I don't mind people parking on pavements, making mobile calls on the move or driving when as ripped as stoats provided they don't cause damage or injury. I don't think they ought to do these things, I just don't mind as much as some other people seem to when they do.
There are two things I particularly dislike though. One is parking a single car in the middle of a two-car space in a parking bay just because it's easy and the driver doesn't care about other people's convenience. The other is making a gratuitous u-turn in traffic, holding everyone up and causing tension, when it would be much easier and just as quick to drive round the block.
Taxi and minicab drivers are especially likely to do this, although they usually do it with a fair amount of despatch. But what on earth induces silly young women and silly old men to do it clumsily and slowly? Sheer idiocy, seems to me.
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they obviously don't know what a handbrake is for :-)
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Do you feel better now? Good.
Yes it would be easier to drive round the block, but then the main goal - to annoy you - would not be achieved. ;)
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Reminds me of driving along one night,no traffic about,just a taxi parked further up the road.When nearly upon it it lurched away from the side into a screaming u turn.If I hadn't slammed on I would have parked in the side of the thing,the driver looked as shocked as me,he had to pull over,so I could only assume he had temporarily forgotten there were other vehicles on the road.
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Many years ago a car ahead of me indicated right, but moved left and slowed, as if to park, then did a u-turn, scaring the life out of me as I had not expected it. I thought he was indicating right by accident when he meant left. Maybe it should have been obvious what he was doing.
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Had this done to me on a single carriageway? I was doing 60, and he decided to pull out of a side road, and use the main road for a U-turn back up the side road. I missed him, but disappeared in my own rubber smoke (no ABS). I drove home on threepenny bits, and had to throw one tyre away.
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Get it all the time where I live, in many cases there is a turning about about 10 feet away, where they could reverse into. NO manners.
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Get it all the time where I live, in many cases there is a turning about about 10 feet away, where they could reverse into. NO manners.
you've hit the nail on the head........no manners.....complete lack of standards
If you discussed it with them they probably wouldn't understand. Sad thing is they're probably bringing their own kids up like it, so it perpetuates..... the me,me,me attitude
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But what on earth induces ................ silly old men to do it clumsily and slowly? Sheer idiocy, seems to me.
Guilty as charged, m'lud! ;-)
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Guilty as charged, m'lud! ;-)
Well, Lud, that was a waste of time! I thought you'd have had some comment.
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Naturally Escargot we all do U-turns sometimes for good reasons, and I note that you claim to be guilty of doing it slowly and badly like a silly young woman or a silly old man.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't really believe you in this case.
Case dismissed :o)
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>>One is parking a single car in the middle of a two-car space in a parking bay ...
Ah but how d'ya know if the car you see parked across two bays is the one wot started it? It could have been that there was already a car blocking 2 spaces and the car you see was forced to park across the next 2 spaces because there was nowhere else.
Just make sure you shoot the right guy!
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Of course LL, that goes without saying. But someone always starts it, not so?
The absolute bang-to-rights giveaway is a car parked just under a car's length from the end of a bay, rendering that space useless. Some people take care to park as close to the end of the bay as possible, others simply don't give a damn.
But who said anything about shooting people (or even vandalising their cars)?
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What gets me are the twerps, who when emerging from the right to turn right on a dual carriageway, use the right (outside) lane as a merging lane, just as you are approaching, leaving you no time to move over into the right lane and overtake them without rear-ending them. If you do manage to slow down enough so as not to undertake them, they then stay in the right lane travelling slowly, thinking that you will undertake them because you've caught them up.
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Or because they intend to turn right at the roundabout four miles down the road... don't signal of course because the turn is four miles ahead, just waddle slowly down the fast lane thinking everyone else is telepathic.
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>>Taxi and minicab drivers are especially likely to do this, although they usually do it with a fair amount of despatch. But what on earth induces silly young women >>and silly old men to do it clumsily and slowly? Sheer idiocy, seems to me.
So is it the technique or the concept that irritates? U-turns, just like their first cousins, the 3-point turns,
are perfectly legal. (where 'legal') I frequently have to execute 3-point turns due to local roads & geography - the alternative
is a planet-warming 'detour' .
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