dozypillock
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I thought I was the only one who always seems to position myself behind the slow weekly shopper in the petrol station.
Neil
I thought I was the only one who always seems to position myself behind the slow weekly shopper in the petrol station.
Neil
ItalianTuneUp
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I thought I was the only one who always seems to position myself behind the slow weekly shopper in the petrol station.
Neil
It's annoying, I know. When it happens I just put some cracking tunes on the CD player and try and relax. Tedious though.
The stopping at roundabouts for no reason is very annoying. Not proud of it but I used to drive round them, if possible, in my more impatient younger years but these days - I don't 100% know why they have stopped and it could be something I haven't seen. Similarly - if I came up to a right turn and there is a car in front also waiting to turn right - if there is clearly enough time to turn, I will just crack on and leave the person at the front of the queue still waiting. I guess I was trying to demonstrate how much time there was. Thankfully I have a lot more patience these days. 
I would presume he had an automatic transmission in that one (most were) so not able to keep it in 3rd!
I would presume he had an automatic transmission in that one (most were) so not able to keep it in 3rd!
ItalianTuneUp
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Lol JohnEBoy, your description of your younger impatient days rings a bell with me too. These days I'm very, very patient
Lol JohnEBoy, your description of your younger impatient days rings a bell with me too. These days I'm very, very patient
It's funny because I have the fastest car I have ever had and yet I am the most patient I've ever been...
ItalianTuneUp
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It's funny because I have the fastest car I have ever had and yet I am the most patient I've ever been...
Knowing you have have a fast car maybe makes you patient/relaxed...no need to prove it?
Knowing you have have a fast car maybe makes you patient/relaxed...no need to prove it?
Hmm, I still do the traffic light grand prix regularly...
Mind you - I need to practice my take offs ready for Vmax.
Getting that many GGs down on the road takes technique when you don't have a GT-R.
flango
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ItalianTuneUp said:Knowing you have have a fast car maybe makes you patient/relaxed...no need to prove it?
I think there is some truth in that when I used to drive the Scooby regular which was seriously quick I drove very patiently when I'm in the volvo I'm not as patient and don't suffer fools gladly but still dispatch them with ease but I'm definitely not as relaxed and patient
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It's funny because I have the fastest car I have ever had and yet I am the most patient I've ever been...
So have I......but I am not...
The world is full of motorised f**kwits, but why do they seek me out to impede MY progress? I don't do it to them*.
The worst are the ones (not very many, to be honest) who try to stop me filtering past them on one of my bikes. FFS! A bike is never going to hold them up, so why not let it go? Everybody wins, nobody loses.
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* Unless they're overly-impatient t***s who need to be held up, of course. Not that I would ever fall into that category...
Satch
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Just consider that any time you are in a public place or on the road, at least 50% of the people around your will be of below average intelligence. And it is not a normal distribution curve.
So if you feel you are surrounded by idiots, that is pretty close to the harsh reality.
So if you feel you are surrounded by idiots, that is pretty close to the harsh reality.
ItalianTuneUp
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Hmm, I still do the traffic light grand prix regularly...
Mind you - I need to practice my take offs ready for Vmax.
Getting that many GGs down on the road takes technique when you don't have a GT-R.
It's funny that, these pedals do sometimes get trapped under one's foot for a few seconds when the lights change...I've noticed that too
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That depends on the Variance... if it is very small, then what you say will be correct but at the same time it will be imperceptible...
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tanuie
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The shopping at garages.
prprandall51
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My wife never does that. Nooooooooooo. She changes smartly up the gears whenever she is on a fast dual carriageway until she gets to fourth. But, unlike your wife, who clearly feels comfortable pootling, my wife still feels the need to go faster, so she keeps accelerating gently, and accelerating - gently - but without changing up to fifth or sixth. Eventually, we are doing a nice cruising speed of around eighty five but the engine is nailed at six thousand rpm and I am in meltdown because she'll be telling me what the woman next to her in the hairdressers told her and I am thinking "change up before the engine blows!!!!!!"
I did mention it once but she said -and this was a whopper - "I never tell you how to drive:".
kinaero
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LOL! Buy her an automatic next time
"Correct, but when I am utterly sh*t at something, hopefully you can educate me similarly..."
ItalianTuneUp
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Some psychologist must have analysed why people would rather carry on driving badly than take advice from the one they supposedly love and cherish.
It causes no end of grief for so many people, that it just has to have been studied and reported on.
It causes no end of grief for so many people, that it just has to have been studied and reported on.
ItalianTuneUp
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Wheelsnuts
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LOL! Buy her an automatic next time
But make sure she doesn't realise that there is a manual option. My wife prefers that, so she can still build up the revs!
ItalianTuneUp
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But make sure she doesn't realise that there is a manual option. My wife prefers that, so she can still build up the revs!
Is it possible to nobble that in STAR?
