You forgot the death grip on the steering wheel as well.

Staring only straight ahead

Yesterday afternoon... the level-crossing thing again

I was approaching the crossing in town, saw a red light up the road on the other side but there was room on the other side to allow me to cross. As I was doing so a car pulled across in front of me from the adjacent lane, with the usual "indicate and just go manouver".... luckily for me there was still room for 2 or 3 vehicles on the other side, but she couldn't have known that from her position in the other lane

At least their head is visible above the steering wheel.
https://assets.rbl.ms/17114547/980x.gif

I was driving through Sleaford town today and an elderly woman driver pulled straight out in front of me from the kerbside with no signalling.... hard to believe, her being a woman driver and all; I was doing about 20 mph

If you're worried about old folks who drive DON'T COME TO FLORIDA! No really.. don't do it! The way people drive in this state is scary as all get out and there's the worst mix of drivers possible, teenagers who just got their drivers license and the elderly who are probably shouldn't be driving any more as the reaction time is much slower the other drivers.

Add to that all the women who are driving and I am not coming, for sure

Virginia is okay ... if you don't ever need to merge ... or don't need to drive when it's raining/snowing/foggy/sunny ... or don't mind spending an hour waiting to get by an accident - on the other side of a divided highway ... or ...

:hmmm: On second thought ...

^:har::har:

A long straight country lane runs from our village to the next and you can drive quite fast along most of it. At the end it suddenly narrows, passes over a small bridge then round a very tight blind bend... which you must take at around 20mph to be safe because of idiots coming the other way who, presuming there can be nothing coming, take it in the middle of the road. The narrow bridge often does nothing to slow them down when they're travelling from this direction.

Yesterday I was returning from the other village, and as I drove carefully around the bend I hoped, as usual, that there was no idiot racing over the bridge and into the corner... But there she was... at around 40mph around the bend she came... in the middle of the road. I pounded in vain on where I hoped the horn was on this bloody steering wheel, but as usual I couldn't find it because it isn't in the middle where it ought to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnJOC_dDXzM

http://i.imgur.com/0TlPZvh.jpg

Get one of these and you should be right:up:

u should see me wife driving :har:

:haha: I used to say to my Missus when she got a bit near the verge (or on it) "Why use the road when there's a perfectly good field?"

Today I was driving along our road at about 30 mph when around a blind bend came a speeding car in the middle of the road. The driver was steering one-handed, her phone clamped to her ear with the other.

I drove onto the verge and stopped, averting a collision, and can you believe she had the bloody cheek to give me a thank you wave as she roared past.

I'm still trying to work out what I did wrong....