My neighbour used to do that. He was from Newport on tay, must be a Fife thing. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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My neighbour used to do that. He was from Newport on tay, must be a Fife thing. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Section of the highway code for pedestrians, rule 2 is this and, living in the country where there are lots of roads with no pavement, it astounds me the number of people who don't understand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedestrians-1-to-35
Its especially noticeable if you're walking the footpaths of Edinburgh or Glasgow. The vast majority walk on the left and look at you as if you're stupid when you stick to your guns and don't move out the way. There are many cyclists on these paths and loads don't have bells, so stay right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Perhaps that's because when walking on pathways the etiquette is to walk on the left! Ramblers etc. Indeed even in the city within our very own Waverley Station you are asked to keep to the left. I'd imagine other UK railway stations say the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
The Highway Code isn't specific for individuals pavement walking. It does suggest though that you should not stay close to the kerb when your back is to the traffic i.e. keep to the left of the pavement!
The rule for walking, where there is no pavement, is generally face the oncoming traffic, keep right.
To be fair there's general anarchy for path and pavement walking.
Hands up, if I'm on a pavement or path I'll keep to the left (in the UK) and I am one of these guys that will look at you if you're stupid if you come towards me on the "wrong" side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Exceptions to this are when folk are with young kids or dogs that are more interested in what's going on at the side of the path. In those cases, I'll do a shoulder check to make sure it's clear and pass on the other side.
It's not difficult and shouldn't cause confrontation, but it seemingly is and does 😕
People that don't drive to the conditions.
Below zero out there tonight. I was driving along the Bypass steady at about 65. Guys flying past in the outside lane easily doing 20-30mph more than me. Daft at the best of times, utterly moronic in this.
Agree. Yesterday my wife left her space and I moved my car a bit forward so that nobody could claim it when she was away. I had spent about an hour clearing about a foot of snow around both our cars. When I went out today, I could have parked in an easier spot when I came back that was clear but one of my neighbour's had spent ages clearing that space so left it for him to get back into.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I've seen this happen a few times at the new traffic lights at the bottom of Easter Road. A few months back I was on Duke Street turning right onto Easter Road, when the green light goes on the left filter is triggered for cars to turn left from ER to Duke Street. A car travelling from ER straight ahead towards Leith Links came towards to me and I had to brake sharply to avoid crashing into them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
On the M6 this afternoon:
Wide and heavy load in lanes 1 and 2. Escort van behind it in lane 2. Everyone overtakes in lanes 3 and 4. Except the idiot who pulls alongside the escort van in lane 1.
As we are 1/2 a mile from Corley services I thought the car was going in there. (I was, hence sitting behind them).
Wrong. The big boy and his escort are going in, but the idiot in the car wants to carry on up the M6. Theres nearly a crash as the escort van starts to follow the big boy, not expecting some idiot to be there.
Another idiot who can't comprehend the needs of truck drivers. This is definitely one of my pet peeves.
The flip side of that is I do a lot of running on back roads. There’s usually enough room for a car and a person but with the conditions/etiquette I always step off the road, more so recently with the snow. The majority of drivers give an acknowledgment but it annoys me when others simply blank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Edit, I’ll echo PB’s point about running on the opposite side. I don’t get when folk don’t do that, for their own safety as much as anything else.
Has anyone mentioned pedestrians walking right down the middle of the pavement? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
About 300 times on the other Pet Peeves thread
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Private hire drivers, stopping in the middle of the road mucking about with a sat nav phone speakers and oblivious to the hassle they cause.
"Drivers"? Do you even know what the word means?😁😛Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
It's official!
I saw this on a walk this afternoon and thought of you guys!
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The state of Edinburgh's roads, for cycling and driving. Not tried either in the weege for a while - are all cities in the same state as Edinburgh? :dunno:
No, Edinburgh has its own special category of dangerous roads compared to other cities, they are truly shocking.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Buses that don't use the bus lane. :confused:
Half the roads in the country need resurfacing.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
People who don't reverse park. It's much safer as you can edge out of a space and see clearly in both directions much sooner, and also it makes it much easier for the person parked next to you to see on the way out as well. There's a car on my street whose owner apparently can't reverse park, so doesn't.
Our car park is basically a big square with all the parking spaces around the outside. When it snowed, a lot of spaces were cleared but it means the back half of the space still had some snow - no problem if you reverse in as your wheels with drive would be on tarmac.
As this person - who I need to point out drives a Fiat 500 - clearly didn't want to reverse in, she parked on the main square bit, in a corner so her tiny little Fiat 500 blocked off four perfectly good spaces.
