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Post by Martin on Mar 18, 2019 18:03:31 GMT
Not stolen but she ran off? That raises a few questions about why. On/dealing drugs and/or carrying the stash. Quite possibly, she looked in a panic, as you’d expect from a crash but she had no concern at all for the driver. Hopefully I’ll find out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 18:04:45 GMT
Shagging the driver when married to someone else?
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Post by Martin on Mar 18, 2019 18:08:25 GMT
Shagging the driver when married to someone else? Endless possibilities!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 19, 2019 8:58:44 GMT
Utter fucking tosser in a red Golf GTD racing through our village. Twice he came close to me - waaaayyy too close and at some speed - once as I was turning round ready park on oyr drive and again a couple of minutes later as I was almost fully onto the drive. Our drive is on a pretty busy road with very limited view. It's supposedly a 30 limit. I have his number and this fucknugget will be getting a visit.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 19, 2019 9:00:28 GMT
Oh and same evening, whilst out for a run later, ANOTHER car fails to stop at the zebra crossing. It's almost pointless the crossing being there sometimes, so often is it ignored.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 9:13:17 GMT
Pretty much any road crossing is like that. Not a crossing in the official sense but a place where people do cross the road here is a mini roundabout. During peak times it is a right mare with drivers giving no space whatsoever so we have to wait for a driver to allow us to cross, with no crossing anywhere near there is not a lot of choice but at the mini roundabout people are at least slowed down anyway. Several times I have got a driver that stopped only to be nearly taken out by a fuckwit on the other entry wanting to drive right through me. I ended up sitting on the bonnet of one,screaming at me to fuck off out of the way. I should have gone to the boys and girls in blue but they do not have time for this sort of thing, well not until someone ends up brown bread.
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Post by Martin on Mar 19, 2019 9:15:37 GMT
Utter fucking tosser in a red Golf GTD racing through our village. Twice he came close to me - waaaayyy too close and at some speed - once as I was turning round ready park on oyr drive and again a couple of minutes later as I was almost fully onto the drive. Our drive is on a pretty busy road with very limited view. It's supposedly a 30 limit. I have his number and this fucknugget will be getting a visit. Excellent!! (The visit, not the behaviour)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 14:30:42 GMT
There's a push to cross crossing near where I live. It used to go red as soon as you pushed the button but has been reprogrammed so it only makes the lights go red when there are no vehicles approaching. I assume this has been done at the request of the owner of the house it's right next to but it's now fucking pointless. I don't need a pedestrian crossing if I have to wait until there's nothing coming before I can cross the road!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 22, 2019 9:11:38 GMT
There's a push to cross crossing near where I live. It used to go red as soon as you pushed the button but has been reprogrammed so it only makes the lights go red when there are no vehicles approaching. I assume this has been done at the request of the owner of the house it's right next to but it's now fucking pointless. I don't need a pedestrian crossing if I have to wait until there's nothing coming before I can cross the road! I do wonder about the logic of these sometimes. What is the point? In our local town there are several sets of lights with Pelican or Puffin crossings and they put a pedestrian phase in the lights even when nobody is there to have pressed the button. This leaves the traffic all sat still, waiting for the non-existant pedestrians to cross. Utterly pointless.
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Post by Tim on Mar 26, 2019 9:39:59 GMT
Some food delivery van going down the M74 near Lockerbie in lane 3 at 65mph in the early afternoon last Thursday. Despite the road being very quiet he had no intention of pulling across to the empty lanes beside him and appeared oblivious to the cars passing on his left.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 27, 2019 20:28:31 GMT
What kind of twat brings everyone to a harsh stop on a long straight NSL road to let out a HGV? Idiots. The braking was pretty hard by the time it got to me, at the back of the line. I'd have anticipated it better if the tool responsible hadn't done it so last minute.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 7:02:25 GMT
Young nobber in a 1.4l Peugeot hatch, barging into a single lane exit from a roundabout alongside two cars that were in the correct lane to take it. Was still alongside one of them after a good few yards, from what I could see. Why are some people such cunts?
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Post by Tim on Apr 1, 2019 8:54:24 GMT
An optimistic bint this morning who drove onto a single lane bridge with a curving approach that makes it blind while driving at a speed that indicated she expected nobody to be coming the other way.
I hope the heavy contact she made with the kerb when she stood on the brakes when she spotted me already on the bridge has knocked the tracking out significantly.
Her reversing skills didn't appear to match the high speed she'd come onto the bridge at but at least she smiled when I went past.
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Post by Tim on Apr 2, 2019 8:23:40 GMT
Every night I'm in a fairly short (maybe 5 or 600 yards) queue at the various traffic lights heading East along the front in Dundee, approaching the Tay Bridge. And every night I see several people in the wrong lane, i.e. not lane 3 which is the one for the Bridge, who want to move across but they just sit there and then gradually edge forward while completely failing to push that small lever to the left of their steering wheel in an upward direction.
They're clearly using ESP to try to inform other road users of their desire to change lanes but either I'm not receptive or the tinfoil hat I wear nowadays is working to its full capacity.
Why is the indicator such a difficult concept?
In addition I see a lot of people who, having come down from the middle of town, want to head West along the waterfront and thus take the first right turn near the V&A. A surprising number of them go almost to the lights before getting into lane 3 and then sweeping right, what happened to joining a queue?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 10:38:59 GMT
Some people are just far too important to do something as menial as queuing.
