ORIGINAL: YvesD
Returned back from a drive earlier ( in pleanty of time for the England match ), saddened again by the quantity of arrogant, inconsiderate, talentless muppets out there masquerading as qualified drivers.
You know the ones, they get angry with you for slowing down and observing village/built up area speed limits having zoomed up behind you from 200 metres back, following too close, no sense of courtesy etc, etc, I'm not going to go on, the list is endless.
Sometimes I wonder if motoring would be better just wafting around lazily in my automatic turbodiesel hatchback and not being a target for boy/girl/mother/grandad racer muppets in the first place.
Good driving starts and ends with courtesy in my book.
Whinge over.
Yves
Yves
Personal observation over 6 years of Porsche ownership - Driving slowly (ie within the limits) and curteously on back roads in a Porsche seems to bring out the worst in people, they pull out on you, cut you up and slam on, cross over the wrong side of the road giving you the finger (see my winge on Potholes 1 997 0)
However when driving like a bat out of hell they generally get out of your way
The flip side seems true once your on dual carriage ways or motorways
I hate to say it but its a mix of envy, ignorance and arrogance
Envy - because you've chosen to spend your money differently to them and bought something they could have if they wated but can't be bothered to either a) save for or b) work hard enough to get
Ignorance - they have no idea of the capability differences between cars, they more or less assume they are all they same except some are "faster" top speed wise, the going handling and breaking bit is lost on them
Arrogance - two fold here, firstly we are living in a society thats becomming less and less tollerant of differences. We should all like, want, do the same thing - A lot of non young drivers I know believe that any consideration of driving other than getting from A to B is wrong and somehow bad.
The second part is the youth special - they must be the greatest driver and their car must be the fastest and therefore the must race everyone at any point no matter how dangerous to prove it. Unfortunately for us this is part of why other drivers look at us as some kind of pariah.
My rant over - someone went over the other side of the road trying to take me out last week, in case I wasn't sure of intent giving me the finger and angry face. Avoiding him left me scraping an alloy on a pothole. My crime following in traffic at 30mph the opposite way and leaving a gap between me and the car in front ie being careful and curteous.
