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Was exiting a major city today, there were two lanes leading up to a round-a-bout and there was an enormous queue in the left lane to take the left turn. I decide to go down the empty right hand lane spin right around the round-a-bout and skip maybe half a mile of traffic.
So ok cheeky, discourteous and "not cricket" but I had been given orders to get home on time or suffer HUGE consequences as good lady is on a very rare night out with the girls.
However I am about to do the full circuit and the car I zipped past just pulls out on me... Now I slammed on the anchors and avoided a collision.. We get to another 2 lane section and said citizen pulls up next to me calling me all the names under the sun and ranting like a mad person. I quietly point out that technically as far as the law/HWC goes they were in the wrong and drive off.
Now ok I know I was being a so and so but hells bells that was an OTT reaction... The kicker, she was approx late 30's fairly well to do/middle class in a Golf Plus with a teenage lad in the passenger seat and 2 7-11 year olds in the back!!!
So ok cheeky, discourteous and "not cricket" but I had been given orders to get home on time or suffer HUGE consequences as good lady is on a very rare night out with the girls.
However I am about to do the full circuit and the car I zipped past just pulls out on me... Now I slammed on the anchors and avoided a collision.. We get to another 2 lane section and said citizen pulls up next to me calling me all the names under the sun and ranting like a mad person. I quietly point out that technically as far as the law/HWC goes they were in the wrong and drive off.
Now ok I know I was being a so and so but hells bells that was an OTT reaction... The kicker, she was approx late 30's fairly well to do/middle class in a Golf Plus with a teenage lad in the passenger seat and 2 7-11 year olds in the back!!!
You were fine. Wouldn't worry about it. I have had similar where a mid 30 something woman wound down here window and started gobbing off at me because I wanted to merge in turn whilst moving in stop start traffic in town. Heaven forbid. I politely told her that my car was worth less than her door skin and that i wouldn't be stopping. She seemed to go bat s
t mental which was funny all on it's own 
t mental which was funny all on it's own 
"merge in turn whilst moving in stop start traffic"
Merge in turn does not compute for a lot of people. Somewhere between seeing the situation unfold and reaching it red mist descends and they just see someone pushing in. All that anger and aggression to shave 0.1 of a nano second off a journey time, people need to pop some classical tunes on the wireless and chill out a bit.
Merge in turn does not compute for a lot of people. Somewhere between seeing the situation unfold and reaching it red mist descends and they just see someone pushing in. All that anger and aggression to shave 0.1 of a nano second off a journey time, people need to pop some classical tunes on the wireless and chill out a bit.
Better to go all the way round than turn left from the RH lane across the front of people in the LH lane who are going straight on! (probably without indicating)
I used to do it fairly regularly at a RAB near home, maybe it's not in the spirit of the game, but certainly not breaking any rules and (debatably) shortens the queue, specially if you ease off slightly to create a gap to let people out of the road you were on.
I used to do it fairly regularly at a RAB near home, maybe it's not in the spirit of the game, but certainly not breaking any rules and (debatably) shortens the queue, specially if you ease off slightly to create a gap to let people out of the road you were on.
Well, if everyone did it then there would be a problem but since there is an endless supply of sheep who will happily sit waiting at the roundabout then it's counterbalanced anyway.
You see people who get wound up when motorbikes filter safely past them even though they aren't affected in any way but the mere fact that somebody seeks to lawfully and with no consequence to other drivers, make things better for themselves, is the very end of the world as they know it.
It's like watching crabs in a bucket, all pulling down any crab who tries to climb out.
You see people who get wound up when motorbikes filter safely past them even though they aren't affected in any way but the mere fact that somebody seeks to lawfully and with no consequence to other drivers, make things better for themselves, is the very end of the world as they know it.
It's like watching crabs in a bucket, all pulling down any crab who tries to climb out.
550Hep said:
.... in a Golf Plus ....
There's the problem. Wouldn't you be pi55ed if you had to drive one of those (it looks like a Golf, but isn't a Golf!)Re: your incident you'd feel a lot better if you've ever visited Bletchley and the God forsaken trio of roundabouts by the Audi garage. Traffic backs right up to a major roundabout (about 100m up the road) and causes chaos every day.
Solution. Do exactly what you did today. It doesn't make you feel great but gets the job done.
Been in a car when a friend did this on a mini roundabout with two exits, one to the left, one straight on.
He got to the roundabout, indicated right, turned 270 degrees and turned right.
Felt like a right knob sat in his car as everyone stared at us, but it did save us about 10 minutes of queuing....
He got to the roundabout, indicated right, turned 270 degrees and turned right.
Felt like a right knob sat in his car as everyone stared at us, but it did save us about 10 minutes of queuing....
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