One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4
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Muppet in ‘93 Saab knackered peasant mobile. The wash wipe isn’t working because you haven’t refilled it.
You will be overtaken lots if you keep dawdling.
What you think activates the screenwash actually activates the headlights. FWIW at least lol. Utter OAP retards like you just should not be driving. Adios!
You will be overtaken lots if you keep dawdling.
What you think activates the screenwash actually activates the headlights. FWIW at least lol. Utter OAP retards like you just should not be driving. Adios!
Liquid Knight said:
Nights are getting earlier.
Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
At least that is some lighting. A bit earlier when almost dark I saw two without any lights on, but it probably wasn't dark when they set off Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
over_the_hill said:
Liquid Knight said:
Nights are getting earlier.
Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
At least that is some lighting. A bit earlier when almost dark I saw two without any lights on, but it probably wasn't dark when they set off Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
Liquid Knight said:
Nights are getting earlier.
Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
Guilty as charged. Three weeks ago I found out I'd had my foglights on for what must have been at least 3 months. Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
A work colleague, who claimed to be scared of driving outside of York, so before all this pandemic stuff when we went to a training event in Hull (about 40 miles away) he asked if I could drive as he was unable to drive outside of York. I agreed while thinking that was a bit pathetic, and chuckling to myself and later telling my friends about it.
On the drive back he suddenly asks "have you ever driven a lorry", I haven't, it turns out he's driven a lorry on one of those "death roads" (with the big drops either side), I thought that was a few years back and things change, might have had a bad experience.
What has made me think knob is him posting on social media himself driving all over the country to go to different beauty spots, including one video clip of him driving his car on the motorway.
Now if he'd said "do you mind driving, I don't fancy it" that would have been absolutely fine, and I'd have said yes, fuel was paid for by work. Lying to make me feel like I had to drive is bloody annoying and therefore knobbish.
I got played, I've decided I don't like being played.
On the drive back he suddenly asks "have you ever driven a lorry", I haven't, it turns out he's driven a lorry on one of those "death roads" (with the big drops either side), I thought that was a few years back and things change, might have had a bad experience.
What has made me think knob is him posting on social media himself driving all over the country to go to different beauty spots, including one video clip of him driving his car on the motorway.
Now if he'd said "do you mind driving, I don't fancy it" that would have been absolutely fine, and I'd have said yes, fuel was paid for by work. Lying to make me feel like I had to drive is bloody annoying and therefore knobbish.
I got played, I've decided I don't like being played.
over_the_hill said:
Liquid Knight said:
Nights are getting earlier.
Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
At least that is some lighting. A bit earlier when almost dark I saw two without any lights on, but it probably wasn't dark when they set off Condensation to wipe off your windows.
Trees are changing colour.
Storms are being named.
Chestnuts falling to the ground.
Nothing says Autumn quite like it.
Oh that and idiots driving with side and front fog lights on.
Me a few weeks ago..
Town has several 'egg timer' chicanes with good signs who gives way to who. I pass three on my way to my lads ,but this day had a brain fart and decided that despite the sign saying Give Way, i just carried on with the guy in the Range rover who had ROW looking at me as though i had an IQ of 7..which IMHO at that moment was overestimating it.
It can happen, luckily nothing of consequence, except Mrs Fox bending my left ear for the rest of the journey. Suitably chastened
Town has several 'egg timer' chicanes with good signs who gives way to who. I pass three on my way to my lads ,but this day had a brain fart and decided that despite the sign saying Give Way, i just carried on with the guy in the Range rover who had ROW looking at me as though i had an IQ of 7..which IMHO at that moment was overestimating it.
It can happen, luckily nothing of consequence, except Mrs Fox bending my left ear for the rest of the journey. Suitably chastened
Me as well today. I feel bad enough already.
I need some parts for a charity track day MX5 and as usual phoned my local guys after doing an eBay search. I know times are tougher than usual and I always try to keep things local anyway but especially now.
eBay price £49.95 with free delivery.
Local parts slingers £120+vat
Sorry but there's being nice and mugging yourself. I can ill afford to be the better person this time. Especially as I'm taking home a my usual weeks wages a month due to Covid 19 and this car is on a very limited budget.
I need some parts for a charity track day MX5 and as usual phoned my local guys after doing an eBay search. I know times are tougher than usual and I always try to keep things local anyway but especially now.
eBay price £49.95 with free delivery.
