Driving pet hates...

ttaskmaster said:
Only if it's a sudden stop, which I'm not likely to do unless someone suddenly pulls out (fnar).
But as a following vehicle, you should be prepared for such things and have left sufficient gap in which to stop yourself, no?


I don't feel inconvenienced... Could I have been inconvenienced and not be aware?
Is there such a thing as statutory inconvenience? Is there an inconvenience support service?
#MeAlso... :(


More the first kind, but only because so many other people are the second kind. If I could afford a big swanky car like theirs, I'm sure I'd drive like a **** too...
I presume you're the bully-boy type who demands right of way just because your headlights are brighter or your car is bigger.
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I'm gonna buy a swankmobile and fit superbright DRL's and drive around and hope I end up in.your rear view;)

Just think for a moment - try to to visualise dazzling imaginary cars in your rear view mirror and just drive straight on without touching the clutch, brakes or throttle

Or

brake, change gear down, stop. Go into first, accelerate, change gear up.

You tell me which is the path of least resistance here ?

Sure stopping might be a minor inconvenience but it is an inconvenience all the same. And why inconvene the cars following you just to let out someone who was already stationary any way?
 
Something I heard soon after I passed my test and have applied to my driving ever since: Courtesy Causes Confusion.

All this slowing, stopping, hand waving, flashing lights and so on; just get on with your journey and everybody else will sort themselves out. Fair enough if you're crawling in traffic next to a junction with a car waiting to come out, but all you need to do is leave a gap big enough and let them decide.
 
My new pet hate is people speeding around car parks. Ive seen a few bumps where someone reversing out a parking bay can't see jack because of the SUV next to them, they're backing out cautiously and someone doing 20+mph down the parking aisle can't stop in time. (both times they've been in a Mokka and blamed the reversing driver).

I sit in a queue of traffic and in my mirror I see the driver behind go *eyes on lap* *eyes flick up briefly* *eyes back on lap* why can't you leave your phone alone during a journey!!
 
ttaskmaster said:
Post your reg, so I can watch for you and know to let every I see car pull out.


Next time your services go down and you come crying to me about it, I'll be sure to use that line when I do nothing about your problem.
It's not about your idea of what is an inconvenience to me.


You mean press the Stop pedal, then press the Go pedal?
I'm 'apparently' one of the few old fogies still driving a manual vehicle, these days.
Automatic is where it's at, with full on lane assist, autostop and all that Honda jazz.
In fact, it shouldn't matter what *I* do, as your car will sense what is happening, apply the autobrakes, operate auto-stop-start engine-regeneration thing, and then continue you on your journey without you having to even look up from Farcebooking on your mobile phone.


Jeez, who CARES????!!!
You must get serious road rage, queue rage, vending machine rage and whatever other types of rage there are.
As a wise man once asked: "Are you on the spectrum, perhaps?"


There's usually no inconvenience to me, I really don't give a **** about those behind and teh six seconds of inconvenience it causes them, I like a little courtesy, and at some point in any given day it will be me sat waiting for someone else to let me out. Give and take.

Besides, there are some roads round here where more people will be inconvenienced if you don't let them out, than those behind you will if you do... But since you can see everything from your car and run full statistical diagnostics on the exact measures of inconvenience caused, split across average vehicle type and contents, I'm sure you know what a **** it can be to drive around here.
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You have been hurt.
You have been hurt by somebody, that much is clear.
Who hurt you?
 
ttaskmaster said:
That's why a lot of companies have reverse parking policies, now.


It's not their phone they're playing with...... I'll explain it when you're older! ;)


Again with your assumptions...
I'm sure all these 10-second inconveniences in your driving career have led you to an overinflated sense of entitlement, but that's no excuse for trying to play the victim and certainly not for assuming me as a proxy for your own outrage.
It's not an inconvenience. Get on with your ******* life.
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It is though and you know it. I have demonstrated how it is an inconvenience and you have not demonstrated how it is not.

But yes you do seem like a very angry person with a giant chip riding shotgun.
 
almoststew1990 said:
I sit in a queue of traffic and in my mirror I see the driver behind go *eyes on lap* *eyes flick up briefly* *eyes back on lap* why can't you leave your phone alone during a journey!!
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I play a game with these people, I try to move off super quietly and slowly so they don't notice.

I win a point when the car behind them needs to toot :D
 
Bloody hell ttaskmaster, who ****** on your chips?


BigDannyO said:
Something I heard soon after I passed my test and have applied to my driving ever since: Courtesy Causes Confusion.

All this slowing, stopping, hand waving, flashing lights and so on; just get on with your journey and everybody else will sort themselves out. Fair enough if you're crawling in traffic next to a junction with a car waiting to come out, but all you need to do is leave a gap big enough and let them decide.
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I could not agree more with this.
 
BigDannyO said:
Something I heard soon after I passed my test and have applied to my driving ever since: Courtesy Causes Confusion.

All this slowing, stopping, hand waving, flashing lights and so on; just get on with your journey and everybody else will sort themselves out. Fair enough if you're crawling in traffic next to a junction with a car waiting to come out, but all you need to do is leave a gap big enough and let them decide.
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Absolutely agree.
 
almoststew1990 said:
My new pet hate is people speeding around car parks. Ive seen a few bumps where someone reversing out a parking bay can't see jack because of the SUV next to them, they're backing out cautiously and someone doing 20+mph down the parking aisle can't stop in time. (both times they've been in a Mokka and blamed the reversing driver).
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Sadly the law would blame the reversing driver

I have to park nose first unfortunately where I live. I have an estate, mostly because it's easier to get either/both my daughter's pushchair/my partner's wheelchair in and out.

Our local supermarkets decided to put 4ft bollards smack in the middle at the end of the bay so it's a case of nose in, backside in but not be able to get into the boot or park with the front end 3ft out of the front of the bay.

Quite often I've nearly been hit despite having intensely bright reverse lights and I've begun whacking the hazards on too.
 
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