What winds you up most when you're driving?
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I don't mind proper bikers doing it. But pansies on Vespas doing it annoys me because they take so long to set off, and then they only go 30
Soldato
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When I'm out on my bike on the way home from college, I go up this busy road, and there are 2 big car parks on the left that belong to Morrisons. I hate it when the person pulls out onto the road when the person turns left in front of me to get in the car park... The person who pulls out are never quick about it, they just take their time! Also also cars on a round about, not sticking to their side of the roundabout, pee's me right off!
morons that drive in the wrong lane....
People always in the "over taking" lane
The one grumpy git who moves his stationary car in traffic in a bid to prevent bike filtering. Get over it - its legal and im not obliged to sit in YOUR traffic while im not in the car.
The petrol light
Generally a very laid back driver, dont hate on learners and give way folks
The one grumpy git who moves his stationary car in traffic in a bid to prevent bike filtering. Get over it - its legal and im not obliged to sit in YOUR traffic while im not in the car.
The petrol light
Generally a very laid back driver, dont hate on learners and give way folks
Caporegime
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I hate it when people tailgate me. On dual carriageways I normally stick to the inside lane and keep it at about 65-70, yet a lot of the time some ******** will come up behind me right on my bumper and just sit there, so I either have to put my foot down or gradually slow a little so he goes into the other lane and overtakes.
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Which do you want? No stock in the shops and towns that are free of HGV's? or stock in the shops and a few trucks to allow for? - You can't have it both ways.
That'll be due to the number of numptys who've lost it on that sharp bend near the fish farm.
Its NSL a tad further up, past the bends & junctions......
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So this is my new infuration.
A roundabout I take most days, my path around is marked in blue. Pretty much without fail, there will be somebody on the inside who wants to take the motorway exit and comes damn near to side swiping my car (in the red circle). Today though was even better, some dick in an A4 decided to give me a blast of horn and I wasn't even blocking his exit at the time.
Maybe I'm in the wrong but it's simply following the road markings?
A roundabout I take most days, my path around is marked in blue. Pretty much without fail, there will be somebody on the inside who wants to take the motorway exit and comes damn near to side swiping my car (in the red circle). Today though was even better, some dick in an A4 decided to give me a blast of horn and I wasn't even blocking his exit at the time.
Maybe I'm in the wrong but it's simply following the road markings?
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No need to be so defensive. I fully understand the reasons and need for them to be there. That doesn't mean it's not as irritating as hell sitting behind one trundling around the one way system taking up both lanes while negotiating tight turns.
This is the "what winds you up most when you're driving thread", I think it's a given that its going to be full of vented frustrations rather than legitimate criticisms
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Me Too!
The "Self assigned motorway lane policing team" morons.
You know the type - he will indicate from left hand lane, pause briefly 2 inches from you tailgate, flash his lights, move on to right hand lane, speed up, take you over and then immediately dive back across all lanes back to the left hand lane, missing nose of your car by a foot just to immediately slow down below your speed. This is to show you "you are middle lane hogger". Look moron, this is A2, not M2, the reason we are all in the middle lane is because we are heading towards Dover, not Dartford, if we were all in inside lane, in few hundred yards we would find ourselves in a wrong lane and with need to suddenly pull out to avoid long chains of stationary HGVs stuck on a ramp approach for traffic going north. But why don't I let you discover it yourself, just wait 200 yards... 150... I bet you wish you were in middle lane now... 100, no, that indicator won't tardis you to Essex, mind that truck with forklift strapped to the back... 50... WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
The "I don't know when rush hour is" brigade
Over the last 12 months I observe wave of motorists completely lost in time and space without any understanding of why traffic happens when it happens. Chains of tractors pulling field plowing equipment at 30mph between M25 and A2 at 18:30 on Friday afternoon. Road workers coning off lanes of half the motorway at 18:00 for roadworks that start at 00:00. One lane of two lane A roads coned off because "maintenance" crew has to cut branches of trees 100 yards to the left and they won't park on green verge and must stop their motorcade of 20 contractor 4x4 vehicles across one lane and the branches/grass/hedges ABSO****ingLUTELY must be trimmed in the middle of rush hour on Monday. Countless driver school cars with learner drivers doing bunny hop first step driving in stationary traffic in London at 10:00am. Tesco Home Delivery and Ocado vans unloading bags while blocking lanes of double red routes all around London at 9:30am. People, it's rush hour traffic. You don't need to be there. Would you just please exercise some common sense and stay home/on the field/in shop for half an hour or an hour longer and let people commute without you serving as obstructions.
