Stupid people and SPECs

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Ok, ok - I'll be more considerate in future.... Jeez - you sound like my Da

Thanks - I'm probably old enough (to be your Da).

[Cliphead]

A few years ago I was on a train from Glasgow to Edinburgh, business suited guy goes over to young guy and grabs the iPod and chucks it out of the window to the general applause of everybody around.

Young guy was too stunned to do anything as the older guy went back to rustling his newspaper.

[NickFitz]

A few years ago I was on a train from Glasgow to Edinburgh, business suited guy goes over to young guy and grabs the iPod and chucks it out of the window to the general applause of everybody around.

Young guy was too stunned to do anything as the older guy went back to rustling his newspaper.

Young guy should have thrown the old guy's newspaper out of the window. Damn rustling noise disturbing everybody

[RichardCranium]

Young guy should have thrown the old guy's newspaper out of the window. Damn rustling noise disturbing everybody

Everybody should have thrown the young guy and the old guy out of the window. Damn window slamming disturbing everybody.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

One of my favourites was a bloke with a really loud walkman (yes it was that long ago) sat next to upper clarrrrrrs sounding woman.

Woman "Oh Why doesn't someone say something? were all so British aren't we?" - etc etc etc to the point where her moaning was worse than the bloke's music.

[Cliphead]

Way back when I was student and getting the same bus from Edinburgh to Glasgow every day there was a guy sitting at the back with a Walkman who spent the whole journey singing out of tune with whatever he was listening to.

My old man still does that with his iPod

[TykeMerc]

Abso-blinking-lutely. It has ever been thus. Saturdays are worse than Mon-Fri and Sundays are hell. Bank Holidays make every thing four times worse.

I hate motorway driving on Bank Holidays.

That's for damn sure and add Summer and Christmas typical breaks in the mix too.

I've had to drive a hell of a lot since I was a student and did field work on weekends and holidays, it's been getting worse over the last 25 years, but it's always been the case.
I put it down to people who only ever commute a few miles to work for years on end then decide to take off on a few hundred mile each way jaunt (occasionally towing a boat/caravan/trailer). They invariably lack the stamina, experience, concentration and ability to use the little stick that makes the lights flash so I don't have to use my psychic powers to guess WTF they plan to do. It's all too common to come across the morons that also believe that they're safest remaining in the middle damn lane when the law of the land is we drive on the sodding LEFT in this country!!!!!

These days with the prevalence of average speed checks I tend to employ my cruise control and watch my mirrors like a hawk especially in roadworks areas. At the moment I'm doing a 280 mile each way trip many weekends to Client site so I'm being a bit picky on the times I start out which mitigates the problems of inexperienced/ignorant motorway drivers somewhat.

[RichardCranium]

I put it down to people who only ever commute a few miles to work for years on end then decide to take off on a few hundred mile each way jaunt (occasionally towing a boat/caravan/trailer). They invariably lack the stamina, experience, concentration and ability to use the little stick that makes the lights flash so I don't have to use my psychic powers to guess WTF they plan to do. It's all too common to come across the morons that also believe that they're safest remaining in the middle damn lane when the law of the land is we drive on the sodding LEFT in this country!!!!!

WHS, lots.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

These days with the prevalence of average speed checks I tend to employ my cruise control and watch my mirrors like a hawk especially in roadworks areas. At the moment I'm doing a 280 mile each way trip many weekends to Client site so I'm being a bit picky on the times I start out which mitigates the problems of inexperienced/ignorant motorway drivers somewhat.

Don't you find cruise a mixed blessing though? Even when travelling at quiet times I find if I pass someone at the speed I've set, they often speed up. One woman in a Micra recently seemed to be determined I wasn't going to pass her at all costs - so I tried slowing down, but that didn't work either - so did she.

At an indicated speed quite a bit more than legal, I was just about to pass her when she pulled out without indicating and slowed by almost 20mph as she passed some trucks - no doubt she thinks she was doing the same speed all the time. In the end I did a hugely illegal speed for five minutes just to get away from her once I'd got some way past I could drop back to the original cruise speed I'd set, but I do wonder about some folk.....

Also cruise is tricky if you are in a hilly area - almosy everyone not using it slows down uphill and speeds up downhill.

[RichardCranium]

Don't you find cruise a mixed blessing though? Also cruise is tricky if you are in a hilly area - almost everyone not using it slows down uphill and speeds up downhill.

I get really cross with the twats in little cars that pull out at the bottom of hills then gradually slow down. To counter this I tend to get in the outside lane before a hill, put my headlights on and drive up at 95-98. That makes the little sods get out of the way. However, I don't sit on people's bumpers and I don't flash. At the top I slow down and pull back in, put the cruise control back on and then see them creep past me about five miles further on ... until the next hill.