It's part of the driving test, if you can't reverse park without a really valid reason for not doing so, your license should be revoked.
2 of my mates, both in their 60s, have never reverse parked since their tests. Both passed when they were 17. It would be "ah, pavement job!". Used to drive me nuts!
[QUOTE=Northernhibee;6491658]People who don't reverse park.
I live in a small cul de sac where if everyone parks correctly can take 9/10 cars. Out of every driver I am the only one who reverse parks. (In fact I reverse park everywhere). I see my neighbours reversing/edging out on to a fairly busy road, trying to negotiate between the cars parked on either side of the cul de sac, whilst I jump in the car and drive out without any issues. I just don't get it.
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
That is irritating, but I'll go one further and say that people that park on the wrong side of the road are absolutely stupid, and dangerous.
[QUOTE=Peanut Shaz;6491824]Oddly I find it easier to reverse in than go in frontways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
You're so German. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
[QUOTE=Northernhibee;6492171]Same here but I'll always forward park when shopping, just makes it easier to load the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
Reverse parking - I always try to do it if I can and it's suitable, but I got pulled up by a "Sheriff" in Florida a few years back as I reversed in to a space at a Walmart or similar. Apparently you have to drive in forwards there, something to do with shopping carts and visible registration plates.
Thankfully I wasn't night-sticked or shot as is their ways sometimes, just a little chat and "on yer way!".
I never reverse park as i usually need to get tools from the boot.
Thats my excuse.
Most big firms here who have their own employee car parks impose reverse parking. I think it's to avoid accidents when everyone stoories out at 5.30pm or whenever.
Maybe never been able to. Not part of the test back thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
He must have got it in his lessons then. I honestly couldn't tell you what I got in my test.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
I'm 63, passed my test at 18. Sure there was parallel parking in the test then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
I avoid it like the plague now, though!
In the 80's it was emergency stop, 3 point turn, hill start, reverse round corner, drive about a bit, couple of braking distances and half a dozen road signs on a flip chart. Lot less bother than the all the carry on now. Where would you get a basin of water to immerse somebody's burnt arm for 20 minutes after they been in a crash miles from anywhere? That's one of the theory questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
87 I passed and i'm sure it was a few years after that parking was included in test. Certainly no reverse parking in my test.Quote:
Originally Posted by oneone73
I spent 3 hours practicing reverse parking and reversing round corners in the driving school yesterday. It's not quite so straight forward (pardon the pun) in a 40t 18.75m long vehicle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
It's good watching the new drivers go from hopeless to old pro's in 2 or 3 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Probably in France you have to carry one with you, just in case, like all the other stuff the French make you lug around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Going back to the road layout outside Omni heading westbound, unless I was blind before it appears they have re done the road markings. The left lane is for York place and right lane for Broughton Street.clearly marked now. I noticed it a few weeks back and not seen anyone cut from the right since.
Saw a guy today take the left lane and then go down Broughton St. How he figured that would be a good idea I can't imagine. :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
SSE in Perth is the same after a few accidents when they first opened the new office at inveralmond.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
That’s illegal in some countries. My former father-in-law got a fine in Canada for doing just that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
I think it's ilegal in France, but I've never heard of anyone being done for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
It's illegal to do so in the UK at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Illegal in Australia as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Reported!
Too late, as a self respecting newly affiliated member of the Bosch fraternity I've reported myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
I passed my test end of 2019. The driving test now has 3 possible parking / reversing manoeuvres .
Bay park (Forward park or Reverse park), parallel park (reversing) and incredibly pulling up on the other side of the road and reversing then rejoining traffic.
Part 3 here:
Driving test changes: 4 December 2017 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
I passed in 2012 and it was reverse bay parking only, I was 95% sure I’d passed and I was asked to reverse into the bay at the end of my test as my manoeuvre, it must have taken me about 10 minutes to do it, cause after failing several times, I wasn’t going to muck it up at the last minute. I was in the space, out the space, doors open to check the lines the lot lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by nellio
See people who don't indicate, why? I don't get it. I was behind a car today for a good few miles, 3 roundabouts, a couple of turns onto different roads and a right turn at a junction and they didn't indicate once. It must be a wilful decision for it to happen that many times rather than just a one off error. Is it laziness? A feeling that other actions are making your intentions obvious or has it become cool not to indicate?
Think you were behind your Dad. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Traffic with no identifiable cause.
Trying to get out of Criagleith car park yesterday afternoon took just shy of an hour. Admittedly I started at homebase at the other side of the park.
