Least liked car drivers (Poll)

[Linda]

LINDA... do you have to have some kind of horsey insurance??... just wondered after being in Lambourne once and a racehorse (jumpy anyway) tried getting into the back of my lorry!...

i don't think racehorses should be allowed on the road, they're SOO jumpy and even driving slow and quiet they'll be up on their back legs.



And... my sisted has an Audi and her Husband has a BMW!!... he's not bad, but she's a $hite driver!!!

You SHOULD have 3rd party insurance. I do. It covers any damage my horses do to people/objects whether riding or in hand, or loose. ETA - there is no legal requirement though. Reputable racehorse yards will normally be insured.

I have to say most racehorses I have know any good on the roads. It's the nutty ponies with badly taught kids on that annoy me.

I also have to say rude, inconsiderate riders really annoy me as I try very hard to be considerate riding on the roads. There really is room for us all if we are all polite and responsible.

[B16mts]

Linda,

I agree with you there. I wish all horse riders were as sensible as you.

Round here we have 5 or 6 horses trot down our cul-de-sac (i've no idea where they go!) leaving a trail of fertilizer behind them!

It the ones that go 2 abreast on really jittery horses, looking at me as they are far superior. The farm on the way to my parents farm is a stables now. The a-hole owners come down our single track, mile long gravel lane, mucking everywhere. Then they look at me in disgust when I come to visit in my car, and the horses go bonkers when I try to squeeze past in my skyline. What's worst is that there's no public right of way at all! so basically they're trespassing on my dads land, when they've got 60 acres of their own!

I've often been tempted to collect some cow poo, and spread it their drive, see how they feel.

If eveyone was considerate to each other, there would be no problems on our roads.

cheers,

Mart

[hellmett]

Re

I must say that I am becoming increasingly concerned about the absolute morons who are on our roads now.

Maybe it's a sign of the times but everyday I seem to be having at least 2/3 incidents that could potientially be fatal!

My worst dislike at the moment has to be "corner cutters" and eejits who drive in the middle of the road causing you to climb the verge to avoid them!

Do these idiots not realiise that if they clipped an oncoming car (especially a Surf, ahem!) they would be just as injured, if not dead!, as the poor bugger that they hit?

Over here we have a bus company called "Ulsterbus" who are the worst offenders for being aggressive and ignorant when they meet you on the roads.

In my village a few years ago an Ulsterbus driver "killed" 2 cyclists instantly by cutting a corner and hitting them head on, imagine that!

Nearly all of them would smash into you and force you off the road simply because they are driving a huge vehicle and it doesn't belong to them so they simply do not care.

I have had to slam on the brakes and mount the verge on countless occasions caused by these pratts and their stupid attitudes.

I cannot help wondering, if they did cause the death of a young family would they be at all concerned?

I do not understand the mentality behind this driving at all!

Mobile phone users who do not make the slightest attempt to disguise the fact they are on the phone, I realise that people still use it when they drive, we have all done it!, but a lot of them seem to be saying "**** you" I'll use my phone if I want!

Young "dudes" in white company vans!, whats that all about then?

Tailgaters, very simple to get rid of by dabbing the brakes but I am now asking myself is it worth it, it gets them more and more irate and might cause them to crash hurting or killing some other unfortunate bugger!

Slow down and let them past, it's only our pride which causes us to become annoyed!

What a screwed up place we live in nowadays anyway!

I am "trying" so hard to depersonalise myself from it all, a dozen times a day I used to want to kill someone and I swear that I woulda done if I have had the chance.

DO NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY!

Let the eejits go on their way, try to relax and drive safely!

Why should some ignorant lunatic cause us to become so anxious and annoyed?

The fact that we get soooooo obsessed with other drivers and their **** driving is letting them get one over on us to begin with!

I do not give them the satisfaction anymore!

I simply smile very sweetly and drive on!

What about the dickheads who could let you out of a junction in bad traffic but simply won't!, because they are so nasty?

See how they would do absolutely anything to avoid your gaze and eye contact, it's really hilarious isn't it?

