Darren New wrote:
> My peeves include "use the steering wheel to turn, and the brakes to 
> slow down. When someone slows in front of you, it's OK for you to slow 
> too, and you don't have to drive into the oncoming traffic to avoid 
> doing so."
> 
> Plus, people, it's rush-hour, not Nascar. See those 3000 people in front 
> of you? They too would all like to squeeze past on the shoulder.

Er, yes.

Ever driven along the A303 past Stonehenge? For some insane reason, the 
road designers thought it would be amusing to make the road alternate 
between single and dual carridgeway every 4 miles or so. Which means 
that every bank holiday, when the entire 60-mile length of that road is 
gridlocked by westbound holiday-makers, as soon as we get to a 
dual-carridgeway section, all the BMWs and Audis dive for the right 
lane, race 4 miles down the road, and then stop at nothing to squeeeeeze 
in front of that caravan...

PEOPLE! The entire road is moving at less than 2 meters per hour. How 
much difference can it possibly make whether you get in before or after 
the caravan?? But no, these morons drive across the crosshatchings, and 
sometimes even down the wrong side of the single-carridgeway in the path 
of angry oncomming traffic, just to get in front of one or two caravans.

I would go as far as to say that if there were no dual-carridgeway 
sections, there wouldn't be such a big traffic jam! (Or if they, you 
know, make the *whole* road dual carridgeway. The problem seems to be 
every time it goes back to single caridgeway, there's a 20-mile tailback 
because a few idiots want to push in.)

> And, if you're going more than 50MPH, there should be enough room 
> between you and the person in front of you that someone could parallel 
> park there.

Hint: Driving 4 cm from somebody's bumper is seriously unlikely to make 
them speed up. Nor is beeping your horn.

(Actually, I'm sometimes tempted to hit the brakes just to destroy their 
car and see the look on their faces when they have to pay to fix two 
cars... I suspect that might not look good in court though.)

>> But seriously, every day when we get home, by dad has to drive round 
>> this green car parked on the corner, partially obstructing my dad's 
>> drive entrance. 
> 
> That's why you carry a valve stem remover with you.  Or, in the immortal 
> words of Bob, "Ha ha, you're out of spare tires. You loose."

My dad tells me that when he wins the lottery, he's going to buy a 
Bigfood and accidentally destroy that car with it.

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