behaviour but are you sure the bus lane was ‘live’... here in that there London lots of bus lanes are time operating, and people tend either to assume all lanes are 24hr, or follow most drivers in the regular lane.just saying...
Stridey said:
Grahamdub said:
The battered old Focus that raced up a bus lane and then cut in front of me, causing me to brake rather heavily. I gave them a beep to express my displeasure and got a raised finger out of their window. At the next set of lights they opened their door and started walking towards me - all 6 stone of junkie looking skank of them. I have to say, I burst out laughing, so she scuttled back to her car. What horrors she was going to inflict on me, I will never know
not excusing that behaviour but are you sure the bus lane was ‘live’... here in that there London lots of bus lanes are time operating, and people tend either to assume all lanes are 24hr, or follow most drivers in the regular lane.just saying...
In other news, we got a bill for one of our engineers numerous bus lane incursions today for £884. It was being queried as I left, but it sounds like he spent a couple of days thinking his van was a bus
The nobber in an Estoril Blue BMW 3 series travelling from Stretford to Chorlton tonight. I was in the left hand lane following at a reasonable distance behind a van at around 30mph. Now this road changes from 2 to 1 lanes, with the outer lane merging into lane 1. I notice pricks dazzling lights approaching at pace from behind and continue at around 30. He comes along side me as we are approaching the merge point and breaks heavily - ending with his nose just ahead of mine. I continue at the same speed. He brakes more and pulls in just behind me, lights flashing, gesticulating wildly. Knob.
Joelonghair said:
The nobber in an Estoril Blue BMW 3 series travelling from Stretford to Chorlton tonight. I was in the left hand lane following at a reasonable distance behind a van at around 30mph. Now this road changes from 2 to 1 lanes, with the outer lane merging into lane 1. I notice pricks dazzling lights approaching at pace from behind and continue at around 30. He comes along side me as we are approaching the merge point and breaks heavily - ending with his nose just ahead of mine. I continue at the same speed. He brakes more and pulls in just behind me, lights flashing, gesticulating wildly. Knob.
given how road rage stabby and car jacky it is around there, if it was me i'd have been tempted to let it go.Blown2CV said:
Joelonghair said:
The nobber in an Estoril Blue BMW 3 series travelling from Stretford to Chorlton tonight. I was in the left hand lane following at a reasonable distance behind a van at around 30mph. Now this road changes from 2 to 1 lanes, with the outer lane merging into lane 1. I notice pricks dazzling lights approaching at pace from behind and continue at around 30. He comes along side me as we are approaching the merge point and breaks heavily - ending with his nose just ahead of mine. I continue at the same speed. He brakes more and pulls in just behind me, lights flashing, gesticulating wildly. Knob.
given how road rage stabby and car jacky it is around there, if it was me i'd have been tempted to let it go.The Q7 with an illegal font number plate ST60 BOY last night on the M6, police are putting on a rolling roadblock to allow maintenance teams ahead to cones off all but one lane. Police car is doing about 30mph, lights going and big sign saying "DO NOT PASS". First cars behind it in L1 and L2 perfectly capable of leaving a little gap behind plod, however Audi boy in L3 keeps creeping right up to plod, after a while plod gets fed up and cuts across L3 to make the point that Audi boy needs to back off and stop being so aggressive and pushy. Eventually we are led into the lane closure, then you see Audi boy getting out and having words with plod, because obviously his Q7 with chav plates is far too important to wait.
A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
Joelonghair said:
Blown2CV said:
Joelonghair said:
The nobber in an Estoril Blue BMW 3 series travelling from Stretford to Chorlton tonight. I was in the left hand lane following at a reasonable distance behind a van at around 30mph. Now this road changes from 2 to 1 lanes, with the outer lane merging into lane 1. I notice pricks dazzling lights approaching at pace from behind and continue at around 30. He comes along side me as we are approaching the merge point and breaks heavily - ending with his nose just ahead of mine. I continue at the same speed. He brakes more and pulls in just behind me, lights flashing, gesticulating wildly. Knob.
given how road rage stabby and car jacky it is around there, if it was me i'd have been tempted to let it go.Someone else WILL be along to insist you were somehow at fault, (because they drive the beemer and don't like people with a mind of their own).
