Catching up to a Maritime on the A55 at Deeside heading up the hill towards to the BP services. Just about to pull out to overtake him and a Culina appears down the slip road so the Maritime pulls out to let him on. Culina keeps his toe in and Maritime is determined to get past. Sat side by side at 52mph all the way until the Chester junction where it splits into 3 lanes and an Argos decker looms into view coming off the end of the M53 onto the M56. Culina is forced to brake to let the Argos on but sticks his indicator on expecting me to create a space for him after hanging the Maritime out to dry for the past 5+ miles . Despite not going any faster than the Argos, he sits there with his right indicator going for the next mile whilst swerving onto the lane divider lane in an attempt to force me out of the way and so now the Argos won’t yield to the Maritime either so we all sit at 52mph for 10 miles allllllllll the way to the Runcorn bridge where the Argos runs out of steam on the hill and the Maritime finally gets the [zb] out of the way. FML.
All the Culina had to do was ease off slightly on the slip road and let the Maritime go and everyone would have got on with their evening just fine, but no, can’t have my precious ego dented .
Mick Bracewell:
I believe the cool saying these days is “FML”.
Catching up to a Maritime on the A55 at Deeside heading up the hill towards to the BP services. Just about to pull out to overtake him and a Culina appears down the slip road so the Maritime pulls out to let him on. Culina keeps his toe in and Maritime is determined to get past. Sat side by side at 52mph all the way until the Chester junction where it splits into 3 lanes and an Argos decker looms into view coming off the end of the M53 onto the M56. Culina is forced to brake to let the Argos on but sticks his indicator on expecting me to create a space for him after hanging the Maritime out to dry for the past 5+ miles . Despite not going any faster than the Argos, he sits there with his right indicator going for the next mile whilst swerving onto the lane divider lane in an attempt to force me out of the way and so now the Argos won’t yield to the Maritime either so we all sit at 52mph for 10 miles allllllllll the way to the Runcorn bridge where the Argos runs out of steam on the hill and the Maritime finally gets the [zb] out of the way. FML.
All the Culina had to do was ease off slightly on the slip road and let the Maritime go and everyone would have got on with their evening just fine, but no, can’t have my precious ego dented .
Tossers pathetic examples of todays steering wheel attendants and its only going to get worse, the standard of driving is abysmal now and that’s going forward, watching these clowns trying to reverse is just a joke
rob22888:
In all in all though, that 15 miles of frustration will only have cost you 74 seconds on your journey.
That said, it would have cost the Culina driver literally no time at all on his journey to ease off and sit behind the Maritime.
Eh, what about the rest of the traffic being held up behind them?
What about the guy who’s going 0.3 mph faster than you but insists on overtaking, takes him 5 mins to do that only to take the next exit less than a min later. Or the one I had last night who raced past me downhill going over 60mph - I was at 60 myself but applied a bit of brakes to let him in, he then immediately got on his brakes to slow down to 55 to avoid a tacho overspeed
rob22888:
In all in all though, that 15 miles of frustration will only have cost you 74 seconds on your journey.
That said, it would have cost the Culina driver literally no time at all on his journey to ease off and sit behind the Maritime.
Eh, what about the rest of the traffic being held up behind them?
What about the guy who’s going 0.3 mph faster than you but insists on overtaking, takes him 5 mins to do that only to take the next exit less than a min later. Or the one I had last night who raced past me downhill going over 60mph - I was at 60 myself but applied a bit of brakes to let him in, he then immediately got on his brakes to slow down to 55 to avoid a tacho overspeed
I was just playing devils advocate trying to put into perspective the inconvenience caused to the OP. Not defending elephant racing.
rob22888: In all in all though, that 15 miles of frustration will only have cost you 74 seconds on your journey.
That said, it would have cost the Culina driver literally no time at all on his journey to ease off and sit behind the Maritime.
You are right, of course, but I work on the premise of treating people how I’d like to be treated. If there’s a guy behind me with a limiter faster than mine, even if it’s only 0.01mph, if he wants to crack on then I’ll help him by knocking the CC back so he’s round me in 30 seconds and out of my hair. Much the same with merging although I try to adjust my speed such that they don’t even need to move over a lane to accommodate me in the first place but not always possible when running heavy and short slip roads. I often find that the gesture is repaid when I overtake them shortly afterwards. Happy days.
Nothing more than pigheadedness from all 3 of them because they couldn’t face their ego getting dented. It’s not like any of them are in any rush anyway as all 3 companies do [zb] all and give you all day to do the simplest of trunk runs.
If there’d been a decent hill I might have been tempted to do an ‘irish’ and utilise lane 3 and a quick flick of D to N but Deeside to Runcorn is about as flat as it gets and so I didn’t have that option available. I just sat behind them all like a good little boy whilst quietly sething at the utter clown fiesta I was witnessing, then had a good old rant about on the internet when I got home .
. Despite not going any faster than the Argos, he sits there with his right indicator going for the next mile whilst swerving onto the lane divider lane in an attempt to force me out of the way and so now the Argos won’t yield to the Maritime either so we all sit at 52mph for 10 miles allllllllll the way to the Runcorn bridge where the Argos runs out of steam on the hill and the Maritime finally gets the [zb] out of the way. FML.
but Deeside to Runcorn is about as flat as it gets and so I didn’t have that option available. I just sat behind them all like a good little boy whilst quietly sething at the utter clown fiesta I was witnessing, then had a good old rant about on the internet when I got home 
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