Wtf? So it annoys you when people use lanes correctly, and it annoys you when people use lanes incorrectly? I'm starting to get a handle on where your heart attack came from tbh. If you're in the middle lane when you could be in the left lane then you're in the wrong place - the middle lane is also for overtaking, not cruising - making it your problem rather than that of the person who's just got past you and returned to the lane he should be in.Originally Posted by Emperor Fabulous
Ooh, I've got another er... three.... maybe more if they appear in my head by the time I've finished typing
Drivers who sit on the tail of someone in the middle lane of a motorway, then overtake and then pull back in sharply - all the way to the slow lane, as if to say "THIS is where you should be driving". I saw some bloke in an Audi do it to someone on the M4 today. Some people drive in the middle lane - get over it. If you want to overtake, use the overtaking lane and get on with your journey.
Often the same person as the above, are the slowest-lane-huggers who change lane every few seconds, whilst still going faster than the bulk of the traffic, seemingly determined to keep in the leftmost lane possible, like it was some kind of automotive game of horizontal Tetris. No... you're not a good driver like you obviously think you are, you're a bloody danger with your mad weaving.
Lorries who think that a millisecond flash of the indicator before suddenly slewing 38 tonnes in front of you is acceptable. Actually, they don't give a shit what's 'acceptable' - they just know they're a fuckload bigger than you and you are going to yield - always.
Women - and it genuinely pains me to say this, but it is almost exclusively women, who sit in the fast lane utterly oblivious to the twenty car queue behind them, not once thinking to look the in the rear view mirror (if they haven't moved it around to look at themselves better - don't moan, it's true... I've lost count of the number of women drivers I've been behind where the mirror is twisted around to aid with the lippy etc) - or - if they do look in the mirror, fail to register that perhaps those twenty cars might like to get past. I think a lot of this is down to low confidence and the logic in picking a lane to drive in that has the least number of obstructions ahead. The fact that it's the overtaking lane doesn't seem to click as important
Last edited by hungrymark; 13th February 2013 at 01:14 PM.
People who criticise other people's crap lane-discipline.
People who do unnecessary things that inconvenience others and just say 'tough, that's the way I do things so the world should revolve around the fact that I can't be bothered to think'People who criticise other people's crap lane-discipline.
BT Engineers that pitch up outside your workplace, start ripping all kinds of cables out, then get humpy when you accuse them of buggering up your telephone line the next morning, before they finally cave in and admit they've cocked up and accidentally cropped your line by mistake, leaving your business without any phones all morning.
Yes. Hence the thread called 'Shit that boils your piss'. It's not called 'Shit that is rational and has been ratified as a valid complaint by your peers - that boils your piss'. However, your comment 'if you're in the middle lane when you could be in the left lane then you're in the wrong place' marks you out as either deliberately obtuse or a not very experienced driver. As stated in my original rant, people who switch lanes every few seconds in an attempt to maintain this 'leftmost lane at all costs' theory are dangerous. Yes, of course you should, ideally, move to the leftmost lane where appropriate, but to weave in and out, overtaking and pulling back in constantly like some demented kangaroo is far more hazardous than the driver who sits in the middle lane for hours on end - at least you know where they are and where they are likely to be in the next ten seconds.
People who haven't got their flippin' toaster sorted out, yet!
"You do things your way and you put your life in God's hands. You do things someone else's way and you take your life in your own hands." Confucius
Emp I agree with you - it's very dangerous, it's as though they're saying - look I'll teach you how to drive, you're meant to be in THIS lane you fucker. Not approriate behaviour on a motorway. Far more dangerous than hugging the middle lane, in my view. (not going to mention fog and roadsigns btw!!)
Multiple, thinly-veiled hints that a forum member is patently unable, or incapable, or carrying out the seemingly simple task of researching, and buying, a run-of-the-mill kitchen electrical appliance!
I'd also add the tailgaters who move ever closer to your rear bumper, trying to force you out of the way, when, in reality, you're in a line of traffic that streched all the way to kingdom come, and even if you do move over, they're only going to get one car further up the moving queue.
You just don't get it, do you?!
*not serious, btw!*
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