Have roads become this stressful

[STi_Bandit]

Was driving into work this morning, just before i hit leith i hit the stop start traffic, Now in this kinda of situation i like to keep movin so tend to drive a little slower just to keep movin rather than up behind the person in front and stop ever two seconds.

Now today i was doing this had made two car gap in front of me as a toddled along on the clutch, had an evo right on my rear bumper tuting his horn and using sign langauge at me.

When he then procceded to overtake me at warp factor 9 just to slam his brakes on to pull into my wee gap.

Noth this seemed stupid to me as he sat in front of me for over 30mins after that,

My questions is iam a wrong in just chilling in a traffic jam and just going at a constant speed i think not

[Baz81]

I would have to agree with you !

It took me an hr and 45 minutes to get from Livingston to the Fort Kinnaird due to an accident.  So I put down the window in the sun, listened to some tunes and chilled as there wasn't a thing I could do.  But what p#*sed me right off was a twat in a silver 306 racing about in front of me changing lanes... f*nny ! and he got no further than me any quicker....

[ANDYJDMSTI]

Good to see Evo drivers give themselves bad reps too.

But then again you get pr1cks driving allsorts.

i would have got out and had a "word" with the tube

[chris_c201]

Traffic is a pain, everyone hates it but i jus don't see the point in being stressed about it.... no what you mean tho, hate when you are leaving a slight gap and some numpty decides he wants to squeeze in to it...

Ah well, what can ya do!!

[st3ph3n]

Drive 8 inches from the car in front?

Seems to be the way it works on the M8 every morning.

What gets me as well as those plonkers who do the lane jumping is those people who sit far too close to the car in front and are constantly on the brakes to avoid cramming into the back of them.

The brake lights of course being the cause of phantom traffic jams eventually.

[Baz81]

Have to agree with you st3ph3n on the to close = brake lights = traffic jams..

The thing that gets me is the sun causes this too.. Just after the newbridge junction between hermistangate the morning sun causes everyone to slow down.. is it to enjoy it while it lasts?  Who knows !

[st3ph3n]

Lol Baz.

Other notorious sun locations - east bound A8 at the shawhead flyover. Fair enough there's a build up of traffic there generally, but on a sunny morning at the right time of year it's stoppedsville.

West bound M8 about 1.5 miles short of the Livingston junction late afternoon/early evening during the summer especially. The amount of times I've driven home from Edinburgh and been stopped there for NO reason other than a bit of ruddy sun.

WHY I OUGHTTA!

[dan_jess]

What about the people that go right down to the end of a two into one lane and caus a bottle neck jam! Ther the worst! If they wud just filter thru, then every1 wud get thru quicker and with a lot less stress!

[alistair_learmonth]

Or drivers who come tearing up yer backside only to indicate left and

tear up to the slow moving crane or truck you pulled out to overtake

like everyone else, he proceeds to indicate right and someone lets them

in.

[Baz81]

What about these twats that sit in traffic coming up to a set of traffic lights.  Its there turn to go your behind them, the lights procced to change, they change! the twat in front site there, get read to go and goes bout 10 seconds later..  Is it really that hard to judge lights changing?  Wouldn't like to see them at the Quarter mile, you could give them an STI and you could still hump them in an Ignis 1.0 pulling a horse box with the scottish rugby team in it!

[STi_Bandit]

ok what about when you go in a right hand lane thinkning the guy in front is goint straight on but the puts his right hand indicator on when the lights go green and theres no filter on the lights and your sat behind hime as the whole left lane drives past you.

[Baz81]

PSML..  You've done that at Fairmile head?  done that myself, can't help but give myself a few choice words..[:$]

[st3ph3n]

And that's why I never set right up behind people at the lights. Never know when they're going to change their mind or even just breakdown.

Another REAL hatred is non-signallers. There's a junction on my way to work where so many people don't indicate they're turning left when I'm trying to get out of it to turn right. I could be out easily if they'd just SIGNAL FFS!

[STi_Bandit]

lol yes was at fairmile head lol [:$]

Had one today, needed to get air in the tires and somebody thought it be a good idea to park in the air and water bay whilst he went into the garage for some snacks and juice.

Upon return to said car proceeded to hand out the snacks and drinks all round the car, noticing he forgot somthing went back into the garage, All the time me sitting there just needing air because he was to lasy to park in the spaces away from the garages and the air and water was right next to the entrance of the petrol station grrrrrr [A]

 

[oletam]

How about theguys going to turn right at the roundabout 2 miles up the road who move into the outside lane at 50 mph and just sit there.

