What really winds me up...

[LOVEMYTVR]

Driving behind a Volvo this morning along a dual carriageway and he refused to move over to the left hand lane as he was turning right about three miles up the road!!! What is it with people like this - drives me mad -

What really winds you up on the road??

Neal
W9 TVR

[mattjbatch]

Just undertake the moron. If he's indicating right you are allowed to. If he's not then do it anyway and tell the copper that they were obviously turning right just couldn't be arsed use a signal. You're right though. Any fcuker that doesn't know which lane to be in needs a bloody hard slap

[nevpugh308]

I volunteer my services as Chief Slapper ....

(actually, now I've read that again, that comes across wrong .... )

[plotloss]

In the same vain one of the things that winds me up immensely is on single lane carriageways that have a right turn filter lane that is wide enough to fit a car in comfortably but some people insist on justifying themselves with the left hand curb ensuring that no one can get past on their left.

W@nkers

Matt.

[mattjbatch]

Or knobheads that don't say thankyou, or try to fit through the smallest gap forcing me to do an emergency stop (You might not care about your car but please don't crash into me!), or tw@ts that read books whilst driving, or the fog lamp fcukers, or or ...

[M-five]

What gets my goat is when you come to a left-lane filter (i.e. when the left lane has its own turning lane and people coming off the roundabout have their own) on a roundabout at about 40mph and the numpty in front slams on he sees something coming round the roundabout not realising he has a whole bleedin' lane to himself.

[raceboy]

The muppet in Arnold high street this dinner M3 cab, roof down, and sidelights and fog lights on
Oh and anyone who sits in lane 3 when 2, and even 1 are completly empty and then do the coffee bean hand dance at anyone filtering past on the inside

[pbrettle]

What winds me up is the people that join a motorway or dual carriageway (SP?) that dont look. They just want to join at their speed and regardless of what the traffic conditions are on the road they wish to join....

Usually old, or very young, and if they are joining at 50 then stuff the traffic on the inside lane of the m-way. Especially if the m-way is busy and there is no where for them to go.... It is not only dangerous, but simple bad manners.....

Oooo, I could crush a grape.

Cheers,

Paul

[mattjbatch]

quote:...at anyone filtering past on the inside

Is that slang for storming past at 140 two inches from their wing, making them drop their newspaper and spill their coffee?

[Pete_W]

My particular goat is with people who turn out of side roads in front of you causing you to brake hard, only to turn right about 2 car lengths down the road and hold you up.......w@nkers and no mistake

[ap_smith]

Whilst we're slagging lane discipline, what p1sses me off is when numpties enter a double lane roundabout in the right hand lane, but when they exit they slew across the road into the left hand lane.

OI. NUMPTIE. SORT IT OUT

[raceboy]

quote:

quote:...at anyone filtering past on the inside

Is that slang for storming past at 140 two inches from their wing, making them drop their newspaper and spill their coffee?

Best move was on an empty M1 with a numpty happily pootling along at 60ish in the middle lane, woke up by a Griff one side, Chimaera the other

[mattjbatch]

quote:

quote:

quote:...at anyone filtering past on the inside

Is that slang for storming past at 140 two inches from their wing, making them drop their newspaper and spill their coffee?

Best move was on an empty M1 with a numpty happily pootling along at 60ish in the middle lane, woke up by a Griff one side, Chimaera the other

Think I would have paid to see the look on the numpty's face

[JMGS4]

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My particular goat is with people who turn out of side roads in front of you causing you to brake hard, only to turn right about 2 car lengths down the road and hold you up.......w@nkers and no mistake

EXACTLY, had a swiss woman last Saturday do that to me, was driving my BIG SLEDGE, a 2.5 Tonne Dodge Ram truck, 4x4 with 2 tonnes of machinery in the back....and she just pulled out with her OvLov estate with 3 kids.... I managed to miss her only because the turn lane was empty. So I blocked the road and screamed at the bitch from 10m, then got out. by the time I got to her she was shaking and rather apologetic. "I never saw you!", yeah right, 2 tonnes moving at 100kph and bright red!!!!!! Explaining that the kids'd be orphans if she did that with a less aware driver got her really white. I don't think she'll do it again, especially after I showed her the size of my (truck's) front end! 'kin w*nkers

>> Edited by JMGS4 on Monday 22 July 15:24

[JonRB]

quote:people who turn out of side roads in front of you causing you to brake hard

No,no, its people who pull out in front of you, causing you to brake, and then DON'T ACCELERATE!

[silver500chimp]

Those mini roundabouts that keep appearing where crossroads used to be - why can't the numpties apply the same rules as they would on a large roundabout - is it really so hard to work it out just coz it's a smaller roundabout - and when you find yourself approaching the entry at the same time as three other cars everybody just stops to see who will go on first - I hate those, I really hate them.

[MikeyT]

Fired down a slip road yesterday braking for the mini roundabout at the bottom, see a woman kangarooing it up to the r'bout from my right. I brake to a halt – she brakes and then stops and looks thru her bleedin' Coke-bottle bottom glasses at me.

Get on with it!!!!!!!!

[kooperkidd]

How about when there's crossroads which are a bit tricky at rush hour (total of about 2 hours a day), so some tw*t at the council decides to put in a whole traffic light controlled junction, which also operates the other 22 hours a day when the road is quiet.
So at 2am you still have to stop and wait for 5 minutes when there's no other f**ker within miles of you.

[mattjbatch]

Couldn't agree more. Gives you chance to change the CD, scratch your balls, have a Kit Kat without worrying about driving though.

>> Edited by mattjbatch on Monday 22 July 15:56

[Windsorphil]

Two trucks, "duel" carridgeway, one truck travelling at 0.04mph faster than the other, so it's obvious that it's time to overtake...and the whole process takes at least 20 minutes, oh and then there'll be a slight hill which will slow the "fast truck" to 0.04mph slower than the truck on the inside!!!