XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Why does the hot weather always seem to bring out the idiot in some drivers?? I will never understand it! When I am in the car in hot weather, I just like to wind all the windows down, pop on the radio, and just cruise along at a very relaxing speed.
So anyway, I experienced two incidents yesterday which I am sure were caused by heat + car = idiot driver!
First one, I pulled up at a set of lights in the cycle lane, car to my right started revving and creeping forward as soon as I pulled up... then when the lights change he floored it! He was driving a Ford Mondeo ST220 ... which has a 3 litre, 6 cyclinder, fuel-injected petrol engine with a twin-turbo (in other words, seriously fast) ... and he wanted to race a CYCLIST????? WTF??? Boy, he really put me in my place when he left me for dust ... in a vehicle with an engine that is perhaps two or three thousand times as powerful as my leg muscles ...
Second one - again I am in the cycle lane, car passes me, indicates to turn right into a minor road and stops, waiting to turn (as you do). I am just about to go past, when a nut-job in another car comes flying past me, veers left infront of me (occupying the cycle lane completely), and stops abruptly behind the car waiting to turn right ... there was clearly nowhere near enough room for him to squeeze through on the inside. I have to slam on the brakes, skidding to a halt behind this joker. His window is open, so I shout, "What the hell did you do that for, you cretin?". He looks over his shoulder at me, bemused, and says, "what? Well ... uh ... what?". Then he mumbles something incoherent and goes back to chewing the cud ... absolutely oblivious. No idea that he'd even done something wrong.
So anyway, I experienced two incidents yesterday which I am sure were caused by heat + car = idiot driver!
First one, I pulled up at a set of lights in the cycle lane, car to my right started revving and creeping forward as soon as I pulled up... then when the lights change he floored it! He was driving a Ford Mondeo ST220 ... which has a 3 litre, 6 cyclinder, fuel-injected petrol engine with a twin-turbo (in other words, seriously fast) ... and he wanted to race a CYCLIST????? WTF??? Boy, he really put me in my place when he left me for dust ... in a vehicle with an engine that is perhaps two or three thousand times as powerful as my leg muscles ...
Second one - again I am in the cycle lane, car passes me, indicates to turn right into a minor road and stops, waiting to turn (as you do). I am just about to go past, when a nut-job in another car comes flying past me, veers left infront of me (occupying the cycle lane completely), and stops abruptly behind the car waiting to turn right ... there was clearly nowhere near enough room for him to squeeze through on the inside. I have to slam on the brakes, skidding to a halt behind this joker. His window is open, so I shout, "What the hell did you do that for, you cretin?". He looks over his shoulder at me, bemused, and says, "what? Well ... uh ... what?". Then he mumbles something incoherent and goes back to chewing the cud ... absolutely oblivious. No idea that he'd even done something wrong.