Time for a rant
 

Hi All
Back to normal mode & time for a rant.
Driving back home last night from work, departed LHR T3 @ 22:00ish and our wonderful road agency decided to do some engineering works on the M25....fine have no problems with that on a quietish night (if there is such a thing on the M25). However, what the numpty did & I mean one numpty. Where the M3 converges with the M25 South, there is normally 6 lanes (nearly a Freeway!!!), the roads agency decided to reduce to one lane!!!! via cones & overhead warning signs.
Having queued up for 45mins, with the normal muppets trying to `push in`, made it (and I quote Spandau Ballet) through the barricades!!!!, only to find numpty x 1 smoking a fag laughing at motorists, with the coned area covering 20yds at the most until the cones stopped & opened up to a four lane M25 again..........which t*at is responsible for this...........rant over........probably happening again tonight, when I require the KV6 `Dylithium Crystals` to be at full belt Scotty to make last orders!!!!!

Sounds like a bit of over kill unless they had finished what they were doing and taking the closure off?
I hate those tw*ts who ignore the lane closure then force their way in at the end. If they merged earlier then the traffic would flow through nicely instead of jamming up.

Quite agree Andy.....mostly cabbie's leaving LHR for Surrey / London.
Left earlier last night & made last orders at local!!!! :smile1:

What annoys me is when the lanes are coned off and no one is working on the frigging roads, they dont even have any machinery there :rant:

They are probably hiding behind the hedges laughing their c*cks off :laugh:

Also, just driven into work for late shift.....CARAVANS.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh????, weekend drivers ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......sorry !!!!:rant:

Also getting stuck behind tractors and JCBs, and where we live frigging sheep and cows being moved from field to field :rant:

Dead slow Horse boxes with minging drivers !!!!!!:spank:

:hmmm: never get those problems in the states, god I wish I was still there!

Hiya Mick..............how's the jetlag???? :wave:

i just hate frigging cones full stop!!

:D

I dont mind the sandwich type ice cream holders, but yeah no fan of cones, except biting the bottom bit of!!!! :spidey:

:D lmao!

when my mum had her frontera she used to road rage with cones and knock them over with her bars on the front of car, typical woman screwing her car up! :slap:

Good for her Sarah. I guess the Frontera had another excuss for a gearbox failure!!!!! :cool2:

actually she had to part wi'it due to the petrol tank.
my step father borrowed it for the day to go up to yorkshire, filled the tank full to top. half way there started the problems, so he pulled over and it were leaking petrol, so after being towed home, he ditched it and bought a (new at the time) vauxhall astra 1997..sold that after 5months of owning it got a fiat punto :slap:

he said "i dont know my problem with cars" i replied "you're problem is you keep buying vauxhalls, and now a fiat"

:rofl:

vauxhall, then fiat OMG. Still there's me commenting with an MG!!!!

Are you off out tonight or feet up with telly on. Me, I am at work on late shift again & tomorrow I'm afraid. :rant:

im in tonight hun, the other half has gone to fetch his bro from the airport. so im listening to my music with a glass of malibu n coke :D

Ohh, very nice. I am dealing with yet again more problems at T5!!!!!.never ending story :judge:

aww.

just put you're feet up and a cold beer :)

I will do when I get home. Just about to pack-up & depart actually. Back in tomorrow morning 11:00.
Hope to speak soon Sarah, take care hun....Mike :smartass:

see you hun x

I had to follow 2 tractors and a combine this morning... and 180Ps and V6 come in handy. :evil:

Then there were some of those people who deliberately try and jump the queue and force in... not with me they didn't.

Some inconsiderate tw*t nearly hit us head on last night as he came round a blind bend half on our side of the road. Luckily my wife was close to the nearside otherwise we'd have hit, also my wife had no time to react so didn't swerve and put us in to the trees. What the hell is wrong with people? If we had hit by wife would have taken the main brunt of the impact as she was driving, we were doing about 40mph he must have been doing about 50 - 55. With a closing speed of around 90mph I would have fancied our chances.

Totally ridiculous driving Andy, but glad to hear you guys are ok. There are some w*nk**s driving.
I was driving home from work last night, on A22 through Nutley 30mph limit, some *wa* in a chavved up Ford Esort 1.nothing tried to overtake me on blind corner in a very nice village with a 30mph limit. He didnt, as along came a family towing the usual bloody caravan, but could have been carnage.

