Inattentive drivers annoy me - Page 3

H.G · 23-03-2013, 02:40 PM

I probably shouldn't reply from my iPod when driving then

Feathers · 23-03-2013, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by XR6T0Y

Nah wouldn't have been my fault. The left lane swings to the left pretty wide, then back in. What he had done, was start in the left, go halfway into the right, and straight through the both lanes until the end 'til he eventually returned to the left lane

Watch the front drivers side of his car and you can see how far over the line he is

I have a friend who does that all the time. I HATE being a passenger in her car!
She doesn't pay attention, it's as simple as that. She doesn't take driving seriously.
If her car gets damaged she just sends it off to her ex-boyfriend who is a panel beater and he fixes it for her.

Last time we went out, she was told twice in the evening to "turn right at the next street", and then turned left instead.

When you point out that she will get herself or someone else seriously hurt or killed, she laughs.

svo supporter · 23-03-2013, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Feathers

I have a friend who does that all the time. I HATE being a passenger in her car!
She doesn't pay attention, it's as simple as that. She doesn't take driving seriously.
If her car gets damaged she just sends it off to her ex-boyfriend who is a panel beater and he fixes it for her.

Last time we went out, she was told twice in the evening to "turn right at the next street", and then turned left instead.

When you point out that she will get herself or someone else seriously hurt or killed, she laughs.

If she is that bad, why would you get in there in the first place?

Feathers · 24-03-2013, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by svo supporter

If she is that bad, why would you get in there in the first place?

Most of the time I end up driving her car instead. Occasionally she has had to pick me up at work on the way out somewhere, in which case I navigate, and tell her to keep off the back of the car in front, warn her of red lights coming up...
Tonight actually, she wanted to take me out for a belated birthday dinner, and pick up a couple of her friends along the way. I drove to the friend's house I remembered, because she didn't know the short way, then that friend drove to the next friend's place and out to dinner.

I then drove to our desert venue. Afterwards, the other friend dropped the mutual friend home, then back to her place, and then I drove home to mine again. She's now got 6 blocks to drive on her own to her house, and the rest of us got home safely.

Dark Reign · 24-03-2013, 11:28 AM

Like riding a motorcycle, you always have to look out for and drive for the lowest common denominator

**Silver Ghia** · 24-03-2013, 03:46 PM

A couple of days ago I was following a hatchback along Bell St, Coburg, looked like he was in his 30's or 40's and was in the left lane, the lanes along there aren't that wide but this character had his right indicator on so I hung back behind him. Then he started hitting the kerb heavily on his left side while doing the 60 kph speed limit, and eventually did do a right turn. I was staying well clear of him. These idiots (to put it politely) shouldn't be driving IMO, but there are no police around to pick them up.

Franco Cozzo · 24-03-2013, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Silver Ghia

Bell St, Coburg,

Worst road in Melbourne, for everything.

svo supporter · 24-03-2013, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Silver Ghia

These idiots (to put it politely) shouldn't be driving IMO, but there are no police around to pick them up.

They're never round when you need them, yet they're around when you don't want them...

Winter XR8 · 16-04-2013, 04:13 PM

Unlucky mate, but on the bright side, you have got yourself a very limited edition in the garage now to compensate for it!

Mr G8 · 16-04-2013, 06:40 PM

This is a picture of roadworks currently going on at my place, There's usually two lanes for both sides of the road, but as they are upgrading both in and outbound lanes, you have to drive on one side of the road for both directions

One afternoon coming home from Taralgon, i was slowing down to turn left onto the new unfinished section of road to get to my place, no sooner i had done that, a woman in a 2000 fiesta, drove from her lane straight into oncoming traffic for a good 80 meters until she saw a car coming. There are more then 25 sings stating you MUST stay left/right while going through... she clearly wasn't paying any attention... Oh, AND 2 weeks later, same thing happened again. Got it on film that time tho.