I keep returning to this subject, once again I am back, yet I do not claim to be a brilliant driver but I try not to drive like a headless moose on speed. I may not be perfectly straight with the laws of the road, a small amount of artistic license or poetic license if something is very much to be frowned apon. It just happens somebody hogging the middle lane on the motorway doing 70MPH, what are you to do? Stay behind, on the inside (left) naturally, but you must not undertake that is bad. Overtake, well you could, but that involves breaking the speed limit doing ohh 71MPH to pass this guy (or lass) but thats gonna take a while and piss all the beemer drivers off. I cannot win. In comes the artistic license, I mean depress the accelerator some more and ‘open her up’ 80MPH maybe touching a little more. Being a fairly new driver I would be heavily frowned apon if I was caught performing such a speed and therefore I stick to the limits the rest of the time and only do it for as long as needed. Sorry for this just a random musing before tonights moan …
Went out to the cinema and get some grub dropping my friends home going along a dual carridge way with a 40MPH limit at the limit I signalled to move to the outside lane car in the distance performs the opposing motion and undertakes me. We stop about 10 seconds later at a red light (kinda surprised he stopped) him to my left looking like a moron with his crapped up Vauxhall Astra Mk 3. Traffic lights go amber, boom he is off, go green me trundles along (knowing the next set of lights are red) I get to the next set they go green as I draw closer. Muppet then cut me up, ie moved into my lane on the bend of the roundabout without a signal. I think its safe to say he then ‘floored it’ and went speeding towards another set of lights, which a car was travelling at a normal speed through with all the lights and pavements in the way he couldn’t overtake there. So, this is where the madness came in he went onto the wrong side of the road with no hope of moving back over and overtook all the traffic before cutting back in line rather abruptly. He then shot off into the night hopefully overturning and rolling into a brook somewhere or passing a copper no idea which sounds more appealing.
Personally its the “people” (I don’t wish to elevate this self centered plank to the level of civilised people) that drive like this that need prosecuting and having their license endorsed with smarties points. Even with the roads crammed with ‘Traffic enforcement cameras’ they can only catch speeding motorists, or at a push people that jump red lights (no wonder Royal Mail are in a bad financial situation.) I propose a device simply called Twat Cam but then again that sounds like it belongs in the adult entertainment industry, maybe Asshole Cam butthat has the same problem. Ohh heck Moronic Driver Cam, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring too it