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The wife drove back from the mother-in-laws this afternoon as I was having a "no kids to look after and ended up drinking one to many" moment.
turns out shes a freaking middle laner!!!
Not quite sure when she lost the ability to drive but if I'm honest I don't think im surprised, i'm going aks her why she does it and report back to the STW massive.
it'll probably end up in a barney but I have to try in the name of science.
wish me luck
Why didn't you ask her while she was doing it ?
started too be i wasn't feeling great.
I was pleased she was going gentle on me and I didn't want to push my luck.
Fair comment then 😆
'Cos it's difficult to walk home from the middle lane of the motorway?
You are married to a small middle aged Asian woman with 7 kids in the car?
naaaaa if I was she wouldn't be on the motorway...she'd be too busy blasting red lights in south manchester.
Wahey, not-even-thinly-veiled-racism strikes again!
Perhaps when you sober up it will have been a very bad dream.
AndyP - Member
haha loving that site
"Here we have these 8-billion watt bulbs, so let's put them on this 4x4 and let's put them at shoulder height. Oh, and make sure they're pointing level so the customer can see small children a hundred miles away."
Are you insinuating it's a woman thing then?
(C_G trouble-maker)
Nobody wants a fight obviously 😀
Are you insinuating it's a woman thing then?
I thought that was obvious. Doesn't everybody know women are rubbish drivers?
Oooooooooooooh! Get you!
you didn't know your [i]wife[/i] was a middle laner... wonder what else there is you don't know about her...
Perhaps she was obeying the highway code, you can stay in the middle lane as long you like as if your passing traffic.
I'm with Drac, don't really get this middle-lane-hog thing unless they are unnecessarily restricting the flow of other traffic. Stay there as long as you like if there is slower moving traffic in the near-side lane and you're not holding up traffic coming up behind you.
Perhaps she was obeying the highway code
Members of the Middle Lane Drivers Club, don't obey the highway code.
[i]138
On a three-lane dual carriageway, you may use the middle lane or the right-hand lane to overtake [b]but return to the middle and then the left-hand lane when it is safe.[/b][/i]
.....and they generally don't like using the outside lane either, preferring instead to slam their brakes on if necessary - life's too complicated to 'change lanes'.
Except of course when it's their exit - then the steering wheel is yanked over and everyone is expected to get out of their way. Including all the ones who are driving correctly on the inside lane.
They turn a perfectly good 3 lane road into a dual carriageway
Middle laning isn't just annoying - it can be properly dangerous, all you need is one more cock and you can have a very big accident as I almost found out last year.
I was travelling on the A1 Northbound near Ferry Bridge where it becomes 3 lanes. It was late and there was very little traffic around. I moved into the outside lane to overtake some knob hogging the middle lane despite there being no traffic within sight ahead. I passed and pulled into the middle lane, then started to pull into the inside lane when a flash of light caught my eye through the back side window and I hesitated. A mini shot through undertaking the both of us (enter our 'one more cock') and must have been travelling a good 30 mph faster than I was.
It was FAR too close! If my van didn't have side windows I'd very likely be dead right now, along with a few others.
don't really get this middle-lane-hog thing unless they are unnecessarily restricting the flow of other traffic
Well the whole point is that they are doing just that. None of us have an issue with people using the middle lane to overtake stuff in the left lane, just with people who stay in the middle lane when there isn't anything in the left lane to overtake.
Must admit that it grips my sht a bit to see people trundling along a quiet motorway in the middle lane. If we still had traffic police then they could have a word.
It helps if you're in the middle as the perspective is equal.
does my ****ing nut in. Hate having to pull all the way out to the outside lane then back in to the inside as some idiot wants to drive at 60 in the middle.
come on boys - motorways in the UK have been like free ways for years - and anyway slow lane full of scary lorries, so really the middle lane is obviously full of people randomly driving between 60 and 80, and those of us blesed with very few points ploughing along the fast lane at fast setting
>fast lane
Oh dear.
lane full of scary lorries
If you find lorries "scary", then I'm not sure you should be driving on motorways.
For some reason lane discipline is quite good when there's 2 lanes, however add a 3rd and it gets worse. Add a 4th and the whole thing goes to pot. The M6 north of the M61 a prime example.