I opted to just get into the queue and slowly work my way round as the traffic dictated but there were so many cars three-point turning and going up the lanes towards a different queue of traffic and having to edge back in. There were also a number who decided just to fly down the wrong side of the road as far as possible before cutting up to the other traffic to skip the queue which at one point ended with them being stuck face to face with oncoming traffic and unable to move anywhere causing more queues going the opposite way.
Eventually got to the lights just up from the Sainsbury's exit and traffic just vanished. I don't remember ever having so much traffic trouble at previous visits there so not sure it was just due to the lights causing problems.
And the negatives of karma when you let someone into the queue ahead of you and they decide to also be nice and let someone in front of them which just holds me up more. :greengrin
Just Craigleith. Seems to take ages to get out no matter what the time of day.
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I hate those people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Signalling is a real hit and miss affair in Thailand. Its so erratic you learn not to trust it at all. People turning/switching lanes without signalling is common. As is signalling but not turning. Even people who drive for a living can travel miles without turning off their indicator.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Annoying features on cars. For example, lane assist where it corrects your positioning if you go across a lane without indicating. I think this one is border line dangerous. On my old car, new car that I got at the weekend and my girlfriend’s car it regularly misinterprets lane markings and you can feel the car being pushed in a direction that you don’t want. Annoyingly, it is always enabled on ignition so you have to remember to turn it off. If you are prone to falling asleep at the wheel, you shouldn’t be driving!
My new car seems to want to critique my driving - a message popped up yesterday implying that I was too slow in comparison to the car in front from a red light changing to green.
Has anyone based in England noticed that in that awful Highways England ad for smart motorways that the guy who breaks down is in lane 3 when he should be in lane 2.
I hate people who do that.
My partner has an all singing, all dancing Corolla. The thing won’t shut up with beeps and pings and bloops. I drive old bangers which are much more relaxing as a result.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Our office now has a Kia PHEV. When I took it to Oban I had no idea it had driver assistance and wondered why it was attempting to stop me steering round a very tricky curve. The parking sensors however were god send when someone blocked me in a parking space in an Inverness hotel car park. I destest lane assist.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
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Tell me about it. Mine went into limp mode yesterday meaning I could only drive at 10mph, it kept saying the engine was overheating, but it wasn’t. The only thing wrong with it was the sensor was faulty. Basically the car is working fine, but the thing that’s meant to tell me there’s a fault was faulty. There’s a lot to said for buying older cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Are we still talking about cars?Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
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Originally Posted by overdrive
Could it be a text from the impatient driver behind you?
:tee hee::tee hee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
is that the "think left" or some pish?Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
smart motorways are vile.
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That's the oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
There is a problem around here in that people now think the hard shoulder is a running lane at all times and zip along it undertaking people in lane 1.
the M60 around Manchester is awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
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People who think rules don't apply to them.
Outside the nursery my daughter goes to (conncected to a school) there are double yellow lines. They are a fairly recent addition as it was like wacky races before. Every single day there are people who ignore them and park directly outside the school; it's a narrowish road so that impacts cars travelling in either direction and quickly leads to congestion. There is ample space for parking a couple of minutes walk away but the lazy, entitled *******s continue with their selfish actions. No doubt the same types who park in the the pick up point or blue badge spaces at supermarkets.
And the first to scream when they get a ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The lifeblood of Angry People In Local Newspapers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Driving home regularly late at night as I do now I have realised that to some idiots quieter roads means they think they can drive like lunatics and ignore spied limits etc. Last night some absolute ersehole overtook me just past the Zoo heading West by going into the wrong side of the road and going head to head with a bus heading East, ****** unbelievable and not the first example of lunatic driving I have witnessed recently.
I've noticed that recently, stopping at red lights has become optional.
Ah, you've adopted the Birmingham amendment to the traffic light laws.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I suppose our peeves are small beer to the drivers currently stuck in the queues at Suez!
Used to be amber gamblers, now it's red gamblers. I was crossing the lights at George St heading east at Hanover when an Uber decided the red didn't apply to him and he came flying over the junction coming from Princes St. I was bloody furious as I had a punter in the taxi at the time and had to slamm my breaks on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
It’s getting that bad that if I am approaching lights that have just changed to green, I am always on the lookout for the late red light runner coming across the junction.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
:agree:
My wife mumps when I give myself an extra a second or 2 at a junction/lights, and says yeah but it’ll be their fault if there’s a crash’. I agree, but remind her that I’d rather just avoid a crash altogether than have to worry about who’s fault it is whilst getting cut out of a car wreck
Delivery drivers (DPD, etc)
I get that for a lot of them they're working to a tight schedule with many drop offs but is there really any need to be driving so fast through residential areas and sitting up other drivers' *****?
