The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100242   Message #2007560
Posted By: Richard Bridge
26-Mar-07 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Message to middle-lane sitters on the M6
Subject: RE: BS: Message to middle-lane sitters on the M6
I will, if I can, shut down anyone overtaking on the inside. If I can't, I will phone the police and give their number.

I hate the middle lane owners' club.

I hate the tailgaters. They're usually in works vans, so I take their works phone number off the van as they go by and then phone the factory to try to get them the sack. My Volvo will given space (the final frontier) achieve about 1.8 times the legal speed limit and if I am doing 70 in the outside lane it's for a reason, usually that I am waiting (with an appropriate gap between me and the vehicle in front) for an opportunity to overtake. Anyone who goes past me on the inside and pulls out is reducing that gap and driving dangerously. Why is it they are usually on the 'phone, and driving a black Merc, or a red Beema, or an electric blue Scoobie, too?

Almost more than either, I hate the idiots of either gender who leave their front and/or rear foglights on when it is illegal unnecessary and inconsiderate to do so.   

And finally for this vent, will someone please terminate with extreme prejudice the twonks who if I am waiting in a queue will push up the outside lane and push in at the roadworks and the incomprehensibly irresponsible idiots at the police (and Hamster Hammond, but someone nearly got him) who advocate this? No-one, including Prince Charles or Tony Bliar (ambulances excepted), is important enough to demand that they queue-jump. All power to the truckers who I have seen put such self important idiots through the cones!