So, i just got ****ing soaked while inside my car.

[Derp]

Be advised, this is a rant, and it will be a long one...

I'm on the way home and it's been heavy rain and hail all evening. Im driving down a dark, unlit NSL country road. It's stopped raining now, but all the roads are covered in fking water. Anyone who lives within 9000 miles of this road knows how notorious it is for flooding and big puddles.

So, im driving along with the heater on, because it's cold. However, maybe its because my car is fking st, or just a fact of life (or that is has more water leaks than the exxon valdez and the carpets are always damp) but the windows keep steaming up. As a result, i have the drivers window down by about an inch, which seems to solve it.

So, i approach the long sweeping S curves, and see (as usual) some fking with high beam on as always (why are people fking obsessed with high beam? i can drive and stop in the distance covered by dipped beam, but half these fking morons have to use high beam all the fking time there's no street lights. They also dont read the fking road ahead for lights coming the other way, and give you 5 seconds of eyeball burning before they turn them off).

Anyway, this prick is hurtling towards me at a rate of knots, high beam on, blinding me. I give a quick flash of my lights to tell them.... no reply. I give another quick flash, still no fking reply. It's now clear a hopeless is behind the wheel.

All of a sudden, fkING BANG!

This prickass hits a puddle which totally covers his lane. It must be about 6-7 inches deep, and proceeds to shower my car in mud/water and all the other st lurking in this puddle. I couldnt see it and stop before it happened, because my eyes were receiving laser eye surgery from this tts headlights. Because i wasnt expecting it, i didnt have wipers on, couldnt see where i was going and had to slam on.

You guessed it, a fk load of water came through that 1 inch window gap and soaked my coat, head and the inside of the car.

I knocked the hazards on immediately as i came to a stop. This fking ing bd fking wker slowed down a little after the puddle, then sped up and drove off. What a grade A, useless fking stbag.

Im in the middle of nowhere, and for all they know, i could have been an old gimmer having a heart attack as a result of what just happend, and this fking maggot just drove right off. This fking prick could have been leaving me for dead.

I accept that people fkup now and again, after all, im no driving god, but if the person had even stopped until i was ready to drive off to make sure i wasn't dying, i wouldn't have had that much of an issue. It's not like i would have smashed their head in or tried to hunt them down.

So, if it were you in the 04 Vectra tonight taht did this to me, you are a total clueless fking moron.

[HustleRussell]

5.5/10 better than this morning's excuse for a rant.

[pherlopolus]

8/10, I thought you were going to say you owned a mk3 Golf cabrio like me though....

[Caulkhead]

I wouldn't have stopped either. You're very sweary and possibly a bit stabby.

[HustleRussell]

Caulkhead said:

I wouldn't have stopped either. You're very sweary and possibly a bit stabby.

Not to mention wet and smelly

[anonymous-user]

rants feel very 90's now, very mc hammer.

You had a window open in the rain, your fault, maybe ring claims direct and sue for aqua damnum.

[anonymous-user]

So you don't maintain your car to an acceptable level that you cannot demist the windows and as such have to drive with the window open, in the wet

You then get wet and its HIS fault?

[DonkeyApple]

I had similar years ago. Daylight, just after a massive rain storm.

I was in the Griff and had the window down to stop it from misting up.

Saw the car coming a mile off. Saw the huge puddle. Knew what was going to happen.

All I can say is that the electric windows on an early Griff were comically slow and getting the filthy water and grit out of what was then a new car took the rest of my day.

[Derp]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Turning the absolute fkery of someone else into my fault as always.

Classic PH.

[anonymous-user]

Derp said:

Turning the absolute fkery of someone else into my fault as always.

Classic PH.

I drove home tonight in the pissing rain, got home nice and dry thanks, funny what regular servicing can do for your general mood and wellbeing

[Blib]

Caulkhead said:

...... and possibly a bit stabby.

I laughed at that.

[msmith0592]

Couldn't you open the passenger window instead?

[Benbay001]

So - you use dipped beam, yet expect the car to spot your lights, and react before you both come into view of each other?
May i suggest you use your main beam, and then the other driver may get some warning. Personally, i dont see what the issue is here, we all get dazzled by the on coming drivers main beam from time to time, you were hit by a bad bit of sods law regarding the window, but really, expecting the other driver to stop? why would they? they didnt know you had your window down, and even if they did, would they really want to confront someone who gets THIS irate over a situation that they did nothing to help?

[ambuletz]

Sometimes I find it hard to notice puddles of water in the road, the angle is very deceptive, and depending on the speed you are at its rather hard to react in time.

Dry your eyes mate, and maybe your clothes...and interior.

[Benbay001]

Derp said:

Angry stuff

Derp.

[Fleckers]

window open
time for a can of red bull or is this the wrong thread ??

[vixen1700]

You should try a 40 year old TVR in a heavy downpour.

[g3org3y]

Derp said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Turning the absolute fkery of someone else into my fault as always.

Classic PH.

SO to clarify, the guy drove on the opposite side of the road through a puddle?

Surely if your window had been closed this would have been a non story?

And yes, I always use main beam wherever possible on poorly/unlit roads.

[StottyZr]

7/10, would have been 8.5 if you hadn't have mentioned the "I could have been a ageing war veterain going to see my wife of 65years who is slowly dieing of sadistdiseaseintheworld syndrome"

[anonymous-user]