Caporegime
Seriously man, your mates!
Your bad driving
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Seriously man, your mates!
Man of Honour
More a female work colleague.
Actually if you remember the story about my mate who had got 12 points because he didn't know his 7.5 tonner couldn't do more than 60 in a 70 zone, they are Father & Daughter.
In December he pleaded exceptional circumstances and they've given him one more chance.
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Driving to the office today. On the A50 as usual set the cruise to 72mph. Pickup in front doing abot 65mph so pulled out to over take. Audi came upto me must have been doing a ton and flashed lights literally while still overtaking. Do my normal thing wait for > 2 cars lenght gap before pulling back left and he tries to undertake me at this exact point. Shot back upto a ton and did the same to the next guy. A50 does seem a road full of tools saw somone literally try push someone off the road a few years ago
I was driving my pickup today on the A30, overtaking a line of traffic at lights at the start of a dual-carriageway, car came zooming up behind me probably doing 60-65 in a 40 and was obviously impatient, moment I'd cleared the last car was flashing headlights at me, expected them to zoom off but now we were in the NSL they just sat there at about 60-65... people and driving really do boggle my mind.
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Underboss
This is YOUR bad driving thread, there's another thread for others 
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This is YOUR bad driving thread, there's another thread for others
I sort of thought this might happen when I bumped the thread.
Associate
Can't get the staff these days...
Someone was in my usual space in a multi-storey car park today so parked in a different spot. Usually just back in until my wheels hit the kerb as there’s nothing immediately behind.
Did the same today and…..CRUNCH.
Backed into a steel beam and put a nice crease in my rear bumper. Facepalm.
Yes, my fault as I didn’t look properly. I’ve already scraped the front bumper too. Guess I’m keeping this shed forever now (will be 8 years old this September anyway).
Edit - evidence of my idiocy, hard to see past the dirt anyway :
Did the same today and…..CRUNCH.
Backed into a steel beam and put a nice crease in my rear bumper. Facepalm.
Yes, my fault as I didn’t look properly. I’ve already scraped the front bumper too. Guess I’m keeping this shed forever now (will be 8 years old this September anyway).
Edit - evidence of my idiocy, hard to see past the dirt anyway
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Man of Honour
I found out last week that sitting in the middle lane here is totally normal. Nobody uses the inside lane because the road surface is noticeably lower in quality - and it really is quite significantly lower in places.
It felt so completely unnatural to sit in the middle lane on a nearly empty motorway having spent 20 years pretty much religiously sticking to the inside lane until I needed to specifically overtake another vehicle.
It felt so completely unnatural to sit in the middle lane on a nearly empty motorway having spent 20 years pretty much religiously sticking to the inside lane until I needed to specifically overtake another vehicle.
Underboss
That's not your bad driving if that's what they do there
Caporegime
The A14 is like that to Newmarket. The inside lane is basically two tramlines because of the HGV traffic. Really needs sorting and is quite dangerous as it almost rips the wheel out of your hands at some points.
Man of Honour
I know, but it feels that way!
Associate
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Drove over the same pothole twice in three days (somehow avoided it yesterday). Just the right size and shape to go *BANG-BANG* and frighten the hell out of me, and make me worry about car damage.
I'll remember it tomorrow...
I'll remember it tomorrow...
Yeah, I feel like my wheels are probably the shape of 50p pieces the number of potholes I've hit lately.
It's the drivers who swerve at the last minute that get me.
With all this rain recently the surfaces are falling apart around here 
seen 2-3 new potholes forming on my way to work and several where they've patched are going again. Several of them are in hard to dodge places as well
And I'm on 18" wheels with plenty of rubber, wouldn't want to be doing it on 20+ inch with like an inch of tyre :s
seen 2-3 new potholes forming on my way to work and several where they've patched are going again. Several of them are in hard to dodge places as well And I'm on 18" wheels with plenty of rubber, wouldn't want to be doing it on 20+ inch with like an inch of tyre :s
Soldato
Something I'd have to get used to when I move to the UK.
In South Africa; you pick whatever lane you want. The rule is, keep left, pass right. But no one enforces it (Not even the traffic cops, if you ever see one). I could sit in the fast lane (far right) at under the speed limit and at worse, I'll just upset people - that's it.
Zero lane discipline here. So I often chop and change lanes as and when I feel like it. Even undertaking cars on the left - because again - everyone does it and zero enforcement on such things.
I'll have to adapt quickly when in the UK. Though I have been OK when I have driven there.
I did 58mph in a 60 limit.
Oh, but there was some traffic cones on the side of the road and was 9pm.
So some absolute melt of a person decided to activate the 50mph temp limit and turn the cameras on.
Yay, speed awareness for me.
For... being under the real limit at 9pm when NO WORKERS were anywhere near me.
Gotta save those cones lives though
Oh, but there was some traffic cones on the side of the road and was 9pm.
So some absolute melt of a person decided to activate the 50mph temp limit and turn the cameras on.
Yay, speed awareness for me.
For... being under the real limit at 9pm when NO WORKERS were anywhere near me.
Gotta save those cones lives though
Soldato
That's a crappy one.
Soldato
Gonna put this under 'my own bad driving' but it's something I predicted would happen when they first started appearing.
I am, of course, talking about the kiddie bollards. Creepy little statues outside most primary schools these days. I prophesied that there would come a point that drivers would get so used to seeing them that their brains would start ignoring them except for one day it wouldn't be a bollard, it'd be an actual small child who then sudden darts into the driver's path.
Today it happened to me. Thankfully I was only doing about 10mph having stopped for the lollipop lady and just setting off but honestly my brain told me it was a bollard till it moved.
I am, of course, talking about the kiddie bollards. Creepy little statues outside most primary schools these days. I prophesied that there would come a point that drivers would get so used to seeing them that their brains would start ignoring them except for one day it wouldn't be a bollard, it'd be an actual small child who then sudden darts into the driver's path.
Today it happened to me. Thankfully I was only doing about 10mph having stopped for the lollipop lady and just setting off but honestly my brain told me it was a bollard till it moved.