Ojc
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Me and Rach now have a game, if we come across a slow moving car in the distance we bet that it will have a National Trust sticker somewhere, 9 times out of 10 it will have.
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harrisp
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quote:
Originally posted by SXi_Tim
Yesterday I was stuck behind a 54 plate Rover 45 thing doing 19mph in the national speed limit with a prehistoric bloke behind the wheel, complete liability.
I was stuck behind a micra with an old couple in, they were doing 15mph in a 50 , then the dinosaur in the drivers seat had the audacity to start flashing me after I overtook (perfectly safe to do so).
Also, old biddys who cant use their clutch properly, a mate of mine used to be a mechanic and there was an old bloke who brought his car in every year for its MOT and clutch changing, he only used to do 1500 miles a year.
[Edited on 06-04-2010 by harrisp]
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Ojc
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That's a regular thread on Pistonheads the old 'flash a motorist who dares overtake me even though I'm doing 50% under the speed limit'
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SXi_Tim
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quote:
Originally posted by harrisp
quote:
Originally posted by SXi_Tim
Yesterday I was stuck behind a 54 plate Rover 45 thing doing 19mph in the national speed limit with a prehistoric bloke behind the wheel, complete liability.
I was stuck behind a micra with an old couple in, they were doing 15mph in a 50, then the dinosaur in the drivers seat had the audacity to start flashing me after I overtook (perfectly safe to do so).
Also, old biddys who cant use their clutch properly, a mate of mine used to be a mechanic and there was an old bloke who brought his car in every year for its MOT and clutch changing, he only used to do 1500 miles a year.
[Edited on 06-04-2010 by harrisp]
Yeah when i passed this one i left about an inch at the front when i pulled back in this old bastard blew his horn though, i think the full beam stalk was too much of a challenge to find
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Me and Rach now have a game, if we come across a slow moving car in the distance we bet that it will have a National Trust sticker somewhere, 9 times out of 10 it will have.
have you patented this game? or is there an instruction manual availiable?
sounds really good mate. 
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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thats a fave of mine. No wonder folk get murdered at the roadside. Flashing a vehicle for overtaking you is asking for murder tbh
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Adam_B
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Registered: 13th Dec 00
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Ive had the flashing after overtaking thing, I like to think there congratulating me on a textbook move or for having an excellent car.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
Ive had the flashing after overtaking thing, I like to think there congratulating me on a textbook move or for having an excellent car.
This I like
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
yes but Andy they werent speeding. So therefore they pose no threat
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random dav
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
Ive had the flashing after overtaking thing, I like to think there congratulating me on a textbook move or for having an excellent car.
I always wave if they do that...
WRLFC !
Project cars
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IvIarkgraham
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awesome adam and dave i might start doing this
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Colin
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Today in Homebase car park I saw a woman driving along totally out of control of her people carrier. When I had a closer look I noticed she had a mobile phone to her ear with one hand & smoking a fag with the other!! 
tbh I have no problems with either of those activities but both at the same time while navigating a busy car park is not on!!
Almost wish she had run into my lovely BMW so I could vinny jones har with her own car door, while stubbing her fag out in her eyeballs & telling whatever fuckhead was on the other end of the phone that there going to have to make their own tea tonight!!
Complete jobbies if you ask me. You should be given public recognition for de-mobilising people like this from the roads!!
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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only problem with old people driving slow is they are not breaking the law. i drive a van all day. i see some shocking driving, and do some shocking driving myself.
nobody is a perfect driver.
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andyc1234
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A truck went off a straight bit of road near me recently through gardens got stopped by trees before it hit a house. Driver was 65 and was early hours of the morning with the houses full of people sleeping. Imagine the shock of that
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csweatherston
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Registered: 16th Jan 06
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We have recently had an old guy, drive into a post box, get scared.. bang his auto Micra into reverse, plough down an elderly woman and end up through Wh Smiths window in my town..
Classic!
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Mike
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
Ive had the flashing after overtaking thing, I like to think there congratulating me on a textbook move or for having an excellent car.
I had one once, overtook, got flashed so went a slightly longer way round, let her out of a junction then overtook her again and gave her a wink the second time 
The look on her face was priceless
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Andy Stocker
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
only problem with old people driving slow is they are not breaking the law. i drive a van all day. i see some shocking driving, and do some shocking driving myself.
nobody is a perfect driver.
While they aren't breaking the law, I believe you can be punished for driving too slowly???
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Eddx14xe
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A friend of a friend failed his test for driver too slowly, my girlfriend also got a minor for 'apparently' doing 30mph in a 40 zone (she says she was doing 40 not 30)
[Edited on 06-04-2010 by Eddx14xe]
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Nic Barnes
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quote:
Originally posted by Andy Stocker
quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
only problem with old people driving slow is they are not breaking the law. i drive a van all day. i see some shocking driving, and do some shocking driving myself.
nobody is a perfect driver.
While they aren't breaking the law, I believe you can be punished for driving too slowly???
think its only on the motorway that?
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Andy Stocker
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I've no idea, sure I had heard something along those lines. Might just be making it up
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GTM
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I'm as patient as anyone for old people but when it comes to driving I have no tolerance at all. This isn't leting them walk slowly infront of you or
Moving out the way for them, anyone who isn't fit for driving shouldn't be on the road. It isn't a blee them let them be thing its dangerous and shouldt be
Just let be. Young people get given a bad reputation but I think old people are the real menace. I think an earlier re test should be put in place as I'm sure many older drivers are fine and take pride in there car and driving
But some need to be taken off the road.
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K2 GTi
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i was inthe car with my grandad once and he drove through a red light on a roundabout and a car nearly hit him from the left.. he still didnt know what happened when I told him!!!
Get them off the road
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chr15barn3s
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by GTM
It isn't a blee them let them be thing its dangerous and shouldt be
What ?
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chr15barn3s
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I have had plenty of near misses from old people on the road. One recently where I was in traffic at some lights and an old man in a cavalier backed out of his drive way and would have gone straight into the side of me if I hadn't seen him. Luckily I had enough of a gap in front of me to pull forward and onto the other side of the road as nothing was coming in that direction. He just missed the back of my car and went straight up the kurb behind him, he had no control of the car at all! He was completely oblivious to anything around him and drove off with his wife in the front seat not even batting an eyelid. Winds me up so much and as mentioned earlier 'they are not speeding so are safe careful drivers'.
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