There is nothing worse than slow drivers. I hate these āspeed killsā ads, it is frustration due to slow drivers that is the real killer on the roads. I have lost count of the times that you come up behind a car doing 60 kmh on a main primary road and it leads to a big line of say 8 cars behind them, some cunt gets pissed off from well back in the line (usually me) and proceeds to overtake 3-4 cars at any slight opportunity. Idiots, if you canāt drive at a reasonable speed get the fuck off the road. Just as bad are the people who crawl around bends, only to put their foot down on the straight, I want to rip their heads off. Incompetent twats.
While I also hate slow drivers, there is still no justification for over taking 3 cars dangerously because youāre pissed off.
If youāre in a rush and their driving is generally needlessly, and dangerously slow then it has to be done. The people directly behind them that wonāt pass them out when the chance arises are just as bad.
Was out on my bike today. Freewheeling down a hill going at a reasonable speed. A car comes up the hill and stops to indicate to turn into a side road, meaning that she would cross in front of me. And what does the stupid fucking bitch do? She decides to turn right in front of me when I am about 30 yards away. I pin the bike to the road and then the stupid bint decides to panic and stop blocking the middle of the road. I am thinking how do I hit the car to minimise my injuries and then she decides to move at the last minute. Lovely.
I had a similar experience the other day on the bike. It was a narrow enough road, I was peddling away like the clappers and there was a car behind me and a car coming towards us. The gobshite behind me decided heād overtake me just as the other car was meeting us. This resulted in a three abreast type situation and I was squeezed off into a shallow drain where I got a puncture. It was karma really as I accidently knocked a fat-ass yank into the ditch a year ago. :unsure:
Dangerous overtaking is never justified no matter how slow the car is going. I was on the way from Mohill to Carrick last week, driving along minding my own business. I noticed a tractor coming towards me and out of nowhere a car comes out from behind it. I had to brake hard and almost stop to avoid hitting it.
I agree on the annoyance with regard to the refusal of the car behind the slow car to pass out. Pisses me off when you have a clear road ahead to pass out but there is about 10 cars close together.
Surely this is only a problem now in the west of the country. The east and south are so well served by motorways that these scenarios should rarely arise v
Youāre right, itās not. I donāt overtake dangerously, I would overtake 3-4 max, but only when thereās a clear road. What Iām saying is that itās easily understandable behaviour when you have somebody on the road going dangerously slow. 50 kmh on a main primary road is madness, there should be a speed minimum on our roads, it would save many lives.
Ah right. I agree with you so.
The car gods were out to get me today.
On my way to work coming up brewery road taking second left at the roundabout.
Find a space, out on the roundabout, someone coming from the Leopardstown rd exit decides to come out onto the roundabout with me already on it. Ricockulous driving from them. I swerved to miss them, stopped about 10 yards on. They stopped out on the roundabout. I didnāt bother going back. I knew if I did Iād let rip on them.
On my way home coming onto The N11 from brewery rd heading into town when someone on the n11 heading south decides to do a u turn into the lane Iām coming into. Atrocious stuff. I had to swerve back into the bus lane to miss them. She got back into the right lane and I caught up beside her and gave her the stink eye and a few Wayne Rooneys to go with it.
Can anyone explain why so many drivers donāt use their indicators? I donāt understand why they wouldnāt use them.
I donāt like people knowing my business
A passenger and a driver had this short conversation while I was in a car once.
Driver turns left off a main road into a shop.
Passenger: FFS you never indicated turning in there, the car behind us nearly ploughed into us.
Driver: Indicate? Sur donāt I know where Iām going, why would I need to indicate?
Iām seething.
Some stupid bitch gesticulated at me in an aggressive fashion this morning when she was clearly in the wrong.
[quote=āTreatyStones, post: 843335, member: 1786ā]Iām seething.
Some stupid bitch gesticulated at me in an aggressive fashion this morning when she was clearly in the wrong.[/quote]
that really fucking annoys me too.
I had similar in Dublin recently, turning right but a cyclist was coming down the opposite way so obviously couldnt turn or Iād knock the fucker over. Taxi man drives up my hole and starts blowing his horn at me wanting me to drive on. Followed me down the street then blowing his horn, and at the next set of traffic lights opens his window to shout and roar at me. The stupid cunt.
[quote=āTreatyStones, post: 843335, member: 1786ā]Iām seething.
Some stupid bitch gesticulated at me in an aggressive fashion this morning when she was clearly in the wrong.[/quote]
That annoys the fuck out of me.
I had a running battle with a cunt on the drive home from Dublin. I was behind him for most of the journey. We got to Longford - both of us were turning right. I went into the right hand lane, he stayed in the left I got to the turn off well before him and he started flashing lights and shit at me as if I had done something wrong. I made wanker gestures at him in the mirror.
The next roundabout we were both going straight on. This time I went into the left lane and he went into the right lane. He tried to take me on the inside but I went straight through as was my entitlement. Again he was completely in the wrong. Cue more hand waving by your man.
Finally we got to a roundabout leading on a dual carriageway. There was a truck in the left lane so I went into the right lane as I am entitled to do seeing it is a dual carriageway ahead. Your man starts at it again behind me.
I should have got out and confronted the cunt but I was nearly home and didnāt want the hassle.
How did this guy try to pass you on the inside if he was on the right lane Farmer?
On a two lane roundabout the right lane would become the inside lane.
A 2 lane roundabout where both parties are going straight on and thereās 2 lanes on approach and only 1 at the straight ahead exit. Iām sceptical.