Women f..king drivers!!!

LegacyUser

Women f**king drivers! This morning I had the car parked across from the office and at one stage happened to look out the window and spotted a car parked unnervingly close to mine.
The driver was still in it talking on her mobile, so I went out, thinking at best I’ll never get my own car out of the space, or at worst, she’s reversed into my car. I may have been a little overly-concerned as I crossed the road, but when it’s a brand new car, who isn’t?
This particular young lady had pulled into the space and reversed right onto my front number plate mount ... she obviously felt a thud, and didn’t even bother to drive forward again.
Now, there would have been the length of one-and-a-half parking spaces free and then an empty yellow hatch space when she pulled into it, and she wasn’t exactly driving a tank — one of those little Fiats (Cinquecento or whatever) — probably the smallest cars on the road.
Anyway, I tapped my key on her window and she gave me a defensive look so I pointed at the bumpers. She opened the door and continued with the look (while on the phone).
“Am I parked to close to ya?” she asked. I was speechless, so I pointed again. “What?” she asks, so I continued to point. “Ya, but they’re not touching,” she contended.
“Not touching? Look,” I said in bewilderment, and touched my number plate. “Do you want me to move forward?” she asked.
Of course, there was no apology, and she didn’t even bother to get out again and check for damage. Granted, there was only a small indentation on the number plate, but its the fact that she would have wandered off up town, leaving me stuck in that space, and when approached it was as if she did nothing wrong. Get off the roads.

D!ve^Bomb!

O_o

meepmeep

And if it was a man in the car would you have the title as "Men f..king drivers?"

:rolleyes:

DJB

meepmeep wrote:

And if it was a man in the car would you have the title as "Men f..king drivers?"

:rolleyes:

The difference is... a man wouldn't do this! :cool:

Keyzer

Get over it, old people are the worst drivers...

koneko

meepmeep wrote:

And if it was a man in the car would you have the title as "Men f..king drivers?"

:rolleyes:

Don't let it bother you meepmeep, some people around here are awful ignorant, it's best just to ignore them because if you respond they'll just keep doing it.

LegacyUser

Can I assume then that Koneko and meepmeep are female? And are avoiding the core issue, just as this female motorist did?

ambro25

Ah that's OK, meepmeep / Koneko: both Men AND Women are f..king drivers over here anyway

Keyzer

ambro25 wrote:

Ah that's OK, meepmeep / Koneko: both Men AND Women are f..king drivers over here anyway

I agree, all drivers in Ireland are crap, courtesy and rules of the road are out the window in Ireland....

BTW, congratulations to me on my 400th post...

Gilgamesh

Ahhhh.... Ambro25, I agree with you on that one, hehe

And if there were aliens, they would be F..king drivers aswell..... Mwahahahaha

koneko

Buckfast wrote:

Can I assume then that Koneko and meepmeep are female? And are avoiding the core issue, just as this female motorist did?

I'm sorry, which core issue would this be? The one where you had a run-in with a sh!tty driver, and this causes you to brand a WHOLE GENDER as bad drivers? So the core issue of you being a sexist fool?

There are bad drivers out there. Period. This isn't reserved for one gender or race or colour in particular, it's an individual thing.

Gilgamesh

Keyzer wrote:

I agree, all drivers in Ireland are crap, courtesy and rules of the road are out the window in Ireland....

BTW, congratulations to me on my 400th post...

maybe they shouldn't ban smoking but instead ban driving,
Let's get the horse and cart back on the roads.


And congrats on your 400th, tis only be happening once, LOL
just like my 536th now, so congrat me allready

Ro: maaan!

It really has nothing to do with her being a her...

LegacyUser

koneko wrote:

So the core issue of you being a sexist fool?

Hey, don't be so touchy. In your haste to flame, you seem to have difficulty in thinking and typing at the same time. That [above quote] isn't even a sentence. Maybe females can't multi-task either?