Local parts slingers £120+vat
Sorry but there's being nice and mugging yourself. I can ill afford to be the better person this time. Especially as I'm taking home a my usual weeks wages a month due to Covid 19 and this car is on a very limited budget.
Driving home this evening at about 8pm, so starting to get dark and absolutely pissing with rain. I'm on a 60mph A road and behind a driving instructor (no pupil) with no lights on. There was the odd moron with no lights as expected, but to see a driving instructor is ridiculous.
It was a fairly new Hyundai i30 so one would assume it would have auto lights. My autolights had been on from being dark for at least half an hour. Perhaps he's a driving instructor so doesn't need the car to tell him when the lights need to be on.
No wonder we have so many drivers who drive with no lights on in dusk, rain, fog etc when driving instructors don't even do it. I get the feeling most instructors teach people how to pass the test rather than how to be a safe driver.
I had two instructors, the first was very much teaching how to pass the test, the second was teaching me to be a safe driver, plus he was actually nice to me, and patient, and didn't spend two hours doing most of the driving while complaining about his job, and how much he hated immigrants.
I car share with somebody (before Covid) who was taking lessons at the time, it was raining and my lights came on (auto lights, they come on after about 5 wipes), and she asked whether lights were needed, I told her I was always taught "wipers on, lights on", turns out her instructor didn't tell her lights needed to be on in the rain, she had no idea. I couldn't tell her when to check each mirror during a manoeuvre and pass a test, but I bet I could make her a safer driver.
It was a fairly new Hyundai i30 so one would assume it would have auto lights. My autolights had been on from being dark for at least half an hour. Perhaps he's a driving instructor so doesn't need the car to tell him when the lights need to be on.
No wonder we have so many drivers who drive with no lights on in dusk, rain, fog etc when driving instructors don't even do it. I get the feeling most instructors teach people how to pass the test rather than how to be a safe driver.
I had two instructors, the first was very much teaching how to pass the test, the second was teaching me to be a safe driver, plus he was actually nice to me, and patient, and didn't spend two hours doing most of the driving while complaining about his job, and how much he hated immigrants.
I car share with somebody (before Covid) who was taking lessons at the time, it was raining and my lights came on (auto lights, they come on after about 5 wipes), and she asked whether lights were needed, I told her I was always taught "wipers on, lights on", turns out her instructor didn't tell her lights needed to be on in the rain, she had no idea. I couldn't tell her when to check each mirror during a manoeuvre and pass a test, but I bet I could make her a safer driver.
carlove said:
I car share with somebody (before Covid) who was taking lessons at the time, it was raining and my lights came on (auto lights, they come on after about 5 wipes), and she asked whether lights were needed, I told her I was always taught "wipers on, lights on", turns out her instructor didn't tell her lights needed to be on in the rain, she had no idea. I couldn't tell her when to check each mirror during a manoeuvre and pass a test, but I bet I could make her a safer driver.
I don't remember being taught that, but then I learnt to drive nearly 30 years ago. My most recent car (I can't call it new since it's a 2014 model) has automatic lights but not wipers. If you put the wipers on, then it puts the lights on too, but only in certain circumstances which I haven't figured out yet. The manual doesn't mention what those circumstances are - it just says that the lights will come on. I suspect it has to do with how bright it is outside. If it's very bright then the lights won't come on, but if it's grey and miserable outside, then they will. Or at least it seems that way. My previous car new in 2001 had auto wipers but not auto lights. I can't understand why both aren't standard these days!LunarOne said:
carlove said:
I car share with somebody (before Covid) who was taking lessons at the time, it was raining and my lights came on (auto lights, they come on after about 5 wipes), and she asked whether lights were needed, I told her I was always taught "wipers on, lights on", turns out her instructor didn't tell her lights needed to be on in the rain, she had no idea. I couldn't tell her when to check each mirror during a manoeuvre and pass a test, but I bet I could make her a safer driver.
I don't remember being taught that, but then I learnt to drive nearly 30 years ago. My most recent car (I can't call it new since it's a 2014 model) has automatic lights but not wipers. If you put the wipers on, then it puts the lights on too, but only in certain circumstances which I haven't figured out yet. The manual doesn't mention what those circumstances are - it just says that the lights will come on. I suspect it has to do with how bright it is outside. If it's very bright then the lights won't come on, but if it's grey and miserable outside, then they will. Or at least it seems that way. My previous car new in 2001 had auto wipers but not auto lights. I can't understand why both aren't standard these days!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff