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Posted Jul 17, 2003 by Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry!
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People who tailgate you for doing 30mph in a 30mph zone. Look, sitting up my a*** is NOT going to make me drive any faster. Deal with it!
People who overtake in stupid places (on an uphill road/blind bend/ busy main road). Just because you want to kill yourself trying to get somewhere 30 seconds early, doesn't mean you have to try and take me out as well.
People who NEVER look before pulling out of junctions (often while not indicating) and then have the temerity to give you a dirty look for blasting the horn and giving vigorous hand signals.
People who do the above and then pootle along. If you're going to pull out without looking, at least hurry up out of my way!!
Max-Power boys in souped up Escorts and Novas with BOOM BOOM BOOM always blasting out of their stereos. If you'd saved all the money you spent on crap body kits, daft paint jobs and stereo equipment, you could buy yourself a proper car. And it might be a bit faster as the larger engine wouldn't struggle to supply the power to the sub AND drive the car at the same time.
Ahhhhhh......I feel so much better now.
Thank you!
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| | | Subject: General driving complaints
Posted Jul 18, 2003 by Beklet
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Agree with the BMW/Merc/Taxi driver thing. Audi drivers are getting there,though.
Innits in hot hatches with ironing boards on the back. It is a shopping car. It will always be a shopping car. It may be fast off the lights, but your poxy 1.2 engine bottoms out at 65mph.
Leeds drivers. Last time I went to Leeds, they had this curious habit of driving away from the lights/roundabout at 2mph. As if only one car was allowed at a time. This is something also curious to Ford Focus drivers. Leeds drivers also think permanent full beam is the thing to do.
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| | | Subject: General driving complaints
Posted Jul 18, 2003 by PQ - possibly back
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| | On a similar note f***wits who drive through the 40mph zones of the new forest at 50, 60 and even 70 mph. The reason you drive over that cattle grid is because horses, deer and cows are all roaming freely in this area...possibly just around that corner you're approaching at 65mph while changing your cd and fiddling with the sunroof.
The people who drive at 60mph in the middle lane of the motorway - who then *stay* in the fast lane when the motorway ends and it goes down to 2 lanes...
and caravans
and tourists who block my drive home every friday night during the summer
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| | | Subject: General driving complaints
Posted Jul 18, 2003 by The_Jon_m - Young, Educated and proud to be so. Bluesman of the Parish - Forgot about Dre
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| | People who drive with mobiles then nearly run me over (while I'm on a bike), then protest that they really are concentrating asI recover form a near death experience.
Bus drivers who ignore red lights
Cyclists who ignore all forms of traffic control
People in Rusholme, Manchester driving Hondas with body kits and blacked out windows, crsuing about, cutting people up, car is probably insured under a uncle's name
Woman in Rusholme, Manchester who's hubands know they can't drive well so bought them Mercedes so they can confiantly pull out at blind juntions, out of parking places and various other extreame manouvers without thinking becasue they know no matter what they hit be it cylcist, mother with pram, another car or a double decker bus, they'll come off better (and hubby is paying the insurance)
All people who drive without insurance
People who drive with foglights at night, especially with 10 rally hi-intensity fog lights and headlights, spotlights etc.
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| | | Subject: General driving complaints
Posted Jul 18, 2003 by Ewen
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| | Yeah? Think about this: what if we all queued, single file for a lane restriction 1 mile on? Result? 1 mile queue, maybe way past the previous junction. Now, what if we queued two or three abreast? Result? A queue two or three times shorter. Now who's the twit?
That was what tw*t stood for, wasn't it?
Biggest gripe: people who complain when they hog the outside lane at sixty and I go past them on the inside, in a totally empty lane. 
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| | | Subject: General driving complaints
Posted Jul 18, 2003 by Synthetic Jesso (I'm not real)
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| | "Think about this: what if we all queued, single file for a lane restriction 1 mile on? Result? 1 mile queue, maybe way past the previous junction. Now, what if we queued two or three abreast? Result? A queue two or three times shorter."
No, the queue may be shorter in length, but it also moves slower. If people would get over themselves and just get out of the lane that's closing, then people wouldn't have to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting the people forcing their way into the still-open lane. If people would just get out of the closing lane when they see it's closing, instead of waiting for the last minute, the flow of traffic would be so much smoother.
Keep in mind that this is the cause of most of the traffic around here (Texas), so I'm rather bitter about it. If those and "rubber-necking" was eliminated, then there would be so little traffic, and I just don't understand why people insist on doing such silly things.
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