Some People!

MrMoonX · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:44

Hi all,

I just have to vent, right coming home just now on the A3 south near hindhead, where because of the tunnel works, it goes down to one lane over about 900yds.
Queue of traffic building in inside lane, car in front and myself use the outside lane as its empty, big signs everywhere saying use both lanes merge in turn ( I do this every day and no one uses outside lane), some idiot in a kia decides to sit in outside lane blocking us and not going faster than the inside lane, I mean who the **** does he think he is blocking the entire outside lane because he decides that no one will get round me kind of attitude, no amount of flashing or beeping got him to move over, he did it to stop people using both lanes and merging in turn as the signs dictate, causing even more congestion.

Anyway retribution came 3 mins later, motorbike cop whipped round us all and pulled him over, gave him a big thumbs up on the way past

Thank you Surrey Police!

Why dont people use both lanes and merge in turn when its going from 2 to 1, it causes less congestion and moves quicker then if you all act like ****s and block those on the outside

Siliconslave · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:48

can open....

(and i agree with you)

kippermitten · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:49

Because some people are small minded petty individuals.
Get the same on the bike, mental as in 30 seconds Im gone past them anyway.
Grow up sheeple!!!

fullmetaltony · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:51

Smiled when I ready the coppers pulled him over, nice one

MrMoonX · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:52

fullmetaltony said:
Smiled when I ready the coppers pulled him over, nice one

I was like thank god, because 9 times out of 10 they are never about when morons do stupid things! I smiled and gave the copper the thumbs up as he looked round when I beeped as i passed the lay-by it he pulled over in

ScarySquirrel · 4 Mar 2011 at 17:24

fullmetaltony said:
Smiled when I ready the coppers pulled him over, nice one

Me too!

I hate that so many people don't understand "merge in turn". Idiots!

lordrobs · 4 Mar 2011 at 17:54

Some people simply love to pointlessly sit in a queue yet hate it when others "push in".

Another favorite of mine is the merge in turn from traffic lights. Had some tool in an Audi decide to accelerate into the gap and sit on the bum of the car in front as I was starting to move over. Caught me on the wrong day though and I was quite happy to continue straight into the side of his shiny 10 plate car if that was the game he wanted to play. Plus I was packing QWERTY so he was in for a shock if he decided to take offence.

blun · 4 Mar 2011 at 18:04

This really winds me up. If you're not clever enough to understand what 'merge in turn' means then you shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle.

Dabbles · 4 Mar 2011 at 19:54

I assume those who merge in turn 'properly' don't wait until they are nearly clipping the cones and then force their way into any gap they can find?

blun · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:18

If everyone did it properly, assuming there was no blockage ahead, nobody would need to stop. You can just slow down to a crawl, and take it in turns when you're close to the front. Its when people refuse to allow alternate cars through that people in one lane find themselves having "force their way" into a gap.

Dabbles · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:38

blun said:
If everyone did it properly, assuming there was no blockage ahead, nobody would need to stop. You can just slow down to a crawl, and take it in turns when you're close to the front. Its when people refuse to allow alternate cars through that people in one lane find themselves having "force their way" into a gap.

I think that's true up to a point, then it's just 'trying to get ahead'. I agree that there are some knobbers who close the gap out of sheer bloody mindedness, but I think the people who leave it till the very last minute contribute to their own downfall.

mjt · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:40

Same problem here.
Except you usually get buses and vans blocking you off so you don't merge in front of them. I get proper ****ing rage when they do this.
They see me coming, so at the last minute they veer into my lane to block it off. Absolute *****.

Mr-White · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:37

I've seen trucks do this but it's when people try and skip long queues and cut in at the front to turn off but when it's 2 lanes into one that's a bit daft.

MW

Duke · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:48

We need public service announcements on TV to tell people basic things like this

PMKeates · 5 Mar 2011 at 11:43

This would have been an undertake moment.

MrMoonX · 5 Mar 2011 at 16:05

PMKeates said:
This would have been an undertake moment.

how when the inside lane was full of slow cars

danza · 5 Mar 2011 at 18:33

I was driving home from work yesterday and although very nearly home, I was tempted to blast past some spiv with a massive 'GO ON SMALL DICK, PASS ME' sticker in his rear window. If nothing else just to rub in the fact that he was bitterly driving a Ford Fusion and could only afford a stupid sticker, not a proper car.

Glad the driver in the OP got pulled. :cool:

PMKeates · 5 Mar 2011 at 18:35

MrMoonX said:
how when the inside lane was full of slow cars

Often there's enough room between two cars to push through. Alternatively, displace some cones, or use the hard shoulder.

mattyprice4004 · 5 Mar 2011 at 18:51

PMKeates said:
Often there's enough room between two cars to push through. Alternatively, displace some cones, or use the hard shoulder.

'displace' meaning plough through?

How elegantly put, proper lol here.

mejinks · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:15

Many moons ago the head gasket went on one of my cars and my dad was towing me, so apart from my hazards going, there was an "on tow" sign on the rear parcel shelf. Anyway, coming off a roundabout where I lived at the time, the lanes quickly (within 100m) merge, so this absolute fanny of a woman decided I was going to slow and pull around me, straight into the tow rope. I didn't have to worry about fixing the engine then

I liked that car too