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[Bitumen Boy]

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 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

[Rick]

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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[Riley Blue]

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

[Roger-hatchy]

[Peter_L]

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".

[clan chieftain]

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
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[clan chieftain]

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[Bitumen Boy]

[Roger-hatchy]

My father used to wave tailgaters over the roof.