From: Phil Bradby on
On quiet motorways, I've long since given up sweeping out to L3 and then
all the way back to L1 to overtake an idiot bumbling along needlessly in
L2 - now I just undertake the selfish buggers.

There are three reactions to this:

1) by far the most common, they just stay in their own world in the
middle lane

2) sometimes they twig that they're in the wrong lane and move left after
you pass them

3) but sometimes - this is the pet hate - they notice at the last minute
that they're being undertaken and suddenly pull back in to L1 when you're
almost on their tail, leaving you to swerve into L2. If they cut in very
close and the speed differential is high, this can be... heart-stopping.

If people want to be selfish, let them do it - but why make things worse
by being so bloody, bloody stupid as well?

PB
From: OG on

"Phil Bradby" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On quiet motorways, I've long since given up sweeping out to L3 and then
> all the way back to L1 to overtake an idiot bumbling along needlessly in
> L2 - now I just undertake the selfish buggers.
>
> There are three reactions to this:
>
> 1) by far the most common, they just stay in their own world in the
> middle lane
>
> 2) sometimes they twig that they're in the wrong lane and move left after
> you pass them
>
> 3) but sometimes - this is the pet hate - they notice at the last minute
> that they're being undertaken and suddenly pull back in to L1 when you're
> almost on their tail, leaving you to swerve into L2. If they cut in very
> close and the speed differential is high, this can be... heart-stopping.
>
> If people want to be selfish, let them do it - but why make things worse
> by being so bloody, bloody stupid as well?
>
> PB

Yup - so why do you do it?

From: Dr Zoidberg on

"Phil Bradby" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
news:i31sso$5pn$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
> On quiet motorways, I've long since given up sweeping out to L3 and then
> all the way back to L1 to overtake an idiot bumbling along needlessly in
> L2 - now I just undertake the selfish buggers.
>
> There are three reactions to this:
>
> 1) by far the most common, they just stay in their own world in the
> middle lane
>
> 2) sometimes they twig that they're in the wrong lane and move left after
> you pass them
>
> 3) but sometimes - this is the pet hate - they notice at the last minute
> that they're being undertaken and suddenly pull back in to L1 when you're
> almost on their tail, leaving you to swerve into L2. If they cut in very
> close and the speed differential is high, this can be... heart-stopping.
>
> If people want to be selfish, let them do it - but why make things worse
> by being so bloody, bloody stupid as well?
>
So you know that they often cut back in, and yet you continue to
undertake....
Doesn't that sound a bit stupid.
It's no effort to go round them on the correct side, so why not do it?


--
Alex

From: Tim Downie on
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
> "Phil Bradby" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:i31sso$5pn$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>> On quiet motorways, I've long since given up sweeping out to L3 and
>> then all the way back to L1 to overtake an idiot bumbling along
>> needlessly in L2 - now I just undertake the selfish buggers.
>>
>> There are three reactions to this:
>>
>> 1) by far the most common, they just stay in their own world in the
>> middle lane
>>
>> 2) sometimes they twig that they're in the wrong lane and move left
>> after you pass them
>>
>> 3) but sometimes - this is the pet hate - they notice at the last
>> minute that they're being undertaken and suddenly pull back in to L1
>> when you're almost on their tail, leaving you to swerve into L2. If
>> they cut in very close and the speed differential is high, this can
>> be... heart-stopping. If people want to be selfish, let them do it - but
>> why make things
>> worse by being so bloody, bloody stupid as well?
>>
> So you know that they often cut back in, and yet you continue to
> undertake....
> Doesn't that sound a bit stupid.
> It's no effort to go round them on the correct side, so why not do it?

What do you do when you get some twunt sitting out in lane two on a dula
carriageway for miles?

I know what I *ought* to do but sometimes I just don't have the patience.

Tim

From: Dr Zoidberg on

"Tim Downie" <timdownie2003(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Dr Zoidberg wrote:
>> "Phil Bradby" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:i31sso$5pn$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>>> On quiet motorways, I've long since given up sweeping out to L3 and
>>> then all the way back to L1 to overtake an idiot bumbling along
>>> needlessly in L2 - now I just undertake the selfish buggers.
>>>
>>> There are three reactions to this:
>>>
>>> 1) by far the most common, they just stay in their own world in the
>>> middle lane
>>>
>>> 2) sometimes they twig that they're in the wrong lane and move left
>>> after you pass them
>>>
>>> 3) but sometimes - this is the pet hate - they notice at the last
>>> minute that they're being undertaken and suddenly pull back in to L1
>>> when you're almost on their tail, leaving you to swerve into L2. If
>>> they cut in very close and the speed differential is high, this can
>>> be... heart-stopping. If people want to be selfish, let them do it - but
>>> why make things
>>> worse by being so bloody, bloody stupid as well?
>>>
>> So you know that they often cut back in, and yet you continue to
>> undertake....
>> Doesn't that sound a bit stupid.
>> It's no effort to go round them on the correct side, so why not do it?
>
> What do you do when you get some twunt sitting out in lane two on a dula
> carriageway for miles?
>
> I know what I *ought* to do but sometimes I just don't have the patience.
>
I tend to beep and flash at them - that tends to do the trick


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Alex