To the woman in Fairview this morning...

Baraics Pollox

I apologise for absolutely leaning on the horn this morning.

I had given you a small "move along" beep about a mile (or 20 minutes before) but when you sat there, fumbling with the handbag and reaching for the mascara as you had been the whole journey, I had enough.

I watched the cars in front of you get a good 30 metres ahead in the feint hope that you'd look up and see that "YES, the traffic is ACTUALLY MOVING!" and we'd all go our merry way.

But then I decided to lean on the horn, a good proper blast.

You weren't happy. I wasn't happy.

You called me names. I called you names.

I maybe over did it. You could have got up 30 minutes earlier to apply the face.

Maybe. Could have. Blah blah blah.

/Tuesday

biko

Morning traffic brings out the beast in people.

Cantona's Collars

biko wrote: »

Morning traffic brings out the beast in people.

And there she was trying to cover the beast up with mascara.

lawred2

That's what you get for driving into town

NIMAN

You fancied her, didn't ye!

ION08

How do you know she’s on boards???

Wheety

That's ok. I had slept it out so had to do my make up in the car.

Would you like to take me out for dinner to apologise? ;-)

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30 metres? You started leaning on the horn over 30 metres?

Baraics Pollox

lawred2 wrote: »

That's what you get for driving into town

I don't drive alone so it's either €50 per week on busses between two of us or €20 quid in petrol. No brainer really.

ION08 wrote: »

How do you know she’s on boards???

Maybe she'll register to talk about the ars*hole who lifted her out of it.

Wheety wrote: »

That's ok. I had slept it out so had to do my make up in the car.

Would you like to take me out for dinner to apologise? ;-)

Sure. Somewhere outside the city centre though yeah?

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Baraics Pollox wrote: »

I don't drive alone so it's either €50 per week on busses between two of us or €20 quid in petrol. No brainer really.

What type of this that only has fuel as a running cost?

Baraics Pollox

I love Sean nos wrote: »

30 metres? You started leaning on the horn over 30 metres?

Just guessing sorry, I'll get my tape measure out next time.

Put it this way, there was enough of a void that 90% of people would give you a bip to wake up and move on as the traffic had finally got going ahead.

This is part of the reason that traffic does be so clogged up.

goochy

you know youre sexist , you cant suggest a woman was at fault for anything - she will tell everyone now she was harassed on way to work now - might take the day off due to stress

davo2001

I love Sean nos wrote: »

30 metres? You started leaning on the horn over 30 metres?

No, he laid on the horn because some gob****e was applying her makeup while driving a ****ing car!

Well done OP, you have no reason to apologize.

endacl

You did nothing wrong, OP.

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Baraics Pollox wrote: »

Just guessing sorry, I'll get my tape measure out next time.

Don't care if it was 20 metres or 40 metres. It's barely 5 cars. It's not worth bothering about.

Baraics Pollox wrote: »

This is part of the reason that traffic does be so clogged up.

No it's not.

s15r330

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Don't care if it was 20 metres or 40 metres. It's barely 5 cars. It's not worth bothering about.


No it's not.

Eh it kinda is.
If you have 10 d1ckheads doing this and you have traffic building behind them where do you think they're gonna go?
You're going to have additional build up which could be solved if people like this made proper progress.

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davo2001 wrote: »

No, he laid on the horn because some gob****e was applying her makeup while driving a ****ing car!

Well done OP, you have no reason to apologize.

I'm not saying the woman was right to be putting on makeup. But I fail to see what leaning on the horn and then getting into a slanging match did for the situation.

Everyone just chill a bit. You'll get there.

ChippingSodbury

s15r330 wrote: »

Eh it kinda is.
If you have 10 d1ckheads doing this and you have traffic building behind them where do you think they're gonna go?
You're going to have additional build up which could be solved if people like this made proper progress.

Or you only have one and they decide to drive into the back of the car in front because they don't notice it stopped while the mascara is going on. Then you've got a lovely tailback...

RayM

endacl wrote: »

You did nothing wrong, OP.

Misuse of car horn.

seamie78

Baraics Pollox wrote: »

I apologise for absolutely leaning on the horn this morning.

I had given you a small "move along" beep about a mile (or 20 minutes before) but when you sat there, fumbling with the handbag and reaching for the mascara as you had been the whole journey, I had enough.

I watched the cars in front of you get a good 30 metres ahead in the feint hope that you'd look up and see that "YES, the traffic is ACTUALLY MOVING!" and we'd all go our merry way.

