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Title: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: SP_3.2 on 09 June 2008, 09:34:32
On the way into work today and all was going fine coming up to the last roundabout of the trip in, and almost got side swiped by a car changing lanes without indicating. Had to hit the brakes hard  and pull into the hard shoulder. How do you miss a car this size in good light.

They just drove on an almost cut up a another car. What an ASS. >:(  

 could have been worse , my heart is still beating fast now but at the time it was like it was happening in slow mo.  
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: TheBoy on 09 June 2008, 09:36:42
The number of tossers on the road does appear to be on the increase :(
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: Elite Pete on 09 June 2008, 09:40:26
My wife always falls sleeps when im driving somewhere, she says I dont speak to her and my excuse is im concentrating so much on everyone else's driving ::)
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: SP_3.2 on 09 June 2008, 09:49:06
My son does that a lot but with him i think its becuse he has to look at the back of my big bold head. Not a nice site.  ;D
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: jereboam on 09 June 2008, 09:58:45
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My wife always falls sleeps when im driving somewhere, she says I dont speak to her and my excuse is im concentrating so much on everyone else's driving ::)

Rejoice! You don't know how lucky you are!  My (non-driver) wife concentrates entirely on my driving.  If the needle passes 70, it is remarked upon.  If another driver makes a mistake, I'm at fault.  If I ever use the kick-down, she turns white and grabs the edges of the seat.

She can't read a map, but thinks she can, and she argues with the sat-nav.  The children won't go in the car with us any more.  She behaves normally when anyone else drives.

We don't go on many trips nowadays.   :(

OK, I'm not the world's greatest driver, but, honestly, I ain't that bad. :(
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 June 2008, 10:08:26
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She can't read a map, but thinks she can, and she argues with the sat-nav.  The children won't go in the car with us any more.  She behaves normally when anyone else drives.

That's normal. I get into trouble for obeying the sat nav because I should, of course, be obeying Mrs. KW. Then commands from the sat nav are relayed to me via mrs. KW which normally means I've already passed the turning by the time I get the instruction to turn, and that's my fault for driving too fast, of course.

Then I get "why is it taking us this way?" The whole point of having sat nav is that, If I can't be @rsed to plan a route, I don't have to care why it's taking us up whatever road. >:(

Kevin
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: albitz on 09 June 2008, 10:14:34
jeraboam-when did you marry my wife? ;D ;D
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: Gaffers on 09 June 2008, 13:17:22
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She can't read a map, but thinks she can, and she argues with the sat-nav.  The children won't go in the car with us any more.  She behaves normally when anyone else drives.

That's normal. I get into trouble for obeying the sat nav because I should, of course, be obeying Mrs. KW. Then commands from the sat nav are relayed to me via mrs. KW which normally means I've already passed the turning by the time I get the instruction to turn, and that's my fault for driving too fast, of course.

Then I get "why is it taking us this way?" The whole point of having sat nav is that, If I can't be @rsed to plan a route, I don't have to care why it's taking us up whatever road. >:(

Kevin

LUXURY!!!!

When I were a lad my wife used to crack the whip while I pushed the car!

"Mind the pothole" she would say....

But if I were really lucky I were allowed to lick 'tarmac wi' tongue!

 ;D
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: HolyCount on 09 June 2008, 15:15:28
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She can't read a map, but thinks she can, and she argues with the sat-nav.  The children won't go in the car with us any more.  She behaves normally when anyone else drives.

That's normal. I get into trouble for obeying the sat nav because I should, of course, be obeying Mrs. KW. Then commands from the sat nav are relayed to me via mrs. KW which normally means I've already passed the turning by the time I get the instruction to turn, and that's my fault for driving too fast, of course.

Then I get "why is it taking us this way?" The whole point of having sat nav is that, If I can't be @rsed to plan a route, I don't have to care why it's taking us up whatever road. >:(

Kevin

LUXURY!!!!

When I were a lad my wife used to crack the whip while I pushed the car!

"Mind the pothole" she would say....

But if I were really lucky I were allowed to lick 'tarmac wi' tongue!

 ;D

My .. you were lucky -- we used to live in t'pothole !
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: jereboam on 09 June 2008, 15:24:30
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She can't read a map, but thinks she can, and she argues with the sat-nav.  The children won't go in the car with us any more.  She behaves normally when anyone else drives.

That's normal. I get into trouble for obeying the sat nav because I should, of course, be obeying Mrs. KW. Then commands from the sat nav are relayed to me via mrs. KW which normally means I've already passed the turning by the time I get the instruction to turn, and that's my fault for driving too fast, of course.

Then I get "why is it taking us this way?" The whole point of having sat nav is that, If I can't be @rsed to plan a route, I don't have to care why it's taking us up whatever road. >:(

Kevin

LUXURY!!!!

When I were a lad my wife used to crack the whip while I pushed the car!

"Mind the pothole" she would say....

But if I were really lucky I were allowed to lick 'tarmac wi' tongue!

 ;D

My .. you were lucky -- we used to live in t'pothole !

What luxury - a "t'pothole" of your own - we had to share with a family of displaced koala bears and a baby hippopotamus.

Er - sorry about the pronunciation - I'm a soft southerner who can't manage the "t'"
Title: Re: How can you Miss an big    Omega
Post by: tmx on 09 June 2008, 16:27:16
my girlfriend is the same which is why i make her sit behind the drivers seat she can see how fast im going then