One that annoys me quite a bit is when I stop for yellow boxes, one outside the fire station in a town I drive through particularly in mind, and the person behind me is getting funny about me stopping until it is fully clear. Blows my mind people have that poor appreciation/care as to why a yellow box might be there.
Your bad driving
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Overslept for work today and was running an hour late despite hurrying to get ready.
At a big-ish roundabout in town waiting to enter. I looked at the next enrance to my right, clocked a black 4x4, decided it wasn't coming my way (think I assessed it as turning left onto the exit I was waiting to emerge from). Looked past it to an artic lorry, saw a big enough gap and lorry was only just starting to move.
I accelerated pretty firmly but not full throttle, got almost all the way out... And said black 4x4 was a LOT closer to me than I'd expected. It's possible they had been in the left turn only lane or indicating which caused me to expect them to exit before me, but I expect I was just tired.
Luckily it was close enough to get a blast of the horn but not close enough to make contact. Ironically if I had known I was pulling out on someone I could have hit the throttle harder and not been in their way as much.
At a big-ish roundabout in town waiting to enter. I looked at the next enrance to my right, clocked a black 4x4, decided it wasn't coming my way (think I assessed it as turning left onto the exit I was waiting to emerge from). Looked past it to an artic lorry, saw a big enough gap and lorry was only just starting to move.
I accelerated pretty firmly but not full throttle, got almost all the way out... And said black 4x4 was a LOT closer to me than I'd expected. It's possible they had been in the left turn only lane or indicating which caused me to expect them to exit before me, but I expect I was just tired.
Luckily it was close enough to get a blast of the horn but not close enough to make contact. Ironically if I had known I was pulling out on someone I could have hit the throttle harder and not been in their way as much.
This is why I wait for people to commit, though it annoys people behind me sometimes, few too many times I've seen people on roundabouts appear to be doing one thing but then do another.