I just smile and wave at them now and watch them squirm, it makes my day!

If someone gives me a rude gesture, same thing, smile and wave!

They love it and it makes their day!

Anyhow, drive carefully and don't let the *******s grind you down, life is too hard nowadays to begin with without having the added stress of road anger to add to it!

Later!

Gary

[RobD]

Tailgaters,who in my experience are mostly women!Maybe they just want to get a closer look at the driver

[Woodzie]

Speaks for itself

[NFC]

Anyone who thinks that time spent behind the wheel can be used to do something other than driving.

Anyone who thinks red lights and road markings are suggestions.

Anyone who thinks that their time is more important than someone else's safety.

Even been a passenger in a car while the driver tried to work out what the "funny" noise was. That'd be the siren on the ambulance behind you.
With the flashing lights.
For the last 800 yards.
No, you can't outrun it. Grr!

Used to drive for a living, glad I don't now.

[Koi]

Fog light braindeads, its foggy in Scotland so must use me foglights even though they live in cornwall.
Chav boys who use foglights 24 hrs a day
Buses, I'll just pull out now. Me bus is bigger than you
Lorry drivers, theres a hill lets pull out to overtake and stay side by side for the next three miles
Idiots who still use mobile phones when driving, become totally oblivious to whats going on around them.
Roundabouts/Junction nerds, shall i pull out yet, better not theres a car coming two miles down the road, best wait til it passes.
Joggers,walkers, cyclists, horses, lets run, ride three abreast in the road
Motorway middle and outside laners, complete idiots they should have their car crushed and licence thrown away.
Tailgaters, love em, hit your brakes and watch their face as they c**p their pants.
People who undertake up the inside, as for middle and outside laners.
Look its down to one lane, why they queuing all in one lane, lets go all the way up to the cones and cut in, then they wonder why they don't get let in.
Lets go down the slip road at 40mph to join the motorway, must give them an adrenalin rush to do it.
Oh a roundabout, lets play do not signal, drive round it til I feel I want to turn off and see if everyone can guess what I am gonna do.
Traffic lights, hello they went green an hour ago, put the lipstick, hairbrush down and move your ass.
People cut you up, you give a quick toot and they give you the bird as if they done nothing wrong, numbnuts.
Oh a traffic jam on the motorway, so lets drive up the hard shoulder.
60mph road, a lorry/van doing 45mph, behind it a car, a long straight comes up, nothing coming. Does that car overtake, oh no and you don't quite have the power do overtake both, so sit behind them both for miles pulling your hair out and calling them all the names under the sun.
I hate them all.
But without the above I think driving would be boring
I hate them all.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Mornin Nige. Nice day innit?

[TonyN]

To be honest, I love driving, I'd do it all day if I could, I used to drive a 7.5ton Truck or a van into the City every afternoon, to do deliverys, and I loved it, its interesting and amusing watching others drive (or try to!)

I don't pi$$ed at others often, it dosn't alter how they're going to drive. You can't point their mistakes out to most people these days, everyone just takes offence and it ends in a row, sad, but thats the way it is.

Everyone gets one mistake in my book, and I ready for it usually, after a while you can who's gonna do something stupid and you can normally tell and allow for it, and hope others are if you slip up once in a while.

[anson]

i used to be a polite/considerate driver until i started using the roads alot for work..then i slowly began to get p***ed off with the idiots on the roads ..now i have little time to give them any consideration..i just expect it now and have my middle finger on constant alert ready for them ...
most of the things mentioned previously are annoying but i`ve lost my patience with horse riders(not the single or couple of riders) but up here in a place called middleham,they have racing stables...they go riding with 10 to 15 horses at once and can you ****ers like get past them and they don`t give way or wave you past..its all country lanes with lots of bends!! but what i don`t understand is that they go from the stable to the training fields/tracks on the roads when they have lots of fields that they could use and stay off the roads!!

[Linda]

Linda,

I agree with you there. I wish all horse riders were as sensible as you.

