Arrggh, numpty locks up behind me
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This is the second time this has happened to me.
Travelling along in the morning rush hour, I'm keeping a distance not to short and not to long as to let everyone in, you know how it is. We're slow moving through a tunnel and the traffic ahead comes to a halt. I pull up behind and keep my foot on the brake pedal
Then I hear this screaching noise, the sound of locked up wheels which is made all the more dramatic in the tunnel. I'm looking around for the numpty when i look in my rear view mirror and see him...
Now I know instantly what has happened. They are driving along thinking lalalalala, oooh the pretty lights, then see stationary traffic ahead of them. They jammed on the brakes, and started to steer (in a tunnel..with only hard sides??
) And he's still going straight on...then...he comes off the brakes, the front of the car gains grip, the car jerks to the right and mounts the kerb with only a foot of space before the wall of the tunnel. He just manages to rescue it and comes back on the road...pride thoroughly shaken 
Meanwhile, I'm watching all this in the rear view and laughing my ass off.
Made an otherwise boring journey interesting.
Travelling along in the morning rush hour, I'm keeping a distance not to short and not to long as to let everyone in, you know how it is. We're slow moving through a tunnel and the traffic ahead comes to a halt. I pull up behind and keep my foot on the brake pedal
Then I hear this screaching noise, the sound of locked up wheels which is made all the more dramatic in the tunnel. I'm looking around for the numpty when i look in my rear view mirror and see him... Now I know instantly what has happened. They are driving along thinking lalalalala, oooh the pretty lights, then see stationary traffic ahead of them. They jammed on the brakes, and started to steer (in a tunnel..with only hard sides??) And he's still going straight on...then...he comes off the brakes, the front of the car gains grip, the car jerks to the right and mounts the kerb with only a foot of space before the wall of the tunnel. He just manages to rescue it and comes back on the road...pride thoroughly shaken Meanwhile, I'm watching all this in the rear view and laughing my ass off. Made an otherwise boring journey interesting.
Good point Chris.
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but I wasn't as lucky as you. Young idiot in a Metro, and by the time I could mutter to myself "He's not going to stop in time....", he hadn't. New bumper on the back of my Mercedes now, one less Metro on the road.
His excuse at the time? He didn't see me. Er, excuse me? You didn't see a big silver Mercedes? Behind a snaking great queue of traffic?
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but I wasn't as lucky as you. Young idiot in a Metro, and by the time I could mutter to myself "He's not going to stop in time....", he hadn't. New bumper on the back of my Mercedes now, one less Metro on the road.
His excuse at the time? He didn't see me. Er, excuse me? You didn't see a big silver Mercedes? Behind a snaking great queue of traffic?
Well I can beat that. On Sundary, I went past a car being driven by a 20ish girl (accompanied by similar friend).
She was driving on THREE flats, with the hazards on cutting the road up with her rapidly degrading steel wheels.
The level of muppitude involved was awe inspiring. They can't have had two brain cells between them.
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