Rant 191 9/7/12 Subject: People who are too good to think

Rant number 191


The weather has been pretty bloody appalling for the last week or two. Floods and rain and fog and more rain. There has also been some torrential rain on top of everything else and there has even been some rain to top it all off.

Rain isn't something we brits are strangers too, so there isn't anything much to worry about, none the less - it can be bloody dangerous and needs to be respected. Which is what has been pissing me off today.

When visibility is low for instance, I turn my lights on. It might cost me a little in petrol and in bulb wear in tear, but I think it's probably worth it for people to see me.

Also, when the roads are running with water, there is spray everywhere and the flow is traffic has slowed, I don't feel the need to shoot up the right hand lane in a right rush.

Finally, I try and leave a bit of a larger gap than normal between me and the other road users due to the decreased friction and the increased stopping distances.

Now, I need to do these things because I am human, and evidently a bit of a crap driver - because quite a few people today, didn't need to do any of these things.

Obviously, the cost of bulb wear and tear was too much for them to bear, as was reducing their speed and leaving stopping distances. Getting there faster, while tailgating, while obscured by pea soup fog is important. Don't you see?

It's not them being dicks, they are fantastic drivers. It's the rest of us being pansies - by thinking about others and about our own safety, because we are not as good as them.

Or - and this is just a theory: they are pig ignorant, reckless, unobservant, blaze, arrogant, dangerous and just plain stupid.

Just a theory mind.

Rant over.