Having turned fifty I feel I owe it to the world to highlight just a few things that really irritate me - and that's irritate with a capital P, as in me off!
Imagine the scene. You are going about your daily business driving from one customer to another. As time goes by, your tee off time is getting closer and closer and you still haven't completed all your scheduled calls. The pressure to drive as efficiently as possible within the speed limits mounts. (If you play golf you know that that tee off time waits for no man!)
You approach yet another roundabout intending to go straight on and (as is the rule here in the UK) you look to the right, preparing to let oncoming traffic from the right have priority. You see a smart looking lady in a nice new BMW approaching the roundabout in the centre of her carriageway, no signal, so she's obviously coming straight onto the roundabout. You slow down to a crawl and then a stop as she closes in on you. Then, with no signal whatever she turns left in front of you! You didn't need to slow down or stop. All she had to do when approaching that roundabout was INDICATE left. Your day and your blood pressure would have been unsullied by moronic selfish driving. On an average day I can almost guarantee that out of 10 such situations, over half the drivers actually joining a roundabout and taking the first exit will not indicate. And why is that? I see it as a symtom of what is wrong with our country. People just don't give a flying stuff about anyone else. So what if you slowed down because you thought I was coming straight on? Why should I care? I didn't get held up, I just went on my way. I didn't even realise you were there, let alone slowing down to allow me to take priority.
Does this annoying trait in modern day drivers annoy or frustrate you too? I do worry that I am verging on road rage as I drive about my day, please tell me it's normal to get frustrated by this kind of thing.
What else gets to me?
To be continued....
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