Signs that there is a woman driver near you

Scenario 3: You are in a carpark (1 of 2).

You are walking from your car to the supermarket. Near the end of the row of cars you are walking along you hear a bootlid slam nearly hard enough to smash the glass out of it. The engine starts. The revs soar to 4000rpm and the car creeps out the space. You see the steering wheel being fed up and down up and down, but not enough or fast enough to steer the car clear of the parking space. The revs drop. There is an awful grating sound and a crunch as reverse gear is selected and the revs head skyward. The car creeps backward until it just brushes the bumper of the car next to it, leaving some scuff marks on both cars. First gear, 5000rpm, feeding steering wheel, slight smell of burning clutch, the car pulls away.
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This is SO SO SOOOOOOOOO true! Lmao! Specially the slamming-down-the-hatch bit. Ive seen small cars shake as it slams down.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Perfect timing!

There a girl at work who leases her car (white Corsa - ugh) through the work scheme. She has had it about 6 months and has crashed it at least once a month since then. Some are relatively small bangs into gateposts or whatever, or the pillars in the underground car park when she's trying to park with Britney banging out of the stereo and signing along, but she's also had some more serious knocks, crashing into other people or being crashed into. Some of it isn't her fault (she's had people go into the back of her when she's been braking to let people out at junctions and the like) but you still wonder how she manages to crash so often.

This morning she was reversing out of a parking space at the flats where she lives - a disabled space as well, tut tut, so you could say the following is karma. As she was reversing, the car was complaining that the passenger door was open; apparently her boyfriend, who she'd picked up drunk at stupid o clock in the morning hadn't closed it properly. So she leans over to pull the door shut as she's still reversing. BANG - the door shuts... right at the same time as she makes her first impact on the side of the Audi R8 parked behind her. She pulls forward without even realising she's hit it. She reverses again and hits it again, just as her friend comes running out of the flat waving his arms to tell her about the first impact.

Apparently, the car belongs to some Bolton football player - he's like 3rd reserve goalie or something.

Her boyfriend is paying her excess because she can't afford it. She's yet to call the work insurance because she's so ashamed - the guy who does the car pickups knows her by name, he's seen her that often. The footballer has asked her to go up to his flat this evening to exchange details.

First thing I asked her when she was done telling the story was whether it was the V8 or V10. Tactful?
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The thing that gets me with those "ditzy" (read: moron) girls (everyone knows the type I'm talking about), is that if there was no one else around to witness her hitting the car and she thought she would get away with it, she would have just driven off leaving the other person's car needing £thousands of work on it. Then if by some grace someone had witnessed it and got her registration number, you would spend the next 6 months arguing with her insurance company because she has denied liability because her moron boyfriend/dad had told her to not admit it.

Does it come across that i really hate these ditzy, "i should be treated like a princess because Christina Aguilera said so" and "i have my daddy wrapped around my little finger" types? :mad:
 
I've never seen a woman driver.

Plenty of female drivers, but never a woman driver. How do you drive a woman? It doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I know what people mean, but the blatant wrongness of using 'woman' as an adjective grates on me.

Is this an April Fools thread? Anyone who actually believes ~50% of the adult population is incompetent to drive because of their sex is indeed a fool.
 
Angilion said:
I've never seen a woman driver.

Plenty of female drivers, but never a woman driver. How do you drive a woman? It doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I know what people mean, but the blatant wrongness of using 'woman' as an adjective grates on me.

Is this an April Fools thread? Anyone who actually believes ~50% of the adult population is incompetent to drive because of their sex is indeed a fool.
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I honestly don't think anyone in this thread thinks ALL female drivers are bad drivers.
 
In my experiance any near death experiance on the motorbike has been a result of women, either young or old.
example 1: coming along a road to becon, goes from 60 -40, has a left hand turn lane into a junction. The junction is left turn only because of the round about some 300 meters down the road. Man in landover sees me coming and stops in left hand junction, girl in mx-5 decides to ignore the rules of the road and tries to go right but the exit is blocked by the landrover, Que me going for a flying lesson over the bonnet and smashing my man hood against the fuel tank and amazingly she still claimed it was my fault as i didn't give way to her???

