Road rage!!!

pulliptears

Lum wrote: »

Hazard light = stationary hazard. Seems reasonable.

Beeping their horn at 11pm to pick up a passenger OTOH.

How about the guy who called to pick up his mate for work outside my house one morning last week. The time? 4.15am.
Rest assured when I see him at a reasonable hour we shall be having words....

On a similar note I have an ongoing problem with the guy across the road. He's bought himself an S reg Rover and very often leaves for work in it anywhere between 3 and 6am. Now this Rover is very unreliable. He will sit turning it over in vain attempts to start it for anything up to half an hour. At 3am this is far from considerate.

Last week he came out a little later at 7am (fair enough a reasonable time) and tried repeatedly to start it for an hour. In the end he gave up (how he didn't flatten the battery is beyond me) and I haven't actually seen the car since....

One hopes its gone to the local scrap yard because it got to be far from amusing.

Lum

That's a little different. If he's bought an S reg Rover, he probably can't afford much else.

Unlucky that he ended up with a knackered one, but these things happen. He probably doesn't want to be there for an hour at 3AM trying to get the damn thing to run either.

Kilty_2

Lol my car regularly sets it's alarm off when I try to leave for my shift at 4:45AM - are you going to lynch me for that too?

pulliptears

Lum wrote: »

That's a little different. If he's bought an S reg Rover, he probably can't afford much else.

Unlucky that he ended up with a knackered one, but these things happen. He probably doesn't want to be there for an hour at 3AM trying to get the damn thing to run either.

No, and I appreciate that, but god get the damned thing fixed rather than waking up the street lol

adouglasmhor

Kilty wrote: »

Lol my car regularly sets it's alarm off when I try to leave for my shift at 4:45AM - are you going to lynch me for that too?

Yeah it's hilarous being an antisocial criminal. Get it sorted you selfish person.

Norman_Castle

Hazard light = stationary hazard.

Hazard lights = car/van parked in the way, driver aware, but deemed necessary due to very short walk to nearest parking space and thinks hazard lights excuses them.

Lirin

Have to admit, there's a lot of houses around me and I leave very early- I'd normally reverse the car and use street lighting until I've got to the edge of our parking bay (I know all our neighbours, and I'm the only one leaving at this time.) It's a distance of a few feet, and the street lighting is sufficient- I dislike shining my lights into my neighbours bedrooms that early in the morning....

almillar

goodgirl80 - sorry but I don't think you're stable enough to be driving! What happened to indicating and waiting calmly? Next time you should actually time it to see how long it takes. Asking a moving line of traffic to stop for you is unreasonable. There are almost always natural gaps in traffic.

mustrum_ridcully - but you're not thinking this through are you? The people on the inside lane aren't using the zipper system like they're meant to. 'Mr Pushy' is doing it right by flying down the outside lane (the one you should've taken!) and then merging in at the end. If the numpties on the inside lane are using their mirrors and anticipating, there should be no slamming on brakes, that's bad driving, blend in and let people merge.
If everyone approaches this situation thinking 'I'm going to let ONE person from the other lane in get in front' then the system will work and the traffic mightn't even stop.

Hazard lights - 'I'm parked illegally but I think it's OK since I've got my hazards on'!

pulliptears

Lirin wrote: »

Have to admit, there's a lot of houses around me and I leave very early- I'd normally reverse the car and use street lighting until I've got to the edge of our parking bay (I know all our neighbours, and I'm the only one leaving at this time.) It's a distance of a few feet, and the street lighting is sufficient- I dislike shining my lights into my neighbours bedrooms that early in the morning....

A little courtesy goes a long way. Fair enough you come out to your car one morning and have problems starting it, it happens, but when you spend weeks turning the engine over at 3.30am for half an hour until it starts its a bit much and I think any reasonable person would try and get the problem fixed at that point.

The noise is not only irritating but it disturbs my DD in her room at the front as well as half a dozen neighbours who really are not impressed with it. You tend to get into the pattern of waking up at 3 and waiting for the noise, it deprives you of sleep and really isnt very nice at all.

A few years ago when his son lived at home he went out at 3ish in the morning, in winter he would sit in the car defrosting/demisting for up to half an hour, again understandable, but he would do it with his car stereo on at full whack.

This particular neighbour is in an ongoing parking war with the people across the road over who has the right to park right outside their front doors and the pair of them shunt cars around to within millimetres of eachother to try and prove a point so I don't think consideration is at the top of the agenda. Amusing really as both have ample drives and garages at the rear of their properties.

Lum

People who have a usable driveway and don't use it are an annoyance for me too, especially on narrow roads. I don't mind if they're just popping in because they forgot their wallet/fags/child or whatever but for long term or overnight parking it is annoying.

Also if you live on a narrow street and don't park considerately, that is annoying too. Witness my neighbour from my old address:



This street is barely 3 car widths wide. You can just see a car parked at the top of the image. That's my GF's old car and she was less than an inch from the curb as is the other red car on the bottom right of the image. The bloke in the image is the driver, pictured locking his car.