Talking about delivery drivers and couriers stopping on red routes and no stopping zones. Look, it's already pain in the bottom and you already break regulations - why not go one step further - park with one wheel or fully on the pavement if size allow it and let the traffic flow.
These guys:
You have suicidal tendencies for the sake of saving 1 minute off your bike journey at lights, no one gives a toss, but the other guy - he will have to live with it - your stupidity affects others.
You know the type - he will indicate from left hand lane, pause briefly 2 inches from you tailgate, flash his lights, move on to right hand lane, speed up, take you over and then immediately dive back across all lanes back to the left hand lane, missing nose of your car by a foot just to immediately slow down below your speed. This is to show you "you are middle lane hogger". Look moron, this is A2, not M2, the reason we are all in the middle lane is because we are heading towards Dover, not Dartford, if we were all in inside lane, in few hundred yards we would find ourselves in a wrong lane and with need to suddenly pull out to avoid long chains of stationary HGVs stuck on a ramp approach for traffic going north. But why don't I let you discover it yourself, just wait 200 yards... 150... I bet you wish you were in middle lane now... 100, no, that indicator won't tardis you to Essex, mind that truck with forklift strapped to the back... 50... WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
The "I don't know when rush hour is" brigade
Over the last 12 months I observe wave of motorists completely lost in time and space without any understanding of why traffic happens when it happens. Chains of tractors pulling field plowing equipment at 30mph between M25 and A2 at 18:30 on Friday afternoon. Road workers coning off lanes of half the motorway at 18:00 for roadworks that start at 00:00. One lane of two lane A roads coned off because "maintenance" crew has to cut branches of trees 100 yards to the left and they won't park on green verge and must stop their motorcade of 20 contractor 4x4 vehicles across one lane and the branches/grass/hedges ABSO****ingLUTELY must be trimmed in the middle of rush hour on Monday. Countless driver school cars with learner drivers doing bunny hop first step driving in stationary traffic in London at 10:00am. Tesco Home Delivery and Ocado vans unloading bags while blocking lanes of double red routes all around London at 9:30am. People, it's rush hour traffic. You don't need to be there. Would you just please exercise some common sense and stay home/on the field/in shop for half an hour or an hour longer and let people commute without you serving as obstructions.
Talking about delivery drivers and couriers stopping on red routes and no stopping zones. Look, it's already pain in the bottom and you already break regulations - why not go one step further - park with one wheel or fully on the pavement if size allow it and let the traffic flow.
These guys:
You have suicidal tendencies for the sake of saving 1 minute off your bike journey at lights, no one gives a toss, but the other guy - he will have to live with it - your stupidity affects others.
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No need to be so defensive. I fully understand the reasons and need for them to be there. That doesn't mean it's not as irritating as hell sitting behind one trundling around the one way system taking up both lanes while negotiating tight turns.
This is the "what winds you up most when you're driving thread", I think it's a given that its going to be full of vented frustrations rather than legitimate criticisms
Just trying to educate the people I often enrage.
- Dartford is a pig of a place to drive an Artic around, I grant you.Just trying to educate the people I often enrage.
Have you tried Gravesend? I live there at the moment. And unfortunately, just down the road from where I live is a small industrial area. Every morning as I pull out from our flat, I get caught behind either a coach of a lorry which is also heading toward the A2 - which means going around the one way system. At a snails pace. Hence my rage
Women who have no awareness of space. Weekly I'll get shouted at by a woman because I'm apparently blocking the road with my van. I've moved over as far as possible and stopped somewhere where I know you can get a large vehicle through but oh no, they'll sit there and beep there horn instead of just going through and then get angry with me.
The best one was some woman stating I had no right to be on her "private road". She quickly scurried away when I challenged her about upkeep costs, the lack of signage and the fact it was quite clearly a very public road.
The best one was some woman stating I had no right to be on her "private road". She quickly scurried away when I challenged her about upkeep costs, the lack of signage and the fact it was quite clearly a very public road.