I am so NBU...

[epeesarepointythings]

To all the morons who were sharing my commute home with me this afternoon in the monsoon-like pouring rain:

Turn your bloody lights on!!!!

You may be able to see perfectly well, but I can't necessarily see you.

Thank you - also on behalf of all the lovely sensible people who did have their lights on.

[olimpia]

Road rage?

[epeesarepointythings]

No, not liking being in danger... What justification could there possibly be for driving without lights in that kind of weather?

[Jillyhere]

Wow. I wish I was as good a driver as you.

[epeesarepointythings]

Not saying I am a good driver, just that I put my lights on when it rains. So that people can, you know, see me, and not drive into the back of me?

Why is it U to resent people who fail to observe basic road courtesy and safety?

[hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman]

I think these dashboards that light up the minute you turn your key don't help. Once upon a time your dash didn't light if your lights were off but now you can glance at your panel, see it alight ad not realise your lights are off.

But I do hear your plea, it drives me mad too. That and sidelights, what are sidelights all about anyway? They are worse than useless if your vehicle is moving.

[headfairy]

Or... get yourself a Volvo. Can't turn the lights off at all :o

[epeesarepointythings]

Oh thank goodness for some sane voices on this thread!

[SDTGisAnOlympicWolefGenius]

I cannot understand why anyone is getting snarky with epees about this - it is just common sense to put your headlights on in poor visibility conditions - why bitch at her for saying this?

[epeesarepointythings]

[MirandaGoshawk]

Oh gosh, You are So NBU. It drives me Maaaaaaaad people driving without lights in the rain.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Don't they realise they can't be seen? If you've got a banana yellow car, then maybe ... But what's everyone else's reason??

[JeezyPeeps]

YANBU. You even get people here driving in fog with no lights on. So dangerous.

[sneezecakesmum]

Rain?. Mostly sunny here

No YRNBU they are eejits

[Foslady]

Oh for the days of public information films ......wipers on - LIGHTS ON! shuffles off realising I've outed just how old I am......

[Uppermid]

Ya totally nbu. Some people are just knobs!

[CaptainHetty]

YANBU. Some people seem to have no common sense.

[HugeMedalTally]

Steve Wright (in the afternoooooon) would say "muppetry!"

[epeesarepointythings]

Sneezecakes we had mostly sunshine here too (Cambridgeshire/Suffolk) except for the period from about 10 minutes before I was due to leave for home until about 10 minutes after I got home. During this period it was absolutely hosing it down, spray everywhere, sky pretty much dark.

It's lovely again now.

[tryingtonotfeckup]

Completely agree, its worse if they are in a silver car, really I can't see you in the rain and if there is loads of spray or fog. Doh

YANBU.

[BlackOutTheSun]

YANBU

That winds me up

[Paiviaso]

My lights turn on automatically in low light levels, so I'm not used to having to manually turn them on. I try to remember when its raining, but I don't always.

Though today there was some cloud dark enough that they came on themselves.

[epeesarepointythings]

Paiviaso believe me, your lights would have come on in this stuff! I'm not dogmatic about this, if it's light rain in otherwise bright light I'm not that bothered, but we're talking almost instant night here. You sound pretty sensible.

[BartletForTeamGB]

I am definitely with you on this, particularly when the cars are silver so blend into the gloom perfectly. (We have a silver car too, which is why we pretty much have our lights on constantly at the moment.)

[FreeBirdsFlying]

Idiots around here don't seem to realise that fog lights are to be used in fog .

YANBU

[RuthlessBaggage]

DH and I have observed that cars the same colour as tarmac or sky are least likely to be appropriately lit.

YANBU.

[WelshMaenad]

YANBU. This is one of my pet driving hates (I have quite a few...)