Gosh

Ah now - couldn't have been as bad as the attached ... LOL

Gilgamesh

Buckfast wrote:

Hey, don't be so touchy. In your haste to flame, you seem to have difficulty in thinking and typing at the same time. That [above quote] isn't even a sentence. Maybe females can't multi-task either?

Konecko has a point, sounds very sexist from here.
try and get a grip with your self and try posting something more productive the next time.
sorry for your car, but this isn't a issue to be generalised to females, one female doesn't represent them all.

ando

Ro: maaan! wrote:

It really has nothing to do with her being a her...

its everything to do with it :rolleyes:

Ro: maaan!

Also you didn't mention anything about her driving in your post. Should have called it female parkers really. She could be an excellent driver. Better than you even... Oh wait, what am I thinking! You're a man!

koneko

You're clearly a troll, and I don't have time for trolls.

I also apologise that I'm not a native English speaker, perhaps that offends you too. All those stupid foreigners and women taking up space on your roads when they can't really drive.

mike65

Jeeze where is this one spring from....keep it on topic and off gratuitous sexism and swearing. Otherwise its the bin or thunderdome...

Mike.

uberwolf

actually something similar happened to me at the weekend. In car park, And I slip it into reverse to pull out of my spot. It's one of those angled spaces

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like such, with a one way system in place. Anywho this monster of a jeep comes up the wrong way and tries to swing into place beside me (on my right, having gone past me). Anyway she takes three maneuvers to approximate the parking move and ends up leaving her arse in my place.

I put it back into neutral and open door to ask her to move it - as I can no longer get out of the spot - not even mentioning to her that her disregard for the road markings in pulling in had already delayed me.

She looks at me like I've two heads, sticks up her finger and slings the child on to her hip before wandering off, leaving me perform three moves to get out of the space.

Key just about stayed in the ignition rather than along the side of her jeep

the_syco

The women aren't too bad. Its the skangers that you have to watch!

Borzoi

mike65 wrote:

Jeeze where is this one spring from....keep it on topic and off gratuitous sexism and swearing. Otherwise its the bin or thunderdome...

Mike.

From under a rock I'd say.

And I'd vote for the bin - with an extra halping of bannings.

Interceptor

Why do you think bumpers are called bumpers? They are for bumping you silly man. Get over yourself - it is only a car and in ten years time it will have been either crushed, dismantled or burned, the same as all consumer durables. If you don't want anyone to touch it, wrap it in bubble wrap, or better still leave it at home. Twonk.

'cptr

Saruman

Is it just us Irish and maybe Brits that have such regard for their cars? I was in paris, got home late last night and every single person there. and by that i mean EVER SINGLE BLOODY DRIVER does not give a rats about their cars, they bang and scrape and bump off everything from other cars to bollards and posts etc.. Almost every car has bumps and dents etc, exception being very new sports cars..

Me i park far away from other cars in a car park.. i try to park at the end of a row.. you know where the verge is usually concrete or shrubs etc. My car has some marks anyway but i dont want any more.

On the women side.. not all are bad not all are good.. smae as men. I do fine women have much less regard for their cars though.. they dont mind opening their door without making sure it does not hit another car etc. Thats just general observation. They are also less sure about what to do on roads.. men are more confident.. again this is NOT everyone and works on both sides too but i see it more in women than men.

Interceptor

Saruman wrote:

Is it just us Irish and maybe Brits that have such regard for their cars? I was in paris, got home late last night and every single person there. and by that i mean EVER SINGLE BLOODY DRIVER does not give a rats about their cars, they bang and scrape and bump off everything from other cars to bollards and posts etc.. Almost every car has bumps and dents etc, exception being very new sports cars..

Hey, I must be French (wait 'til I tell the missus!) 'cos I don't give a flying funk about my car. My missus has a technique called 'sonic parking' which uses the sounds of grinding and crunching to guide her into any tight spot. She used park-by-feel for a while but found it a little slow. I prefer to handbrake turn into parking spaces (like my hero Russ Swift) and have only overcooked it once, resulting in severe damage to the suspension trailing arm of a Citroen AX when I hit a kerb side-on.