People who park in the drop off/pick up area at the hospital.
There's a car park within literally the same walking distance but it causes absolute havoc at rush times. Two or three cars take the space of five and it spills right back out onto the road.
Completely inconsiderate.
I’ve mentioned previously the folk that put the cone out to reserve their preferred space in my development’s car park. There’s a new annoyance taking up spaces in the car park now. Some guy has taken to putting fitness equipment across several parking spaces and doing a workout there for an hour at a time. Take it to the communal grass area or the park 2 mins away, mate and let me park there.
Drivers who indicate when driving a bend......why?
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Can't say I've ever noticed that.
I'll now have to go for a wee drive in the car to see if I can spot anybody doing it...
There are some roads where you can see how it happens (i.e. where 'straight on' takes you on to a different road but the road you're on curves right (poor road markings don't help here), and I think some folk just err on the side of caution if they're unsure. Doesn't do any harm, but totally unnecessary at the same time. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
General roundabout etiquette at the roundabout in Carnwath. The general trend seems to be to wait until you’re just about hitting before indicating you’re turning left.
You must have noticed it over here? It's the law if you're on a signed priority road that curves to the left or right at junctions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Or indicate on a piece of road where you can only go one direction, e.g. going from Sth Charlotte St to Lothian Rd, no need to indicate right and then left as you can only go that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
To be fair, I often do similar. I'm not indicating for other drivers, but for pedestrians who may well not know the lane markings and therefore the way I am planning to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Yes, a peeve of mine is when I'm out walking and drivers not indicating. Many drivers forget you indicate to let other road users know your intentions. Pedestrians are road users.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Do you really think my wife let me drive when I was in Germany?
Oh that's so touchingly naive.
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A lot of that behaviour is force of habit. I've seen myself hitting the indiciator coming out of the drive, I stay in a quiet cul-de-sac :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Mobility scooters on the road that shouldn’t be.
I'm taking notes in case I actually meet her. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Agree with this. Also, I've noticed a new trend of runners running on the road when there's a pavement available. Bizarre.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I just got a new Kia Sportage and it has this lane thing that if you drift the car corrects it self, anyone know if you can turn this off, very annoying so it is. :greengrin
See my post further up this thread. If it is anything like the Rio and C’eed you have to turn it off at the start of each journey. On the C’eed there’s a button on the panel between the dashboard and drivers door with a car in between two lanes. If there’s something similar in your car press that. It is a faff and a half in a Rio to do the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Edit: this is the button you want
https://www.google.com/search?q=kia+lane+assist+button&rlz=1CDGOYI_enGB62 2GB622&hl=en-GB&prmd=ivn&sxsrf=ALeKk02G2viPzwoDTpyCyrpqzIqPM6_n AA:1617975366146&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ah UKEwiUj9D3o_HvAhXJgv0HHWfeCIoQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=4 14&bih=720&dpr=2#imgrc=AvyIVrZ7rxqSyM
Thanks, will have a look when I go out. :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Mine is 3 years old but it’s on the dash to the right of the steering wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
You're not actually going to tell her all the stories I've posted about her on here, are you?
:paranoid:
To the driver of the van with Secom on the side who harassed me and my family in a 20mph limit road near Tesco in Corstorphine recently: I'm stil looking for you. And when I find you you're getting a slap. Ye ken?
That wasn’t hard to find, now back to swerving all over the road again. Thanks. :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Having to deal with car salesmen. I am yet to encounter a decent one. I know its their job to get you to buy something so will basically say anything, but I have yet to find one who makes me think that the only reason they are doing that job is that they couldn't get another one due to sheer incompetence.
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Originally Posted by Casey1875
The last time I went to a Car Showroom, we were immediately approached by a Salesman and he started the usual sales babble.
I cut him off half way through a sentence by saying "That's really fascinating, but if we have any questions, I'll give you a shout".
He went off in the huff... and we bought the car we'd went in to look at from one of his colleagues.
I've certainly came across salesman that make me walk of the courtyard or out the sofa shop. I can't put my finger on what character trait it is but if there was a group of friends, the salesman I've encountered will be the dick that has seen and done everything before you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Casey1875
The best salesman I've encountered was a guy called Eddie that worked with West End Skoda. He reminded me a little of Gil Gunderson from The Simpsons. No pressure whatsoever, appeared to operate with honesty and it was a pleasure doing business with him.