But then I decided to lean on the horn, a good proper blast.

You weren't happy. I wasn't happy.

You called me names. I called you names.

I maybe over did it. You could have got up 30 minutes earlier to apply the face.

Maybe. Could have. Blah blah blah.

/Tuesday

#metoo

Sleeper12

I try a little beep first. If that fails then a longer honk is needed. When they look at me through the mirror I try give a friendly smile & a wave. At the end of the day I just want them to move I don't want to get them cross nor do I want to get stressed about it

Cantona's Collars

goochy wrote: »

you know youre sexist , you cant suggest a woman was at fault for anything - she will tell everyone now she was harassed on way to work now - might take the day off due to stress

"Show me on the doll where the bad man misused his horn on you".

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RayM wrote: »

Misuse of car horn.

I don't think anyone in Ireland uses their car horn correctly. It's used as an expression of impotent annoyance, not as a warning.

RayM

I love Sean nos wrote: »

I don't think anyone in Ireland uses their car horn correctly. It's used as an expression of impotent annoyance, not as a warning.

It should be mandatory for all cars to have high-pitched horns. I think people would misuse them a lot less if they sounded silly, rather than aggressive.

Baraics Pollox

I love Sean nos wrote: »

I don't think anyone in Ireland uses their car horn correctly. It's used as an expression of impotent annoyance, not as a warning.

Use/misuse of a car horn is the least of the worries on the road. If anything, more people could do being "woken up" to their incompetence.

If you want to go full "Gay Byrne" on it, she was driving without due care or attention. The makeup was being applied not only while stopped but also during the brief moments where we were moving and each time her reactions were delayed due to her distraction.

But clearly you're right here because this is the internet.

doolox

....doing other things in the car whilst driving. Phone, make up , eating, reading paperwork etc...

It only takes 1/2 a second for some other heedless person to wake you up by being hit because your eyes are not on the road and your full attention is not on your driving.

Why would a woman need makeup going to work??? Work is not a social event unless you are in sales or some such front facing role and then minimal makeup which should not take up your driving time in a car.

Agricola

Percentage chance she's a Boards user: 2% ?

Percentage chances she's perusing the Motors forum: 0.0000000000000000... I broke the zero key!

Vicxas

In today's society that would be considered sexual harassment.


You better watch yourself with your sexist horn MR!

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Baraics Pollox wrote: »

Use/misuse of a car horn is the least of the worries on the road. If anything, more people could do being "woken up" to their incompetence.

What makes you think that she was incompetent? She was likely as competent at driving as anyone else there on that road and capable of driving correctly, however she chose to apply her makeup while in the car and on the road. Your mechanical tutting didn't change that.

Tomorrow morning, ask your passenger to reach over and give you some trouser relief if you feel your emotions overwhelming you.

Earleybird

Baraics Pollox wrote: »

I apologise for absolutely leaning on the horn this morning.

I had given you a small "move along" beep about a mile (or 20 minutes before) but when you sat there, fumbling with the handbag and reaching for the mascara as you had been the whole journey, I had enough.

I watched the cars in front of you get a good 30 metres ahead in the feint hope that you'd look up and see that "YES, the traffic is ACTUALLY MOVING!" and we'd all go our merry way.

But then I decided to lean on the horn, a good proper blast.

You weren't happy. I wasn't happy.

You called me names. I called you names.

I maybe over did it. You could have got up 30 minutes earlier to apply the face.

Maybe. Could have. Blah blah blah.

/Tuesday

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Baraics Pollox

I love Sean nos wrote: »

What makes you think that she was incompetent? She was likely as competent at driving as anyone else there on that road and capable of driving correctly, however she chose to apply her makeup while in the car and on the road. Your mechanical tutting didn't change that.

Tomorrow morning, ask your passenger to reach over and give you some trouser relief if you feel your emotions overwhelming you.

So applying makeup while in control of a car is perfectly fine? Holding up traffic for miles? I suppose texting and reading a magazine is ok too so!

You know your point is worth shít so resort to petty insults. Good man (or woman)

davo2001

I love Sean nos wrote: »

What makes you think that she was incompetent?

Would you say someone whom puts on makeup while driving a car is competent?

mel123

doolox wrote: »

Why would a woman need makeup going to work??? Work is not a social event unless you are in sales or some such front facing role and then minimal makeup which should not take up your driving time in a car.

