i had to drive a car today

[WINJA]

HOW FRUSTRATING, CAR DRIVERS ARE SUCH DICKHEADS. WHAT REALLY WINDS ME UP IS PEOPLE QUEING ACROSS INTERSECTIONS SO THAT WHEN YOU GET A GREEN LIGHT YOU JUST SIT THERE LOOKING AT THEIR DOOR, AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE TURDS THAT CROSS OVER THE LANE IN AN INTERSECTION TO TAKE THE SPACE IN FRONT OF YOU THAT YOU LEFT SO YOU DONT BLOCK THE INTERSECTION , AND THOSE BLOODY WINDOW WASHERS

[pritch]

I wholeheartedly agree with your first two peeves. The window washers are there to prevent too much bumper to bumper damage on the cars I thought.

10/10 for your coffee post by the way :-)

[Wolf]

The famed "blocked intersection rule" that no cager seems to have heard of!

That being said, after holding my bike licence for a number of years, I finally went for my restricted cage licence. As I already had passed the 30 written some years back all I had to do was five oral - fail two and you fail the test. I was one down already and on my last question: "Explain the blocked intersection rule"

"Dunno," says I. The testing officer explained it was that you are not allowed to enter an intersection unless your way out is clear.

"Who the fuck would do that?" I asked in all sincerity.

"You'd be surprised how many do" said the cop.

"Yeah, but how many of them ride motorbikes?" I asked. "You'd have to be mad to be sitting out in the middle of a bloody intersection when the lights change."

"Good point," says he and passed me on the grounds that I knew and applied the concept even though I didn't know the official name of the rule.

He was right tho' - the number of ignorant, rude fuckheads that move forward and fill up the intersection and sit there blocking the traffic until they pretty much get the green again while people legally queued up on the line fume and simmer - then do the same thing once they finally do get to move.

It is times like that, when I'm sitting still with the entire side of the arshole's car laid out before me, that I start thinking in terms of that sticky gun to plaster a copy of the "blocked intersection" rule on the side of their car. It's not like I would be riding recklessly while trying to operate the marker, just quietly slip the bike into neutral, unholster the marker, load the appropriate "blocked intersection" payload, and then just casually tag all the cars in front of me... If they don't like it, they can report me to the cops - and explain to them how they came to be a target.

[curious george]

I'm with Winja and WOlf here. BAstards all.
SHall we all chip in and but a Kiwibiker bulldozer, and clear a lane through the fkers!?!!

[Waylander]

Noticed this when I was in the work truck today. Got out of the truck (saw that this idiot wasn't gonna go anywere anytime soon) walked to his window and told him all nice and polite like that I could just ram my truck right through his little shitter ricer car and he would be at fault. Judging by the loss of blood in his face and the scared shitless expresion I think he got the picture.

[Wolf]

Way to go, O night stalker! Would loved to have been there to watch his face.

[Waylander]

Way to go, O night stalker! Would loved to have been there to watch his face.

Well if you're out and about and you see a chiller truck that says Ridge organic milk on it then follow it becouse the driver does interesting things everynow and then (or atleast wave:spudwave: )

[strayjuliet]

Well if you're out and about and you see a chiller truck that says Ridge organic milk on it then follow it becouse the driver does interesting things everynow and then (or atleast wave:spudwave: )

You would have ta drive real slow as its kinda hard to follow someone in a truck when you've only got ya feet as a mode of transport, so till we get some wheels we might just have to settle with a wave. :spudwave:

I have never blocked an intersection nor would I ever be that stupid, but yes i see it everyday. Makes me wonder where some cage drivers get their licences from???? skippy cornflakes!?!?!?

[PhilBilly]

Mind you though some cage drivers dont look ahead at intersections only the car in front, so when the car in front moves they move then realise they are stuck in the intersection. People just dont open their eyes properly. Or when people are in the middle of the intersection and get a red light ive seen a car lunge forward to the side of their car and toot the horn for ages lol funny to watch the face expressions.

[Marmoot]

I HAD TO DRIVE A CAR TODAY
HOW FRUSTRATING, CAR DRIVERS ARE SUCH DICKHEADS.

.....
says for itself

[Wolf]

When it really starts getting nasty - I've seen this up at the Anglesea St/Bryce St corner - is when those who are blocked decide "fuck it, I have the green" and edge out to further fill up the intersection, trying to insinuate themselves into the stream of traffic that is already there (but unable to move because they're backed up all the way from Victoria Street) so the next light change is now complicated by a mass of vehicles all over the intersection.

Always wanted to buy a Cadillac-Gage Commando Scout car - no weapons fitted, just a large armoured ballistic-profiled 4x4 with "run-flat" tyres that is capable of 70mph. I think that after the first few times you don't bother hitting the brakes when some arsehole cuts in front or just drive on when some idiot's parked across the intersection, word will spread - almost as much as the bodywork of whatever reinforced tin-foil cage happens to be in the way

[Lou Girardin]

Jesus, don't get me started. There's those cretins, and bus drivers that block a right turn lane while they try to rejoin the left lane they moved out of 50 metres before. Half wits turning right into K Rd and driving 40 metres in the oncoming traffic lane while they try to merge onto the correct side of the road.
This all happened this week. Bastards

[Ixion]

What *REALLY* pisses me off is when this happens, I see that there is no clear space on the other side of the intersection, so despite having a green light I don't move forward (who wants to be stuck in the middle of an intersection when the lights change !).

then of course Mr Arsehead behind me starts hoot-hoot-hooting on his horn. Becausethe light's green!. :spudwhat:

grrr.

[Wolf]

What *REALLY* pisses me off is when this happens, I see that there is no clear space on the other side of the intersection, so despite having a green light I don't move forward (who wants to be stuck in the middle of an intersection when the lights change !).

then of course Mr Arsehead behind me starts hoot-hoot-hooting on his horn. Becausethe light's green!. :spudwhat:

grrr.

yep, been there, many times. Sad that people are so blissfully unaware of the laws of both the land and common sense that they don't even recognise them when they see them in action...

Times like that I think freeing up my throttle hand for a "friendly" rearward one-finger salute would be nice but after the episode with the Mongrel Mob member I'm leary about flipping off a driver who has already demonstrated a lack of intellect and serenity - especially if they've got a bloody-great car parked right behind me.

[riffer]

Grrr. Drivers.

Not to mention the ones that do this to the last two parks ouside the supermarkdet when you have to just get a couple of things for your wife who's going slowly mad at home trying to prepare dinner while the kids try and destroy the house...