Brits are the worst drivers I've experienced.

The word is spelt queue, not que. The latter is something Manuel from Barcelona says.

The word is spelt queue, not que. The latter is something Manuel from Barcelona says.

Anyone actually really give a damn...apart from you?

 

I understood what was meant.

Merge in turn appeared in the Highway Code in the last re-write, 2007.

 

My approach tends to be to use lane 2 and, as I am getting to the end, match my speed to lane 1 and pop a left signal on.  If people don't want to let me in I just let 'em go, because I am being patient somebody will be inclined to let me in.  I always say thank you as it encourages people to do it again, and it's only polite.

 

As has been said the rest of the world has been doing this for years, give us another 25 years and we might get the idea.

In NZ they put signs up saying merge like a zip, it helps things along im sure. I hate the lane bullys. Its amazing where i can squeeze my beaten up workvan. Folks just seem to move for me. Different game in swmbo's fiat panda...

Personally, I use either lane up until the arrows, then indicate and merge...

 

sometimes you are better off driving round in a **** heap, because then it doesnt matter what you hit with it, then if somebody attempts to block you out just carry on like you haven't seen them, they normally give up in the end. there's a few roads down this way like that where you get exactly the same thing happen

 

.... and if they don't want to let me in, I'm driving a 14 year old Felicia, if they want to drive into it they can, and I'll push for knock for knock on the insurance claim, I'll get up the scrappy for the bits I need, you put a new front corner on your shiney new cars crumple zone.

The dual carriage way 30seconds from my house has a brief section of 100yrds or so where it goes to one lane. The other day i overtook a tractor, a perfectly safe overtake i might add. I had no intention of overtaking the car 50yards in front of the tractor but the clown driving that car decided to straddle both lanes on purpose to stop me overtaking and merging if i wanted to. Although it never affect my intentions it royally pi55ed me off and as such shown him my disapproval by calling me a sad masturbater

Sounds silly, but this.

 

We have a similar merge road at the top of a big hill and a car had broken down at the top after it merges. Amazingly everyone got into one lane and patiently crawled up the hill, leaving the outer totally empty. When I got to the merge at the top I had a lorry behind me, then some twunt in an Audi flew up the outer lane and quickly tried to merge between me and the lorry, he was having none of it and didn't open a gap, the audi still tried to force his way in, the lorry driver immediately called his bluff and did a little swerve at him - the audi recoiled, stopped and went mad and started waving his arms around as nobody else let him in.

 

Funniest thing I've ever witnessed on the road, I stuck my thumb out at the lorry driver for such a good show. 

 

lorry driver's a ****

2 lane into 1 at the end of a dual carriageway don't usually cause issues, as the traffic is flowing at a moderate pace usually, so merging in happens without incident 99% of the time.

 

This is a gripe about these induced crazy short 'grand prix' starts that are the norm IF you dare to use the outside lane, and the blocking out of the first lane by morons driving alongside you to ensure you cannot get in.

Bad design, bad manners, bad driving.

I ALMOST give up and feel like sharing  the inside line like an obedient sheeple to save on blood pressure and possible road rage incidents.

We live in an increasingly angry world, full of greed, impatience, aggression, intolerance, and downright bloody bad manners,, brought on by road planners who must live out in the wilds away from this every day crap that us townies have to endure.

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Edited 1 January, 201412 yr by Mr Ree

Something that happened to me not long ago.

 

The stretch of motorway between where I work and where I live had average speed camera's with a 50mph speed limit. So obviously i'm sat at 50mph minding my own business.

I then looks into my rear view to find a lorry up my jacksy, so I carry on sitting at 50, he continues to get closer.

Then too my surprise he starts flashing at me literally 2 foot from my rear bumper...... So what does he expect me to do?  Speed up with the risk of a ticket just so this arrogant penis can travel a few mph faster for another mile? I mean does he really think I want to travel any slower than I have too?

Sounds like the sort of wagon driver I had stuck to the back of my truck at night a while back. He wasn't so big when I eased to a stop so he was blocked in by a central island and I got out and shared my thoughts with him 

 

The only defence he could give was telling me I didn't know what it was like driving a wagon, when I told him I'd got a licence for bigger stuff than what he was driving he didn't really know what to say. 

