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Bitumen Boy



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:16 pm    Post subject: The bad driving thread... Reply with quote

After what I saw earlier today, I thought it might be fun to have a thread where we could talk about the bad drivers we've seen, after all there are several on every trip!

Today's prime example was on the main A465 heads of the valleys road, on one of the roundabouts. Some idiot in a small modern car (couldn't tell you what, they all look the same to me) had obviously taken the wrong road off the roundabout, and instead of carrying on along that road and finding somewhere safe to turn round they decided to reverse back on to the roundabout Shocked Shocked Shocked and have another go at it. Large roundabout, busy trunk road, middle of the day - they didn't care! Had I come along a couple of seconds later it would have been at best a very near miss indeed.

What beats me is how they keep making driving tests supposedly tougher and tougher to pass, and yet the general standard of driving seems to get worse all the time Confused
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When 'erindoors and I got back to our parked modern the other day, we were surprised to see a recent MG TF parked a few inches from our car's rear corner.

The elderly lady owner hadn't fully applied the handbrake, so it had coasted from its parking spot in a gentle rearwards arc, just missing our car. That could have been an annoying day, as it was no harm done.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If every example of bad driving was written about on a forum the internet would soon be full to capacity.
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Roger-hatchy



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

riley541 wrote:
If every example of bad driving was written about on a forum the internet would soon be full to capacity.



Damn thought I'd got away with it. Laughing


I live on a school run, cul-de-sac bang opposite a school,
I am old age pensioner now so don't have enough time left to just get started about the chelsea tractor school buses.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We do a lot of road trips throughout the U.S and Canada, so inevitably we have become accustomed to the Sunday Morning - Hotel - TV - Religion, shows. The remote button was a little slow one morning and the channel came to rest on one of the aforementioned channels.

"Pray for them" the preacher was yelling, "don't pursue them down the highway, just pray for them"

So I lay there on the bed and listened to what he had to say, it went something like this.

When someone cuts you up, back away, don't rant and rave, flash lights, wave a fist or blow your horn, because it is only you who is getting all heated up. it is only you who is considering using your vehicle as a tool of instruction, it is only you who is now so set on teaching this "jerk" a lesson, that you have abandoned all reason and safe driving.

Just back off and pray for them as they go on their own sweet way, oblivious to the fact that you are about to burst a blood vessel.

You can't re educate them, but you can pray for them, pray that one day they will see the error of their ways.


The preacher man got one convert that morning, and many is the time when my wife and I will say to each other, "Pray for them".
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bang on about the chelsea tractors at school. I sometimes pick up my grand daughter from school and these big 4x4s take up some room. Invariably they are driven by some well endowed blonde who can hardly see over the steering wheel.
Today I came out of the school only to see a bus driver on his moblie while driving Shocked Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed "mobile" Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed
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Bitumen Boy



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterwpg wrote:
We do a lot of road trips throughout the U.S and Canada, so inevitably we have become accustomed to the Sunday Morning - Hotel - TV - Religion, shows. The remote button was a little slow one morning and the channel came to rest on one of the aforementioned channels.

"Pray for them" the preacher was yelling, "don't pursue them down the highway, just pray for them"

So I lay there on the bed and listened to what he had to say, it went something like this.

When someone cuts you up, back away, don't rant and rave, flash lights, wave a fist or blow your horn, because it is only you who is getting all heated up. it is only you who is considering using your vehicle as a tool of instruction, it is only you who is now so set on teaching this "jerk" a lesson, that you have abandoned all reason and safe driving.

Just back off and pray for them as they go on their own sweet way, oblivious to the fact that you are about to burst a blood vessel.

You can't re educate them, but you can pray for them, pray that one day they will see the error of their ways.


The preacher man got one convert that morning, and many is the time when my wife and I will say to each other, "Pray for them".


That's OK, so long as the preacher man didn't get any money out of you!

Yes, I back off - every time someone tailgates me, I back off the throttle a little at a time and go as slowly as I can. Sometimes I even give them a little wave, so as they know exactly what I'm doing. Not recommended for everyone of course, but I'm big enough and look disreputable enough not to get any hassle Cool The only way I'll burst a blood vessel is by laughing too hard at the gestures in the mirror Laughing

I've been doing this for years, and yet I've never had even one twig that if they back off, I'll speed up again, which says a lot.

Mind you, I think a good long blast on the horn is often a good thing, it's not about letting off steam so much as drawing the attention of everyone else on the road to the muppet who's just done something silly. If they're even vaguely aware of what's going on around them, there's half a chance of some reformatory embarassment for them, if not it hasn't cost me anything!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My father used to wave tailgaters over the roof.
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