2. on a roundabout with clearly marked lanes on my 125cc just past my cbt, i was going to 2nd exit, women in suv on her phone in right hand lane for the m4. Lights turn green and i pull off, i notice a cop car doing random checks in the layby on the exit of my junction so make sure that everything is correct, i.e. position, indicating etc. next thing I know this massive SUV cuts across the three lanes and cuts me up, taking out my front wheel in the action. im now pinned under the bike and she trys to drive off, luckly some nice ladies in a corsa helped get the bike off me.
 
Here's one from the road rage thread a while back:

Imy said:
I was sat in my car being towed by an AA van. We were doing a right at a roundabout and joined the 1st lane on the exit. A woman driver who was doing a left on the same round-about came side-by-side with the AA driver in the 2nd lane and started ranting and raving at him. Next I see her plough into the back of a taxi who had come to a halt in traffic and her head shook forward then back like a ragdoll.

I think I was still laughing when we got to the garage. I asked the AA guy what she was ranting about and he said she was complaining I didn't have my hazard lights on and he explained to her I didn't have to - and his roof-mounted light was on.

Moral was she should've paid more attention to her own driving than the AA driver's who was doing nothing wrong.
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Imy said:
Here's one from the road rage thread a while back:
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That reminds me of the time I got towed off a roundabout and the woman tried cutting in between my car and the tow car :eek:

And for the record, I am unfortunate enough to never have been in a car with a competent woman.
 
I had a white Corsa incident a few days ago.

There were a large number of cars parked at my side of the road, and the other side of the road was clear apart from two cars. As I approached, some tubby bint in a white Corsa coming the other way slammed the anchors on and began gesticulating wildly, presumably screaming that I'd not left enough room for her to get by and should have given way.

I think her argument may have been undermined a bit by the fact she was now alongside the first car on her side of the road, and I had acres of space to get past without trying. As did the bus behind me.
 
Abraxaz1 said:
...this massive SUV cuts across the three lanes and cuts me up, taking out my front wheel in the action. im now pinned under the bike and she trys to drive off, luckly some nice ladies in a corsa helped get the bike off me.
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Did she manage to drive away and get away with it? I hope not.
 
Gaygle said:
The thing that gets me with those "ditzy" (read: moron) girls (everyone knows the type I'm talking about), is that if there was no one else around to witness her hitting the car and she thought she would get away with it, she would have just driven off leaving the other person's car needing £thousands of work on it. Then if by some grace someone had witnessed it and got her registration number, you would spend the next 6 months arguing with her insurance company because she has denied liability because her moron boyfriend/dad had told her to not admit it.

Does it come across that i really hate these ditzy, "i should be treated like a princess because Christina Aguilera said so" and "i have my daddy wrapped around my little finger" types? :mad:
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The only thing that annoys me is that these sort of people are driving when they have no interest in cars and can't drive. They can afford it but they are really bad drivers.

On the opposite hand you have people that respect the things they have and look after what they have but can't afford to go on the road. :(
 
You go by parents, find out mums not home from work, go with dad to shop (walk, quite close). Come back to find mums driven her Micra into the single car driveway occupied by your then 5 month old to you 59' 330D at something like 15mph :( to make matters possibly worse, i reverse parked it so the bonnet got p'owned. Both cars are a write off. Looking for something big and petrol now. :o:o:o
 
It had damage all over, engine, front wheels etc.. and the back got mashed into the house, funnily the house came out fine. Guess it was too much structural damage or something. The Micra was a right mess though. I don't believe her 15mph story though, probably hit the gas in panic imo and its was an automatic Micra.
 
Justintime said:
It had damage all over, engine, front wheels etc.. and the back got mashed into the house, funnily the house came out fine. Guess it was too much structural damage or something. The Micra was a right mess though.
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Pics!
 
Might sound odd but i never took any.. Insurance took some though i guess i can ask, shes right ashamed of the whole affair and didn't want any evidence lol.
 
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