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Really minor annoyances

Tex said:
Ask your other half to trim down his nuts then?

(Aside from the lame attempt at humour I’m slightly serious here as it’s been a long time since I’ve known a bewer to have a Terry Waite’s allotment😆)
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Bring back the TWAs, I say. Looks and smells class.
 

My dog, when out for his final Jimmy Riddle of the evening, gets spooked by an Owl & decides to bark the neighbourhood awake!
 
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humbug said:
drivers who dawdle doing 45 on the single carriageway bits between berwick and alnwick on a clear, sunny day.
drivers who speed up on the dual carriageway bits when they realise a wagon is overtaking them.
drivers who come to a stop on the a1 to let someone out of a side road bringing the main road from edinburgh to london to a stop.
drivers who can't keep their car within the lane markings on roundabouts.
drivers who struggle to know which lane they need to be in on said roundabouts despite it being on signs and in painted git big arrows and letters on the road.
drivers who chop and change lanes when it's chocka.
drivers who do 30 through the tyne tunnel southbound.
the bellend who thought it would be a good idea to put traffic lights on the hartlepool turn off junction resulting in standing traffic on the a19 every day.
:D
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Or just drivers who are pointlessly aggressive.

I dropped my daughter off in the local high street last night, and pulled into a little dropping off area that is only wide enough for half the car. Dropped her off, and started signalling to pull out. Given the cars had to pull round me, I expected to be let out pretty quickly, but the first two cars did not. The third one was way down the street so I started to pull out. For having dared pull out in front of him, he roared up to me, lights flashing and still tried to rapidly overtake while by that time I had pulled out and was already doing 20 (it is a 20) limit. They nearly hit a parked car on the other side of the road and then continued to drive right in my bumper until I turned off a different way.

Given they were 100 yards back when I started to pull out, if they had just stayed driving as they were, it would have made zero difference to their life. He must have floored it to catch up and the roar of the engine made pedestrians turn to look.

Some people get a kick out of being a wanker I guess.
 
DaveH said:
Or just drivers who are pointlessly aggressive.

I dropped my daughter off in the local high street last night, and pulled into a little dropping off area that is only wide enough for half the car. Dropped her off, and started signalling to pull out. Given the cars had to pull round me, I expected to be let out pretty quickly, but the first two cars did not. The third one was way down the street so I started to pull out. For having dared pull out in front of him, he roared up to me, lights flashing and still tried to rapidly overtake while by that time I had pulled out and was already doing 20 (it is a 20) limit. They nearly hit a parked car on the other side of the road and then continued to drive right in my bumper until I turned off a different way.

Given they were 100 yards back when I started to pull out, if they had just stayed driving as they were, it would have made zero difference to their life. He must have floored it to catch up and the roar of the engine made pedestrians turn to look.

Some people get a kick out of being a wanker I guess.
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A lot do that.
Pull out into a road when the nearest car is way off in the distance (in a 30 zone), and next thing it's almost ramming into you - to prove a point I suppose.

Roads would be so much safer (and enjoyable) if folk would just calm down and drive with a bit of patience and respect for others
 
seahamstar said:
A lot do that.
Pull out into a road when the nearest car is way off in the distance (in a 30 zone), and next thing it's almost ramming into you - to prove a point I suppose.

Roads would be so much safer (and enjoyable) if folk would just calm down and drive with a bit of patience and respect for others
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I remember me and my then lass crossing the road round Canary Wharf years ago. It was late and the road was almost empty apart from a black cab going very slowly a long way down the road. So we just started walking across confident that we'd be well across long before he got near. He suddenly started speeding up and tried to make us panic and run off the road. Wonder what he would have done if he actually got close enough to a pedestrian to run them over
 
Cockney Mackem said:
I remember me and my then lass crossing the road round Canary Wharf years ago. It was late and the road was almost empty apart from a black cab going very slowly a long way down the road. So we just started walking across confident that we'd be well across long before he got near. He suddenly started speeding up and tried to make us panic and run off the road. Wonder what he would have done if he actually got close enough to a pedestrian to run them over
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Counter to that is the groups of kids who think it is funny to dawdle over the road

One day they will do that to someone who is on their phone/messing with the radio/not paying attention and get taken out
 
seahamstar said:
A lot do that.
Pull out into a road when the nearest car is way off in the distance (in a 30 zone), and next thing it's almost ramming into you - to prove a point I suppose.

Roads would be so much safer (and enjoyable) if folk would just calm down and drive with a bit of patience and respect for others
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Years ago I worked briefly at the police as a civilian, and we had to go to visit another site. We went in the bosses car.

On a high street on our side of the road was a large lorry being loaded, right before a T junction. It give us no visibility of the junction and anyone trying to pull out could not see us. As we pulled round the lorry, someone pulled out at the junction, got half way out blocking our way, saw us for the first time and because they were turning right towards us, ended up stuck. They held their hands up in a sorry gesture. We were half on the wrong side of the road, but it was wide enough for oncoming traffic to pass too.