'c

OLDYELLAR

If that was me now , with a span new car I would of went insane , I cant beleive she didnt even apologise!!
There are some dodgy drivers goin now but jeez that reaaly takes the cake :mad:

lomb

Interceptor wrote:

Why do you think bumpers are called bumpers? They are for bumping you silly man. Get over yourself - it is only a car and in ten years time it will have been either crushed, dismantled or burned, the same as all consumer durables. If you don't want anyone to touch it, wrap it in bubble wrap, or better still leave it at home. Twonk.

'cptr

correct, one sees a lot of people spending their days polishing their baby, and admiring it, yet when u break it down it will be crushed etc within 10 years. one has to laugh. and then there are the new reg brigade :rolleyes: it does have to be said mechanical maintainence is very important if a car wants to even see 10 years reliably and scrapes/ bumps etc are not a good marker to this at all except on company cars.
still people should respect other peoples property.

DJB

I saw two interesting car incidents recently...

1. Women trying to get into car park space
This was so funny. I was in a multi storey car park and was sitting in my car waiting for my GF to come back from the shops! There was a free car park space at the end of the a row which meant you could come at the space at an angle of 45 degrees or so. This is exactly what happened... in order to get into and secure the space, she parked diagonally across the free spot! Then she spent 5 mins reversing out a bit, turning and going back in. I sat and looked at this and worked out in 3 movements how to get into the space properly... here's a wee drawing to explain... I'm really going to the effort here!



Now, instead of constantly reversing and going forward for 5 MINTUES, why not reverse to 1, turn wheel and drive forward to 2 and reverse into spot!!! God knows... some drivers!!!

2. Man (learner) speeding on the ice!
I watched a learner driver get a good lesson today on the ice. Walking to the shop earlier and there was a van pulling out of a parked position and couldn't get off because ice under the snow. He was wheel spinning and the van ended up going up the road sideways. Another car came up and slowed to a stop and then followed the van up the road. Another little car came up the road (a learner driver) and was doing about 50 kph (in a residential area too by the way and kph to be politically correct - 30mph in the old format! ) - he broke and slid about 50/75 feet and into the back of another parked car. Lucky that he had slowed down enough that he only tipped the parked car. But nevertheless... learner or no learner... what the hell is up with people speeding in such bad conditions. The rest of my walk to the shop was spent warning drivers to slow down before a kid was knocked down. I'd say about half the drivers going up the road were going too fast!!

Anyway... that's my two cents for this topic! :cool:

my snowmen army was killed by the next door neighbours kids... going out to get their snowmen now!!!

Cheeurs,

Dave

ambro25

Interceptor wrote:

Hey, I must be French (wait 'til I tell the missus!) 'cos I don't give a flying funk about my car. 'c

Ahem... Now that we've just a good old wordfest about sexism because of generalisations, let's not start the same with a touch of xenophobism, shall we? I'm French and I DO take care of my wheels. Paris is the proverbial exception that confirms the rule: nobody in their right mind has a nice car in Paris (unless they live in the 'burbs or in the XVIe) and I sure never had a nice car when I lived there (matterf of fact, I had a beat up old white BX 19D Entreprise, not one square inch of the body without a dent, a scratch or somesuch). But you should venture outside before assuming, for there is much, much more to France than just 'GayyPareee'...

Gothic Warrior

It's mostly women and old people though. Anytime I see someone doing something stupid (driving with no lights on, or indicating all the way down the road), when I eventually get to see them, nine times out of ten it's a woman. FACT.

Gothic Warrior

Interceptor wrote:

Why do you think bumpers are called bumpers? They are for bumping you silly man. Get over yourself - it is only a car and in ten years time it will have been either crushed, dismantled or burned, the same as all consumer durables. If you don't want anyone to touch it, wrap it in bubble wrap, or better still leave it at home. Twonk.

'cptr

You dumbass.

