Cars - me this time (sort of..)

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Well, this time it was me.  But i can't believe that road-marking follow-up truck tried to run us off the road just because i went to overtake him - he was doing about 10kph & i was taking my friend J for an appointment!  So of course i went to overtake - & he swerved at us!  Nearly ran us into the ditch!
I don't think it was me that time..


..but it was when i hit the bus on the main street. Just a glancing blow & little damage - because i have a Sensible Car, With Sensible Rubber Bumpers, instead of those ridiculous painted metal things that bend when you breathe on them & cost a minimum of $300+ to fix & repaint!!


I was stuck on an inside lane behind some dorky woman who couldn't be bothered telling anyone behind her where she was going, until it suddenly occurred to her to switch her indicator on - duh!!  I shouldn't've gotten angry!  If i hadn't, i'd've looked properly in my rear-view mirror & seen the bus coming.  As it was, i backed up slightly & went to switch to the outside lane & Bang! Bang! Bang! as my (rubber) bumper bounced us off the side of the bus & scared the crap out of my friend J (who was sitting in the front passenger seat - the "suicide seat" or "75-percenter" as i've heard it called).  She was very frightened & in tears, & i was mortified because i really felt it wasn't entirely my fault, but when i wound down my window to ask (rudely, i admit) the other driver if she knew where her indicators were, she told me that where she was going was none of my business!!


Unbelievable!!  It most certainly was my business - not her final destination - don't know, don't care- but definitely whether or not she's turning, going straight ahead or whatever!  AND telling other road users about her intentions!


What part of "compulsory signaling of all turns" did she not understand??
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Not about men!

Not about men - about a good friend of mine who's having a rough time at the moment..

She's an artist (& IMHO a bloody good one!), a home-maker & mother, & a great person. 
Why she has to go thru the crap she's having to put up with at the moment is just beyond me.


Where do other people get off on making good people's lives miserable?
Because they can?  I dunno..


If there's any justice in the world, she'll get past the present nastiness & get what I think she's entitled to - her home, her family, good friends, & success in her Polytech course.


It's not too much to ask..
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{sigh} - Dunedin Motorists, again.. :-(

Not grey cars this time (tho the offender was grey)..


No.. i'm following another car into town along Ravensbourne Rd, & just by the shops we have to overtake a cyclist;  so we both move toward the middle of the road to give him room.
I cross the centre-line a bit, so i indicate 'right' just to alert any on-coming Dumbo to that fact.


Out of a parking space in front of the shops, With No Bloody Indicators At All, comes this little darkish grey sports car, straight towards us!  I nearly didn't see her..


..because I Was Watching A Fully-laden Truck-&-trailer approaching me & bloody nearly on top of her!!


Yes 'JENAFR', you know who you are even if you don't remember the incident!  Do you know how close you came to greasing a f**king great truck sump with your head??!!  You probably didn't even notice, you moron!


Darwin Awards aside, it would've upset quite a few people & wasted a helluva lot of other people's time!

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