I’ve been in a bad mood for the past few days, and, even though I wasn’t driving today, there are some idiots on the roads around here and I must vent.
We were going along earlier at about 60, and a car was waiting in a lay-by to pull out. There was a few cars in front of us, with about a 3 second gap between them and us. They went past the guy waiting, and then he decided that 3 seconds was enough time to pull out in front of us.
Well, it wasn’t.
Brakes on hard. Flashing of lights. Swears. My dad drives with his headlights on all the time to help people see him, didn’t seem to help this guy though. If he’d pulled out half a second later we would have gone right up the back of him.
Then, we were stuck behind some idiot in a massive SUV doing anything from 30-45 in a 60 for about 10 miles. Why?? God knows. It was a wide, straight road, perfect conditions, not wet, you could see for miles, but he decided to plod along, not really giving a shit that the people behind may actually need to get somewhere. We got past him eventually, overtaking the two cars in front of us who didn’t have the brains to overtake, and then the slow guy, all at once. Other people then suddenly woke up and overtook him too. That seems to happen a lot up here, nobody overtakes, they’re a bit like sheep, they just follow the person in front, but then when someone with a bit of common sense overtakes, they all do.
We also had to go to the horse place so my sister could have a lesson. The exit from this place into the main road is a nightmare, the junction is on a corner, whether you look left or right, it’s blind, you can’t see very far round it at all. There is a mirror on the other side of the road, but it’s completely pointless because you can’t see anything coming in it unless it’s in your line of sight coming round the corner anyway. We pulled out, and a car then came around the corner, which happens quite a lot. He then had to slow down, nothing we could do about it, every other time it happens people are fine with it, as they accept it’s a blind bend and it wasn’t intentional, but this guy honked us, got right up behind us, then overtook, giving us a lovely hand gesture. I’d like to see him get out of that corner every time without cutting someone up, I’ve not managed it yet.
If these sorts of people weren’t on the road, I swear we’d all get to our destinations in half the time and with a lot less hassle.