Muddle238 said:
The Q7 with an illegal font number plate ST60 BOY last night on the M6, police are putting on a rolling roadblock to allow maintenance teams ahead to cones off all but one lane. Police car is doing about 30mph, lights going and big sign saying "DO NOT PASS". First cars behind it in L1 and L2 perfectly capable of leaving a little gap behind plod, however Audi boy in L3 keeps creeping right up to plod, after a while plod gets fed up and cuts across L3 to make the point that Audi boy needs to back off and stop being so aggressive and pushy. Eventually we are led into the lane closure, then you see Audi boy getting out and having words with plod, because obviously his Q7 with chav plates is far too important to wait.
A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
Has this massive sense of entitlement that seems to be endemic a recent thing or has it always been around? A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
Triumph Man said:
Muddle238 said:
The Q7 with an illegal font number plate ST60 BOY last night on the M6, police are putting on a rolling roadblock to allow maintenance teams ahead to cones off all but one lane. Police car is doing about 30mph, lights going and big sign saying "DO NOT PASS". First cars behind it in L1 and L2 perfectly capable of leaving a little gap behind plod, however Audi boy in L3 keeps creeping right up to plod, after a while plod gets fed up and cuts across L3 to make the point that Audi boy needs to back off and stop being so aggressive and pushy. Eventually we are led into the lane closure, then you see Audi boy getting out and having words with plod, because obviously his Q7 with chav plates is far too important to wait.
A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
Has this massive sense of entitlement that seems to be endemic a recent thing or has it always been around? A little later, plod gets out and directs the car behind the Q7 to switch places, so Audi boy is no longer first in the queue behind the police car. As the road block very very slowly makes it way up the motorway, Audi boy starts leaving a massive gap, about 400/500 yards to the police car. If the police stops, so does the Audi. Eventually when plod is up ahead round the bend, Audi woman, the passenger, gets out and runs along the line of cones toppling them, smashing the flashing lights on top into the carriageway.
What a foul pair.
Stridey said:
Grahamdub said:
The battered old Focus that raced up a bus lane and then cut in front of me, causing me to brake rather heavily. I gave them a beep to express my displeasure and got a raised finger out of their window. At the next set of lights they opened their door and started walking towards me - all 6 stone of junkie looking skank of them. I have to say, I burst out laughing, so she scuttled back to her car. What horrors she was going to inflict on me, I will never know
not excusing that behaviour but are you sure the bus lane was ‘live’... here in that there London lots of bus lanes are time operating, and people tend either to assume all lanes are 24hr, or follow most drivers in the regular lane.just saying...
nonsequitur said:
Stridey said:
Grahamdub said:
The battered old Focus that raced up a bus lane and then cut in front of me, causing me to brake rather heavily. I gave them a beep to express my displeasure and got a raised finger out of their window. At the next set of lights they opened their door and started walking towards me - all 6 stone of junkie looking skank of them. I have to say, I burst out laughing, so she scuttled back to her car. What horrors she was going to inflict on me, I will never know
not excusing that behaviour but are you sure the bus lane was ‘live’... here in that there London lots of bus lanes are time operating, and people tend either to assume all lanes are 24hr, or follow most drivers in the regular lane.just saying...
kowalski655 said:
The idiot behind me, up my tail,as I come to my destination, slow and signal left,then as I turn he beeps at me, because I dare make him slow down! Should have been looking to his front.
In a Range Rover so par for the course
Almost a default position in my neck. It's dreadful to see how many drivers don't slow down for a left turn. After pulling out to the right first, of course.In a Range Rover so par for the course
nonsequitur said:
kowalski655 said:
The idiot behind me, up my tail,as I come to my destination, slow and signal left,then as I turn he beeps at me, because I dare make him slow down! Should have been looking to his front.
In a Range Rover so par for the course
Almost a default position in my neck. It's dreadful to see how many drivers don't slow down for a left turn. After pulling out to the right first, of course.In a Range Rover so par for the course
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