So by your logic, if someone is wearing a bullet proof vest, it's okay to shoot them? Because it's called a 'bullet' proof vest, so what's the problem?

It's ONLY a car that I paid for, and it's not okay for someone to damage (no matter how insignificant) my property just becasue they are too stupid/dozy to drive properly.

The fact that you are clearly one of those douchebags who thinks "it's okay to bump a car because they have bumpers" speaks volumes about your aptitude, and your respect for other peoples property. Maybe if we ever meet (not likely though, because I don't hang around building sites), I'll just smash up your phone and tell you "Pah, what's the point? It will probably be broken in 2 years anyway". And you'll be cool with that, becasue you have insurance on your phone anyway - and that's what insurance is for!

Headleylamarr

Saruman wrote:

Is it just us Irish and maybe Brits that have such regard for their cars? I was in paris, got home late last night and every single person there. and by that i mean EVER SINGLE BLOODY DRIVER does not give a rats about their cars, they bang and scrape and bump off everything from other cars to bollards and posts etc.. Almost every car has bumps and dents etc, exception being very new sports cars..
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Thats a Parisienne thing - they've no parking and the streets are real narrow - thats why the cars are all dinged... its the same in my native Athens, I've seen people nudge and push other parked cars to make spaces bigger.... Whats that famous car chase through Parisienne streets (its a 206 GTi maybe) and it slams into bunches of cars at every junction - linda using them like armco

unkel

Interceptor wrote:

I prefer to handbrake turn into parking spaces (like my hero Russ Swift)

Efficient parking

Dades

Gothic Warrior wrote:

It's mostly women and old people though. Anytime I see someone doing something stupid (driving with no lights on, or indicating all the way down the road), when I eventually get to see them, nine times out of ten it's a woman. FACT.

There must be loads of women where you live, because nine times out of ten when I catch up it's a man aged 65+.

Anyone read last week's Sunday Times article about men v women drivers?
It's all very straightforward:

Men have better spacial ability, but women are less likely to plough into another vehicle.

Swings and roundabouts

Grimlock

Interceptor your an ass, people like you with no repect for other peoples property are just childish and selfish, think Gothic Warrior summed you up best.

Anyways to the original poster, it's very frustrating when something like that happens but it's not fair to label one group as poor drivers, if you want to look at it statistically ok, girls may be more likely to damage your car but guys are more likely to crash into you at high speed or knock you down.
Which is the worst trait?!

But just cos I think they are funny here's some girly driver pictures:

Gilgamesh

Grimlock wrote:

Interceptor your an ass, people like you with no repect for other peoples property are just childish and selfish, think Gothic Warrior summed you up best.

Anyways to the original poster, it's very frustrating when something like that happens but it's not fair to label one group as poor drivers, if you want to look at it statistically ok, girls may be more likely to damage your car but guys are more likely to crash into you at high speed or knock you down.
Which is the worst trait?!

But just cos I think they are funny here's some girly driver pictures:

never knew that Dinobots had a sense of humour

ando

Grimlock wrote:

But just cos I think they are funny here's some girly driver pictures:

hey them last 2 pics were funny as hell. what was she thinking as her car went up and up and up on one side..

or maybe she had a puncture but no jack

FX Meister

I had a chick go through a red light on a roundabout, in the wrong lane for where she wanted to go nearly crash into me yesterday evening. When I wound down my window she was pretty angry and asked if I had seen her indicate. Told her that indicating does not give her the right to break red lights or to swipe into another lane. She still didn't understand what she was doing wrong so I called her stupid fúcking bitch and drove on. Somehow I can't see a man pulling a stunt as dumb as that.

mackerski

FX Meister wrote:

Somehow I can't see a man pulling a stunt as dumb as that.

I have. I've also had a woman drive at me the wrong way around Blanchardstown Roundabout at 3 in the morning (years ago, before it was signal-controlled). It has shown me that crap drivers are to be found in skirts and trousers.

uberwolf wrote:

I put it back into neutral and open door to ask her to move it - as I can no longer get out of the spot

How do you suppose she found her drive home on four flat tyres?

