One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
Discussion
Not sure how many users here live in North West London, but the standard for the suburban high streets here is:
- Double park because you can't walk 20m to the supermarket
- Double park opposite another car which is double parked
- Double park and ferry 8 kids into your people carrier holding up traffic
- Triple park
- Try and squeeze your FFRR into a space the size of a Fiat 500. After 2 mins of back and forward realise it might not fit
- Random turn no signal
- Random pull out no signal
- Latte in one hand, phone in other. Use the force to steer!
- Double park because you can't walk 20m to the supermarket
- Double park opposite another car which is double parked
- Double park and ferry 8 kids into your people carrier holding up traffic
- Triple park
- Try and squeeze your FFRR into a space the size of a Fiat 500. After 2 mins of back and forward realise it might not fit
- Random turn no signal
- Random pull out no signal
- Latte in one hand, phone in other. Use the force to steer!
nonsequitur said:
yellowjack said:
Two Muppets on Iford Lane, Bournemouth. There's a railway that crosses the road on a brick arch bridge. It's only wide enough for one lane and a footway on one side under the bridge. So there is 'Priority' signage and white paint indicating that one side needs to give way to the other. So far, so simple. But one fool at the 'Give Way' end decided the rules didn't apply to him. And another fool from the priority end decided to go head-to-head with the first fool.
I was two cars back on the 'Give Way' side, and could see that the two of them were window to window, having an argument. While two of us were stuck behind them with an otherwise clear road on the other side. Fortunately they stopped squabbling, and blocking the road completely when I, and the driver ahead of me started tooting at them.
FFS chaps? If you want to go at it with handbags, there's a car park for the playing fields. Feck orf into it if you want to have a barney, or get a bloody move on if all your mouthing off is just bluster...
Similar situation in my local town with the give way drivers charging through regardless of priority traffic.I was two cars back on the 'Give Way' side, and could see that the two of them were window to window, having an argument. While two of us were stuck behind them with an otherwise clear road on the other side. Fortunately they stopped squabbling, and blocking the road completely when I, and the driver ahead of me started tooting at them.
FFS chaps? If you want to go at it with handbags, there's a car park for the playing fields. Feck orf into it if you want to have a barney, or get a bloody move on if all your mouthing off is just bluster...
Highway Code said:
The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others. Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.
www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules...PF62 said:
Perhaps if people understood there was no such thing as "priority traffic" and actually read Highway Code there would be fewer issues -
There is such a thing as priority - just not "right of way".Highway Code said:
The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others. Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.
www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules...Diagram 811A - "Priority over oncoming vehicles"
Tom _M said:
Is that an original image? Might just be me, but the most irritating thing about this (and lets be fair, there’s a few to choose from), is the fact the #dadlife bit is not even neatly below that white line.Fair play, their car, do what they like (and expect people to take the piss), but at least line stuff up properly.
PF62 said:
But if the sign says 'Give way to oncoming traffic' ,(it is a circular sign which in the HC means 'you must'), that in itself would indicate that oncoming traffic has 'priority' in that particular circumstance?nonsequitur said:
PF62 said:
But if the sign says 'Give way to oncoming traffic' ,(it is a circular sign which in the HC means 'you must'), that in itself would indicate that oncoming traffic has 'priority' in that particular circumstance?Now someone will undoubtedly say the car going in the direction of the 'Give way to oncoming traffic' should not have passed over the give way if someone was coming in the other direction.
This is true, but certainly where I live the morons in the local authority traffic department have installed such narrowings where it is not possible to see if anything is coming the other way, so you have to commit and hope - there is one right on a blind bend, but the worst is a narrowing on a hump back bridge which is followed by a sharp bend.
The 'commit and hope' narrowing on the bridge is particularly fun as it leads to a social housing estate filled with angry chavs driving Audis who really don't like it if they don't get their priority.
The cretin doing 32mph everywhere, including a clear NSL road, so when I overtook him I didn't expect to get given the finger and flashing headlights. The road was about 1 mile long and perfectly straight and he was still flashing even when I was some distance away. If you want to drive slow, then don't get angry and aggressive when people overtake.
zedx19 said:
The cretin doing 32mph everywhere, including a clear NSL road, so when I overtook him I didn't expect to get given the finger and flashing headlights. The road was about 1 mile long and perfectly straight and he was still flashing even when I was some distance away. If you want to drive slow, then don't get angry and aggressive when people overtake.
The sign of a grade A knob certainly!And7R said:
zedx19 said:
The cretin doing 32mph everywhere, including a clear NSL road, so when I overtook him I didn't expect to get given the finger and flashing headlights. The road was about 1 mile long and perfectly straight and he was still flashing even when I was some distance away. If you want to drive slow, then don't get angry and aggressive when people overtake.
The sign of a grade A knob certainly!The driver of a van with an offside frail fitted, who was unable to keep left on the open road with said frail and half his van in the oncoming lane. Presumably he would've moved over for oncoming traffic, but he was oblivious to following traffic wanting to overtake, it took an age for him to eventually notice.
21st Century Man said:
The driver of a van with an offside frail fitted, who was unable to keep left on the open road with said frail and half his van in the oncoming lane. Presumably he would've moved over for oncoming traffic, but he was oblivious to following traffic wanting to overtake, it took an age for him to eventually notice.
Or he just wanted to ensure that nobody could overtake even if nothing was coming from the other way. 21st Century Man said:
The driver of a van with an offside frail fitted, who was unable to keep left on the open road with said frail and half his van in the oncoming lane. Presumably he would've moved over for oncoming traffic, but he was oblivious to following traffic wanting to overtake, it took an age for him to eventually notice.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a 'frail'?Reversed into a bollard? Of course it's not the driver's fault.
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people...
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people...
There was a bloke yesterday - Estate Agent type - in a small VW, who screeched up in front of another car and started furiously trying to open the driver's door, I imagine with the intention of killing him. Went absolutely mental. I've never seen anyone so enraged in my life. Shouting, screaming, kicking the door in. Then he drove off.
I don't know what the other driver had done, but what a knob to have behaved like that at two o-clock in the afternoon.
I don't know what the other driver had done, but what a knob to have behaved like that at two o-clock in the afternoon.
Edited by 993kimbo on Tuesday 28th January 15:40
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