Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Think Bike.Near where I live there is a rather unpleasant junction. The two lanes leading up to it are directional (left-hand lane to turn left or go straight on, right-hand lane for right turns), and the left-hand lane is a bus lane all the way up close to the junction. Most drivers seem oblivious to the very short hours of operation of said bus lane, so cue a lot of last-minute lane-changes over to the left.
Enter yours truly on a little motorbike, moving up the left-hand lane. Now, it's sensible to keep an eye out for people who are not doing likewise, and I know this junction and its hazards, so carefully I go.
But there wasn't much I could do when Mr Dingbat pulls sharply into my lane...without indicating...without checking his mirrors, coming within a hair of smashing right into me.
Cue emergency braking, a long blast on the horn, then stopping beside him at the light to bang on his window and scream at him.
What on earth is wrong with the world when a 21 year-old learner driver is put in the position of having to remind a driver in his 50s to indicate?
(, Sat 14 Oct 2006, 20:21, Reply)
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