Or them that don't know the speed limit and sit in the offside lane at 60. That's a real problem on the A77 since the SPECS cameras went up.[:$][:@]

 

[the squiggle]

ok what about when you go in a right hand lane thinkning the guy in front is goint straight on but the puts his right hand indicator on when the lights go green and theres no filter on the lights and your sat behind hime as the whole left lane drives past you.

Simply approach two lane junctions on the left hand lane, obviously checking the left hand lane is not a filter.  I know it looks tempting as there is only three cars in the right hand lane and about 3 dozen in the left hand lane but sure as milk is milk and spam is spam, the left hand lane will get throw quicker due to the dittery old codger sticking his right turn indicator on at the last minute.  This now makes the right hand occupants now want to enter the left lane and on goes the indicators along with the pleading looks on thier faces.

As for the Evo driver, must agree with Andy and i would feel the need to discuss the intricacies of the Highway Code.  In fact i would have loved to see the Evo driver's face when the LHFOJ got out for a word.  Funny how inlet manifold springs to mine......chortle

My gripe of the moment is with the plonkers who insist that they can go right down to the end of the lane which is blocked off and expect to cut in to the flow of traffic at the last possible second.  I deal with these numpties by straddling the van across the lane that is to be closed when there is about 800yds to go.  This allows the traffic in front of me to get a pace up and get through the roadworks quicker.  The plan failed one day when there was an unmarked Traffic car contained in the artificial queue and i dont think they were too impressed, bah bloody humbug.

Grant

[colin_ross]

If you'd got a tug you could have told them you were simply bringing your own brand of Squirrel justice to the roads. How, you got a problem with that [:@][:@][:@]

[the squiggle]

If you'd got a tug you could have told them you were simply bringing your own brand of Squirrel justice to the roads. How, you got a problem with that [:@][:@][:@]

HHHMMMMM, getting a tug from a couple of traffic cops, alas no all i got was a very stern look and a wag of the finger.

Grant

[Gumball]

aye the roads are very stressful at times.

I hate to think how the roads would seem to an elderly woman, a pregnant woman or someone else who may be vulnarable.

Today as an example i was driving along the M74 towards strathclyde park roundabout to head home and some banger and i mean a real tosspot in his 40's driving a silver mondeo SC03MLW starts coming right up behind me.

He then swerved out in front of someone, cut them up and then drove up another cars chorus till he got to the roundabout.

at this point i pulled alongside and asked him if he always drove like a goat humper. his response was the finger as he braveley sped away.

My car stayed off boost, i stayed seated and he remained a crazed peadophile into the sunset.

Well Mr SC03MLW.............next time your not expecting it, the stealth astra will pull alongside you block u in, and then your teas out.

pr8ck

[Baz81]

PMSL.. Liked that gumball... "Teas Out".<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

My recent encounter in the world of muppets with driving licences, envolves the Sheriff hall round about at the end of the City Bypass and the numerous sets of lights positioned on it that I think are controlled by a Magic 8 ball. 

Why must the many muppets cross over the white line as the lights are changing to only block the lane for the next joining junction? Do these people have brains or are they just that dam stupid and ignorant that you would love to slap them about the face many times over?!?

 

[st3ph3n]

When the first person does it in the morning people from the other lanes think "I'll have to do it now".

Gentlemen at the top of the hill. RELEASE YOUR SNOWBALLS.

[oobster]

I find people who have their rear fog-lights on when it's not foggy very stressful. When you think about it, it seems daft to get stressed about something so trivial, but i can't help it.

I just wish i had the balls to stop and let my foot and the fog light become acquainted

[st3ph3n]

If you drive with the rear fogs on how are you supposed to "fake brake" for tailgaters? Cracks me up driving along and just flicking the rear fogs on to fool someone into thinking you're slowing down. Safer than just standing on the brakes and hoping they can stop quicker than you anyway.

ANOTHER ONE! Driving the M8 this morning and there was a guy clearly not following M8 rules. Every time he passed a car he'd pull back in, but do the same speed as the outside lane was doing, then when he got to the next car he'd want back into the outside again and cause a real nuisance of himself.

Now this would be great if EVERYONE returned to the left after overtaking on the M8, but they don't. Unless they're a dangerous undertaker.

[Baz81]

The certainly doesn't know the M8 code as it doesn't really matter what lane your in, neither is much faster than the other unless you use the hard shoulder!

As for tailgaters, I just use my left foot for touching the break pedal, gets the high level brake light shining in there face.

Oh, just remebered the funniest thing I seen on the back of a truck.  On the left it said " Hows my driving?" on the right is said "Call my mum as she gets worried"  That just tickled a soft spot on the way to work.