Idiots who drive on your side of the road
12-May-2008
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Idiots who drive on your side of the road

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Complaints about bad driving have focused on the wrong things. Middle-lane hogging?  Speeding?  Parking?  Dwelling on these mere technicalities takes attention away from where it is really needed.  Because, the most offensive drivers on the road today are the increasing band of selfish chumps who:

Drive straight at you on your side of the road!

They might be passing a line of parked cars on their side, and assume they have more right than you do to your side of the road.

They might be idly cutting a corner to save on effort and tyre wear, and think you ought to brake hard or swerve into a neighbour's front garden to let them do so.  But worst of all, they might be driving straight at you on your side of the road because they couldn't give a monkey's.  In all cases, though:

They are driving straight at you on your side of the road!

Selfish idiots on your side of the road

Why do they do this?  Someone once suggested never to assume malice where brute stupidity will do.  I agree.  In most cases, they don't even know they are doing anything wrong.  Their minds are elsewhere.  Unfortunately, their cars are not.

What we need is an awareness campaign to get these people thinking about others.  As in other walks of life, people these days are increasingly thinking only of themselves, and their families.  It is that simple.  There is nothing else in their heads.  You can see it on their blank faces as you skim past them into the bushes.  If you beep or flash at them, they look shocked and affronted. They just don't have a clue what they are doing.

Think, people!  We are as important as you are.  We all have our lives to protect.  Show at least some consideration for us.  Stop behaving like arrogant, self-righteous, utterly selfish pigs.

By: Enforcer


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Come to my town where the people on the wrong side of the road are cyclists! Often going the wrong way up or down a one way road.
*Shy Vera  03-Mar-2008 12:49

 
Leave bikers alone, we are concerned about car that do not stay on their side if the road for no reason. Eye tests should be for everyone that drives every 12 months..... And training days for anyone with points, or every 5 years...

cars kills 1,000,000 a year world wide.... when was the last time anyone of us had some formal training... I am a very good (maybe too fast) driver, and I am not ashamed to say, I would like some formal training...
*simo  07-Feb-2008 09:38

 
I have to disagree. Most of the stupid, mindless fools I come across are middle aged men and women who just could not care less, even though I am driving a dammed big Volvo Estate and refuse to give way. They never slow down and make me swerve at the last minute, one day I will let the fool in their small heap of junk hit me. Sick of poor driving standards in this country
*boeing pilot  07-Dec-2007 16:51

 
I am not stuck in traffic. I am going the other way. You are or were till you decided to cross the line and travel face on directly towards me in my lane. Damn you! You've got your headlights full on dazzling me, driving at 30-40 mph straight at me in my lane. You and the 12 other bikers doing this all at the same time are going to cause a very nasty accident one day.

As bikers you require an effective the road space of half a car. That means you are too big to overtake the traffic queue you found yourself in. You must be forced to wait like all the other cars and vehicles - In Your Queue. Stay out of my lane going the other way.
*They have got to stop  22-Nov-2007 18:22

 
If everybody is so bothered about these bikers, why don’t you all get a bikes so then you won’t be stuck in traffic.

Also it is not illegal if the bike dose not cross the line in the middle of the road to get past you. IT IS CALLED FILTERING READ THE HIGH WAY CODE!!!!!!
*biker lee  03-Nov-2007 14:02

 
Have you noticed that when a fellow driver cuts a corner at a juction they pull the most dumb face as if to say" what you looking at me for" how many times this has happened to my self. I now aim for them but I do have a 18 ton skip lorry so if there are any clever ones who wish to test my aim just drop me line and I will gladly take the side of your pride and joy clean out. And bikers good luck to you if you can tare along the dotted line. I sit in a line of traffic and see you lot flying up the middle crack-on.
*skippy  23-Oct-2007 21:13

 
Biker, Your mother must have slept with her blood donor when you were conceived. Want to play chicken with oncoming traffic? Go to a KFC outlet.

It's not just one doing this. It's 10 or 12 a minute doing it. There's going to a very nasty accident one day.
*It's got to stop  17-Oct-2007 22:18

 
Utter garbage that bit about motorcyclists, do you need the whole road or something? You're just miffed because you've sat in traffic for half an hour watching all the bikes go by and you are jealous. That's probably why you move over to the inside to stop them getting through.

If they didn't have they're headlights on you'd take them out at the next junction because you're too busy arguing with the kids / reading the paper / eating your lunch / playing with the radio / staring at your sat nav (delete as appropriate!).
*Biker  17-Oct-2007 20:39

 
The criminals who largely do this are motor cyclists in town overtaking a long queue of cars in rush hour. There is often no room for them to get back in on their side of the road once they are out on your side. They keep on coming at you wIth their headlights full on blinding you. Technically they should be waiting in the queue behind the cars when this happens.

But the highway code is silent on this
*It's got to stop  17-Oct-2007 11:33


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