I must admit, I have in the past reported to police **** & dangerous drivers via the non-emergency number, but I have never had any feedback :spank:

People never cease to amaze me, it's always the innocent people involved who get hurt, the scum that cause it walk away. They are like cockroaches, they will survive anything.
If you call in a careless driving incident then unless they get another person call in as well they just put out observations for the vehicle and leave it at that.

Yeah (Andy), the number of idiots that i have seen passing on blind bends and crests is absolutely ludicrious.

TBH in a 'teach them a lesson' kind of way i kind of hope they meet a '40 Tonner' coming the opposite way and they almost have a 'heart attack'!

That's what I thought, or one of those massive mobile crane things!

Running late tonight for work & ended up following a cabbie doing 10mph through the tunnels into LHR...........Ahhhhhhhhhh, any other day would have been fine, but switched alarm clock off during this afternoon's siesta!!!!! :shutup:

On the way to Carlisle last month we came across a 3 car pile-up, 2 of the cars were on fire and the 3rd was unrecognisable.
Turns out a 22y old lad had been drink driving. He died in the fireball , 2 others escaped from the other burning car and a family of 4 were wiped out in the badly smashed up car.

That total waste of life! all because he had been on the lash all afternoon and he was off to see his girlfriend. B*****d !

B******s!!!

some people just dont think about others on the road, im sure they think its just themselves driving. :angry:

Cabbie doing 10mph that's a novelty. Here in 'uddersfield taxi drivers have a different set of driving laws to the rest of us. ie drive at all times 20mph above speed limit, overtaking on blind bends compulsory, don't slow down for roundabouts, park on double yellow lines etc etc. Funny local plod never see much of this.

But the ironic thing was that our minibus turned up early (girls nite out) but 2 lasses were running late, and we arrived 5 mins after the crash so i dread to think what could have happened if we had set of when we should have.

Needless to say we bought them 2 lasses very large drinks when we got there !

Manchester is the same, im up there quite alot and they drive like maniacs, their speed limit must be like 60mph+.

last time i were up there id witnessed a road rage incident, this guy in a bmw had set upon a delivery guy all just because the bmw guy didnt get his own way as he had cut across the lane :slap:

not safe these days.

Speed limits aren't someones 'previous best' then? :whistle:

manchester is terrible, everyone drives way to fast. and its known for its speeding offences.

:rant:Your right Sarah its not safe you have to be so careful on the roads i see bad driving all the time the worst one I've seen recently was on the M62 the other day i was doing 80ish in the outside lane in line of traffic and i was overtaken on the OUTSIDE by a motorbike couldn't believe it this guy must have had a death wish. I would have reported him but he was off like a flash and then to cap it all he UNDERTOOK car in front of me.

:wacko:

you see motor cyclists think they can get away with doing that, being on 2 wheels and being able to get in between traffic, BUT they cant because isnt it motor cyclists who have most the accidents? and they say on that "advertisement" take longer to look for motor cyclists, they dont say that when they overtake you at silly speed!!

just last week, over here there were 3 motor cyclists who had lost their lives, one through dangerous driving smashed into a wall, the 2nd had caused an accident in the high street and the 3rd had fell of his bike through being clever by driving inbetween a lorry and a car, he'd lost control of the bike smacked into the lorry........!!!!!! :rant:

Some bikers think they are above the law

Having said that i was out in the MGB a couple of weekends ago on a run through the Snake Pass(between Sheffield & Manchester) saw loads of bikers driving to the speed limits on what is a notorious bad accident area so like everything else there's good & bad. Then of course there are WHITE VAN DRIVERS no rules what so ever

my fella is a white van man but seriously he drives sensibly, even if he wanted to he couldnt go fast his van has no breaks, he has over 70 parcels so you imagine the weight on the back of the van?

but yeah some round my way, white van drivers are c0cks! (sorry)
its like they are blind to pedestrians, as they just pull up on pavement, or in a bus lane and faff around!

No doubt Taxi Drivers Bikers & White Van drivers all say the same about ZS owners. As we say in Yorkshire Thar's nowt queer' er than folk ! Better do some work now or maybe have a coffee.