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List your pet hates of motorists

Once, I was on an urban two lane dual carriageway pulling away from some lights when a paramedic came shooting up the outside lane.
As we were moving along the most sensible thing was for all the traffic to keep moving and pull into the n/s lane as the paramedic went past...EXCEPT for the Woman at the front in the n/s lane decided to stop which caused a line of stationery cars and no gaps to pull into.

Fortunately my Merc out dragged a Honda CRV nicely... :D
 
I'm a bit late into the merging at roadworks and other lane reductions argument, but as someone else eluded to earlier, this is the official line from the Highway Code:
Rule 288 ........ where lanes are restricted due to road works, merge in turn (see Rule 134) ...
Rule 134 You should follow the signs and road markings and get into the lane as directed. In congested road conditions do not change lanes unnecessarily. Merging in turn is recommended but only if safe and appropriate when vehicles are travelling at a very low speed, e.g. when approaching road works or a road traffic incident. It is not recommended at high speed.
To me it's clear. Don't change lanes unnecessarily, ie until traffic in both lanes has slowed considerably which is usually only a hundred yards or so before a lane closure. Clearly it's not safe to attempt to merge into 20mph traffic queue whilst doing 70! However merging two lanes in "zip formation" where both lanes are travelling at similar speeds is the ideal. The important part of the code to remember is "merge in turn". Simples!


In answer to the question about why are the road works and lane closures marked off so far ahead is that it's to give all those dummies who are on the phone / half asleep / too busy chatting / don't know the Highway Code / etc time to prepare to slow down and to adjust their speed in readiness to MERGE IN TURN.


But of course you could also be a total tit with the brain power of an amoeba and chose to drive 10cm behind the car in front of you in order to prevent merging by more knowledgeable drivers following the guidance in the Highway Code, thereby causing a longer queue and distress in one fell swoop.
 
Tailgaters, I just cant understand why people do this as they cant get to their destination any quicker by following so close.:dk:
 
Unless you get out of the way...[/QUOTE
Why should I get out of the way as if I am driving at a reasonable speed the idiot behind me should respect the fact if I need to stop quickly in an emergency they will have no reaction distance.
In some extreme cases I do pull over at a safe point and let them pass me often much to their frustration which I can never understand.
 
And this leads me on to the one thing that really, really ****s me off big time!!

The person that sits in the overtaking lane because there is another car he wants to overtake 500m down the motorway. The thing is he is only doing 2 mph more than said car ahead, so it takes a good minute to reach it, and then there is another car and it starts over again.
Seriously, overtake and pull in, if someone behind you is going faster move out of the way!!

You may be doing the speed limit, but you are also a selfish cnut!
 
And how can we forget the people who feel a need to drive hundreds of yards in the outside lane of a quiet dual carriageway because they will eventually want to turn right.
 
intolerance?
 
intolerance?
On who's part? The inconsiderate b'stard who doesn't care less about anyone else on the road and totally does their own thing? Or those of us who are aware of everything going on around us and want to make reasonable progress without impeding anyone else?

If the latter, then I hold my hand up and admit to being intolerant when it comes to bad manners, lack of courtesy, inability to handle a car and insufficient knowledge of road craft. I drive with the assumption that everyone else falls into at least one of those categories so that I can avoid meeting those people at a closer level, but that doesn't mean I can let their failings pass by without at least a shake of the head. But I never resort to retaliation, and very rarely to foul langage (well, not aloud anyway). I generally find that a facetious smile is more satisfying :D
 
Freelanders that have just been off-road pebble-dashing all other cars on the motorway with whatever lumps of gravels they've picked up.
 
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Freelanders that have just been off-road pebble-dashing all other cars on the motorway with whatever lumps of gravels they've picked up.

I hate land rovers, you know the ones they've been making for 60 odd years full stop.
 
On who's part? The inconsiderate b'stard who doesn't care less about anyone else on the road and totally does their own thing? Or those of us who are aware of everything going on around us and want to make reasonable progress without impeding anyone else?

If the latter, then I hold my hand up and admit to being intolerant when it comes to bad manners, lack of courtesy, inability to handle a car and insufficient knowledge of road craft. I drive with the assumption that everyone else falls into at least one of those categories so that I can avoid meeting those people at a closer level, but that doesn't mean I can let their failings pass by without at least a shake of the head. But I never resort to retaliation, and very rarely to foul langage (well, not aloud anyway). I generally find that a facetious smile is more satisfying :D

I just help feeling an element of piety here. Presumably, like 99.9% of drivers, you consider yourself having above-average skills.

I'm still interested to learn how you maintained that 70 mph average over your 233 mile cross-country jaunt, from Peterborough to those Welsh mountain roads, without upsetting any other road users. :dk:
 
I just help feeling an element of piety here. Presumably, like 99.9% of drivers, you consider yourself having above-average skills.

I must be in that spare .1% of drivers that have supremely great driving skills.
 
I think I'm in the minority of drivers who beleive that the idea of a "good" driver should be dropped entirely. There are no degrees of "goodness", only degrees of badness.
 
I think I'm in the minority of drivers who beleive that the idea of a "good" driver should be dropped entirely. There are no degrees of "goodness", only degrees of badness.

Well, in that case I am exceptionally unbad.:p
 
Oh, another corker: Seeing other drivers pick their nose and eat the bogies.
 
OK so this morning armed with my new found rules of the road from my fellow MB Club members and the Highway Code I set off up the M25.

As I approached the North Bound Roadworks I put my new skills into operation. Most motorists using my old (uneducated style) moved over into the left hand lane (yes they had fallen into the old routine of paying attention to the lane closed XX and << signs. Not me. Oh No. This ws my opportunity to breeze past all of these idiots. As I saw the cones approaching I switched on my indicator (considerate as always) and then zipped into a space between two cars. Well, when say a space...I mean the space that I created by allowing the car I was alongside to stamp on his anchors.

That will teach them all. Bloody idiots hogging the road with their namby pamby style of driving. For me now the new way is the only way. Ram up to the cones, a downshift and a swing left You are in. Some of the drivers behind me waved their appreciation of my new MBClub driving skills. One guy showed me with his finger how I must be numero uno. Another seemed to be telling his wife that the driver in front of me enjoyed masturbation.

I will now seek out road works safe in the knowledge that my new skills will win me friends.
 
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Well done Bruce, the forum proves it's worth yet again. Proud of you my son!!!
 

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