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

[Greg the Fish]

HTP99 said:

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.

I work opposite a Shell garage and see this sort of thing daily; people slowing as they are coming up to enter the forecourt and yet when faced with a queue or have to enter a bit more slowly than anticipated due to other cars already queuing they then get hooted at from some prick behind, wtf else are they supposed to do?!!

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

[Uncle John]

Zetec-S said:

People who wait until the very last second, plus another 1 or 2, before dipping their headlights.

People who put their full beams back on just before you pass each other.

People who think that (front) sidelights and 1 rear foglight are perfectly acceptable when driving at night.

I’ve got the opposite, people full beaming me thinking I have my full beams on when they are dipped.

[romeogolf]

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

[Short Grain]

The Porsche Macan driver in the left hand lane next to me at the lights edging forward because the left lane is shut 50yds further up due to gas works. He just had to get in front of me when the lights changed.
Lights change, he floors it, swerves in front as I'm just trundling up to the line of traffic slowly moving forwards through the pinch point, while he nearly rear ended the last car in the line!! Knob!
Why do some people just Have to gain 1 cars length? I just don't get it!!

[Greg the Fish]

Short Grain said:

The Porsche Macan driver in the left hand lane next to me at the lights edging forward because the left lane is shut 50yds further up due to gas works. He just had to get in front of me when the lights changed.
Lights change, he floors it, swerves in front as I'm just trundling up to the line of traffic slowly moving forwards through the pinch point, while he nearly rear ended the last car in the line!! Knob!
Why do some people just Have to gain 1 cars length? I just don't get it!!

Because Porsche drivers are nearly as w*nkerish as BMW drivers?

[Countdown]

Short Grain said:

The Porsche Macan driver in the left hand lane next to me at the lights edging forward because the left lane is shut 50yds further up due to gas works. He just had to get in front of me when the lights changed.
Lights change, he floors it, swerves in front as I'm just trundling up to the line of traffic slowly moving forwards through the pinch point, while he nearly rear ended the last car in the line!! Knob!
Why do some people just Have to gain 1 cars length? I just don't get it!!

It's called "merge in turn"...

[QuartzDad]

The battenburged security L200 who decided the best place to stop and drink his weak orange squash was on a bridge over the M42.

[Zetec-S]

QuartzDad said:

The battenburged security L200 who decided the best place to stop and drink his weak orange squash was on a bridge over the M42.

Best place when you're on standby, keeping one eye on the motorway to monitor for a code yellow situation.

(sorry, one for the Walt thread)

[anonymous-user]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this thread, I mainly stopped caring about the knobbish things people do because I see them every day, but my journey home this evening was quite the shower of st!

1) people with fog lights on, in moderate rain with a little bit of spray...you could see the tail lights of cars ahead from over a mile away!

2) chap in a 5 series in lane 2 of a 2 lane dual carriageway doing about 60 and overtaking absolutely nothing, I briefly flashed him (with my headlights, your honour) and he moved over promptly. A complete non event until I got alongside him and he suddenly found his right foot again and booted it, before eventually slowing back down so I could overtake him, flashing me as I went past.

3) last one, I was overtaking a line of cars in an overtaking lane on a bit of single carriageway, overtaking lane is coming to an end about 500 yds ahead so I line myself up in a nice gap, indicate and start moving over. It is at this point the honourable gentleman in the 3 series I just overtook decides to speed up end attempt to block me. I manage to pull in and he treats me to a blast of high beams and then gets so close to me that said high beams do not actually make it through my rear window. He sat there for a good mile before I childishly returned the favour with my fog light (shouldn’t have engaged the cretin but I was half hoping he’d mistake it for a brake light and fk off). Eventually we get to the next overtaking lane and I continue overtaking the rest of the cars while he doesn’t and we both go about our respective evenings.

I don’t get why he would completely engineer a situation and then get angry when it doesn’t go his way, just because he didn’t want me to slot into the sizeable gap in front of him. I’m trying to remember if there’s anything I did wrong but I really don’t think there is (though admittedly once I saw him speeding up I should have just let him get on with it and tucked in behind), and to be fair even if I had that’s no way to react. It is the behaviour of a dashcam warrior for sure so I hope to find myself in a YouTube compilation very soon.

It feels good to get these things off your chest...at least I have a nice lie in and no driving tomorrow!

[kowalski655]

romeogolf said:

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

I knew someone would have a go at this! Had just came off a roundabout, slowed slowly (as I had seen him up my chuff) and indicated at the same time, there was no room to delay before I had to turn

[Hol]

romeogolf said:

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

One of my pet hates is people who slam on the brakes and indicate just before turning.

How did they learn to dress themselves, let alone pass the driving test that explicitly requires indication before braking.

