Confess your daily driving sin

[AB]

Coming onto the M62 towards Manchester from Liverpool this morning. Just after the rocket as you have a sweeping right hander. It was raining. I've not driven a turbo car for a while, too much right foot, turbo kicks in, fishtailing commences. Cars either side, I corrected it and luckily DSC saved me or I'd have been eating barrier.

I feel like a complete dick, and it's one of those things I can't stop thinking about as I sit here.

[off_again]

Forgive me father, for I have sinned....

I pick my nose while driving!



But I do make sure that no one is watching

[Mazdarese]

AB said:

Coming onto the M62 towards Manchester from Liverpool this morning. Just after the rocket as you have a sweeping right hander. It was raining. I've not driven a turbo car for a while, too much right foot, turbo kicks in, fishtailing commences. Cars either side, I corrected it and luckily DSC saved me or I'd have been eating barrier.

I feel like a complete dick, and it's one of those things I can't stop thinking about as I sit here.

Sounds like fun. Those kind of moments make me feel alive, rightly or wrongly. I'm sure it brightened up your otherwise dull commute?

[AB]

Heart was in my mouth and I felt sick the entire way.

[Dirty Frank]

I sing in the car and work van

[s3fella]

I reverse off my drive without my seatbelt, then forwards up the road whilst putting it on! I dont knwo why, Everytime i think, FFS, put it on before you drive off, but I do it everytime pretty much, (unless in the buggy with race harnasses.

Knowing my luck I will have a head on with the old biddy up the road's Inconticart and I will be killed in a horror death smash way.

[cheddar]

I speed.

Everywhere.

All the time.

[Lefty]

Same thing happened to me yesterday, driving a shonky old rwd 3.5t pickup for the first time in ages, pissing wet and I had it very sideways entirely by accident at a big roundabout, if anybody had been in the left hand lane I would have hit them.

No DSC though, what a hero

[AB]

s3fella said:

I reverse off my drive without my seatbelt, then forwards up the road whilst putting it on! I dont knwo why, Everytime i think, FFS, put it on before you drive off, but I do it everytime pretty much, (unless in the buggy with race harnasses.

Weirdly, I put mine on before I close the door.

[Mazdarese]

AB said:

Heart was in my mouth and I felt sick the entire way.

Because you feel that you nearly caused an accident? Been there, it's not a nice feeling.

A couple of years ago I was leaving the M6 at J22, onto the two lane sliproad. I approach the roundabout in the right lane and see a white van hurtling up the left lane, and I just knew he was going to go up the inside of me all the way around the roundabout to take the same turning as me. I decided to not let him by flooring it all the way around the roundabout (in a 147GTA), and when I got to my exit I attempted an overtake of a slow moving MPV without evaluating it properly, and ended up probably 1 second from having to abort or have a head-on with something coming the other way.

I had to pull over as soon as I could and have a word with myself. Lesson learned though.

[carlove]

I fart in the car, only when I'm on my own in the car.

[roachcoach]

I have a bad habit of overtaking at junctions from the lights if there are two lanes and a truck at the front of my queue.

Of course if people either overtook said truck or stopped driving so close together a squirrel couldnt get in between them in order that I might overtake them and then the truck gradually, I could do it the right way. But I can't, so I don't. Why yes, that is how I rationalise it and no, no I do not give a single st.

[Mazdarese]

roachcoach said:

I have a bad habit of overtaking at junctions from the lights if there are two lanes and a truck at the front of my queue.

Of course if people either overtook said truck or stopped driving so close together a squirrel couldnt get in between them in order that I might overtake them and then the truck gradually, I could do it the right way. But I can't, so I don't. Why yes, that is how I rationalise it and no, no I do not give a single st.

What's wrong with that?

[AB]

Mazdarese said:

Because you feel that you nearly caused an accident? Been there, it's not a nice feeling.

Yeah, and it was completely stupid and I should have known. I have been hoping to get into a TVR or something similar is the next couple of years and this reinforces to me that I have a lot of learning to do.

[roachcoach]

Quite often they lead to right turn lanes

[DanGPR]

I utterly abuse my work van. I know it weighs about 1400kgs and has about 70bhp, but it still gets thrashed to 4500rpm every day.

Sorry van.

[Mazdarese]

AB said:

Yeah, and it was completely stupid and I should have known. I have been hoping to get into a TVR or something similar is the next couple of years and this reinforces to me that I have a lot of learning to do.

Well, at least you've learned a lesson and been big enough to admit it.

roachcoach said:

Quite often they lead to right turn lanes

Ha! I've done that a couple of times.

[Jgtv]

I use my phone, I argue with the Radio and I have been known to undertake if people sit in the middle lane doing less than the Speed limit.

Oh I also regularly call people cupid stunts, question there parentage and just how close a relationship they have with there mothers.

[Big Rod]

When there's no-one else around, (and only then 'cos I don't want to appear to be a twunt!), upon exiting 'A' road 'T' junctions I find it hard to resist giving it both barrels and exercising 'a dab of oppo'.

[rodgerramjet]

I deliberately hung the rear out on most of the wet roundabouts on my way home from work last night and on the way in to work this morning.

Except this morning I had a 'little' moment where it hung out a bit too much and for a bit too long. This resulted in me still recovering it as the road had straightened out, fishtailing across the two lanes a tad. Luckily or rather, knowingly, the road I use most mornings is so sparsley populated that there was no one around to witness my newfound levels of numptyness.

ETA: I pass on the inside almost every day. A also used to 'queue jump' into a filter lane on the way home every day, but this saved me around 15-20mins each journey, so the selfishness was worth it. Sorry

Edited by rodgerramjet on Thursday 7th July 11:48