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Drivers who keep stopping to let traffic out of side roads. Grrr.

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:10

Ok, it's fair enough in really slow moving traffic, but this week I seem to be plagued with drivers who disrupt the normally flowing traffic (20mph or so) to "helpfully" let people out.

What about helping the people who are driving behind you by keeping going? Angry

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Sparklingbrook · 12/04/2016 18:43

All unidentified poo on MN=cat.

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Ginslinger · 12/04/2016 18:44

if it is then we have a cat the size of a great dane patrolling out streets which is almost as worrying as the (dog)(cat) shit

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Sparklingbrook · 12/04/2016 18:44

Oooh ooh I am riled actually. I had a Walnut Whip yesterday. They are all shiny and smooth. Shock Who changed them?

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Silvercatowner · 12/04/2016 18:46

If you were the woman in front of me today who stopped to let people out at every bloody junction, then well done you.

If you were the fuckwit driving up my back bumper this morning then it gave me great pleasure to stop at Every. Bloody. Sideroad.

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limitedperiodonly · 12/04/2016 18:46

A pithy strikeout can be good MardyBra. However, some strikeouts like those that are incredibly long and aren't saying anything controversial annoy me. Especially when someone fucks them up--.

That took ages and I hope it worked.

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BennyTheBall · 12/04/2016 18:46

I am a serial let-outer, I will admit it.

I am a very relaxed driver and like to do it. I drive a mini and notice everyone lets me out too. My last car was a massive BMW and I used to wait for aeons for people to let me out!

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Owllady · 12/04/2016 18:46

Walnut whips are shiny? Shock I used to love walnut whips but my lips ballooned to double sausage dog standards and it turns out I'm allergic to walnuts
What fresh hell is this?

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Sparklingbrook · 12/04/2016 18:48

YY they were all shiny. But I did buy them from Poundland so maybe the were fakes. Shock
I might go down to the M&S garage in a bit and get some of theirs.

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:49

Just mind I don't drive into the back of you Benny!

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limitedperiodonly · 12/04/2016 18:50

When I was a driver I was a serial letter-outer because I crave approval. Now I am a pedestrian I love to give directions and actually approach people who look a bit uncertain.

I've actually thought of getting a big badge that says: 'Need help? Ask me.'

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:51

Yes that sort of strikeout is v annoying, I agree limited. I've seen whole paragraphs in the past.

I don't think I've had a walnut whip for about a decade.

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Coldlightofday · 12/04/2016 18:51

Walnut whips would be so much better without the walnut.

Walnuts are gross.

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BennyTheBall · 12/04/2016 18:51

I am very nice when people drive into the back of me. Someone reversed into the front of me recently and I disarmed him with my niceness.

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:52

"When I was a driver I was a serial letter-outer because I crave approval."

You wouldn't be getting approval if I were behind you. Wink

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:52

"I am very nice when people drive into the back of me."

Is this a regular occurrence?

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Silvercatowner · 12/04/2016 18:53

See that is the good thing about a crappy, beat up car. If someone did drive into the back of me I'd think 'meh, dumbass' and phone my insurers. It's quite liberating.

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:53

Where do you stand on the issues of creepy wee brackets usual?

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limitedperiodonly · 12/04/2016 18:56

I wouldn't have noticed mardy. I'd only look in my rear view mirror to check my make up Wink

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MardyBra · 12/04/2016 18:58

Sorry I've just called you usual, limited. Not sure what happened there.

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limitedperiodonly · 12/04/2016 19:00

I don't think I've had a walnut whip for about a decade.

I haven't had a Coke since the day after Princess Diana died in 1997. I'd like to say it's because it's what she would have wanted. But the truth is that I never really liked Coke but on that morning I really fancied one. So I had it. Never had the craving since then. Uncanny, isn't it?

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BennyTheBall · 12/04/2016 19:00

I have been driving for, strokes beard, 20+ years and have been driven into twice, both recently!

First time was because my (brand new Hmm) car broke down at a junction and the second was an old boy who was driving his daughter's car and got confused as he wasn't used to an automatic.

So totes not my fault.

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limitedperiodonly · 12/04/2016 19:01

I was going to answer that anyway mardy. I'm partial to a creepy wee bracket.

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Sparklingbrook · 12/04/2016 19:01

M&S do Salted Caramel and Tropical Walnut Whips. Sad They shouldn't mess really. DH is eating a Turkish Delight. Back to the 70s around here tonight.

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Coldlightofday · 12/04/2016 19:03

limited I am unsure which way the causality goes there. Did you having the coke cause the Diana death or did the Diana death cause you to not want coke any more?

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PegsPigs · 12/04/2016 19:04

I do this and I don't care.

If no one ever let anyone out we'd all be stuck for ages at one point or another.

The earlier I am the more I let out. Sorry if you didn't leave early enough to not get the rage at the humanity of giving a shit about fellow drivers.

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