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Motorway Madness
rock-on_2
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Finally I have to say something after today's motorway episodes. No way am I anything like a perfect driver but these clowns just make my blood boil. The sooner it's an offence to hog the middle lane, intimidate and drive aggressively or tailgate, the better
To the old bat in the pale blue Nissan Micra:
Use the inside lane,(that's the lane nearest to the side of the road where the grass is), if you can't drive any faster than 50mph when the traffic is freely flowing. Don't sit in the middle lane refusing to move because you're too scared. Better still do us a favour and stay off the motorway, in fact with driving like that stay off the roads.
To the idiots in the white BMW,silver VW and the black Mercedes:
Yes I know you have posh cars but quite frankly I don't care. If you learned to drive it with some consideration for others instead of undertaking, cutting up, and aggressively pushing your way through traffic, somebody may actually think you could be important or famous instead of just complete p****cks. If that's the only way you can impress it isn't working. Grow up
To the stupid woman backing out of a car park space
Why don't you learn to look both ways,it was a one way system, cars coming from your left so why look only to the right? You'd already got a damaged bumper probably through doing the same reverse manoeuvre. Pay attention, look what you're doing.
And finally to White Van Man
Normally aggressive but that's now accepted and ignored, this one was the classic 'I'm in the middle lane, it's my lane and I'm sticking to it' white van man, bald head, paint brush style beard oblivious to anything. Clear road, he's doing 50 mph and no way was he going to budge. Thinks he has some sort of divine right. No you don't you're no more important than anybody else; have at least some consideration, another one who needs to Grow up.
To the old bat in the pale blue Nissan Micra:
Use the inside lane,(that's the lane nearest to the side of the road where the grass is), if you can't drive any faster than 50mph when the traffic is freely flowing. Don't sit in the middle lane refusing to move because you're too scared. Better still do us a favour and stay off the motorway, in fact with driving like that stay off the roads.
To the idiots in the white BMW,silver VW and the black Mercedes:
Yes I know you have posh cars but quite frankly I don't care. If you learned to drive it with some consideration for others instead of undertaking, cutting up, and aggressively pushing your way through traffic, somebody may actually think you could be important or famous instead of just complete p****cks. If that's the only way you can impress it isn't working. Grow up
To the stupid woman backing out of a car park space
Why don't you learn to look both ways,it was a one way system, cars coming from your left so why look only to the right? You'd already got a damaged bumper probably through doing the same reverse manoeuvre. Pay attention, look what you're doing.
And finally to White Van Man
Normally aggressive but that's now accepted and ignored, this one was the classic 'I'm in the middle lane, it's my lane and I'm sticking to it' white van man, bald head, paint brush style beard oblivious to anything. Clear road, he's doing 50 mph and no way was he going to budge. Thinks he has some sort of divine right. No you don't you're no more important than anybody else; have at least some consideration, another one who needs to Grow up.
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Finally I have to say something after today's motorway episodes. No way am I anything like a perfect driver but these clowns just make my blood boil. The sooner it's an offence to hog the middle lane, intimidate and drive aggressively or tailgate, the better
To the old bat in the pale blue Nissan Micra:
Use the inside lane,(that's the lane nearest to the side of the road where the grass is), if you can't drive any faster than 50mph when the traffic is freely flowing. Don't sit in the middle lane refusing to move because you're too scared. Better still do us a favour and stay off the motorway, in fact with driving like that stay off the roads.
To the idiots in the white BMW,silver VW and the black Mercedes:
Yes I know you have posh cars but quite frankly I don't care. If you learned to drive it with some consideration for others instead of undertaking, cutting up, and aggressively pushing your way through traffic, somebody may actually think you could be important or famous instead of just complete p****cks. If that's the only way you can impress it isn't working. Grow up
To the stupid woman backing out of a car park space
Why don't you learn to look both ways,it was a one way system, cars coming from your left so why look only to the right? You'd already got a damaged bumper probably through doing the same reverse manoeuvre. Pay attention, look what you're doing.
And finally to White Van Man
Normally aggressive but that's now accepted and ignored, this one was the classic 'I'm in the middle lane, it's my lane and I'm sticking to it' white van man, bald head, paint brush style beard oblivious to anything. Clear road, he's doing 50 mph and no way was he going to budge. Thinks he has some sort of divine right. No you don't you're no more important than anybody else; have at least some consideration, another one who needs to Grow up.
Are you stressed?
There maybe grass on the central reservation.
Do you mean don't hog the middle lane so that you can do so?
Since if you are in the nearside lane you describe a situation where it is legal to undertake.
You then go on to say drivers are undertaking you .
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Are you stressed?
There maybe grass on the central reservation.
Do you mean don't hog the middle lane so that you can do so?
Since if you are in the nearside lane you describe a situation where it is legal to undertake.
You then go on to say drivers are undertaking you .
:eek:
I think you need to learn to read properly.0 -
If someone can undertake you, you are in the wrong lane.0
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Finally I have to say something after today's motorway episodes.
To the stupid woman backing out of a car park space
Why don't you learn to look both ways,it was a one way system, cars coming from your left so why look only to the right? You'd already got a damaged bumper probably through doing the same reverse manoeuvre. Pay attention, look what you're doing.
They have car parks on motorways? (excepting the M25 during busy periods of course :rotfl:)0 -
If someone can undertake you, you are in the wrong lane.
I don't really agree with this. There's a large section of the M1 near us that has been changed to 50 mph for works. We had cruise control at 50 in the middle lane, comfortably overtaking traffic in the left (Rather busy at the time). Up comes a works lorry who obviously hasn't seen said 50mph signs or the barrage of cones, tailgates us inches from our back, and when a gap comes up, we indicate to move back over, and before we could do, he has whipped out to undertake us, pulling side by side with us before he gets caught there by the traffic. Were we in the wrong lane? It isn't so blanket unfortunately.
There's also the people that sit in the right hand lane doing very high speeds, realise their junction has come up, swerve and dart through the lanes, and of course when they get into the left just before their junction they are undertaking people in the middle due to their speed.0 -
Not a real white van man then ? Musta been a pretend one :rotfl:white van man . . . . . . . he's doing 50 mph0 -
I don't really agree with this. There's a large section of the M1 near us that has been changed to 50 mph for works. We had cruise control at 50 in the middle lane, comfortably overtaking traffic in the left (Rather busy at the time). Up comes a works lorry who obviously hasn't seen said 50mph signs or the barrage of cones, tailgates us inches from our back, and when a gap comes up, we indicate to move back over, and before we could do, he has whipped out to undertake us, pulling side by side with us before he gets caught there by the traffic. Were we in the wrong lane? It isn't so blanket unfortunately.
The classic of being in the middle lane quite reasonably, even though someone could undertake you, is when you are travelling near the prevailing maximum speed with a queue of traffic behind you but only short gaps in traffic moving considerably more slowly than yourself in the inside lane.
It's quite possible for someone to go past you on the inside but, if you pulled in, you would end up waiting indefinitely before you could get back out again.There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0 -
If someone can undertake you, you are in the wrong lane.
I'd amend that to read "If someone can undertake you safely, you are probably in the wrong lane".
There's a big difference between someone driving at 70 down the left lane of a quiet motorway, and simply continuing in this lane to pass an idiot sat in the middle lane, compared to someone weaving in and out of traffic and cutting cars up during busy times of the day.0 -
What's the big deal about undertaking anyway? I don't do it that often but I don't crying when I see someone else do it. They allow it on the Autobahn and you can go hurtling along on there.0
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