[kowalski655]

Don't tailgate them then

[Blown2CV]

kowalski655 said:

Don't tailgate them then

you don't need to be following too close for this to be annoying behaviour.

[nonsequitur]

Hol said:

romeogolf said:

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

One of my pet hates is people who slam on the brakes and indicate just before turning.

How did they learn to dress themselves, let alone pass the driving test that explicitly requires indication before braking.

Scenario: Looking for a turning in an unfamiliar location. Suddenly see it and indicate immediately. Make turn into desired highway.
There is not a driver in the whole driving history who has not done this.

The problem is the following driver who is too close.

[Countdown]

nonsequitur said:

There is not a driver in the whole driving history who has not done this.

Agreed, but that doesn't make it "good" driving. It's sloppy and potentially dangerous depending on how severe the braking.indicating/turning is.

Once they've found the turning the first thing they should do is check their mirrors.

[anonymous-user]

The tractor driver that hit the side of my car on Tuesday morning. He had a huge big thresher thing on the back that was already on the white line and then swung over my side as he went round a corner. In my defence it was dark, he only had two badly adjusted, close together headlights on the front with no lights or reflectors to show how wide the whole thing was and I was as far over my side of the road I could get without going through the hedge. I dread to think what would have happened if he had hit a motorcyclist rather than my car.
Anyway, he didn't stop, although I assume he didn't see or hear anything, so I turned round to go after him. I eventually got in front of him and got him to stop, where he initially denied all knowledge, then said I was speeding and on the wrong side of the road. I wasn't on either count and have dash cam footage to prove it and show quite how far over my side the machinery on his tractor had swung (can't post it yet I'm afraid), although there was no number plate on the front of the tractor, which won't help. He refused to give me his name and said the details were on the side of the tractor (company name and mobile number), although I suspect it is a one man band anyway. The insurance company are being quite good over it and are putting it through as a non-fault claim, although I don't know if that will change depending on how far they get with the tractor owners. The Police aren't interested as I have the tractor owners details and he probably didn't know he had hit me and did eventually stop when I caught up with him. I have also made sure I have a bodyshop courtesy car, rather than a hire car, in case everything does go against me. The insurance company classed my car as undriveable, so supplied it straight away, which was good. No huge damage to my car, but it took the mirror clean off and scraped the side of the car front to back. Anyway, tractor driver - knob !

[RazerSauber]

This morning showed a pair of f**k trumpets on a dual carriageway. Sat in typical morning traffic, glance to my right and a woman is dawdling along at ~5mph with here eyes and BOTH hands on her phone. The occasional nudge to her steering wheel when she happened to notice she went off course is all she could be bothered with. I thought there had been a miracle when a police car came charging between the 2 lanes as we all made a gap but the plod just drove past. Shortly after another member of plod came through in the same manner, both not noticing the cretin on her phone. Such is life. Both members of plod then stopped in the outside lane further down, one behind the other (couldn't see why, no other cars stopped). We all passed on the inside lane then pulled up to the next lights about 10 car lengths away. The f**k trumpet in behind me then gets out his phone and actually takes a selfie with the police cars in the background!!! Blatant disregard for the law.

[yellowjack]

kowalski655 said:

romeogolf said:

Greg the Fish said:

Out of interest, why slow down then signal?

I was thinking the same myself! Mirror, SIGNAL, manoeuvre.

I knew someone would have a go at this! Had just came off a roundabout, slowed slowly (as I had seen him up my chuff) and indicated at the same time, there was no room to delay before I had to turn

I know exactly what you mean. There's a turn near me shortly after a roundabout. If you use a 'breakaway' signal off the roundabout there literally isn't enough road left before the left turn in which to cancel the left turn signal, do a full set of obs, and re-apply the signal for the turn. You literally come off the roundabout immediately into the deceleration phase of the turn. Me? I keep my left turn signal on, but often the driver behind fails to recognise that you are slowing (or even just not accelerating) in order to position for the turn, and you occasionally get a toot of irritation from them. Odd, really, since a junction ahead is a highly visible thing, and a known hazard. Especially for a young driver who has sat a hazard perception test. You'd think they'd know better than us older drivers. We must have had it so easy, learning about hazards out in live traffic instead of sitting in an office chair in a computer suite to get our heads around potential hazards, eh?

[Short Grain]

Greg the Fish said:

Because Porsche drivers are nearly as w*nkerish as BMW drivers?

This driver, only mentioned the car cos I quite like 'em, this driver was a tt! end of. He'd probably be a tt whatever car he was in!! God help us if he'd been on a bike!!

[Short Grain]

Countdown said:

It's called "merge in turn"...

So His Lane closes, but 'merging in turn' is not accelerating hard to get in front, then slamming on 'cos you're going too fast for the traffic in front of you!
Or do you mean His version of 'merge in turn' and I'm due a parrot?