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Right, this is a rant admittedly but…
<br>How bloody difficult is it to indicate properly when driving a car?
Now, myself, I’ve never found the concept that challenging. 70% of other motorists, however, find it to be far beyond their mental and physical capabilities.
Two years ago I started a full time course at a college in the nearest town, so myself and a friend at the same college would have to brave the rush hour traffic virtually every day. Back then it seemed that nobody could even figure out what the little lever on the side of the steering wheel was for, they just didn’t bother to indicate, and then blamed everyone else if it all went to s**t
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Now it seems that the bloody morons have managed to cotton on to the fact that the lever does indeed move if some pressure is applied by the driver in either the ‘up’ or ‘down’ direction, but they haven’t quite cottoned on to applying this to roundabout exits. Apparently they just think it’s there for the sole purpose of making their car have pretty lights flashing. What the hell is this craze lately for indicating to an exit, only to then keep going for one or two more, and then swear at anyone who has the sheer bloody audacity to pull out thinking that they were turning off? How bloody stupid can these people get?
And why do Mercedes drivers think it perfectly acceptable to tail you with their lights on full for mile after mile?
And who started the theory of this mythical ‘middle lane’ which so many idiot drivers seem to think exists on any two-lane approach to a roundabout?
In short, what the hell is wrong with the drivers in this country?! Or is it just a Norfolk / East Anglia thing?
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Rant over.
You have my full support Zoz. On my way to work and back I have the pleasure of negotiating what I would desribe as a ‘medium sized’ roundabout; not a mini one, but not a big proper one either, which provides access to a factory shopping outlet. This means only one thing – tourists! I spend at least a good couple of minutes a day waiting for non-indicating drivers already on the roundabout to drive past me only for them to take the exit before where I’m trying to get on. Conversely though, I have learned that if they are indicating to take the exit before mine then their indication normally means thay are continuing around the roundabout.
The greatest hazard though, which I more than occassionally encounter on said roundabout is the reversing driver, who having missed their turn off decides that instead of driving back around they’ll just reverse back round instead.
Christ Jane, don’t remind me…
….this summer some pals went on a road trip in France and came back telling this story of this woman who did the reversing roundabout trick and nearly got several people killed and I thought "well at least they don’t do that in Kings Lynn"…course, two days later what happens but some utter metnal case does just the same thing, reversing into the path of TWO bloody great lorries going far too fast and obviously considering that shuffling off the mortal coil is a fair risk against getting back on the A47….
I just hid in the passenger seat of my mum’s car and mumbled "tell me when it’s over", convinced they were going to get themselves killed. Then when they didn’t I had a mad urge to at least get mum to knock out their rear lights on the way past just for the sake of it…
I’ve given up taking any notice of indicators, mind you Iwas always told to when being taught to drive but in those days they were semaphore!<br>The thing that annoys me is that these people are so bloody stupid they don’t even know what they are doing. I work 18 miles away from home and my shift partner lives in the same town as me so we share cars week about. He does so many stupid things; he drives me crazy & all the while he’s moaning about the others & I’m thinking "you’ve just done exactly the same!"<br>I think chemical castration might be the answer. Oh the hell with it, why chemical?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysNo indicating is my favourite pet hate. In Ireland, when you are going right at a roundabout (ie – third exit), you have to indicate right and then left after you pass the second exit (my wife tells me it’s different in the UK). BUT NOBODY EVER F****** INDICATES RIGHT WHEN THEY ARE TURNING RIGHT. I have now taken to going ahead and driving onto the roundabout when the car turning right has no indicator on. I don’t chance it with trucks though.
Tailgating really winds me up!:angry: :angry: :angry:
I wish more people were prosecuted for this act of dangerous driving.
Regards- Matron<br>:cool:
I’m with you on tailgating. I find though that slowing right down is a good tactic. The bigger the lorry, the slower I go. Its the only language they understand
On more than one occasion (most recently coming back from Huntingdon on Tuesday) I have been confronted with one HGV trying to overtake another HGV, only for the driver of the lorry that is being passed for some reason taking umbrage with this and speeding up so the other one can’t get past. The driver of the overtaking lorry is far too bloody-minded to drop back, leaving the two stupid buggers driving side by side for miles and creating a massive tailback of ‘proper drivers’ behind.
The worst ever case of this I have come across was going south on the A1 when we were driving home after Christmas. I don’t know whether anyone has ever seen the film Duel but this looked like a scene from that with a lorry that was being overtaken deliberately speeding up when another lorry tried to pass or slowing down when it tried to drop back. I’m not kidding, this must have gone on for about 15 miles, with me right behind leaning on my horn throughout. When the lorry finally managed to get past this maniac twice tried to ram him before careering rather alarmingly into a service station.
I made a mental note of the company concerned and when I got home drafted a suitably ferocious e-mail. Unsurprisingly, I never received a reply.
And what about the imbeciles who approach a roundabout signalling that they are going to turn right when they actually intend to go straight on??!!?? You manoeuvre to go up their inside on the roundabout only to find that the b*****d
signals left at the last minute and cuts straight in front of you. Then he/she (usually a He wearing a hat and driving an R-reg Rover with cushions on the rear sill) continues on his/her merry way totally oblivious to the carnage in his/her wake.Don’t you just love them?
I think you all should have to take the driving test again and also see a counceller about the underlying issues regarding the rage you feel<br>The driving test should be complusery every 5 years , <br>1 to test peoples ability <br>2 To test their mental state<br>I for one am glad that I do not live in the council estates that the above joyriders choose to ply their trade
(Edited by Sky at 9:37 pm on Nov. 10, 2005)
Don’t get off your bike. I’ll pick your pump up.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysI’m one of the worst culprits for flying off the handle when drivers just expect me to guess which way they are going to go. Ignorant b******s I say!<br>That, and putting on their hazards when they are parked illegally. Like that makes it legal or something LOL<br>Tw@ts.<br>Oh, and lets not forget the ones that put their foglights on when visibility drops below ten thousand yards. It must be some kind of novelty to get to turn on that funny little switch that makes your rear view glow red. Way cool! Dickheads.
I love the pillocks that turn their fog lights on<br>when it is raining – yes, lets blind everybody!
We are too lenient with motoring offences – take away their licence for 28 days and in future they might think about the<br>consequences of their stupid actions.
Regards- Matron<br>:cool:
NO CARS! – cause too many deaths.
Emergency services and public transport only.
You selfish car driving earth killing ****
ers will get no sympathy from me.Emergency services and public transport only.
So, how will food get to the shops?
Will the staff carry the food from the train station to the bus stop and then take the bus?
Exactly how much would that add to the cost of an apple?
Is your plan to starve the poor by making everything far more expensive?
If so, I’m against it.
Steve
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