RE: Top Irritants

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marki

15,763 posts

271 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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The asnwer to drivers with rear fog lights on is simple, drive behind with ya full beams on (only when there are no on coming cars, otherwise put them on dip) they soon realise why you have blinded them.....

no they dont

Don

28,377 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Or the coaches that dump the bog in the middle lane!


Ugh

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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My car was hit by a cake on the M25 once...

Don

28,377 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Personally I'm growing to hate the buggers who pull out into my (already too small) braking gap on the motorway.

That and the Ar**s who sit three feet behind me in the outside lane of the motorway (clearly hoping I can magically pull over for 'em) when the motorway is completely full and there's a queue of traffic in front of me a mile long doing 65mph.

Its funny how when the traffic clears I seem to pull away from them rapidly and they rarely seem to pass me after I have pulled over into the left hand lane because all three lanes are clear.

And that brings me to the mid-lane cruisers.....

I'll get me coat.

Tabs

943 posts

273 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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My car was hit by a cake on the M25 once...
[Was it FWD?/quote]

adrianr

822 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Does anyone know whether being on a mobile phone at the time of an accident is an automatic "at fault" for insurance claims - like driving into the back of someone?

Cheers,
AdrianR

flasher

9,238 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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And that brings me to the mid-lane cruisers.....

Yep and tossers who think they are plod doing 70 in the outside lane refusing to move...
Anyone in a BMW... for some reason they are 99% arrogant, self important, tailgaters.
Anyone with a caravan..The desire to own one should be punished with a prison sentence...
Lorry drivers who overtake other lorries on two lane A roads like the A14, just to gain one bloody lorry length on the other neaderthol lorry driver in front...
Dizzy blondes who sit in the outside lane on the M1 in the rush hour "because everyone else is" when two lanes are empty...
AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH....

steviegibson

Original Poster:

6 posts

282 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Here's another:

People who simply stop or brake heavily in front of you up to look at something by the side of the road - a street, a friend or a shop - and then they move off again.

And pizza delivery suicide scooterists - like the one that cut across my path as I turned right into my road last week. If I hadn't seen him coming in my wing mirror he would have been a sticky pink mess on the tarmac.

And how about cyclists that ignore traffic lights? It's become de rigeur in London now. I guess they're all colour blind, right?

campbell

2,499 posts

284 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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I hate every thing that happens to the people on this forum ie cakes flying too lane hogers and tosers how don't know how to switch off there fog lamps (it's simple use a bas ball bat or a shoot gun :evil all these point realy piss me off

Dose this make any sence ? or have I had to many

I'll get me pint

JSG

2,238 posts

284 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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or have I had to many



Yes, but have some more

Marshy

2,748 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Anyone in a BMW... for some reason they are 99% arrogant, self important, tailgaters.


Thanks flasher. Just don't get in my way on the A14... I've got important places to be, and I'll be forced to tailgate you on my way to the Ferryboat

campbell

2,499 posts

284 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Thanks JSG, i will when I get home I'll have plenty of but it takes me 1h:30mins to get hame

Can't wate

leehodges

399 posts

284 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Why bother with hands free - unless you habitually tug off with your left hand while driving (maybe! ) you have bugger all else to do with the left arm.



Are you for real? I consider myself a reasonable driver (don't we all?) but whilst going round a small round-about on my estate at around 10 mph one handed (I was putting on my seat belt) the wheel slipped out of my hand and I very nearly hit the curb. I dread to think what would have happened if I was on the phone at only twice that speed when a child had run out at me!

Lee

flasher

9,238 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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"Thanks flasher. Just don't get in my way on the A14... I've got important places to be, and I'll be forced to tailgate you on my way to the Ferryboat"

Best you don't tailgate me Marshy I'm well known for my brake tests!!! Anyone who tailgates me gets it big time!
Picked up the Missus from the station the other night and stupid Impezza driver tailgates( and I mean I couldn't see his headlights he was that close) me down the A45.. I was quite impressed by his huge four wheeled skid when I pulled the handbrake on!!! My Missus had right go at me!! He then followed me on to my estate where he lives too and I offered to carry out a substantial amount of dental surgery for him.(wife screaming in background!!)I then realised it was the same Moron who tried to race me in my Cerbera a couple of months back and because I wiped the floor with his silly plastic Japanese shit heap he decides to tailgate me when I'm in my wifes Volvo.
Only problem being he didn't realise that I am 6"2 and 17 stone and very pissed off with him and his stupid car!!!
Now before anyone has a go at me, I believe that is the only way to treat a tailgater. On the rare occasions I do it I expect it to happen to me too.
Sorry if you own an Imprezza, I just don't like them.

filmidget

682 posts

283 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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I used to commute to work by bicycle - and caused much entertainment to motorists by going totally ape-sh1t at any other cyclist that went through a red light etc

Bad enough gaining any respect for cyclists without them breaking the rules our/themselves.

But I became p1ssed off with being a rolling target and now gratuitously burn hydrocarbons instead.

Cheers, Phil

Docol

33 posts

272 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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And that brings me to the mid-lane cruisers.....

Yep and tossers who think they are plod doing 70 in the outside lane refusing to move...
Anyone in a BMW... for some reason they are 99% arrogant, self important, tailgaters.
Anyone with a caravan..The desire to own one should be punished with a prison sentence...
Lorry drivers who overtake other lorries on two lane A roads like the A14, just to gain one bloody lorry length on the other neaderthol lorry driver in front...
Dizzy blondes who sit in the outside lane on the M1 in the rush hour "because everyone else is" when two lanes are empty...
AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH....

Docol

33 posts

272 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Has anybody else noticed that more and more HGVs are overtaking in the third lane on motorways? What is the weight limit for the third lane anyway? Has anybody ever rung the "Do you like my driving / Am I driving correctly" numbers on the back of some HGVs to complain - or to say how polite and considerate they've been. Ha Ha!

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Has anybody else noticed that more and more HGVs are overtaking in the third lane on motorways? What is the weight limit for the third lane anyway? Has anybody ever rung the "Do you like my driving / Am I driving correctly" numbers on the back of some HGVs to complain - or to say how polite and considerate they've been. Ha Ha!



I thought it was 7.5 tonnes or is it 12. And no trailers/caravans in the outside lane, also trailers, braked 60 mph, unbraked 50 mph or am I wrong? Saying that a friend towing in the outside lane at 80, not wearing a seat belt just done for being in the outside lane with a trailer.

Captain Chaos

393 posts

277 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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Anyone who doesn't get out of the damn way when come up behind them on the motorway in my Stingray (but I never tailgate as I hate it).

But this rarely happens (they always move.....unless they're blind).

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Thursday 25th October 2001
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I came across a couple of blokes in an XR2 on the M11 a few months back. The road was emptyish yet they were traveling in the outside lane. I pulled out and sat behind them for a while and they didn't pull over despite the two inside lanes being empty. I flashed them. They stayed there. At this point I was getting ANGRY! Stupid ba$tards didn't seem at all fazed by me even when I undertook them. Stupid people make me do stupid things... and make me ANGRY