Oldies

[aswearing]

old people. have they done anything recently thats annoyed you?
they have me: driving to my lasses house going down the A1 toward the a614 and i overtook a diesel vectra, as it was going slow. and i was tootling along whenit shot past me obviously speeding and slowed down in front of me.

i let it go as i had a bad day at work and was taking it easy, got to the roundabout where 2 left lanes are for carrying on on the A1 and the right lane is for going right (A614, sheffield and backwards) i was in the right lane old spiteful was in the middle left lane.

he swerved across road markings to within about a foot of my car, all i want to know is why are you driving, if you are reading this make yourself a member and share with the world why you thought that was clever?

happened to you recently?

rant over.

[HDi fun]

Oldies can be very poor road users (hopefully at 37 you don't see man as one!).

They seem capable of driving without attention at all. As long as they maintain 43 mph (town and open road) they think they're safe. Incidentally, 43mph is probably the lowest speed at whcih they can engage 5th gear without the engine stalling.

Beyond that - these folks are such good drivers that they can drive anywhere without any observation or thought at all!!

Some young boy racers can be a menace for sure. But at least they're looking and thinking about their actions.

I suspect the one you mention was trying to 'teach you a lesson'. I admire you for leaving it. I'd have wrestled hard with my nature not to pull them to the road side and get out of the car for a discussion about driving skills.

I've done it in the past.

Anyway, if said driver was in such a rush then;-

1: why go so slowly in the first place?

2: Having finally overtaken again, why then slow down?

Age doesn't always breed common sense.

Good luck.

[aswearing]

i'm looking into lasers, machine guns and rockets...

incidentally in the same trip on the same road, i witnessed a man climbing out of a bmw saloon, quite hastily then slammed the drivers door and the literally ripped open the passenger door.

(thats all i saw as i drove by) i was just wondering, if you're reading, what was all that about? you seemed quite mad

[HDi fun]

It's his age. Give him the benefit of the doubt - obviously early separation from the plot

[Pixel]

I guess old people on the road annoy me in general and they think their better than us because they have more road exp, yeah right...

60 years ago all you had to do to pass the test was drive in a straight line, my how things have changed.

[HDi fun]

Most can't even manage a straight line now. Age isn't always of benefit when it comes to road skills. Holding a licence for two million years isn't the same as having driven 2 million miles. That's where a lot of them get it wrong.

[oceaness]

I believe that everyone should be retested, often, at certain ages.

That should clear vast amounts of congestion forcing them all to use public transport leaving the roads open for those who can drive.

Most of the older people I know wouldn't have a hope in hell of passing the test now and they full admit that.

Most annoying thing I have to put up with on a regular basis, is that if I leave my Close and turn right, that bit of road becomes national speed limit a few hundreds yards down. Unfortunatly theres a garden centre down there and 8 times out of 10 you'll get stuck behind some old person doing 30mph down the whole stretch and then just after the garden centre it's 40mph.

So on the one bit of road where I can actually legally do 60mph I'm stuck doing 30 now that is annoying.

Oh and I completley agree, what is it with people accelerating to 50mph down the slip road to join a motorway doing 70? Are these people insane, you are going to cause an accident, duh, it doesn't take incredible skills in advanced mathematics to work that one out.

The funny thing is they then can't seem work out why no one wants to let them join the motorway, it's not that they don't want to, they can't because your not going fast enough

[HDi fun]

Sadly, that's so true. The slip lane is designed to be long enough so any car, no matter how spineless it is, can get to around 70mph.

What's more worrying is the amount of folks driving punchy machinery that have no bloody idea that the pedal does go down more than two millimetres and than it's not compulsory to change up at 1500rpm!!

[pgarner]

sumtimes you have to change up at 1500 if you drivin a big wagon as sum redline at 1800 but come on. hdi you made a good point on another post where you father changes up then complained about lack of torque
most cars dont even have any pull below 2000 rpm. when a was learning to drive many moons ago (ok 5 years) i was always toldto get the speed up as quickly as possible

so wot was so different 50 - 60 years ago apart from cars gaining 3-4 times the power

[HDi fun]

I passed my test 20 years ago! And the same applied - get up to traffic speed briskly.

I agree, big HGV's don't usually go over 2500rpm but they're not the ones that get in the way.

It's the oldies in their Astras, Civis etc that bugger around at idle speed in third gear.

Until the last couple of years I drove an automatic, petrol Nissan (no, not a Micra). My dad loved it 'cos it went when you pushed the A pedal and stopped when you pushed the B one.

And then the stupid sod went and bought a 1.6 litre EIGHT VALVE ( I ask you) Astra estate, manual, and carefully hunted down one WITHOUT ABS.

THat's how daft they can be.