To drive at the speed limit, despite what the bloke right up behind me wants?

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I often do a 20-mile trip on B-roads & through villages where the speed limits are 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60mph in various places. On two stretches there are speed cameras, and a few months back I got a warning letter for doing over 30 in a 30mph limit - don't know by how much, but I was lucky not to get a fine.

So I stick to the speed limits, even though IMO some are a bit daft - the 20mph is only relevant at school pick-up & drop-off really - but it's not for me to decide the law.

So why are there always cars - always BIG cars - right up my exhaust pipe trying to chivvy me up? It's SO stressful, why not just relax & go with the flow?

I have been driving for over 20 years and it totally p*es me off when people do this when you are sticking to a speed limit.. I am no angel and have broke speed limits on a number of occasions - but sometimes common sense is all thats required - why do they need to do 50 in a 30 going down a residential road? Whats more, I now have my 3 month old daughter in the car with me all the time with the usual baby onboard sign and i still get impatient arses tailing me... and on the occasions they do overtake... some have their own baby on board signs.!! makes you wonder hey

There's a good anti-speeding billboard in Australia - of an attractive female holding up her little finger, the caption reading

'speeding - no one thinks big of you'

You gotta love the blatant sexual stereotyping, but I'm guessing it hits a large proportion of the target market.

Ok riven i agree to the limits u said i am not a complete ogre. Its just i see some drivers do worse things than overtake, they r the idiots

text speak + number in your name + being obnoxious to other posters who are being entirely reasonable - are you sure you haven't got MN mixed up with Bounty, Tiredmum?

Your dh is a tosser. He thinks other people should get out of his way so he can break the law? Right, I'll come round and burgle your house, shall I?

what ARE you talking about, tiredmum?

Edam i dont know what the fxxx ur reading, but what has text talk, and a no being in my name got to do with this. + maybe u should read u all the posts, i said he does it when people cut him up u complete idiot. Burgle my house eh, like to see you fxxking try. I tell you what gimme ur address + we will come to you. And i think that ur a complete nutjob for a making such an immature comment. Please tell me ur not actually a parent.

And aitch, cant u bloody read. I AM NOT GOING TO KEEP REPEATING MYSELF. stop being so god damn argumentative.

oh edams a nutjob is she mrs threatening?

she was illustrating a point, that NO..it isn't ok just to break the law when we feel like it.

if you didn't understand the between the lines comment, perhaps you should put the phone down and read a book

So Custardo its ok to cut people up and excuse me but u can fail ur test for driving to slow, but dont worry about taking my point into view. Looks like i am not allowed an opinion. And dont tell me what to do, i find that ignorant, considering i dont even know you

And u think its ok to threaten to burgle someones house, maybe i should hand this over to the police they would be more interested in that....

Do you really think that she intends to burgle your house? She was making a point that it isn't ok to ignore the law and do as one wishes.
You are a complete loon aren't you?

My word, for someone who is very good at text, you are not on the ball with subtext, Tiredmum.

I thank you.

yeah, right, I'm sure they'd send a car with full blue lights response...

I'll say it again for the hard of thinking. It was an analogy - you appear to think it's OK for your dh to not only break the law but harass other people who are obeying it in order to break it.

Your dh is committing an offence and bizarrely you appear to be proud of this. So don't get on your high horse with me, sunshine, you should be having words with your daft dh.

a lot of people DO speed but not admit it.

i wasn't telling you what to do dear, it was a mear suggestion. A good one i thought considering the lack of obvious brain cell usage shown in some of the posts on this thread.

i speed.

If someone is driving up your backside, the safest thing to do is slow down. That way if they do run into you, it will cause less damage, and it will encourage them to overtake you.

And cutting others up isnt an offence. No of course not its just ignorance. I like that none of u agree that its wrong. And edam sarcasm is the lowest form of wit (i suppose u r laughable). And moving what the hell has this got to do with you, and will u stop going on about my text talk, or shall i go through everyones messages + start checking ur grammer just so i can start for no reason. Will u grow up

Ah there u go, did i say he sped. No, i said when he has to overtake, they were doin 20, so how in hell is he speeding. When most roads are 30mph.

The use of text speak when posting on forums is not acceptable on the majority of message boards.
We have a number of posters who post from their mobile phones, but they seem to manage that without the use of text speak.

Shove off thunderduck. If u dont like it. Simple dont read it. This has nothing to do with the original post. So now i know u r being argumentative. And u tell me where i am using that much text talk. As i am not really, am i.

Ys U R.

And sorry i meant 'grammar' in my other post

ROFL at this side argument going on.

I wish I could be bothered to read Tiredmummy's texts so I could find out what's going on, but I glaze over...