Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Driving in the UK.

I've found that the best way to drive in the UK is to find some crazy local driver who halls ass down the roads and doesn't seem to give a damn about possibly hitting the person from the apposing lane. That way I can follow behind, see when to break and have the other drivers forced into their side of the lane a little further instead of riding on the line. The ultimate is to find the crazy lorry driver who's willing to go near or over the speed limit with his huge truck in these tiny ass roads. Then I don't have to worry about anyone being near my lane (to an extent) and yet still go fast enough to get somewhere.

To give you an idea of what I'm talking about;  I used to think that the cross country drive, during road construction, with a Jersey barrior on one side and an 18 wheeler on the otherside, at night, while raining, after 7 other hours of driving, and with 2 cats in the back seat was the worst type of driving ever. Now I clearly know that the worst type of driving is actually any time of day (even just after breakfast and a nice night of sleep), during any type of weather (even a nice clear sunny day),  while on anything of "A" level road or smaller. Its like these people have a death wish for at least thier side mirrors if not the entire damn car. Any road thats labeled as 2 lanes is actually lying to you, its at max a 1.5 lane road. Now thats not an AZ 1.5 lane road where each car has about 1.5 lanes of room with which to wander around in before crossing any lines; it's 1.5 lanes for you, 2 sets of wall height hedges, a few sign posts, oh and a full size shipping truck coming at you at 50mph with little regard for your or your car's life (all of this while doing pretty much only short to medium size turns with about 20 feet of visual warning before coming across said truck, god forbid they design or implement a straight road here).

Driving a stick shift (manual) car again is fun though.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like you got everything you ever wanted. Excitement, possible head-on collisions. What more do you need from a vacation?

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