OMG I suffer from this, only the other day I found myself moving my head from side to side as a truck was up my chuff on an A road, to be fair I was heavy and only doing 47mph not the 50mph target.
It got so bad that I even considered the ultimate sin which is for a so called pro driver to brake test another pro driver. I choose the better option of pulling into a layby but giving the offending driver an aggresive shake of the head as they accelerated past…
In the end any driver going slower than me is a nuisance and any driver going faster than me is a nutter.
No prizes for guessing what type of vehicle the offending damsel was driving.
I shake my head when:
(1) Undertaken on roundabouts
(2) Overtaken by some ■■■ 4x4 driver who thinks he can pass through solid objects whilst I turn right…
(3) I get a white van man right up my arse - because I happen to be doing 40 in a 40 limit.
(4) ditto… so-called “fellow artic driver” right up my arse in the road works on the M1 - merely because I actually do 50 through them.
(5) Every time someone passes me on their phone, totally unaware that I could be filming them. My presence hasn’t even been noted FFS! 
Make me a VOSA guy on piece rate - and I’ll do a much better job of “paying down Britain’s nation debt” than Osbourne ever could with his lies regarding “losing more slowly” is somehow “winning”… 
On holiday on the Isle of Wight at the moment, bloody place is infested with Head Shakers. I overtook a dawdling Tom and Doris doing less than 30 in a 50 limit, not even like there was anything to see. One way streets seem to confuse them in Shanklin “go left” instruction to them means "stop, look at the sign, dribble a bit, stall (sound horn at the silly old gits), move 6inches, stall, indicate right (old timers disease) the sign says “go left”, go left come to a halt, move off when traffic behind tries to overtake, stop and stay behind a bus with his left indicator on… Thank christ we’re here for a week, half the holiday is over thanks to these National Trustees. How the hell did they manage to get on the ferry?
They were probably young when they got on the ferry a couple of weeks ago. Be warned Muckaway, two weeks on that island will age you by 30 + years and you may well return a bitter old man instead of just a moaning young pup! 
Pete.
Winseer:
I shake my head when:
(3) I get a white van man right up my arse - because I happen to be doing 40 in a 40 limit.
(4) ditto… so-called “fellow artic driver” right up my arse in the road works on the M1 - merely because I actually do 50 through them.
Make me a VOSA guy on piece rate - and I’ll do a much better job of “paying down Britain’s nation debt” than Osbourne ever could with his lies regarding “losing more slowly” is somehow “winning”…
Now THOSE are the clowns I would like DVSA and the TC take action against. They’ll be doing the same stunt in heavy rain, snow and thick fog, till they wipe somebody out.
LIBERTY_GUY:
Winseer:
I shake my head when:
(3) I get a white van man right up my arse - because I happen to be doing 40 in a 40 limit.
(4) ditto… so-called “fellow artic driver” right up my arse in the road works on the M1 - merely because I actually do 50 through them.
Make me a VOSA guy on piece rate - and I’ll do a much better job of “paying down Britain’s nation debt” than Osbourne ever could with his lies regarding “losing more slowly” is somehow “winning”…
Now THOSE are the clowns I would like DVSA and the TC take action against. They’ll be doing the same stunt in heavy rain, snow and thick fog, till they wipe somebody out.
When they hit the limiter between cameras then slam on back down to 50 
I had a classic head shaker moment yesterday on my way back from Buxton, got behind one of these head shakers and he was no where near the target speed so sat right behind him, he made ultra prominent movement to ensure his whole head was in his wing mirror and was violently shaking his head at me, it was so extreme I thought he was actually having a fit!!! I backed off a notch just in case he tried to brake test me, only due to the fact that the unit I had suffered from a lack of decent braking efficiency!!! 
Saw a Micra (surprise surprise) with an “elderly driver, please be patient” sticker in the back window earlier and patience was needed in the bucket load. No disrespect (well not much) but if you need people to be patient (except learners) you should give up your licence.
I got some head shaking off the missus last night. It was decided that some ’ Family activity ’ was required, next minute the 9 yr old is setting up Doctor Who Monopoly.
An hour into the game, the youngster got a little gobby when I landed on ’ The Tardis ’ (Mayfair).
" That’s mine you’ve landed on sucker ". Was his jubilant shout. " Get your hand in your pocket loser ", was his follow-up. The Beaver decided on an aggressive property grab to administer payback.
20 mins later the Beaver had more property than a Russian gangster. As the youngster landed on one of my ’ heavily developed` properties, the financial penalty was terminal for his finances. As his final note was begrudgingly handed over, the Beaver then reminded him it was bed time.
A cursory glance at 'er indoors, revealed SEVERE head shaking.
Muckaway:
Saw a Micra (surprise surprise) with an “elderly driver, please be patient” sticker in the back window earlier and patience was needed in the bucket load. No disrespect (well not much) but if you need people to be patient (except learners) you should give up your licence.
I’ll always show some patience to an elderly or learner driver and maybe/always moan to myself as we all do but never start using the horn, flashing lights, throwing hand gestures out etc as it doesn’t help anyone and will probably make things worse. Those actions are reserved for lane hoggers and mobile phone users!
But some people shouldn’t be on the road. Too many times I’ve encountered elderly people who are nothing but a hazard.
Hammy747:
But some people shouldn’t be on the road. Too many times I’ve encountered elderly people who are nothing but a hazard.
