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AIBU?

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To think it wouldn't kill them to pull over once in a while?

310 replies

Featherbag · 03/05/2014 15:08

We're driving through County Durham, it's a beautiful day and were heading to a lovely village for afternoon tea and ice cream for the toddler. We're on a National Speed Limit road, single lane, stuck behind a horse box doing 23mph. There are 8 cars in front of us also stuck behind it, and I can't see the back of the queue. It's been like this for almost half an hour - AIBU to think it would be polite of the horse box driver to pull the fuck over every now and then to let the queue pass?!

OP posts:
SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 16:17

Oh god yes - colour of your DH pants is absolutely critical to working out if the horse box could have safely pulled in/out Wink Grin

TobyLerone · 06/05/2014 16:25

Blue pants = you're doomed to be stuck behind a horsebox on the only road on Google Earth without laybys. Forever. Everyone knows that.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 16:28

Especially if you're driving a dad racer but not actually driving it in a way that endangers other road users at all, or causes them any frustration/annoyance/eye rolling whatsoever.

TobyLerone · 06/05/2014 16:39

But you can only drive a dad racer in such a way that it endangers all other road users Confused

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 16:46

Of course - what was I thinking?? Yes, a dad racer driven carefully and non-aggressively as one of a long line of traffic endangers lives simply by being there.

Booboostoo · 06/05/2014 16:53

In which case OP YABVU and you and your DP should take some anger management lessons before you get behind the wheel again.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 06/05/2014 17:41

Well some people are just wankers

Sparklingbrook · 06/05/2014 18:11

OP has a DP? As well as a DH? That changes everything.

TobyLerone · 06/05/2014 18:50

What a bitch. The dad racer could totally do better. He should LTB.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 19:01

Was the OP in the car with her DP and DH?? Shock Dirty bitch.

Sparklingbrook · 06/05/2014 19:02

DP, DH and the children by all accounts. Discusting.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 19:18

Children by both men, I'll wager.

AlpacaLypse · 06/05/2014 19:19

This thread is getting more and more demented! Grin

And I know of several long, bendy single carriageway roads that nevertheless have several perfectly good long laybys entirely suitable for a slow deceleration/acceleration stop and start.

So I'm voting YANBU.

TobyLerone · 06/05/2014 19:33

I bet they bought that dad racer with benefits.

bigdog888 · 06/05/2014 19:42

I'm going against the grain and suggesting that the 'dad-racer' is some kind of shitty diesel that he thinks is a rocket ship.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 19:57

I bet they did Toby - and the OP sounds like the kind of woman who would give it to them. Afternoon tea and ice-creams indeed - as if we've believe that.

Sparklingbrook · 06/05/2014 19:59

A rocket ship would be perfect for overtaking.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 20:05

So true Sparkling - no need to sit behind a slow moving vehicle driven by someone who refuses to move in if you have a rocket Grin

Featherbag · 06/05/2014 20:07

I'm sure DH would love a rocket ship, DP probably would too. And DP2. DH wasn't wearing pants. And I'm not even sure if the DCs are mine let alone DH's Wink

OP posts:
SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 20:08

Well, I'm afraid none of that surprises me Feather - you dirty stop-out you.

Featherbag · 06/05/2014 20:09

Dammit - you know me in RL, don't you?

OP posts:
SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 20:36

I'm afraid I do Feather - and none of your posts have surprised me in the slightest. You're no better than you ought to be.

TobyLerone · 06/05/2014 20:45

Slaaaaag. Two-timing, benefits-wasting, mum-racer slag.

It's no wonder that horsebox driver hated you.

SirChenjin · 06/05/2014 20:47

Yeah, yeah, wot she said. Ya caaaah.

ExitPursuedByABear · 06/05/2014 20:56

If I am towing my mare I ain't pulling over for no one.

Suck it up.

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