Pet hates!!!

[alexc]

Mr B:
we all make mistakes.
if you read this thread a common pet hate is people trying force their way out from sliproads and your pet hate is drivers not letting you come out. do the maths and decide who’s in the wrong.

Both and neither I guess! Forcing your way out is wrong and illegal. Not letting people out when it would be so easy to do so is, well, just annoying. A pet hate, if you like.

P.S. Had lunch now so I’m far less arrogant

[mr_b]

saturday lunch at home with a beer always works for me mate

[alexc]

I’m not used to being up during daylight hours, having lunch at lunchtime is kinda scary! And no beer

[orys]

slow cars, who accelerating, when I am overtaking and european cars without corection stickers at the headlights.

[bugcos]

People who drive in hi viz vests or wear them in truckstops at night is my pet hate

[wheel_nut]

bugcos:
People who drive in hi viz vests or wear them in truckstops at night is my pet hate

It is mine too, but I always get the fashion concious who bought a hi viz anorak and wear it every where, even on Holiday Well they must do, because they keep it on on the ferry

[suedehead]

“Baby on board” signs in rear windows, or any other sign/stickers displayed . . .ie, “Dont follow me, i"m lost too”
“Little princess on board” . . whats that all about ?

[lug84]

it has to be road hogs who don’t give a toss about anyone but them self . we are all just trying to get from a to b in a safe way imo

[grahama]

Cars with bikes hanging on the back so you can`t see lights or no. plate!!!

[allikat]

School run mums who think their journey time is the most vital thing in the universe…
the [zb] who dive for an exit 20 feet beforehand at insane speeds
Overloaded or underpowered wagons who try and make up for their slow uphill times by doing 70+ downhill…
Bad parking on junctions etc
Not enough supermarkets with parking for artics, even for 15 mins so we can get food!
Morons who drive without enough lighting in limited visibility
Idiots who have way too many lights, and insist on them all being on at once
Industrial estates down tiny lanes, or ones with cars parked both sides on the way in.
People who insist you open both sides of a euroliner (with all the boards in) and don’t buy fork extensions or the like for their forklifts.
Booking in times at RDCs, and their waiting cells, and handing in keys to my home…
European roadworks that are insanely badly laid out
Finding parking in Germany after 3pm…
Overpriced MSA in the UK with terrible food, bad parking, no security and nasty showers.

Any more for any more?

[happy_keith]

Some of these are off-beat - but hey, it’s my keyboard…

1. Folk that believe that they have an absolute right to hold a driving licence instead of realising that they have a (temporary?) priveledge.
2. Councils, local & national government showing too little evidence of ‘leadership’, ie: they tolerate too much of the above bad practices.
3. The present fad of motorists parking one side on the pavement when thay can’t be bothered to walk more than the absolute minimum distance to their ultimate destination. To include suburban grass verges being turned into ugly, rutted eyesores.
4. My embarassment that NW Europe has better cycling provision than we have (though most needed their nations blitzing in WWII to enable this).
5. HATO’s replacing Plod. (see 2.)
6. Spotless 4 kiss 4’s and their ‘up-yours’ attitude to our planet.
7. British societal values whereby male bus passengers over the age of 23 are seen as ‘losers’: They aint …they sometimes have incapacities or simply have little wish of joining the mess out there.
8. Those that do a constant 45mph whether through a village or on national speed-limit A roads.
9. Parents that are scared to teach their kids road-skills …then to be surprised when their 18 year-old off-spring get trashed in some highway related incident at University (drunk?) because their supposed ‘intelligence’ doesn’t include road-skills.
10. (See 2. Again.) Governmental lip service rather than activity re holistic transport integration. (To include my disrespect of Dr. Beeching’s 1961 report and this country’s blind adherance to believing that our tiny island could/should mimic post WWII American ‘social-interstate’ transport philosophy which we’ve since arguably abused).
11. The futility of paying loads of ££’s to have British & EU Transport Ministers contributing squat.
12. Too little evidence of cruise-control on M-ways - often resulting in a cack-handed ballet on the slightest of incline whereby ‘reading the road’ often means ‘…woo, a fast bit…’ or not realising that their previous 85mph is now 65 mph.
13. Societal intolerance of inaccurate speedometers in (most/all?) cars: Should we always add 10% to our indicated speed compensate?

There will be more later, I’m certain…!

[toowise]

allikat:
:!: Not enough supermarkets with parking for artics, even for 15 mins so we can get food!

Well said Allikat

Also small shopping centres should have a lay-by close to them.

A new co-op store near us on a wide urban bypass type road has just put bollards on the 10 foot wide grass verge to stop trucks parking half on the grass .

Why not put a small layby instead, would create more custom i think

[mike_3]

Cars doing 52mph in the slow lane are quite annoying - I know it’s their right and all but there’s really no need.

Previously unseen cars that zoom upto and onto a roundabout in front of me when I’m already halfway onto it causing me to hit the brakes to avoid turning them to jelly. It makes my Vemis beep

[happy_keith]

Mike_:
‘…in the slow lane…’

How bizarre the way these pet hates abound …along with ‘fast lane’ opposed to (the more professional(?)) lane one; lane two; lane three, etc

…fume

[lankytim]

I hate it when I move into lane 2 to allow a line of traffic to join the motorway but some bright motorist joining the carriageway insists on cutting me up so they can get into lane 2 and overtake the car infront, causing me to brake heavily and stranding me in lane 2 doing about 40 mph. Ive already moved over to allow them onto the motorway, what more do they want??

[happy_keith]

Lankytim:
‘… what more do they want…?’

They might not agree - but I suggest they need lessons beyond having barely passed their test sometime in 19-canteen in a rickety 1100cc ■■■■■■.

[dreva]

people who block the road so you cant get passed then wave to say thank you for stopping like your just gonna drive into the side of the nobs

[happy_keith]

dreva:
people who block the road so you cant get passed then wave to say thank you for stopping like your just gonna drive into the side of the nobs :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Provided that you are still moving on the approach to them, albeit with decaying speed, I understand that one is permitted ‘prudent’ use of the horn ‘to remind them of one’s presence’.
I accompany this pleasing activity with a big smile …and hey presto - their undoubted fuming scowl & ‘boat-rower’s wave’ might learn them to think twice before next considering presenting themselves (and the kiddies on board) as T-bone material.

[dreva]

well said keith