General Chat

I feel like a moany old woman (im only thirty something) but I am getting very narked each time I do the school run. I driver reasonably carefully but am not perfect in any way. However I get really annoyed when people race up behind me on the motorway whilst you are overtaking another vehicle and expect you to move out of the way! Where are you supposed to go? And even worse the secondary school children who think it is their god given right to just walk out into the road knowing that you will have to stop for them. Many is the time when I have thought about a near miss in purpose but havent done it. Does anyone else have this problem?

i agree about both issues.... my real one is the motorbike driver I saw this morning going through country lanes on the wrong side of the road.... and who would have been to blame if someone was coming the other way? We all have a duty of care to all other road users.... it's about time we realised that we are not GOD and other people will move for us and not vice versa!! :O)

Ellen I live down a street that is the main route home for the local secondary school and what a pain it is. There's bikes and kids all over the place. See how close you dare drive and see if you can give 'em a rap on the bum with your wing mirror! lol or drive up behing them and blast your horn so they turn round. they're then not looking where they're going and crash into a tree! (hubby did this!) You may think this is all a bit dangerous. But not as dangerous as the kids that just fly out of the junction at the end of the street on their bikes without looking to see whats coming. Jeanette x

In Canterbury Friday evening there were three younger teenagers who pressed the stop switch on a pedestrian crossing (with lights) and one then walked across without waiting for the lights to change. I had to do an emergency stop which is undesirable at the best of times, but with a caravan on the back which might have jack-knifed was even less welcome. Didn't appreciate losing some rubber off my tyres, either.

usually men drivers who think your slowing down just to annoy them.i agree with zebra crossings.seen it so many times.i think they should be abolished and more pedestrian crossings with lights should be usedxxxxx(: