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[weaselett]

2017, the year that keeps on giving *face palms* - I am glad that I am away for most of May and relatively remote *g*

I hope everyone had a good easter who celebrate/had time off

So from now on, I will make an effort to post more and to that end, here follows a brief driving rant ;)

Ok so, there's UK highway code thing that says when approaching a single lane hump back bridge (you can't see the other side - mostly over railway lines or canals) you sound your horn to let people know you are coming across.
Sadly a lot of people think you have mystical powers and can in fact see them and are telling them to come. I have no idea why, that 75% people's response to me sounding my horn is to come over the bridge (today I was literally at the top and they came at me and refused to back up FUN TIMES) - if they sounded their horn back, ok that's letting you know they are there and will wait (well should mean that as they answered you)

It is one of the most annoying things, I would love to say it's a Lancashire thing, but I had it over Whitby way and down south so :/

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[thisbluespirit]

2017, the year that keeps on giving *face palms*

I know. /o\ At this particular moment, it's a bit of a scary prospect all round.

People forget the Highway Code as soon as they've passed, especially the bits that say other people have the right of way. It is a mystery.

(And, ha, sorry - I haven't been able to drive for ages, so I'm kind of smiling at the memory of awkward hump-backed bridges I have known, particularly the one round a corner at the end of a hill where you just have to pray nobody is coming.)

[weaselett]

Yeahhhh

It really does seem like it! Also have to add the massive variation in driving instructors, as one friend was told to just run things over cos it's safer, and another never to indicate during a manaouver around something as it confuses people *face palm* (rural living makes you familiar with many fun things such as blind blind bridges ;) )

[thisbluespirit]

told to just run things over cos it's safer

0_o (Unless they maybe got confused - technically you aren't supposed to do an emergency stop for anything smaller than a dog, but of course, in practice, obviously people do. But for dogs and people, you are supposed to stop. The Highway Code is weird sometimes! And it changes... Also driving instructors often have their own little tics!)

rural people build blind blind bridges and especially narrow twisty lanes just so they can have a good laugh at townies. :-)

[weaselett]

They were being taught to drive in London area and were out right told that unless it was a person to just keep driving as it wouldn't be safe to try to avoid hitting anything. I was v baffled, checked they really meant anything and queried if the fact you legally are meant to report hitting dogs/stop for dogs was mentioned at all, and informed them this approach would be a mistake in the countryside. (I ended up giving the rural animal guidance aka don't trust livestock they have a death wish, and deer often come in threes).

Mostly, it seems to be town folk that get given weird driving advice by instructors...

Yup :D - we also have weird systems of back roads that can take you in circles (and moss roads which are a whole different experience)

[thisbluespirit]

Londoners will run over anything sounds about right, I suppose! Heh. ;-)

Probably large towns, too. If you're in a small town, as I've always been, you're always half in the country anyway when driving. (I'm also amused as I moved from the west country to the north east, and my area of it simply does not have any narrow winding lanes, no matter how far into the country you get - and some of my colleagues went on holiday to the west country and came back pale and shaking at their new country lane experience. I laughed a lot, obviously, 'cos usually I'm the soft southerner.)