Is it me or have car manufacturers installed a system that alerts other road users to their being a "Knob" in the general vicinity, like the posh well spoken bloke installed in lorries that speaks through a loud hailer when it is reversing the Umcha (tm) system blares through the cars speakers at high volume as there are not enough Posh Well Spoken Blokes to go around since they got the "Whoop vehicle reversing" gig and "Whoop -Caution, dangerous twat approaching" could be considered a little rude.
For example, yesterday morning, on a long stretch of straigh country road, silver car overtakes, and indicates to turn into the one turning on this bit, another silver car overtakes me and dilligently stops behind the first one as there was a car approaching in the other direction that they both had to wait for,
"Umcha Umcha Umcha"
I heard from behind, I looked in my trusty Cateye mirror and spied a Renaul Megane going rather fast, I had stopped to wait for the two cars but the Megane had assumed they were going slow and he had to overtake in full "Umcha" afterburner mode, at the last moment he realised he had grossly misread the situation as his gap on the other side of the road was full of small white van, his side had two silver cars and on the inside a slightly podgy cyclist, luckily the ABS system was in full working order and a series of eek eek eek noises later he was stationary and I had avoided casualty by a couple of inches, I was actually ready to dive into the hedgerow as he approached, he stopped about a foot fromt he silver car in front.
I shouted some choice words but the Umcha (tm) system rendered them inadudible, he couldt see me gesticulating due to the blacked out windows and his shades, then to show his disgust at people having the temerity to stop he did a rather tragic little wheelspin.
For example, yesterday morning, on a long stretch of straigh country road, silver car overtakes, and indicates to turn into the one turning on this bit, another silver car overtakes me and dilligently stops behind the first one as there was a car approaching in the other direction that they both had to wait for,
"Umcha Umcha Umcha"
I heard from behind, I looked in my trusty Cateye mirror and spied a Renaul Megane going rather fast, I had stopped to wait for the two cars but the Megane had assumed they were going slow and he had to overtake in full "Umcha" afterburner mode, at the last moment he realised he had grossly misread the situation as his gap on the other side of the road was full of small white van, his side had two silver cars and on the inside a slightly podgy cyclist, luckily the ABS system was in full working order and a series of eek eek eek noises later he was stationary and I had avoided casualty by a couple of inches, I was actually ready to dive into the hedgerow as he approached, he stopped about a foot fromt he silver car in front.
I shouted some choice words but the Umcha (tm) system rendered them inadudible, he couldt see me gesticulating due to the blacked out windows and his shades, then to show his disgust at people having the temerity to stop he did a rather tragic little wheelspin.
