Idiot Woman in a 4x4s! Grrrr!

Just feel the urge to rant... ignore if you don't feel like listening!

What is it with idiots in 4x4s who can't drive! A woman driving through Leicester CITY CENTRE nearly had me off TWICE with 3 separate stupid bits of driving in the space of a minute!

The scene: Normally I would be hooning around through traffic at this time of the morning (9:15am), but for once, I'd got the missus on the back dropping her off at work, and when she is pillion, I ride as safely as possible - wouldn't be able to live with myself if she got injured while on the back. So... there I was following traffic and a nice 28 mph round the ring road, St Georges Way is anyone knows it...

FIRST: I'm in the left hand lane following traffic, she's in the right, indicates to come in and just started to barge her way in less than a foot away from my front wheel. I use my horn to get the point across that I'm there incase she hasn't seen me. She keeps going across so I make a bit of room. I see that there's a junction coming up and that she's still indicating left, fair enough, she needs to get across to turn off, I'm happy with that.

SECOND: She DOESN'T take the exit... and the indicator remains on. So she pulled across for NO REASON! GRRRR!!!!
She then cancels her indicator, obviously has made a mistake and didn't need to take that exit, fair enough. The road then opens up to 3 lanes, with a new lane appearing at the left. She then filters into this left lane. Ok, she needed that exit instead of the other one, fair enough, although no bloody indication this time!! I then came along side her and gave her a quick pip of the horn, and she waved sorry. Ok, she knows I'm there, made a mistake, and will hopefully learn from it.

THIRD: I then get back to cruising speed and the 4x4 slowly pulls just ahead in the other lane. The left lane is quite a long one (200 metres) that then filters off to another road to the left. Then with no indication again, she pulls straight in front of me AGAIN as she now doesn't need that filter line!
Now had I already not been wary of her and left her a bit of space, I wouldn't been right alongside of her and she would've most likely wiped me out, as she didn't even look when she pulled across!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Rant over!

[Luckypants]

With you on the rant, but that is just bad driving. Having a 4x4 or being a woman has nothing to do with it. She would have been as bad in a Nissan Micra.

There are some right numpties on the road.

Solution:

Loud horn (really does make a difference)... as soon as wheel hit the white line (dashed or not), honk. It really wakes people up.

Also, titanium knuckles for wing mirror readjustment purposes

Originally Posted by Luckypants

With you on the rant, but that is just bad driving. Having a 4x4 or being a woman has nothing to do with it. She would have been as bad in a Nissan Micra.

There are some right numpties on the road.

+1.... although us good 4x4 women drivers, who actually use them for what they are meant to be used for are given a bad name by the chelsea tractor types just dropping the kids off to school... usually in a Range Rover or Discovery, or on of those X5 thingies (but then i just put them into the crappy BMW driver bracket)! Oh and heaven forbid that they get a bit of dirt on them!!!

Took my 4x4 to the dealers for a service and they also valet it at the same time.... i went to pick it up and the guy tutted at me for the state it was in LOL!! They valeted the driver and passenger areas... but didn't go near the back with Lupo's mud and slobber stains LOL!!

I was very careful to put woman and not women, as there are some VERY good lady drivers out there!

Originally Posted by Steve_God

I was very careful to put woman and not women, as there are some VERY good lady drivers out there!

LOL yes i noticed you used woman not women lol

Was just having a rant at them myself LOL!!!

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by Baph

Solution:

Also, titanium knuckles for wing mirror readjustment purposes

a favourite of mine too though not had to use em yet thankfully!!

[yorkie_chris]

Steel plated toes on your boots ... if you see any cars round leeds with big gouges out of the door then watch out, they're retarded

Ah, that's where you're going wrong.

You're seeing these 4x4s as vehicles.

Everybody else knows they're not vehicles, they're fashion accessesories.

as such they aren't driven, they're worn.
they're not for looking out of, but for being seen in.

I take it she had the regulation 'Rachel' haircut, fake tan and large rimmed black sunglasses?

Not a traffic victim - a fashion victim.

If all else fails, follow until they have to stop at lights, get off your bike (parked behind - so can't see numberplate) bang on the window ridiculously hard(head butting it would probably be most effective), shouting 'CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?'

Originally Posted by Baph

Also, titanium knuckles for wing mirror readjustment purposes

+1