Roundabout overtake.

[MutiMuti]

Recently I had a daily commute to a town with a dual carriageway approach to a tight roundabout. Traffic going ahead (to single carirageway) or left (same) would queue and often this queue would be fifteen or more cars in length. The right hand lane approach, to go off the roundabout right would be empty, and, filtering on to the roundabout was slow because it was tight and vehicles coming from the right seldom maintained strict lane discipline. So, I would approach the roundabout in the right hand lane indicating my intention to go right. Once on the roundabout I would carry on indicating and do a complete 360 degrees at which point I was back to where I came on to the roundabout but now I had priority over the two lanes waiting at the junction from which I had just entered. Carrying on around the roundabout to complete a one and a half circumnavigation I would then indicate and pull off to proceed straight ahead, in the process placing myself ahead of usually a minimum of ten cars waiting to either turn left or go straight ahead like me. What's the opinion on this?

[MutiMuti]

My appologies if this has been 'done to death' - I had no idea as I'm fairly new here. I always find it interesting posting on a new forum and reading responses to what's posted. Being overly analytical, it's not what people say that interests me but very often why they feel the needed to say it, and the way in which it's said, particularly if it brings nothing of value to any topic in hand.

Why do I like this overtake so much? It's difficult to say, but there are clues in the fact that I suffer from low self esteem and I'm very childish. So as I passs those who are still waiting in the queue it makes me feel cleverer than I really am, and as I'm childish it amuses me to the degree it makes me smile and so anything that makes me smile on an otherwise stultifyingly boring commute has got to be a good thing.

I'm glad to have found this forum because since I became an Advanced Driver a few years ago I've been in a bit of a limbo. ROSPA and IAM are obliged to promote certain 'points of view' which are not neccessarily - shall we say 'realistic' in realation to everyday driving, and, not knowing anyone else who is an advanced driver I've had no idea what other people's real life attitudes are to everyday driving. Reg Locals's stuff has been a real eye opener, the performance car vid was particularly useful to me as I own a performance car in addition to my daily driver.

So, anyway, thanks for your replies. :-)

[MutiMuti]

Monkeylegend said:

Did you not find this forum 216 months ago, or did you forget

That is some lurking.

Hmm - yes - seems I've been a member longer than anyone who'se posted here, but only 8 posts - way back in the mists of time I guess, none of which I can remember. I had to search hard for my username and password to login as I haven't actually visited the site for a long time. I was referring to the advanced driving forum because I haven't been an advanced driver all that time. :-)