The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11837   Message #90833
Posted By: Penny S.
29-Jun-99 - 07:21 PM
Thread Name: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Subject: RE: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Fadac, we do have drivers with your sense here, but it sometimes seems that they're outnumbered by cowboys. Even so, it is usually the car drivers who are the real menaces. (Leaving aside the "Duel" re-enactor I had to deal with in South London.) And I agree with you about cars with children being bad offenders - another of my nasty experiences was driving down a 3-lane motorway, overtaking, in the outer lane, a bunch of large outside broadcast or film location trucks driving as if they were a train. I didn't know they were doing this when I started the manouevre, but I was committed. They weren't moving in, going past something slower. Up comes a large car, not flashy, but class, lights on full, sits on my tail. Hoots. Gesticulates. I deliberately stick to the limit. He tries to push me. (I get very obstinate in situations like this.) Unfortunately I hadn't bought the model with the vertical take-off option. Eventually I reach the front of the trucks, and move in, along a gradual line so as not to cause the trucks to brake, he storms up beside me and past. And there, in the back, is one of those signs, "Child on Board". He disappeared into the distance, and I drove very cautiously, expecting to find his accident around every curve. But, fortunately for his offspring, I didn't.

Penny