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Post by LandieMark on Jul 18, 2024 21:32:24 GMT
I was in a tractor with loader towing a twin axle bale trailer fully loaded and turning left. While I was turning left, the car that had followed me down the narrow road tried to overtake and go around the front of me as I was pulling out. When he realised that in doing so he was going to go through the wall as I need more than one lane to let the trailer clear the verge on the left, he had a major meltdown. The lengths drivers will go to to get past a tractor never ceases to amaze me.
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Post by Tim on Jul 19, 2024 7:54:21 GMT
The lengths drivers will go to to get past a tractor never ceases to amaze me. Unless its a well-sighted straight in which case at least 50% of drivers now seem content/scared to overtake.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 31, 2024 20:02:33 GMT
A couple of contenders today. First, returning from a visit in Finnieston, I had to sit through four changes of lights at Charing Cross .. .. so, not in the best of temper to start with. Next, they're changed the road layout at Possil Road/Garscube Road crossroads, so the left lane is now dedicated and the right to go straight on or turn right. So far, so fine. Until .. .. the eejit ahead of me in the left lane in a Tiida (stupid name!) decided that to turn left, they had to move over a little bit into the right lane. My lane. Then, a little bit more. Cue angry horn blowing by tours truly, followed by the woman (as it turned out to be) in the Tiida stopped completely and gaped at me in a high degree of consternation!! I don't think she knew why I was so annoyed!
The other was as I was leaving to come home. I turn right from a give way junction onto another road of equal dimension etc, but which is a bus route - hence, so many cars, locals mostly, seem to think allows them to speed down it at 40+ much of the time. Add to the problem of getting out sometimes are the multitude of cars parked right up to the corner of the road, always on 'my' side, making it almost impossible sometimes to see anything that might be coming. As happened tonight, as the female human gargoyle in a (paedo grey, of course) Golf came thundering down the road doing at least 40mph, and as the nose of the car poked out beyond the parked cars into her sightline, slammed her brakes on and missed the front of my (stationary) car by about a foot!! I then received the "stare of death", despite her being clearly in the wrong. Gotta love neanderthal drivers.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 14, 2024 20:55:55 GMT
The orange C Max in Slaley village today. I'm in a tractor with bale trailer and they see me approach and wait for me to pass the parked car on their side. Then they decide they won't wait and come around causing me to slam on.
I was suitable pleased when I held them up for ages coming the other way a few hours later. Karma strikes occasionally.
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Post by rodge on Aug 26, 2024 17:35:06 GMT
So many lately…
Maybe I’ll start with the guy on the electric scooter, flying along the lay by of the motorway I was on this morning while the traffic was doing a good 65mph past him. Or the van driver- his Peugeot Partner looked very clean and undented in grey- I got to admire it while he was stopped in the yellow box blocking me and a load of other traffic from joining the road and turning right. Or maybe mention the local green politicians who have decided to make the last remaining road into Dublin a non private vehicle road from 7-7, only bus lane and bike lanes there now. Or the same politicians who are getting praise for opening up a new train station, one that was built 15 years ago but never opened, and has cost another 3.8 million to clean up, not to mention the genius idea of reducing the only road that services it from a dual carriageway with a bus lane, to a single carriageway with a bus lane, because they haven’t got enough parking for the commuters. They also added in 3 sets of traffic lights in 200 metres to make the already bad congestion a lot worse.
I can’t wait until the green agenda is given the boot.
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 26, 2024 19:07:39 GMT
Almost forgot mine from yesterday. Driving herself's i20 to take the dog to a dog park for some hard but short-time exercise, due to imminent lunch with her cousin and lack of time for her usual 2+-hour walk (the dog, I mean!)
Off round the corner I go, enjoying driving a manual even if it is a teeny wee engine, when a Fiat500 appears to my left obviously planning to exit from the cul-de-sac. Except .. .. she didn't stop! Sharp test of the Hyundai brakes (they work very well, thanks for asking!) and a blast of the horn to make her realise that YES, THERE'S SOMEONE ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY ROAD!!!