Seriously, just seriously :rolleyes:

*and for the record, i dont put make up on in the car

I love Sean nos

Baraics Pollox wrote: »

So applying makeup while in control of a car is perfectly fine? Holding up traffic for miles? I suppose texting and reading a magazine is ok too so!

You know your point is worth shít so resort to petty insults. Good man (or woman)

Where's the insult?

PrettyBoy

I love Sean nos wrote: »

30 metres? You started leaning on the horn over 30 metres?

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Don't care if it was 20 metres or 40 metres. It's barely 5 cars. It's not worth bothering about.

I love Sean nos wrote: »

What makes you think that she was incompetent? She was likely as competent at driving as anyone else there on that road and capable of driving correctly, however she chose to apply her makeup while in the car and on the road.

Jesus Christ, was it you that was applying your make up this morning? Cop on.

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PrettyBoy wrote: »

Jesus Christ, was it you that was applying your make up this morning? Cop on.

Nah, I don't go near the city in the morning.

bucketybuck

I love Sean nos wrote: »

What makes you think that she was incompetent?

Driving without due care and attention makes her incompetent by default. That you didn't know that makes you incompetent also.

I love Sean nos

davo2001 wrote: »

Would you say someone whom puts on makeup while driving a car is competent?

I would say that she is the same as almost everyone else on the road; she know received the same training, passed the same test and knows what she should do, but chooses not to do in her own self interest. Like plenty of others.

So competence is not the right term as I would say she has the capability. Lazy would be a better word.

fonecrusher1

I love Sean nos wrote: »

So competence is not the right term as I would say she has the capability. Lazy would be a better word.

Selfish idiot are even better words for her.

If she wants to layer on the old war paint how about doing maybe at home first ya know? Instead of transforming her car into a mobile hairdressers.

I love Sean nos

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Selfish idiot are even better words for her.

That's the word I was racking my brain for, but all I could get was "greedy", which didn't fit.

This woman knows how to drive properly. She might even do so when it suits her. But when it doesn't, which is likely often, she does what she likes.

She's not incompetent. She just doesn't display her competence often.

Jaysis, even I'm getting judgemental and I wasn't even there.

bucketybuck

I love Sean nos wrote: »

This woman knows how to drive properly. She might even do so when it suits her. But when it doesn't, which is likely often, she does what she likes.

She's not incompetent. She just doesn't display her competence often.

incompetent

adjective
1.
not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.

She is incompetent, by definition.

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PrettyBoy wrote: »

It's a good thing you don't.

Agreed.

redcup342

Once I got a lady get out and come over because my horn was too aggressive (gave her a small beep to wake her up from whatever she was doing at lights in front of me)

She said it "shouldn't be allowed"

After around 30 seconds of her blabbering I realised she meant the Horn on a Mondeo had a bassier horn than a Micra :rolleyes:

Told her I'd mention it to the Rental Company ... she seemed happy with that.

I love Sean nos

bucketybuck wrote: »

She is incompetent, by definition.

Depends on the source of your definition apparently.

competence - The ability to do something successfully or efficiently.

incompetence - Inability to do something successfully; ineptitude.

bucketybuck

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Depends on the source of your definition apparently.

You do realise that your definition would also class the lady in the OP as incompetent...

Such a strange hill to die on.

I love Sean nos

bucketybuck wrote: »

You do realise that your definition would also class the lady in the OP as incompetent...

Such a strange hill to die on.

Someone is dying now? The drama. :rolleyes:

Both definitions I gave contained a key word; ability. As I have already said, she can probably drive perfectly well when she chooses to.

bucketybuck

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Someone is dying now? The drama. :rolleyes:

What can I say, illiteracy is serious business.

I love Sean nos

bucketybuck wrote: »

What can I say, illiteracy is serious business.

Illiteracy now? :rolleyes:

I'll leave it there. Didn't die on a hill, just ceased to give a ****.

Baraics Pollox

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Illiteracy now? :rolleyes:

I'll leave it there. Didn't die on a hill, just ceased to give a ****.

*Trots off on high horse*

To be that pedantic and mind numbingly dull, I commend you, life must be boring outside of forums.

Mods feel free to lock this one up.

jca

Agricola wrote: »

Percentage chance she's a Boards user: 2% ?

Percentage chances she's perusing the Motors forum: 0.0000000000000000... I broke the zero key!

Scientific notation.... ever hear of It?