Last one! Honest Guv.
We have recently had an influx of “new money” into the village, from where it came no-one knows (nor cares) so, having had the decent 1930’s 7bed houses on the river knocked down in favour of 3 separate building constructions of 4 glass greenhouse boxes attached to each other by some granite corridors, separate mezzanine floors etc. (You can see directly inside from the river, I doubt they thought of that 🤷♂️🥴😱) We now have a handful of the latest Ferrari WhatsitCamv36/4exhausts/in Red (obvz) that blat past the local school gates in first (obvz) and get all hufty when the crossing lady steps out.. sitting there tapping the go-pedal...
Thats not my main point..
So, obvz is obvz, those FerrariWhatsitCamv36 are accompanied by those Bentley BentWonger’s.. of the three that are from each property, all 3 are Black with Murder Glass, all 3 have private reg-plates (IIRC one is SE7ven, all mashed together to make someone’s bad impression of a name... at least that’s what I think it says) Anyway, driving, yeah.. flat chat past the local school (as you’d expect) to the top roundabout and just pushes out into oncoming traffic and floors it 200mtrs to the next roundabout and so-on, and so-on until they hit the motorway junction.
Its hard to see whose driving, but I doubt it’s the male of the species in this instance purely for the fact that it’s driven very irregular like they’re texting at the same time. Now Bentley must have spent billions developing such a gopping vehicle, but I’m pretty sure it should be able to go slowly and not be all jerky and wobbly...
🤷♂️🥳👎
Its hard to see whose driving, but I doubt it’s the male of the species in this instance purely for the fact that it’s driven very irregular like they’re texting at the same time
sounds fair. Men never drive erratically
sounds fair. Men never drive erratically
I think the whole post was composed while driving tbf.
I drive a white BMW m140i and and range rover. Maybe I'm stw most hated driver.😂
I drive an X3, downsized from an X6. And mrs Tuboflard drives a Range Rover Evoque. In grey. With a private plate. I’ll get my coat.
The old stereotypes still exist - on the way to a shop ride on Saturday morning I see an Angel eye'd BMW 3 series behind me, which then proceeds to tailgate a L driver about 12" behind their bumper, then does the same to another car, then another - when he finally passes me on a DC, it's a 320d, 20's male driver.
I also steer clear of base level Micras (pensioner who will be driving at 25mph everywhere) and 10-15 year old jaguars which look like new, with a panama hat on the rear shelf... 😀
As a biker, you learn to read drivers and their car types pretty quickly 😀
After owning a relatively fast hothatch, and it has a rather striking colour, I have all manner of idiots who either try to race me, cut me up, or won't let me merge onto the carriageway.
Today I had a driver instructor in a 2.0 litre diesel Astra try to race me. I say try, as he was flooring it everywhere, but it's not exactly a pokey car.
I drive quick when the roads are quiet and I give people loads of room - if you tailgate someone you either can't see if the roads clear to overtake, or they try to drive faster than they'd like to, and you can't overtake.
If I was going to stereotype, the most stupid things I've seen are by people with a car that is a bit quick, but actually not that fast.
It's a real spread round here. All marques, taxi and school-runners. Urban 4x4's and granny wagons are all terrible. Between the sense of entitlement, disregard for signalling and looking, then the willful risk-taking and punishment driving....
stay safe out there and keep your wits about you.
Hmm, I drive a black VW Amarok and Mrsbits drives a white Q5.
We’re currently on holiday and have a rental Nissan Juke.
I think I can compete for hated status!
Driving is definitely getting worse and worse; congestion makes people impatient and there are so many high performance cars on the road that people treat the Queen's highway like a giant game of Grand Theft Auto. We had the misfortune to arrive at Beaconsfield Services on the M40 at the same time as an informal gathering of car tuners and it was a horrible experience.
I don't know where it will all end; a glance at any car dealership will tell you there are far too many cars out there looking for drivers so something has to implode soon. We live just outside a Lancashire mill town and the noise at night of racing German sports saloons is irritating and sometimes wakes us up especially when one shortcuts down our street and shakes the building with the blast of noise. I'm sure most of the drivers haven't informed their insurers about the mods so are effectively un-insured.
Not all disability is visible, eg Crohns and Asthma
Yes but.............
One 19 plate range rover in a disabled bay might be a 40 something person with severe autism which makes dealing with crowds difficult, but has channeled that focus into something good, created and sold a silicon valley unicorn and bought a £150k range rover.
The other nine hundred and ninety nine are just self entitled pricks who don't want to park their shiny car with the proles and the drop off bay was already full with a Bently Bentayga. The only disability they have is affluenza.
Mini (anything) driven by women with no idea as to the size of it
That's because men have been telling them that this (holds thumb and middle finger four and a half inches apart) is seven inches.
houses on the river knocked down in favour of 3 separate building constructions of 4 glass greenhouse boxes attached to each other by some granite corridors, separate mezzanine floors etc. (You can see directly inside from the river, I doubt they thought of that
You may remember when they knocked down the Square Rigger at Port Hamble and built those offices with the flats above, with nice big balconies overlooking the marina. I was down there early one morning to-ing and fro-ing from some boat in preparation for some event when a couple emerged in matching bright red dressing gowns to take their morning tea. After half an hour of everybody passing looking up at them they retreated indoors and I don't think I've ever seen anybody on those balconies since. Don't know what car they had though.
It's getting more and more difficult to stereotype these days. Poor driving can come from anywhere at any time, it's not just German rep wagons and white vans you need to watch out for. I simply assume that everyone is a clueless nimrod.
You may remember when they knocked down the Square Rigger at Port Hamble and built those offices with the flats above
I do!
My mate bought one. I thought £270k for a flat was outrageous back then... Seen the price of them now 😳🤯
Those "boxes" are on my side of the river.. you don't have to squint hard to see then tucked under Holly Hill Woods.. and the BentWongas parked outside.
I did see a rather lovely Bentley Convertible about an hour ago.. Painted in a very subtle sage green and olive green hood.. Driven by a young bloke in shades, top down, cruising up Brook Lane...
Looked lovely...
Old BMWs belching smoke and tailgating, Audi RS3 and Focus ST anything thinking its ok to drive 2 inches behind.
Latest trend.... convoy's of Lambo's, Porsches, GTR's etc flying round blind corners at warp speed through the villages on the way to and up Hartside Pass with go-pros stuck all over to record the event. Ultimately it will spoil the fun for all when average speed cameras get stuck up all over.
A pox on all SUV and aspirational Audi owners*
* I drive an A4, wife drives a CRV, son has just had chickenpox.
Anyway...
I was particularly pleased to be tailgated by a Honda Jazz this morning.
I had to double check the rear view to confirm that the lady driving it was using a mirror clipped to the steering wheel to allow the use of both hands to apply make up. Double bubble, whilst driving through the town centre.
I did two circuits round the next available roundabout.
On this morning's commute it was a Vauxhall Insignia driver showing their frustration at having the shittest company car in the car park by driving like a total numpty.
Ok not a car but Stagecoach coaches are driven pretty aggressively through town round here.
Driving home from work yesterday I stopped to wait for line of cars to drive under a narrow arched bridge. The Hilux driver flashed his lights and waved, the X5 driver flashed his lights, the focus driver looked straight ahead and the Land cruiser driver waved. Knobs are knobs. Around here a lot of them seem to drive MK 4 golfs with rusty rear arches/ kerbed alloy(s)/ lamp post dented boot/ combination of the 3.
I nominate me in my Kia Stonic 1ltr petrol. I may be old with silver hair but I do like to give it some beans which can p**** some people off😹