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Picture this. You are following a dawdler out of a supermarket car park. Oh well - what can you do? They get to the junction with the main road - one wide enough that those turning right can keep to the right, thereby not impeding those who have the easier task of turning left. Dawdler sits smack bang in the middle, meaning that no-one leaves until she can. Happens all the time...

Are these people lacking in awareness, rubbish drivers, taking the mick - or some unholy combination of the three?

I know in the scheme of things this amounts to absolutely nothing at all, but I do find other people's lack of consideration for others to be something that irks me more as I've got older.
 
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12th Monkey said:
Picture this. You are following a dawdler out of a supermarket car park. Oh well - what can you do? They get to the junction with the main road - one wide enough that those turning right can keep to the right, thereby not impeding those who have the easier task of turning left. Dawdler sits smack bang in the middle, meaning that no-one leaves until she can. Happens all the time...

Are these people lacking in awareness, rubbish drivers, taking the mick - or some unholy combination of the three?

I know in the scheme of things this amounts to absolutely nothing at all, but I do find other people's lack of consideration for others to be something that irks me more as I've got older.
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My sister-in-law is one of those people, someone would cross the zebra crossing, she'll slam her brakes and start honking and yelling at the person.
Yes, it's someone filled with their own self-importance, that they're the victim of their own making and that everyone, should rally around them at their beck and call.
 
12th Monkey said:
Picture this. You are following a dawdler out of a supermarket car park. Oh well - what can you do? They get to the junction with the main road - one wide enough that those turning right can keep to the right, thereby not impeding those who have the easier task of turning left. Dawdler sits smack bang in the middle, meaning that no-one leaves until she can. Happens all the time...

Are these people lacking in awareness, rubbish drivers, taking the mick - or some unholy combination of the three?

I know in the scheme of things this amounts to absolutely nothing at all, but I do find other people's lack of consideration for others to be something that irks me more as I've got older.
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I have a similar issue on the way to work. I have to turn right at a T junction and I always pull over as close to the white line as possible, so those turning left can still turn left. The number of people that stay in the middle when turning either left or right is crazy. I was even behind one last week that pulled over to the right as much as me but turned left. I've had some near misses though with people on the main road turning right into the T junction and looking at me like I shouldn't be there. "I'm sorry did my pulling over to the right stop you from cutting the corner?"
 
Cricketbat70 said:
I have a similar issue on the way to work. I have to turn right at a T junction and I always pull over as close to the white line as possible, so those turning left can still turn left. The number of people that stay in the middle when turning either left or right is crazy.
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Especially true in one way streets, when people turning right remain on the left hand side lane.
 
jjbomber said:
Especially true in one way streets, when people turning right remain on the left hand side lane.
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There is a street in our little town that was made a one way nearly 30 years ago and we still get people sitting in the left lane and turning right. We still get to occasional driver turning the wrong way into the street.
 
One that really winds me up. Royal Mail tracking. Seriously what is the point? Every other courier you can track your package from being dispatched by the sender, picked up, arriving at the distribution depot, arriving at your local depot, out for delivery etc
Not Royal Mail. I'm awaiting the delivery of a Jean Michel Jarre CD, I got the email yesterday to say it's been dispatched with a tracking number. Clicked the tracking number and you just get the message "You can't track the package until we have attempted first delivery"
I sat there thinking oh yeah of course it's pigging Royal Mail.
 
Cricketbat70 said:
One that really winds me up. Royal Mail tracking. Seriously what is the point? Every other courier you can track your package from being dispatched by the sender, picked up, arriving at the distribution depot, arriving at your local depot, out for delivery etc
Not Royal Mail. I'm awaiting the delivery of a Jean Michel Jarre CD, I got the email yesterday to say it's been dispatched with a tracking number. Clicked the tracking number and you just get the message "You can't track the package until we have attempted first delivery"
I sat there thinking oh yeah of course it's pigging Royal Mail.
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It’s not a tracked service. The sender may say it’s tracked, and give you some sort of number, but it isn’t a tracked service. A true RM tracking reference should end GB and in my experience, the service works fine. I’ve got a 4k blu ray en route and know to the hour when it’ll arrive.
 
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Minkey1 said:
It’s not a tracked service. The sender may say it’s tracked, and give you some sort of number, but it isn’t a tracked service. A true RM tracking reference should end GB and in my experience, the service works fine. I’ve got a 4k blu ray en route and know to the hour when it’ll arrive.
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ETA was 10.29 - 11.29. Just delivered.
 

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It’s not a tracked service. The sender may say it’s tracked, and give you some sort of number, but it isn’t a tracked service. A true RM tracking reference should end GB and in my experience, the service works fine. I’ve got a 4k blu ray en route and know to the hour when it’ll arrive.
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That explains a lot, as my son said "oh I thought they'd changed it because I bought something recently it came with Royal Mail and I could track it"🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣
 
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Mine would be people who use one word so much it starts to grate. I listen to a podcaster who talks about football, and he uses the word "just" all the time, even where the context implies the opposite of "just." It's as if he is hedging everything he says, which would be understandable if he were talking about something sensitive, but he's talking about things were he could proudly state what he's saying, or things that are absolutely objective. At this point, it's like a tick and he probably has no idea how much he uses it.
 
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Gray said:
How often can you complete a trip without needing to (justifiably) mutter it under your breath?

(I'm not saying that we all haven't probably earned it ourselves at least once....though I can honestly say that I've never done the risky cut in / hazards stunt).
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The diagonal cut ins over three lanes really bring tears to my eyes, they only have to get it wrong once and that's it!
Youngsters on high testosterone mostly.
 
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Mine would be people who use one word so much it starts to grate. I listen to a podcaster who talks about football, and he uses the word "just" all the time, even where the context implies the opposite of "just." It's as if he is hedging everything he says, which would be understandable if he were talking about something sensitive, but he's talking about things were he could proudly state what he's saying, or things that are absolutely objective. At this point, it's like a tick and he probably has no idea how much he uses it.
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Have to add to that: basically, erm, like, you know. Must be others that escape me right now.
 
Friesiansam said:
Have to add to that: basically, erm, like, you know. Must be others that escape me right now.
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I work for local government and I hate being drummed with 'diversity' and 'inclusion'.
No capacity to think freely. Honestly, real equality and fairness means we don't have to talk about diversity and inclusion, it's just woke talk nonsense. 🙂
 
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Ethics Gradient said:
Drivers who barge into gaps and then flash the hazards to say 'thanks' - I always mutter something about not having had any choice in the matter. Saw a bloke in a BMW do this yesterday on a motorway slip road - cutting across six or seven metres of road marked very clearly as 'do not use' space. It's a pity there's no real traffic police presence anymore.
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Winds me up something stupid. Highway code used to say you had to be on the inside lane and signalling your intentions to leave the motorway no later than 300yd marker.

Now it just says be on the inside lane and signalling in good time. So to some people it would seem - in good time - is still being in the outside lane at about 100yds or less from the exit.
 
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