How do you recover?
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I've just had the worst journey to work.
Incident-free, but good gravy, did I drive badly.
One bad decision led to another, and I felt like I was at the mercy of the traffic, rather than being my usual decisive self.
Observation was poor, forward planning non-existent and I made some frankly comical manoeuvres. The worst part was that I was trying hard to shake off this dismal performance. To cap it all off, I got a tutting, headshaking driver in my rearview when I performed the only good piece of driving of the trip, which was to not play the amber gambler at the lights. (I think the car behind me intended to tailgate me through the lights)
What do you do when you find yourself in this Sargasso Sea of poor driving (if, indeed you do)? How do you bring it round?
Incident-free, but good gravy, did I drive badly.
One bad decision led to another, and I felt like I was at the mercy of the traffic, rather than being my usual decisive self.
Observation was poor, forward planning non-existent and I made some frankly comical manoeuvres. The worst part was that I was trying hard to shake off this dismal performance. To cap it all off, I got a tutting, headshaking driver in my rearview when I performed the only good piece of driving of the trip, which was to not play the amber gambler at the lights. (I think the car behind me intended to tailgate me through the lights)
What do you do when you find yourself in this Sargasso Sea of poor driving (if, indeed you do)? How do you bring it round?
Get out in your car again and do it properly. Learn from your mistakes so that you remember not to repeat them again.
I nearly knocked a motorcyclist off once because I though he was going for an overtake and I followed him. He was actually turning right into a side road and I had to slow back down again and get inside of him missing the cars i was meant to be overtaking that had caught me up again on my inside. I learnt a lot that day and I managed to get out of it without hitting the bike or anyone else...
Moral of story, never try and overtake behind a bike....
I nearly knocked a motorcyclist off once because I though he was going for an overtake and I followed him. He was actually turning right into a side road and I had to slow back down again and get inside of him missing the cars i was meant to be overtaking that had caught me up again on my inside. I learnt a lot that day and I managed to get out of it without hitting the bike or anyone else...
Moral of story, never try and overtake behind a bike....
CommanderJameson said:
What do you do when you find yourself in this Sargasso Sea of poor driving (if, indeed you do)? How do you bring it round?
Stop, get off the bike (or out of the car) and have a smoke. I guess if you don't smoke you could do quadratic equations in your head or wander along the side of the road looking to see if there's any interesting junk in the ditch. Basically, I'm completely stopping thinking about driving for a bit and allowing the fog to dissipate.
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