Most hated driving behaviour of other motorists?

scheming_gypsy

Liverbird wrote:

Seen something that really made my blood boil yesterday. Walking back to our car after shopping in a local market, saw a mini metro car parked up, in the back was three adults, two small toddlers and two of the adults were holding babies, there was another lady in the front and a boy of about 8 sitting in the drivers seat playing with the steering wheel. So, with the driver that made 10 people!!!! I looked around in vain, for a policeman or traffic warden.....of course when you want one they are as hard to find as hens teeth. With hindsight, I should have taken the reg and called the police. Things like this make me so angry!

so you get angry about the fact that a parked car had 9 people in and you should have phoned the plod about a parked car having people in? don't they have better things to do that have people like you wasting their time.
Maybe the driver was in the back chatting and maybe they weren't going to drive with 9 people in.

Liverbird

I can understand your point of view.... but highly unlikely the driver was in the back chatting.....they were stuffed in there like battery hens. This is on a really hot, sunny afternoon....in a mini metro. Maybe if I had informed a policeman, he could have kept a discreet eye on them. My intentions were honourable....my mind went back to that horrific crash in Oxford a couple of weeks ago, when several people were killed due to a stupid woman overcrowding her car.

Norma_Desmond

I HATE boy racers! Noisy, inconsiderate, dangerous baseball-capped little tw*ts the lot of them! :mad:

CrazyChemist_2

When these people get killed in so-called "tragic" car "accidents", I certainly have NO sympathy for them at all. Serves them right. :mad: Everyone should do an advanced course with the IAM as it is so useful and really shows how inadequate the initial test is! :eek:

I was harrassed by two boy racers doing over 100mph on the M4 last night, but it all stopped when a Police Patrol Car turned up I reckon they were monitored from the control centre through the camera network on the motorways :rolleyes:

More traffic police needed, I say. Speed cameras wouldn't have detected them because they kept slowing down every time they approached one. Furthermore, even if they were flashed by a camera, there is nothing the law could do if they weren't licenced/taxed/insured properly. Speed cameras only enforce the law against law-abiding citizens and raise cash to wage war on oil-rich nations. :mad:

Norma_Desmond

I agree CrazyChemist; in the last couple of months 4 'yoofs' have been killed in this area in 2 seperate 'accidents'. I'm just glad they didn't kill another innocent motorist or pedestrian. I've got no sympathy whatsoever for these inarticulate little morons who use the tiny roads and lanes around here as race tracks. Oh and the next time a car-full of these idiots decides to rev their stupid souped-up engine under my bedroom window at 2.30 in the morning, I'm going to put their headlights in with a snooker cue!

Murphy_The_Cat

Blimey CrazyChemist, i can't believe that someone could get so upset about 5w brakelights supposedlly dazzling someone and vausing danger on the roads - i had never thought of that myself so I have taken my brake lights out to make sure that I don't dazzle anyone again !

If this is what brake lights do to some drivers (blessem), do 21w fog lights have them frothing at the mouth, disembowelling themselves on the hard shoulder, writing to their MP or just make sure that they have a double strength cocoa before going to bed with a teddy bear at 9.00 (before the nasty programmes with naughty words start).

I have had the pleasure (seriously it was a nice journey) of a 600 mile trip this weekend to see my in laws in southland this weekend and I think i have seen an instance of every moan that appers on this thread even shock horror someone not applying their handbrake at a junction - but thankfully no accidents. Plus it was a nice relaxing round trip (except for the repeated panic breaking and bunching whenever a tax gathering camera was spotted by the side of the A1/A14).

My point here is that the trivial is getting mixed up with the serious, for goodness sake is the next trivial post going to be on the lines of ' i saw someone obviously coasting to a stop at a junction the other day and it was plain that they had not double declutched and gone down the gearbox like I was taught in the 1930's.

CrazyChemist I hope you can see the humourous aspects in my post and that they give you a (reluctant) smile - i really do.

If you feel unable to do so, may I suggest that you .................................

MTC

p.s you don't have a beard and wear a hat while driving do you ? if so I can understand how the rigours if driving in 2005 are difficult for you.:D

Wig

Murphy,

Brake lights are 10W (and that is the ones who haven't upgraded their brake lights to 21W!), and it is annoying at night when the #$&*#wit infront has his/her foot on the brake. I drop the sunvisor and sit upright so the lights are blocked out, I can't see the traffic light change but no worries I just wait until that red glare (which is mysteriously filling the inside of my car) dissappears then up with the sunvisor and move on. Although this time if I'm still behind this !@#$wit at the next lights, I'll leave 2 -3m between us and put my main beams on. Afterall if they are so kind as to give me shed loads of light I'll return the complement.

daveboy

Boy-racers - come to the Tachbrook Park Drive retail area in Leamington Spa just before midnight and I'll show you a bunch of tw*t boy racers!!!

With reference to the hand-brake, it should always be applied when stopped for longer than, I'd say, five or six seconds. Mainly because you never know if something may run into the back of you, forcing you out into oncoming traffic.

I slip into the habit occasionally of footbraking it, but using the handbrake is better as you can prepare the car ready for pulling away.

One of the main things that annoys me is when driving between Coventry and Leicester on the M69.

When I'm doing 100mph, I don't appreciate someone overtaking me!

scheming_gypsy

Murphy_The_Cat wrote:

If you feel unable to do so, may I suggest that you .................................
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far too many dots left to spell out 'jog on'

pinkfluffybabe

Its like everything else, if they want people to take advanced lessons and become better drivers, it has to be made more affordable.