The Weekly Gripe

Driving on your side of the road, selfish drivers

Idiots who drive on your side of the road

Selfish people driving straight at you

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.



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. worst of all, they might be driving straight at you.

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03-3-2008Come 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
07-2-2008Leave 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 ...moresimo
07-12-2007I 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...moreboeing pilot
22-11-2007I 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 t...moreThey have got to stop
03-11-2007If 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
23-10-2007Have 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...moreskippy
17-10-2007Biker, 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
17-10-2007Utter 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...moreBiker
17-10-2007The 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 ...moreIt's got to stop



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