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A few things I would like explained to me by other road users.
I am from the UK, but I'm sure this applies generally, the world over.

1. Cell phones - Your driving a 50K BMW, can you not afford 25 for a hands-free gizmo? You cheap dangerous idiot!

2. Fog lights - That little light on your dash is telling you it's on. The fog lifted on Tuesday afternoon, it's now Saturday. Can you not turn the bloody thing off it's blinding me!

3. Let me pass! - You've been doing 40mph in a 60mph limit for the last half-hour. So why speed up when I try to pass you? It's not funny, it's lunacy!

4. Tailgating - I know you are behind me. I know your car is much faster than mine. An overtaking opportunity will not present itself any quicker and I won't speed up if you hang onto my bootlid!

5. Roundabouts - If you enter a roundabout in the left lane, STAY LEFT. A lot of roundabouts have lane markings now. USE THEM! A lot of lanes have arrows on them, use the correct lane for the direction you wish to travel - it's really easy.

6. Lights - when it's dark use them. When your behind someone on a dark road of a night, why not drive really close behind them. This will intimidate them, prevent them from seeing too far ahead themselves and make them hate you. If you actually back up a bit, you may realise that you too can also see further, aided by the driver in front!

7. Undertaking - Nothing to do with the deceased! When on a motorway in a fast moving queue (as often happens in the outside lane at rush hour). Some people like to pull inside, overtake a few cars and pull back out. This moves them a couple of hundred feet further forward, is dangerous, illegal and annoys the hell out of other drivers! Idiots!

8. Lane hogging - A lot of people stay in the outside lane (because I am already driving quite fast enough thankyou!) Some stay in the middle lane when the inside lane is completely clear - why?

9. Music - I love listening to music whilst driving. When I can hear music from the next car above my own I am amazed! Don't they know that people are looking at them thinking 'Git'

Just a few thoughts.

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