Too many idiots on the road!

gilbert_and_sullivan

Ah other drivers, if i get a impatient/incompetent/aggressive/plonker driver behind me thats the last place i want them so i make it as easy as pie to get by me, and then once said thing is in front i give them plenty of room.

Don't worry about idiots and don't hinder them, if they arrive early at oblivion and leave the gene pool before contributing the better for all of us.

Wkdwill

jd82 wrote: »

Sounds like bad tuition. You really need to take proper lessons. It will take a long time and a lot of expense but the trick is with driving is not to think you're in the right but to avoid accidents.

Sometimes you may have to be in the wrong to avoid an accident.

I haven't had any lessons at all yet, all this is just from being a passenger.

I wouldn't be letting DH give me any lessons whatsoever, we get on really well atm, him teaching me to drive would cause far too many arguements:D

Wkdwill

LandyAndy wrote: »

Driving in the outside lane and not pulling in 'because you are doing the speed limit' is at best foolish and ignorant and at worst dangerous.

For someone who can't drive you have a lot of opinions.:(

I suggest you do take lessons. Then you could post from a position of knowledge.

That wasn't the reason he didnt pull across at all, he didnt have the chance to.

Everyone is entitled to opinions, you dont have to be a driver to know that someone is driving like a plank.

Inactive

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Don't worry about idiots and don't hinder them, if they arrive early at oblivion and leave the gene pool before contributing the better for all of us.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Nice one..;)

The OP needs to learn to drive him/herself before making critical comment about others.

LandyAndy

Wkdwill wrote: »

That wasn't the reason he didnt pull across at all, he didnt have the chance to.

Everyone is entitled to opinions, you dont have to be a driver to know that someone is driving like a plank.

Maybe not but it does add to the weight of your opinion.

From your OP you come across as rather arrogant (although I can't know that as I don't know you) and with a poor attitude. Neither of these traits will make you a good driver.

Wkdwill

LandyAndy wrote: »

Maybe not but it does add to the weight of your opinion.

From your OP you come across as rather arrogant (although I can't know that as I don't know you) and with a poor attitude. Neither of these traits will make you a good driver.

I dont see how I come across as arrogant at all, maybe I could have used a few better words, but I was just merely describing some incidents with other drivers and saying how it put me off driving myself.

You are welcome to your opinion as I am mine, but I can assure you if you did know me you would know im not one bit arrogant, although it would seem my OP has come across another way which I fail to see.

moonrakerz

Wkdwill wrote: »

Last month, on the motorway in the fast lane .......................

There is no such thing as the "fast" lane. The correct term is the "right hand" lane.

"Too many idiots on the road!" - Yup, definitely !

Wkdwill

moonrakerz wrote: »

There is no such thing as the "fast" lane. The correct term is the "right hand" lane.

"Too many idiots on the road!" - Yup, definitely !

Sorry, my bad, this is what happens when I try to type and talk to my 3 year old at the same time, my brain turns to mush.:D

LandyAndy

Wkdwill wrote: »

DH wants me to do driving lessons, but im not so sure I want to anymore.

There are just so many idiots on the road, I dont know if its just us that attract them or if we are just unlucky, a few examples

Last year DH was driving home from work, entered a roundabout at the same time as a woman to the left of him, she took the first exit, must have realised it was the wrong one the swerved back into the round about, hitting DH, sending him spinning across the round about, then she drove off.

Last month, on the motorway in the fast lane doing the speed limit when this idiot in his fancy !!! car came steaming up behind us, flashing his headlights, beeping the horn at us, when DH wouldn't move into the next lane the idiot undertook us, opened his window and called DH a w*nker (with his hand) then drove off, within 15 seconds you couldn't see him ahead.

This weekend just gone, FIL was driving, a bridge round the corner from us has a single lane road running under it, going up the hill you have priority, we were going up the hill, with a car on the other side waiting to come through, the car infront of us passed the woman on the other side, then she set off, came speeding through taking out FILs wing mirror, she didnt stop.

Again this weekend, driving on a two lane road, the lane at the right of us stopped a bit further up due to road works, as we were nearing the part where the right lane stops this idiot in his chavved up car comes racing up the right hand lane, swerves straight in front of DH causing him to hit the brakes, then has the cheek to stick fingers up, then as we carried on driving down the road behind him, he kept hitting on the brakes, making DH brake, during all this (long busy road) I spotted he had a young child in the back.

There have been more than this but I cant possibly list them all, im just wondering, is it really worth learning to drive with so many idiots on the road or are we just really unlucky?

As I said I don't know you but reading your post didn't make feel sympathetic to you.

zfrl

LandyAndy wrote: »

The real secret of safe driving is to assume that every other road user is an idiot.;)

Especially true if you ride a motorbike! You have to also assume everyone is out to try & kill you!