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yiman - MemberThis is a 50 something little bloke in the car with what were probably his wife and grown up daughters.
Honestly, what goes through people's minds?
I think your answer may lie here. Long journey on busy roads with a car full of women back-seat drivers, and family at that..? Give the man a break, he probably needs it....
I really can't work out why some folk leave the house in the morning....
I was in my VW transporter
Let me guess
Mid forties?
Shoulder length hair?
Oakley "shades"?
Rab gilet?
Some people have it all.
I imagine Mondeo-man was just a jealous beta male.
davidtaylforth - MemberI was in my VW transporter
Let me guess
Mid forties?
Shoulder length hair?
Oakley "shades"?
Rab gilet?
Some people have it all.
I imagine Mondeo-man was just a jealous beta male.
1/4 but you might have a point. 
Always amazes me how many people think they are entitled to police others behaviour on the road. Unless you have blue lights and a police badge you don’t.
iainc - Member
Always amazes me how many people think they are entitled to police others behaviour on the road. Unless you have blue lights and a police badge you don’t.
If you take that logic, then everyone should immediately concede the space they're in to any car pulling into it, regardless of safety/conditions for anyone else and no-one should ever flash lights or sound horns to warn of dangerous manoeuvres.
iainc, the flip side to that is you can do whatever you like on the road if the police aren’t watching? Sounds a bit chaotic to me......
If only we could just all get along and play nicely
I take it you get a lot of people criticising your driving? 
If you drive down the motorway on the wrong side is it okay for others to comment, or is it only the nice policeman’s opinion that matters 
angeldust - Member
iainc, the flip side to that is you can do whatever you like on the road if the police aren’t watching? Sounds a bit chaotic to me......
Yep, bad behaviour proliferates because the perpetrators never get any signal that they're done something awry.
OP I sympathise but I sadly this is driving in modern Britain.
The only bit that ultimately matters is not putting yourself and others at risk. It's sadly a case of make room for the douche bags, metaphorically or literally count to ten (five if you're milder or slower at counting than me) and carry on. No good can come of being difficult or trying to teach them a lesson or put them in their place. As far as they are concerned the ONLY place that they should be is in front of you. You can't beat or educate this (not without some kind of blue lighted vehicle or a scheme involving an as yet undeveloped rocket and a one way ticket to Jupiter).
Today I witnessed some poor gent on a Cube road bike get close passed out of sheer bone idle laziness five times in the space of a mile. What's so bloody infuriating is that as the car in the outside lane of a two lane each way road, every single one of those times I left a big enough space in front of me to allow the perpetrators in the inside lane more than enough room to overtake in a manner that would have been safe for all. I doubt any of them were malice but unthinking incompetence of the first order. 
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Do we just have to accept that some people are complete *****s and there will never be any rhyme or reason as to how they behave?
Pretty much. I had a near-identical thing happen to me earlier this week, seeded as far as I can tell by me daring to change lanes into an empty space rather than lock on when the lane I was in suddenly ground to a halt. If I was in a beater rather than a month-old car I'd have let the prick hit me.
He has every right to drive to the end of the filter lane before indicating. You chose not to.
Whilst I agree with your point in principle, 20m from the merge point is as close to the end of the filter lane as makes no odds and attempting an overtake at that point is bellendery.
Sounds like the OP is an inconsiderate and belligerent trouser. So the dude tried to 'push in', let him, it costs you literally nothing.
Always amazes me how many people think they are entitled to police others behaviour on the road. Unless you have blue lights and a police badge you don’t.
Because the best way to deal with bullies is to give into them. I have zero tolerance for this sort of stupid gittishness.
I had a near-identical thing happen to me earlier this week
Yesterday?
Actually, yes.
yiman
angling across without indicating.
I'm on your side.
If it had been a Beemer I would have married you.
Now that I'm driving a minibus for the local council & I'm no longer a prison officer, I find myself being even more courteous than ever, even when Richard Cranium is around, & you know what? I quite like it. I'm not in a rush to get anywhere & my passengers safety is paramount.
On the way to the depot in my car is a different story.
esselgruntfuttock - Member
I'm no longer a prison officer,
I would imagine after being in the prison service eBay day is a greedy day now?
I know 2 people that have left recently. It's sounds an utterly brutal career to be in now. I know they couldn't wait to get out.
You feel the need to point out his age and his height. That, combined with the fact you're driving the worst driven vehicle on the road, leads me to think you would both be ideal buddies.
Can someone make this a post about cycling down the m1
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