Her apology consisted of several flashes of hazard lights then, and again when we got out onto the ring road for some bizarre reason. 20-something female, not even on her phone - that I could see anyway. Just, not paying attention at all to her surroundings. Made me reconsider my moves to return to two wheels for a second or two!!
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Post by Tim on Sept 2, 2024 7:58:42 GMT
I followed a white Audi A3 that had black roundels and blacked out taillights. The taillights were so dark that initially I thought only the high level brake light was working. Presumably if you chav your car up like that you're meant to put brighter bulbs in?
It was being driven in a fairly aggressive manner although when we got onto the M90 near Perth I overtook it easily.
Of course, I got tailgated through Perth but imagine my surprise to see the driver was a 60 something bloke in a white shirt who turned off into Perth prison, I assume he was staff.
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Post by Tim on Sept 26, 2024 13:46:30 GMT
I was out at lunchtime and caught up with a car dawdling along at 40. No problem, if they're happy then crack on. About 3/4 mile after I overtook them the limit drops from 60 to 20 as you pass a school out in the countryside and as the lights were on - it being lunchtime and the little dears in the playground - I duly slowed to that. Unsurprisingly the 40mph dawdler didn't bother their arse and, probably inevitably, glued themselves to my back bumper until the end of the 20 zone at which point I accelerated away and they probably returned to their steady 40.
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Post by Tim on Sept 26, 2024 15:08:20 GMT
Another villain about 5 minutes ago.
The scrapman came to collect the Mighty Kia and as we live on a single track road and he was in a truck that can carry 6 cars he, unsurprisingly, parked his truck on the road. There's no way he could've got it in our driveway.
Naturally enough during the process of loading the Mighty Kia onto the truck (actually at the point of the truckie chaining the car down) the local farm manager appeared with a tractor towing a trailer full of boxes of Emergency Potatoes. He had the sense to actually park in a field entrance but then immediately sounded the horn a number of times following which he got out and stormed the 200yds to the scrap truck to remonstrate loudly and at length with the truckie. We heard him shouting despite them being 75yds away, it being windy and having the windows shut!
I'm sure the truckie was extremely tempted to kick this moany prick in the face (since the truckie was standing on the lower deck it would've been a natural height shot!) but he somehow remained calm and polite whereupon after a couple of minutes of shouting the farm twat stormed off back to his tractor.
When the truck left we then saw what the tractor was pulling and we realised that actually it was clearly Emergency Potatoes that were being transported because, obviously, normal potatoes wouldnt've caused that much farm manager anger!
Really, next time the farm prick drives along slowly in his combine harvester that's too wide for the road and which damages the verge and edge of the road every time I think I'll go out and shout at HIM.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 1, 2024 15:37:44 GMT
Never heard of Emergency Potatoes. I assume they're stored behind break glass.
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Post by Roadrunner on Oct 1, 2024 17:12:15 GMT
Never heard of Emergency Potatoes. I assume they're stored behind break glass. If the guy on the harvester is waiting in the field for you to unload and return, then it is a state of emergency, especially if lots of rain is forecast in the near future. Doesn't excuse the bad manners, though.
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Post by Tim on Oct 2, 2024 8:11:27 GMT
The farmer was waiting for 2 or 3 minutes and they have a shuttle system with their trailers so there was no stationary machinery in the field.
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Post by johnc on Oct 11, 2024 8:12:09 GMT
Idiot on a bike last night. It was 8 o'clock and dark as I waited to turn right into the supermarket. 3 or 4 cars were coming towards me so I waited for them to pass and then started to turn right. Just as I did so a moron on a bike appeared from behind the cars, dressed in black with no lights on. I hit the brakes, he stuck two fingers up at me and thankfully that was the end of it. How the hell are motorists supposed to deal with shit like this when we are assumed to be guilty in circumstances where a cyclist is hit? No doubt if he was still alive he would say his lights were on!!!
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