To most normal people, this is an everyday thing. Difficult conditions caused by a temporary hazard, most people make the best of it and would have waved back in acknowledgement and sat back. Not my boss who then hammered his horn and started gesturing and swearing at the bloke. The bloke just shook his head and clearly mouthed "fuck off". My boss went ape shit, he got out the car and waddled over as fast as he could, went up to the window of the car and started waving his ID in his face "I am a detective sergeant you can't tell me to fuck off, I could arrest you right now" etc.

We were sitting in the car saying we could be witnesses to this and if it went further would have to say that our boss started it by calling him a f***ing wanker in the first place. Not an easy position to be in 2 months into the job. Someone coming the other way saw the issue and stopped to let this bloke out. My boss got back in the car sweating, purple faced, swearing and then drove like a complete and utter moron for 5 minutes until he calmed down.

I just don't get it. A smile a wave, and everyone on their way within 5 seconds, vs make a big deal about it, don't move for 5 minutes and then spend a lot of time stressed and angry about it. There are a lot of people who prefer the stress and anger rather than just let these things go.
 
DaveH said:
Years ago I worked briefly at the police as a civilian, and we had to go to visit another site. We went in the bosses car.

On a high street on our side of the road was a large lorry being loaded, right before a T junction. It give us no visibility of the junction and anyone trying to pull out could not see us. As we pulled round the lorry, someone pulled out at the junction, got half way out blocking our way, saw us for the first time and because they were turning right towards us, ended up stuck. They held their hands up in a sorry gesture. We were half on the wrong side of the road, but it was wide enough for oncoming traffic to pass too.

To most normal people, this is an everyday thing. Difficult conditions caused by a temporary hazard, most people make the best of it and would have waved back in acknowledgement and sat back. Not my boss who then hammered his horn and started gesturing and swearing at the bloke. The bloke just shook his head and clearly mouthed "fuck off". My boss went ape shit, he got out the car and waddled over as fast as he could, went up to the window of the car and started waving his ID in his face "I am a detective sergeant you can't tell me to fuck off, I could arrest you right now" etc.

We were sitting in the car saying we could be witnesses to this and if it went further would have to say that our boss started it by calling him a f***ing wanker in the first place. Not an easy position to be in 2 months into the job. Someone coming the other way saw the issue and stopped to let this bloke out. My boss got back in the car sweating, purple faced, swearing and then drove like a complete and utter moron for 5 minutes until he calmed down.

I just don't get it. A smile a wave, and everyone on their way within 5 seconds, vs make a big deal about it, don't move for 5 minutes and then spend a lot of time stressed and angry about it. There are a lot of people who prefer the stress and anger rather than just let these things go.
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All I got from that is to say I’m shocked - shocked I tell ya - that a ranking policeman turns out to be an overly aggressive entitled arsehole with anger management issues.
 
DaveH said:
Years ago I worked briefly at the police as a civilian, and we had to go to visit another site. We went in the bosses car.

On a high street on our side of the road was a large lorry being loaded, right before a T junction. It give us no visibility of the junction and anyone trying to pull out could not see us. As we pulled round the lorry, someone pulled out at the junction, got half way out blocking our way, saw us for the first time and because they were turning right towards us, ended up stuck. They held their hands up in a sorry gesture. We were half on the wrong side of the road, but it was wide enough for oncoming traffic to pass too.

To most normal people, this is an everyday thing. Difficult conditions caused by a temporary hazard, most people make the best of it and would have waved back in acknowledgement and sat back. Not my boss who then hammered his horn and started gesturing and swearing at the bloke. The bloke just shook his head and clearly mouthed "fuck off". My boss went ape shit, he got out the car and waddled over as fast as he could, went up to the window of the car and started waving his ID in his face "I am a detective sergeant you can't tell me to fuck off, I could arrest you right now" etc.

We were sitting in the car saying we could be witnesses to this and if it went further would have to say that our boss started it by calling him a f***ing wanker in the first place. Not an easy position to be in 2 months into the job. Someone coming the other way saw the issue and stopped to let this bloke out. My boss got back in the car sweating, purple faced, swearing and then drove like a complete and utter moron for 5 minutes until he calmed down.

I just don't get it. A smile a wave, and everyone on their way within 5 seconds, vs make a big deal about it, don't move for 5 minutes and then spend a lot of time stressed and angry about it. There are a lot of people who prefer the stress and anger rather than just let these things go.
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Aye, absolute madness considering we're all sat behind the controls of a potential killing machine.
 
Hawkings Boots said:
You can add to this the people on the inside lane when this happens who kill themselves and almost cause an accident to move over so the people of the slip road can join

It's the job of the person on the slip road to find a safe place to join, not yours to create one for them
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People who put cruise control on and sit outside you in the middle lane to stop you facilitating others joining the carriageway are worse though . Worse still are the ones not blanked out on cruise but are just awkward pedantic ****s who wont play the game
 
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