Comic relief

I can feel your pain. If it is any consolation, I am a sales rep. and spend 3 to 4 hours a day just driving. I put about 30k a year on my car and have been scared and/or annoyed more times than I deserve.

Dude, get a bike. It will take an hour each way to ride, but think of the awesome thighs and buttocks you'd develop! Your girlfriend will will be impressed, I assure you.

My longest commute was 21 miles - one way. It is doable as long as there is a shower on either end.

What about public transit?

It's not so much your driving that's the issue, it's the ones around you you need to keep an eye on.

Totally sympathise, kater. Must admit, as I get older I find I like to drive less and less....

Gkar - I'm not sure I could do that, four hours in a car is my idea of Hell

Tmso - you crazy woman It's 28 miles each way with no shower on the other end and poor roads away from the motorway. Public transport to the area is rubbish sadly, otherwise I would be using the train.

Hob - I can't imagine how crabby I'll be in five years time let alone 15-20

Oh, there are days I just want to claw my brains out at times, but I manage. Thank God for my Zune.

Not crazy, just insane.

Carpool?

Books on tape?

Voice recorder so you can compose all your epic stories?

It's 20 miles to the nearest town for me. The roads are 2-lane and one of them has seven stop lights on it. The other only has two at the town end. I listen to uni courses or books so the time passes peacefully.
I do not like other drivers, either, but then I mostly don;t get along with people in general. I've noticed people all think what they want to do supersedes what I want to do. What's that all about?

That's just plain wrong, don't they know who you are?

TMSO - voice recorder, very interesting idea, thank you

Originally Posted by kater

That's just plain wrong, don't they know who you are?

TMSO - voice recorder, very interesting idea, thank you

Careful, the police might think it is a mobile phone and decide to nick you.

Wish they would do some of the yummy mummies round here who try to drive while on the phone, shouting at the kids in the back and trying to sort out their handbag. I kid you not, one was behind me at the lights the other week. She was also trying to hold the car on the balance point and kept losing it and rolling forward. It was a big four by four (not really needed on the roads round here) I had fears for my little fiat 500 being hit up the rear!

Among my concerns are the number of people around me who don't comprehend the potential danger in being behind the wheel of something that can effectively become a 2,000-pound (or more) semi-guided missle. The problem is that cars are such a familiar part of our environment, we've lost any real understanding of the damage they can do - until it happens. We're more afraid of killer bees than of cars, but we're likelier to be done in by an auto accident than by killer bee stings.

Originally Posted by Holbrook

Wish they would do some of the yummy mummies round here who try to drive while on the phone, shouting at the kids in the back and trying to sort out their handbag. I kid you not, one was behind me at the lights the other week. She was also trying to hold the car on the balance point and kept losing it and rolling forward. It was a big four by four (not really needed on the roads round here) I had fears for my little fiat 500 being hit up the rear!

I can believe it, there's a woman at the end of our street which has a very narrow, busy junction, who carries her dog on her lap while she's driving. Window open so the dog can stick it's head out, kids in the back with no seat belts on and drives like Lewis Hamilton. I flinch every time I see her drive past our house and roll up to the junction.

Yikes! Makes you wonder about how she even got a license to begin with.

Good luck

Originally Posted by tmso

Yikes! Makes you wonder about how she even got a license to begin with.

Good luck

Most folks drive very carefully when taking their test, then behave like idiots after!

The number of "boy racers" round here is driving me mad lately. They tail gate and pass you a. on the approach to corners. b. where there are double white lines. and c. at the top of a steep bank near here which does have a double lane for over taking going up, but is so steep that the top of the rise is blind and it soon narrows to one lane each way. There has been a quite a few fatal accidents on the brow of that hill. You speed up there in the overtaking lane and you soon run out of road.