Jonola14

Why oh why do people insist on driving in the middle lane of the motorway when there is nothing in the left hand lane? This clearly violates Rule 238 of the Highway Code -
'You should drive in the left-hand lane if the road ahead is clear. If you are overtaking a number of slower moving vehicles it may be safer to remain in the centre or outer lanes until the manoeuvre is completed rather than continually changing lanes. Return to the left-hand lane once you have overtaken all the vehicles or if you are delaying traffic behind you. Slow moving or speed restricted vehicles should always remain in the left-hand lane of the carriageway unless overtaking.'

This really niggles at me, so I thought I'd have a look to see what kind of person is actually violating Rule 238. My findings, from the sample of 6 drivers on the M40 early this morning, indicate that WOMEN are the primary offenders as ALL 6 of these middle lane morons were female.

Incident 1 - BMW driver blatantly doing well over 100mph (I know because I was doing over 85!) bearing down behind me in the fast lane, frantically flashing his headlights so that I would move out the way (despite the fact that I was overtaking). If I had been in a Bond car, I would have released the oil slick and sent him spinning off the road in a heap of German wreckage. Sadly, though, my Clio lacks this gadget so I just stayed in the outside lane in parallel to a car in the middle lane and blocked the BMW's path.

Incident 2 - two queues of traffic approaching a roundabout. One large queue on the left for turning left or going straight on, one much smaller queue on the right for turning right only. I was in the left hand lane for continuing straight on and a BMW stopped behind me. All of a sudden, there was a screech and he'd gone into the right hand lane, straight onto the roundabout and cut right across the queuing lane to go left, almost causing an accident with an old lady in a Nissan Micra.

Incident 3 - normal 'A' road. 40 mph speed limit. Up ahead was a lane that joined the A road. I was travelling on the A road, coming up to the lane. A BMW appeared at the end of the lane, indicating to go right (and would therefore have to cut across my lane into the other). Sometimes when one wants to make such a manoeuvre and there is nothing coming, one pulls out half way until there is a break in the traffic and one can join the flow in the desired direction. This BMW decided to pull out halfway even though I was approaching, causing me to slam on the brakes and pray the ABS was functioning. He then had the audacity to give me the thumbs up as a thank you.

I hate you BMW drivers. You are mostly (let's not generalise here) arrogant, selfish, thoughtless idiots who clearly have a BMW because you think you are better than everybody else. You are not.

You need a girlfriend. I hope you find (or have found...) someone perfect that you totally adore who reciprocates your feelings. I then hope that she has a BMW and a 'Suped up' Vauxhall Nova. Haha.

I agree with the middle lane paradigm. I think a national 'keep women off the motorways' campaign is needed.

and BMWs and Novas.

I am with you on this one - http://www.middlelanemorons.com - spread the word!

This is our site by the way!

November 9, 2003

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