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February 9, 2005

CHEATS NEVER PROSPER

Usually I am a real stickler for road etiquette. What does that mean? Well, it means that I let people out in front of me, I always say thank you when another driver flashes me through and I never queue-barge when stuck in a line of traffic. In fact I'm so anal about it that it really bugs me that BMW and Mercedes drivers (and recently Audi drivers too) think they have the right to whizz up the outside lane and cut in at the front of the queue, but don't get me started - that's a whole new niggle.

I was a bit late for work this morning, due to an exceptionally chocka M25 and to my horror, I saw that the roundabout near to work was heaving with traffic - brake lights everywhere. There was a huge line of traffic in the right hand lane, indicating right (which is where I wanted to go) and nothing in the left lane.

I decided that, because I'm always a courteous driver and kind to other motorists (unless they annoy me - and BOY am I different then), I would, just this once, motor down the left hand lane and cut in once on the roundabout. Why not? Lots of other people were doing it.

Barely a hundred yards after I left the standstill queue, an enormous bird-shit landed right, and I mean RIGHT, in my line of vision, as well as two more enormous blobs of our feathered friends' faeces on my sunroof. As a result I have to clean bird-shit off my car, which, I suppose, serves me right for failing to respect my fellow road-users.

Moral of the story? PLAY NICE - you never know when the shit'll hit the fan.

Posted by jonola14 at February 9, 2005 6:03 PM