brucemillar
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So yesterday we set off from Kent to visit my gran-daughters in Sussex. We are in the BMW 528i e39 Touring.
The roads are remarkably clear (good so far). Cruise control is on and we are wafting along at 68mph (This is true) As we join the M26 west, from the M20, I notice a back Golf joining in the outer of the two entry lanes (he is on my outside). He is sitting almost in my blind spot but clearly seen by his DRL's. I am still on cruise with an empty road ahead. My assumption is that he will pass us and be on his way. WRONG. He stays in my blind spot pulling alongside then dropping back in a cyclical motion from this point until 1 mile before the M25, a distance of about 19 miles!!. I have not disengaged cruise and I assume that he is also on cruise?
I now start to gain on an HGV expecting my traveling companion to either pass or drop back. He does neither!! So I indicate right and slowly start to move out (he is just behind me and not in danger of hitting me). AT this point he honks the horn, flashes his lights and makes some naughty hand signals.
We pass the HGV with him now sat on my rear bumper, I indicate left and pull in. He then takes up his previous position in my blind spot. As we enter the M25 he takes the outer entry lane with me in the inner entry lane. As I approach the end of the entry lane , he has pulled up into my blind spot again!! But now he makes it clear that we will have an accident if I attempt to enter the main carriageway. So I accelerate and move onto the live lane. At this point the light flashing, honking, hand signals starts again and continues until we pull off at Clackett Lane.
Why?
He was a bloke who looked about my age with a younger bloke sat in the passenger seat. He did not look like a boy racer. There was absolutely no provocation.
Why would anybody drive for nineteen miles on somebody's tail on an empty dual carriageway then object when that person needs to pass other traffic.
I have not published the Golf's plate and do not intend to do so. I just wonder what he thought as he drove off? Did he feel pleased at his idiocy?
Is nineteen miles a record?
We came off at the services as Mrs M was getting upset as were my daughters. I was having visions of pulling him over and dragging him out the car for a chat.
The roads are remarkably clear (good so far). Cruise control is on and we are wafting along at 68mph (This is true) As we join the M26 west, from the M20, I notice a back Golf joining in the outer of the two entry lanes (he is on my outside). He is sitting almost in my blind spot but clearly seen by his DRL's. I am still on cruise with an empty road ahead. My assumption is that he will pass us and be on his way. WRONG. He stays in my blind spot pulling alongside then dropping back in a cyclical motion from this point until 1 mile before the M25, a distance of about 19 miles!!. I have not disengaged cruise and I assume that he is also on cruise?
I now start to gain on an HGV expecting my traveling companion to either pass or drop back. He does neither!! So I indicate right and slowly start to move out (he is just behind me and not in danger of hitting me). AT this point he honks the horn, flashes his lights and makes some naughty hand signals.
We pass the HGV with him now sat on my rear bumper, I indicate left and pull in. He then takes up his previous position in my blind spot. As we enter the M25 he takes the outer entry lane with me in the inner entry lane. As I approach the end of the entry lane , he has pulled up into my blind spot again!! But now he makes it clear that we will have an accident if I attempt to enter the main carriageway. So I accelerate and move onto the live lane. At this point the light flashing, honking, hand signals starts again and continues until we pull off at Clackett Lane.
Why?
He was a bloke who looked about my age with a younger bloke sat in the passenger seat. He did not look like a boy racer. There was absolutely no provocation.
Why would anybody drive for nineteen miles on somebody's tail on an empty dual carriageway then object when that person needs to pass other traffic.
I have not published the Golf's plate and do not intend to do so. I just wonder what he thought as he drove off? Did he feel pleased at his idiocy?
Is nineteen miles a record?
We came off at the services as Mrs M was getting upset as were my daughters. I was having visions of pulling him over and dragging him out the car for a chat.
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