It is against the law to be a lane hog on the German autobhans, and is treated as seriously as speeding is in the UK. And traffic flows much better over here most of the time.
They turn a perfectly good 3 lane road into a dual carriageway
+1
have they any idea how much 3 lane motorways cost?
They should be made to take a re-test.
You know those people who drive [i]everywhere[/i] at 45mph ?
Straight country road with good visibility and no hazards = 45mph.
Urban area with zebra crossing and junctions = 45mph.
I used to go out with one. 😕
You know how it is, you can't push your luck too far by asking an outright question or looking like you're criticising, but no amount of subtle "You're allowed to do 60 here" or "We've just gone past a 30 limit sign" comments made any difference.
I never got to drive on a motorway with her, but I'm fairly sure that if we had, we would have gone the whole distance in the middle lane.
I think you should choose a lane and stick to it, all this indecision only causes accidents
I used to flash those middle laners - that'll learn 'em....
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On a three-lane dual carriageway, you may use the middle lane or the right-hand lane to [b]overtake[/b] but return to the middle and then the left-hand lane when it is safe. [/i]
Like I said then but you didn't bother making that bit bold.
@ Drac - no, that's because the OP referred to his wife as being a [i]"freaking middle laner"[/i]. Now I reckon most people don't consider a "middle laner" to be someone who overtakes on motorways, but someone who drives in the middle lane and then fails to return to '[i]the left-hand lane when it is safe[/i]'. Obviously you have a completely different definition of what a "middle laner" is, which is fair enough I suppose, but it means that we are talking about two different types of drivers. How's the New Year been for you so far btw ?
Aye I suppose there is that.
Not bad eneded up in Hospital for 2 days from Tuesday though with kidney stones and ended having to give in and not go to work last night. Been a dry one though as don't want to dislodge another one. Hope you've had a good one too.
was on the M5 tother day and was in a convoy of 14 cars in the left lane that went past a middle laner at 65mph......and they still didn't get the message !!
Driving without due care and attention - 3 points and a £60 fine is standard if busted for middle lane hogism.
Yeah, I bet all of 3 tickets were issued in 2009 for that. Almost ranks as high on plods priority list as using a phone while driving.
"[i][b]Not bad[/b]......... ended up in Hospital for 2 days from Tuesday though with kidney stones[/i]" 😯
You're easily satisfied 😕
Never had the condition, but I understand that it can take you to new levels of pain - can't they give you something to dissolve the ****ers ? 😐
Pieface - Member
For some reason lane discipline is quite good when there's 2 lanes,
Sadly, not in the UK I feel.
We travel to france usually a couple of times a year and many french autoroutes are two lane. Hogging lane 2 just doesn't happen, but north of Paris, when it does, it is usually a GB-plated car (often a cock-mobile like a BMW/Audi) doing over a 100mph. Same cars are often seen at the next toll area with the driver having a shat in the company of a gendarme. LOL!!
Although British drivers seem to be very critical of the rest of the world when it comes to driving, that doesn't seem to apply on multiple lane roads.
My father-in-law is a true middle lane driver, the type who only uses lane 2 on the slip road, then joins a motorway/dual and is immediately out into lane 2, whether it is safe or appropriate to do so. I've told my wife I'm not going to be driven by him again after he took us to Manchester airport last year, and when we got there confided in me that "I'm feeling a little spaced out, I think it's my pain tablet the doctor has got me on for my back.......". Took a taxi home after that little gem!
British driving standards are woeful.
[i]You're easily satisfied [/i]
lol, looking at the people on the ward I got a way ok.
[i]Never had the condition, but I understand that it can take you to new levels of pain - can't they give you something to dissolve the ****ers ?[/i]
Just unbelievable it put me on the floor in a crying, shivering swearing wreck. Mrs said "If you don't get in the car I'll have to call and ambulance." "Just ****ing do it" was my answer before forcing myself out of the door.
I'm waiting for follow ups to see what they want to do long term but the condition I found means it will just be self controlled anti-inflammatory and drink gallons of water.
& yet the UK has one of the lowest death rates [on the road] in Europe
certainly lower than the already mentioned Germans & French