Well lucky I wasn't behind them as I would be honking every 10 seconds until they pulled off, at their own invite ;-)!
I was behind a campervan last week with a number of crap stickers on the back. One of them read:
I have friends who just travel 8 miles or so to a different beach from the one that we live on.We have a chap at work that has a caravan which he uses most weekends. I asked where he was going one weekend.....His reply Wigan.
He lives in Manchester
Must have been pretty close to be able to read it
A traffic jam.Must have been pretty close to be able to read it
. She was peering over the top of it to see where she was going. Shocking., can actually reach to the bottom right of the windscreen. Probably the same Dullards who block up the petrol station waiting for a pump to become free on the same side that their filler cap is on when most petrol stations nowadays have hose that will reach both sides on most cars.
That 'creeping down the motorway slip-road' thing is my 'biggie' I absolutely hate the selfish dangerous nature of the maneuver, and as I have said on here before why do HGV drivers move from lane one to accommodate these Cretins ?? Hold your ground mate, they are either going to have to speed up,slow down or deal with 32 tons of truck. Grrrrrr
I will confess to being one that only uses a hose on the same side as my car, less risk of fuel spillage on the car from a stretched pipe and depending on the set up, using the other side can lead to pipes leaning against the paintwork which is the last thing I want.I see others here have noticed the 'stick it on the windscreen' brigade. WTF is up with those idiots ? I simply can not comprehend why anyone would stick anything on their windscreen that would create an instant and very large blind spot.
I followed a woman driving a compact car recently, we were in slow traffic and from behind I could not see any device stuck on her windscreen, as I crawled past her in the next lane to my horror I saw she had a massive smartphone suckered to her windscreen pretty much right in front of her face
Laws exist to combat this type of idiotic selfish behavior but I doubt many have been pulled over and charged with 'obstructing the view of the road' . I'm not sure if its the same law that covers snow/ice on the windscreen ,but whatever it is it needs to be enforced more.
I sometimes use a small sat nav stuck in the lower right side of my windshield where as a 'right hander' I find it easy , safe and discreet in use. Why I see the vast majority of sat navs/phones stuck in the middle of the windscreen is beyond me...unless there are more left handers in the UK than the world average or they are just too dumb to realise the cable from the cigarette lighter...sorry 12V plug
I am not going to get myself worked up, I am not going to get myself worked up, I am not going to get myself worked up...and ...breathe..
Can't have it both ways Pete, if you are coming down the entry slip road and inside lane is chocker with HGVs you have to "creep" hoping a nice polite HGV vehicle will move over creating a gap for you. Saying this as a driver of a "missle" that can hit any gap at speeds up to 100mph in seconds, last thing I want to do is creep down these lanes but with today's rush hour traffic sometimes its unavoidable..
Not talking about standstill or creeping traffic . The idea of the slip road is to accelerate (or slow down) to safely match the speed of whatever is (or isn't) in lane one without forcing it to get out of your way in the process. Otherwise they may as well all be T junctions.
My preferred trajectory only I am rarely up that early!^^^ Oh , and a certain M way slip road when quiet (05:00h on my current morning commute) is a good place (for me) to let the V8 do it's stuff for a few seconds
