I try doing that
but only get a 50% success rate. People in Surrey must be stubborn.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 14:46, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

or they haven't noticed you at all
I was in a carpark once behind this old fool and he just stopped in the middle and sat there chatting to his wife. I didn't want to be rude so I flashed my lights at him a few times, but he didn't see so eventually I had to beep my horn. He jumped out of his skin and looked really surprised to see me there, he obviously wasn't using his mirror at all.

Same goes for old people on country roads driving at sight seeing speeds and not taking any consideration to the people stuck behind them who are trying to get to work
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Some doddering old bastard in a Chrysler
cut me up on three separate occasions on the same strip of road the other night, purely from being utterly unaware that I was even there.

As far I'm concerned, they're by far the most dangerous people on the road. At least lane-weavers are aware of where other cars are, even if they don't give a shit about road manners.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 15:04, Reply)

yeah I overtook someone on a country road on a corner when I could see it was empty
but because he didn't see know I was there, as I got nearly alongside him he started to seriously cut the corner and only swerved back into his side when I beeped at him. He looked so scared to see another car alongside him that he speeded up, leaving me seconds to really put my foot down to get back in to the left before an oncoming car ploughed into me. I was so close to stopping the car in front of him to get out and shout at him for being a cunt, it scared the bejesus out of me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 15:21, Reply)