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I’ve decided to pull the name and shame section, and take down the posts until they’ve been anonymised.

This is partly because those people probably don’t deserve it, and partly because I don’t want any retribution…

There seems to be a phenomenom in Nottingham that I never saw when I lived in Norfolk. Have you ever been at a set of traffic lights, and not bothered watching the lights, you just wait for others around you to move before you go?

This makes sense when you are second, third, fourth etc. in the queue as going straight away on green will probably lead to an angry conversation with the driver in front (especially in an Astra Turbo).

But what I find really strange is when the lights go green, and two lanes of traffic just sit there, doing nothing.  I saw this today; an old Mondeo and a white Transit sat there for a good five or six seconds before either of them moved.  Now I’m someone who is always in a hurry, I go on orange most of the time, so to see a green light and no one moving makes me want to jump up and down and shout!

What are these people watching? Is there a scantily clad woman nearby? Doubt it, as the van driver would be beeping his horn or whistling out the window.  Are they blue-naving their sat-tooth?  Not likely looking at the state of the cars. Are they drooling slightly trying to establish which numbers are bigger on the roundy-bit with the moving pointy-bit?  To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised.

Are they stuck watching each other in a perpetual cycle of never going? Idiots.

I went to Lincoln for a nice day out with the wife today but the journey there was scuppered, and the day very nearly ruined, by two idiots.

Basically, on two consecutive roundabouts, people decided to cut me up by going further round the roundabout than their lanes take them.

Roundabout 1: A46 / A616 / A617 / B6326 junction

I approached this roundabout from the road on the top-left of the picture, in the right hand lane.  This is indicated (on signs and painted on the road) that you can use it to go to the A46 to Lincoln (the road on the right).  As I came onto the roundabout, I was about to pass another car in the left hand lane, which unless it was coming from the top (which it wasn’t) the only viable exit was the A46 (to the right).  Unfortunately, it carried on around straight across the front of me so I had to slam on my brakes and hit the horn.  Luckily I didn’t have to stop completely and carried on.  The driver was old.  Real old.

Roundabout 2: A46 / A1 / B6166 junction

Again, I approached this roundabout from the left, in the right hand lane.  On this entrace to the roundabout, the left-hand lane is left only, the other two are straight over to the A46, and the right hand can also be used to turn right.  I was following another car, who as he came onto the roundabout, moved over to the middle lane.  I went to pass him as you can pretty much straight-line this roundabout in either of these lanes, when he turned right across in front of me!  Again I slammed on the brakes and hit the horn, but this one was much closer, so I came to a stop in what was essentially the outside lane of a dual carriageway with a bit of a kink in it.  The guy just waved his hand as he carried on.  What a tool.

I didn’t catch either of their number plates as I was fuming, otherwise they’d be on here and available for anyone to search on Google. (Try it – search for any number plate you’ve seen in the name and shame category).  Still, if I had hit / been hit by either I could have got a new bumper…

The day with the wife was still nice though

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