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To be pi**ed off at behaviour of 4x4 driver

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peacelily · 10/12/2007 16:06

Earlier today I pulled out of a side road to park my rather humble ford focus after having a good look. dd asleep in the back, when I got beeped my the driver of a 4x4 BMW monstrosity who'd roared up behind me going at about 40mph (I live on school lane and it's called that for a very valid reason 3 schools within half a mile) in a 20zone.

As I parked he then pulled up beside me and started tapping his head as in "are you mental?" gesture, I shrugged and mouthed "what" at him in response and he went to get out of the car!!?! His passenger stopped him in time tho and he just roared off.

I'm fuming who the f**k do these idiots think they are!?!

And yes, I am ranting against 4x4 drivers, I know I'm making a massive generalisation and before you jump in no, I'm not jealous because I can't afford one!!

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binklebells · 12/12/2007 14:28

Well, the car that I loved more than anything was a bright yellow fiat punto cabriolet - my first convertible - loved it! The guy who sat opposite me at work exclaimed it to be 'a right tart's car!'

What more can you say really!!

binklebells · 12/12/2007 14:29

Thats what he said

notjustmom · 12/12/2007 14:29

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HappyDaddy · 12/12/2007 14:29

She is trying to keep up, she's horribly jealous of anyone she thinks is doing as well or better than her.

She'll buy a new car, when her Merc A class was perfectly good but will buy cheap own brand food for her kids. She'll also buy them playboy logo clothes and accessories but will skimp on important things.

She's a nice woman but has too much of a look at what I have attitude.

HappyDaddy · 12/12/2007 14:30

See, I like the Audi TT and the A4 convertible, but they are women's cars.

binklebells · 12/12/2007 14:31

There lies the difference.

Those that can afford the stuff

and those that want to buy into the lifestyle - and live a life of debt...

HappyDaddy · 12/12/2007 14:34

Champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget.

Her DH, my mate, is completely the opposite. He has an old 206 that he needs to drive to work and back. She "needs" the newer bigger car to ferry the kids to school and back. She "doesn't do walking".

notjustmom · 12/12/2007 14:48

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needmorecoffee · 12/12/2007 17:06

do people really think others look at their cars and get envious? I'd be hard put to name one. We've had a blue car and a red one and a silver one. Buggered if I know what they were, just drove them (DH doesn't drive). Now we have no car but in a city you don't need one unless you have no legs.
Can't tell the difference between 4x4's either. They are all giant cars that scare me and sound like a bus from behind.

Eve · 12/12/2007 17:14

hmmmm.... I have a 4x4 ...posted this on many of these chats.

I have horses and need it to tow my horse box and before anyone points out... I do need the 4x4 to tow it... the horse box is about 2 tonnes, and to be legal I need a heafty vehicle for the kerb weight.

I also drive it into the fields every weekend to drop of hay and feed and regulalry have to out it into 4 wheel drive.

So mine is mud covered with tow bar and not posh! its a battered shogun!

Don't use it for daily driving... the petrol it drinks is astonishing!

Eve · 12/12/2007 17:15

...and ...when I am towing the hose box at 50miles per hour...(again legal limit) I get a lot of aggressive cutting up and hand signals from people in mcuh smaller cars!

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 12/12/2007 17:23

Eve - how many people have you pulled out of ditches? There are a lot of gullys along the lanes where I live and people park in them by mistake. I must pull 2 or 3 out a year (and embarrassingly, I've had to tow several visitors out of our drive . Ditto our road floods, small/low cars frequently get stranded in the middle. It's nice to be able to help. But as I'm ruining the image of bastard 4x4 drivers perhaps I shouldn't bother stopping to help and just roar past whilst flicking the Vs. [facetious emoticon]

chocolatedot · 12/12/2007 17:27

4 x 4 envy - god what a joke that is!.

