Motorists

That sounds like most of the drivers I've seen in the west end of London, not just ladies! Could the standard of her driving be nothing to do with gender but something associated with the type of car she drives? Some people do associate certain brands of cars with a style or standard of driving but that's another emotive subject....

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Originally posted by Steven Toy:
Lemme guess you'd probably follow him until he eventually gets out of his car 200 miles away because you really are a psychopathic menace to society.

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Time of the month is it?

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Originally posted by jlfrs:
Some people do associate certain brands of cars with a style or standard of driving but that's another emotive subject....

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If a bloke is driving whilst wearing a hat*, then it's Regent Street to a pickled onion they're in a Volvo.

In my experience, of course.

Rod

*baseball caps and chauffeurs excepted

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Its at times like these that I wish I had Mick Parry with me

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Surely not that bad?

I drive at 30mph (in 30 zones) and usually build up quite a queue.
Another good one is going into an area with cars parked maybe both sides but still room for 2 cars the nissan patrol/transit van 2 cars ahead goes through ok but prat(tess) in a nisan micra thingy atos or suchlike jams on the brakes not room for their HUGE car?
Back in the '60s a mate from Horsham used to carry a hammer in his Parka pocket and threaten or plannish the car of any motorist foolish enough to cut him up or look at him "a bit leery".

Howard

[This message was edited by BigH47 on Thu 23 September 2004 at 17:00.]

Indeed.

Ancient Chinese proverb say smaller the car, more room driver needs.



Regards,

Steve.

Sometimes I'm waiting on a fare coming out of a house and parking is limited.

I leave enough space for a vehicle to get through. A big Volvo goes past no problem, followed a few seconds later by an Audi A6, then a Jag.

Just as my fare finally closes his/her front door and walks towards the taxi a Nissan Micra comes along and stops, the driver toots her horn impatiently at me, my fare or both...



Regards,

Steve.

Steve - if you've got a big car you could simply drive over the Micra - problem solved....

On one occasion I got out of my car and aked the lady driver if she'd like me to move her car through the gap for her.

Her response was:

I should report you!



Regards,

Steve.

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Originally posted by Steven Toy:
On one occasion I got out of my car and aked the lady driver if she'd like me to move her car through the gap for her.

Her response was:

I should report you!

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"you really are a psychopathic menace to society."

I suppose she'd have felt better about the situation if I'd just hauled her out of her car and given her a good kicking as you would do.



Regards,

Steve.

Another of my pet hates is motorists who don't indicate, particularly on roundabouts!
Some berk beeped and flashed me the other day because I obviously should have telepathically read his mind.
My real big moan is reserved for lorry drivers who decide to overtake other lorry drivers when both are at their maximum 56mph, going uphill.
This is particularly bad on the A34 and M4 after J8/9.....

What a load of whinging....Just listen to yourselves!

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Pay and display tickets wind me up.. specifically people who don't take them off their windscreen and drive along with a 1ft square patch of them clogging their vision.. I mean it's not exactly difficult is it

Paul, got me thinking......
drivers with stuff dangling from the RVM aahh!
oh and "baby on board" AAAAAHHHH

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The ones that drive very close behind you - is this a reflection on people being in too much of a hurry?

Whatever it is, it is really annoying
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People who drive slowly in front of you and won't get out the way when I am in a hurry!



Regards


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Chaps

I am probably one of those motorists you hate but I could not care at all.

I believe in observing speed limits and each day I drive on the Swindon to Oxford road which has a very high accident rate. As a consequence of this, there is a speed limit of 50 mph.

I therefore drive at precisely 49 mph and position myself near the centre of the road making overtaking impossible. I usually end with a stream of traffic behind me. I therefore enforce the law on potential speeders.

It may irritate them but the law is the law and I help to enforce it.

Regards

Mick

Mick
Doing that sounds dangerous to me. If someone’s being a complete dick I let him or her able to overtake ASAP (if you can be a dick being a her – you know what I mean)
Martin

Martin

They cannot overtake because there is a constant flow of traffic coming the other way.

I have been doing this for 6 weeks and not a single motorist has overtaken me.

Regards

Mick

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IMHO most cyclists I know seem to think they have a God-given right to...run red lights

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it beats me why people always complain about cyclists doing this - I see far more cars running red lights, and I know what scares me more.

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moan about motorists whilst not contributing any money at all to the road network themselves in the form of direct taxes

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another furphy. (1) If you pay tax then you are paying for the PUBLIC roads. (2) even if you decide to ignore (1), many, if not most, (adult) cyclists also drive (3) most roads are maintained by local councils. Do you only drive in your local area, or are you sponging of other's taxes by driving anywhere but your local area?
There is, offically, no such thing as 'road tax'. What it is is a MOTOR vehicle levy - or "car tax" as they now seem to want to call it - and the proceeds go straight into the national coffers, along with the proceeds of many of taxes and levies. Now why exactly should cyclists be paying a car tax or a motor tax. At least it goes some way towards paying for the amount of damage that MOTOR vehicles do to the PUBLIC roads and the environment. As far as I'm aware non motor road users don't cause much, if any, damage to the roads.

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I therefore drive at precisely 49 mph

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Amazing. How do you do this without any scientific instruments to help you?
You do realise that speedos can be out by up to 10% and you could actually be doing anywhere from 44 to 54 mph? Who's to say that the people you're deliberately pissing off don't have more accurate speedos than you?

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Its at times like these that I wish I had Mick Parry with me

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I'm left wondering exactly what you would do with him

As for cyclists, the reason some use pavements is because of the attitudes presented here by those drivers who think they have the god-given right to the road.

As a cyclists and car driver I always try to treat any other road user as I'd expect to be treated myself.

There's very rarely an instance where any cyclist is capable of holding a car driver up for any significant period, it's just that it seems that way to the multitude of incredibly impatient drivers that seem to inhabit our roads these days.

If cyclists felt they would be given wide berths etc. by other vehicles they might occupy less road space, but I make no excuses whatsoever for cycling assertively and even occupying the whole road in slow moving traffic, in order to protect the very vulnerable me!

Andy.

John

I trust my oddmeter.

I am making the roads safer.

Regards

Mick

"I trust my oddmeter"

So do I. And frankly, Mick, whenever I read your posts it swings off the charts.

Matthew