Dermot

Merrion

I was sitting in the pub looking out the window and I saw this well dressed fella (probably 40s?) reversing his volvo into a space that was too small. When the innevitable contact happened he kept reversing, pushing the other car back to make room. Astonishing...and this was before he came into the pub?

OLDYELLAR

Christ lads some people are unbeleivable! he actual walked away after practically ramming a car to make room for his own ?

528i

I'm sure it wasnt anything important which had taken up both spaces.

mike65

Okay Grimlock and Gothic Warrior cool your brakes please, if you were familair with 'c would know he likes to play the pump-action petrol head now and again! Don't take it tooooooooooo personally.

Mike.

ando

I saw this well dressed fella (probably 40s?) reversing his volvo into a space that was too small. When the innevitable contact happened he kept reversing, pushing the other car back to make room.

I know the garda outside PearseSt station leave their handbrakes off when parked so that other offices can push the cars out of the way so they themselfs can park. Could it have been something like that you saw?

AMurphy

Merrion wrote:

... When the innevitable contact happened he kept reversing, pushing the other car back to make room. Astonishing...and this was before he came into the pub?

I've done that. I also use the bumpers to open gates, scoot abandoned shopping trollies, move garbage cans, push other cars off the road. Course that was on a car that had good solid metal bumpers, not plastic replicas.

On occasion I feel like doing the same, against the side, to some idiots that double park behind in-out parked cars.

One night I watched my wife extracting the truck frm a parking spot, tight, but not impossible. After touching the car behind about 4 times with the bumper, I asked her if she had planned on hitting many more times?. Totally unaware she was nudging it.
And I have had more than a few stop in traffic and come reversing back into me. Even had one stall on a garage ramp, drift back into me and held her there until they straightened themselves out. Same car with the strong bumpers, so not a major problem.

Victor

Well at least she was able to park!

ando wrote:

hey them last 2 pics were funny as hell. what was she thinking as her car went up and up and up on one side.. or maybe she had a puncture but no jack

I actually dealt with a woman who did this - got the rear wheel arch stuck on a low car park wall. Reversing / turning / using jack didn't work, so I told her call the AA.

Darwin

I was in paris, got home late last night and every single person there. and by that i mean EVER SINGLE BLOODY DRIVER does not give a rats about their cars, they bang and scrape and bump off everything from other cars to bollards and posts etc.. Almost every car has bumps and dents etc, exception being very new sports cars..

Yes, I have observed the same while on holiday in Nice.
Perhaps it is because the French pay considerably less for their new cars than we do ?

BrianD3

My attitude to "touch parking" - if I can't get into a space without hitting another car then that space is not big enough for the car so I'll go and find another space that is big enough.

Don't really have a big problem with others bumping their way into and out of parking spaces *provided* that it's done at very low speed and is just harmless bumper to bumper contact, not bumper to door etc.

What I *do* have a major problem with is
a) touch parking by cars fitted with bullbars/towbars
b) touch parking by vans, trucks, jeeps with high bumpers which will override the bumpers of a normal car and will instead hit and damage the grille, lights bonnet etc.

Naively, I used to think that drivers of these vehicles took extra care when parking as surely they must be aware of the increased risk of damaging other vehicles? Wrong. I myself do take extra care when parking the pickup, but most don't.

If I see someone bumping off my car in their bullbarred jeep they are going to incur my wrath and could end up with a face like a wheelbrace if they refuse to take responsibility for the damage they cause

Problem is you rarely catch these c*nts as they usually do a runner when they cause damage as they don't have the decency to take responsibility for their actions. If you hit a car and damage it, then you should pay for it. However most people are dishonest bastards with no respect for anyone else's property and will just take off if they can. One thing I do when I'm walking around and see people parking is keep an eye on what they're doing. If I see them damage a car and take off I'll take a note of their number plate and leave it under the wiper of the car they damaged, so the owner at least has some chance of pursuing them if they wish.

BrianD3