I wish people would realise that if they're breaking the speed limit, they are often not visible from side roads. Visibility is also a contributory factor in having a lower speed limit.

cherryredretrochick · 12/12/2007 17:32

Aren't playboy clothes a bit inappropriate for kids. Also nothing wrong with own brand food, made at the same place anyway most of the time.

needmorecoffee · 12/12/2007 17:55

Eve and Duchess, I don't think anyone would argue that you didn't need one but why a city driver would is beyond me. The city I live in has narrow roads with parked cars either side. Watching someone try to get down them with a stonking great 4x4 passes the time. And outside dd's school which is up a narrow cobbled lane behind the cathedral and no room to turn round for anything bigger than a mini is hilarious. And this school is on every bus route in the city so why the little poppets (all 11 and above) have to be driven to school is beyond me. Its a posh school so maybe they don't want them on the bus with the riff-raff. Little do they know that ds is on a riff-raff scholarship bwahahahahah

StarofBethleCam · 12/12/2007 20:57

Custardo, what rover?

I showed you a picture of my sports model volvo (sounds almost rude)

Chronograph dials, black leather interior, what's not sexy

Tortington · 13/12/2007 00:41

meant volvo of course but rover is just as boring

needmorecoffee · 13/12/2007 09:09

How can cars be 'boring' or 'sexy'?
They are just a metal cage on wheels that gets you somewhere so you don't have to waggle your legs.
Was why when we used one we had the cheapest thing on wheels we could find. Its a tool, not an expression of your willy size

HappyDaddy · 13/12/2007 09:22

cheeryred, don't get me started on the playboy stuff.

needmorecoffee: you're not a petrolhead, that's all. I get a lot of pleasure from admiring the design, technology and driving of cars. I just wish I could afford to get what I want. I can't so I dream a lot lol. What do you go ga-ga for? Please don't say shoes lol.

HappyDaddy · 13/12/2007 09:26

One of the funniest road incidents I've seen happened a few years ago. The M25 was bumper to bumper (surprise) due to heavy snow. We were all stopped, engines off, doors open chatting to other drivers about half a mile from the next service station. Some bright spark noticed that if someone could cut across the fields, they'd get to the motel there. We were also moaning about the Golf driver who'd been swerving from lane to lane trying to get past and gesturing to everyone, earlier.

Well, a bloke in a Land Rover decides he's had enough, drives off the carriageway, up the grassy bank and across the field, no worries. A couple of other 4x4s do the same, range rover and a toyota I think. Up the bank and away. Mr Golf decides he'll follow. He gets half way up the bank, gets stuck and slides back down. Tries again, gets totally stuck halfway up the bank. Cue a loud cheer from us other drivers and no-one rushing to his aid. Karma.

binklebells · 13/12/2007 10:34

needmorecoffee - I cant believe for one minute you had NO IDEA what model of car you drove!! Didnt you insure it or something? How could you not know the details?

Come on....

notjustmom · 13/12/2007 11:38

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TinyTimLivesinVictorianSqualor · 13/12/2007 12:49

needmorecoffee, I'm a girl, that doesn't even drive yet, and I saw this yesterday outside the hairdressers.
I came home and told DP he had to get me one just for the wheels.
How you can say a car isn't sexy is beyond me, and I don't even know sod all about them!!

needmorecoffee · 13/12/2007 13:16

DH did all the paperwork cos I don't do paperwork. No idea what the first one was. The blue one. The red one was a Ford cos it had the blue Ford sticker and the silver one had 7 seats but the name letters had gone when we got it. Thta might have been a Ford too but I'm not sure. It was a long time ago!

contentiouscat · 13/12/2007 13:24

I was on a trading estate a few weeks ago, cars and vans parked everywhere on my side so I indicated and pulled out slowly as the vans were blocking my view. Someone came racing down the other way towards me as the van in front of me had indicated that they could. They all had a go at me despite the fact that I had children in the car. Of course had the van been INDICATING to pull out I would have realised what he was doing rather than thinking he was just PARKED there like all the other vans! (tosser)

Some people just turn into prats when they get into a vehicle.

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