An elderly

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It's the ones that pull out in front of you when there is nothing behind you that are bell ends. The same people who can't see past their own bonnet.

Robisere

Reading this has only made me agree with Arklight about some elderly motorists. I say 'some' because I am 74 years young myself and I quite often find myself stuck behind such an Oldphart, who may be younger than me, but hey, there are Oldpharts and Oldpharts, it's more a state of mind, y'know?

The difference between my reaction and Arklight's, is that I refuse to get worked up about it. Life is just too short and there are plenty of ways the world can give you stress today, without inviting a heart attack by your own behaviour.

Many years ago, as a workshop foreman, there was a tiny Welsh lady who was one of my favourite customers: funny, jokey, but a very short fuse. She once pulled across and stopped a bus whose driver had pulled out in front of her, without indication, as she pulled out to overtake the bus. She jumped out and harangued the driver for 5 minutes, got back in the car and drove on. I actually witnessed this, as I was in the car: I was taking her home and bringing the car back to carry out a service. I told her to either control her short fuse, or she would possibly shorten her own life. Some months later, she brought the car in for an MOT test and told me that she had fitted something to the dash that helped her control her anger at other drivers.

I cracked up at the device she had fitted. It was a small battery powered box with 4 options: 'machine guns', 'mortars', 'artillery' and 'heavy bombs'. Complete with sound effects: she used it to imagine the destruction of any car whose driver upset her. She was no longer stressed behind the wheel, she reckoned.

Jackmydad

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It's the ones that pull out in front of you when there is nothing behind you that are bell ends. The same people who can't see past their own bonnet.

They are. But something like that happens every time you go out.
The ones that really worry me are the ones like the bloke today. There were about six of us behind a bus on a winding and undulating country road. Everybody was being sensible, apart from the bloke behind me who was twitching in and out, and trying to look around the rest of us. I just said to my wife, something like "Somebody in a big hurry behind with nowhere to go to" and he overtook the lot of us. Blind bend in a dip the lot!
I reckon people like that need their licence removing permanently.