A TRUE story -Bluddy wimmin (again)

[Bleedin Thumb]

So you rev up making like you're taking off, driver in front automatically starts to take off too without having checked the lights.

So that was you! its usually the car in the lane besides me that does that to me

[rsser]

LoL.

Nah. Possibly my son }

[RETIRED]

'Tis better to roll forward a little and watch the panic as the car beside you starts pumping the brakes because they think they are rolling backwards.

[Toyboy]

True story. Yesterday, we drove to Toowoomba with a load of furniture for the kids. (They've just moved into a new house). As we hadn't been there before, we had to use a map to find the place.
As I happened to be driving at this stage, LOTO (Leader Of The Opposition) has the map.
"We have to turn from Tor Street at the lights near the hospital into X street." says LOTO.
"OK, so what is the street before that turn?" ask I.
"I just told you. It's X street."
"I know that, but what is the name of the street before x street?"
So she names another main road.
"Good God woman, pay attention. There must be a street before the right turn from Tor Street."
"I don't know what you're talking about. We have to turn LEFT. I've told you twice already."
"Is there a set of bloody lights at this turnoff?"
I actually had a rather vague idea of where we were to end up, but as we have a heavy trailer tailgating us, and we're in heavy traffic, I wasn't inclined to have to try to stop too quickly to make our 'right' turn if it came upon us suddenly.
"Alright forget that conversation. If you see X street on the right, let me know, and if we miss it, we'll take the next street and find our way back."
As luck would have it, we stopped at a set of lights and I took the map, only to find she is reading it, not upside down, but on its side.
In the end I followed the map, AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, and even after turning right at the correct lights, she is still telling me we should have turned left and gone the other way.
"Well...tell you what. When we get there, I'll go in and see the kids and you can go for a drive and find the right bloody place."
She called me a ****** know-all as we arrived at our destination, and I naturally accepted my victory, humbly....for the next hour or so....and a bit today as well.
Put her out in the bush with a compass and map and she'll find her way anywhere with ease.

[HappyHammer]

Drive a ute, with a big metal rear end,

when you stop- they stop too, it's great.

or if you want to have a little fun with them keep your constant speed but flick your parkers ( during the day) on it makes the tail light go on and they think its the brakes and hit the picks.

Sometimes if your really in a playfull mood just slow down to a crawl everytime they get to close, they'll stop doing it, or they'll finally use the other lane or they might just freak out and try and kill you but hey, it's all fun and games.

I have a ute and I do all of that and a couple of others depending on my mood at the time.

HH.

[RufflyRustic]

Give me a map and I'll get us there, eventually..... HWMNBO has been a real trouper this past week, putting up with me trying to read the map without turning it around, telling him we had to turn down there and it's ok, we'll take the next turn.....

We survived, didn't scrap too much, but best of all, we didn't have to go around a block 3 times to be able to get into the correct lane to get out of that area

[tea lady]

I don't do that slow-down-on-the-tailgater thing very often, 'cause it drives me nuts when my husband does it. I'm not usually in the fast lane pretending I'm a hoon. He reacons that cause he's going to turn right its OK to be there. I say he's not turning right for another five kms so what's he bloody doing.

Any way, so this one time I'm being tailgated on the freeway- I'm not even in the fast lane, in the second fast lane 'cause its quicker because all these guys who think they drive fast slow the traffic down - so I think "bloody b(&%$@#" and slow down in front of him, and the little truck in front of us blows a tyer. Billowing smoke, bits o' rubber flying everywhere. And if I hadn't slowed us down we would have been in the middle of it. I saved us all. But I didn't get to give this guy the s#!^$. He probably just thought I had ESP or something. Spoiled the whole effect.

[astrid]

Wendy,
I'ts a matter of principles that we turn the map upside down.

Astrid

[RufflyRustic]

Wendy,
I'ts a matter of principles that we turn the map upside down.

Astrid

Ah Ha! That must be why I persevere with not turning the map around

[Matt88s]

heh heh.

Here's another, though I don't do it since it's a bit over the line for me:

Busy morning traffic, you're behind the car stopped at the line at traffic lights. Driver is fiddling: checking the mobile, or putting on mascara, or reading an SMS, whatever.

So you rev up making like you're taking off, driver in front automatically starts to take off too without having checked the lights.

I saw a truck get fooled similar to this once. The turn lane beside them went green and started rolling forward. The guys in the truck, a big souped up thing, thought their light had turned green and made a tire squealing launch and shot right through the intersection on a red. Luckily they made it through without being hit or hitting anyone.

[wheelinround]

Matt88 almost did same thing first year driving route buses sitting in the right lane to turn left (need the swing to get out of the street. A Rolls was sitting in front of me Green arrow came up I hit the breaks just millimeters from his bumper good job he had thought the gren light was for him he had moved forward too. place icon of sweat rolling off me here

[woodcutta]

Such a simple solution - Cant understand why it hasnt been done befere

[tea lady]

(chorus line of raspberries)

[jow104]

Haven't got a GPS myself, but if you are reversing (quite common in English country lanes for a mile or so) does the GPS turns its map upside down.