True, but who’s going to tell them to stop driving, or take their licence away? Not an easy thing for the family to do, as it can cause an awful lot of upset…
My friends father had alzheimer’s, the poor bugger couldn’t remember that his licence had been revoked. They lived on a farm with a lot of the family (and cars), so a car would would sometimes go missing, followed by a call from the village shop come and get him. 
And before you say it, it’s difficult to keep an eye on your keys all day, when you’ve got some devious bugger always on the lookout to ■■■■■■ em. Thankfully they didn’t have a tractor, as otherwise he’d have been out there making a key with a bent nail
Evil8Beezle:
Hammy747:
But some people shouldn’t be on the road. Too many times I’ve encountered elderly people who are nothing but a hazard.
True, but who’s going to tell them to stop driving, or take their licence away? Not an easy thing for the family to do, as it can cause an awful lot of upset…
My friends father had alzheimer’s, the poor bugger couldn’t remember that his licence had been revoked. They lived on a farm with a lot of the family (and cars), so a car would would sometimes go missing, followed by a call from the village shop come and get him.
And before you say it, it’s difficult to keep an eye on your keys all day, when you’ve got some devious bugger always on the lookout to ■■■■■■ em. Thankfully they didn’t have a tractor, as otherwise he’d have been out there making a key with a bent nail
Unfortunately my family have been through the experience of telling a family member that they can’t drive any more. Alzheimer’s hasn’t set in too badly at that point and thankfully they had already made it obvious that they weren’t comfortable driving around any more. We ended up buying them one of those mobile phones for elderly people, with big buttons and a big screen. Programmed our numbers and some neighbours/friends into it and basically arranged a schedule of who would be able to run them around in certain days for shopping, doctors etc.
I can only imagine how hard it is to do that with someone who doesn’t realise what on earth is going on, and I kinda understand how taking away that small piece of independence they have left could cause all sorts of arguments.
But as I said, sometimes people are going to have to bite the bullet and take their elderly relatives off the road to stop them killing themselves or someone else.
Come on guys it is not just older drivers that drive dangerously in fact they are amongst the safest on the roads and cause less serious accidents than other drivers. It is the same with every group of drivers. You get good ones and bad ones. My Father drove till he was 84 and was 10 times better than drivers half his age.
I suspect some older drivers annoy truck drivers because they tend to drive under the speed limit which they are perfectly entitled to do. The idiots who sit right on their tail are far the more dangerous.
You certainly do get head shakers of all ages, they’re the ones who dawdle along (as Albion says they’re entitled to do) but it’s when you pass them in a safe legal way and they shake away like you’re doing 90 in a 30 that I find most annoying. It seems to me like they take offence that you don’t want to play follow the leader with them.
I was definitely shaking my head yesterday. Out on my bike, on a narrow lane with a 7.5t limit I watched a loaded 6axle artic cross a bridge with a 2.5t limit posted on it. I know there are no warnings before meeting the bridge but the signs are in place on the bridge and there is a turn off to avoid crossing right next to the bridge.
In a way the driver was very lucky, another route the pratnav shows is down a 6’6" width marked lane, if he had taken that and got round the first of the “S” bends he would never have got out. By the way, the Ind. Estate he was heading for is right on a motorway junction. Regards Kevmac 47.
Got stuck behind a head shaker today on the A429 out of Cirencester. Bloody Honda Jazz with Tom and Doris plus a bloody fish symbol on the back. They both shook their heads as I passed them coming up Fossebridge Hill. Do these fish symbols weigh a ton? Every vehicle that has one can’t go anywhere near the speed limit.
Winseer:
I shake my head when:
(1) Undertaken on roundabouts
(2) Overtaken by some ■■■ 4x4 driver who thinks he can pass through solid objects whilst I turn right…
(3) I get a white van man right up my arse - because I happen to be doing 40 in a 40 limit.
(4) ditto… so-called “fellow artic driver” right up my arse in the road works on the M1 - merely because I actually do 50 through them.
(5) Every time someone passes me on their phone, totally unaware that I could be filming them. My presence hasn’t even been noted FFS!
Make me a VOSA guy on piece rate - and I’ll do a much better job of “paying down Britain’s nation debt” than Osbourne ever could with his lies regarding “losing more slowly” is somehow “winning”…
I’ll put my hands up to this, too! For all the above, and when muppets in cars HAVE TO overtake no matter the speed limit/conditions/road type because it’s a lorry and they’re slower than me and should therefore be behind me. Also the non-signalling-lane-changers, the cycling-on-a-dual-carriageway-even-though-there’s-a-perfectly-good-cycle-path-adjacent-to-its, the no-lights-on-in-the-fogs, and many others. Yes, I must be a certain age (pre-retirement, I must add) because I’ve found that a pronounced, ‘oh-dear-me-you-muppet’, head-shake provokes more of a response than one, two or even five fingers, particularly in the younger muppets, and uses a lot less energy!
I think I encountered the ultimate head shaker earlier. Coming out of Banbury on the A4260, a member of Gods’ Waiting Room bimbling along in his old Yaris. He dawdles along out of Adderbury and down the steep hill he gets overtaken by two cars and then me. As we pass he’s frantically shaking his head and also sticking two fingers up out of the window. I can never understand why if people hate being overtaken, either speed up or pull over don’t abuse people for simply driving to the conditions.
Probably a member of his local neighbour watch group, self righteous old [zb].
I’ve noticed this affliction affects numerous younger men on two wheels too. It’s probably a nervous thing.
