General Chat

We often drive down the M2 and the M20 motorway to the Kent coast and the continental drivers are so dangerous, they come out in front of you and then drive side by side cos they haven't the power to overtake the lorry in the slow lane. I saw on Top Gear that they have a big blind spot on their right side cos they are sitting on the left.well that's as maybe but they are dangerous without having an extra mirror fitted to overcome the problem. Would only cost the owners a few Euros to fit these and I think it should be compulsory that these are fitted before they can drive on our roads. When we go to the continent we make sure our car complies with the continental requirements.
Our SIL was a lorry driver and was on the Continent all week and he was often pulled over and checked by the police to make sure he was legal to their requirements. Its us being weak again with our follow ups that allow foreign drivers to get away with it. Must say too that some of the worst we have seen are Polish and eastern bloc lorries.
Shirley

Maz a girl after me own heart i get het up with all the same as you and sometimes I'm not even driving!! OH tells me to shut up cos one day someone will clock me one!!

lol Shirley, as I say, I'd be off so fast they wouldn't see me for dust - am just a chicken with a big gob lol
Maz. xxxxxxxx

my son says that to me
shut it or someones gona clock youone,
i says yeh let um tryit
he says little old you what yougona do,

run is my answer, lol

London was the best place for road rage. This bloke got out of his car and started giving it some in the middle of a traffic jam. So I got out and give it back. Every one started screaming at him as his car was holding the traffic up and this was in Barnet.

Hmm Nice and calm me ,,,,
then I get behind the wheel
and the red mist descends lol
ranting bloody madman,,
the missus wants to video me lol

Ray

I think everyone changes when they are behind the wheel. I am usually an english rose, but i do drive defensively

i ask hubby if he taken his tablets when he gets in the car, cos he has a problem with a visible red mist too,
i end up so tense wehn we park

Julie Ann I think you must be on my hot matches!

I wouldn't even dare ask my OH if he's taken his tablets when he gets that red mist going on in the car (but I often think he can't have done or if he has needs to have his dosage increased)

2 nights ago in Sainsbury's car park OH was cursing some poor man in a van cos he was going for the space that oh wanted. Silly me said in maninavan's defence - he didn't know you wante dto go in there love, you didn't indicate.
How stupid, I really should know better by now.
"Right" he yelled, pulling cock-eyed into another space. "you drive from now on" - which I would prefer to do anyway. Needless to say when we cam out of the shop he got into the drivers seat and I kept quiet.

Maria x x

does anyone know off the lines that appear from the core of a roundabout?
think they are called roller bars?

has anyone also seen instructions on the CORRECT way to use them?
I havent, they dont seem to be in any highway codes books........

one evening I was driving over to our daughter from Rainham Kent to hers in Chatham .the route was through some country unlit B roads that have many twists and turns. During the day you would only do 40mph because of the twisty road and this was the restriction anyway for most of the road. WELL I was driving all safe & sound and doing the safest speed then when the road became unlit i had my main beam on to see here i was going. I did have a couple of drivers behind me by then but was doing 40 in the now unrestricted but twisty part.(you still with me!!) The a ..hole behind me decide i wasnt going fast enough for him ,BUT he didn't attempt to overtake just kept flashing his main beam at me .I got so angry !!! when we got the the crossroad junction I stopped and got out and went to him and confronted him. he was a bit astounded tho i think that someone had confronted him and he spluttered and spouted,the driver behind didn't want to know and he overtook and took off. I said to the guy i was driving at what was a safe speed for me and if he didnt like it why didn't he overtake?? No he didn't cos he knew the road was too winding so wasnt safe. he finally reversed tried to ram me on his bonnet and took off!! COWARD!! but my Oh was so annoyed with me when i told him that i placed myself in a dangerous position .Well I was angry!!

oh and another one pmsl

people who sling their cars in the space at a stupid angle without bothering to even try and get in straight (or to one side so you have to park to one side too and look a right div when you come back and they've gone)

no offence to Maria's oh lol

Maz. XX

It's ok Maz no offence taken - actually when oh has finished his sulk he always completes the perfect parking manoeuvre. We're both sticklers for tidy parking. lol

Maria x x

I try very hard not to react to stupid ars----s on the road and I usually succeed. I think you just get yourself into a state if you retaliate so I endeavour to let is go - they can do what they like. Only people I tend to have a go at are cyclists with no lights or reflective gear. Passed one this evening, dark clothes, no lights and using a mobile phone - very difficult to spot indeed. Had I hit him it would have been his fault - also skips on roads with no lights or reflective strips - they should be banned

A couple of years ago , My husband a Hmmmmm a Yank , just after picking up our rented car, decided to make a U turn in a busy London street after he realised we were heading in the wrong direction. Well............ I don't have to tell you some of the comments made by the local London cabbies as the hung out of their car windows hollering obcenities, We laugh about it to this day but I must say, I was mortified to death at the time. LOL

I get road rage and I don't even drive.
Last tiem we was at five ways, (local main junction) as the name suggest five roads joining/crossing etc. Four lanes at the lights, first one is for left turn only, middle tow striaght on and fourth for right turn only. So they we are in lane two waiting to go straight on. When jerk racer decides he not going to wait in a long line of traffic to go straight on and come up on our left. Realising his intention OH is quick off the lights, and my OH motto is I don't think I own the road I DO own it. So there was no way he was giving way esp as he was in the right. So we now have jerk coming right up to my side of the car. OH BOY did I lose it. The road is farily wide and can take two cars side by side, but OH refused to elt him pass!!.At next set of lights he pulled up on OH side and asked what our problem was? I told him in no uncertain terms. Best bit was at these light he zoomed off really fast prob thinking how clever he was to beat us off lights this time, but we simply turned left LOL

When we parked the car, I then let OH have it both barrels, because as usual when it's a near miss it ALWAYS my side of the car... do you reckon he's trying to tell me something????



Oh and I also hate the car drivers who can see me with kids waiting to cross and simply don't stop. Esp in the rain. But the best thing is where wecross the road narrows just further on, and as a result there is often a bit of jam, and these lovely drivers stop right across the bit of road where I'm trying to cross, two ft further back, two ft further forward and I could cross while the traffic is still. But OH NO right in front of me. I usually walk round the front of the car taking me time, then I end up holding them up. I then very nicely say thank you. Sis reckons I'm gonna get whacked one of these days.