KevinF
Active Member
This is most emphatically not a rant: I make a rule never to let the behaviour of other road users wind me up.
However, in the spirit of informed debate here I offer the following -
Motorway - it doesn't matter which one. Light-ish traffic, most of it in the outer two lanes, naturally. Yours truly doing 65 in the inside lane, sensible distance between me and the vehicle in front. No vehicles within hundreds of yards behind me (important this). We are approaching an exit slip. From the right, a much faster vehicle dives between me and the vehicle in front then slams the anchors on. I have to brake to re-establish a sensible separation distance.
Happens so many times to me on my travels that I've lost count. I simply smile, keep calm, and carry on. But it does make me wonder:
Why could they not have braked earlier, used the hundreds of yards of empty lane behind me and inconvenienced no-one?
Is it:
a) They wake up in the morning and don't consider it to have been a good day if at least once they didn't bully someone? Or -
b) They have an inability to plan ahead, moderate speed and direction accordingly? Or -
c) Junction? What junction? Oh, that junction! Oh sh*t!
However, in the spirit of informed debate here I offer the following -
Motorway - it doesn't matter which one. Light-ish traffic, most of it in the outer two lanes, naturally. Yours truly doing 65 in the inside lane, sensible distance between me and the vehicle in front. No vehicles within hundreds of yards behind me (important this). We are approaching an exit slip. From the right, a much faster vehicle dives between me and the vehicle in front then slams the anchors on. I have to brake to re-establish a sensible separation distance.
Happens so many times to me on my travels that I've lost count. I simply smile, keep calm, and carry on. But it does make me wonder:
Why could they not have braked earlier, used the hundreds of yards of empty lane behind me and inconvenienced no-one?
Is it:
a) They wake up in the morning and don't consider it to have been a good day if at least once they didn't bully someone? Or -
b) They have an inability to plan ahead, moderate speed and direction accordingly? Or -
c) Junction? What junction? Oh, that junction! Oh sh*t!