Round here we have 5 or 6 horses trot down our cul-de-sac (i've no idea where they go!) leaving a trail of fertilizer behind them!

It the ones that go 2 abreast on really jittery horses, looking at me as they are far superior. If eveyone was considerate to each other, there would be no problems on our roads.

Well I'm really sorry that you have such inconsiderate horse riders near you, and if they are trespassing too you have a right to be angry, I would be too!!These people make me too as they give considerate riders a bad name, as bad drivers give other drivers a bad name!!

However, riding sensibly two abreast on nervous and jittery horses, is actually advised in the highway code - the idea is that the young or nervous horse is escorted by a older confident one on the outside. Again, though consideration of the route, and the situation, by both rider and driver makes this a non issue. Certainly I've never had a problem!!

And on the pooh front.... not sure any rider can help it if their horse ****s on the road??? I've had people come out with shovels to get it for their gardens before now. Again though - I ride in the country, so prehaps is more accepted/expected???

[marky]

Fog light braindeads, its foggy in Scotland so must use me foglights even though they live in cornwall.
Chav boys who use foglights 24 hrs a day
Buses, I'll just pull out now. Me bus is bigger than you
Lorry drivers, theres a hill lets pull out to overtake and stay side by side for the next three miles
Idiots who still use mobile phones when driving, become totally oblivious to whats going on around them.
Roundabouts/Junction nerds, shall i pull out yet, better not theres a car coming two miles down the road, best wait til it passes.
Joggers,walkers, cyclists, horses, lets run, ride three abreast in the road
Motorway middle and outside laners, complete idiots they should have their car crushed and licence thrown away.
Tailgaters, love em, hit your brakes and watch their face as they c**p their pants.
People who undertake up the inside, as for middle and outside laners.
Look its down to one lane, why they queuing all in one lane, lets go all the way up to the cones and cut in, then they wonder why they don't get let in.
Lets go down the slip road at 40mph to join the motorway, must give them an adrenalin rush to do it.
Oh a roundabout, lets play do not signal, drive round it til I feel I want to turn off and see if everyone can guess what I am gonna do.
Traffic lights, hello they went green an hour ago, put the lipstick, hairbrush down and move your ass.
People cut you up, you give a quick toot and they give you the bird as if they done nothing wrong, numbnuts.
Oh a traffic jam on the motorway, so lets drive up the hard shoulder.
60mph road, a lorry/van doing 45mph, behind it a car, a long straight comes up, nothing coming. Does that car overtake, oh no and you don't quite have the power do overtake both, so sit behind them both for miles pulling your hair out and calling them all the names under the sun.
I hate them all.
But without the above I think driving would be boring
I hate them all.

DITTO

[M35A2]

60mph road, a lorry/van doing 45mph, behind it a car, a long straight comes up, nothing coming. Does that car overtake, oh no and you don't quite have the power do overtake both, so sit behind them both for miles pulling your hair out and calling them all the names under the sun.
I hate them all.






Tell me what the speed limit is for a vehicle over 7.5 tonnes on a single carriageway road please Koi?

[B16mts]

Doesn't highway code state that any large vehicle such as a truck, should not exceed 40 mph on a single carriageway?

I which case all truckers are speeding!

if they did 40mph, it'd be far easier to overtake.

Though I could well be wrong, sure someone will come along and correct me.

cheers,

Mart

[ecosurf]

Taxi drivers. Especially those who walk into our garage with severe damage, usually entire front end, chassis legs and engine, and say they need it done by the weekend so they can go and rip people off by forcing them to pay up front and not run the meter. Then you give them the estimate (which takes frickin' for ever, those TX1s are **** for parts), and they say they'll give you half the price... as long as you just "paint the back, while you've got some mixed". And then they go off in a strop because you say even if we could do it now, the parts won't be in for at least 24 hours. They come back an hour later, to get the repairs done. When I say we're booked up until Christmas, and it'll be early next year, I get called a racist and informed that I'm gonna be reported to the police for harrasment.

Yeah. Today was a fun day.