They NEVER look at the dashboard!

It's probably true; yoofs are generally far better WRT cyclists and the like.

Middle-aged, especially parents with sprogs are clearly all deranged. I love the way they pick up THEIR kids and then tear past the busy school in the SUV @ over 30mph!

 

ain't that the truth

with BMWs, you specify the 'comfort package'

with Zafiras and the like, the 'seething resentment' package is standard

 

BMW X6 drivers = The most Arrogant ****s.

A sweeping statement I know, but it's based on my recent experiences.

 

Actually I had a very amusing day when I was issued with something like a Zafira when having the company supplied and funded beater serviced - actually it was something worse by Chevrolet all sit up and beg like with a weezing 1.4 petrol engine.

I collected it with about a quarter tank of fuel and so topped up the two spare cans I had brought with me ( to top up my Honda S2000 !!! ) and then spent the day bimbling and bumbling so that I only used the petrol already in its tank.

Boy what fun holding up the flash gits in their BMW/AUDI/MERCs/4x4/white vanman etc etc as I pottered along at no more than 40mph like the old and poor do these days.
Even on a dual-carraigeway 40mph was my maximum which seemed to annoy others even if I was not holding them up. Respect was shown for HGV's though & I ensured I flashed them as they completed their over taking so they knew it was OK to return to the nearside lane.
Oh the joy of VERY slowly accelerating from junctions or roundabouts if there was a self-deluded important person up my exhaust pipe, and then slowing down a long long time before coming to a halt.
Of course they had no idea of my circumstances, only I smugly knew what was in my garage at home, whether I was rich or poor, or if I have to work very hard or long hours for a living. Better still there was no reason whatsoever to have any resentment issues about the tiny appalling apology of a car I was driving.

All very naughty I know but it was only for a few hours and endlessly satisfying to get ones own back. Oh I promise I never inconvenienced anybody in a proper sports car.

 

Driving ignorance is prevalant regardless of social, economic or educational status.
Its also evident in all marques of car, impossible to pigeon hole these days.

The 3 series sales boys have had their wings clipped during the recession.
The family man is poorer and more resentful of everything.
The old boys are more baffled than ever at the pace of life in general.

Every week I see the same idiots, mile after mile, hour after hour.
No specific marque or model defines an idiot.

Last week an old boy drove past near my house.
- On a pavement/cycle path until he met the bollard at the crossing. Incredible

 

Karen once told me of a stupid late-middle aged bint in a car, who tried to follow her over a pedestrian footbridge until the law of perspective took over. She was then arrogant & rude about asking for directions, so got left there stuck...

 

I pretty much agree

I just think you see certain types of bad driving which tend to be associated with car groups

sports cars or white vans rarely dither

taxis pull in and out from the kerb more than most

you are rarely undertaken at speed by a low loader

I have a big downer on taxi drivers atm

round here they have adopted the new fashion of ignoring the 'give way if the obstruction is your side of the road' convention/rule

I am on a mission to convert them

 

Yes, the giving way if your side is obstructed seems to have gone largely out of the window.

How often we see a chain of cars who simply cannot wait for one vehical, and MUST squeeze by the parked car.
The nice thing about a company vehical is the endless supply of free parts, like mirrors.
It always costs them more than me.

Lately I have adopted the IAM style of 'claiming' the road lane I'm in.
So I deliberately take position at the crown of the road.
Sometimes it results in a standoff, but these rarely last once I open up the newspaper.

 

Love it. Also agree with you reference to idiots no matter what car they drive. Ignorant, too dim to realise or arrogant, in any car.