Post by Deleted on May 3, 2007 11:10:13 GMT
I've just stopped 'to have a chat' with a cantankerous old git who started waving his arms around at me as if I was driving at 100 mph through 'his' village. The fact is I was driving at between 20 and 25, having just turned out of a junction and up a hill.
As this is the next village to the one I work in and live in, I know it very well and I am conscious of the dangerous areas and therefore was driving well within the speed limit, coupled to the fact that I could see this old sod in the middle of the road and therefore was taking additional care.
When I stopped to politely explain that I was doing between 20 and 25 mph and therefore not only within the speed limit but also within the safe limits for the road and the circumstances (pedestrians etc) he started ranting about me being a 'rat runner' and using 'his' village to drive through. He then 'accused' me of being there on business, like you are only allowed to drive there for pleasure!!!
It is not enough that this sort have obsessed so much that we now have more speed humps and build-outs than you could possibly imagine which has actually made the roads more dangerous than ever before. (accidents over the winter from cars hitting build outs that had lost their reflective markers!!!)
As I drive around the villages so much I had to replace the suspension of my car repeatedly and have now replaced the car. The new one has less than 7000 miles on it and it needs a new wheel bearing from all the bumps and humps and generally badly maintained roads, and I crawl over the known speed humps at 10 mph.
Now before anyone gets the wrong idea, I know speeding in a residential area is very dangerous, I have three kids and the way some idiots drive around the villages scares the hell out of me, BUT I WAS DRIVING CAREFULLY AND WITHIN THE LIMIT!!!!
Motorists just seem to be an easy target and I, for one, am fed up with being treated like a hate figure, just because I drive a car! The cheeky sod even had the nerve to say something like 'that's why you people buy flash cars like this, so you can speed'. Like no other car on the road can break 30 mph!
I am particularly careful because I do business in these villages and don't want people to see me speeding. But this incident just makes me wonder why I bother!
, RANT OVER
As this is the next village to the one I work in and live in, I know it very well and I am conscious of the dangerous areas and therefore was driving well within the speed limit, coupled to the fact that I could see this old sod in the middle of the road and therefore was taking additional care.
When I stopped to politely explain that I was doing between 20 and 25 mph and therefore not only within the speed limit but also within the safe limits for the road and the circumstances (pedestrians etc) he started ranting about me being a 'rat runner' and using 'his' village to drive through. He then 'accused' me of being there on business, like you are only allowed to drive there for pleasure!!!
It is not enough that this sort have obsessed so much that we now have more speed humps and build-outs than you could possibly imagine which has actually made the roads more dangerous than ever before. (accidents over the winter from cars hitting build outs that had lost their reflective markers!!!)
As I drive around the villages so much I had to replace the suspension of my car repeatedly and have now replaced the car. The new one has less than 7000 miles on it and it needs a new wheel bearing from all the bumps and humps and generally badly maintained roads, and I crawl over the known speed humps at 10 mph.
Now before anyone gets the wrong idea, I know speeding in a residential area is very dangerous, I have three kids and the way some idiots drive around the villages scares the hell out of me, BUT I WAS DRIVING CAREFULLY AND WITHIN THE LIMIT!!!!
Motorists just seem to be an easy target and I, for one, am fed up with being treated like a hate figure, just because I drive a car! The cheeky sod even had the nerve to say something like 'that's why you people buy flash cars like this, so you can speed'. Like no other car on the road can break 30 mph!
I am particularly careful because I do business in these villages and don't want people to see me speeding. But this incident just makes me wonder why I bother!
, RANT OVER