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Post by Martin on Apr 2, 2019 10:59:06 GMT
Apparently I was this morning going by the hand waving. I was following 2 cars on a twisty bit of B road, then it opened up to a nice long straight and I thought I was being kind by giving the newish Cashcow in front of me the opportunity to overtake. As it’s my favourite road, I was in the Golf and he clearly wanted to make decent progress, I didn’t want to get stuck behind him so gave it full throttle when he pulled over and went past. He kept accelerating, which didn’t cause me an issue getting past but did mean I ended up going more quickly than I wanted to. I got some gesticulation followed by him staying really close, presumably to demonstrate that he wouldn’t have held me up. That continued through a 40mph zone, but fortunately the next bit of road is NSL and has some great corners, so I was able to easily show him that he would have held me up.
The B645 from Higham to St Neots via Kimbolton is the main reason why I usually take the Golf when I’m visiting Enfield, it’s 15 miles of fun.
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Post by Alex on Apr 2, 2019 11:43:08 GMT
Hooligan!
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Post by Martin on Apr 2, 2019 11:45:53 GMT
Apparently!
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Post by scouse on Apr 3, 2019 12:48:05 GMT
Awkward sod. Saw me coming, had three cars behind him and still decided to block the road.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 5, 2019 7:14:44 GMT
Short but frustrating drive back from town yesterday. It's about 8 miles and I suspected, from 4 cars back, which one was going to be a pain in the arse very early on. I wasn't wrong. Bloke in a Vito van, whose speed kept varying between the speed limit and 5 or 6 miles per hour below it, sometimes lower than that, constantly. 35 in the 40, 44 to about 48 in the 50, etc. He would just get up to the speed limit and then slow again and this went on for about 6 miles. At one point we passed a camera van in the 50 and he dropped to 43. "Just in case". I finally managed to pass the van in front of me, who had also kept getting up to it's bumper and braking, then the Vito, about a mile from home.
Mrs R told me after that she too had seen the camera van on her way home from work. It was just past a junction that she emerged from, behind some nob head who, on turning left and seeing the van, apparently managed to get to 20mph and then braked hard, coming almost to a complete standstill in front of Mrs R. The speed limit was 50.
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Post by Tim on Apr 5, 2019 8:19:13 GMT
One of the villages on my commute - Dairsie for those that know it - is currently festooned with bright yellow 'Police No Parking' cones. On the way home last night and the way in this morning it was apparent that this official instruction doesn't apply if you drive a Nissan Figaro.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 5, 2019 8:25:49 GMT
One of the villages on my commute - Dairsie for those that know it - is currently festooned with bright yellow 'Police No Parking' cones. On the way home last night and the way in this morning it was apparent that this official instruction doesn't apply if you drive a Nissan Figaro. Tow away....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 14:58:44 GMT
...and crush. Definitely crush it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 15:57:35 GMT
Van-driving imbecile who was approaching a junction so fast that he almost didn't manage to stop. Quick blast of horn, after which he eventually caught me, started to tailgate and then realised he was going the wrong way. Cue pulling into bus lane and doing a three point turn on a busy A-road.
That's the sound of one hand clapping you hear, there...
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 11, 2019 8:22:18 GMT
Why are other drivers getting so slow? Getting anywhere at the moment seems a massive chore due to other drivers seemingly being insistent on going everywhere at 45mph. Except in a 30 where they still want to do 45. Quite happy to get a trundle on then. Even the normally very restrained Mrs R lost her rag with someone a couple of days ago as he was doing 30 ish in the 50 on her way home.
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Post by Alex on Apr 11, 2019 18:20:42 GMT
Why are other drivers getting so slow? Getting anywhere at the moment seems a massive chore due to other drivers seemingly being insistent on going everywhere at 45mph. Except in a 30 where they still want to do 45. Quite happy to get a trundle on then. Even the normally very restrained Mrs R lost her rag with someone a couple of days ago as he was doing 30 ish in the 50 on her way home. I followed one doing 35 in a 50 yesterday who slowed down to 30 for a speed camera which was sited right after a big sign that said 50 🤬
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Post by Alex on Apr 11, 2019 18:24:35 GMT
My wife almost totalled my car yesterday when she started round a roundabout at which point a black Corsa come shooting up to the roundabout from her left and shot on to it without even attempting to brake. Luckily there was no one following her as they’d have certainly rear ended her following her emergency stop. Little shit in the Corsa then proceeds to give my wife the wanker sign with his fist. He’s lucky I wasn’t in the car!
What annoys me most is the he clearly thought he was too good to give priority to other drivers and whilst he got lucky this time one day soon he could seriously hurt another driver.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 18:41:04 GMT
Giving way to those who have right of way is a bit like red lights lately, more and more people just do not give a toss.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 18:49:14 GMT
I went to our local chip shop the other night and at two of the three roundabouts I need to navigate over to get there someone pulled straight out in front of me...
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Post by Martin on Apr 11, 2019 18:56:39 GMT
I went to our local chip shop the other night and at two of the three roundabouts I need to navigate over to get there someone pulled straight out in front of me... That reminds me...My local chip shop delivers, for free if you spend £10 and it arrives hotter than if you collect. Partly because the only way I’d ever consider bringing them home is with all 4 windows down. I’d not bought any since we sold the Boxster (roof and windows down was perfect) so was really pleased to discover the delivery service!
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