littleowl
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- North Shropshire
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- C220 AMG Sport Edition Auto Estate, VW T5, Ducati Scrambler
Among the many things that bug me about general driving these days, is when you meet someone on a narrow country lane and the nearest passing place is behind them, but they can't reverse. I encounter this almost daily as I live on a single track farm lane.
I frequently have to reverse about a quarter of a mile because the person in front of me can't reverse a few yards, but a lot of people fly into an absolute rage if they have to. On a narrow road someone will have to reverse so why get mad about it? I've lost count of the times they end up in the hedge which is why I usually go out of my way as it would take longer to wait for them to go a short distance in a straight line.
I met someone at the other extreme last week. He was barrelling up the lane way too fast and we met nearly head on at a bend. The nearest passing point was behind him so after sitting there glaring at me for a while, he slammed his car into reverse and took off like a bat out of hell almost out of control - reversing like he was crazed and if something had come round the blind bends he would have gone straight into it. He shot backwards into a farm gateway and shouted at me as I went by, even though I thanked him.
Another time I met a lorry which was just 20 yards past a field gate, but there was a slight bend. He sat there looking at me and I was gesticulating to him to reverse to the gateway, but he still sat there. So I ended up reversing round three blind bends to another gateway. When he passed, he stopped and said 'sorry love but we're not allowed to reverse around bends, we'll get in trouble as it's all recorded on the camera' - what utter rubbish!
I thought that reversing was a skill that you had to be able to do in order to pass your driving test, but clearly a lot of people don't use it enough, or ever!
I frequently have to reverse about a quarter of a mile because the person in front of me can't reverse a few yards, but a lot of people fly into an absolute rage if they have to. On a narrow road someone will have to reverse so why get mad about it? I've lost count of the times they end up in the hedge which is why I usually go out of my way as it would take longer to wait for them to go a short distance in a straight line.
I met someone at the other extreme last week. He was barrelling up the lane way too fast and we met nearly head on at a bend. The nearest passing point was behind him so after sitting there glaring at me for a while, he slammed his car into reverse and took off like a bat out of hell almost out of control - reversing like he was crazed and if something had come round the blind bends he would have gone straight into it. He shot backwards into a farm gateway and shouted at me as I went by, even though I thanked him.
Another time I met a lorry which was just 20 yards past a field gate, but there was a slight bend. He sat there looking at me and I was gesticulating to him to reverse to the gateway, but he still sat there. So I ended up reversing round three blind bends to another gateway. When he passed, he stopped and said 'sorry love but we're not allowed to reverse around bends, we'll get in trouble as it's all recorded on the camera' - what utter rubbish!
I thought that reversing was a skill that you had to be able to do in order to pass your driving test, but clearly a lot of people don't use it enough, or ever!
