To get annoyed when people in 4x4s drive around puddles?

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

I do a lot of country lane driving. I'm utterly fed up of having to pull my poor battered 10yo Citroen up onto steep muddy grass verges so that people in shiny 4x4s can not get their wheels wet?
And no, I'm not anti 4x4, I used to own one.

I love my 4x4 (yes you can flame me all you like!!)

If I drove through the puddle, your smaller car OP would be boggin (thats dirty/messy/mucky/hashy/filthy for those who will wonder) with spray from my jeep, whilst my jeep being higher up would be less boggin.

I am being polite not driving through the puddles near you.

I drive a very small car and take back rural roads to my DC school. I unlike the 4x4 drivers can fit through the small gaps with ease, whilst they have to pull over/wait. So I don't find it too much of a problem.

What I do mind however, is with all the rain we've had over the past couple of days there are some seriously deep puddles pools of water on the roads. I at one point didn't think my poor car was going to make it through. So I went a different route home only to find more deep pools. So I stop, put my hazards on and wait. I want to turn around and find another route. But oh no, I get parped by the other mums in their huge 4x4s who can't see/understand that my wee car isn't going to make it.

They pass me and sit there contemplating the puddle themselves. Cue me thinking - you've paid £60k for that massive 'off roader' that you never take off road and the one time it could actually fulfill it's function you don't want to get it dirty.

Rant over.

I once witnessed a 4x4 driver DRIVE ALONG THE PAVEMENT of a residential 30mph road for about 100 yards.

She did it to avoid having to drive down the white lines & in the centre of the road in order to avoid a wheelchair user.

But somehow it would have been ok if she'd have hit a pedestrian???

Drivers can be arses with puddles,

I have lost count of the times I have been drenched in water because some silly arse - either by accident or design - has ploughed through a puddle at speed.

I always drive round suspicious looking* puddles if at all possible. But I would never cut someone up to do so. I'd rather slow down/stop

• when you can't tell how deep they might be, if there's something like glass lurking in the bottom of them, if they're actually a 10" deep pothole

I sort of have a 4x4, a santa fe, but I suppose that's not the big bad type you're on about

DP goes around puddles because he is a mostly lovely bloke and doesn't want to splash people.

I go round puddles because I don't want a repeat of the unfortunate incedent where I hit one at speed looking forward to a big splash, aquaplaned and ended up in a ditch.