that when your blatting about, and in the middle of nowhere you come up behind some duffer going along at 23mph.. you wick past and all you get is him
leaning on the horn and trying to blow his high beam bulbs?
Why is that??????
Because you woke them up and they don't like it!
Adrian
People really don't like being passed it seems.
Especially if the move you make is outwith their concept of what is possible.
Best just to move out, make it clear the move's happening and give it the full beans.
Nobody can honestly criticse that.
I'm all for overtaking in a defnitive manner.
It's a sorry state of affairs but when I am calculating if I can make an overtake I have to allow for the fact the fool infront will invariably
speed up putting my life at risk. I don't het why people do that. On the odd occasion I am moving slower than the car behind I slow if they try
and pass to help them.
I bet if I had a head on collision causes by some
muppet accelerating it would be me who got done for recless driving!
I seem to finally have a vehicle that out accelerates most things on the road now, I don't have problems with Old Doddery folk anymore :-) Went past a lot of them today, your right though, blasting the horn.... shaking there fists :-)
Because alot of people do things that make absolutely no sense, especially when it comes to driving. What you should have done is stopped, blocking
him in of course, and gotten out to ask him what he was trying to signal with the horn and lights to see if he could come up with something more
useful than the fact that you'd passed him.
Thats the biggest problem with going out for a drive for fun though, there is always someone doing something stupid to ruin it for you. On my
favourite stretch of road (The long way to my Grand parents house) it's usually Lorries taking a 'Short cut' at less than 30 on a
beautiful stwisty bit of road with a 60 limit and brilliant visability but nowhere wide enough to pass, and barely room to pass a lorry going the
other way in a car.
The only thing that pisses me off more is the knobs that completely ignore changing speed limits so you get stuck behind them, then have them shoot
off when the limit drops, only to catch up with them later. That said it's worse when you start infront of them and look in your mirror to see a
lorry rapidly closing on you when your doing just over the limit or on the motor way where they feel the need to overtake everyone through the road
works.
hi i take the view if he so wound up on a sunday his problem jane says my rear view mirrors are crap shes right but i am not to worried about him
behind only cozzer passing the other guy comming my way
Ali, I think you missed some punctuation.
yea could be so this time of night having a couple of sherbets and a chill my excuse
I was out on the bike doing 50 in a 50 limit when a BMW decided I wasn't going fast enough and blasted past me. When he caught up with the duffer
doing 35 and couldn't get past I just carried on at 50 and waved as I went past. The duffers do have their uses
It's very odd, but no matter what the speed, people hate being passed. They want to be in front! I don't know why that is, but a psychologist can come along and explain it to me. I would much rather have people pass me and get on with it, so they can have their accident far ahead of me than go up my rear end.
I do most of my driving either in heavy town traffic or on the motorway so passing isn't really an issue.
But I've recently started doing some longish trips on 60mph single carriageway roads and have noticed that drivers nowadays just don't know
how to pull out and pass ( or are too scared to ) so you get a long line of cars stuck behind someone doing 55mph and they're so close together
there's no room to pass them one by one and pull in.
Today's drivers are so spoilt by dual carriageways and motorways that they can't make progress on a single carriageway.
It's clearly spreading!
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Originally posted by coozer
that when your blatting about, and in the middle of nowhere you come up behind some duffer going along at 23mph.. you wick past and all you get is him leaning on the horn and trying to blow his high beam bulbs?
Why is that??????
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
It's clearly spreading!
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They really don't like it up 'em Mr Mannering
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
It's clearly spreading!
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I agree with nick205's philosophy, but I normally give those lovely folk a wag of the finger and a wry smile to chastise them for the erroneous ways
The shade of red normally darkens by a factor of 10