Sounds like the sort of wagon driver I had stuck to the back of my truck at night a while back. He wasn't so big when I eased to a stop so he was blocked in by a central island and I got out and shared my thoughts with him 

 

The only defence he could give was telling me I didn't know what it was like driving a wagon, when I told him I'd got a licence for bigger stuff than what he was driving he didn't really know what to say. 

Respect.

It's called being a bit nuts and the adventures it leads you into. 

Unfortunately in this day and age the 'adventures' you talk of invariably will involve a hospital bed or police cell.

Indeed. Extremely high risk.

Unfortunately in this day and age the 'adventures' you talk of invariably will involve a hospital bed or police cell.

 

Wouldn't be the first time. I have mellowed though as the years go by. 

Unfortunately in this day and age the 'adventures' you talk of invariably will involve a hospital bed or police cell.

 

 

Hot heads are now becoming more prevalent.

 

Violence first, mealy mouthed excuses later.

Little sense getting out to a wagon driver. Simply wait for a junction or a gradient and slow them down to a near stop. The next couple of minutes working back up through the gears will give them time to think about things. 

A number of years ago..

 

I was on a dual carriageway which goes into a single carriageway flyover and then back into a dual carriageway, A while back I overtook a VW campervan doing 20 in a 40 zone, when I got to the flyover I reduced to 30 as per the speed limit and he was sat right on my arse flashing his headlights, as I left the 30 and re-entered the 40 dual carriageway he undertook me doing 55, at the end is a light controlled roundabout, he slammed the brakes on (even though the lights were green) and got out to confront me. As he did he took a tyre iron from his vehicle (the one's in the shape of a cross) and approached me.

 

Doing the sensible thing, I got out  and approached him (in retrospect it was probably not the best idea I ever had). This bloke must have been 6 foot easy. He starts giving me crap about my driving and how he's going to insert this weapon somewhere the sun doesn't shine.

 

Not being very tall (5ft 6) - I tell him calmly, "do you think I would have got out knowing you had that thing if I didn't believe I could put you flat on your arse mate".

 

He thought about this for a moment and got back in his campervan and floored it through the lights on amber.

 

 

Next time I might not be so lucky, but having my baby son in the car at the time I was going to fight to protect him.

 

Seriously - one day he will (hopefully) harass the wrong person and they will use his weapon against him putting him into hospital.

 

Some people just don't know when to let the little things lie.

I know what you mean, but if everyone shoves their way to the front and force their way in, those of us on the inside lane would be getting further and further back all the time. To the point that it is not worth setting off in the first place!

 

You keep a safe distance from the driver in front but some ******* cuts in without any warning slaps on his brakes, as he is going too fast and before you can say **** you are nearly into the back of him and as it turns out if you clip him YOU ARE IN THE WRONG not him.

.... and if they don't want to let me in, I'm driving a 14 year old Felicia, if they want to drive into it they can, and I'll push for knock for knock on the insurance claim, I'll get up the scrappy for the bits I need, you put a new front corner on your shiney new cars crumple zone.

Had this problem driving home last night. If any of you know aberdeen then you'll know as your leaving the south of the city you go over the bridge of dee where it goes from 2 lanes in to 1 after some traffic lights. The lights were at red and i was in the outside lane with a golf on front of me. When the lights turned green him and tbe other guy couldn't have been nicer to each other both waiting for the other to go first Its normally like wacky racers to see who will go first. The golf ended up going first and i was going to filter in behind the front car in the inside lane when mr volvo decides that he will stop me from merging in behind the front car in the inside lane. So i thought sod this you arrogant git and manovered my car so it would merge nicely in to the gap that he had left apart from the back of tbe rear passanger door back and started to move across. Its amazing how quickly he slowed down when he realised that I was merging even tho he was on the piece of road that I was moving on to (I kept an eye on my mirror to avoid a collision and abort on to the white hatched area of the road) Once on the other side of the bridge where it goes back to 2 lanes he stayed in the lane behind me and had to stop at the roundabout but I got round without stopping. I was going up the stonehaven brae still in the 40 limit and here he comes tearing up the outside lane doing about 60. What an arse.

Not trying to make excuses but I know that I should have really just let him go first but I was ****ed at something that had happened during day so I was still annoyed and him doing that just reignited my rage from earlier.